Posted on 03/07/2002 4:34:10 AM PST by Dane
Posted on Thu, Mar. 07, 2002
Bizarre details of man's death revealed
By DEANNA BOYD
Star-Telegram Staff Writer
FORT WORTH - When Gregory Glenn Biggs' body was found in October in Cobb Park, evidence pointed to a hit-and-run.
But in the past two weeks, police have learned that Biggs lived for two or three days after he was hit, lying on a car hood in a southeast Fort Worth garage, his body trapped in the windshield.
Despite Biggs' pleas, police said, the driver refused to help and left him to die. Afterward, the body was dumped in the park.
"I'm going to have to come up with a new word. Indifferent isn't enough. Cruel isn't enough to say. Heartless? Inhumane? Maybe we've just redefined inhumanity here," said Richard Alpert, a Tarrant County assistant district attorney.
What happened to the 37-year-old Biggs, police said, was not a simple case of a driver's failure to stop to help an injured man. It was homicide, they said.
"If he had gotten medical attention, he probably would have survived," traffic investigation Sgt. John Fahrenthold said.
Wednesday, police arrested Chante Mallard, a 25-year-old nurse's aide, basing their case primarily on Mallard's confession about four months later of what happened on an October night as she drove near the East Loop 820 split with U.S. 287.
Mike Heiskell, Mallard's attorney, called the woman's arrest on a murder warrant premature.
"I think this is overreaching on the part of the prosecution and the police, and in the end, I believe the law will shake out that this was simply a case of failure to stop and render aid," Heiskell said.
By Mallard's account, as told to police, she had been drinking and using Ecstasy that October night and was driving home when she struck a man. The impact hurled him headfirst through the windshield, his broken legs protruding onto the hood.
She panicked, she said, and with the man lodged in the windshield, she drove a few miles to her home. There, she parked her 1997 Chevrolet Cavalier in the garage and lowered the door.
Biggs pleaded for help, she told police.
He got none. Not then, or for the next two or three days, as he remained lodged in the windshield, bleeding and slowly going into shock, police said.
Mallard told police she periodically went into the garage to check on the man. She said she apologized profusely to him for what she had done but ignored his cries for help.
When the man died, several of the woman's acquaintances helped remove his body, putting it into the trunk of another car and driving to Cobb Park, where they dumped it, police quoted the woman as saying. Two men found the body Oct. 27.
"This goes so far beyond failure to stop and render aid because she did more than not render aid," Alpert said. "She made it impossible for anyone else to do so."
Mallard first surfaced in the investigation last month when police received a tip that she might have been involved in a hit-and-run accident, Fahrenthold said.
Mallard had recently told a friend "bits and pieces" about an accident when questioned at a party about why she was no longer driving her car, Fahrenthold said.
"Within the next day or so this girl came forward and told what had happened because she couldn't live with that," he said.
On Feb. 26, police obtained a search warrant for Mallard's house in the 3800 block of Wilbarger Street. Inside her garage, they found the damaged Cavalier. Blood, hair and other trace evidence was visible inside and outside the car, he said.
The car's seats had been removed and were found in the back yard, one of them burned, Fahrenthold said.
Mallard agreed to go to the police station for questioning. There, she gave a statement and was arrested for failure to stop and render aid.
She was free on bail when officers arrived at her home Wednesday morning and arrested her on the upgraded warrant charging her with murder. Later in the day, she was released on a $10,000 writ bond.
The Tarrant County Medical Examiner's Office has told police that Biggs suffered no internal injuries and apparently died from loss of blood and shock, Fahrenthold said.
The investigation is continuing and other arrests are expected, he said.
"We think there are other people involved, at least after he had passed, in taking the body and putting it in the park," he said.
Biggs' mother, Meredith Biggs, said she and her son had been estranged for several years. Medical examiner's records listed Gregory Biggs' address as 1415 E. Lancaster Ave., a homeless shelter.
Meredith Biggs said she and her daughter, Janeen, had recently begun looking for him. They were frightened when a search on an ancestry Web site a couple of months ago indicated that he had died. They prayed it was a hoax.
Wednesday, she learned it was not, and was told the details about her son's death.
"How could she just leave him like that to die?" she sobbed. "Drugs and alcohol wear off, so why didn't she get him some help?
"I should have prayed more."
I just am unable to process what this woman did.
LOL! I think I read that men mending fences in Tennessee must grow a beard??. . .
I have not heard a report on the story, but that area of town is virtually ALL BLACK. I does sound as if the victim was WHITE and she and her co-conspirators were BLACK. It ALSO sounds as if the JUDGE was BLACK...I'll ask some judge friends of mine and FIND OUT!
Anyone, or in this case, anything, that could do that to another human does not deserve to walk around on the face of God's little half acre. But 'The Chair' is much to quick a solution for this problem.
I've always been a proponent of letting 'the punishment fit the crime'. In this case, she should be tied to the rear bumber of the Pace Car at the next NASCAR Event. Then, at eny given point in the race, drop that waste of skin, bones and air right into the middle of the back stretch and let her fend for herself........ . . .
The only drawback is the damage that she would cause to the drivers of the racecars.
So, let's get every adult member of the victim's family, together in one room and let them bring their weapon of choice (9mm, 12ga, pitch-fork, etc....). Then lock this 'Ecstasy' Addict in that same room. . . .for about two weeks..............
I am so afraid that since the court reporter messed up the transcripts of her trial, she may serve her life out in prison instead of getting that needle though. Hope I'm wrong. . .
Why? this twit should be held without bond until she is tried, convicted, and sent to death row! This is inexcusable.
She's a NURSE'S AIDE, for Heaven's sake. How would you like to be her patient after she returns to work when she is out on bail? Ecstasy user? Heavy drinker? Heartless? VERY poor judgement?
Well her name is Chante. I think that provides a clue.
Dude, I have a feeling you're right on about that... Her lawyers will find some way to swing it in that direction, disregarding that she made it all the way through nurses aide training and whatnot.
This whole thing is sick. This just floors me that this wench could be so bereft of basic human decency. Apologized to him profusely my hairy Republican a$$-- probably just threw that in there at the last minute to make herself look not so drastic-- actually makes her look even more grotesque... Did you hear about this, M&M?
That being said, I will share with you my ONLY personal experience with lawyers that I've had (except for Jury Duty related). Back in the early 80s, my parents enlisted a lawyer in Fort Worth, Texas to get Grandparents visitation with their grand-daughter. The ex-daughter-in-law told them they would NEVER see Amy again (the Grand-daughter). She laughed when my Mom told her that Texas allows Grandparents visitation because of a law recently (at that time) passed.
To make a long story short, the lawyer won the case for my parents and they did engage in monthly visitations and hence an ongoing relationship that lasts until now. She has babies now and my Dad gets to visit with them now also.
After the judge ruled in favor of my parents, my Mom asked the lawyer How much do we owe you now?? The lawyer told her, I'll send you a bill. They talked to him on numerous occasions and always told him You haven't sent us the bill yet. Well, that was about 20 years ago and he never sent a bill. He had grandkids about the same age, and I think they had things in common with my parents regarding his situation with his Grandkids, and didn't want to accept a fee for it?? My best guess. . .
I remember a story when I was a reporter in Texas when a nurse, in a hurry to get to work, illegally passed a school bus picking up kids on the highway on the second day of school and struck a beautiful five year old girl who was crossing the road, holding her older sister's hand. The blow ripped the child from her sister's grasp and dragged down the road several hundred yards. The coroner was sick to his stomach when he was called to the scene to pronouse the little girl dead. I don't remember what happened to the nurse.
I wrote a scathing front page article about the fact that the school district had received many complaints about the danger of that bus stop and had refused to have the bus stop on the opposite side of the highway where all the children lived.
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Isn't it nice that your friends are there when you need them?
I feel as you do. I fear for my children's future living in this society because more and more people seem to be becoming more and more barbaric and evil. Young people are being conditioned (in the public schools and in more homes than most would like to believe) not to take responsibility for their actions, to take risks that hurt others, and to take out their own bad feelings on others whenever they feel like it. In addition, the courts and trial lawyers have become terrible enablers of evil, much more than they used to be (and the Rats do everything they possibly can to keep good appointments off the bench.) It's frightening.
The only consolation I see: This happened in the great state of Texas where they regularly put to death persons convicted of murder. So hopefully Chante Mallard won't spend the rest of her days in prison on our dime. Death penalty for her and a very long time in prison for her 'helpers'.
The only consolation I see: This happened in the great state of Texas where they regularly put to death persons convicted of murder. So hopefully Chante Mallard won't spend the rest of her days in prison on our dime. Death penalty for her and a very long time in prison for her 'helpers'.And to my fellow FReepers who have tried to guess the race of the folks invloved, shame on you.
Sure did. I heard it on the radio this morning on the way from my workout at Ballys. First thing I did was check and the Dallas Morning News is NOT covering it. I checked the Ft. Worth StartleGram and found it, then my search found it already posted here. Hence my ping-a-ling on #14. . .
Your comments are right-on too, IMHO! Thanks.
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