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. Detective Says He Knows Who Killed The Notorious B.I.G. 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. heirs sue LAPD, officials, city", "Notorious B.I.G. After Greg left, we finally made the decision, McClure says. I had other cases: the Grim Sleeper, Michael Jackson. He became indispensable to the prosecution when he turned up two of Torres' associates, convicted criminals Derrick Smith and Raul Del Real, who were in prison and willing to testify. Two months later, Federal Judge Stephen Wilson issued a shocking ruling, throwing out the verdicts. As his net worth has skyrocketed to nearly $500 million, his image has softened at the same rate: He's a mentor to tween heartthrob Justin Bieber and an MTV reality-show regular. agent actually in the interview with us. 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. The informant tells his interrogators in plain language, albeit at a cool street clip, that Sean Combs then known as Puff Daddy, the ringmaster of Bad Boy Entertainment, Death Row Records' bitter cross-country rival commissioned Shakur's legendary murder in Vegas in September 1996. DX: [Were] there any eyewitness reports of this conversation by prison employees? The suit also named two LAPD officers in the center of the investigation into the Rampart scandal, Perez and Nino Durden. Kading's big break came in 2003, when he was assigned to a task force of federal and local officers investigating George Torres, Numero Uno supermarket magnate and an alleged drug kingpin. About Teresa Swann. McClure says it was his decision to shelve the case, and the Beck administration merely went along. 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. In his book he says that she fronted alot of businesses for Suge to wash/hide his money. DX: And I understand you had her read a faked confession from Poochie, who was already deceased? I have to come up with the answers and tell you and then you just say, 'Yeah, you're right.' He says Swanns description confirmed and expanded on evidence his team gathered in their probe. The team's official mission was solving Biggie Smalls' murder, while Shakur's murder case was under the jurisdiction of Las Vegas police. 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. 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. He told me to tell Poochie to get over there and take care of it, you know what I mean?. Until this month's release of Murder Rap, the only real opposition to Detective Russell Poole's conspiracy theories about corrupt cops was a series of Los Angeles Times articles written by Pulitzer Prizewinning reporter Chuck Philips. Thank you for supporting LA Weekly and our advertisers. ", 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. Greg Kading: Well, we dont know. And Russell Pooles theory of course leads to the inevitable lawsuit about the police being involved because Russell Poole finds out that a guy named Amir had visited David Mack at the Montebello City Jail after his bank robbery arrest. 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 . According to her, the solicitation was $25,000 and she gave Poochie 14 grand, clearly she kept the remainder. 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". Kevin McClure with the blessing of brand-new LAPD Chief Charlie Beck. In the decade and a half since the two most famous homicides in hip-hop history, police have made no arrests. 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. It was expedient for them to cripple the case in the interests of avoiding a potentially difficult prosecution. [20], The Los Angeles Times printed conflicting theories of the murder in different sections of the paper. Theresa kept the remaining $12,000 for being a lookout to give info to Poochie of Biggie's location when he was leaving the party. officers in your findings as having been part of the Biggie Smalls murder plot? 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,. 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. Suge was in county jail and used Swann to make the solicitation and get at Biggie. [4] The next morning Wallace was scheduled to go to London but this did not happen. Name: Theresa Kay Swann: Credentials: Real Estate Broker: Experience: 34 yrs: Complete Address: 13062 Hwy 190 W, P O . Harry Billups (suspected shooter by, This page was last edited on 25 February 2023, at 20:52. In a taped confession fully reviewed by L.A. Weekly, Keffe D says, [Combs] took me downstairs and he's like, 'Man, I want to get rid of them dudes.' Knight is having a tougher time. So once you realize that, and you start to really question now the viability of their clues, then the whole thing begins to fall apart. [7] Wallace traveled in the front passenger seat alongside his associates Damion "D-Roc" Butler, Junior M.A.F.I.A. 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. 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. Kading also told Smith in a recorded phone call, It's always this way, man. 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. And if you look at the initial statements of Eugene Deal, and Lil Cease, if you look at the eyewitnesses statements [from the people] that were actually in the car, theyre very vague, and theyre very contradictory. Kading has no faith in the case ever being closed following Poochies death and the silence of Swann and Knight, who is serving 28 years for voluntary manslaughter after running down two men on a film set. [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? Swann revealed how the rap boss, who was behind bars at the time, ordered Compton gangster Poochie to murder Biggie, during a taped interview - which later she secured an immunity deal on, according to Kading. Greg Kading: Its what we call a ruse. Now, in the pages of his potentially game-changing self-published book Murder Rap, set for release Oct. 4, former Los Angeles Police Department Detective Greg Kading reveals that LAPD has been sitting on extensive tapes and documents containing confessions from key players behind the alleged assassinations of Shakur and Smalls (Wallace). In what seemed like an instant, however, Kading went from the top of the world to the depths of a very public hell. I need to qualify that, because it might look negligent if you just said, Well, he never talked to him. So saying that, we have no reason to believe that Perez or Mack were there. [25] John Cook of Brill's Content noted that Philips' article "demolished"[24] the Poole-Sullivan theory of Wallace's murder. He says Searight decided not to call him to the witness stand because the prosecutor thought the defense lawyers would call Kading instead. DX: Okay. DX: So who do you believe was that lone person in that car who did the shooting? Poochie was not a guy who was afraid to go out and pull the trigger. HipHopDX: I wanna start off by asking you about the crucial elements of The Notorious B.I.G. Select the best result to find their address, phone number, relatives, and public records. But now one of Pooles successors in investigating the Biggie case, Kading, is claiming that he disproved Pooles theory, and that rogue police officers were not in fact involved in the murder plot. 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? Again, the most important thing here to remember is the foundation of this whole theory is corrupted because Michael Robinson, the jailhouse informant that provided this information that led to this idea of the Nation Of Islam/Amir Muhammad, that whole thing has been refuted because we Theres another witness in this whole thing named Waymond Anderson. Kading has no faith in the case ever being closed following Poochies death and the silence of Swann and Knight, who is serving 28 years for voluntary manslaughter after running down two men on a film set. Two minutes later, a dark-colored 19941996 Chevrolet Impala SS pulled up alongside Wallace's Suburban. What evidence in addition to her statements, besides just you mentioned the I.D. 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So no deputy or no prison employees gonna be able to stand there and listen to it. Kading planned to notify her last weekend that Murder Rap was going to print. Who is Teresa Swann? By the time Kading was cleared of wrongdoing in the TorresNumero Uno case, the Biggie Smalls investigation had been called off. I had no idea there were such powerful forces involved in all of this.. And, its your assertion in Murder Rap that Suge Knight instructed Swann to contact Poochie to arrange the hit on Biggie while Mr. Knight was speaking on a prison phone that he knows was being recorded? Keffe D is up against a wall at the time he fingers Combs for Shakur's murder. Theres no way to go, Well, who was the deputy on charge that day? Voletta Wallace decided to withdraw her final lawsuit against LAPD in April 2010. If true, this means the LAPD has only in the past couple of months revived the probe. Greg Kading: Yeah, absolutely. He had been wrongly accused of the U.S. Attorney's errors, and he had already elicited two confessions that put him on the brink of solving Shakur's and Smalls' murders yet had been yanked from the case. While her real name has been mentioned online and in books, Swann has always shied away from the limelight. Mack and Muhammad (a.k.a. This service is provided on News Group Newspapers' Limited's Standard Terms and Conditions in accordance with our Privacy & Cookie Policy. 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. Found more than one record for entered Email. Immediately, the media including L.A. Weekly painted Kading as a rogue cop. 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. Suge told her to go see Poochie and take care of Biggie. 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. It wasnt out of a desire not to talk to him, but because I was an employee with the L.A.P.D., with the city of Los Angeles, conducting an ongoing criminal investigation, and he was a witness in a civil suit for the plaintiff against the city of Los Angeles. I mean, theres just no way to know. Its a conflict of interest for us to go and try to compare notes or have conversations. 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. None were serious violations of court discovery rules. Its like a ruse. An LAPD spokesman insists in an email that the case is still active/ongoing but that no further information is available. Furious, Judge Florence-Marie Cooper concluded that the seizure showed LAPD was scrambling to conceal evidence relating to the Biggie Smalls murder. 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?". [34], United States District Judge Florence-Marie Cooper granted summary judgment to the city on December 17, 2007, finding that the Wallace family had not complied with a California law that required the family to give notice of its claim to the State within six months of Wallace's death. I tell them what I think and they tell me if I'm right or not.. Facebook gives people the power to share and makes the world more open and connected. The theory was based on evidence provided by an informant named Psycho Mike[16] and the general resemblance of Muhammad to the facial composite generated during the investigation. 679215 Registered office: 1 London Bridge Street, London, SE1 9GF. We have no idea who mightve been helping him. Poochie was not a guy who was afraid to go out and pull the trigger. Keffe D's and Theresa Swann's confessions were stunning but in no way sudden. View FREE Public Profile & Reputation for Theresa Swann in Punta Gorda, FL - See Court Records | Photos | Address, Emails & Phone Number | Personal Review | $100 - $149,999 Income & Net Worth . This seed of skepticism is resown in the pages of Murder Rap. Theresa lived at address, Vermont. [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. LAPD higher-ups pulled Kading off the double investigation right when he was poised to drive it home, he says. However, as youll read in the book, there was a third person there, which was Suge Knights attorney, David Kenner. His [given name is] Wardell Fouse. to not identify former L.A.P.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]. This is for the best. Kading conducted Swanns interviews, but noted them on police interview forms rather than audio tape. When you see that the foundation of his theory implodes cause it was all based on this very arbitrary clue from a jailhouse informant that I think weve disproven once that foundation falls apart the whole Amir Muhammad thing, the whole David Mack thing, the whole thing is irrelevant. case says his memory's bad", "New Theories Stir Speculation On Rap Deaths", "Wrongful-Death Lawsuit Over Rapper Is Dismissed", "Johnny Depp's Notorious B.I.G. Reach the writers at [emailprotected] and [emailprotected]. '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. Best Match Powered by Whitepages Premium AGE Theresa Lynn Swann Breinigsville, PA (Trexlertown) Aliases Theresa Lynn Shoemaker Theresa Lynn Senesac View Full Report Addresses She's named Theresa Swann in Murder Rap for her own protection. They remain secret as the murder case is active. 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. I had to prioritize and it's not like I had unlimited resources.. Amir Muhammad was a name actually, there was never an Amir Muhammads name, there was just an Amir, which was part of a clue given by a jailhouse informant named Michael Robinson. Speaking on the 25th anniversary of Biggie's death, Kading told The Sun: Suge indirectly told Poochie to kill Biggie through Swann. A police report quoted in the book says that "Theresa Swann" (an alias), one of Suge Knight's baby mothers, confessed to taking money from him in order to set up the hit: "During one or more of. He told me where Biggie would be you know, that party at the car museum. At age 13, he finally found it with the family of his best friend, whose father was a lieutenant with the Orange County Sheriff's Department. DX: So you have proof of a money transfer? . That stuff gets purged out. Stay tuned to HipHopDX for the stunning second half of our conversation with Greg Kading, in which the former member of the Los Angeles Police Department takes DX through his investigation into the murder of Tupac in Las Vegas. TMZ recently reported that he is pulling in only about $1,200 a month chump change compared to the glittering Death Row dynasty of old. Suge and Theresa have a long history of criminal activity together and share a . On March 5, he gave a radio interview with The Dog House on San Francisco's KYLD, in which he stated that he had hired security because he feared for his safety. NOTORIOUS B.I.G. Sullivan, in response, quoted the lead attorney of the Wallace estate calling the newspaper "a co-conspirator in the cover-up. "[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." But there's a perception out there and we're concerned that it might work against you in the Biggie case. During the yearlong internal LAPD probe of his actions, Kading felt betrayed and heartbroken. In 1974, at age 11 one year after Kading was at a party with his mother and accidentally ingested LSD in spiked punch his mother packed everything into a VW bus and headed south along the California coast toward Mexico. 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. Kading explains to the Weekly that it was an innocent use of words, played wildly out of context. Greg Kading: We believe its a guy named Poochie, who was a Blood affiliate of Suge Knights. 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. [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. Read an updated list of characters in the Tupac and Biggie murder cases. He says federal agents are prepared to relocate her if necessary, to assure her safety in the wake of its publication. 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. According to that April 14, 2010, Internal Affairs report, reviewed by L.A. Weekly, Kading was not to blame for wrongdoing that caused Judge Wilson to overturn Torres' conviction. [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]. 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. She was 42 years old, and she lived in a house that Suge owned, with their young daughter and a . Now chief of police in Montebello, McClure says Kading's perception is skewed. 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. Christopher Wallace, an American rapper known professionally as the Notorious B.I.G., was murdered in a drive-by shooting in the early hours of March 9, 1997, in Los Angeles, California. And I think maybe he was trying to help too much, as opposed to just being perfectly honest. They included: In one snippet, Kading was made to sound as if he had helped Del Real's brother, Albert, evade spousal-abuse charges. Kadings force strategically manipulated Swann into an interview as she faced other criminal charges. Yet this is when the investigation was inexplicably derailed. '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. Keffe D gave the FBI a different story in 1997, denying his nephew was involved. 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. The defense later obtained many older phone recordings on its own, and Wilson made clear it was the U.S. Attorney's fault. And this is their own policy that you can look into and probably verify. It was described by The New York Times as "one of the longest running and most contentious celebrity cases in history. I believe thats him, but you cant see him on the video so theres no way to really identify him. . Swanns lawyer secured her prosecution immunity for attempting to get Knights admission deal and she has stayed silent ever since. Aiken - Ms. Theresa H. "Teri" Swann, 62, passed away Tuesday, December 6, 2022. Swann wore a body-wire during a meet with Suge, now out of prison, which ended in failure. that you believe was him on video, any other evidence in addition to that? Nearly a year later, in April 2010, when Voletta Wallace withdrew her lawsuit against the City of Los Angeles, what remained of the task force was quickly dismantled by Robbery-Homicide Capt. He reported that Perez had told him about his and Mack's involvement with Death Row Records and their activities at the Petersen Automotive Museum the night of Wallace's murder. To inquire about a licence to reproduce material, visit our Syndication site. Theresa L Swann was born on month day 1933, at birth place, Vermont, to Loranger. I dont believe that at all. The consequences were also overshadowed by the benefit and reward in their minds.. Voletta Wallace once told Rolling Stone that, before she learned of Detective Poole's conspiracy theory, I trusted the Los Angeles Police Department. Combs may take heat for these new revelations or he may not. Dozens of gang members from both sides died in attempts to avenge Shakur's and Smalls' deaths. Former L.A.P.D. 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