Bizarre details of man's death revealed

Fort Worth Star-Telegram ^ | 3/7/02 | Deanna Boyd

[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."

[semaj]

God less America

...that's no type-o

[LaineyDee]

This sounds like the actions of someone who is mildly retarded--not Down's syndrome, but an IQ so low you can barely live on your own and hold a job... but I hope not, as that will mitigate her punishment, and allow for the possibility of breeding such deficient genes.

I can't say I disagree. :)

[NYCVirago]

Texas doesn't blink an eye when it's a woman that does something horrible like this. Ever heard of Darlie Routier? She stabbed her little ones to death in my home town and currently is on death row. She used to work where I did, and she was one strange cookie then, IMO. . .

What was she like then? I understand that when she was in the hospital after allegedly being stabbed (by herself, of course) after she murdered her kids, the workers in the hospital suspected her right away. And remember her birthday party at the kids' grave? Yikes!

Also, could you please add me to your ping list? Thanks.

[smithson]

She'll start crying and that will mean she's innocent. After all, it's only a man. They'll even get to the bottom of why he deserved what he got. Do you think a man would be out on $10,000 bail after that?

[Brownie74]

Brownie did you see this?

Yes, I saw it. The world has gone crazy - things like this should never happen. I sent you a FReep mail.

[MeekOneGOP]

the Dallas Morning News is NOT covering it [this story]. . .

I notice that the DMN finally got this story up now. I thought they were gonna ignore it since this was in Fort Worth, but glad to see they are now! :O)

Here is the link, in case anyone is interested:
Hit-and-run victim left for dead
http://www.dallasnews.com/latestnews/stories/030702dnmethitandrun.b7a85.html

The title kinda understates the story, tho. . .

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WFAA TV VIDEO of STORY: HAS PICTURE of SUSPECT, etc.
http://www.wfaa.com/popups/03-02/07hit_run_1200.html

Hit-and-run victim left for dead

03/07/2002

By NANCY CALAWAY / The Dallas Morning News

FORT WORTH - A woman who hit a man with her car - and left him to die in her garage, trapped in the windshield - was charged with murder this week, police said.

Chante Mallard, 25, of Fort Worth was released form the Tarrant County Jail after posting $10,000 bond.

Police said she had been drinking and using the drug ecstasy one night in October when her car struck Gregory Glenn Biggs, 37, near the Loop 820 split with U.S. Highway 287.

"Evidently, he became lodged in the window," said Lt. Jesse Hernandez. "She panicked, drove home and parked in the garage."

Ms. Mallard then offered gruesome details of what happened next. "According to her statement, he was still alive. And she parked there and went inside, came back out and kind of apologized to him," Lt. Hernandez said. "He moaned or still had signs of life, but she just left him there and eventually he died."

Last month, investigators said, Ms. Mallard told people at a party about the collision, and about dumping Mr. Biggs' body, after he died, in Cobb Park south of downtown.

The October drive to her home in the 3800 block of Wilbarger Street was about four miles. Ms. Mallard had planned to burn the car to destroy the evidence, police said.

"There was considerable physical evidence there," Lt. Jesse Hernandez said. "They found her car, blood, hair, other trace evidence. The car seats had been removed and were found in the back yard. One of the seats had been burned."

The Tarrant County Medical Examiner said Mr. Biggs is believed to have died two or three days after the collision - from blood loss, not directly from the injuries sustained in the crash.

"At any point in time, she could have called 911 and told someone this had happened, and she would have been in a lot less trouble than she's in now," Sgt. Jon Fahrenthold said.

"If this isn't the worst case I've ever seen, it's right up there."

Police said they believe other people knew Ms. Mallard had left the man to die at her home. They now hope to question those people.

Latresa Ward, who has known Ms. Mallard since high school, said she was shocked to learn of the charge against her friend. "This is just not something that I would think Chante would do," Ms. Ward said. "She's not like that. She's very caring, she's outgoing, she's real smart, and I was just surprised."

Narkeshia Holloway also went to school with Ms. Mallard. She speculated that her friend was probably scared. "To her family and to the victim's family, we all need to stay prayerful," Ms. Holloway said. "Chante, I love you, I am praying for you."

WFAA-TV reporter Jim Douglas and Dallas Websites reporter Walt Zwirko contributed to this story.

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Online at: http://www.dallasnews.com/latestnews/stories/030702dnmethitandrun.b7a85.html

[maxwell]

title kinda understates the story, tho. . .

Yeah no sh!t, bro... This whole thing is pretty hardcore...

[MeekOneGOP]

In Texas, we don't use old Sparky anymore, FRiend. Lethal injection. It's not inhumane and renders a quiet, peaceful end. . .

Then dust off old sparky for this one. She doesn't deserve a "quiet, peaceful end" She deserves to die after days of pain and agony and ignored pleas for help. Just like her victim did.

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LOL! I was gonna add to my original post something to the effect that the lethal injection method keeps the Whacko Libs off our backs. . .

Oh, also Film at 11 on post #107, btw. . .

[T Wayne]

Maybe that judge should have his head examined?

They would find it lacking a brain!!!

[Johassen]

Hope she gets the chair? It's Texas, you're lucky to avoid it there. Well, that and the needle.

[MeekOneGOP]

What was she like then? I understand that when she was in the hospital after allegedly being stabbed (by herself, of course) after she murdered her kids, the workers in the hospital suspected her right away. And remember her birthday party at the kids' grave? Yikes!

Darlie Routier and her husband Darin worked at the same company I did. They were there in the 1988-91 period, thereabouts. I actually knew Darin better because he was more easy going, like most folks in this part of the country. Here is my recollection of Darlie: She had a clique of her own friends, and she always hung around the same group. We worked in a 85,000 sq. ft. facility, and I have always been one to greet everyone in the hallway with "good mornin' " or "howdy" or whatever. In all the time she was there, not ONCE did she ever return the greeting - and I'm not exaggerating either. If you weren't in her little clique, you just weren't anybody, I think. I haven't known many people like that, I guess. She was very into herself, I think.

Yes, I believe that's correct, the medical personal were suspicious of her wounds. I think the forensic study determined it was very doubtful the neck wound was inflicted by an intruder, but pointed to possible self-infliction (which I believe it was, as well). The forensic evidence against her was solid, too. She did it, I am convinced.

I think the silly string graveside birthday party for one of the murdered kids right after the murder was VERY strange. Most folks I talked to said the same thing, although a few didn't think it was so strange. I thought it was weird, tho. I always got along with Darin, but his unyielding support for Darlie, while not unusual, made me wonder. I don't suspect he could have had anything to do with the murder, but isn't that the classic quote you see in the paper all the time!? :O)

As I stated earlier in this article, I fear that the court reporters messing up the transcripts might jeopardize the death penalty being carried out. I hope it doesn't, but it will be interesting to see how that situation progresses.

[Texas Mom]

Too quick and easy.

Hey, we have fire ants in Texas. Someone could come up with something fitting. I could think of a few things myself.

[kaylar]

It makes a difference because race now determines not only how much punishment a criminal gets, but even WHETHER he is punished.

As Judge Burton Katz detailed in his book , Justice Overruled, OJ was not a fluke. In urban areas, it's common for mostly black juries to allow the perps in cases of black on white crime to walk.

Furthermore, behavior that is criminal in whites in condoned or treated less severely in blacks. Look at OR, in which we learn that it is worse for a white man to use a racial epithet then for a black man to assault a white woman. Look at the horrors of Black Spring Break, where Jesse Jackass threatened to SUE business owners who wanted to close up shop, in response to the violence, the threats, the shoplifting, the public urination, copulation, and defecation that marked previous BSBs. Look at the Mardi Gras assaults in Seattle, when the police stood by and watched whites get beat up by blacks, and did nothing, and look at the short sentences those monsters drew.

What's more, it matters because when white people hurt blacks, it makes the front pages for days, weeks, or even months. When blacks hurt whites, the story is buried on the back pages. Look at Jasper, TX. Look at the media frenzy over the death of James Byrd. Now, do a search on FR for the story of the white guy run over by a car load of blacks in Texas a few weeks ago. Buried and out of the papers in 2 days , and the press could barely conceal its titters over the man's middle name of "Bimbo", or over the fact that he lived in a trailer. A few years ago, a maniac black woman went to a white friend's house up in Chicago. She and two accomplices killed the woman, killed her two children, then hacked open their victim and removed her unborn baby, which was fathered by one of the male accomplices. Alleged 'baby hunger' was the stated motive. Have you ever heard of it before? I only heard about it when CNN covered the people PROTESTING the possibility they might draw the death penalty. (They didn't , they got LWOP. ) Think that case would be so obscure if the races were reversed? Do a search on Wichita ; why hasn't that crime made headlines throughout the world? What about the mostly black assailants and mostly white victims in the Puerto Rican festival Parade in NYC? What about a black cop (Chicago, again) deliberately dropping a white man off by some black street thugs, who promptly doused the guy with gasoline and set him ablaze? The guy died, the cop laughed about it, and as far as I know the case was never heard of outside Chicago and the cop suffered no penalty. The last time an interracial crime with black perps and white victims got anything like the coverage when the situation was reversed was back in the 1980s, with the Central Park Jogger case. Since then, it's almost a joke : If the races aren't mentioned, you KNOW...

Look at the stats for interracial crimes-18 whites murdered by blacks for every 1 black murdered by whites; 90% of interracial crime involving a black perp and a white victim, etc-and look how often a white on black crime is just assumed to be a hate crime, while no matter what horrorific acts are inflicted on white victims, the law just shrugs it off as simple street crime. This, even when the perps ADMIT they chose their victims on the basis of race, as we saw in the assaults on the VA college students, reported on FR a few weeks back, or in the Wichita Horror. What this means is, a white man who assaults a black person will get a longer sentence than a black man who assaults a white person. So much for 'equality before the law'.

People speculate on the races when the press conceals race in horrific crimes because we're angry. It's as if the law and the media are united in all but decriminalizing black assaults against whites (like in the OR case, where no assault charges will be brought against a black thug, because he got his feelings hurt hearing "the n word" from the husband of the woman he was manhandling.)The protests are getting louder over the injustice of Hate crime laws and the way they're being administered. Thanks to the internet, it's getting harder and harder for the media to hide crimes like this, and that is helping the grass roots efforts against these unjust, unconstitutional, vile laws.

[kaylar]

I gues what I'm trying to say is this :

We speculate on race in crimes like this because we assume that if this is a white victim/black perp case, then the crime will receive very little attention, and the perp will either get a short sentence or walk away free. We are angry. The actions of the judge in this case suggest our fears will be realized. We're getting tired of the media complicity in this obscene double standard. More and more people are using the internet to thwart the media attempts at hiding crimes like this , as well as using them as rallying points in the grass roots efforts against Hate Crime Laws.

[NC_Libertarian]

She desearves the death penalty for such a crime.

[GOPmember]

                            Perpetrators:

            

                                Victims:

            

Unfortunately, it's now a cliche, but can anyone tell me which
combination produces a "hate crime" and which produces a story
that gets relegated to the back page of the local paper's Metro section?

[GovernmentShrinker]

Actually, I think what the judge should have is a serious freeping -- are there any Dallas-Fort Worth area freepers able to lead the charge? Given the physical evidence described by the police, it doesn't seem as if there's any real doubt that she's the person who did this, which would be the ONLY valid reason for granting bail in the case of such a horrific crime. I mean, one can hardly argue that she isn't a clear danger to society.

[gitmogrunt]

A present for Chante Mallard:

7.62mm

[samtheman]

I read that men mending fences in Tennessee must grow a beard??

He's a jerk, isn't he. And just think, he almost became our president. If the Florida Supreme Court had had its way. We have much to be thankful for.

Anyway, we've drifted way off-topic, except it is worth considering that this woman's behavior --- and the people who will rise up in her defence ("she's a victim, she's a victim") --- represent decades of entrenched Liberalism, the cancer of our society... and the algore would have been the tumor-in-chief. Things like this hideous crime --- and subsequent declarations of the criminal's victimhood --- will certainly still continue... but it's still a far far better country with algore not in the whitehouse.