Bizarre details of man's death revealed (Hit-and-run victim lived for two days while trapped in win)

DFW dot COM ^ | Posted on Thu, Mar. 07, 2002 | By DEANNA BOYD

[vannrox]

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 (yet again) 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."


Deanna Boyd, (817) 390-7655 dboyd@star-telegram.com

[vannrox]

Another DEMOCRAT commits another HENOUS Crime.

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[PeoplesRepublicOfWashington]

Sounds like a gruesome hate crime to me.

[RightOnline]

Any idiot can see that this is murder, pure and simple. Maybe not murder one, per se', but definitely murder.

[kaylar]

Scroll down about ten threads. She is being charged with murder, but they haven't decided yet whether or not to charge the friends who helped her conceal the crime! They're talking like they may not, if the guy was dead when the helped her move the body! I hope that's just a ploy to encourage them to come forward.

[Paulus Invictus]

Hey, but she's a victim! You can't prosecute a victim of Extasy, coke or any other drug. This poor female is an addict who must need treatment (sarcasm).. This mind-damaged idiot and her enabling friends deserve some very long jail time! Let's see if it happens...

[NilesJo]

When the perp removed the victim from the scene of the accident and secreted him where he could not be discovered and get life-saving medical asistance, it became DUI, hit & run, kidnapping & homocide. Her intention was crystal clear.

[Tacis]

The one saving grace in this truly tragic story is that we avoid any talk of a hate crime because the corpse is white and the murderer black, rather than vice versa. Had a white woman murdered a black man in this fashion, Sharpton, Luima, and Jackson would be in Austin screaming about another Byrd hate crime. So you see, every now and then you catch a break.

[SMEDLEYBUTLER]

Bizarre details of man's death revealed

[buzzcat]

This is a terrible story. In November, at 0900 hrs, a vehicle in which I was a passenger was hit from behind while stopped at a red light (she didn't even slow down). The young lady who hit us gathered herself up from the dashboard of her vehicle and drove away. The cops got her eventually and she claimed she was on prescription drugs and didn't remember the accident. My back and neck are still hurting and there exists a dull numbing pain in my left leg. I'm infuriated at this person, and I am beginning to consider that any car wreck, where there is negligence, amounts to assault. A price must be paid and these dopes stopped.

[Pentagram]

The one saving grace in this truly tragic story is that we avoid any talk of a hate crime because the corpse is white and the murderer black,

And all are equal before the law. Aren't they?

[Danielle]

I see nothing about either of their races being discussed, so why are you?

[Straight Vermonter]

In Vermont we have a statute known as felony murder. Basically if a person dies while someone is committing a felony, then the felon is guilty of murder. In this case even if the woman "only" failed to provide aid she would still be guilty of murder since the man died as a result.

[sarasmom]

Is she also Muslim? I can not imagine the suffering that man endured from this animal pretending to be human.

[monday]

"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. "

"I apologize, but you have to die because I am a cruel, heartless, *itch." she said, smiling sweetly. "Really I am sorry though. Goodnight."

[sarasmom]

Murder seems such a light term for torture.She tortured him.She should face the death penalty.

[TomGuy]

Here's what she looks like...

Associated Press - Chante Mallard, a 25-year-old nurse's aide, told police she had been drinking and using Ecstasy when she was involved in a hit-and-run.

HS photo of 37 yr old Gregory Glenn Biggs

[Don Joe]

"Hey, I said I was sorry. Can I go now?"

[marktwain]

You know that the media is really, really corrupt when you can correctly infer information by what is NOT SAID.

A freind told me, several years ago, that we could learn a lot from the Russians. He said that during the Soviet period, Russians said that you could learn a lot from Pravda. No, not what was printed, that was garbage. But, you could learn a lot by what was not said.