Man died in hours, doctor says
Posted on 03/13/2002 1:26:23 AM PST by MeekOneGOP
Man died in hours, doctor says
Examiner: Victim stuck in windshield didn't live for days as witness said; murder charge stands
03/13/2002
The man who was left to die in a Fort Worth woman's car windshield succumbed to his injuries hours, not days, after being struck, the Tarrant County medical examiner said Tuesday.
Gregory Glenn Biggs, 37, was struck by a car driven by Chante J. Mallard, 25, in October and was left entangled in her windshield after she drove home and parked the car in her garage, police said.
Police said last week that Ms. Mallard left the man in her garage for days, apologizing to him but ignoring his pleas for help.
Ms. Mallard's attorney had challenged that police account saying the man had been alive for less than 24 hours in the garage.
Tarrant County Medical Examiner Nizam Peerwani said Tuesday that Mr. Biggs, who suffered severe leg injuries, died hours after the accident.
"We have not come up with any definitive time frame, but it is certainly consistent with hours, not days," he said. "The body was not that decomposed at all. He wasn't hit that many days prior to being discovered."
After Mr. Biggs died, Ms. Mallard and at least one friend dumped his body in a nearby park, where he was found Oct. 27, police said.
Ms. Mallard, a nurse's aide who was fired after the murder charge became public last week, is being held in the Tarrant County Jail in lieu of $250,000 bail.
Attorneys in the case have been placed under a gag order by 371st District Judge James Wilson.
Before the gag order, Ms. Mallard's attorney, Mike Heiskell, said the accusations against her had been blown out of proportion.
Mr. Heiskell said that Ms. Mallard did not talk to Mr. Biggs while he was in her garage and that the body was there for less than 24 hours, not the three days contended by police.
The new information will not change the charge of murder, said Fort Worth police Lt. Duane Paul, a department spokesman.
"The amount of time, be it an hour or a day, does not matter because it appears she didn't do anything to come to the aid of Mr. Biggs," Lt. Paul said. "The amount of time is irrelevant."
He said the discrepancies in how long Mr. Biggs had been left in the garage were due to differing accounts from Ms. Mallard and the person who told police about her.
The woman who reported Ms. Mallard in February said Ms. Mallard giggled when she told her about hitting the man and leaving him in the garage for days.
Investigators questioned Ms. Mallard and arrested her Feb. 26.
Police said it is not uncommon for a witness and a suspect to have conflicting stories.
"Generally when a suspect comes and speaks with a detective, a lot of times the statements they provide are self-serving," Lt. Paul said. "We have to weigh ... the facts of the investigation."
Police said Ms. Mallard struck Mr. Biggs in October as he walked along U.S. Highway 287 near the Loop 820 split and drove home with him stuck in her windshield.
Mr. Biggs, a former school bus driver and bricklayer who was homeless at the time of the accident, was not dead, police said. Ms. Mallard left him trapped in her car, which she hid in the garage of her home on the South Side of Fort Worth, investigators said.
The case has been turned over to the Tarrant County district attorney's office, and Dr. Peerwani said he expects to provide a more exact time range next week after he reviews the investigators' findings.
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Also..I would want to know what her boyfriend and his homey's were thinking and saying about the white man with his head stuck in the windshield-I would bet they were laughing and making jokes....
Isn't Peerwani the same ME that did the autopsies on the Branch Davidian bodies and every thing came out just the way FBI wanted it?
Not that it really matters, what she did was reason enough to put her down like a dog, whether she waited hours or days for his death without helping him.
Wouldn't this statement indicate that he did live for days.
Oops, bad choice of words! My wife's gonna kill me, because I'm laughing too hard, and the kids might wake up.
I'm waiting to see if/when there are arrests/indictments for those that helped out this 'woman'.
And I'll be looking for pictures...I mean, let's face it, even a trip to Glamour Shots wouldn't have done much for her. Her 'boyfriend' must be a real prize, too!
I am sure those hours (if true) seemed like days to the victim.
Wouldn't this statement indicate that he did live for days.
Yes. Since decomposition cannot start until the man dies, less decomposition than expected would mean he was alive longer.
I believe she has already been identified by her attorney as a former Girl Scout. I wish an astute reporter with some kajones had asked the lawyer if the Girl Scouts award merit badges for murder, and in this case, behavior that constitutes torture.
Typical liberal, leftist, black double-talk sh*%!
Oh Ok, that makes it all better. We can probably let her go now.
"Police said it is not uncommon for a witness and a suspect to have conflicting stories."
Yes, teypicaly the witness is saying that the suspect did it, and the suspect is saying they did not.
Wouldn't this statement indicate that he did live for days.
Thanks, Shovelhead, that's exactly how I interpreted that statement. Decomposition doesn't begin until death so if the state of decomposition is the criteria, the doctor should have said, "He didn't die that many days prior to being discovered". If the doctor's statement is as quoted in the news story, it's time for him to turn in his MD (Me Doctor) license.
She's toast!
I beleive I heard yesterday she had been remanded to the custody of her attorney to go to psychiatric treatment.
Two or three visits should clear her right up.
"The principle of plausible denial is simply if an operation or act is later disclosed, for example, as an action of the United States government, the government can plausibly deny it, deny any involvement or connection with the action." --E. Howard Hunt, ex- CIA operative, quoted by Mark Lane in Plausible Denial.
The Mt. Carmel Center was situated outside Waco, in McLennan County, but the remains of the Branch Davidians were taken to Tarrant County, where the chief medical examiner of the Tarrant County Medical Examiners Office was Dr. Nizam Peerwani. During his testimony at the 1994 San Antonio trial of the Branch Davidians, Dr. Peerwani indicated the reason the autopsies were transferred to him was the superiority of autopsy facilities in Tarrant County (Transcript, pg. 5961. Among other facilities, Dr. Peerwani said he had a physical anthropology lab, a DNA lab, and a fingerprint examiner (Transcript, pgs. 5961 and 5965).
Yet despite claims about his office, during the autopsies Dr. Peerwani had to rely on anthropologists from the Smithsonian Institution for the bone sorting (Smithsonian Comes to Waco); he had to rely on "five or six" FBI fingerprint specialists assigned to his office by the FBI to identify the corpses (Transcript, pg. 5962). Nor did the Tarrant County DNA lab do the job for which Dr. Peerwani said his lab was chosen; the body of at least one of the deceased Branch Davidians, Sherri Jewell, was taken to the FBI laboratory in Washington, DC for DNA testing. (See how FBI fabricated evidence in the World Trade Center bombing case-- Testimony of Frederic Whitehurst.)
It was also evident that Dr. Peerwani was not in control of the identification process when he told the court on February 11, 1993 that the remains of Davidians Greg Summers, Scott Sonobe, and Jeff Little had not been identified. In fact, the remains of these men were identified several days before Dr. Peerwani's testimony, on February 8, 1993. "See Identification Matrix." Note that the three were identified by DNA testing.
Obviously the DNA work was not done in the lab over which Dr. Peerwani presided, and for which his office was supposedly chosen. The IDs were obviously done in the FBI labs, just has Sherri Jewell's ID had been done. The FBI lab did not keep Dr. Peerwani posted of its progress in a timely fashion, and thus his testimony was dated. Note that the Identification Matrix supplied by the Justice of the Peace of McLennan County does not bear any marks of official authorship. This ID Matrix is discussed more fully elsewhere in the Death Gallery.
Maps of Texas show that there were other large urban centers close to the Mt. Carmel Center. For example, the cities of Austin, Dallas, Houston, and San Antonio were all within easy driving distance of Waco. The bodies could have been put in refrigerated vans and driven to any one of those locations.
Dr. Peerwani claimed that he had been called into the situation by the McLennan County Justice of the Peace, Judge Pareya (Transcript pg. 5962). However, Mt. Carmel was in Precinct 2 of McLennan County, which is under the jurisdiction not of Judge Pareya, but of Judge Collier. The appearance of "local control" did not even go skin deep--it was a veil to be used and dropped at will. Certainly the assault on the Branch Davidians was conducted by federal militia and the surviving Branch Davidians were tried in federal court for conspiracy to murder the ATF agents; but Dr. Peerwani was the chosen "local" for the autopsies.
Why was the Fort Worth Medical Examiners' Office in Tarrant County chosen? Because Dr. Peerwani was a man with a reputation for incompetence.
His appointment as autopsist was challenged immediately after the autopsies were assigned to him. The challenge came from Jeff Kearney, lawyer for one of the surviving Branch Davidians (Dallas Morning News, April 27, 1993). Among the complaints against Dr. Peerwani's office:
Dr. Peerwani was a good choice for persons who did not want the cause, manner, or time of death known. He could be relied upon to do clumsy, inept autopsies that would further destroy the bodies, and come up with nothing to incriminate the murderers.
He provided an excellent layer of plausible deniability for the US government. He, not the US, could be blamed for having bungled the autopsies. Further inquiries into the causes and manner of death of the Branch Davidians would be shrugged off as hopeless. Dr. Peerwani's selection as autopsist was part of a program of orchestrated incompetence, just as we saw in the Kennedy assassination.
We will see how the orchestrated incompetence of the Two Stooges, the Texas Rangers and the Tarrant County Medical Examiners Office, worked to accomplish the US government's plausible denial. The responsibility for the alteration of the crime scene and the destruction of evidence in the corpses of the Branch Davidians would now be shouldered by others.
It might be legitimately asked why the Museum has accepted any of the information contained in Autopsy Reports written under Dr. Peerwani's direction. The answer is that those reports are the official reports. While the Museum questions the veracity of many of the causes of death cited in the reports, we do not question the direct observations on the condition of the corpses. The autopsists had little reason to exaggerate the ghastly condition of the corpses--to do so would make the US military and the para-military forces of the FBI and ATF look even worse.
If the condition of the bodies was inaccurately described, the FBI, the Texas Rangers, and the forensic anthropologists from the Smithsonian Institution had every opportunity to protest and have the autopsies redone. They did not.
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