EXCLUSIVE: Ellen Greenberg, a 27-year-old teacher, was found dead on the kitchen floor of her apartment in 2011 with 20 knife wounds and 11 bruises. Her death was officially ruled a suicide but her parents have insisted she was murdered and the pathologist who ruled her death a suicide recently changed his mind.
This case is the latest to be investigated in a true-crime documentary series for Hulu.
Death in Apartment 603: What Happened to Ellen Greenberg? comes from ABC News Studios, Dakota and Elle Fanning’s production company Lewellen Pictures and Lionsgate Alternative Television’s Blackfin label.
The three-part series will follow her family’s 14-year quest to find out what happened.
To the shock of many who knew her, detectives on the scene treated her death as a suicide until her autopsy results came back with the cause of death ruled a homicide. Shortly thereafter, the manner of death was reversed again to suicide, and the city of Philadelphia shut the case without further investigation. However, Ellen’s parents are fighting to reopen the investigation.
Nancy Schwartzman, who directed Hulu’s Sasha Reid and the Midnight Order and Netflix’s Victim/Suspect, serves as showrunner and director. Laura Dimon serves as producer, David Sloan is senior executive producer and Victoria Thompson is executive producer for ABC News Studios.
It is set to launch on the streamer later this year.
It marks the latest true-crime series for ABC News Studios, which launched in 2022 and is behind projects including Scam Goddess, Daughters of the Cult and Still Missing Morgan. The company, which recently debuted Hulu’s Barbara Walters Tell Me Everything at the Tribeca Film Festival, also has a number of true-crime series coming up including Her Last Broadcast: The Abduction of Jodi Huisentruit, Trophy Wife: Murder on Safari and Mr. & Mrs. Murder.
Dakota and Elle Fanning launched Lewellen Pictures in 2021 and the company has produced a number of series for Hulu including The Great and The Girl From Plainville as well as Apple’s upcoming Margo’s Got Money Troubles and documentaries including Hulu’s Mastermind.
Blackfin is behind series including Netflix’s Killer Inside: The Mind of Aaron Hernandez and Hulu’s Tulsa Burning: The 1921 Race Massacre.
