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Just in case you were wondering what happened to the windshield murderer......

Thanks for the update.

So when does that kind=hearted (snort) caregiver go before the judge?

Thanks for the update, wondering what went on in this case.

Amazing. No mention of race.

Wonder if the same would apply if the races had been reversed? < / sarcasm >

BTW, what a great name! Raini Dae Ellingson

So they aren't going to charge her with a hate crime, like they would if the races were reversed?
That's sick.

Since this atrocity I presume was black-on-white, it was not a hate crime.

Strange name ping

Clete Denel, Chante Jawan, Raini Dae ....

Man Lives 2 Days Stuck In Broken Windshield

Windshield death suspect back in jail

Woman accused of hitting man, leaving him to die on windshield Police say he begged for help in garage;
attorney says driver 'panicked'

Mr. Heiskell also said 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.

"She panicked and made a bad decision, and her friend led her further down a bad road by telling her not to do anything, but it has been blown out of proportion," he said.

[Fort Worth] Police Report: Hit-Run Suspect Told Friends 'I Hit This White Man'

Thanks for the post. I happened to hear about this on the radio this morning.

Here is a link to FR Search for previous article posts for:
Chante Mallard Windshield Murder Case

Here is an updated version of your article via the
Fort Worth Startle-Gram

Posted on Thu, Jan. 09, 2003

Man pleads in windshield case
By Melody Mcdonald
Star-Telegram Staff Writer

FORT WORTH - One of the men who helped remove and dump the body of a homeless pedestrian lodged in a car windshield entered into a plea agreement with prosecutors Wednesday and was sentenced to 10 years in prison.

In a short hearing before state district Judge James Wilson, Clete Denel Jackson, 28, of Fort Worth pleaded guilty to tampering with physical evidence and agreed to testify against Chante Jawan Mallard, the woman charged with hitting Greg Biggs with her car then driving home and leaving him in the windshield until he died of blood loss and shock.

In exchange for his guilty plea, Jackson -- who was facing up to 20 years in prison because he had a previous felony conviction -- was sentenced to 10 years in prison.

The Tarrant County district attorney's office also agreed not to prosecute Jackson's girlfriend, Raini Dae Ellingson, who was facing perjury charges because of inconsistencies in her statements about the case to a grand jury and at bond reduction hearing.

Jackson is the second defendant to accept a plea agreement and promise to testify against Mallard. In September, Jackson's cousin, Herbert Tyrone Cleveland, 25, of Fort Worth pleaded guilty to tampering with physical evidence in helping dump Biggs' body and was sentenced to nine years in prison. They were the only two charged in the case other than Mallard.

Prosecutor Richard Alpert, who is handling the case with Christy Jack and Miles Brissette, said the plea agreements were important because jurors in Mallard's trial will now have an opportunity to hear from eyewitnesses about exactly what happened.

Mallard, who remains in the Tarrant County Jail with bail set at $250,000, is expected to go to trial in June.

Dressed in a standard-issued tan jumpsuit, Jackson, flanked by his defense attorney Bill Harris, solemnly entered the courtroom Wednesday and walked to the judge's bench. When Wilson asked how he pleaded to the charge, Jackson looked up at the ceiling and quietly said the word "guilty."

Afterward, the judge allowed Jackson to visit for a moment with his only supporter in the courtroom, Kerah Scranton, his ex-wife and the mother of four of his nine children.

"He is not a bad person," Scranton said. "I think he just made some bad decisions. We all do at points in our life."

Defense attorney Harris said Jackson was trying to do the right thing by leaving Biggs' body in an area where it would be found, while minimizing his involvement.

"There had been some talk about burning the body and the car," Harris said. "He thought the body should be left where it could be found.

"You have to understand, in his world, trying to do the right thing but not getting involved with authorities is the prudent way to proceed. He was trying to see that the family recovered their loved one for a proper burial."

Mallard, 26, a nurse's aide, is accused of hitting Biggs with her Chevrolet Cavalier in October 2001 while driving near the East Loop 820 split with U.S. 287. Authorities said she panicked and drove the car, with 37-year-old Biggs embedded in the windshield, to her home and left him in the garage until he died.

Jackson and Cleveland later helped remove the body and dump it in Cobb Park, where it was found Oct. 27, 2001.

Police arrested Mallard in February after a woman told police that she heard Mallard talking about the incident at a gathering. Inside Mallard's garage, authorities found the damaged Cavalier with blood and hair visible. The car's seats had been removed and were found in the home's backyard, one of them burned.

Jackson and Cleveland were later indicted after investigators Ron Sears and Bill Foster of the Tarrant County District Attorney's Office, and Brisette, the assistant district attorney, pursued the case, Alpert said.

"They were able to accurately locate, apprehend and take statements from Herbert Tyrone Cleveland and Clete Denel Jackson," Alpert said. "The thoroughness of the investigators left them [Jackson and Cleveland] few options."