Theresa used to live at 5 Hope St, North Attleborough, MA 02760. Kading recalls in Murder Rap that his direct supervisor, Cmdr. 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? Steven Katz, the lead detective in the Wallace investigation. [3] Life After Death was scheduled for release on March 25, 1997. The following evening, March 8, he and the Bad Boy Records entourage attended an after-party hosted by Vibe magazine and Qwest Records at the Petersen Automotive Museum set up by Kidada Jones in the Carthay Circle community of Los Angeles. Advertising disclosure: We may receive compensation for some of the links in our stories. Theresa L Swann was born on May 15 1933. The law was only a deterrent if someone was stupid enough to get caught. 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. Read 10 highlights from the Keffe D confessions. Because, when she tells us this so many years have gone by to go back and try to to go back 10, 12 years and try to get any kind of inmate records about a visitation, they dont exist. 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. I mean, we went into this with a very objective attitude. 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. That article was later retracted by Times editors because it quoted FBI court documents that turned out to have been faked by a rap-scene gadfly. Kading grew up with his mother and two older sisters in tents and yurts around Lake Tahoe, in what he describes as a movable feast of hippies and potheads, marked by his mother's wanderlust and impulsive parenting. We were honoring that, and saying, Hey, if the F.B.I. In 1998 I found love in selling & promoting Real Estate by helping families sell or find their dream home! First, do you believe Amir Muhammad was at the Petersen Automotive Museum the night Biggie was killed? We wanted a million. In another stunning confession, detailed in LAPD documents reviewed by the Weekly, the mother of one of Knight's children, identified in Kading's book as Theresa Swann, breaks down in tears, stating that the former Death Row boss gave her the money to pay Wardell Poochie Fouse Knight's close associate and a fellow member of the Mob Piru Bloods to kill Smalls. Rapper Nas felt at the time that Wallace's death, along with that of Tupac Shakur, "was nearly the end of rap."[10]. I had other cases: the Grim Sleeper, Michael Jackson. 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. I tell them what I think and they tell me if I'm right or not.. Sean Combs told the Weekly via email: This story is pure fiction and completely ridiculous. Suge Knight could not be reached. So it came as no surprise that the brass wasted no time in putting together a task force to finally solve the 9-year-old case, find the killer, and hopefully exonerate the police in the process.. [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. The Metro section of the Times reported that police suspected a connection between Wallace's death and the Rampart police corruption scandal, consistent with Sullivan and Poole's theory. When Kading published a book about the case, he gave Suge's girlfriend a fake name: Theresa Swann. Former L.A.P.D. HipHopDX: I wanna start off by asking you about the crucial elements of The Notorious B.I.G. And then later on when the detectives come back, he incorporates Eugene Deals details into his own statement. 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.. And I think maybe he was trying to help too much, as opposed to just being perfectly honest. 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. 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. 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. I was sitting there pulling out my hair saying, 'Searight, defend my fucking honor,' says Kading. However, Kading and Daryn Dupree, an LAPD gang detective on the team, copied Swann's words in police journals. Once Swann admitted her participation in the murder conspiracy, the FBI tried to use her to draw a confession from Knight. Hackie took full blame for filing a false declaration. [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]. [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. The gang culture has no regard for the law. Greg Kading: No, I dont believe that. And hes like, Oh, shoot! Wallace's SUV stopped at a red light on the corner of Wilshire Boulevard and South Fairfax Avenue[8] just 50yd (46m) away. Had Los Angeles lost the suit, the city's liability could, by some reckoning, have risen to $500 million, the estimate of Biggie Smalls' lost earnings. Do you believe that he didnt see what he thought he saw? [15], The case came for trial before a jury on June 21, 2004. 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. Wrongful-Death Case Declared A Mistrial", "Lawsuit involving rapper death dismissed", Notorious: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Murder_of_the_Notorious_B.I.G.&oldid=1141591318, Short description is different from Wikidata, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, Amir Muhammed a.k.a. To see all content on The Sun, please use the Site Map. 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. 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. Swann wore a body-wire during a meet with Suge, now out of prison, which ended in failure. Who is Teresa Swann? 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. "The Sun", "Sun", "Sun Online" are registered trademarks or trade names of News Group Newspapers Limited. If somebody thinks that somebody else has already let the cat out of the bag, its much more easier for them to [talk]. We put her in a corner to make those hard decisions, he said. heirs sue LAPD, officials, city", "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. We put her in a corner to make those hard decisions, he said. Because, the bottom of thats already been taken out and refuted. Theresa has been a resident of six cities, including Navarre, FL and Gulf Breeze, FL. 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. 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. Read the response from Voletta Wallace's attorney. I was involved in the criminal investigation. The LAPD retiree is hoping that, despite the lawsuits he will potentially face for accusing Sean Combs and Suge Knight in Murder Rap, the high-profile probe he began and wanted so desperately to finish will finally get its day in court. As a result of the newly discovered evidence, the judge declared a mistrial and awarded the Wallace family its attorneys' fees. The gang culture has no regard for the law. Kading conducted Swanns interviews, but noted them on police interview forms rather than audio tape. Immediately, the media including L.A. Weekly painted Kading as a rogue cop. Including 662. . Keffe D tells the cops he was offered $1 million to kill Death Row rapper Tupac Shakur and Suge Knight, the label's former CEO. 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. Greg Kading: Yeah, absolutely. Voletta Wallace decided to withdraw her final lawsuit against LAPD in April 2010. 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. However, he mentions this Amir/Ashmir/Kenny/Keke guy is supposedly a Nation Of Islam guy, and maybe he was a Crip affiliate or maybe a Crip, and hes a hit-man. 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. The fourth bullet was fatal, entering through his right hip and striking several vital organs, including his colon, liver, heart, and the upper lobe of his left lung, before stopping in his left shoulder area. DX: You believe he did the shooting himself? 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 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. Two months later, Federal Judge Stephen Wilson issued a shocking ruling, throwing out the verdicts. [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. Theresa Kay Swann is a real estate broker in Onalaska, Texas with license number 351980. 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. But the most important thing and Im not calling [him a liar], I think Eugene Deal is trying to help as best he can. No, I never got a chance to talk to Russ. He was 24 years old. 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. Greg Kading: Yeah, absolutely. 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. ", "Biggie Told Interviewer He Worried About Safety". 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. Unsolved case 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. Wallace". The problem was we never got any. And thats where the solicitation and the conspiracy was fostered. It now appears that Kading was unfairly blamed by Judge Wilson and the media. Thank you for supporting LA Weekly and our advertisers. 104 records for Teresa Swann. Of course Suge had been around long enough in his life to know there are informants out there and you never know who they are. "[17] Moreover, the motive suggested for the murder of Wallace in the documentaryto decrease suspicion for the Shakur shooting six months earlierwas, as the Times put it, "unsupported in the film. The two SUVs were trailed by a Chevrolet Blazer carrying Bad Boy Records' director of security, Paul Offord, driven by an off-duty Inglewood police officer.[5]. 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. Read an updated list of characters in the Tupac and Biggie murder cases. Every time we interviewed anybody that would be one of the questions wed ask: Well, what do you know about David Mack? Sullivan, in response, quoted the lead attorney of the Wallace estate calling the newspaper "a co-conspirator in the cover-up. [20], The Los Angeles Times printed conflicting theories of the murder in different sections of the paper. While her real name has been mentioned online and in books, Swann has always shied away from the limelight. The LAPD was trying to cover up the Biggie Smalls murder, not by protecting corrupt cops but by undercutting the ability of its own investigators to solve the case. I have no reason to believe they were there, but I dont have any I havent seen the evidence that was in the civil case [brought by Voletta Wallace] regarding the L.A.P.D. 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. Amir? Kading describes the woman as a well-kept beauty in her early 40s with a slim figure and trademark hoop earrings although the stress of being one of Knight's ladies-in-waiting, through the rise and fall of his L.A. rap empire, had begun to take its toll, physically. I had to believe that they wanted to find out who the murderer of my son was. Mack and Muhammad (a.k.a. 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. After losing Biggie Smalls, he expanded his hip-hop empire newly titled Bad Boy Entertainment Worldwide to encompass the film, restaurant and apparel industries. 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. ", 2020 THE SUN, US, INC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED | TERMS OF USE | PRIVACY | YOUR AD CHOICES | SITEMAP, Notorious B.I.G. What real benefit does the LAPD have in closing the case when all it's going to do is create a negative public response?". However, Kading says the cop who replaced him as lead investigator into Combs and Knight was a bizarre choice by LAPD brass. 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. 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. It was the right decision.. 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?". Kading says Sanders is wrong. Greg Kading: No, I never did actually. Fouse, a Mob Piru gang member and an associate of Knight, died on July 24, 2003, after being shot in the back while riding his motorcycle in Compton. [16], Several days into the trial, the plaintiffs' attorney disclosed to the Court and opposing counsel that he had received a telephone call from someone claiming to be an LAPD officer and provided detailed information about the existence of evidence concerning the Wallace murder. That expediency trumped everything, including the pledge to 'Protect and Serve' stenciled on the door of every black-and-white patrol car in the city.. [12] The investigation stalled, however, and no one was ever formally charged. [7] Wallace traveled in the front passenger seat alongside his associates Damion "D-Roc" Butler, Junior M.A.F.I.A. He told me where Biggie would be you know, that party at the car museum. Found more than one record for entered Email. 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. Kading was branded a dishonest cop, as any Google search will confirm. Money that was immediate was what they worked for. murder investigation. Detective Poole traded his job to pursue a labyrinth of failed litigation against LAPD. [36] The suit against the City of Los Angeles was finally dismissed in 2010. [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. But Swann's reaction meant everything, especially because, in Poochie's staged false confession, Swann herself was named as a conspirator in Smalls' murder. Reach the writers at [emailprotected] and [emailprotected]. NOTORIOUS B.I.G. 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. Feeling frustrated and betrayed, Kading resigned. The federal and local agents gathered around him at the conference table, including Kading, have spent the last year cornering him as the kingpin of a nationwide PCP ring, and Keffe D is looking at 25 years to life if he doesn't reveal his secrets. The first thing he thought was, What the f*** are you going to be asking these questions for?, Suges defense was, I do not know what you are talking about.. 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. They robbed Suge on a personal and professional level. Much of the holes that youre gonna find in this is simply because there was nobody there to follow-up on the investigation once I got ripped out. So much so, says Kading, that in July 2006 he was handpicked to lead the Biggie Smalls murder investigation. Dozens of gang members from both sides died in attempts to avenge Shakur's and Smalls' deaths. She was 42 years old, and she lived in a house that Suge owned, with their young daughter and a . 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. DX: And did you interview David Kenner about this meeting? [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. in the early investigation did, was to fail to recognize that these two informants were in county jail together and were collaborating. Voletta Wallace was horrified. Sean Combs traveled in the other vehicle with Eugene "Gene" Deal, Tone, Stevie J and driver Kenny. 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. 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. Speaking on the 25th anniversary of Biggie's death, Kading told The Sun: Suge indirectly told Poochie to kill Biggie through Swann. Keffe D is up against a wall at the time he fingers Combs for Shakur's murder. [4] The next morning Wallace was scheduled to go to London but this did not happen. 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. 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. If true, this means the LAPD has only in the past couple of months revived the probe. - also known as Biggie Smalls -was killed 25 years ago in a drive-by shooting, Greg Kading, a retired detective, lead an investigation into Biggie's murder, Suge Knight is currently serving 28 years for voluntary manslaughter in a separate case, Biggie was shot in Los Angeles on March 9, 1997, aged 24, Suge allegedly set up Biggie's murder in retaliation for his friend Tupac's death, Tupac was killed in a drive by shooting in Las Vegas in 1996, Funeral cars filled with floral tributes for Biggie in Brooklyn in a farewell drive-by, Former detective Kading does not believe the LAPD will ever close Biggie's case, 1996 murder of his money maker Tupac Shakur, Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO). And maybe there was this lone Nation Of Islam guy, that Eugene Deal pointed out, that was acting as a spotter, or somehow tried to help coordinate it. 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. Money that was immediate was what they worked for. 679215 Registered office: 1 London Bridge Street, London, SE1 9GF. "[19] The Wallace suit had asked for $500 million from the city. 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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"[17], An article published in Rolling Stone by Sullivan in December 2005 accused the LAPD of not fully investigating leads concerning Death Row Records based on Poole's evidence. It was expedient for them to cripple the case in the interests of avoiding a potentially difficult prosecution. Which means, they dont have to talk on a phone, it means they meet in the attorney-client area of the jail where they can have full contact, non-monitored conversations because its attorney-client [privilege]. So detectives took a different approach. This is a very key element, because its this clue that takes the entire investigation down that rabbit hole of Russell Pooles. officer tied to Death Row, we had to make a special note of it and then hand that over. Its like a ruse. 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. He says Swanns description confirmed and expanded on evidence his team gathered in their probe. About Teresa Swann. Sitting in the backseat of the Cadillac, according to Keffe D, was his own nephew, Orlando Baby Lane Anderson, who got his ass kicked in the MGM Grand lobby earlier in the evening by Shakur's posse over a piece of Death Row bling that Baby Lane supposedly had stolen. 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. They werent able to keep that identification clean. Select the best result to find their address, phone number, relatives, and public records. But investigators are like softball parents: Their kid is always better than your kid. The prosecution basically got caught doing something they didn't know was wrong, but the judge ruled it a discovery violation, Kading says. Knight directed [Swann] to contact 'Poochie' and advise him that Knight wanted Wallace murdered in exchange for an unspecified amount of money.. 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. 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. of him on video, so sorry if I misrepresented that. The team's official mission was solving Biggie Smalls' murder, while Shakur's murder case was under the jurisdiction of Las Vegas police. While her real name has been mentioned online and in books, Swann has always shied away from the limelight. 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. . 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. 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. 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.