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. Murder Case: Finally Time for Answers? None were serious violations of court discovery rules. after killing B.I.G. So what Kenner had done was he brought Theresa Swann into the jail under the ruse of her being his legal aid. SpouseParentChildSiblingFamily memberOther, Sweet James has my permission to help provide a free police report, Tupac Shakur; Credit: PHOTO COPYRIGHT NEWSCOM, Ciel Spa aka @CielSpaBH located the SLS Hotel i, Welcoming over 100,000 people every year, what beg, The holiday season is a time of giving! Theresa kept the remaining $12,000 for being a lookout to give info to Poochie of Biggie's location when he was leaving the party. doesnt want the And there was an F.B.I. Read 10 highlights from the Keffe D confessions. Like I never saw him before. Rapper Nas felt at the time that Wallace's death, along with that of Tupac Shakur, "was nearly the end of rap."[10]. 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?". 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. What Poochie says, that's what happened.. The Sun website is regulated by the Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO), Our journalists strive for accuracy but on occasion we make mistakes. 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 Kading says Sanders is wrong. DX: Just out of curiosity though, did you ever converse with Russell Poole during your investigation? He'd put in more than two decades as an admired officer and detective, yet Beck, a top-drawer detective himself, left Kading to twist in the wind. Kading explains to the Weekly that it was an innocent use of words, played wildly out of context. But it was Searight who decided not to give them to Torres' lawyers. I am a native Houstonian a city that I love regardless of our unpredictable weather. [32] Voletta claimed that the LAPD had sufficient evidence to arrest the gunman but failed to use it. I believe thats him, but you cant see him on the video so theres no way to really identify him. In July 2009, under former LAPD Chief William Bratton, lead detective Kading was abruptly pulled from the task force. [21], Muhammad, who was not an official suspect at the time, came forward to clear his name. and Tupac Shakur from 2006-2009 as part of a joint L.A.P.D./federal task force that set out initially to solve the murder of Biggie Smalls in the wake of his mother Voletta Wallaces multi-million dollar lawsuit against the city of Los Angeles for allegedly covering up the fact that then on-duty L.A.P.D. Immediately following the shooting, reports surfaced linking Wallace's murder with that of Shakur's six months earlier, due to similarities in the drive-by shootings and the highly publicized East CoastWest Coast hip hop feud, of which Shakur and Wallace had been central figures. 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. Swann wore a body-wire during a meet with Suge, now out of prison, which ended in failure. In the decade and a half since the two most famous homicides in hip-hop history, police have made no arrests. 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. Amir? In other words, LAPD found it was not Kading's behavior but that of the U.S. Attorney's Office that botched the Numero UnoGeorge Torres case. DX: And did you interview David Kenner about this meeting? LAPD higher-ups pulled Kading off the double investigation right when he was poised to drive it home, he says. Keffe D is up against a wall at the time he fingers Combs for Shakur's murder. Greg Kading: No, absolutely not. What real benefit does the LAPD have in closing the case when all it's going to do is create a negative public response?". [3] Life After Death was scheduled for release on March 25, 1997. And, we were always recognizing because we had taken this to the federal investigative level including [having] the F.B.I. 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. Voletta Wallace was horrified. Please complete the captcha to let us know you are a real person. 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.. 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. 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. 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. The gang culture has no regard for the law. "[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. 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. In December 2012, the LAPD released the autopsy results conducted on Wallace's body to generate new leads. So that was the protocol we had. Theresa Swann We found 31 records for Theresa Swann in PA, LA and 16 other states. In his book he says that she fronted alot of businesses for Suge to wash/hide his money. 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. But I dont believe that some guy in the Nation Of Islam was the shooter. After Philips and his editors mistakenly quoted from the faked documents, Philips was pushed out by the Times. The law was only a deterrent if someone was stupid enough to get caught. [15], The case came for trial before a jury on June 21, 2004. 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? 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. Speaking on the 25th anniversary of Biggie's death, Kading told The Sun: Suge indirectly told Poochie to kill Biggie through Swann. 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. Once she had finished reading it, Kading says, Swann whispered, That's right. What do you know about Rafael Perez? [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. so yes I can name a much better trio like 10 more," added another . . 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. Were precluded from having any conversations. And I think maybe he was trying to help too much, as opposed to just being perfectly honest. 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." 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. Greg Kading: No, I never did actually. 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. I think there was some influence there that caused him to point out that picture. For instance, have you ever seen that movie L.A. Greg Kading: No, absolutely not. Greg Kading: Yeah, absolutely. 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?". There was a real possibility that the suit would end up being among the most expensive the department had ever had to pay out, Kading writes in Murder Rap. Confidential? Detective Says He Knows Who Killed The Notorious B.I.G. 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. 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. 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. Its a conflict of interest for us to go and try to compare notes or have conversations. I wouldve loved to have talked to Voletta Wallace during the investigation. The son of an honest-to-goodness 1960s flower child, Kading may have been the most unlikely man imaginable to extract confessions in two seemingly unsolvable celebrity homicide cases. Dozens of gang members from both sides died in attempts to avenge Shakur's and Smalls' deaths. I had no idea there were such powerful forces involved in all of this.. 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. 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. If true, this means the LAPD has only in the past couple of months revived the probe. I mean, we went into this with a very objective attitude. [12] The investigation stalled, however, and no one was ever formally charged. he came to Theresa to grab $400 to get out of town. Kading's reputation almost certainly will become an issue upon Murder Rap's publication. to quickly search for other people with the same last name in the same cemetery, city, county, etc. 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. She's named Theresa Swann in Murder Rap for her own protection. Not only had the Shakur and Smalls investigations hit dead ends, he says, but McClure needed his elite detectives for more pressing matters. To inquire about a licence to reproduce material, visit our Syndication site. 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. And we have these reports of Poochie doing these other shootings for Suge. 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 Told Interviewer He Worried About Safety". 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. I was like, 'We'll wipe their ass out, quick. I had to believe that they wanted to find out who the murderer of my son was. Join Facebook to connect with Theresa Swann and others you may know. 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. 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. [14][15] The book stated that one of Mack's alleged associates, Amir Muhammad, was the hitman who killed Wallace. Kading, who was assigned to the second investigation of Biggie's murder in 2006, claims to have received a confession from Theresa Swann (alias), the girlfriend and mother of one of Suge Knight . Theresa used to live at 5 Hope St, North Attleborough, MA 02760. 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. This is a very key element, because its this clue that takes the entire investigation down that rabbit hole of Russell Pooles. 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. He says federal agents are prepared to relocate her if necessary, to assure her safety in the wake of its publication. Read an updated list of characters in the Tupac and Biggie murder cases. The release was criticized by the long-time lawyer of his estate, Perry Sanders Jr., who objected to an autopsy. 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. 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. 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. Wallace". [1] Retired LAPD Officer Greg Kading alleged that Marion "Suge" Knight, the head of Death Row Records, orchestrated the murder in revenge for the September 1996 murder of Tupac Shakur in a similar drive-by homicide by gunshot.[2]. 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. in the early investigation did, was to fail to recognize that these two informants were in county jail together and were collaborating. But it wouldn't last. [36] The suit against the City of Los Angeles was finally dismissed in 2010. 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. But, thats not how you conduct an investigation. DX: Now, I don't know if you can answer this question, but I do need to ask it: Is "Theresa Swann" actually former Death Row Records artist, and mother of Suge Knight's nine-year-old daughter,. to not identify former L.A.P.D. For the third time, Wilson determined that a discovery violation had occurred. The theory was based on evidence provided by an informant named Psycho Mike[16] and the general resemblance of Muhammad to the facial composite generated during the investigation. . [in Biggie & Tupac] where [Nick Broomfield] gets up and Eugene Deal points at [a photo of Amir Muhammad in a lineup], theres a lot of problems with that legally, and the way that it was developed. It was definitely necessary to follow-up on it, but it wasnt enough to build a whole theory around. 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. ", Loose Women star lined up to be Strictly's first contestant in wheelchair, GMB's Kate Garraway reveals crippling cost of caring for her husband Derek, Mum identified after dead baby is found on heathland, Radio star rushed to hospital after suffering brain haemorrhage, News Group Newspapers Limited in England No. 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 Unsolved Mystery of the Notorious B.I.G. I dont believe that at all. 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. DX: And do you believe Poochie dressed up in Nation Of Islam garb? 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. But the most important thing and Im not calling [him a liar], I think Eugene Deal is trying to help as best he can. 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 Theresa has been a resident of six cities, including Navarre, FL and Gulf Breeze, FL. 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. Aiken - Ms. Theresa H. "Teri" Swann, 62, passed away Tuesday, December 6, 2022. 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. Wallace's autopsy report was released to the public in December 2012, fifteen years after his death. 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). detective Russell Poole. 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. 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. ", 2020 THE SUN, US, INC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED | TERMS OF USE | PRIVACY | YOUR AD CHOICES | SITEMAP, Notorious B.I.G. 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. Theresa passed away on March 1 1999, at age 65. [9], Wallace's death was mourned by fellow hip hop artists and fans worldwide. Once Swann admitted her participation in the murder conspiracy, the FBI tried to use her to draw a confession from Knight. Including 662. . And that something someone else coming forward to corroborate what we had didn't happen.. Call it an obsession a curse, even. Greg Kading: Its what we call a ruse. The defense later obtained many older phone recordings on its own, and Wilson made clear it was the U.S. Attorney's fault. 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. 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. 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. Theresa lived in Saint Albans, Vermont 05478, USA. 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. Pooh Shiesty Ordered To Pay Restitution To Victims Of 2020 Shooting, Larry June & The Alchemist Announce Joint Album The Great Escape, Nicki Minaj Returns With New 2000s-Sampling Single Red Ruby Da Sleeze, Kodak Black Pays Heartfelt Tribute To XXXTENTACION: We Lost A Legend, J. Cole Contemplates Retirement On New Collaboration With BTS J-Hope, The Best Hip Hop Albums of 2023 (so far), Jadakiss Believes Labels Should Be Held Responsible For Violent Lyrics. Shortly afterward, McClure decided to jam a spike in the investigation, Kading says. ", "Interview: Former L.A.P.D. 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. [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. All Im trying to say here is that, that I.D., the video I.D. For other inquiries, Contact Us. 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. Autopsy Report Released", "Nas Interview: Tupac, B.I.G. 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. "[23] The story cleared Muhammad's name.[21][24]. "[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. There was never a last name or anything else connected to it. "[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." 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. [25] John Cook of Brill's Content noted that Philips' article "demolished"[24] the Poole-Sullivan theory of Wallace's murder. Reach the writers at [emailprotected] and [emailprotected]. 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.. I was the commander over Robbery-Homicide, McClure says. Theresa Kay Swann is a real estate broker in Onalaska, Texas with license number 351980. 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. - 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).

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