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. 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. | music at popturf", "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. Read 10 highlights from the Keffe D confessions. This is for the best. LAPD higher-ups pulled Kading off the double investigation right when he was poised to drive it home, he says. 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. In the 2000 book The Murder of Biggie Smalls, investigative journalist and author Cathy Scott suggested that Wallace and Shakur's murders might have been the result of the East CoastWest Coast feud and motivated by financial gain for the record companies, because the rappers were worth more dead than alive. Sean Combs traveled in the other vehicle with Eugene "Gene" Deal, Tone, Stevie J and driver Kenny. Suspiciously, the first man to visit Mack in jail was named Amir the same first name a jailhouse informant gave Poole for Smalls' alleged killer. 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. It may be hard to understand that sum for taking someones life, but to those guys it was a different mentality.. Its a conflict of interest for us to go and try to compare notes or have conversations. Theresa L Swann was born on month day 1933, at birth place, Vermont, to Loranger. 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. [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? Voletta Wallace was horrified. So much so, says Kading, that in July 2006 he was handpicked to lead the Biggie Smalls murder investigation. Sanders says he can't remember which LAPD official under Beck made this promise, but definitely recalls it being made. 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. Believe me.. Journalist Randall Sullivan devoted both a sprawling Rolling Stone article and a popular novel to Poole's allegations. For other inquiries, Contact Us. We put her in a corner to make those hard decisions, he said. After Greg left, we finally made the decision, McClure says. 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. Best Match Powered by Whitepages Premium AGE Theresa Lynn Swann Breinigsville, PA (Trexlertown) Aliases Theresa Lynn Shoemaker Theresa Lynn Senesac View Full Report Addresses Do you believe that he didnt see what he thought he saw? Kading's job was to look into several murders possibly connected to Torres. Greg Kading: No, I never did actually. They robbed Suge on a personal and professional level. This is not the first time a gangster has done business at this Beverly Hills office building. Greg Kading: No, absolutely not. Two minutes later, a dark-colored 19941996 Chevrolet Impala SS pulled up alongside Wallace's Suburban. Kading was branded a dishonest cop, as any Google search will confirm. [21], Muhammad, who was not an official suspect at the time, came forward to clear his name. L.A. Weekly has verified her identity as Knight's longtime lover and business associate but has chosen not to reveal her name. [5][13] In the book, Sullivan accused Marion "Suge" Knight, co-founder of Death Row Records and a known Bloods affiliate, of conspiring with corrupt Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) officer David Mack to kill Wallace and make both deaths appear to be the result of the rap rivalry. 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. Immediately, the media including L.A. Weekly painted Kading as a rogue cop. Kadings force strategically manipulated Swann into an interview as she faced other criminal charges. One lucky, FAMILY AFFAIR: INSIDE SNOOP DOGG AND HIS BOSS LADY, By continuing to use our site, you agree to our, Tommy Lasorda: Part Of 5 Freeway Honoring Former Dodger Manager, Newsom Ends 3-Year COVID-19 State of Emergency In California, Vanessa Bryant And L.A. 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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). 163 (C.D. U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007. . 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. Because, the bottom of thats already been taken out and refuted. But unlike Keffe D, who accused Combs but had no lingering ties to him, Swann was historically loyal to Knight, her child's father. [33], On April 16, 2007, relatives of Wallace filed a second wrongful death lawsuit against the City of Los Angeles. 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. I need to qualify that, because it might look negligent if you just said, Well, he never talked to him. Once Swann admitted her participation in the murder conspiracy, the FBI tried to use her to draw a confession from Knight. His [given name is] Wardell Fouse. Knight directed [Swann] to contact 'Poochie' and advise him that Knight wanted Wallace murdered in exchange for an unspecified amount of money.. Facebook gives people the power to share and makes the world more open and connected. Criminals are more comfortable affirming information than providing it. 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. Wallace". 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. Greg Kading: We believe its a guy named Poochie, who was a Blood affiliate of Suge Knights. They had been shooting at each other, dealing drugs, stealing cars for their lives. That stuff gets purged out. Keffe D places himself in the passenger seat of the old white Cadillac that famously pulled up, full of Crips, on the right side of the BMW carrying Shakur and Knight toward a club just off the Vegas Strip. to quickly search for other people with the same last name in the same cemetery, city, county, etc. It was an in-person [meeting]. Furious, Judge Florence-Marie Cooper concluded that the seizure showed LAPD was scrambling to conceal evidence relating to the Biggie Smalls murder. Poole's theory quickly gained solid ground in high places, and motivated Voletta Wallace to sue LAPD in federal court. Kading believes Knight hired Fouse to kill Wallace to avenge the death of Shakur, via his girlfriend, Theresa Swann. Trust me, if theres anybody that I wanted to be guilty, it was David Mack. And theyre trying to help, and its all honest, but they influence each other, and sometimes they taint each others perceptions. 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.. DX: And did you interview David Kenner about this meeting? He only gives that description after hes gone and talked to Eugene Deal. In what seemed like an instant, however, Kading went from the top of the world to the depths of a very public hell. Join Facebook to connect with Theresa Swann and others you may know. HipHopDX: I wanna start off by asking you about the crucial elements of The Notorious B.I.G. 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. The report said that the third bullet struck "the left side of the scrotum, causing a very shallow, .mw-parser-output .frac{white-space:nowrap}.mw-parser-output .frac .num,.mw-parser-output .frac .den{font-size:80%;line-height:0;vertical-align:super}.mw-parser-output .frac .den{vertical-align:sub}.mw-parser-output .sr-only{border:0;clip:rect(0,0,0,0);height:1px;margin:-1px;overflow:hidden;padding:0;position:absolute;width:1px}38in[10mm] linear laceration." They included: In one snippet, Kading was made to sound as if he had helped Del Real's brother, Albert, evade spousal-abuse charges. 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. Within weeks, despite 22 devoted years on the force, in a move the fiercely independent Detective Harry Bosch might pull in a Michael Connelly novel, Kading turned in his LAPD badge and walked out the door. For instance, have you ever seen that movie L.A. 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 None were serious violations of court discovery rules. 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. [29] Kading alleges Shakur was killed under the orders of Combs.[30]. "The Sun", "Sun", "Sun Online" are registered trademarks or trade names of News Group Newspapers Limited. 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. Seated at the head of a long conference table in the DEA's chilly downtown L.A. offices on May 28, 2009, Swann stared at the false confession as if [Detective Dupree] had pulled out a rattlesnake and placed it on the table, writes Kading. Voletta Wallace once told Rolling Stone that, before she learned of Detective Poole's conspiracy theory, I trusted the Los Angeles Police Department. . DX: You believe he did the shooting himself? 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. Keffe D gave the FBI a different story in 1997, denying his nephew was involved. 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. Kading is working on a new podcast and documentary about former rogue cop Christopher Dorner called Fury And Flames. They remain secret as the murder case is active. What real benefit does the LAPD have in closing the case when all it's going to do is create a negative public response?". So he provides these little details in his clue that are kind of vague, they dont really give you anything substantial: theres no last name, theres no real physical [description], theres no residence, nothing. 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. Speaking on the 25th anniversary of Biggie's death, Kading told The Sun: Suge indirectly told Poochie to kill Biggie through Swann. Steven Katz, the lead detective in the Wallace investigation. 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. [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. 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. Then they shut it down completely. She was 42 years old, and she lived in a house that Suge owned, with their young daughter and a . 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Theresa used to live at 5 Hope St, North Attleborough, MA 02760. 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. Suges criminal instincts kept him from taking the bait when she raised Biggies death. Kading recalls in Murder Rap that his direct supervisor, Cmdr. heirs sue LAPD, officials, city", "Notorious B.I.G. Ms. Wallaces belief that former L.A.P.D. I was involved in the criminal investigation. 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. Sean Combs told the Weekly via email: This story is pure fiction and completely ridiculous. Suge Knight could not be reached. Wallace's SUV stopped at a red light on the corner of Wilshire Boulevard and South Fairfax Avenue[8] just 50yd (46m) away. But Kading says the big money was an official $50,000 reward being offered in an entirely different case that Smith knew something about. DX: [Were] there any eyewitness reports of this conversation by prison employees? 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. [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. [20], The Los Angeles Times printed conflicting theories of the murder in different sections of the paper. In fact, Beck's detectives were doing the opposite. [1] The gang culture has no regard for the law. 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. The gang culture has no regard for the law. 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?". So saying that, we have no reason to believe that Perez or Mack were there. By the time Kading graduated from high school, he was calling his friend's father Dad, and at 18 he signed up with the Sheriff's Department. Swann wore a body-wire during a meet with Suge, now out of prison, which ended in failure.
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