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". In April 2009, a jury convicted Torres on 50 counts, including conspiracy to commit murder, racketeering and bribery. 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. According to her, the solicitation was $25,000 and she gave Poochie 14 grand, clearly she kept the remainder. Greg Kading: No, Ive never interviewed David Kenner. We had very explicit orders that any developments regarding Mack, Perez or any other L.A.P.D. The law was only a deterrent if someone was stupid enough to get caught. Keffe D is up against a wall at the time he fingers Combs for Shakur's murder. 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. By the time Kading was cleared of wrongdoing in the TorresNumero Uno case, the Biggie Smalls investigation had been called off. 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. His [given name is] Wardell Fouse. Including 662. . Either Beck or Beck's underlings decided to replace Kading one of Southern California's top-notch investigators with a detective lacking a strong background in narcotics or informants, Kading says. Best Match Powered by Whitepages Premium AGE Theresa Lynn Swann Breinigsville, PA (Trexlertown) Aliases Theresa Lynn Shoemaker Theresa Lynn Senesac View Full Report Addresses They robbed Suge on a personal and professional level. [12] The investigation stalled, however, and no one was ever formally charged. While her real name has been mentioned online and in books, Swann has always shied away from the limelight. 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. This is a very key element, because its this clue that takes the entire investigation down that rabbit hole of Russell Pooles. The man who shocked the Hip Hop world by challenging the seemingly solid theory put forth by Russell Poole regarding the murder of Biggie Smalls further raised eyebrows in his discussion with DX by refuting several previously established facts in the case, and even challenged one of the most convincing criminal identifications ever captured on film. Yet this is when the investigation was inexplicably derailed. "[19] The Wallace suit had asked for $500 million from the city. Greg Kading: No, actually I dont. Ms. Wallaces belief that former L.A.P.D. Kading's job was to look into several murders possibly connected to Torres. DX: Do you believe the shooter drove a dark-colored Chevrolet Impala as witnesses claimed? Wilson publicly singled out Kading for making what appeared to be inappropriate promises of leniency and favors to the two witnesses. Harry Billups (suspected shooter by, This page was last edited on 25 February 2023, at 20:52. Six months later, Bad Boy Entertainment rap star Christopher Wallace, best known as Biggie Smalls or Notorious B.I.G., was shot to death in L.A. This is not the first time a gangster has done business at this Beverly Hills office building. The Sun website is regulated by the Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO), Our journalists strive for accuracy but on occasion we make mistakes. ", "Biggie Told Interviewer He Worried About Safety". 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. 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. Watch the video of Greg Kading discussing why he wrote the book. Detective Poole traded his job to pursue a labyrinth of failed litigation against LAPD. In fact, Beck's detectives were doing the opposite. In Murder Rap, though, almost all of LAPD's informants are on the record. DX: And did you interview David Kenner about this meeting? 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. Swann wore a body-wire during a meet with Suge, now out of prison, which ended in failure. The driver of the Impala, a black male, rolled down his window, drew a 9mm blue-steel pistol and fired at the SUV; four bullets hit Wallace. It was expedient for them to cripple the case in the interests of avoiding a potentially difficult prosecution. 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. Like I never saw him before. I am a native Houstonian a city that I love regardless of our unpredictable weather. View Teressa Swann results including current phone number, address, relatives, background check report, and property record with Whitepages. [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. It was an in-person [meeting]. It may be hard to understand that sum for taking someones life, but to those guys it was a different mentality.. 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. They remain secret as the murder case is active. "The sense is let lying dogs lie and that is not likely to change. Voletta Wallace decided to withdraw her final lawsuit against LAPD in April 2010. 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. After losing Biggie Smalls, he expanded his hip-hop empire newly titled Bad Boy Entertainment Worldwide to encompass the film, restaurant and apparel industries. First, do you believe Amir Muhammad was at the Petersen Automotive Museum the night Biggie was killed? [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]. to quickly search for other people with the same last name in the same cemetery, city, county, etc. Knight is having a tougher time. he came to Theresa to grab $400 to get out of town. Kading believes Knight hired Fouse to kill Wallace to avenge the death of Shakur, via his girlfriend, Theresa Swann. Swanns lawyer secured her prosecution immunity for attempting to get Knights admission deal and she has stayed silent ever since. We have no idea who mightve been helping him. In Laguna Beach, however, his mother learned that her boyfriend had been arrested; she decided Orange County was as good a place to live as any. 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.. However, as youll read in the book, there was a third person there, which was Suge Knights attorney, David Kenner. While her real name has been mentioned online and in books, Swann has always shied away from the limelight. 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. DX: And I understand you had her read a faked confession from Poochie, who was already deceased? What Poochie says, that's what happened.. 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. 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. 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? 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. But I dont believe that some guy in the Nation Of Islam was the shooter. Who is Teresa Swann? 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[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." Greg Kading: I do believe that. They remain secret as the murder case is active. 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. So there were some problems in the development. 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. I dont know how familiar you are with interrogation practices, [but] a lot of times, especially when youre dealing with people with these kind of criminal backgrounds, theyre much more likely to I wont say be at ease, because its never that. He says that he heard that it was Amir, or Ashmir, or Kenny, or Keke. So when hes interviewed, and hes giving information to the detectives, he says this is what he heard, is that, It was a guy named Amir. It was a guy named maybe Amir or Ashmir. Hes not even sure. I think there was some influence there that caused him to point out that picture. As a result of the newly discovered evidence, the judge declared a mistrial and awarded the Wallace family its attorneys' fees. He was 24 years old. 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. Read the response from Voletta Wallace's attorney. 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. Kadings force strategically manipulated Swann into an interview as she faced other criminal charges. 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. 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. NOTORIOUS B.I.G. Kading says they were all egregiously taken out of context, and LAPD's Internal Affairs appears to have agreed. [14][15], In 2002, filmmaker Nick Broomfield released a documentary, Biggie & Tupac, based on information from the book. The release was criticized by the long-time lawyer of his estate, Perry Sanders Jr., who objected to an autopsy. Not only had the Shakur and Smalls investigations hit dead ends, he says, but McClure needed his elite detectives for more pressing matters. [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? Blasts LAPD Over Autopsy Report", "Notorious B.I.G. Speaking on the 25th anniversary of Biggie's death, Kading told The Sun: Suge indirectly told Poochie to kill Biggie through Swann. Without his years of nuanced insight into the vast array of characters involved, he says, the investigation began to peter out as he watched helplessly. Once now all of the truth comes out on all the people who did 'Pac wrong, we still gotta be back on that mission.. Theresa L Swann was born on month day 1933, at birth place, Vermont, to Loranger. 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. And thats where the solicitation and the conspiracy was fostered. Kading was branded a dishonest cop, as any Google search will confirm. And hes like, Oh, shoot! 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. For the third time, Wilson determined that a discovery violation had occurred. Most of Judge Wilson's key attacks upon the prosecutors did not blame Kading, even if much of the media coverage (including this paper's) tended to paint Kading as a villain. Suge was in county jail and used Swann to make the solicitation and get at Biggie. Voletta Wallace once told Rolling Stone that, before she learned of Detective Poole's conspiracy theory, I trusted the Los Angeles Police Department. 679215 Registered office: 1 London Bridge Street, London, SE1 9GF. 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. 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. 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. According to her, the solicitation was $25,000 and she gave Poochie 14 grand, clearly she kept the remainder. Greg Kading: Yeah, we have Theres we We had a good case. 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. to not identify former L.A.P.D. Theresa Swann is on Facebook. Join Facebook to connect with Theresa Swann and others you may know. 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. 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. 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. 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. ", 2020 THE SUN, US, INC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED | TERMS OF USE | PRIVACY | YOUR AD CHOICES | SITEMAP, Notorious B.I.G. 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 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. And I think maybe he was trying to help too much, as opposed to just being perfectly honest. 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. However, Kading and Daryn Dupree, an LAPD gang detective on the team, copied Swann's words in police journals. Swann wore a body-wire during a meet with Suge, now out of prison, which ended in failure. It now appears that Kading was unfairly blamed by Judge Wilson and the media. 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. They werent able to keep that identification clean. And that something someone else coming forward to corroborate what we had didn't happen.. If true, this means the LAPD has only in the past couple of months revived the probe. But the most important thing and Im not calling [him a liar], I think Eugene Deal is trying to help as best he can. 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. And in a bizarre twist, one of Suge's baby mamas acted as the go-between for the infamous hit against Biggie - real name Christopher Wallace - before breaking rank and revealing the entire plot to cops, Kading said. He 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? 2005);Reid, Shaheem (July 5, 2004). None were serious violations of court discovery rules. [14][15] The book stated that one of Mack's alleged associates, Amir Muhammad, was the hitman who killed Wallace. When Kading published a book about the case, he gave Suge's girlfriend a fake name: Theresa Swann. Money that was immediate was what they worked for. Select the best result to find their address, phone number, relatives, and public records. officers David Mack and Rafael Perez? 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. Once Swann admitted her participation in the murder conspiracy, the FBI tried to use her to draw a confession from Knight. Cal. [25] John Cook of Brill's Content noted that Philips' article "demolished"[24] the Poole-Sullivan theory of Wallace's murder. Money that was immediate was what they worked for. Kading says he never got the chance to clear up the confusion because he was never called to testify. Detective Says He Knows Who Killed The Notorious B.I.G. I had other cases: the Grim Sleeper, Michael Jackson. It was almost as if, in some surreal way, Russell Poole had been right all along, Kading writes in the final chapter of Murder Rap. 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. [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. His wife had temporarily left him. They had been shooting at each other, dealing drugs, stealing cars for their lives. DX: So who do you believe was that lone person in that car who did the shooting? '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. 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 What real benefit does the LAPD have in closing the case when all it's going to do is create a negative public response?". Unsolved case Kading added: "Suge would have figured out she spoke, but the reality. 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. It's nothing.' member Lil' Cease, and driver Gregory "G-Money" Young. 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. Hackie took full blame for filing a false declaration. This is for the best. 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. I mean, we went into this with a very objective attitude. [7] Wallace traveled in the front passenger seat alongside his associates Damion "D-Roc" Butler, Junior M.A.F.I.A. He says Swanns description confirmed and expanded on evidence his team gathered in their probe. This service is provided on News Group Newspapers' Limited's Standard Terms and Conditions in accordance with our Privacy & Cookie Policy. "[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." Mack and Muhammad (a.k.a. Theresa used to live at 5 Hope St, North Attleborough, MA 02760. Then they shut it down completely. In the decade and a half since the two most famous homicides in hip-hop history, police have made no arrests. He says he kept handing her tissues to sop up the mascara streaming down her face as she begged cops not to tell Suge Knight they had spoken with her. Greg Kading: No, I dont, actually. To see all content on The Sun, please use the Site Map. 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. The defense later obtained many older phone recordings on its own, and Wilson made clear it was the U.S. Attorney's fault. 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. 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. [5] Wallace's entourage rushed him to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, where doctors performed an emergency thoracotomy, but he was pronounced dead at 1:15a.m. (PST) at the age of 24. Greg Kading: No, absolutely not. But, thats not how you conduct an investigation. Kading is working on a new podcast and documentary about former rogue cop Christopher Dorner called Fury And Flames. . | music at popturf", "Notorious B.I.G. ", "Sean Combs Ordered Tupac Murder: LA Cop:And Suge Knight had Biggie Smalls killed in revenge, says book by former LAPD detective", "Lawyer For Notorious B.I.G. 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. Kading tells him on tape: Everything in this report has to be right on, because if down the road it's determined that some of these details are incorrect, then everything's off the table. Keffe D responds, Don't bullshit me, and I won't bullshit y'all.. "Notorious B.I.G. Join Facebook to connect with Swann Theresa and others you may know. 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. 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. Not only did Suge love Tupac, but he was his money maker. Wallace's autopsy report was released to the public in December 2012, fifteen years after his death. Kading says that, in fact, he facilitated Albert's surrender to local cops and nothing more. [32] Voletta claimed that the LAPD had sufficient evidence to arrest the gunman but failed to use it. . 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. However, Kading says the cop who replaced him as lead investigator into Combs and Knight was a bizarre choice by LAPD brass. Under FBI policy, Swann's interview couldn't be recorded on tape, Kading says. 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. . A later 2005 story by Chuck Philips alleged that an informant for the Poole-Sullivan theory, Psycho Mike, was a schizophrenic with admitted memory lapses who confessed to hearsay. It once served as the bullet-riddled headquarters of the now-defunct Death Row Records, run by Bloods with a strict policy of never talking to cops. Corrupt LAPD Officer David Mack, poster boy for the late-1990s Rampart scandal that would come to cast doubt on much of what LAPD said and did, lurched to the forefront of Poole's investigation after Mack was arrested for an unrelated $722,000 bank heist. 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. 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.

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