6. Chante Jawan Mallard – Stuck
Chante Jawan Mallard, from Fort Worth, Texas, hit a homeless man named Gregory Glen Biggs with her car in 2001. Mallard was intoxicated on a mixture of marijuana, alcohol and ectasy at the time of the impact and she drove home with body lodged in the windshield. Biggs died in her garage but instead of calling the police she reached out for a friend for help. Her friend, Clete Jackson, and his cousin, Tyrone Cleveland, helped to hide the body in a local park and they set fire to the front of the car to help hide any evidence.
Months later at a party, Mallard began laughing at a party claiming, “I hit this white man”. She was arrested on suspicion of murder and during her trial the court heard that if she had chosen to drive to a hospital then Biggs would have survived the crash. She was given a 50-year sentence for murder and a 10-year sentence for tampering with evidence with no eligible parole until 2027.
In 2007, Mena Suvari starred as Brandi Boski in Stuck, a movie based on Mallard’s case. The critics gave it mixed reviews, Stephen Holden of The New York Times called the film a “grim, expert little thriller”. Robert Wilonsky had a different opinion as wrote in The Village Voice, “Stuck is both darkly comic and disgusting; the name alone reduces the crime to a sick joke”.
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