", "Interview: Former L.A.P.D. But I dont believe that some guy in the Nation Of Islam was the shooter. He only gives that description after hes gone and talked to Eugene Deal. It was an in-person [meeting]. ", Loose Women star lined up to be Strictly's first contestant in wheelchair, GMB's Kate Garraway reveals crippling cost of caring for her husband Derek, Mum identified after dead baby is found on heathland, Radio star rushed to hospital after suffering brain haemorrhage, News Group Newspapers Limited in England No. For other inquiries, Contact Us. Call it an obsession a curse, even. But investigators are like softball parents: Their kid is always better than your kid. [9], Wallace's death was mourned by fellow hip hop artists and fans worldwide. [31] The case remains officially unsolved, despite a good amount of evidence being found. If Death Row didnt retaliate Tupacs murder then talk is that they are punk bitches for letting Bad Boy walk over them. [33], On April 16, 2007, relatives of Wallace filed a second wrongful death lawsuit against the City of Los Angeles. [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. That that seems a little I mean, why wasnt it recorded? So saying that, we have no reason to believe that Perez or Mack were there. Kading's job was to look into several murders possibly connected to Torres. The Murders of gangsta rappers Tupac Shakur and Notorious B.I.G. Swann Theresa is on Facebook. Wilson publicly singled out Kading for making what appeared to be inappropriate promises of leniency and favors to the two witnesses. In the decade and a half since the two most famous homicides in hip-hop history, police have made no arrests. Cal. Kading is working on a new podcast and documentary about former rogue cop Christopher Dorner called Fury And Flames. The testimony from the star witnesses helped the U.S. Attorney's Office file a raft of charges against Torres, and hot shot Kading was the toast of the LAPD. 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". Kading believes Knight hired Fouse to kill Wallace to avenge the death of Shakur, via his girlfriend, Theresa Swann. And you dont see that Eugene Deal brings up the fact that theres this guy in the parking lot who he identifies as a Nation Of Islam-looking guy who approached them that stuff doesnt get brought up until a second interview, at which time Lil Cease and Eugene Deal have had a chance to kinda compare notes. Kading claims that while Poochie was looking to ingratiate himself with Knight, the record boss needed to strike back at East Coast gangsters for Tupacs killing six months earlier in Las Vegas. SpouseParentChildSiblingFamily memberOther, Sweet James has my permission to help provide a free police report, Tupac Shakur; Credit: PHOTO COPYRIGHT NEWSCOM, Ciel Spa aka @CielSpaBH located the SLS Hotel i, Welcoming over 100,000 people every year, what beg, The holiday season is a time of giving! 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. We had very explicit orders that any developments regarding Mack, Perez or any other L.A.P.D. 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. Watch the video of Greg Kading discussing why he wrote the book. 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. The contact address for Theresa Kay Swann is 13062 Hwy 190 W, P O Box 1827, Onalaska, Texas, 77360 and contact number is 936-646-5253. . | music at popturf", "Notorious B.I.G. 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. Pat Gannon, called him into his office and told him, Allegations were made in the Torres case. Poole's theory quickly gained solid ground in high places, and motivated Voletta Wallace to sue LAPD in federal court. Keffe D tells Kading on tape that his nephew leaned over, and Orlando [Baby Lane] rolled down the window and popped him [Shakur]. Later, he adds, If they would've drove on my side [of the car] I would've popped him.. 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. Kading feels that the task force, as reconstituted under Beck, jeopardized the cooperation promised to the LAPD by Keffe D by turning over Keffe D's confession to Las Vegas police. Theresa lived in Saint Albans, Vermont 05478, USA. [21], Muhammad, who was not an official suspect at the time, came forward to clear his name. Kading, who was assigned to the second investigation of Biggie's murder in 2006, claims to have received a confession from Theresa Swann (alias), the girlfriend and mother of one of Suge Knight . We know they're baseless, Greg, totally without foundation. [14][15], In 2002, filmmaker Nick Broomfield released a documentary, Biggie & Tupac, based on information from the book. Suge and Theresa have a long history of criminal activity together and share a . Greg Kading: Well, no, theres no I.D. 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. By 12:45a.m. (PST), the streets were crowded with people leaving the museum. Wallace's autopsy report was released to the public in December 2012, fifteen years after his death. During the yearlong internal LAPD probe of his actions, Kading felt betrayed and heartbroken. All Im trying to say here is that, that I.D., the video I.D. Kading says they were all egregiously taken out of context, and LAPD's Internal Affairs appears to have agreed. Hackie took full blame for filing a false declaration. DX: Well, Russell Pooles theory got a little bit more solidified in Nick Broomfields Biggie & Tupac documentary, when former Bad Boy Records bodyguard Eugene Deal identified Amir Muhammad as being present at the Petersen Automotive Museum that night, and that Amir actually approached Diddy first in a possible attempt to shoot him. The law was only a deterrent if someone was stupid enough to get caught. But Kading says the big money was an official $50,000 reward being offered in an entirely different case that Smith knew something about. Theyre much more likely to open up and begin to discuss things that present their own culpability in crimes when they think that somebody else has already opened the door, that somebody else has already ratted. Dozens of gang members from both sides died in attempts to avenge Shakur's and Smalls' deaths. But it was Searight who decided not to give them to Torres' lawyers. Kading says Sanders is wrong. [26], The criminal investigation into Wallace's murder was re-opened in July 2006 to look for new evidence to help the city defend the civil lawsuits brought by the Wallace family. Journalist Randall Sullivan devoted both a sprawling Rolling Stone article and a popular novel to Poole's allegations. We are relying on her statement, but it is backed up by other people within Death Row, who were all trying to get $25,000 in untraceable funds for something Suge needed done. "The Sun", "Sun", "Sun Online" are registered trademarks or trade names of News Group Newspapers Limited. The first thing he thought was, What the f*** are you going to be asking these questions for?, Suges defense was, I do not know what you are talking about.. The report said that the third bullet struck "the left side of the scrotum, causing a very shallow, .mw-parser-output .frac{white-space:nowrap}.mw-parser-output .frac .num,.mw-parser-output .frac .den{font-size:80%;line-height:0;vertical-align:super}.mw-parser-output .frac .den{vertical-align:sub}.mw-parser-output .sr-only{border:0;clip:rect(0,0,0,0);height:1px;margin:-1px;overflow:hidden;padding:0;position:absolute;width:1px}38in[10mm] linear laceration." Kevin McClure, who supervised the task force as head of the Robbery-Homicide Division, confirms that he got approval from LAPD brass to dismantle the team. Theresa L Swann was born on May 15 1933. In what seemed like an instant, however, Kading went from the top of the world to the depths of a very public hell. We have no idea who mightve been helping him. He says federal agents are prepared to relocate her if necessary, to assure her safety in the wake of its publication. 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.. Wallace's SUV stopped at a red light on the corner of Wilshire Boulevard and South Fairfax Avenue[8] just 50yd (46m) away. Greg Kading: No, I dont, actually. I managed the case, I made the recommendation to my superiors as to what I wanted to do, had concurrence to do it and, I'll be quite honest with you, I'd do it again right now. Kading explains to the Weekly that it was an innocent use of words, played wildly out of context. 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). By the time Kading had Swann in the hot seat, two other sources had pointed to Poochie (Fouse) as Smalls' probable killer. She was 42 years old, and she lived in a house that Suge owned, with their young daughter and a . 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. Trust me, if theres anybody that I wanted to be guilty, it was David Mack. Once Swann admitted her participation in the murder conspiracy, the FBI tried to use her to draw a confession from Knight. Theres no way to go, Well, who was the deputy on charge that day? As a matter of fact, we did the exact opposite. Were precluded from having any conversations. 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. Detective Says He Knows Who Killed The Notorious B.I.G. Kading is working on a new podcast and documentary about former rogue cop Christopher Dorner called Fury And Flames. That's what I meant. "[23] The story cleared Muhammad's name.[21][24]. Voletta Wallace's lawyer, Perry Sanders, tells the Weekly he suspended her lawsuit in part because she and the federal judge on the case strongly believed that LAPD was relaunching the investigation in full force. Suges criminal instincts kept him from taking the bait when she raised Biggies death. In another defense snippet, Kading talked to Derrick Smith about big money proof, Torres' lawyers alleged, that Kading was trying to bribe a star witness. But Swann's reaction meant everything, especially because, in Poochie's staged false confession, Swann herself was named as a conspirator in Smalls' murder. Found more than one record for entered Email. Speaking on the 25th anniversary of Biggie's death, Kading told The Sun: Suge indirectly told Poochie to kill Biggie through Swann. NOTORIOUS B.I.G. Wallace cited that the reasons for the decision were not only the ongoing East CoastWest Coast hip hop feud and the murder of Tupac Shakur six months prior, but that security was simply a necessity for high-profile celebrity figures in general. He believes LAPD lost its grip on Swann by ditching Kading's idea to wiretap her conversations with Knight so they could use her as an informant. As a result of the newly discovered evidence, the judge declared a mistrial and awarded the Wallace family its attorneys' fees. The defense later obtained many older phone recordings on its own, and Wilson made clear it was the U.S. Attorney's fault. So, Kenner shows up to talk to his client, Knight, he brings Swann with him, says, Yeah, shes my aid, and now it allows the two of them to sit down and talk, without any monitoring, without any overhearing and all of that. [6], On March 9, 1997, at 12:30a.m. (PST), Wallace left with his entourage in two Chevrolet Suburbans to attend an after-party at Steve Stoute's house in the Hollywood Hills. An LAPD spokesman insists in an email that the case is still active/ongoing but that no further information is available. Kading isn't certain what the remaining members of the task force did during the next year, from the time he was sidelined until the team was quietly dismantled by Robbery-Homicide Division boss Kevin McClure, with a nod from Chief Beck, in the spring of 2010. I was sitting there pulling out my hair saying, 'Searight, defend my fucking honor,' says Kading. Theresa Kay Swann is a real estate broker in Onalaska, Texas with license number 351980. They included: In one snippet, Kading was made to sound as if he had helped Del Real's brother, Albert, evade spousal-abuse charges. 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. [5], Photographer Eric Johnson said that he was supposed to photograph Biggie in Los Angeles in 1997, but that he could not be pinpointed to a location because Biggie kept getting death threats. They robbed Suge on a personal and professional level. I have to come up with the answers and tell you and then you just say, 'Yeah, you're right.' Poochie was not a guy who was afraid to go out and pull the trigger. 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. Kading conducted Swanns interviews, but noted them on police interview forms rather than audio tape. The LAPD retiree is hoping that, despite the lawsuits he will potentially face for accusing Sean Combs and Suge Knight in Murder Rap, the high-profile probe he began and wanted so desperately to finish will finally get its day in court. Keffe D's and Theresa Swann's confessions were stunning but in no way sudden. 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. Advertising disclosure: We may receive compensation for some of the links in our stories. But when Kading visited Voletta Wallace in Pennsylvania a couple weeks ago to hand her a copy of his book, he says she thanked him, saying it would prove very beneficial.. Now Eugene Deals looking at Amir Muhammad but hes also now seeing Cause you know there were two [sketches of the suspected shooter], right? 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. He told me where Biggie would be you know, that party at the car museum. Theresa was born in Long Beach, CA, daughter of the late John and Betty Dudley Holsenback. 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. 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.. Fouse, a Mob Piru gang member and an associate of Knight, died on July 24, 2003, after being shot in the back while riding his motorcycle in Compton. officers in your findings as having been part of the Biggie Smalls murder plot? They were the fruit of an intensive investigation by a special task force of LAPD officers plus agents from the Drug Enforcement Agency and Federal Bureau of Investigation that had begun years earlier, in May 2006. Greg Kading: No, I dont believe that. While her real name has been mentioned online and in books, Swann has always shied away from the limelight. heirs sue LAPD, officials, city", "Notorious B.I.G. 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Eric Johnson's best photograph", "Rapper Is Shot to Death in Echo of Killing 6 Months Ago", "where biggie smalls was shot and killed in los angeles: the notorious b.i.g. Once Swann admitted her participation in the murder conspiracy, the FBI tried to use her to draw a confession from Knight. Yet this is when the investigation was inexplicably derailed. . Who is Teresa Swann? [21] The Metro section also ran a photo of Muhammad, identified by police as a mortgage broker unconnected to the murder who appeared to match details of the gunman, printing his name and driver's license. He claimed that Combs "failed to fully cooperate with the investigation", and according to Poole, encouraged Bad Boy staff to do the same. to not identify former L.A.P.D. Swann wore a body-wire during a meet with Suge, now out of prison, which ended in failure. About Teresa Swann. First, do you believe Amir Muhammad was at the Petersen Automotive Museum the night Biggie was killed? Kadings force strategically manipulated Swann into an interview as she faced other criminal charges. Money that was immediate was what they worked for. Wallace". [21] In a correction article written by Philips in May 2000, Muhammad was quoted as saying, "I'm a mortgage broker, not a murderer" and asking, "How can something so completely false end up on the front page of a major newspaper? Sean Combs traveled in the other vehicle with Eugene "Gene" Deal, Tone, Stevie J and driver Kenny. Well, what did you see?, well then they develop their own perspectives on what happened. Keffe D is up against a wall at the time he fingers Combs for Shakur's murder. LAWeekly Instagram: Featuring the culture of LA since 1978 , Relationship with the Victim* Kading now says the blame fell squarely upon the U.S. Attorney's Office and prosecutor Tim Searight. Sure enough, just five months after Keffe D alleged he'd watched his nephew, Baby Lane Anderson, kill Shakur on orders from Sean Combs, Kading's investigative team hit a second home run when one of Suge Knight's baby mommas fingered Knight as having handed her the money to pay for Smalls' murder. Like I never saw him before. The Sun website is regulated by the Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO), Our journalists strive for accuracy but on occasion we make mistakes. 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. Because, the whole six-pack [photo lineup shown to Deal], the whole identification, the whole thing became corrupted. 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]. He added: If he was going to let some rival crew come in and try to murder him without a reaction, what did that do for the reputation hed spent years building? I believe thats him, but you cant see him on the video so theres no way to really identify him. But for Duane Keffe D Keith Davis, a shot caller for the Southside Crips, it now happens to be his lawyer's office. And hes like, Oh, shoot! [4] The next morning Wallace was scheduled to go to London but this did not happen. DX: So who do you believe was that lone person in that car who did the shooting? Kading's reputation almost certainly will become an issue upon Murder Rap's publication. However, Chuck Philips, a staff writer for the Business section of the Times, searched for Muhammad, whom the Metro reporters could not find for comment. According to that Internal Affairs report, Kading's alleged misstatements on a search affidavit in the Numero Uno case were trivial and unrelated to Wilson overturning Torres' conviction. Voletta Wallace once told Rolling Stone that, before she learned of Detective Poole's conspiracy theory, I trusted the Los Angeles Police Department. It now appears that Kading was unfairly blamed by Judge Wilson and the media. He came on early, he was claiming that Suge had tried to hire him to get some guns, and some other Suge associates were gonna go do the murder. DX: Do you believe the shooter drove a dark-colored Chevrolet Impala as witnesses claimed? The suit also named two LAPD officers in the center of the investigation into the Rampart scandal, Perez and Nino Durden. 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. According to her, the solicitation was $25,000 and she gave Poochie 14 grand, clearly she kept the remainder. murder investigation. According to her, the solicitation was $25,000 and she gave Poochie 14 grand, clearly she kept the remainder. Its a conflict of interest for us to go and try to compare notes or have conversations. '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. Kading used the word procedure for policy when quoting someone in the affidavit and he changed an or to an and. LAPD also determined there was absolutely no evidence that Kading intentionally or maliciously misrepresented material facts, and, further, that Kading was attacked by high-priced attorneys and was left virtually unsupported by the Assistant U.S. Attorney.. If somebody thinks that somebody else has already let the cat out of the bag, its much more easier for them to [talk]. So that was the protocol we had. There was never a last name or anything else connected to it. This service is provided on News Group Newspapers' Limited's Standard Terms and Conditions in accordance with our Privacy & Cookie Policy. Kading describes the woman as a well-kept beauty in her early 40s with a slim figure and trademark hoop earrings although the stress of being one of Knight's ladies-in-waiting, through the rise and fall of his L.A. rap empire, had begun to take its toll, physically. View our online Press Pack. After speaking with a handful of gang members, Philips wrote a 2002 front-page article accusing Biggie Smalls of paying the Crips $1 million to knock off his West Coast competition. Well these two guys that were both talking to law enforcement about the same time This is one of the key mistakes that the L.A.P.D. 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? The whole Amir Muhammad theory we were able to refute. If anybody that we talked to had any information on David Mack, we always made sure that was then pushed over into the civil case. Join Facebook to connect with Theresa Swann and others you may know. And on this surreal morning on Dec. 18, 2008, Keffe D is going to snitch. Remember, theres a scene in there where theyve got these two guys in there that theyre interrogating, and they convince the one guy in one room that the other guy is ratting out on him, and then they start to that opens the door for them to then [be like], Oh, okay, well if hes ratting him out then Im gonna do it. Well, its kinda that same psychological technique that we use a lot in law enforcement.
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