She was just a train wreck, Detective Kading tells the Weekly. Kading now says the blame fell squarely upon the U.S. Attorney's Office and prosecutor Tim Searight. If Death Row didnt retaliate Tupacs murder then talk is that they are punk bitches for letting Bad Boy walk over them. It now appears that Kading was unfairly blamed by Judge Wilson and the media. [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. Nobody ever had anything beyond that. Theresa kept the remaining $12,000 for being a lookout to give info to Poochie of Biggie's location when he was leaving the party. 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. But there's a perception out there and we're concerned that it might work against you in the Biggie case. 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. Theresa has been a resident of six cities, including Navarre, FL and Gulf Breeze, FL. Kading is working on a new podcast and documentary about former rogue cop Christopher Dorner called Fury And Flames. 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. The problem was we never got any. 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. 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. 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. Kading conducted Swanns interviews, but noted them on police interview forms rather than audio tape. Two years later, Kading moved north, where he became a rising star at LAPD. Its a conflict of interest for us to go and try to compare notes or have conversations. [33], On April 16, 2007, relatives of Wallace filed a second wrongful death lawsuit against the City of Los Angeles. 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. 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. 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. If anybody that we talked to had any information on David Mack, we always made sure that was then pushed over into the civil case. Voletta Wallace's lawyer, Perry Sanders, tells the Weekly he suspended her lawsuit in part because she and the federal judge on the case strongly believed that LAPD was relaunching the investigation in full force. NOTORIOUS B.I.G. And then later on when the detectives come back, he incorporates Eugene Deals details into his own statement. Found more than one record for entered Email. Theresa L Swann was born on month day 1933, at birth place, Vermont, to Loranger. Greg Kading: No, Ive never interviewed David Kenner. Read the response from Voletta Wallace's attorney. In his book he says that she fronted alot of businesses for Suge to wash/hide his money. The suit also named two LAPD officers in the center of the investigation into the Rampart scandal, Perez and Nino Durden. She was 42 years old, and she lived in a house that Suge owned, with their young daughter and a . They remain secret as the murder case is active. Read 10 highlights from the Keffe D confessions. involved in all of our interviews [that] they have their own policy that they dont record their interviews. Knight is having a tougher time. In response, LAPD told The Sun: "The case is still open and Robbery and Homicide Division will not be commenting. 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." 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. 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. [1] 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. We know they're baseless, Greg, totally without foundation. 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. After losing Biggie Smalls, he expanded his hip-hop empire newly titled Bad Boy Entertainment Worldwide to encompass the film, restaurant and apparel industries. [33], The documents centered around interviews by numerous police officers of an incarcerated informant, who had been a cellmate of imprisoned Rampart officer Rafael Perez for some extended period of time. 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. If somebody thinks that somebody else has already let the cat out of the bag, its much more easier for them to [talk]. If true, this means the LAPD has only in the past couple of months revived the probe. 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 used to live at 5 Hope St, North Attleborough, MA 02760. While her real name has been mentioned online and in books, Swann has always shied away from the limelight. In response, LAPD told The Sun: "The case is still open and Robbery and Homicide Division will not be commenting. 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. Kading says Sanders is wrong. 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. They werent able to keep that identification clean. Theresa Kay Swann is a real estate broker in Onalaska, Texas with license number 351980. 679215 Registered office: 1 London Bridge Street, London, SE1 9GF. Sure enough, just five months after Keffe D alleged he'd watched his nephew, Baby Lane Anderson, kill Shakur on orders from Sean Combs, Kading's investigative team hit a second home run when one of Suge Knight's baby mommas fingered Knight as having handed her the money to pay for Smalls' murder. DX: Do you believe the shooter drove a dark-colored Chevrolet Impala as witnesses claimed? 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]. 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. 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.' 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. But I dont believe that some guy in the Nation Of Islam was the shooter. His explosive book details the behind-the-scenes failure by LAPD to bring Shakur's and Smalls' killers to justice. Former L.A.P.D. L.A. Weekly has verified her identity as Knight's longtime lover and business associate but has chosen not to reveal her. I tell them what I think and they tell me if I'm right or not.. 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. I dont believe that he was there completely alone though. This is for the best. Suge told her to go see Poochie and take care of Biggie. Greg Kading: Well, no, theres no I.D. Kading says that, in fact, he facilitated Albert's surrender to local cops and nothing more. [35] The Wallace family refiled the suit, dropping the state law claims on May 27, 2008. Poole's theory quickly gained solid ground in high places, and motivated Voletta Wallace to sue LAPD in federal court. Greg Kading: I would love to sit down and show you their actual statements, because you see that Lil Cease doesnt give that description in his initial interview. It took only three days to find Muhammad, who had a current ad for his brokerage business running in the Times. I had other cases: the Grim Sleeper, Michael Jackson. "[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. L.A. Weekly has verified her identity as Knight's longtime lover and business associate but has chosen not to reveal her name. Including 662. . [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. We were kind of bifurcated away from the civil investigation. 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. It once served as the bullet-riddled headquarters of the now-defunct Death Row Records, run by Bloods with a strict policy of never talking to cops. More recently, the film City of Lies was produced based on Poole's investigation and Sullivan's book, and cast Johnny Depp as Poole. McClure says it was his decision to shelve the case, and the Beck administration merely went along. 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. 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. "[19] The Wallace suit had asked for $500 million from the city. According to the report, three of the four shots were not fatal. The consequences were also overshadowed by the benefit and reward in their minds.. Kadings force strategically manipulated Swann into an interview as she faced other criminal charges. Kading recalls in Murder Rap that his direct supervisor, Cmdr. 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. But, thats not how you conduct an investigation. In his December 2008 confession, however, the tape indicates Keffe D will only be held immune from his admissions if none of his statements, including on Shakur's murder, are shown to be false. 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. 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. [9], Wallace's death was mourned by fellow hip hop artists and fans worldwide. in the early investigation did, was to fail to recognize that these two informants were in county jail together and were collaborating. But it wouldn't last. 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 officers helped coordinate the shooting of her son outside of the Petersen Automotive Museum in the early hours of March 9, 1997. DX: I read in the LA Weekly piece that Swanns interview wasnt recorded? Theresa Swann is on Facebook. Theresa was born in Long Beach, CA, daughter of the late John and Betty Dudley Holsenback. [15], The case came for trial before a jury on June 21, 2004. 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]. Shortly after Wallace's death, Los Angeles Times writers Chuck Philips and Matt Lait reported that the key suspect in his murder was a member of the Southside Crips acting out of a personal financial motive, rather than on the gang's behalf. Money that was immediate was what they worked for. Kading feels that the task force, as reconstituted under Beck, jeopardized the cooperation promised to the LAPD by Keffe D by turning over Keffe D's confession to Las Vegas police. Kading isn't certain what the remaining members of the task force did during the next year, from the time he was sidelined until the team was quietly dismantled by Robbery-Homicide Division boss Kevin McClure, with a nod from Chief Beck, in the spring of 2010. Wallace's SUV stopped at a red light on the corner of Wilshire Boulevard and South Fairfax Avenue[8] just 50yd (46m) away. He was 24 years old. Wallace's autopsy report was released to the public in December 2012, fifteen years after his death. LAPD higher-ups pulled Kading off the double investigation right when he was poised to drive it home, he says. However, Kading says the cop who replaced him as lead investigator into Combs and Knight was a bizarre choice by LAPD brass. As you will read in the book, I was pulled off the task force shortly after her confession and I never got a chance to do all the follow-up stuff that needed to be done. 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.. [27][28] Retired LAPD detective Greg Kading, who worked for three years on a gang task force that included the Wallace case, alleged that the rapper was shot by Wardell "Poochie" Fouse. He says Swanns description confirmed and expanded on evidence his team gathered in their probe. 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. I had to prioritize and it's not like I had unlimited resources.. The team's official mission was solving Biggie Smalls' murder, while Shakur's murder case was under the jurisdiction of Las Vegas police. 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.