This is a very key element, because its this clue that takes the entire investigation down that rabbit hole of Russell Pooles. Keffe D's and Theresa Swann's confessions were stunning but in no way sudden. Theresa L Swann was born on May 15 1933. Join Facebook to connect with Swann Theresa and others you may know. Now Eugene Deals looking at Amir Muhammad but hes also now seeing Cause you know there were two [sketches of the suspected shooter], right? As a matter of fact, if you look at that official video the YouTube video, theres several versions of it but theres one that says official if you really dissect that, which we did, I have absolutely no doubt in my mind that that is Poochie in his car in that dark-colored Impala. 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. Read an updated list of characters in the Tupac and Biggie murder cases. 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. Well, what did you see?, well then they develop their own perspectives on what happened. We were kind of bifurcated away from the civil investigation. He says federal agents are prepared to relocate her if necessary, to assure her safety in the wake of its publication. It took only three days to find Muhammad, who had a current ad for his brokerage business running in the Times. One lucky, FAMILY AFFAIR: INSIDE SNOOP DOGG AND HIS BOSS LADY, By continuing to use our site, you agree to our, Tommy Lasorda: Part Of 5 Freeway Honoring Former Dodger Manager, Newsom Ends 3-Year COVID-19 State of Emergency In California, Vanessa Bryant And L.A. 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Greg Kading: No, Ive never interviewed David Kenner. Confidential? [15], The case came for trial before a jury on June 21, 2004. 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. "The sense is let lying dogs lie and that is not likely to change. 104 records for Teresa Swann. I had to prioritize and it's not like I had unlimited resources.. But investigators are like softball parents: Their kid is always better than your kid. 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. DX: And I understand you had her read a faked confession from Poochie, who was already deceased? So saying that, we have no reason to believe that Perez or Mack were there. Greg Kading: Its what we call a ruse. I have to come up with the answers and tell you and then you just say, 'Yeah, you're right.' This seed of skepticism is resown in the pages of Murder Rap. He goes, Maybe its Kenny, or maybe it was Keke. So there were these four different names that that informant gave out. L.A. Weekly has verified her identity as Knight's longtime lover and business associate but has chosen not to reveal her name. 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. The prosecution basically got caught doing something they didn't know was wrong, but the judge ruled it a discovery violation, Kading says. [31] The case remains officially unsolved, despite a good amount of evidence being found. Greg Kading: No, I dont believe that. I dont believe that he was there completely alone though. In the three years he worked that case, he was keeping tabs on Smith and Del Real in preparation for Torres' trial in 2009. Pat Gannon, called him into his office and told him, Allegations were made in the Torres case. 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. 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. 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. 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. He was 24 years old. Believe me.. Theresa Swann is on Facebook. All Im trying to say here is that, that I.D., the video I.D. 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. 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. By the time Kading had Swann in the hot seat, two other sources had pointed to Poochie (Fouse) as Smalls' probable killer. That's what I meant. The first bullet hit his left forearm and traveled down to his wrist; the second hit him in the back, missing all vital organs, and exited through his left shoulder; and the third hit his left thigh and exited through his inner thigh. 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. Read about the Internal Affairs report clearing Kading's name in the George Torres case. And on this surreal morning on Dec. 18, 2008, Keffe D is going to snitch. Detective Poole traded his job to pursue a labyrinth of failed litigation against LAPD. DX: So you have proof of a money transfer? But it never happened.. I think there was some influence there that caused him to point out that picture. And I think maybe he was trying to help too much, as opposed to just being perfectly honest. | music at popturf", "Notorious B.I.G. Again, the most important thing here to remember is the foundation of this whole theory is corrupted because Michael Robinson, the jailhouse informant that provided this information that led to this idea of the Nation Of Islam/Amir Muhammad, that whole thing has been refuted because we Theres another witness in this whole thing named Waymond Anderson. Now, in the pages of his potentially game-changing self-published book Murder Rap, set for release Oct. 4, former Los Angeles Police Department Detective Greg Kading reveals that LAPD has been sitting on extensive tapes and documents containing confessions from key players behind the alleged assassinations of Shakur and Smalls (Wallace). Kading is working on a new podcast and documentary about former rogue cop Christopher Dorner called Fury And Flames. As a matter of fact, we did the exact opposite. "[23] The story cleared Muhammad's name.[21][24]. 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. 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. While her real name has been mentioned online and in books, Swann has always shied away from the limelight. Trust me, if theres anybody that I wanted to be guilty, it was David Mack. [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. Staying in a tent, Kading became increasingly desperate for stability. [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]. Suge was in county jail and used Swann to make the solicitation and get at Biggie. 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 . 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. [3] Life After Death was scheduled for release on March 25, 1997. Searight declined to comment to the Weekly. 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.. He claimed that Combs "failed to fully cooperate with the investigation", and according to Poole, encouraged Bad Boy staff to do the same. DX: [Were] there any eyewitness reports of this conversation by prison employees? Suge and Theresa have a long history of criminal activity together and share a . DX: And do you believe Poochie dressed up in Nation Of Islam garb? We have no idea who mightve been helping him. We were honoring that, and saying, Hey, if the F.B.I. [4] The next morning Wallace was scheduled to go to London but this did not happen. I mean, we went into this with a very objective attitude. to not identify former L.A.P.D. Kading recalls in Murder Rap that his direct supervisor, Cmdr. case says his memory's bad", "New Theories Stir Speculation On Rap Deaths", "Wrongful-Death Lawsuit Over Rapper Is Dismissed", "Johnny Depp's Notorious B.I.G. However, Kading and Daryn Dupree, an LAPD gang detective on the team, copied Swann's words in police journals. The following evening, March 8, he and the Bad Boy Records entourage attended an after-party hosted by Vibe magazine and Qwest Records at the Petersen Automotive Museum set up by Kidada Jones in the Carthay Circle community of Los Angeles. 679215 Registered office: 1 London Bridge Street, London, SE1 9GF. 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 was like, 'We'll wipe their ass out, quick. DX: Okay. I tell them what I think and they tell me if I'm right or not.. 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. Furious, Judge Florence-Marie Cooper concluded that the seizure showed LAPD was scrambling to conceal evidence relating to the Biggie Smalls murder. What do you know about Rafael Perez? Smalls, a 400-pound Brooklyn native, was slain in a March 1997 drive-by shooting while rolling out of a star-studded party at the Petersen Automotive Museum in L.A.'s Miracle Mile. Once she had finished reading it, Kading says, Swann whispered, That's right. To inquire about a licence to reproduce material, visit our Syndication site. NOTORIOUS B.I.G. Suge was in county jail and used Swann to make the solicitation and get at Biggie. But Kading says the big money was an official $50,000 reward being offered in an entirely different case that Smith knew something about. Combs may take heat for these new revelations or he may not. In April 2009, a jury convicted Torres on 50 counts, including conspiracy to commit murder, racketeering and bribery. Kevin McClure with the blessing of brand-new LAPD Chief Charlie Beck. I dont know how familiar you are with interrogation practices, [but] a lot of times, especially when youre dealing with people with these kind of criminal backgrounds, theyre much more likely to I wont say be at ease, because its never that. in the early investigation did, was to fail to recognize that these two informants were in county jail together and were collaborating. Then they shut it down completely. Kading says Sanders is wrong. Amir? More recently, the film City of Lies was produced based on Poole's investigation and Sullivan's book, and cast Johnny Depp as Poole. Kading believes Knight hired Fouse to kill Wallace to avenge the death of Shakur, via his girlfriend, Theresa Swann. I mean, theres just no way to know. However, as youll read in the book, there was a third person there, which was Suge Knights attorney, David Kenner. 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. But I dont believe that some guy in the Nation Of Islam was the shooter. 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." Swann met with Knight in jail on more than one occasion. In fact, Beck's detectives were doing the opposite. 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. 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 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. In 1998 I found love in selling & promoting Real Estate by helping families sell or find their dream home! For the third time, Wilson determined that a discovery violation had occurred. [11] Media reports had previously speculated that Wallace was in some way connected to Shakur's murder, though no evidence ever surfaced to seriously implicate him. Remember, theres a scene in there where theyve got these two guys in there that theyre interrogating, and they convince the one guy in one room that the other guy is ratting out on him, and then they start to that opens the door for them to then [be like], Oh, okay, well if hes ratting him out then Im gonna do it. Well, its kinda that same psychological technique that we use a lot in law enforcement. 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. 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. Theresa Elizabeth Swann. The problem was we never got any. 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. So that was the protocol we had. The Metro section of the Times reported that police suspected a connection between Wallace's death and the Rampart police corruption scandal, consistent with Sullivan and Poole's theory. Greg Kading: No, absolutely not. 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. he came to Theresa to grab $400 to get out of town. The team's official mission was solving Biggie Smalls' murder, while Shakur's murder case was under the jurisdiction of Las Vegas police. While her real name has been mentioned online and in books, Swann has always shied away from the limelight. Greg Kading: No, I dont, actually. 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.. Best Match Powered by Whitepages Premium AGE Theresa Lynn Swann Breinigsville, PA (Trexlertown) Aliases Theresa Lynn Shoemaker Theresa Lynn Senesac View Full Report Addresses 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. That stuff gets purged out. Wrongful-Death Case Declared A Mistrial", "Lawsuit involving rapper death dismissed", Notorious: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Murder_of_the_Notorious_B.I.G.&oldid=1141591318, Short description is different from Wikidata, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, Amir Muhammed a.k.a. 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. 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. 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. 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. They had been shooting at each other, dealing drugs, stealing cars for their lives. Keffe D gave the FBI a different story in 1997, denying his nephew was involved. They robbed Suge on a personal and professional level. And thats where the solicitation and the conspiracy was fostered. But there's a perception out there and we're concerned that it might work against you in the Biggie case. I had to believe that they wanted to find out who the murderer of my son was. Prior to leaving, the Los Angeles Fire Department closed the party early because of smoking and loud music. For instance, have you ever seen that movie L.A. View Teressa Swann results including current phone number, address, relatives, background check report, and property record with Whitepages. His [given name is] Wardell Fouse. So no deputy or no prison employees gonna be able to stand there and listen to it. "[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. [14][15], In 2002, filmmaker Nick Broomfield released a documentary, Biggie & Tupac, based on information from the book. He told me to tell Poochie to get over there and take care of it, you know what I mean?. After a 25-year career in law enforcement, Kading retired in 2010 and began writing his book detailing the three years he investigated the murders of The Notorious B.I.G. . 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. 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. officers helped coordinate the shooting of her son outside of the Petersen Automotive Museum in the early hours of March 9, 1997. Because, the bottom of thats already been taken out and refuted. 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.. It may be hard to understand that sum for taking someones life, but to those guys it was a different mentality.. LAWeekly Instagram: Featuring the culture of LA since 1978 , Relationship with the Victim* 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. But investigators on the special task force determined early on that the two cases were as inseparable as the street-gang rivalries that ran through them. Greg Kading: Yeah, absolutely. 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However, the rap moguls accused of hiring them were still very much alive. The Murders of gangsta rappers Tupac Shakur and Notorious B.I.G. This is not the first time a gangster has done business at this Beverly Hills office building. 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. The driver of the Impala, a black male, rolled down his window, drew a 9mm blue-steel pistol and fired at the SUV; four bullets hit Wallace. It wasnt out of a desire not to talk to him, but because I was an employee with the L.A.P.D., with the city of Los Angeles, conducting an ongoing criminal investigation, and he was a witness in a civil suit for the plaintiff against the city of Los Angeles. Sean Combs told the Weekly via email: This story is pure fiction and completely ridiculous. Suge Knight could not be reached. In July 2009, under former LAPD Chief William Bratton, lead detective Kading was abruptly pulled from the task force. 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 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. Kading now says the blame fell squarely upon the U.S. Attorney's Office and prosecutor Tim Searight. 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. [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." Shortly afterward, McClure decided to jam a spike in the investigation, Kading says. While her real name has been mentioned online and in books, Swann has always shied away from the limelight. Former L.A.P.D. 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. [6], On March 9, 1997, at 12:30a.m. (PST), Wallace left with his entourage in two Chevrolet Suburbans to attend an after-party at Steve Stoute's house in the Hollywood Hills. It now appears that Kading was unfairly blamed by Judge Wilson and the media. 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. The Real Housewives of New Jersey OG Teresa Giudice made up an "iconic trio" when she joined forces with two Bravo newbies. 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. 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.