. so yes I can name a much better trio like 10 more," added another . And this is their own policy that you can look into and probably verify. [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. 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. 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. Kading also told Smith in a recorded phone call, It's always this way, man. I tell them what I think and they tell me if I'm right or not.. Greg Kading: No, absolutely not. There was never a last name or anything else connected to it. 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. On Monday (October 3rd), the LA Weekly published a jaw-dropping article regarding the revelations made by former Los Angeles Police Department detective Greg Kading in his just-released book, Murder Rap: The Untold Story of the Biggie Smalls & Tupac Shakur Murder Investigations. officers helped coordinate the shooting of her son outside of the Petersen Automotive Museum in the early hours of March 9, 1997. officers David Mack and Rafael Perez? 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. We put her in a corner to make those hard decisions, he said. DX: And did you interview David Kenner about this meeting? According to the report, three of the four shots were not fatal. ", 2020 THE SUN, US, INC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED | TERMS OF USE | PRIVACY | YOUR AD CHOICES | SITEMAP, Notorious B.I.G. Suges criminal instincts kept him from taking the bait when she raised Biggies death. By the time Kading had Swann in the hot seat, two other sources had pointed to Poochie (Fouse) as Smalls' probable killer. Keffe D is up against a wall at the time he fingers Combs for Shakur's murder. 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. . Previous Next. In what seemed like an instant, however, Kading went from the top of the world to the depths of a very public hell. DX: Speaking of that initial composite, even [for] the first composite Lil Cease describes someone in a suit and bow tie. 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. Theresa L Swann was born on May 15 1933. Sean Combs told the Weekly via email: This story is pure fiction and completely ridiculous. Suge Knight could not be reached. DX: So you have proof of a money transfer? "The sense is let lying dogs lie and that is not likely to change. 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. Suges criminal instincts kept him from taking the bait when she raised Biggies death. Also, the U.S. Attorney's Office redacted everything in Kading's journals that was not pertinent to Torres, but the defense found blacked-out entries that did relate to Torres. McClure says it was his decision to shelve the case, and the Beck administration merely went along. 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. 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. In the three years he worked that case, he was keeping tabs on Smith and Del Real in preparation for Torres' trial in 2009. He believes LAPD lost its grip on Swann by ditching Kading's idea to wiretap her conversations with Knight so they could use her as an informant. Its a conflict of interest for us to go and try to compare notes or have conversations. Searight declined to comment to the Weekly. [32] Voletta claimed that the LAPD had sufficient evidence to arrest the gunman but failed to use it. And you dont see that Eugene Deal brings up the fact that theres this guy in the parking lot who he identifies as a Nation Of Islam-looking guy who approached them that stuff doesnt get brought up until a second interview, at which time Lil Cease and Eugene Deal have had a chance to kinda compare notes. Steven Katz, the lead detective in the Wallace investigation. 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. But for Duane Keffe D Keith Davis, a shot caller for the Southside Crips, it now happens to be his lawyer's office. After Greg left, we finally made the decision, McClure says. The Sun website is regulated by the Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO), Our journalists strive for accuracy but on occasion we make mistakes. But it wouldn't last. View Teressa Swann results including current phone number, address, relatives, background check report, and property record with Whitepages. 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. 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. If true, this means the LAPD has only in the past couple of months revived the probe. However, Kading and Daryn Dupree, an LAPD gang detective on the team, copied Swann's words in police journals. If anybody that we talked to had any information on David Mack, we always made sure that was then pushed over into the civil case. 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 . They had been shooting at each other, dealing drugs, stealing cars for their lives. 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. Believe me.. 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. I need to qualify that, because it might look negligent if you just said, Well, he never talked to him. [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. 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. 679215 Registered office: 1 London Bridge Street, London, SE1 9GF. 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. I dont believe that he was there completely alone though. [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. Eric Johnson's best photograph", "Rapper Is Shot to Death in Echo of Killing 6 Months Ago", "where biggie smalls was shot and killed in los angeles: the notorious b.i.g. I was sitting there pulling out my hair saying, 'Searight, defend my fucking honor,' says Kading. 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. Kading had properly handed his notebooks of interviews to the prosecution. 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. We were honoring that, and saying, Hey, if the F.B.I. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. Kevin McClure with the blessing of brand-new LAPD Chief Charlie Beck. 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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. She had been a resident . 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: Do you believe the shooter drove a dark-colored Chevrolet Impala as witnesses claimed? Find Teresa Swann's phone number, address, and email on Spokeo, the leading online directory for contact information. officers in your findings as having been part of the Biggie Smalls murder plot? Stay tuned to HipHopDX for the stunning second half of our conversation with Greg Kading, in which the former member of the Los Angeles Police Department takes DX through his investigation into the murder of Tupac in Las Vegas. 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. To see all content on The Sun, please use the Site Map. For instance, have you ever seen that movie L.A. Though Kading is well aware of the litigation to which he's exposing himself by implicating Combs and Knight the wealthy Combs threatened to sue the Los Angeles Times over much less Kading believes that the story's bigger than the LAPD, and that if he doesn't share his findings with the public, nobody's ever going to know what really happened.. What Poochie says, that's what happened.. This is not the first time a gangster has done business at this Beverly Hills office building. Swann wore a body-wire during a meet with Suge, now out of prison, which ended in failure. Wallace". 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. 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. "[19] The Wallace suit had asked for $500 million from the city. Greg Kading: Its what we call a ruse. Everybody that we would talk to and bring that up and ask those questions it was always the same answer: Well yeah How do you know? Well, its what I read in the newspaper. Well, why do you believe that? I read it in the newspaper. So everything about those guys was stuff that was hearsay information. Voletta Wallace was horrified. 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. They had been shooting at each other, dealing drugs, stealing cars for their lives. I had to prioritize and it's not like I had unlimited resources.. In another defense snippet, Kading talked to Derrick Smith about big money proof, Torres' lawyers alleged, that Kading was trying to bribe a star witness. The consequences were also overshadowed by the benefit and reward in their minds.. During the yearlong internal LAPD probe of his actions, Kading felt betrayed and heartbroken. DX: [Were] there any eyewitness reports of this conversation by prison employees? LAPD took nearly a year to complete its investigation of Kading. Greg Kading: Yeah, we have Theres we We had a good case. DX: Lastly in regards to the Biggie Smalls murder investigation, were you ever implicitly instructed by your superiors in the L.A.P.D. 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. 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? While her real name has been mentioned online and in books, Swann has always shied away from the limelight. 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 early investigation did, was to fail to recognize that these two informants were in county jail together and were collaborating. This is for the best. [31] The case remains officially unsolved, despite a good amount of evidence being found. Knight's downfall also could be due to his inability to let go of the past: A lot of these dudes say they love 'Pac, but at the same time they be doing shit like Puffy, Knight told TMZ earlier this year. Name: Theresa Kay Swann: Credentials: Real Estate Broker: Experience: 34 yrs: Complete Address: 13062 Hwy 190 W, P O . Kadings force strategically manipulated Swann into an interview as she faced other criminal charges. Kading is working on a new podcast and documentary about former rogue cop Christopher Dorner called Fury And Flames. We put her in a corner to make those hard decisions, he said. She could either go to jail or tell us what she knew about the murder. Theresa Elizabeth Swann. [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." As a matter of fact, we did the exact opposite. Thank you for supporting LA Weekly and our advertisers. 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. But there's a perception out there and we're concerned that it might work against you in the Biggie case. member Lil' Cease, and driver Gregory "G-Money" Young. The prosecution basically got caught doing something they didn't know was wrong, but the judge ruled it a discovery violation, Kading says. 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. By the time Kading was cleared of wrongdoing in the TorresNumero Uno case, the Biggie Smalls investigation had been called off. Greg Kading: No, actually I dont. Feeling frustrated and betrayed, Kading resigned. 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]. Estate of Wallace v. City of Los Angeles, 229 F.R.D. Greg Kading: No, I never did actually. 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. 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. Greg Kading: No, I dont, actually. Trust me, if theres anybody that I wanted to be guilty, it was David Mack. 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. The law was only a deterrent if someone was stupid enough to get caught. Suge told her to go see Poochie and take care of Biggie. Knight directed [Swann] to contact 'Poochie' and advise him that Knight wanted Wallace murdered in exchange for an unspecified amount of money.. ", 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. The consequences were also overshadowed by the benefit and reward in their minds.. Theresa is potentially known by Walter G Swann, Walter G Swann, Walter G Swann and twenty-nine other people due to residence history. The court directed the city to conduct a thorough investigation, which uncovered previously undisclosed evidence, much of which was in the desk or cabinet of Det. This service is provided on News Group Newspapers' Limited's Standard Terms and Conditions in accordance with our Privacy & Cookie Policy. And so when you have these guys and [theyre like], What did you see? They remain secret as the murder case is active. The defense later obtained many older phone recordings on its own, and Wilson made clear it was the U.S. Attorney's fault. 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. The piece was almost entirely based on anonymous sources. In response, LAPD told The Sun: "The case is still open and Robbery and Homicide Division will not be commenting. It was expedient for them to cripple the case in the interests of avoiding a potentially difficult prosecution. Combs may take heat for these new revelations or he may not. [12] The investigation stalled, however, and no one was ever formally charged. he came to Theresa to grab $400 to get out of town. NOTORIOUS B.I.G. If Death Row didnt retaliate Tupacs murder then talk is that they are punk bitches for letting Bad Boy walk over them. That that seems a little I mean, why wasnt it recorded? 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.' Kading says Sanders is wrong. Because, the whole six-pack [photo lineup shown to Deal], the whole identification, the whole thing became corrupted. I had no idea there were such powerful forces involved in all of this.. On March 7, Wallace presented an award to Toni Braxton at the 1997 Soul Train Music Awards and was booed by some of the audience. And so were like, Okay, well this seems to be his kinda go-to guy when hes having these kind of problems. And so thats all the stuff thats discussed in the book, and it will compound the girls statement. Every time we interviewed anybody that would be one of the questions wed ask: Well, what do you know about David Mack? 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. Kading conducted Swanns interviews, but noted them on police interview forms rather than audio tape. Now Eugene Deals looking at Amir Muhammad but hes also now seeing Cause you know there were two [sketches of the suspected shooter], right? 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. Murder Case: Finally Time for Answers? Were precluded from having any conversations. Greg Kading: I do believe that. 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. In Murder Rap, though, almost all of LAPD's informants are on the record. 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. DX: So who do you believe was that lone person in that car who did the shooting? 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. 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 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. [14][15] The book stated that one of Mack's alleged associates, Amir Muhammad, was the hitman who killed Wallace. The law was only a deterrent if someone was stupid enough to get caught. I had to believe that they wanted to find out who the murderer of my son was. And I think maybe he was trying to help too much, as opposed to just being perfectly honest. But investigators are like softball parents: Their kid is always better than your kid. Theresa lived in Saint Albans, Vermont 05478, USA. Theresa Swann We found 31 records for Theresa Swann in PA, LA and 16 other states. Christopher Wallace traveled to Los Angeles, California, in February 1997 to promote his upcoming second studio album, Life After Death, and to film a music video for its lead single, "Hypnotize". [35] The Wallace family refiled the suit, dropping the state law claims on May 27, 2008. Kading says that, in fact, he facilitated Albert's surrender to local cops and nothing more. Previously, I worked in the legal field as a secretary/bookkeeper. In April 2002, Wallace's mother Voletta filed a wrongful death claim against the City of Los Angeles based on the evidence championed by Poole. According to her, the solicitation was $25,000 and she gave Poochie 14 grand, clearly she kept the remainder. [1] Because, the bottom of thats already been taken out and refuted. This seed of skepticism is resown in the pages of Murder Rap. 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. I managed the case, I made the recommendation to my superiors as to what I wanted to do, had concurrence to do it and, I'll be quite honest with you, I'd do it again right now. 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. Greg Kading: Well, no, theres no I.D. And, its your assertion in Murder Rap that Suge Knight instructed Swann to contact Poochie to arrange the hit on Biggie while Mr. Knight was speaking on a prison phone that he knows was being recorded? [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.