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. After losing Biggie Smalls, he expanded his hip-hop empire newly titled Bad Boy Entertainment Worldwide to encompass the film, restaurant and apparel industries. Two minutes later, a dark-colored 19941996 Chevrolet Impala SS pulled up alongside Wallace's Suburban. This is for the best. Rapper Nas felt at the time that Wallace's death, along with that of Tupac Shakur, "was nearly the end of rap."[10]. 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. After Philips and his editors mistakenly quoted from the faked documents, Philips was pushed out by the Times. L.A. Weekly has verified her identity as Knight's longtime lover and business associate but has chosen not to reveal her. 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,. Theresa is potentially known by Walter G Swann, Walter G Swann, Walter G Swann and twenty-nine other people due to residence history. We were kind of bifurcated away from the civil investigation. But what Kading says happened next a series of shocking moves within the LAPD's upper ranks would lead him to question whether his superiors wanted the rappers' murderers brought to justice. I have to come up with the answers and tell you and then you just say, 'Yeah, you're right.' She's named "Theresa Swann" in Murder Rap for her own protection. 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.. They robbed Suge on a personal and professional level. They included: In one snippet, Kading was made to sound as if he had helped Del Real's brother, Albert, evade spousal-abuse charges. Detective Poole traded his job to pursue a labyrinth of failed litigation against LAPD. When Kading published a book about the case, he gave Suge's girlfriend a fake name: Theresa Swann. 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. [32] Voletta claimed that the LAPD had sufficient evidence to arrest the gunman but failed to use it. Money that was immediate was what they worked for. The Murders of gangsta rappers Tupac Shakur and Notorious B.I.G. I am a native Houstonian a city that I love regardless of our unpredictable weather. 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. Notorious B.I.G.'s killer 'shot him for just $14k & Suge Knight ordered Previously, I worked in the legal field as a secretary/bookkeeper. But the most important thing and Im not calling [him a liar], I think Eugene Deal is trying to help as best he can. NOTORIOUS B.I.G. 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 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. 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. If somebody thinks that somebody else has already let the cat out of the bag, its much more easier for them to [talk]. To see all content on The Sun, please use the Site Map. Theresa passed away on March 1 1999, at age 65. For other inquiries, Contact Us. Kading says they were all egregiously taken out of context, and LAPD's Internal Affairs appears to have agreed. Its like a ruse. Kading conducted Swanns interviews, but noted them on police interview forms rather than audio tape. The law was only a deterrent if someone was stupid enough to get caught. Former Detective Greg Kading Clarifies His Explosive Claims - HipHopDX 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. Greg Kading: Yeah, absolutely. Swann met with Knight in jail on more than one occasion. Read an updated list of characters in the Tupac and Biggie murder cases. 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. And this is their own policy that you can look into and probably verify. 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. Kading's job was to look into several murders possibly connected to Torres. 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. We have no idea who mightve been helping him. 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. Gradually, Kading says, all leads dead-ended. No, I never got a chance to talk to Russ. 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. Theresa L Swann in Vermont Death Index, 1985-2012. The Sun website is regulated by the Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO), Our journalists strive for accuracy but on occasion we make mistakes. 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. That stuff gets purged out. He says Searight decided not to call him to the witness stand because the prosecutor thought the defense lawyers would call Kading instead. Greg Kading: No, I dont believe that. Pat Gannon, called him into his office and told him, Allegations were made in the Torres case. [1] [15], The case came for trial before a jury on June 21, 2004. Keffe D is up against a wall at the time he fingers Combs for Shakur's murder. [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. Were precluded from having any conversations. Voletta Wallace decided to withdraw her final lawsuit against LAPD in April 2010. Swann Theresa - Facebook 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. Join Facebook to connect with Theresa Swann and others you may know. Kading planned to notify her last weekend that Murder Rap was going to print. 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: You believe he did the shooting himself? But it wouldn't last. Prior to leaving, the Los Angeles Fire Department closed the party early because of smoking and loud music. 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. ", "Biggie Told Interviewer He Worried About Safety". The law was only a deterrent if someone was stupid enough to get caught. 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. And Russell Pooles theory of course leads to the inevitable lawsuit about the police being involved because Russell Poole finds out that a guy named Amir had visited David Mack at the Montebello City Jail after his bank robbery arrest. I had to believe that they wanted to find out who the murderer of my son was. 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. LAPD took nearly a year to complete its investigation of Kading. 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? "[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. to not identify former L.A.P.D. Facebook gives people the power to share and makes the world more open and connected. Murder Case: Finally Time for Answers? So what Kenner had done was he brought Theresa Swann into the jail under the ruse of her being his legal aid. [36] The suit against the City of Los Angeles was finally dismissed in 2010. Smalls, a 400-pound Brooklyn native, was slain in a March 1997 drive-by shooting while rolling out of a star-studded party at the Petersen Automotive Museum in L.A.'s Miracle Mile. Mack and Muhammad (a.k.a. Not only had the Shakur and Smalls investigations hit dead ends, he says, but McClure needed his elite detectives for more pressing matters. According to that April 14, 2010, Internal Affairs report, reviewed by L.A. Weekly, Kading was not to blame for wrongdoing that caused Judge Wilson to overturn Torres' conviction. 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. Theresa has been a resident of six cities, including Navarre, FL and Gulf Breeze, FL. 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. . But Kading says the big money was an official $50,000 reward being offered in an entirely different case that Smith knew something about. Now David Kenner has what we call hes got privileged communications, because hes the attorney. 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. Greg Kading: Yeah, absolutely. DX: So who do you believe was that lone person in that car who did the shooting? 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. We know they're baseless, Greg, totally without foundation. Furious, Judge Florence-Marie Cooper concluded that the seizure showed LAPD was scrambling to conceal evidence relating to the Biggie Smalls murder. 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." The testimony from the star witnesses helped the U.S. Attorney's Office file a raft of charges against Torres, and hot shot Kading was the toast of the LAPD. Greg Kading: We believe its a guy named Poochie, who was a Blood affiliate of Suge Knights. So there were some problems in the development. Greg Kading: No, absolutely not. Much of the holes that youre gonna find in this is simply because there was nobody there to follow-up on the investigation once I got ripped out. Kading believes Knight hired Fouse to kill Wallace to avenge the death of Shakur, via his girlfriend, Theresa Swann. 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. Knight is having a tougher time. We wanted a million. In another stunning confession, detailed in LAPD documents reviewed by the Weekly, the mother of one of Knight's children, identified in Kading's book as Theresa Swann, breaks down in tears, stating that the former Death Row boss gave her the money to pay Wardell Poochie Fouse Knight's close associate and a fellow member of the Mob Piru Bloods to kill 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. On Monday (October 3rd), the LA Weekly published a jaw-dropping article regarding the revelations made by former Los Angeles Police Department detective Greg Kading in his just-released book, Murder Rap: The Untold Story of the Biggie Smalls & Tupac Shakur Murder Investigations. 163 (C.D. The whole Amir Muhammad theory we were able to refute. [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. 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. It was expedient for them to cripple the case in the interests of avoiding a potentially difficult prosecution. RHONJ: Teresa Giudice is part of an 'iconic trio' during her trip to Dubai Suges criminal instincts kept him from taking the bait when she raised Biggies death. 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. 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. The court directed the city to conduct a thorough investigation, which uncovered previously undisclosed evidence, much of which was in the desk or cabinet of Det. Which means, they dont have to talk on a phone, it means they meet in the attorney-client area of the jail where they can have full contact, non-monitored conversations because its attorney-client [privilege]. Kading describes the woman as a well-kept beauty in her early 40s with a slim figure and trademark hoop earrings although the stress of being one of Knight's ladies-in-waiting, through the rise and fall of his L.A. rap empire, had begun to take its toll, physically. Within weeks, despite 22 devoted years on the force, in a move the fiercely independent Detective Harry Bosch might pull in a Michael Connelly novel, Kading turned in his LAPD badge and walked out the door. Please complete the captcha to let us know you are a real person. View our online Press Pack. But, thats not how you conduct an investigation. Teresa Swann Marketing Operations Manager Carbondale, Colorado, United States 477 followers 476 connections Join to view profile Exclusive Resorts About Marketing professional experienced in. Deaths Were Nearly 'The End Of Rap', "Review: Rappers' deaths probed in 'LAbyrinth'", "Slain rapper's family keeps pushing suit", "Witness in B.I.G. Journalist Randall Sullivan devoted both a sprawling Rolling Stone article and a popular novel to Poole's allegations. In what seemed like an instant, however, Kading went from the top of the world to the depths of a very public hell. In December 2012, the LAPD released the autopsy results conducted on Wallace's body to generate new leads. For instance, have you ever seen that movie L.A. NOTORIOUS B.I.G. heirs sue LAPD, officials, city", "Notorious B.I.G. Now Eugene Deals looking at Amir Muhammad but hes also now seeing Cause you know there were two [sketches of the suspected shooter], right? 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 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. Kading is working on a new podcast and documentary about former rogue cop Christopher Dorner called Fury And Flames. 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. And we have these reports of Poochie doing these other shootings for Suge. We put her in a corner to make those hard decisions, he said. [21], Muhammad, who was not an official suspect at the time, came forward to clear his name. Theres no way to go, Well, who was the deputy on charge that day? Theresa Swann | Facebook ", 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 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? What real benefit does the LAPD have in closing the case when all it's going to do is create a negative public response?". Greg Kading: No, absolutely not. 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. 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. Swann wore a body-wire during a meet with Suge, now out of prison, which ended in failure. While her real name has been mentioned online and in books, Swann has always shied away from the limelight. However, the rap moguls accused of hiring them were still very much alive. Three years later, listening to the confessions fingering Sean Combs and Suge Knight, Kading felt he could almost see the finish line. Sullivan, in response, quoted the lead attorney of the Wallace estate calling the newspaper "a co-conspirator in the cover-up. He only gives that description after hes gone and talked to Eugene Deal. Teresa Swann - Marketing Operations Manager - LinkedIn LAWeekly Instagram: Featuring the culture of LA since 1978 , Relationship with the Victim* Murder of the Notorious B.I.G. - Wikipedia 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. About a year later, LAPD led by new Chief Charlie Beck chose to not make any public statement that its probe had cleared Kading, whose life was falling apart. Kading was branded a dishonest cop, as any Google search will confirm. DX: So you have proof of a money transfer? Theresa Swann - Address & Phone Number | Whitepages It's nothing.' According to the report, three of the four shots were not fatal. case says his memory's bad", "New Theories Stir Speculation On Rap Deaths", "Wrongful-Death Lawsuit Over Rapper Is Dismissed", "Johnny Depp's Notorious B.I.G. According to her, the solicitation was $25,000 and she gave Poochie 14 grand, clearly she kept the remainder. Theresa Swann We found 31 records for Theresa Swann in PA, LA and 16 other states. "The Sun", "Sun", "Sun Online" are registered trademarks or trade names of News Group Newspapers Limited. 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]. And, we were always recognizing because we had taken this to the federal investigative level including [having] the F.B.I. Facebook gives people the power to share and makes the world more open and connected. Including 662. . 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. [31] The case remains officially unsolved, despite a good amount of evidence being found. 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.