I mean, we went into this with a very objective attitude. 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. By 12:45a.m. (PST), the streets were crowded with people leaving the museum. 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. DX: Lastly in regards to the Biggie Smalls murder investigation, were you ever implicitly instructed by your superiors in the L.A.P.D. 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. Blasts LAPD Over Autopsy Report", "Notorious B.I.G. Once Swann admitted her participation in the murder conspiracy, the FBI tried to use her to draw a confession from Knight. "[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. Because, the bottom of thats already been taken out and refuted. "The Sun", "Sun", "Sun Online" are registered trademarks or trade names of News Group Newspapers Limited. Sean Combs traveled in the other vehicle with Eugene "Gene" Deal, Tone, Stevie J and driver Kenny. 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. [20], The Los Angeles Times printed conflicting theories of the murder in different sections of the paper. 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. 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. So detectives took a different approach. NOTORIOUS B.I.G. And that something someone else coming forward to corroborate what we had didn't happen.. In law enforcement, when youre doing these interviews, you have to realize how one persons conversation influences another persons perspective. 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. 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. 2005);Reid, Shaheem (July 5, 2004). The suit also named two LAPD officers in the center of the investigation into the Rampart scandal, Perez and Nino Durden. DX: Okay. 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,. Greg Kading: No, I dont, actually. Theresa Kay Swann is a real estate broker in Onalaska, Texas with license number 351980. Steven Katz, the lead detective in the Wallace investigation. (Knight would survive that night's shooting with a bullet wound to the head.). 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 three years he worked that case, he was keeping tabs on Smith and Del Real in preparation for Torres' trial in 2009. Cause now she can go back and tell Suge, if she ever gets confronted with her cooperation, she can say, It wasnt me, Poochie already snitched us out.. Rapper Nas felt at the time that Wallace's death, along with that of Tupac Shakur, "was nearly the end of rap."[10]. About Teresa Swann. Kading says they were all egregiously taken out of context, and LAPD's Internal Affairs appears to have agreed. Theresa was born in Long Beach, CA, daughter of the late John and Betty Dudley Holsenback. In a taped confession fully reviewed by L.A. Weekly, Keffe D says, [Combs] took me downstairs and he's like, 'Man, I want to get rid of them dudes.' [36] The suit against the City of Los Angeles was finally dismissed in 2010. DX: So who do you believe was that lone person in that car who did the shooting? Knight is having a tougher time. 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. DX: You believe he did the shooting himself? [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. Swann broke down in tears and gave detectives the story in her own words: Knight, reeling from Shakur's death, ended up giving her $13,000 to pay Poochie for a revenge hit on Smalls, according to LAPD documents reviewed by L.A. Weekly. Once now all of the truth comes out on all the people who did 'Pac wrong, we still gotta be back on that mission.. involved in all of our interviews [that] they have their own policy that they dont record their interviews. And I think maybe he was trying to help too much, as opposed to just being perfectly honest. By the time Kading was cleared of wrongdoing in the TorresNumero Uno case, the Biggie Smalls investigation had been called off. She was 42 years old, and she lived in a house that Suge owned, with their young daughter and a . 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. I had other cases: the Grim Sleeper, Michael Jackson. But it never happened.. 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. Film 'City of Lies' Pulled From Release Schedule", "Mark Saylor dies at 58; former Times editor oversaw Pulitzer-winning series", "Man No Longer Under Scrutiny in Rapper's Death", "Informant in Rap Star's Slaying Admits Hearsay", "Hip-Hop Homicide "Worth More Dead Than Alive" Crime Library on", "LAPD launching new Notorious BIG task force", "Interview: Suge Knight paid Poochie $900 before killing B.I.G. Staying in a tent, Kading became increasingly desperate for stability. [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. Not only did Suge love Tupac, but he was his money maker. Kading believes Knight hired Fouse to kill Wallace to avenge the death of Shakur, via his girlfriend, Theresa Swann. 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. 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. While her real name has been mentioned online and in books, Swann has always shied away from the limelight. Harry Billups (suspected shooter by, This page was last edited on 25 February 2023, at 20:52. 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. [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. [4] The next morning Wallace was scheduled to go to London but this did not happen. Greg Kading: Yeah, absolutely. 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.. All Im trying to say here is that, that I.D., the video I.D. [35] The Wallace family refiled the suit, dropping the state law claims on May 27, 2008. A half-dozen lesser allegations that irritated Judge Wilson mostly involved phone snippets played during the trial that implied Kading was making promises to Smith and Del Real to get them to testify. Theresa passed away on March 1 1999, at age 65. 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. We took her statement, it was reinforced with these other statements by these other insiders, and then the circumstantial evidence of the car, the money transfers, all of the things that happened [that] led us to believe that she was telling the truth. What Poochie says, that's what happened.. [29] Kading alleges Shakur was killed under the orders of Combs.[30]. "[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." [21], Muhammad, who was not an official suspect at the time, came forward to clear his name. ", 2020 THE SUN, US, INC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED | TERMS OF USE | PRIVACY | YOUR AD CHOICES | SITEMAP, Notorious B.I.G. 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. Hackie took full blame for filing a false declaration. officers David Mack and Rafael Perez? Kading now says the blame fell squarely upon the U.S. Attorney's Office and prosecutor Tim Searight. 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. 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. 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. Once she had finished reading it, Kading says, Swann whispered, That's right. 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. 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. 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. [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? He says his supervisors quietly informed him that he could take any assignment he wanted but was being removed from the Biggie Smalls murder case while a secret Internal Affairs investigation was conducted into his actions in the Numero Uno case. In the decade and a half since the two most famous homicides in hip-hop history, police have made no arrests. Kading claims that while Poochie was looking to ingratiate himself with Knight, the record boss needed to strike back at East Coast gangsters for Tupacs killing six months earlier in Las Vegas. Money that was immediate was what they worked for. In fact, Beck's detectives were doing the opposite. | music at popturf", "Notorious B.I.G. In what seemed like an instant, however, Kading went from the top of the world to the depths of a very public hell. 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. The Sun website is regulated by the Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO), Our journalists strive for accuracy but on occasion we make mistakes. Sanders says he can't remember which LAPD official under Beck made this promise, but definitely recalls it being made. 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. LAPD took nearly a year to complete its investigation of Kading. 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]. L.A. Weekly has verified her identity as Knight's longtime lover and business associate but has chosen not to reveal her. Voletta Wallace once told Rolling Stone that, before she learned of Detective Poole's conspiracy theory, I trusted the Los Angeles Police Department. So that was the protocol we had. I need to qualify that, because it might look negligent if you just said, Well, he never talked to him. So what Kenner had done was he brought Theresa Swann into the jail under the ruse of her being his legal aid. "[19] The Wallace suit had asked for $500 million from the city. He told me to tell Poochie to get over there and take care of it, you know what I mean?. Theresa Swann We found 31 records for Theresa Swann in PA, LA and 16 other states. Wilson admonished Searight, not Kading, for failing to collect all available recordings of phone calls between Kading and Derrick Smith at a Santa Ana jail. Perhaps luckily for the rappers' families and fans still seeking closure, Kading made copies of nearly every investigative report and taped confession before he left LAPD. To inquire about a licence to reproduce material, visit our Syndication site. Amir? While her real name has been mentioned online and in books, Swann has always shied away from the limelight. I had to believe that they wanted to find out who the murderer of my son was. Kading is working on a new podcast and documentary about former rogue cop Christopher Dorner called Fury And Flames. Theres no way to go, Well, who was the deputy on charge that day? Cooper declared a mistrial in Voletta Wallace's civil suit against LAPD and fired a stern warning shot at the department, awarding Voletta Wallace more than $1 million in legal fees. 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. Now Eugene Deals looking at Amir Muhammad but hes also now seeing Cause you know there were two [sketches of the suspected shooter], right? Her confession is summarized in an official LAPD report reviewed by L.A. Weekly: During one or more of [Swann's prison visits], Knight instructed [Swann] to help him coordinate the murder of Christopher Wallace. The team's official mission was solving Biggie Smalls' murder, while Shakur's murder case was under the jurisdiction of Las Vegas police. This seed of skepticism is resown in the pages of Murder Rap. 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. Not only did Suge love Tupac, but he was his money maker. Were precluded from having any conversations. 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. Greg Kading: No, I never did actually. Shortly after Wallace's death, Los Angeles Times writers Chuck Philips and Matt Lait reported that the key suspect in his murder was a member of the Southside Crips acting out of a personal financial motive, rather than on the gang's behalf. Nobody ever had anything beyond that. In Kading's Murder Rap, he paraphrases Swann as explaining why she believes the Death Row honcho ordered the kill: He was really mad about [Shakur's murder]. Greg Kading: Its what we call a ruse. 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. Knight directed [Swann] to contact 'Poochie' and advise him that Knight wanted Wallace murdered in exchange for an unspecified amount of money.. 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? In Greg Kading's book murder Rap he refers to her as Theresa Swann. Her name is Tammie Hawkins. Kading conducted Swanns interviews, but noted them on police interview forms rather than audio tape. [9], Wallace's death was mourned by fellow hip hop artists and fans worldwide. Kading also told Smith in a recorded phone call, It's always this way, man. He goes, Maybe its Kenny, or maybe it was Keke. So there were these four different names that that informant gave out. The law was only a deterrent if someone was stupid enough to get caught. "The sense is let lying dogs lie and that is not likely to change. officers (and affiliates of then CEO of Death Row Records, Marion Suge Knight) David Mack and Rafael Perez directed the godfather of Macks children, Amir Muhammad, in the shooting death of her son stemmed from initial investigating done by former L.A.P.D. 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. But unlike Keffe D, who accused Combs but had no lingering ties to him, Swann was historically loyal to Knight, her child's father. 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. I was involved in the criminal investigation. An LAPD spokesman insists in an email that the case is still active/ongoing but that no further information is available. [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. [33], On April 16, 2007, relatives of Wallace filed a second wrongful death lawsuit against the City of Los Angeles. Theresa lived at address, Vermont. 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. 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. 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.
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