Do you accept Eugene Deals identification of Amir as being credible? Suges criminal instincts kept him from taking the bait when she raised Biggies death. 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,. 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. [32] Voletta claimed that the LAPD had sufficient evidence to arrest the gunman but failed to use it. It's nothing.' Kading is working on a new podcast and documentary about former rogue cop Christopher Dorner called Fury And Flames. 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. Rapper Nas felt at the time that Wallace's death, along with that of Tupac Shakur, "was nearly the end of rap."[10]. Its a conflict of interest for us to go and try to compare notes or have conversations. DX: Just out of curiosity though, did you ever converse with Russell Poole during your investigation? It was definitely necessary to follow-up on it, but it wasnt enough to build a whole theory around. Film 'City of Lies' Pulled From Release Schedule", "Mark Saylor dies at 58; former Times editor oversaw Pulitzer-winning series", "Man No Longer Under Scrutiny in Rapper's Death", "Informant in Rap Star's Slaying Admits Hearsay", "Hip-Hop Homicide "Worth More Dead Than Alive" Crime Library on", "LAPD launching new Notorious BIG task force", "Interview: Suge Knight paid Poochie $900 before killing B.I.G. He had been wrongly accused of the U.S. Attorney's errors, and he had already elicited two confessions that put him on the brink of solving Shakur's and Smalls' murders yet had been yanked from the case. 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. What evidence in addition to her statements, besides just you mentioned the I.D. Pat Gannon, called him into his office and told him, Allegations were made in the Torres case. 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. Theresa Kay Swann is a real estate broker in Onalaska, Texas with license number 351980. For other inquiries, Contact Us. [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. In Murder Rap, though, almost all of LAPD's informants are on the record. Detective Poole traded his job to pursue a labyrinth of failed litigation against LAPD. What real benefit does the LAPD have in closing the case when all it's going to do is create a negative public response?". Speaking on the 25th anniversary of Biggie's death, Kading told The Sun: Suge indirectly told Poochie to kill Biggie through Swann. Unsolved case Kading added: "Suge would have figured out she spoke, but the reality. Greg Kading: No, actually I dont. 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. After Philips and his editors mistakenly quoted from the faked documents, Philips was pushed out by the Times. 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]. 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. 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. [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. Greg Kading: Well, we dont know. By the time Kading was cleared of wrongdoing in the TorresNumero Uno case, the Biggie Smalls investigation had been called off. 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. Money that was immediate was what they worked for. Two minutes later, a dark-colored 19941996 Chevrolet Impala SS pulled up alongside Wallace's Suburban. Theresa used to live at 5 Hope St, North Attleborough, MA 02760. Not only did Suge love Tupac, but he was his money maker. 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. So much so, says Kading, that in July 2006 he was handpicked to lead the Biggie Smalls murder investigation. [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. He goes, Maybe its Kenny, or maybe it was Keke. So there were these four different names that that informant gave out. Kading also told Smith in a recorded phone call, It's always this way, man. First, do you believe Amir Muhammad was at the Petersen Automotive Museum the night Biggie was killed? I was involved in the criminal investigation. 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. 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. 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. We had very explicit orders that any developments regarding Mack, Perez or any other L.A.P.D. Find Teresa Swann's phone number, address, and email on Spokeo, the leading online directory for contact information. I have no reason to believe they were there, but I dont have any I havent seen the evidence that was in the civil case [brought by Voletta Wallace] regarding the L.A.P.D. But there's a perception out there and we're concerned that it might work against you in the Biggie case. In response, LAPD told The Sun: "The case is still open and Robbery and Homicide Division will not be commenting. The first thing he thought was, What the f*** are you going to be asking these questions for?, Suges defense was, I do not know what you are talking about.. But I dont believe that some guy in the Nation Of Islam was the shooter. so yes I can name a much better trio like 10 more," added another . 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. DX: So who do you believe was that lone person in that car who did the shooting? He says federal agents are prepared to relocate her if necessary, to assure her safety in the wake of its publication. I have to come up with the answers and tell you and then you just say, 'Yeah, you're right.' 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. So, Kenner shows up to talk to his client, Knight, he brings Swann with him, says, Yeah, shes my aid, and now it allows the two of them to sit down and talk, without any monitoring, without any overhearing and all of that. 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? He says Swanns description confirmed and expanded on evidence his team gathered in their probe. And so, we had this long discussion, and we said, Should we record this or should we not? And we came to the collective agreement that we wouldnt. 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. LAPD took nearly a year to complete its investigation of Kading. [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]. The law was only a deterrent if someone was stupid enough to get caught. Three years later, listening to the confessions fingering Sean Combs and Suge Knight, Kading felt he could almost see the finish line. We followed every viable lead that we had at the time and pushed it to the point where we needed something else to occur in order to move the case forward. 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. We are relying on her statement, but it is backed up by other people within Death Row, who were all trying to get $25,000 in untraceable funds for something Suge needed done. We were honoring that, and saying, Hey, if the F.B.I. Again, the defense attorney found out, and again, Wilson hammered Searight. No, I never got a chance to talk to Russ. While her real name has been mentioned online and in books, Swann has always shied away from the limelight. Swanns lawyer secured her prosecution immunity for attempting to get Knights admission deal and she has stayed silent ever since. I have no problems with Greg, McClure says. "[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. It was an in-person [meeting]. - 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). Found more than one record for entered Email. 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. 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. They robbed Suge on a personal and professional level. Greg Kading: Yeah, absolutely. View FREE Public Profile & Reputation for Theresa Swann in Punta Gorda, FL - See Court Records | Photos | Address, Emails & Phone Number | Personal Review | $100 - $149,999 Income & Net Worth 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.