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Those involved with the death investigation of Gregory Biggs are giving new insights into the Texas man’s purported hit-and-run death.
In a new preview of Prosecuting Evil with Kelly Siegler, highlighting Season 2, Episode 5, Siegler tackles the death of Gregory Biggs, a father whose body was located in a Fort Worth, Texas park, with injuries consistent with a horrific traffic accident. But a closer look at the man’s body during a postmortem examination revealed there was more to Biggs’ death than investigators previously believed.
“When you have a case like this, the autopsy’s extremely crucial in terms of looking for evidence,” one investigator told Prosecuting Evil. “The Medical Examiner can tell by the autopsy the way the body was damaged.”
What happened to Greg Biggs?
The Tarrant County Medical Examiner conducted the postmortem examination of Gregory Biggs on October 28, 2001, one day after the man’s body was discovered. It unveiled injury after injury, a look into the sheer violence involved in his death.
“Gregory Biggs had broken legs, [a] broken ankle,” the investigator listed off. “He has a real major laceration across his lower abdomen, and there’s scratches on the body.”
The man said it was “extremely important” that they found “lividity” with the victim, primarily on Biggs’ shoulders and “the front part of his body,” because it told a different story than the accepted hit-and-run theory.
“Lividity is a postmortem phenomenon that occurs in the body when the blood pools after the heart stops pumping,” Siegler told Prosecuting Evil.
Biggs’ death is the focus of a homicide investigation
Based on the lividity, investigators knew they had a game-changer on their hands.
“And, so, because of the lividity, we know that he was lying in a different position when he died,” said the official. “And he had to have been moved from that location to another position at the park.”
The Chief Medical Examiner’s report stated Biggs had been positioned facedown “for some time” before being found on his back. Other injuries to the body indicated he’d been “dragged.”
“With evidence of Greg’s body being moved, this is no longer a traffic accident,” Siegler maintained. “This has become a murder investigation.”
More about Prosecuting Evil
Siegler serves up Texas-sized justice as Prosecuting Evil’s sophomore season continues. Prior to the Gregory Biggs case, the show has featured some of the Lone State state’s most infamous cases, including the murder of expectant mother Belinda Temple, the revenge killings of two prosecutors plus another, and the hit-style murder of mother-of-three Farah Fratta.
The case of Gregory Biggs is the latest disturbing case featured in the Oxygen original series, detailed in the show’s official description.
“Driving home from a night out at a club, a nurse’s aide strikes a homeless man on the freeway,” it states. “The choices she makes after the crash, and her attempt to keep them a secret, are revealed when friends testify against her in a dramatic trial.”
Learn more about the case by watching Prosecuting Evil with Kelly Siegler, airing Saturdays at 8/7c on Oxygen.
