Greg Kading: No, absolutely not. 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. [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? . [3] Life After Death was scheduled for release on March 25, 1997. But investigators on the special task force determined early on that the two cases were as inseparable as the street-gang rivalries that ran through them. I need to qualify that, because it might look negligent if you just said, Well, he never talked to him. If true, this means the LAPD has only in the past couple of months revived the probe. L.A. Weekly has verified her identity as Knight's longtime lover and business associate but has chosen not to reveal her name. "[17], An article published in Rolling Stone by Sullivan in December 2005 accused the LAPD of not fully investigating leads concerning Death Row Records based on Poole's evidence. But, thats not how you conduct an investigation. Name: Theresa Kay Swann: Credentials: Real Estate Broker: Experience: 34 yrs: Complete Address: 13062 Hwy 190 W, P O . 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. Amir? DX: And do you believe Poochie dressed up in Nation Of Islam garb? This is a very key element, because its this clue that takes the entire investigation down that rabbit hole of Russell Pooles. 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Yet this is when the investigation was inexplicably derailed. Nobody ever had anything beyond that. [25] John Cook of Brill's Content noted that Philips' article "demolished"[24] the Poole-Sullivan theory of Wallace's murder. 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.. Suge and Theresa have a long history of criminal activity together and share a . For instance, have you ever seen that movie L.A. 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. So no deputy or no prison employees gonna be able to stand there and listen to it. The suit also named two LAPD officers in the center of the investigation into the Rampart scandal, Perez and Nino Durden. But Searight had guessed wrong the defense never called on Kading, who was forced to sit silently while the attacks on him in court piled up. This is not the first time a gangster has done business at this Beverly Hills office building. We were kind of bifurcated away from the civil investigation. Kading conducted Swanns interviews, but noted them on police interview forms rather than audio tape. DX: So you have proof of a money transfer? '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. '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. Speaking on the 25th anniversary of Biggie's death, Kading told The Sun: Suge indirectly told Poochie to kill Biggie through Swann. DX: And I understand you had her read a faked confession from Poochie, who was already deceased? 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. officer tied to Death Row, we had to make a special note of it and then hand that over. Combs may take heat for these new revelations or he may not. Detective Says He Knows Who Killed The Notorious B.I.G. She had been a resident . 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. Steven Katz, the lead detective in the Wallace investigation. 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. I was like, 'We'll wipe their ass out, quick. In April 2002, Wallace's mother Voletta filed a wrongful death claim against the City of Los Angeles based on the evidence championed by Poole. 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.. Also, the U.S. Attorney's Office redacted everything in Kading's journals that was not pertinent to Torres, but the defense found blacked-out entries that did relate to Torres. In his confession, Keffe D takes the officers on a trip back to the night Shakur died. If somebody thinks that somebody else has already let the cat out of the bag, its much more easier for them to [talk]. But investigators are like softball parents: Their kid is always better than your kid. . officers helped coordinate the shooting of her son outside of the Petersen Automotive Museum in the early hours of March 9, 1997. DX: Do you believe David Mack and Rafael Perez were at the Petersen Automotive Museum the night Biggie was killed, as was recently revealed to have been alleged by a former cellmate of Perezs? Kading conducted Swanns interviews, but noted them on police interview forms rather than audio tape. In Greg Kading's book murder Rap he refers to her as Theresa Swann. Kading says Sanders is wrong. 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). He cited the prosecution's failure to disclose evidence to the defense, such as phone calls between Kading and Smith and between Kading and Del Real, as well as his police notebooks. An LAPD spokesman insists in an email that the case is still active/ongoing but that no further information is available. "[19] The Wallace suit had asked for $500 million from the city. The federal and local agents gathered around him at the conference table, including Kading, have spent the last year cornering him as the kingpin of a nationwide PCP ring, and Keffe D is looking at 25 years to life if he doesn't reveal his secrets. To see all content on The Sun, please use the Site Map. That expediency trumped everything, including the pledge to 'Protect and Serve' stenciled on the door of every black-and-white patrol car in the city.. 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. Kading writes in Murder Rap that his former teammates carried all of the team's hard-earned evidence to the LAPD archive room to collect dust. 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. That's what I meant. [13] The New York Times described Broomfield's documentary as a "largely speculative" and "circumstantial" account relying on flimsy evidence, failing to "present counter-evidence" or "question sources. "[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. Theresa Elizabeth Swann. 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. 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. On the eve of the trial, a key witness who was expected to testify, Kevin Hackie, revealed that he suffered memory lapses due to psychiatric medications. Keffe D's and Theresa Swann's confessions were stunning but in no way sudden. Because, the whole six-pack [photo lineup shown to Deal], the whole identification, the whole thing became corrupted. 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? After a 25-year career in law enforcement, Kading retired in 2010 and began writing his book detailing the three years he investigated the murders of The Notorious B.I.G. But there's a perception out there and we're concerned that it might work against you in the Biggie case. ", "Biggie Told Interviewer He Worried About Safety". Swanns lawyer secured her prosecution immunity for attempting to get Knights admission deal and she has stayed silent ever since. Three years later, listening to the confessions fingering Sean Combs and Suge Knight, Kading felt he could almost see the finish line. Money that was immediate was what they worked for. 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 . Knight is having a tougher time. Greg Kading: No, I never did actually. What do you know about Rafael Perez? In his book he says that she fronted alot of businesses for Suge to wash/hide his money. After losing Biggie Smalls, he expanded his hip-hop empire newly titled Bad Boy Entertainment Worldwide to encompass the film, restaurant and apparel industries. Suge was in county jail and used Swann to make the solicitation and get at Biggie. Two months after Swann's 2009 confession that she was the paymaster in Biggie Smalls' killing, Kading was taken off the case because Internal Affairs had to probe his role in the Torres prosecution in which he was ultimately cleared. 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. About a year later, LAPD led by new Chief Charlie Beck chose to not make any public statement that its probe had cleared Kading, whose life was falling apart. [35] The Wallace family refiled the suit, dropping the state law claims on May 27, 2008. 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. 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. All Im trying to say here is that, that I.D., the video I.D. He only gives that description after hes gone and talked to Eugene Deal. This service is provided on News Group Newspapers' Limited's Standard Terms and Conditions in accordance with our Privacy & Cookie Policy. She could either go to jail or tell us what she knew about the murder. member Lil' Cease, and driver Gregory "G-Money" Young. Poole's theory quickly gained solid ground in high places, and motivated Voletta Wallace to sue LAPD in federal court. Once Swann admitted her participation in the murder conspiracy, the FBI tried to use her to draw a confession from Knight. he came to Theresa to grab $400 to get out of town. Though Kading spends a chapter attacking Poole's stubborn conviction that Death Rowaffiliated LAPD officers helped take out the nation's fastest-rising rap star, and follows many of the same leads as the Times, Kading's core criticism that the LAPD sacrificed justice for self-preservation tends to parallel Poole's. Long before Kading stepped into what many believe to be the cursed unsolved mystery of Shakur's and Smalls' murders, a storm of rumors and news stories suggested that a few bad apples within the LAPD had been involved in Smalls' killing. 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. Select the best result to find their address, phone number, relatives, and public records. [36] The suit against the City of Los Angeles was finally dismissed in 2010. DX: Okay. It took only three days to find Muhammad, who had a current ad for his brokerage business running in the Times. The team's official mission was solving Biggie Smalls' murder, while Shakur's murder case was under the jurisdiction of Las Vegas police. Suges criminal instincts kept him from taking the bait when she raised Biggies death. Theresa lived at address, Vermont. Wait a minute, I have a clue with a guy named Amir on it. It was a very loose connection. of him on video, so sorry if I misrepresented that. 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. Read 10 highlights from the Keffe D confessions. The piece was almost entirely based on anonymous sources. The consequences were also overshadowed by the benefit and reward in their minds.. By the time Kading was cleared of wrongdoing in the TorresNumero Uno case, the Biggie Smalls investigation had been called off. Voletta Wallace was horrified. Suge was in county jail and used Swann to make the solicitation and get at Biggie. We wanted a million. In another stunning confession, detailed in LAPD documents reviewed by the Weekly, the mother of one of Knight's children, identified in Kading's book as Theresa Swann, breaks down in tears, stating that the former Death Row boss gave her the money to pay Wardell Poochie Fouse Knight's close associate and a fellow member of the Mob Piru Bloods to kill Smalls. And so when you have these guys and [theyre like], What did you see? [5] The accuracy of the article was later challenged in a letter by the Assistant Managing Editor of the Los Angeles Times, who accused Sullivan of using "shoddy tactics." Estate of Wallace v. City of Los Angeles, 229 F.R.D. McClure says it was his decision to shelve the case, and the Beck administration merely went along. But it never happened.. 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. . Searight declined to comment to the Weekly. Poochie was not a guy who was afraid to go out and pull the trigger. She was just a train wreck, Detective Kading tells the Weekly. Money that was immediate was what they worked for. 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]. [7] Wallace traveled in the front passenger seat alongside his associates Damion "D-Roc" Butler, Junior M.A.F.I.A. Greg Kading: Its what we call a ruse. doesnt want the And there was an F.B.I. Once Swann admitted her participation in the murder conspiracy, the FBI tried to use her to draw a confession from Knight. Including 662. . 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. Greg Kading: No, I dont, actually. Perhaps luckily for the rappers' families and fans still seeking closure, Kading made copies of nearly every investigative report and taped confession before he left LAPD. In a 2002 book by Randall Sullivan, called LAbyrinth, information was compiled about the murders of Wallace and Shakur based on information provided by retired LAPD detective Russell Poole. 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. We were honoring that, and saying, Hey, if the F.B.I. 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. Suge told her to go see Poochie and take care of Biggie. What real benefit does the LAPD have in closing the case when all it's going to do is create a negative public response?". [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. Her name is Tammie Hawkins. Facebook gives people the power to share and makes the world more open and connected. Kading explains to the Weekly that it was an innocent use of words, played wildly out of context. Swann wore a body-wire during a meet with Suge, now out of prison, which ended in failure. 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,. However, the rap moguls accused of hiring them were still very much alive. The following evening, March 8, he and the Bad Boy Records entourage attended an after-party hosted by Vibe magazine and Qwest Records at the Petersen Automotive Museum set up by Kidada Jones in the Carthay Circle community of Los Angeles. In the decade and a half since the two most famous homicides in hip-hop history, police have made no arrests. 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. Greg Kading: Yeah, absolutely. Knight directed [Swann] to contact 'Poochie' and advise him that Knight wanted Wallace murdered in exchange for an unspecified amount of money.. In April 2009, a jury convicted Torres on 50 counts, including conspiracy to commit murder, racketeering and bribery. Two minutes later, a dark-colored 19941996 Chevrolet Impala SS pulled up alongside Wallace's Suburban. "The sense is let lying dogs lie and that is not likely to change. I dont believe that he was there completely alone though. ", 2020 THE SUN, US, INC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED | TERMS OF USE | PRIVACY | YOUR AD CHOICES | SITEMAP, Notorious B.I.G. 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. - also known as Biggie Smalls -was killed 25 years ago in a drive-by shooting, Greg Kading, a retired detective, lead an investigation into Biggie's murder, Suge Knight is currently serving 28 years for voluntary manslaughter in a separate case, Biggie was shot in Los Angeles on March 9, 1997, aged 24, Suge allegedly set up Biggie's murder in retaliation for his friend Tupac's death, Tupac was killed in a drive by shooting in Las Vegas in 1996, Funeral cars filled with floral tributes for Biggie in Brooklyn in a farewell drive-by, Former detective Kading does not believe the LAPD will ever close Biggie's case, 1996 murder of his money maker Tupac Shakur, Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO). Sanders says he can't remember which LAPD official under Beck made this promise, but definitely recalls it being made. Greg Kading: Yeah, absolutely. Theresa is potentially known by Walter G Swann, Walter G Swann, Walter G Swann and twenty-nine other people due to residence history. Swanns lawyer secured her prosecution immunity for attempting to get Knights admission deal and she has stayed silent ever since. What evidence in addition to her statements, besides just you mentioned the I.D. 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.. But the point is this, there may have been a guy there that was in the parking lot that matched the description of that person, but thats nothing like what Lil Cease sees and the other witnesses see of the person thats behind the wheel of the car. - also known as Biggie Smalls -was killed 25 years ago in a drive-by shooting, Greg Kading, a retired detective, lead an investigation into Biggie's murder, Suge Knight is currently serving 28 years for voluntary manslaughter in a separate case, Biggie was shot in Los Angeles on March 9, 1997, aged 24, Suge allegedly set up Biggie's murder in retaliation for his friend Tupac's death, Tupac was killed in a drive by shooting in Las Vegas in 1996, Funeral cars filled with floral tributes for Biggie in Brooklyn in a farewell drive-by, Former detective Kading does not believe the LAPD will ever close Biggie's case, Notorious B.I.G.s killer shot him for just $14k & Suge Knight ordered his baby mama to orchestrate the hit, I'm a nurse but I have tattoos ALL OVER my body - I looked totally unrecognisable before I was inked, Hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian refugees will come to Britain as Boris vows to open new route 'in next few days', I was a 70-a-day builder after teachers wrote me off at school - now I'm a crypto millionaire on 500k a year, Desperate Putin could deploy mini-nukes in warning to Nato if 'clusterf**k' invasion continues, warns US intelligence, Man, 28, killed after plunging 1000ft as he climbed Ben Nevis after 17 people rescued from peak, Diner slams pub's 'dry and overcooked' roast dinner after uni student pays 11.79 for 'depressing' meal, My boss asked me if keeping my baby was a 'good idea' then I was made redundant - now I've won 25,000, 1996 murder of his money maker Tupac Shakur. They remain secret as the murder case is active. DX: Do you believe the shooter drove a dark-colored Chevrolet Impala as witnesses claimed? For the third time, Wilson determined that a discovery violation had occurred. Harry Billups) were originally named as defendants in the civil suit, but were dropped shortly before the trial began after the LAPD and FBI dismissed them as suspects. Theresa passed away on March 1 1999, at age 65. Teresa SwannWoodfin - Teresa Cynthia Sehion Swann, 45, passed away Wednesday, January 4, 2012 at her home.She was a daughter of Barry Sehion of Oteen and the late Linda Gail Martin.In addition to her In July 2005, Internal Affairs seized all information pertaining to Mack which, at that point, was directly related to the Smalls investigation for its own sealed-off, top-secret investigation into the corrupt cop. Although Kading was one of the focal points of the defense's argument, the outrageous misconduct referred to in [Judge Wilson's] motion was related to items of discovery that the government did not provide to the defense, the report states. Blasts LAPD Over Autopsy Report", "Notorious B.I.G. Kading was branded a dishonest cop, as any Google search will confirm. This could be the result of his strict no-snitching policy, which would have prevented him from taking an informant deal to avoid the many years he has spent behind bars. 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. Smalls, a 400-pound Brooklyn native, was slain in a March 1997 drive-by shooting while rolling out of a star-studded party at the Petersen Automotive Museum in L.A.'s Miracle Mile. Wallace". 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. officers David Mack and Rafael Perez? [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]. 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.
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