“Sandee and I both believe Ellen was going to go home that day,” Joshua said.

“She had taken off the engagement ring, had packed up her makeup, which was very valuable to her, and she was planning to leave. And I think things didn’t work out well, and she never made it home.”

Sam Goldberg, who has since remarried and started a family, has continued to deny any involvement in Ellen’s death.

In a statement to CNN earlier this year, he said: “The pathetic and despicable attempts to desecrate my reputation and her privacy by creating a narrative that embraces lies, distortions and falsehoods in order to avoid the truth.”

He added: “Mental illness is very real and has many victims.”