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Hit-run victim lived hours, not days, medical examiner says Star-Telegram Staff Writer
Dr. Nizam Peerwani said the extent of Biggs' injuries, including the near amputation of his left leg, indicates that the 37-year-old man died from a loss of blood quicker than the two- to three-day time frame police originally stated.
"He couldn't have died instantaneously," Peerwani said. "There was some interval of time before he died. ...
"No way are we going to support two or three days that he was alive. We are talking in hours."
Chante Mallard, the 25-year-old nurse's aide charged with murder in Biggs' death, remained in Tarrant County Jail on Tuesday with bail set at $250,000.
Police spokesman Duane Paul said investigators received conflicting information about the man's time of death during a Feb. 26 interview with Mallard and from the woman who first tipped police after hearing Mallard discuss the accident at a party in mid-February.
Mallard told police the accident occurred in the early morning hours of Oct. 26, the day before Biggs' body was found by two men in Cobb Park. The tipster said Mallard told friends at the party that Biggs did not die for a couple of days, according to an arrest warrant affidavit.
"She (the tipster) was told one thing. The detectives were told another thing by Chante Mallard," Paul said. "We're trying to sort through everything and determine exactly what the time frame was."
Paul said regardless of how long it took for Biggs to die, evidence shows he was alive after the accident.
"The amount of time that it took for Mr. Biggs to die does not affect our investigation or our case," Paul said. "It still appears that she did not render any type of aid for Mr. Biggs, either sought aid or provided any type of medical assistance for Mr. Biggs."
Peerwani, who performed the autopsy on Biggs, said he wants to review police and crime lab reports before providing the district attorney's office with a more specific estimate of the time of death.
Peerwani said he attibuted the death to injuries from a hit-and-run accident but said the body's lividity indicated Biggs probably had been struck elsewhere and later dumped in the park.
Peerwani later changed the manner of death from undetermined to homicide after a police investigation revealed Biggs had been struck by Mallard's car near the East Loop 820 and U.S. 287 split. Police said Mallard panicked, then drove home a few miles with the injured man lodged in her windshield.
There, she parked the car in the garage and apologized profusely to Biggs but never sought help for the dying man, police said. Friends of the woman, who police are still seeking, later helped dispose of the body in Cobb Park, police said.
Peerwani said he changed the ruling to a homicide because Biggs "would have survived had he been taken for medical treatment."
Peerwani said the condition of Biggs' body at the time it was found indicates it was dumped at the park within a day or so of the accident.
"The body was fairly well preserved, not decomposing," Peerwani said. "I don't think this accident occurred two or three days before the body was found. Based on preservation of the body, I would suggest it is not anymore than a day or so."
Peerwani said he has previously ruled a few cases homicides based on another person's failure to seek medical attention, but he called the circumstances behind Biggs' death unique.
"I've never had a case like this in 25 years," he said.
Deanna Boyd, (817) 390-7655 dboyd@star-telegram.com
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Oh! OK. That should make everything alright.
Well, I feel better for one. As a matter of fact I'm willing to forgo having this woman spend every stinking day of the rest of her miserable, rotten life in jail!
That is, after we subject her to..."The Comfy Chair".
"Ximenez, did you bring the marshmallows?!?"
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.
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.
She's toast!
"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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Many people who distrust the mainstream media have turned to alternate news sources, some of which are Internet based. Unfortunately, many of these alternate sources of news simply promote an alternate series of lies. These alternate lies are of course dressed up as "exposés." But you can easily tell the phonies from the real thing. The information in the Waco Holocaust Electronic Museum is an acid test.
Does your news source promote Mike McNulty's video, Waco: The Rules of Engagement or wring its hands because the Davidian law suit against the government failed? (See Waco Documentary Is A Hoax! and Waco Suits for Waco Suckers.) Does your alternate news source carry promotional pieces about rebuilding the Davidian church in Waco and mouth nice words about "healing"? (See The Cover-up Church.)
Remember, since ancient times, inquiries into questionable deaths have started with the bodies of the victims. If your news source won't give you an honest and full account of the forensic information on Waco, or if it does not have a link to the Waco Holocaust Electronic Museum ... your alternate news has failed a fundamental acid test.
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