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. First, do you believe Amir Muhammad was at the Petersen Automotive Museum the night Biggie was killed? 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. Sitting in the backseat of the Cadillac, according to Keffe D, was his own nephew, Orlando Baby Lane Anderson, who got his ass kicked in the MGM Grand lobby earlier in the evening by Shakur's posse over a piece of Death Row bling that Baby Lane supposedly had stolen. Both Baby Lane and Poochie implicated as the triggermen by the team's sources for the murders of Shakur and Smalls had been shot dead years ago, casualties of Crips-versus-Bloods battles set off by the celebrities' slayings. Kading has no faith in the case ever being closed following Poochies death and the silence of Swann and Knight, who is serving 28 years for voluntary manslaughter after running down two men on a film set. LAPD took nearly a year to complete its investigation of Kading. member Lil' Cease, and driver Gregory "G-Money" Young. As a result of the newly discovered evidence, the judge declared a mistrial and awarded the Wallace family its attorneys' fees. 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. Harry Billups) were originally named as defendants in the civil suit, but were dropped shortly before the trial began after the LAPD and FBI dismissed them as suspects. 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. '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. I wouldve loved to talk to some of the other people on the plaintiffs witness list, but we just simply couldnt because the legal politics involved. View our online Press Pack. [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. 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. [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. Christopher Wallace traveled to Los Angeles, California, in February 1997 to promote his upcoming second studio album, Life After Death, and to film a music video for its lead single, "Hypnotize". 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? Money that was immediate was what they worked for. DX: I read in the LA Weekly piece that Swanns interview wasnt recorded? A later 2005 story by Chuck Philips alleged that an informant for the Poole-Sullivan theory, Psycho Mike, was a schizophrenic with admitted memory lapses who confessed to hearsay. While her real name has been mentioned online and in books, Swann has always shied away from the limelight. Join Facebook to connect with Theresa Swann and others you may know. Voletta Wallace decided to withdraw her final lawsuit against LAPD in April 2010. and Tupac Shakur from 2006-2009 as part of a joint L.A.P.D./federal task force that set out initially to solve the murder of Biggie Smalls in the wake of his mother Voletta Wallaces multi-million dollar lawsuit against the city of Los Angeles for allegedly covering up the fact that then on-duty L.A.P.D. 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). 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. So what Kenner had done was he brought Theresa Swann into the jail under the ruse of her being his legal aid. But it was Searight who decided not to give them to Torres' lawyers. Greg Kading: Its what we call a ruse. 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. [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. 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. Her name is Tammie Hawkins. "[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. 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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. Two years later, Kading moved north, where he became a rising star at LAPD. An LAPD spokesman insists in an email that the case is still active/ongoing but that no further information is available. 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. However, Kading says the cop who replaced him as lead investigator into Combs and Knight was a bizarre choice by LAPD brass. I had to prioritize and it's not like I had unlimited resources.. Swanns lawyer secured her prosecution immunity for attempting to get Knights admission deal and she has stayed silent ever since. 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. 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]. Wallace". 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. The piece was almost entirely based on anonymous sources. 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. More recently, the film City of Lies was produced based on Poole's investigation and Sullivan's book, and cast Johnny Depp as Poole. Once now all of the truth comes out on all the people who did 'Pac wrong, we still gotta be back on that mission.. It now appears that Kading was unfairly blamed by Judge Wilson and the media. 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. Suge told her to go see Poochie and take care of Biggie. As a matter of fact, if you look at that official video the YouTube video, theres several versions of it but theres one that says official if you really dissect that, which we did, I have absolutely no doubt in my mind that that is Poochie in his car in that dark-colored Impala. Theresa is potentially known by Walter G Swann, Walter G Swann, Walter G Swann and twenty-nine other people due to residence history. In 1998 I found love in selling & promoting Real Estate by helping families sell or find their dream home! Shortly afterward, McClure decided to jam a spike in the investigation, Kading says. But unlike Keffe D, who accused Combs but had no lingering ties to him, Swann was historically loyal to Knight, her child's father. 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. But Kading says the big money was an official $50,000 reward being offered in an entirely different case that Smith knew something about. 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. of him on video, so sorry if I misrepresented that. Select the best result to find their address, phone number, relatives, and public records. 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. Kadings force strategically manipulated Swann into an interview as she faced other criminal charges. officer tied to Death Row, we had to make a special note of it and then hand that over. Cooper declared a mistrial in Voletta Wallace's civil suit against LAPD and fired a stern warning shot at the department, awarding Voletta Wallace more than $1 million in legal fees. I have to come up with the answers and tell you and then you just say, 'Yeah, you're right.' After losing Biggie Smalls, he expanded his hip-hop empire newly titled Bad Boy Entertainment Worldwide to encompass the film, restaurant and apparel industries. Keffe D tells Kading on tape that his nephew leaned over, and Orlando [Baby Lane] rolled down the window and popped him [Shakur]. Later, he adds, If they would've drove on my side [of the car] I would've popped him.. It may be hard to understand that sum for taking someones life, but to those guys it was a different mentality.. 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. Greg Kading: Well, we dont know. Were precluded from having any conversations. Like I never saw him before. Everybody that we would talk to and bring that up and ask those questions it was always the same answer: Well yeah How do you know? Well, its what I read in the newspaper. Well, why do you believe that? I read it in the newspaper. So everything about those guys was stuff that was hearsay information. She's named Theresa Swann in Murder Rap for her own protection. Speaking on the 25th anniversary of Biggie's death, Kading told The Sun: Suge indirectly told Poochie to kill Biggie through Swann. Teresa SwannWoodfin - Teresa Cynthia Sehion Swann, 45, passed away Wednesday, January 4, 2012 at her home.She was a daughter of Barry Sehion of Oteen and the late Linda Gail Martin.In addition to her According to her, the solicitation was $25,000 and she gave Poochie 14 grand, clearly she kept the remainder. Dozens of gang members from both sides died in attempts to avenge Shakur's and Smalls' deaths. It may be hard to understand that sum for taking someones life, but to those guys it was a different mentality..