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American Morning

Fort Worth Police Find Out Story Behind Body by Side of Road Hit by Car

Aired March 08, 2002 - 09:40   ET

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.

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ANDERSON COOPER, CNN ANCHOR: From Texas this morning comes one of the most bizarre, disturbing stories we've ever come across. Six months ago, Fort Worth Police found a body by the side of the road hit by a car. They couldn't make sense out of it, until now.

Jim Douglas of CNN affiliate WFAA has the story.

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JIM DOUGLAS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Last October when a body was found in Cobb Park off highway 287 in Fort Worth. It didn't make sense. He looked like an accident victim, but there was no accident reported. The death of 37-year-old Gregory Biggs remained mystery until several days ago. That's when informant told police that 25- year-old Shauntay Ballard not only ran over Biggs, but then kept her virtual prisoner, lodged in her windshield.

LT. DAVID BURGESS, FT. WORTH POLICE: And she basically drove to her house, parked with car with him still inside of it, still alive, asking for help in the garage, shut the garage door and she basically goes and checks on him for the next two to three days.

DOUGLAS: According to an affidavit, Ballard herself told police she was scared and crying, that she went back and forth to the garage, telling Biggs she was sorry. She said he just groaned. In her statement, she said didn't know how long it took Biggs to die, because she stopped going to the garage.

(on camera): She thought he was dead.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes, oh, yes.

DOUGLAS (voice-over): Ballard's attorney said it was a matter of hours, not days, and that she didn't hear pleas for mercy and ignore them.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Not the animal or monster that the police are portraying her to be, not this cold, inhumane person that we've heard about.

DOUGLAS: But she got friends to help dump Biggs' body. Whether it happened over one day or three days, prosecutors say Ballard's action add up to murder. RICHARD ALPERT, TARRANT COUNTRY PROSECUTOR: We have information that shows that the person was on their long enough that they lived, suffered and they not given medical attention, and that it would have made a different if they were.

DOUGLAS: A jury will sort it all out. Lost in all of this is the sad story of Gregory Biggs, a former school bus driver, homeless, mentally ill, dying alone.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: He was such a gentleman. For such a thing to happen, I just don't understand how anybody could do this.

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COOPER: There was Jim Douglas from CNN affiliate WFAA in Dallas.

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