Kading recalls in Murder Rap that his direct supervisor, Cmdr. Keffe D is up against a wall at the time he fingers Combs for Shakur's murder. Blasts LAPD Over Autopsy Report", "Notorious B.I.G. The driver of the Impala, a black male, rolled down his window, drew a 9mm blue-steel pistol and fired at the SUV; four bullets hit Wallace. Theresa Swann We found 31 records for Theresa Swann in PA, LA and 16 other states. Wallace". Furious, Judge Florence-Marie Cooper concluded that the seizure showed LAPD was scrambling to conceal evidence relating to the Biggie Smalls murder. So much so, says Kading, that in July 2006 he was handpicked to lead the Biggie Smalls murder investigation. Unsolved case Kading added: "Suge would have figured out she spoke, but the reality was that he was not going to kill or harm the mother of his child, especially if she is working with law enforcement. 679215 Registered office: 1 London Bridge Street, London, SE1 9GF. Kading does however align with Poole in his belief that Suge Knight orchestrated the hit, but believes that Suges go-to guy for murders was not a cop (and that his hit-man was actually contracted by one of the mothers of Knights children, who is identified as Theresa Swann in Murder Rap to protect her real identity). Kading conducted Swanns interviews, but noted them on police interview forms rather than audio tape. Former Times reporter Philips spent years struggling to redeem his reputation, and now is co-producing a documentary on Suge Knight that will feature a soundtrack by Knight's latest company, Black Kapital. Sean Combs traveled in the other vehicle with Eugene "Gene" Deal, Tone, Stevie J and driver Kenny. A half-dozen lesser allegations that irritated Judge Wilson mostly involved phone snippets played during the trial that implied Kading was making promises to Smith and Del Real to get them to testify. "The sense is let lying dogs lie and that is not likely to change. They had been shooting at each other, dealing drugs, stealing cars for their lives. [19], On January 19, 2007, Tyruss "Big Syke" Himes, a friend of Shakur who was implicated in Wallace's murder by the Los Angeles Fox affiliate KTTV and XXL magazine in 2005, had a defamation lawsuit regarding the accusations thrown out of court.[37]. Ms. Wallaces belief that former L.A.P.D. The suit also named two LAPD officers in the center of the investigation into the Rampart scandal, Perez and Nino Durden. Kevin McClure with the blessing of brand-new LAPD Chief Charlie Beck. "The Unsolved Mystery of the Notorious B.I.G. This seed of skepticism is resown in the pages of Murder Rap. Kading now says the blame fell squarely upon the U.S. Attorney's Office and prosecutor Tim Searight. Without his years of nuanced insight into the vast array of characters involved, he says, the investigation began to peter out as he watched helplessly. No, I never got a chance to talk to Russ. Now Eugene Deals looking at Amir Muhammad but hes also now seeing Cause you know there were two [sketches of the suspected shooter], right? According to the claim, Perez, an alleged affiliate of Death Row Records, admitted to LAPD officials that he and Mack (who was not named in the lawsuit) "conspired to murder, and participated in the murder of Christopher Wallace". We would ask, and if anybody tells us, Hey, it was David Mack, well we would immediately draft up a report, [and] wed give that to the Internal Affairs division, which was handling the lawsuit against the city. So no deputy or no prison employees gonna be able to stand there and listen to it. Suges criminal instincts kept him from taking the bait when she raised Biggies death. 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Read about the Internal Affairs report clearing Kading's name in the George Torres case. DX: You believe he did the shooting himself? I dont believe that he was there completely alone though. Read 10 highlights from the Keffe D confessions. Six months later, Bad Boy Entertainment rap star Christopher Wallace, best known as Biggie Smalls or Notorious B.I.G., was shot to death in L.A. If true, this means the LAPD has only in the past couple of months revived the probe. The Metro section of the paper was opposed to running a retraction, but the business desk editor, Mark Saylor,[22] said, "Chuck is sort of the world's authority on rap violence" and pushed, along with Chuck Philips, for the Times to retract the article. To see all content on The Sun, please use the Site Map. Both Baby Lane and Poochie implicated as the triggermen by the team's sources for the murders of Shakur and Smalls had been shot dead years ago, casualties of Crips-versus-Bloods battles set off by the celebrities' slayings. What have you heard about this conspiracy to murder [Biggie]? We made a point of that. ", 2020 THE SUN, US, INC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED | TERMS OF USE | PRIVACY | YOUR AD CHOICES | SITEMAP, Notorious B.I.G. So it came as no surprise that the brass wasted no time in putting together a task force to finally solve the 9-year-old case, find the killer, and hopefully exonerate the police in the process.. And hes like, Oh, shoot! Harry Billups (suspected shooter by, This page was last edited on 25 February 2023, at 20:52. Kading's reputation almost certainly will become an issue upon Murder Rap's publication. This service is provided on News Group Newspapers' Limited's Standard Terms and Conditions in accordance with our Privacy & Cookie Policy. Voletta Wallace's attorney Sanders tells the Weekly that Kading's book does not meaningfully refute theories that corrupt LAPD cops were involved, and Sanders does not believe that alleged co-conspirators Swann, Knight and Poochie could have known Smalls was at the Petersen Automotive Museum party on the night he was gunned down. In fact, Beck's detectives were doing the opposite. Two months later, Federal Judge Stephen Wilson issued a shocking ruling, throwing out the verdicts. He says Searight decided not to call him to the witness stand because the prosecutor thought the defense lawyers would call Kading instead. After Greg left, we finally made the decision, McClure says. Kading was certain that by tracking down a couple more Crips allegedly involved in Shakur's murder, and by wiretapping phone conversations between Knight and his lover Swann, the LAPD finally would have enough evidence to solve hip-hop's greatest murder mysteries. [11] Media reports had previously speculated that Wallace was in some way connected to Shakur's murder, though no evidence ever surfaced to seriously implicate him. We followed every viable lead that we had at the time and pushed it to the point where we needed something else to occur in order to move the case forward. Cause now she can go back and tell Suge, if she ever gets confronted with her cooperation, she can say, It wasnt me, Poochie already snitched us out.. [5][13] In the book, Sullivan accused Marion "Suge" Knight, co-founder of Death Row Records and a known Bloods affiliate, of conspiring with corrupt Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) officer David Mack to kill Wallace and make both deaths appear to be the result of the rap rivalry. Dozens of gang members from both sides died in attempts to avenge Shakur's and Smalls' deaths. According to the report, three of the four shots were not fatal. In 1998 I found love in selling & promoting Real Estate by helping families sell or find their dream home! 's killer was paid just $14,000 to shoot the rap legend on this date 25 years ago, the detective on the case has claimed. But, thats not how you conduct an investigation. Christopher Wallace traveled to Los Angeles, California, in February 1997 to promote his upcoming second studio album, Life After Death, and to film a music video for its lead single, "Hypnotize". agent actually in the interview with us. and Tupac Shakur from 2006-2009 as part of a joint L.A.P.D./federal task force that set out initially to solve the murder of Biggie Smalls in the wake of his mother Voletta Wallaces multi-million dollar lawsuit against the city of Los Angeles for allegedly covering up the fact that then on-duty L.A.P.D. Not only had the Shakur and Smalls investigations hit dead ends, he says, but McClure needed his elite detectives for more pressing matters. If Death Row didnt retaliate Tupacs murder then talk is that they are punk bitches for letting Bad Boy walk over them. Like a tense scene from L.A. Law, they prepared a fake confession from Wardell Poochie Fouse, a close associate of Suge Knight's, then asked Swann to confirm it a creative tactic used by LAPD's elite Robbery-Homicide Division. Of course Suge had been around long enough in his life to know there are informants out there and you never know who they are. The court directed the city to conduct a thorough investigation, which uncovered previously undisclosed evidence, much of which was in the desk or cabinet of Det. [25] John Cook of Brill's Content noted that Philips' article "demolished"[24] the Poole-Sullivan theory of Wallace's murder. Kading tells him on tape: Everything in this report has to be right on, because if down the road it's determined that some of these details are incorrect, then everything's off the table. Keffe D responds, Don't bullshit me, and I won't bullshit y'all.. Kading says that, in fact, he facilitated Albert's surrender to local cops and nothing more. With that crushing figure hanging over the city, almost simultaneously, Voletta Wallace filed a second lawsuit in the summer of 2006, and the order came down under then-Chief Bratton: Find Biggie Smalls' true killer. Kadings force strategically manipulated Swann into an interview as she faced other criminal charges. U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007. . Reach the writers at [emailprotected] and [emailprotected]. Kading says they were all egregiously taken out of context, and LAPD's Internal Affairs appears to have agreed. "[18], In alluding to Sullivan and Poole's theory that formed the basis of the Wallace family's dismissed $500 million lawsuit against the City of Los Angeles, The New York Times wrote: "A cottage industry of criminal speculation has sprung up around the case, with documentaries, books and a stream of lurid magazine articles implicating gangs, crooked cops and a cross-country rap rivalry,"[19] noting that everything associated with Wallace's death had been "big business." Criminals are more comfortable affirming information than providing it. He says his supervisors quietly informed him that he could take any assignment he wanted but was being removed from the Biggie Smalls murder case while a secret Internal Affairs investigation was conducted into his actions in the Numero Uno case. [33], The documents centered around interviews by numerous police officers of an incarcerated informant, who had been a cellmate of imprisoned Rampart officer Rafael Perez for some extended period of time. Suge is not an idiot, but a criminally sophisticated guy, "If you know someone is working with law enforcement and you go out and do something to them - who is their number one target now?". He had previously testified to knowledge of involvement between Knight, Mack, and Muhammed, but later said that the Wallace attorneys had altered his declarations to include words he never said. Because, when she tells us this so many years have gone by to go back and try to to go back 10, 12 years and try to get any kind of inmate records about a visitation, they dont exist. Read the response from Voletta Wallace's attorney. On March 7, Wallace presented an award to Toni Braxton at the 1997 Soul Train Music Awards and was booed by some of the audience. Theresa used to live at 5 Hope St, North Attleborough, MA 02760. Greg Kading: Yeah, we have Theres we We had a good case. murder investigation. By 12:45a.m. (PST), the streets were crowded with people leaving the museum. For instance, have you ever seen that movie L.A. The law was only a deterrent if someone was stupid enough to get caught. LAPD took nearly a year to complete its investigation of Kading. Speaking on the 25th anniversary of Biggie's death, Kading told The Sun: Suge indirectly told Poochie to kill Biggie through Swann. Of course Suge had been around long enough in his life to know there are informants out there and you never know who they are. Keffe D places himself in the passenger seat of the old white Cadillac that famously pulled up, full of Crips, on the right side of the BMW carrying Shakur and Knight toward a club just off the Vegas Strip. Greg Kading: I do believe that. officer tied to Death Row, we had to make a special note of it and then hand that over. And in a bizarre twist, one of Suge's baby mamas acted as the go-between for the infamous hit against Biggie - real name Christopher Wallace - before breaking rank and revealing the entire plot to cops, Kading said. He says Swanns description confirmed and expanded on evidence his team gathered in their probe. He only gives that description after hes gone and talked to Eugene Deal. The problem was we never got any. That article was later retracted by Times editors because it quoted FBI court documents that turned out to have been faked by a rap-scene gadfly. It was an in-person [meeting]. She could either go to jail or tell us what she knew about the murder. The team of feds and LAPD officers believed they were on the brink of solving one of the most haunting cold cases in popular history. Wallace's SUV stopped at a red light on the corner of Wilshire Boulevard and South Fairfax Avenue[8] just 50yd (46m) away. "[17] Moreover, the motive suggested for the murder of Wallace in the documentaryto decrease suspicion for the Shakur shooting six months earlierwas, as the Times put it, "unsupported in the film. On Monday (October 3rd), the LA Weekly published a jaw-dropping article regarding the revelations made by former Los Angeles Police Department detective Greg Kading in his just-released book, Murder Rap: The Untold Story of the Biggie Smalls & Tupac Shakur Murder Investigations. Her confession is summarized in an official LAPD report reviewed by L.A. Weekly: During one or more of [Swann's prison visits], Knight instructed [Swann] to help him coordinate the murder of Christopher Wallace. She was 42 years old, and she lived in a house that Suge owned, with their young daughter and a . ", "Interview: Former L.A.P.D. Theresa has been a resident of six cities, including Navarre, FL and Gulf Breeze, FL. To inquire about a licence to reproduce material, visit our Syndication site. [27][28] Retired LAPD detective Greg Kading, who worked for three years on a gang task force that included the Wallace case, alleged that the rapper was shot by Wardell "Poochie" Fouse. DX: Now, I don't know if you can answer this question, but I do need to ask it: Is "Theresa Swann" actually former Death Row Records artist, and mother of Suge Knight's nine-year-old daughter,. [1] Retired LAPD Officer Greg Kading alleged that Marion "Suge" Knight, the head of Death Row Records, orchestrated the murder in revenge for the September 1996 murder of Tupac Shakur in a similar drive-by homicide by gunshot.[2]. NOTORIOUS B.I.G. Had Los Angeles lost the suit, the city's liability could, by some reckoning, have risen to $500 million, the estimate of Biggie Smalls' lost earnings. Kading added: Suge would have figured out she spoke, but the reality was that he was not going to kill or harm the mother of his child, especially if she is working with law enforcement. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. Respected Robbery-Homicide Detective Russell Poole, who inherited the Biggie Smalls case from the Wilshire Division a month after the rapper was shot, had developed a growing suspicion that a handful of rogue cops, taking orders from Suge Knight, were accomplices in Smalls' murder and that corrupt LAPD officials, under then-Chief Bernard Parks, had rushed to cover their bloody trail. Knight's downfall also could be due to his inability to let go of the past: A lot of these dudes say they love 'Pac, but at the same time they be doing shit like Puffy, Knight told TMZ earlier this year. Greg Kading: I would love to sit down and show you their actual statements, because you see that Lil Cease doesnt give that description in his initial interview. Greg Kading: No, Ive never interviewed David Kenner. So there were some problems in the development. The law was only a deterrent if someone was stupid enough to get caught. A barrel-chested black man with a front tooth missing, relaxed yet instinctively cautious, is seated across from four spellbound cops in a glass-walled conference room at 8200 Wilshire Blvd. DX: And did you interview David Kenner about this meeting? In Murder Rap, though, almost all of LAPD's informants are on the record. DX: Lastly in regards to the Biggie Smalls murder investigation, were you ever implicitly instructed by your superiors in the L.A.P.D. He says he kept handing her tissues to sop up the mascara streaming down her face as she begged cops not to tell Suge Knight they had spoken with her. Greg Kading: Yeah, and thisll probably sound a little bit suspicious to you, but working in these federal task forces all the different agencies have their own internal policies about interview protocol. The first bullet hit his left forearm and traveled down to his wrist; the second hit him in the back, missing all vital organs, and exited through his left shoulder; and the third hit his left thigh and exited through his inner thigh. Swann wore a body-wire during a meet with Suge, now out of prison, which ended in failure. What Poochie says, that's what happened.. But Kading says the big money was an official $50,000 reward being offered in an entirely different case that Smith knew something about. Sean Combs told the Weekly via email: This story is pure fiction and completely ridiculous. Suge Knight could not be reached. Much of the holes that youre gonna find in this is simply because there was nobody there to follow-up on the investigation once I got ripped out. DX: Just out of curiosity though, did you ever converse with Russell Poole during your investigation? In his December 2008 confession, however, the tape indicates Keffe D will only be held immune from his admissions if none of his statements, including on Shakur's murder, are shown to be false. Thank you for supporting LA Weekly and our advertisers. Suge was in county jail and used Swann to make the solicitation and get at Biggie. Film 'City of Lies' Pulled From Release Schedule", "Mark Saylor dies at 58; former Times editor oversaw Pulitzer-winning series", "Man No Longer Under Scrutiny in Rapper's Death", "Informant in Rap Star's Slaying Admits Hearsay", "Hip-Hop Homicide "Worth More Dead Than Alive" Crime Library on", "LAPD launching new Notorious BIG task force", "Interview: Suge Knight paid Poochie $900 before killing B.I.G. The two SUVs were trailed by a Chevrolet Blazer carrying Bad Boy Records' director of security, Paul Offord, driven by an off-duty Inglewood police officer.[5]. The son of an honest-to-goodness 1960s flower child, Kading may have been the most unlikely man imaginable to extract confessions in two seemingly unsolvable celebrity homicide cases. In December 2012, the LAPD released the autopsy results conducted on Wallace's body to generate new leads. For further details of our complaints policy and to make a complaint please click this link: thesun.co.uk/editorial-complaints/, Notorious B.I.G. It was definitely necessary to follow-up on it, but it wasnt enough to build a whole theory around. officers David Mack and Rafael Perez? Everybody that we would talk to and bring that up and ask those questions it was always the same answer: Well yeah How do you know? Well, its what I read in the newspaper. Well, why do you believe that? I read it in the newspaper. So everything about those guys was stuff that was hearsay information. What evidence in addition to her statements, besides just you mentioned the I.D. Theresa Swann is on Facebook. In 2006, Wallace's mother, Voletta Wallace, his widow, Faith Evans, and his children T'yanna Jackson and Christopher Jordan "CJ" Wallace, filed a $400 million second wrongful death lawsuit against the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) alleging that corrupt officers were responsible for Wallace's death. But what Kading says happened next a series of shocking moves within the LAPD's upper ranks would lead him to question whether his superiors wanted the rappers' murderers brought to justice. Join Facebook to connect with Theresa Swann and others you may know. A later 2005 story by Chuck Philips alleged that an informant for the Poole-Sullivan theory, Psycho Mike, was a schizophrenic with admitted memory lapses who confessed to hearsay. The conversation was almost 12 years on from the murder and he would have suspected something with her all of a sudden bringing this stuff back up. Staying in a tent, Kading became increasingly desperate for stability. He goes, Maybe its Kenny, or maybe it was Keke. So there were these four different names that that informant gave out. Sitting in the backseat of the Cadillac, according to Keffe D, was his own nephew, Orlando Baby Lane Anderson, who got his ass kicked in the MGM Grand lobby earlier in the evening by Shakur's posse over a piece of Death Row bling that Baby Lane supposedly had stolen. Keffe D tells the cops he was offered $1 million to kill Death Row rapper Tupac Shakur and Suge Knight, the label's former CEO. We took her statement, it was reinforced with these other statements by these other insiders, and then the circumstantial evidence of the car, the money transfers, all of the things that happened [that] led us to believe that she was telling the truth. For Kading, as soft-spoken and level-headed as hip-hop cops come, finishing what he started and stepping into a potential legal and media maelstrom is the right thing to do. DX: Now, I dont know if you can answer this question, but I do need to ask it: Is Theresa Swann actually former Death Row Records artist, and mother of Suge Knights nine-year-old daughter, Michelle? Either Beck or Beck's underlings decided to replace Kading one of Southern California's top-notch investigators with a detective lacking a strong background in narcotics or informants, Kading says. Gradually, Kading says, all leads dead-ended. Though Kading is well aware of the litigation to which he's exposing himself by implicating Combs and Knight the wealthy Combs threatened to sue the Los Angeles Times over much less Kading believes that the story's bigger than the LAPD, and that if he doesn't share his findings with the public, nobody's ever going to know what really happened.. Join Facebook to connect with Swann Theresa and others you may know. And on this surreal morning on Dec. 18, 2008, Keffe D is going to snitch. Estate of Wallace v. City of Los Angeles, 229 F.R.D. In Kading's Murder Rap, he paraphrases Swann as explaining why she believes the Death Row honcho ordered the kill: He was really mad about [Shakur's murder]. The allegations that blame Tupac Shakur's murder on Sean Combs tend to strengthen a different, yet equally controversial, L.A. Times article from 2008, in which Philips fingers Combs for initially setting up a bloody mugging of Shakur in 1994, two years before he was killed in Las Vegas. The hit was allegedly orchestrated by Death Row Records boss Marion "Suge" Knight in response to the 1996 murder of his money maker Tupac Shakur and to maintain his hardcore gangster status, according to former LAPD detective Greg Kading. But there's a perception out there and we're concerned that it might work against you in the Biggie case. doesnt want the And there was an F.B.I.
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