A friend of the woman accused of hitting a man with her car and leaving him to bleed to death, impaled in her windshield, testified Monday about seeing the man's body.

Titilisee Fry saw Biggs' body in the car.

"I opened the garage door and looked in," testified Titilisee Fry.  "I saw the back side of the body hanging out the window."

Fry slammed the door and ran inside. She demanded that her friend, Chante Jawan Mallard, call 911. According to Fry, Mallard refused. 

Now, the former nurse's aide is facing life in prison if convicted of killing former bricklayer Gregory Biggs, 37, with her Chevrolet Cavalier on Oct. 26, 2001.

The careful testimony from Fry, a nurse's aide and aspiring hair stylist, provided a first version of events expected to be described further by the two men who dumped Griggs' body a day later in a local park.

Those men, Clete Deneal Jackson and Herbert Tyrone Cleveland, have already been convicted of evidence tampering and are expected to give testimony about their role in the cover-up. Jackson received a 10-year sentence and Cleveland a 9-year term.

Searched months later, Mallard's car had been partially stripped.

At the outset of her trial Monday morning, Mallard unexpectedtly pleaded guilty to tampering with evidence, a charge that could get her from two to 10 years behind bars, and up to a $10,000 fine.  Mallard's lawyer has argued that she may be guilty of failing to seek help, but not murder.

Fry told jurors that the evening of the accident, she and Mallard spent a night on the town: smoking pot and splitting an Ecstasy pill with her former co-worker, who had never tried the drug. 

They partied past midnight at a local dance club offering 69-cent drink specials, and returned to Fry's house.  After making a phone call, Mallard headed home.  It was around 2:50 a.m. 

Minutes later, Mallard called, rousing Fry out of bed.  Something was wrong.

"T, come pick me up," said Mallard, calling Fry by her nickname. Fry described Mallard's voice as "sort of low, like as if a whisper."

Fry drove to Mallard's house, where the defendant ran out to meet her.

Biggs' body was found in Fort Worth's Cobb Park.

"She jumped in the car and started screaming for me to just drive," said Fry. 

During a frantic 50-minute car-ride, Mallard explained that she had hit someone accidentally, and tried unsuccessfully to free him from the windshield. 

When the women returned to Mallard's house, Fry got her first and only glimpse of Biggs' body, and finally believed Mallard's story.

"I became hysterical at that point," she testified.  "I didn't think that there was any body in the car until I saw it."

The next time Fry visited the garage, the body was gone.  Mallard's conspirators had dumped Biggs in a nearby park, Fry said.  Biggs' body was gone, and someone had removed portions of the carpeting and seats from Mallard's car.

Still, traces of the accident remained. "You could smell the stench in the air," said Fry.

Fry admitted on direct examination that she lied to prosecutors during her first statement.  Faced with phone and employment records—and a possible perjury charge—she began telling what she says is the truth.

The victim, Gregory Biggs

In his opening statement Monday, Mallard's attorney, Jeff Kearney,  emphasized his client's inebriation.  During Fry's cross-examination, he revisited the idea that Mallard was simply not herself that night.

"The night all this happened, Chante was certainly acting differently than you'd ever seen her act?" Kearney asked.

"Yes she was," said Fry.

Court TV is broadcasting Mallard's trial live.