- also known as Biggie Smalls -was killed 25 years ago in a drive-by shooting, Greg Kading, a retired detective, lead an investigation into Biggie's murder, Suge Knight is currently serving 28 years for voluntary manslaughter in a separate case, Biggie was shot in Los Angeles on March 9, 1997, aged 24, Suge allegedly set up Biggie's murder in retaliation for his friend Tupac's death, Tupac was killed in a drive by shooting in Las Vegas in 1996, Funeral cars filled with floral tributes for Biggie in Brooklyn in a farewell drive-by, Former detective Kading does not believe the LAPD will ever close Biggie's case, 1996 murder of his money maker Tupac Shakur, Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO). It was the right decision.. 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. 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. [5][13] In the book, Sullivan accused Marion "Suge" Knight, co-founder of Death Row Records and a known Bloods affiliate, of conspiring with corrupt Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) officer David Mack to kill Wallace and make both deaths appear to be the result of the rap rivalry. DX: Now, I don't 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 Knight's nine-year-old daughter,. We put her in a corner to make those hard decisions, he said. 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. Thank you for supporting LA Weekly and our advertisers. Greg Kading: Its what we call a ruse. I believe thats him, but you cant see him on the video so theres no way to really identify him. [9], Wallace's death was mourned by fellow hip hop artists and fans worldwide. That that seems a little I mean, why wasnt it recorded? U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007. . Kading also told Smith in a recorded phone call, It's always this way, man. Theresa Del Signore OfficialUSA.com Records Wallace's autopsy report was released to the public in December 2012, fifteen years after his death. Its a conflict of interest for us to go and try to compare notes or have conversations. This is not the first time a gangster has done business at this Beverly Hills office building. I was the commander over Robbery-Homicide, McClure says. So what Kenner had done was he brought Theresa Swann into the jail under the ruse of her being his legal aid. After losing Biggie Smalls, he expanded his hip-hop empire newly titled Bad Boy Entertainment Worldwide to encompass the film, restaurant and apparel industries. 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. Notorious B.I.G.'s killer 'shot him for just $14k & Suge Knight ordered ", 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. He says federal agents are prepared to relocate her if necessary, to assure her safety in the wake of its publication. 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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. However, he mentions this Amir/Ashmir/Kenny/Keke guy is supposedly a Nation Of Islam guy, and maybe he was a Crip affiliate or maybe a Crip, and hes a hit-man. 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. Greg Kading: Well, we dont know. Mack and Muhammad (a.k.a. 104 records for Teresa Swann. [32] Voletta claimed that the LAPD had sufficient evidence to arrest the gunman but failed to use it. Dozens of gang members from both sides died in attempts to avenge Shakur's and Smalls' deaths. 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.' They robbed Suge on a personal and professional level. in the early investigation did, was to fail to recognize that these two informants were in county jail together and were collaborating. 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. In Greg Kading's book murder Rap he refers to her as Theresa Swann. View Teresa Swann results including current phone number, address, relatives, background check report, and property record with Whitepages. DX: Just out of curiosity though, did you ever converse with Russell Poole during your investigation? While her real name has been mentioned online and in books, Swann has always shied away from the limelight. DX: Do you believe the shooter drove a dark-colored Chevrolet Impala as witnesses claimed? Its like a ruse. 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. She's named Theresa Swann in Murder Rap for her own protection. 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. so yes I can name a much better trio like 10 more," added another . The whole Amir Muhammad theory we were able to refute. Then they shut it down completely. 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. 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. Trust me, if theres anybody that I wanted to be guilty, it was David Mack. Theresa has been a resident of six cities, including Navarre, FL and Gulf Breeze, FL. Do you accept Eugene Deals identification of Amir as being credible? It was expedient for them to cripple the case in the interests of avoiding a potentially difficult prosecution. 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. They had been shooting at each other, dealing drugs, stealing cars for their lives. I have to come up with the answers and tell you and then you just say, 'Yeah, you're right.' 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. All Im trying to say here is that, that I.D., the video I.D. Voletta Wallace's attorney Sanders tells the Weekly that Kading's book does not meaningfully refute theories that corrupt LAPD cops were involved, and Sanders does not believe that alleged co-conspirators Swann, Knight and Poochie could have known Smalls was at the Petersen Automotive Museum party on the night he was gunned down. 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. 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. 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. ", "Biggie Told Interviewer He Worried About Safety". 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. . He was 24 years old. 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. While her real name has been mentioned online and in books, Swann has always shied away from the limelight. Teresa Swann - Marketing Operations Manager - LinkedIn 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. Swann Theresa is on Facebook. Corrupt LAPD Officer David Mack, poster boy for the late-1990s Rampart scandal that would come to cast doubt on much of what LAPD said and did, lurched to the forefront of Poole's investigation after Mack was arrested for an unrelated $722,000 bank heist. SpouseParentChildSiblingFamily memberOther, Sweet James has my permission to help provide a free police report, Tupac Shakur; Credit: PHOTO COPYRIGHT NEWSCOM, Ciel Spa aka @CielSpaBH located the SLS Hotel i, Welcoming over 100,000 people every year, what beg, The holiday season is a time of giving! To inquire about a licence to reproduce material, visit our Syndication site. Well, what did you see?, well then they develop their own perspectives on what happened. 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.. DX: Okay. Swann met with Knight in jail on more than one occasion. Feeling frustrated and betrayed, Kading resigned. Kading says they were all egregiously taken out of context, and LAPD's Internal Affairs appears to have agreed. 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. Were precluded from having any conversations. 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. Theresa Swann Profiles | Facebook So saying that, we have no reason to believe that Perez or Mack were there. However, Kading and Daryn Dupree, an LAPD gang detective on the team, copied Swann's words in police journals. Read 10 highlights from the Keffe D confessions. But for Duane Keffe D Keith Davis, a shot caller for the Southside Crips, it now happens to be his lawyer's office. [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. Criminals are more comfortable affirming information than providing it. We have no idea who mightve been helping him. Best Match Powered by Whitepages Premium AGE Theresa Lynn Swann Breinigsville, PA (Trexlertown) Aliases Theresa Lynn Shoemaker Theresa Lynn Senesac View Full Report Addresses [33], On April 16, 2007, relatives of Wallace filed a second wrongful death lawsuit against the City of Los Angeles. Poochie was not a guy who was afraid to go out and pull the trigger. This is for the best. We were honoring that, and saying, Hey, if the F.B.I. The Sun website is regulated by the Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO), Our journalists strive for accuracy but on occasion we make mistakes. DX: And I understand you had her read a faked confession from Poochie, who was already deceased? So it came as no surprise that the brass wasted no time in putting together a task force to finally solve the 9-year-old case, find the killer, and hopefully exonerate the police in the process.. 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. Under FBI policy, Swann's interview couldn't be recorded on tape, Kading says. However, as youll read in the book, there was a third person there, which was Suge Knights attorney, David Kenner. They remain secret as the murder case is active. Call it an obsession a curse, even. Previously, I worked in the legal field as a secretary/bookkeeper. And theyre trying to help, and its all honest, but they influence each other, and sometimes they taint each others perceptions. 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. 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. DX: Do you believe David Mack and Rafael Perez were at the Petersen Automotive Museum the night Biggie was killed, as was recently revealed to have been alleged by a former cellmate of Perezs?
