In what seemed like an instant, however, Kading went from the top of the world to the depths of a very public hell. 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. after killing B.I.G. His explosive book details the behind-the-scenes failure by LAPD to bring Shakur's and Smalls' killers to justice. [31] The case remains officially unsolved, despite a good amount of evidence being found. DX: So who do you believe was that lone person in that car who did the shooting? They werent able to keep that identification clean. doesnt want the And there was an F.B.I. 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. He claimed that Combs "failed to fully cooperate with the investigation", and according to Poole, encouraged Bad Boy staff to do the same. Greg Kading: No, I never did actually. 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 says Sanders is wrong. 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. 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. 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. 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. We were honoring that, and saying, Hey, if the F.B.I. Greg Kading: No, Ive never interviewed David Kenner. ", "Biggie Told Interviewer He Worried About Safety". 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. Kading, who led a major Federal task force probe into Biggie's murder, has revealed how his forces investigations and Suges ex - codenamed "Theresa Swann" - detailed how Suge's paid enforcer Darnell Poochie Fouse pulled the trigger on March 9, 1997. Aiken - Ms. Theresa H. "Teri" Swann, 62, passed away Tuesday, December 6, 2022. 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. Well, what did you see?, well then they develop their own perspectives on what happened. I mean, we went into this with a very objective attitude. 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. [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]. We had very explicit orders that any developments regarding Mack, Perez or any other L.A.P.D. Theresa has been a resident of six cities, including Navarre, FL and Gulf Breeze, FL. But investigators are like softball parents: Their kid is always better than your kid. 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. As you will read in the book, I was pulled off the task force shortly after her confession and I never got a chance to do all the follow-up stuff that needed to be done. Yesterday (October 4th), Greg Kading, a Medal of Valor recipient for bravery, spoke with HipHopDX (courtesy of Rare Bird Lit) in a two-part interview, with the first half of Q&A dedicated to his investigation into the murder of Notorious B.I.G. 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. "The Unsolved Mystery of the Notorious B.I.G. Theresa is potentially known by Walter G Swann, Walter G Swann, Walter G Swann and twenty-nine other people due to residence history. Kading believes Knight hired Fouse to kill Wallace to avenge the death of Shakur, via his girlfriend, Theresa Swann. Read an updated list of characters in the Tupac and Biggie murder cases. 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? Now chief of police in Montebello, McClure says Kading's perception is skewed. Rapper Nas felt at the time that Wallace's death, along with that of Tupac Shakur, "was nearly the end of rap."[10]. 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. Dozens of gang members from both sides died in attempts to avenge Shakur's and Smalls' deaths. 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. 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. Amir? 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. He told me where Biggie would be you know, that party at the car museum. 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?". 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. I wouldve loved to talk to some of the other people on the plaintiffs witness list, but we just simply couldnt because the legal politics involved. Swanns lawyer secured her prosecution immunity for attempting to get Knights admission deal and she has stayed silent ever since. Greg Kading: No, absolutely not. 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. of him on video, so sorry if I misrepresented that. And thats where the solicitation and the conspiracy was fostered. [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. No, I never got a chance to talk to Russ. DX: And, ultimately you believe Biggies mother is mistaken in her apparent loyalty to Russell Pooles original theory that Amir Muhammad murdered her son at the direction of former L.A.P.D. This is a very key element, because its this clue that takes the entire investigation down that rabbit hole of Russell Pooles. Do you accept Eugene Deals identification of Amir as being credible? To see all content on The Sun, please use the Site Map. Deaths Were Nearly 'The End Of Rap', "Review: Rappers' deaths probed in 'LAbyrinth'", "Slain rapper's family keeps pushing suit", "Witness in B.I.G. Theresa L Swann in Vermont Death Index, 1985-2012. 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. Just as investigators had done with Keffe D, they tracked Swann (again, not her real name) until they had gathered enough evidence against her to put her away for other crimes to motivate her to talk. At the time the multi-agency task force was formed by the LAPD, Smalls' mother, Voletta Wallace, was suing the City of Los Angeles for potentially hundreds of millions of dollars because she believed dirty cops had been involved in her son's murder. Wallace's autopsy report was released to the public in December 2012, fifteen years after his death. According to her, the solicitation was $25,000 and she gave Poochie 14 grand, clearly she kept the remainder. But I dont believe that some guy in the Nation Of Islam was the shooter. But it never happened.. 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. Do you believe that he didnt see what he thought he saw? [4] The next morning Wallace was scheduled to go to London but this did not happen. I am a native Houstonian a city that I love regardless of our unpredictable weather. Kading says that, in fact, he facilitated Albert's surrender to local cops and nothing more. To inquire about a licence to reproduce material, visit our Syndication site. If Death Row didnt retaliate Tupacs murder then talk is that they are punk bitches for letting Bad Boy walk over them. 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. Gradually, Kading says, all leads dead-ended. None were serious violations of court discovery rules. For the third time, Wilson determined that a discovery violation had occurred. [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. The suit also named two LAPD officers in the center of the investigation into the Rampart scandal, Perez and Nino Durden. 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. In fact, Beck's detectives were doing the opposite. View Teresa Swann results including current phone number, address, relatives, background check report, and property record with Whitepages. Mack and Muhammad (a.k.a. [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. 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.. The consequences were also overshadowed by the benefit and reward in their minds.. 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". 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.. [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. Suges criminal instincts kept him from taking the bait when she raised Biggies death. 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. Keffe D gave the FBI a different story in 1997, denying his nephew was involved. Murder Case: Finally Time for Answers? However, Kading says the cop who replaced him as lead investigator into Combs and Knight was a bizarre choice by LAPD brass. And, we were always recognizing because we had taken this to the federal investigative level including [having] the F.B.I. 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. For instance, have you ever seen that movie L.A. For other inquiries, Contact Us. Theresa Swann See Photos Lives in Eight Mile, Alabama Theresa Swann See Photos Works at Happily Retired Lives in Alexandria, Louisiana Theresa Swann See Photos Theresa Swann (Terri Shoemaker Senesac) See Photos Works at MTS Ventures Design and Manufacturing Lives in Breinigsville, Pennsylvania Theresa Swann See Photos [14][15], In 2002, filmmaker Nick Broomfield released a documentary, Biggie & Tupac, based on information from the book. 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. The Sun website is regulated by the Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO), Our journalists strive for accuracy but on occasion we make mistakes. Keffe D is up against a wall at the time he fingers Combs for Shakur's murder. 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. 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. First, do you believe Amir Muhammad was at the Petersen Automotive Museum the night Biggie was killed? She could either go to jail or tell us what she knew about the murder. Like I never saw him before. Suge was in county jail and used Swann to make the solicitation and get at Biggie. This seed of skepticism is resown in the pages of Murder Rap. DX: You believe he did the shooting himself? [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." Theresa Elizabeth Swann. They robbed Suge on a personal and professional level. They included: In one snippet, Kading was made to sound as if he had helped Del Real's brother, Albert, evade spousal-abuse charges. 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. He says Searight decided not to call him to the witness stand because the prosecutor thought the defense lawyers would call Kading instead. Detective Poole traded his job to pursue a labyrinth of failed litigation against LAPD. in the early investigation did, was to fail to recognize that these two informants were in county jail together and were collaborating. "The Sun", "Sun", "Sun Online" are registered trademarks or trade names of News Group Newspapers Limited. 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. And theyre trying to help, and its all honest, but they influence each other, and sometimes they taint each others perceptions. Greg Kading: Yeah, absolutely. Her name is Tammie Hawkins. I was like, 'We'll wipe their ass out, quick. Once she had finished reading it, Kading says, Swann whispered, That's right. 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). 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. 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. . 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. [4] Other guests included Faith Evans, Aaliyah, Chris Tucker, the Wayans brothers, Ginuwine, Irv Gotti, Jewell, Jermaine Dupri, Da Brat, Missy Elliot, Timbaland, Kenny Burns, DJ Clue, Clark Kent, DJ Quik, Ed Lover, and members of the Bloods and Crips gangs. 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 LAPD higher-ups pulled Kading off the double investigation right when he was poised to drive it home, he says. Theres no way to go, Well, who was the deputy on charge that day? Kading says he never got the chance to clear up the confusion because he was never called to testify. The gang culture has no regard for the law. 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? 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. ", "Biggie kept saying: 'Is this where they dump the dead bodies?' In the three years he worked that case, he was keeping tabs on Smith and Del Real in preparation for Torres' trial in 2009. The prosecution basically got caught doing something they didn't know was wrong, but the judge ruled it a discovery violation, Kading says. They had been shooting at each other, dealing drugs, stealing cars for their lives. They had been shooting at each other, dealing drugs, stealing cars for their lives. 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. 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. That that seems a little I mean, why wasnt it recorded? It was definitely necessary to follow-up on it, but it wasnt enough to build a whole theory around. He goes, Maybe its Kenny, or maybe it was Keke. So there were these four different names that that informant gave out. 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. The Real Housewives of New Jersey OG Teresa Giudice made up an "iconic trio" when she joined forces with two Bravo newbies. 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. "The sense is let lying dogs lie and that is not likely to change. Every time we interviewed anybody that would be one of the questions wed ask: Well, what do you know about David Mack? Former L.A.P.D. Keffe D's and Theresa Swann's confessions were stunning but in no way sudden. 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. 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.. 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. officers (and affiliates of then CEO of Death Row Records, Marion Suge Knight) David Mack and Rafael Perez directed the godfather of Macks children, Amir Muhammad, in the shooting death of her son stemmed from initial investigating done by former L.A.P.D. Im just drawing that conclusion based on all of the other collective information: the fact that Theresa, the girlfriend, confesses, she tells us that she had paid Poochie at the direction of Knight, [that] Poochie had an Impala that Knight had bought him, and then we have these other people that were in the inner circle, the other Death Row [Records staff]/gang members who all told us about this relationship that Suge had with Poochie. 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. She was 42 years old, and she lived in a house that Suge owned, with their young daughter and a . Kading now says the blame fell squarely upon the U.S. Attorney's Office and prosecutor Tim Searight. Call it an obsession a curse, even. [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. Estate of Wallace v. City of Los Angeles, 229 F.R.D. I had to believe that they wanted to find out who the murderer of my son was. Previous Next. 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. 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. And then later on when the detectives come back, he incorporates Eugene Deals details into his own statement. 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. involved in all of our interviews [that] they have their own policy that they dont record their interviews. What have you heard about this conspiracy to murder [Biggie]? We made a point of that.

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