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. Wallace". Money that was immediate was what they worked for. 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 have to come up with the answers and tell you and then you just say, 'Yeah, you're right.' 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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Wait a minute, I have a clue with a guy named Amir on it. It was a very loose connection. Pat Gannon, called him into his office and told him, Allegations were made in the Torres case. The piece was almost entirely based on anonymous sources. Greg Kading: Yeah, we have Theres we We had a good case. I have no problems with Greg, McClure says. When Kading published a book about the case, he gave Suge's girlfriend a fake name: Theresa Swann. But it was Searight who decided not to give them to Torres' lawyers. 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. [4] The next morning Wallace was scheduled to go to London but this did not happen. We have no idea who mightve been helping him. It took only three days to find Muhammad, who had a current ad for his brokerage business running in the Times. The problem was we never got any. Dozens of gang members from both sides died in attempts to avenge Shakur's and Smalls' deaths. Yet this is when the investigation was inexplicably derailed. 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. 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 response, LAPD told The Sun: "The case is still open and Robbery and Homicide Division will not be commenting. But investigators are like softball parents: Their kid is always better than your kid. 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. I had to believe that they wanted to find out who the murderer of my son was. It was the right decision.. 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. This is for the best. Sitting in the backseat of the Cadillac, according to Keffe D, was his own nephew, Orlando Baby Lane Anderson, who got his ass kicked in the MGM Grand lobby earlier in the evening by Shakur's posse over a piece of Death Row bling that Baby Lane supposedly had stolen. Greg Kading: No, absolutely not. 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. I tell them what I think and they tell me if I'm right or not.. Sean Combs traveled in the other vehicle with Eugene "Gene" Deal, Tone, Stevie J and driver Kenny. [9], Wallace's death was mourned by fellow hip hop artists and fans worldwide. 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. Two minutes later, a dark-colored 19941996 Chevrolet Impala SS pulled up alongside Wallace's Suburban. 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. Teresa SwannWoodfin - Teresa Cynthia Sehion Swann, 45, passed away Wednesday, January 4, 2012 at her home.She was a daughter of Barry Sehion of Oteen and the late Linda Gail Martin.In addition to her Two months later, Federal Judge Stephen Wilson issued a shocking ruling, throwing out the verdicts. That that seems a little I mean, why wasnt it recorded? He claimed that Combs "failed to fully cooperate with the investigation", and according to Poole, encouraged Bad Boy staff to do the same. 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. First, do you believe Amir Muhammad was at the Petersen Automotive Museum the night Biggie was killed? officers helped coordinate the shooting of her son outside of the Petersen Automotive Museum in the early hours of March 9, 1997. We know they're baseless, Greg, totally without foundation. 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. [32] Voletta claimed that the LAPD had sufficient evidence to arrest the gunman but failed to use it. DX: Okay. Suges criminal instincts kept him from taking the bait when she raised Biggies death. [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 tells him on tape: Everything in this report has to be right on, because if down the road it's determined that some of these details are incorrect, then everything's off the table. Keffe D responds, Don't bullshit me, and I won't bullshit y'all.. As a result of the newly discovered evidence, the judge declared a mistrial and awarded the Wallace family its attorneys' fees. [31] The case remains officially unsolved, despite a good amount of evidence being found. 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. Kading also told Smith in a recorded phone call, It's always this way, man. 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. Unsolved 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. 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.. . Greg Kading: Yeah, absolutely. She could either go to jail or tell us what she knew about the murder. Greg Kading: Yeah, and thisll probably sound a little bit suspicious to you, but working in these federal task forces all the different agencies have their own internal policies about interview protocol. We were honoring that, and saying, Hey, if the F.B.I. 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. And thats where the solicitation and the conspiracy was fostered. 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. 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. "[23] The story cleared Muhammad's name.[21][24]. [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." Keffe D is up against a wall at the time he fingers Combs for Shakur's murder. officers David Mack and Rafael Perez? He cited the prosecution's failure to disclose evidence to the defense, such as phone calls between Kading and Smith and between Kading and Del Real, as well as his police notebooks. The team's official mission was solving Biggie Smalls' murder, while Shakur's murder case was under the jurisdiction of Las Vegas police. Suge and Theresa have a long history of criminal activity together and share a . Harry Billups (suspected shooter by, This page was last edited on 25 February 2023, at 20:52. 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. 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. "[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." 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. Unsolved case Kading added: "Suge would have figured out she spoke, but the reality. It may be hard to understand that sum for taking someones life, but to those guys it was a different mentality.. 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. So saying that, we have no reason to believe that Perez or Mack were there. 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." In July 2005, Internal Affairs seized all information pertaining to Mack which, at that point, was directly related to the Smalls investigation for its own sealed-off, top-secret investigation into the corrupt cop. And, we were always recognizing because we had taken this to the federal investigative level including [having] the F.B.I. Rapper Nas felt at the time that Wallace's death, along with that of Tupac Shakur, "was nearly the end of rap."[10]. Greg Kading: No, I dont believe that. If Death Row didnt retaliate Tupacs murder then talk is that they are punk bitches for letting Bad Boy walk over them. [35] The Wallace family refiled the suit, dropping the state law claims on May 27, 2008. Long before Kading stepped into what many believe to be the cursed unsolved mystery of Shakur's and Smalls' murders, a storm of rumors and news stories suggested that a few bad apples within the LAPD had been involved in Smalls' killing. Well these two guys that were both talking to law enforcement about the same time This is one of the key mistakes that the L.A.P.D. 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. [15], The case came for trial before a jury on June 21, 2004. [7] Wallace traveled in the front passenger seat alongside his associates Damion "D-Roc" Butler, Junior M.A.F.I.A. [21], Muhammad, who was not an official suspect at the time, came forward to clear his name. Theresa lived in Saint Albans, Vermont 05478, USA. Wilson publicly singled out Kading for making what appeared to be inappropriate promises of leniency and favors to the two witnesses. However, Kading and Daryn Dupree, an LAPD gang detective on the team, copied Swann's words in police journals. At age 13, he finally found it with the family of his best friend, whose father was a lieutenant with the Orange County Sheriff's Department. To inquire about a licence to reproduce material, visit our Syndication site. DX: You believe he did the shooting himself? DX: Speaking of that initial composite, even [for] the first composite Lil Cease describes someone in a suit and bow tie. Kadings force strategically manipulated Swann into an interview as she faced other criminal charges. Three years later, listening to the confessions fingering Sean Combs and Suge Knight, Kading felt he could almost see the finish line. 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. Staying in a tent, Kading became increasingly desperate for stability. 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 "Notorious B.I.G. Suge was in county jail and used Swann to make the solicitation and get at Biggie. Kading recalls in Murder Rap that his direct supervisor, Cmdr. That stuff gets purged out. [26], The criminal investigation into Wallace's murder was re-opened in July 2006 to look for new evidence to help the city defend the civil lawsuits brought by the Wallace family. [14][15] The book stated that one of Mack's alleged associates, Amir Muhammad, was the hitman who killed Wallace. Facebook gives people the power to share and makes the world more open and connected. NOTORIOUS B.I.G. 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? After Philips and his editors mistakenly quoted from the faked documents, Philips was pushed out by the Times. 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. Keffe D tells the cops he was offered $1 million to kill Death Row rapper Tupac Shakur and Suge Knight, the label's former CEO. . View our online Press Pack. After speaking with a handful of gang members, Philips wrote a 2002 front-page article accusing Biggie Smalls of paying the Crips $1 million to knock off his West Coast competition. She's named Theresa Swann in Murder Rap for her own protection. While her real name has been mentioned online and in books, Swann has always shied away from the limelight. However, Kading says the cop who replaced him as lead investigator into Combs and Knight was a bizarre choice by LAPD brass. 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. 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. He only gives that description after hes gone and talked to Eugene Deal. DX: Lastly in regards to the Biggie Smalls murder investigation, were you ever implicitly instructed by your superiors in the L.A.P.D. 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. 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. 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? As a matter of fact, we did the exact opposite. Ms. Wallaces belief that former L.A.P.D. I believe thats him, but you cant see him on the video so theres no way to really identify him. Because, the whole six-pack [photo lineup shown to Deal], the whole identification, the whole thing became corrupted. 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. But Swann's reaction meant everything, especially because, in Poochie's staged false confession, Swann herself was named as a conspirator in Smalls' murder. The Real Housewives of New Jersey OG Teresa Giudice made up an "iconic trio" when she joined forces with two Bravo newbies. 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.. 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. Greg Kading: Yeah, absolutely. 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. Now Eugene Deals looking at Amir Muhammad but hes also now seeing Cause you know there were two [sketches of the suspected shooter], right? 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. . What Poochie says, that's what happened.. [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? 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. This is a very key element, because its this clue that takes the entire investigation down that rabbit hole of Russell Pooles. I think there was some influence there that caused him to point out that picture. Im just drawing that conclusion based on all of the other collective information: the fact that Theresa, the girlfriend, confesses, she tells us that she had paid Poochie at the direction of Knight, [that] Poochie had an Impala that Knight had bought him, and then we have these other people that were in the inner circle, the other Death Row [Records staff]/gang members who all told us about this relationship that Suge had with Poochie. 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. to quickly search for other people with the same last name in the same cemetery, city, county, etc. Greg Kading: No, Ive never interviewed David Kenner. I was the commander over Robbery-Homicide, McClure says. Nobody ever had anything beyond that. 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. Facebook gives people the power to share and makes the world more open and connected. 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. U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007. . View Teressa Swann results including current phone number, address, relatives, background check report, and property record with Whitepages.
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