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. Keffe D's and Theresa Swann's confessions were stunning but in no way sudden. Prior to leaving, the Los Angeles Fire Department closed the party early because of smoking and loud music. If true, this means the LAPD has only in the past couple of months revived the probe. [14][15] The book stated that one of Mack's alleged associates, Amir Muhammad, was the hitman who killed Wallace. 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. The law was only a deterrent if someone was stupid enough to get caught. 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Swanns lawyer secured her prosecution immunity for attempting to get Knights admission deal and she has stayed silent ever since. I believe thats him, but you cant see him on the video so theres no way to really identify him. 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. I wouldve loved to have talked to Voletta Wallace during the investigation. Wallace's autopsy report was released to the public in December 2012, fifteen years after his death. 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. However, Kading says the cop who replaced him as lead investigator into Combs and Knight was a bizarre choice by LAPD brass. [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. 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. 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.. Because, the whole six-pack [photo lineup shown to Deal], the whole identification, the whole thing became corrupted. They were the fruit of an intensive investigation by a special task force of LAPD officers plus agents from the Drug Enforcement Agency and Federal Bureau of Investigation that had begun years earlier, in May 2006. Sullivan, in response, quoted the lead attorney of the Wallace estate calling the newspaper "a co-conspirator in the cover-up. After losing Biggie Smalls, he expanded his hip-hop empire newly titled Bad Boy Entertainment Worldwide to encompass the film, restaurant and apparel industries. However, Kading and Daryn Dupree, an LAPD gang detective on the team, copied Swann's words in police journals. That's what I meant. Facebook gives people the power to share and makes the world more open and connected. DX: And I understand you had her read a faked confession from Poochie, who was already deceased? 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 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]. [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. Suge was in county jail and used Swann to make the solicitation and get at Biggie. Sean Combs told the Weekly via email: This story is pure fiction and completely ridiculous. Suge Knight could not be reached. Watch the video of Greg Kading discussing why he wrote the book. Kading says he never got the chance to clear up the confusion because he was never called to testify. [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." In what seemed like an instant, however, Kading went from the top of the world to the depths of a very public hell. Under FBI policy, Swann's interview couldn't be recorded on tape, Kading says. After Philips and his editors mistakenly quoted from the faked documents, Philips was pushed out by the Times. 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. Then they shut it down completely. Two years later, Kading moved north, where he became a rising star at LAPD. . 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. According to the report, three of the four shots were not fatal. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. There was never a last name or anything else connected to it. The release was criticized by the long-time lawyer of his estate, Perry Sanders Jr., who objected to an autopsy. 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 . DX: Now, I dont 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 Knights nine-year-old daughter, Michelle? But, thats not how you conduct an investigation. DX: Okay. While her real name has been mentioned online and in books, Swann has always shied away from the limelight. Kading is working on a new podcast and documentary about former rogue cop Christopher Dorner called Fury And Flames. We have no idea who mightve been helping him. And, we were always recognizing because we had taken this to the federal investigative level including [having] the F.B.I. [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. For Kading, as soft-spoken and level-headed as hip-hop cops come, finishing what he started and stepping into a potential legal and media maelstrom is the right thing to do. She's named Theresa Swann in Murder Rap for her own protection. Including 662. . She had been a resident . Previous Next. LAPD higher-ups pulled Kading off the double investigation right when he was poised to drive it home, he says. By 12:45a.m. (PST), the streets were crowded with people leaving the museum. Harry Billups (suspected shooter by, This page was last edited on 25 February 2023, at 20:52. He told me to tell Poochie to get over there and take care of it, you know what I mean?. Greg Kading: I do believe that. | music at popturf", "Notorious B.I.G. What have you heard about this conspiracy to murder [Biggie]? We made a point of that. Gradually, Kading says, all leads dead-ended. 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. Kadings force strategically manipulated Swann into an interview as she faced other criminal charges. DX: Just bringing the investigation up to more currently What evidence did you collect in addition to the statements of Theresa Swann to tie Wardell Poochie Fouse and Suge Knight to the murder of Biggie Smalls? He was 24 years old. 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. 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. Because, the bottom of thats already been taken out and refuted. Searight declined to comment to the Weekly. 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. They robbed Suge on a personal and professional level. 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. 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). To inquire about a licence to reproduce material, visit our Syndication site. He told me where Biggie would be you know, that party at the car museum. I wouldve loved to talk to some of the other people on the plaintiffs witness list, but we just simply couldnt because the legal politics involved. She's named "Theresa Swann" in Murder Rap for her own protection. 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. No, I never got a chance to talk to Russ. Now David Kenner has what we call hes got privileged communications, because hes the attorney. Were precluded from having any conversations. 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. She could either go to jail or tell us what she knew about the murder. But Kading says the big money was an official $50,000 reward being offered in an entirely different case that Smith knew something about. 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. For instance, have you ever seen that movie L.A. That stuff gets purged out. 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. Theresa was born in Long Beach, CA, daughter of the late John and Betty Dudley Holsenback. 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]. doesnt want the And there was an F.B.I. All Im trying to say here is that, that I.D., the video I.D. 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. 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. By the time Kading had Swann in the hot seat, two other sources had pointed to Poochie (Fouse) as Smalls' probable killer. And theyre trying to help, and its all honest, but they influence each other, and sometimes they taint each others perceptions. [9], Wallace's death was mourned by fellow hip hop artists and fans worldwide. Like I never saw him before. Nobody ever had anything beyond that. 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. Keffe D gave the FBI a different story in 1997, denying his nephew was involved. heirs sue LAPD, officials, city", "Notorious B.I.G. to not identify former L.A.P.D. Theresa L Swann was born on month day 1933, at birth place, Vermont, to Loranger. I had to prioritize and it's not like I had unlimited resources.. They robbed Suge on a personal and professional level. So there were some problems in the development. 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. Shortly afterward, McClure decided to jam a spike in the investigation, Kading says. Three years later, listening to the confessions fingering Sean Combs and Suge Knight, Kading felt he could almost see the finish line. 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Like a tense scene from L.A. Law, they prepared a fake confession from Wardell Poochie Fouse, a close associate of Suge Knight's, then asked Swann to confirm it a creative tactic used by LAPD's elite Robbery-Homicide Division. 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. 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. 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. View Teressa Swann results including current phone number, address, relatives, background check report, and property record with Whitepages. The consequences were also overshadowed by the benefit and reward in their minds.. 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. 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. Theresa Kay Swann is a real estate broker in Onalaska, Texas with license number 351980. 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. Theresa L Swann in Vermont Death Index, 1985-2012. Select the best result to find their address, phone number, relatives, and public records. [25] John Cook of Brill's Content noted that Philips' article "demolished"[24] the Poole-Sullivan theory of Wallace's murder. But I dont believe that some guy in the Nation Of Islam was the shooter. It may be hard to understand that sum for taking someones life, but to those guys it was a different mentality.. Theresa passed away on March 1 1999, at age 65. In December 2012, the LAPD released the autopsy results conducted on Wallace's body to generate new leads. Autopsy Report Released", "Nas Interview: Tupac, B.I.G. 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. 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. L.A. Weekly has verified her identity as Knight's longtime lover and business associate but has chosen not to reveal her. Kading did not know it, but his mother's plan was to drive south of the border to meet a boyfriend who was buying drugs, then smuggle the stash into California under the guise of a vacationing family. 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. [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. 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. ", "Biggie Told Interviewer He Worried About Safety". And then later on when the detectives come back, he incorporates Eugene Deals details into his own statement. Theres no way to go, Well, who was the deputy on charge that day? Wilson publicly singled out Kading for making what appeared to be inappropriate promises of leniency and favors to the two witnesses. 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. His explosive book details the behind-the-scenes failure by LAPD to bring Shakur's and Smalls' killers to justice. 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." 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. And hes like, Oh, shoot! [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. Kading says they were all egregiously taken out of context, and LAPD's Internal Affairs appears to have agreed. But there's a perception out there and we're concerned that it might work against you in the Biggie 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. Detective Says He Knows Who Killed The Notorious B.I.G. "[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. 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. In 1998 I found love in selling & promoting Real Estate by helping families sell or find their dream home! [7] Wallace traveled in the front passenger seat alongside his associates Damion "D-Roc" Butler, Junior M.A.F.I.A. View Teresa Swann results including current phone number, address, relatives, background check report, and property record with Whitepages. "[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." [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. DX: Speaking of that initial composite, even [for] the first composite Lil Cease describes someone in a suit and bow tie. Unsolved case Kading added: "Suge would have figured out she spoke, but the reality. He only gives that description after hes gone and talked to Eugene Deal. 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.. 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. Do you believe that he didnt see what he thought he saw? Sanders says he can't remember which LAPD official under Beck made this promise, but definitely recalls it being made. 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. While her real name has been mentioned online and in books, Swann has always shied away from the limelight. Greg Kading: Yeah, we have Theres we We had a good case. I was sitting there pulling out my hair saying, 'Searight, defend my fucking honor,' says Kading. [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]. DX: [Were] there any eyewitness reports of this conversation by prison employees? For further details of our complaints policy and to make a complaint please click this link: thesun.co.uk/editorial-complaints/, Notorious B.I.G. Theresa lived at address, Vermont. Suges criminal instincts kept him from taking the bait when she raised Biggies death. And so when you have these guys and [theyre like], What did you see? She was 42 years old, and she lived in a house that Suge owned, with their young daughter and a . Keffe D is up against a wall at the time he fingers Combs for Shakur's murder. Kading explains to the Weekly that it was an innocent use of words, played wildly out of context. after killing B.I.G. He claimed that Combs "failed to fully cooperate with the investigation", and according to Poole, encouraged Bad Boy staff to do the same. ", 2020 THE SUN, US, INC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED | TERMS OF USE | PRIVACY | YOUR AD CHOICES | SITEMAP, Notorious B.I.G. Wallace cited that the reasons for the decision were not only the ongoing East CoastWest Coast hip hop feud and the murder of Tupac Shakur six months prior, but that security was simply a necessity for high-profile celebrity figures in general. DX: So you have proof of a money transfer? Best Match Powered by Whitepages Premium AGE Theresa Lynn Swann Breinigsville, PA (Trexlertown) Aliases Theresa Lynn Shoemaker Theresa Lynn Senesac View Full Report Addresses She was just a train wreck, Detective Kading tells the Weekly. Voletta Wallace's lawyer, Perry Sanders, tells the Weekly he suspended her lawsuit in part because she and the federal judge on the case strongly believed that LAPD was relaunching the investigation in full force. 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. [21], Muhammad, who was not an official suspect at the time, came forward to clear his name. 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. 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. [12] The investigation stalled, however, and no one was ever formally charged. of him on video, so sorry if I misrepresented that. Kading used the word procedure for policy when quoting someone in the affidavit and he changed an or to an and. LAPD also determined there was absolutely no evidence that Kading intentionally or maliciously misrepresented material facts, and, further, that Kading was attacked by high-priced attorneys and was left virtually unsupported by the Assistant U.S. Attorney.. 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. 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. 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. Well, what did you see?, well then they develop their own perspectives on what happened. 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? 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. The Murders of gangsta rappers Tupac Shakur and Notorious B.I.G. Read about the Internal Affairs report clearing Kading's name in the George Torres case. 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.

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