[33], On April 16, 2007, relatives of Wallace filed a second wrongful death lawsuit against the City of Los Angeles. member Lil' Cease, and driver Gregory "G-Money" Young. Detective Says He Knows Who Killed The Notorious B.I.G. To inquire about a licence to reproduce material, visit our Syndication site. What Poochie says, that's what happened.. Join Facebook to connect with Theresa Swann and others you may know. 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. Detective Says He Knows Who Killed The Notorious B.I.G. The law was only a deterrent if someone was stupid enough to get caught. They had been shooting at each other, dealing drugs, stealing cars for their lives. to quickly search for other people with the same last name in the same cemetery, city, county, etc. Its a conflict of interest for us to go and try to compare notes or have conversations. L.A. Weekly has verified her identity as Knight's longtime lover and business associate but has chosen not to reveal her name. The fourth bullet was fatal, entering through his right hip and striking several vital organs, including his colon, liver, heart, and the upper lobe of his left lung, before stopping in his left shoulder area. Theresa lived in Saint Albans, Vermont 05478, USA. I dont believe that at all. 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. 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. detective Russell Poole. In response, LAPD told The Sun: "The case is still open and Robbery and Homicide Division will not be commenting. When Kading published a book about the case, he gave Suge's girlfriend a fake name: Theresa Swann. 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. 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. They remain secret as the murder case is active. They robbed Suge on a personal and professional level. So detectives took a different approach. 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. 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. It now appears that Kading was unfairly blamed by Judge Wilson and the media. Blasts LAPD Over Autopsy Report", "Notorious B.I.G. [36] The suit against the City of Los Angeles was finally dismissed in 2010. 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. [20], The Los Angeles Times printed conflicting theories of the murder in different sections of the paper. Theresa is potentially known by Walter G Swann, Walter G Swann, Walter G Swann and twenty-nine other people due to residence history. 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. 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. [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. However, Kading and Daryn Dupree, an LAPD gang detective on the team, copied Swann's words in police journals. 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. 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.. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. Kading grew up with his mother and two older sisters in tents and yurts around Lake Tahoe, in what he describes as a movable feast of hippies and potheads, marked by his mother's wanderlust and impulsive parenting. While her real name has been mentioned online and in books, Swann has always shied away from the limelight. Journalist Randall Sullivan devoted both a sprawling Rolling Stone article and a popular novel to Poole's allegations. Money that was immediate was what they worked for. Kading now says the blame fell squarely upon the U.S. Attorney's Office and prosecutor Tim Searight. 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). Theresa has been a resident of six cities, including Navarre, FL and Gulf Breeze, FL. ", "Sean Combs Ordered Tupac Murder: LA Cop:And Suge Knight had Biggie Smalls killed in revenge, says book by former LAPD detective", "Lawyer For Notorious B.I.G. 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. Kading recalls in Murder Rap that his direct supervisor, Cmdr. Swanns lawyer secured her prosecution immunity for attempting to get Knights admission deal and she has stayed silent ever since. 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. After losing Biggie Smalls, he expanded his hip-hop empire newly titled Bad Boy Entertainment Worldwide to encompass the film, restaurant and apparel industries. We know they're baseless, Greg, totally without foundation. In 1998 I found love in selling & promoting Real Estate by helping families sell or find their dream home! 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. DX: Okay. 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. 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.. Steven Katz, the lead detective in the Wallace investigation. 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. . Kadings force strategically manipulated Swann into an interview as she faced other criminal charges. Theresa Elizabeth Swann. According to the report, three of the four shots were not fatal. Pat Gannon, called him into his office and told him, Allegations were made in the Torres case. Wallace's SUV stopped at a red light on the corner of Wilshire Boulevard and South Fairfax Avenue[8] just 50yd (46m) away. Once Swann admitted her participation in the murder conspiracy, the FBI tried to use her to draw a confession from Knight. 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. 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. 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. [in Biggie & Tupac] where [Nick Broomfield] gets up and Eugene Deal points at [a photo of Amir Muhammad in a lineup], theres a lot of problems with that legally, and the way that it was developed. And I think maybe he was trying to help too much, as opposed to just being perfectly honest. Greg Kading: I do believe that. 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. So no deputy or no prison employees gonna be able to stand there and listen to it. Yet this is when the investigation was inexplicably derailed. 's killer was paid just $14,000 to shoot the rap legend on this date 25 years ago, the detective on the case has claimed. Teresa Swann Marketing Operations Manager Carbondale, Colorado, United States 477 followers 476 connections Join to view profile Exclusive Resorts About Marketing professional experienced in. involved in all of our interviews [that] they have their own policy that they dont record their interviews. So he provides these little details in his clue that are kind of vague, they dont really give you anything substantial: theres no last name, theres no real physical [description], theres no residence, nothing. Previously, I worked in the legal field as a secretary/bookkeeper. Voletta Wallace was horrified. Knight is having a tougher time. Swann Theresa is on Facebook. "[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. I had no idea there were such powerful forces involved in all of this.. Greg Kading: No, I dont believe that. Kevin McClure with the blessing of brand-new LAPD Chief Charlie Beck. Autopsy Report Released", "Nas Interview: Tupac, B.I.G. Find Teresa Swann's phone number, address, and email on Spokeo, the leading online directory for contact information. He came on early, he was claiming that Suge had tried to hire him to get some guns, and some other Suge associates were gonna go do the murder. They included: In one snippet, Kading was made to sound as if he had helped Del Real's brother, Albert, evade spousal-abuse charges. Not only did Suge love Tupac, but he was his money maker. That stuff gets purged out. 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? 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. Mack and Muhammad (a.k.a. Two minutes later, a dark-colored 19941996 Chevrolet Impala SS pulled up alongside Wallace's Suburban. He says his supervisors quietly informed him that he could take any assignment he wanted but was being removed from the Biggie Smalls murder case while a secret Internal Affairs investigation was conducted into his actions in the Numero Uno case. View Teressa Swann results including current phone number, address, relatives, background check report, and property record with Whitepages. 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. 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. Do you accept Eugene Deals identification of Amir as being credible? Kading is working on a new podcast and documentary about former rogue cop Christopher Dorner called Fury And Flames. 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. [7] Wallace traveled in the front passenger seat alongside his associates Damion "D-Roc" Butler, Junior M.A.F.I.A. We put her in a corner to make those hard decisions, he said. Voletta Wallace once told Rolling Stone that, before she learned of Detective Poole's conspiracy theory, I trusted the Los Angeles Police Department. Immediately following the shooting, reports surfaced linking Wallace's murder with that of Shakur's six months earlier, due to similarities in the drive-by shootings and the highly publicized East CoastWest Coast hip hop feud, of which Shakur and Wallace had been central figures. Suge was in county jail and used Swann to make the solicitation and get at Biggie. Sean Combs traveled in the other vehicle with Eugene "Gene" Deal, Tone, Stevie J and driver Kenny. Kading is working on a new podcast and documentary about former rogue cop Christopher Dorner called Fury And Flames. Previous Next. 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. Like I never saw him before. 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. 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.. 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]. Respected Robbery-Homicide Detective Russell Poole, who inherited the Biggie Smalls case from the Wilshire Division a month after the rapper was shot, had developed a growing suspicion that a handful of rogue cops, taking orders from Suge Knight, were accomplices in Smalls' murder and that corrupt LAPD officials, under then-Chief Bernard Parks, had rushed to cover their bloody trail. 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. 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. DX: So who do you believe was that lone person in that car who did the shooting? Once now all of the truth comes out on all the people who did 'Pac wrong, we still gotta be back on that mission.. And thats where the solicitation and the conspiracy was fostered. heirs sue LAPD, officials, city", "Notorious B.I.G. 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? 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 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]. There was never a last name or anything else connected to it. This service is provided on News Group Newspapers' Limited's Standard Terms and Conditions in accordance with our Privacy & Cookie Policy. She was just a train wreck, Detective Kading tells the Weekly. Theresa used to live at 5 Hope St, North Attleborough, MA 02760. 679215 Registered office: 1 London Bridge Street, London, SE1 9GF. Suge was in county jail and used Swann to make the solicitation and get at Biggie. so yes I can name a much better trio like 10 more," added another . What evidence in addition to her statements, besides just you mentioned the I.D. Once Swann admitted her participation in the murder conspiracy, the FBI tried to use her to draw a confession from Knight. Speaking on the 25th anniversary of Biggie's death, Kading told The Sun: Suge indirectly told Poochie to kill Biggie through Swann. Searight declined to comment to the Weekly. Once she had finished reading it, Kading says, Swann whispered, That's right. LAWeekly Instagram: Featuring the culture of LA since 1978 , Relationship with the Victim* 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.
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