We put her in a corner to make those hard decisions, he said. In the three years he worked that case, he was keeping tabs on Smith and Del Real in preparation for Torres' trial in 2009. 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. But investigators on the special task force determined early on that the two cases were as inseparable as the street-gang rivalries that ran through them. 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. member Lil' Cease, and driver Gregory "G-Money" Young. 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.
Teressa Swann - Address & Phone Number | Whitepages 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. Now Eugene Deals looking at Amir Muhammad but hes also now seeing Cause you know there were two [sketches of the suspected shooter], right? Voletta Wallace was horrified. She's named Theresa Swann in Murder Rap for her own protection. This could be the result of his strict no-snitching policy, which would have prevented him from taking an informant deal to avoid the many years he has spent behind bars. 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?
Book: Puffy Had Tupac Killed, Suge Knight Had Biggie Killed - Gawker In response, LAPD told The Sun: "The case is still open and Robbery and Homicide Division will not be commenting. She was 42 years old, and she lived in a house that Suge owned, with their young daughter and a . What Poochie says, that's what happened.. Long before Kading stepped into what many believe to be the cursed unsolved mystery of Shakur's and Smalls' murders, a storm of rumors and news stories suggested that a few bad apples within the LAPD had been involved in Smalls' killing. [1] Retired LAPD Officer Greg Kading alleged that Marion "Suge" Knight, the head of Death Row Records, orchestrated the murder in revenge for the September 1996 murder of Tupac Shakur in a similar drive-by homicide by gunshot.[2]. 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. Swann wore a body-wire during a meet with Suge, now out of prison, which ended in failure. 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. Hackie took full blame for filing a false declaration. 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. He says he kept handing her tissues to sop up the mascara streaming down her face as she begged cops not to tell Suge Knight they had spoken with her. He says Swanns description confirmed and expanded on evidence his team gathered in their probe. Theresa has been a resident of six cities, including Navarre, FL and Gulf Breeze, FL. And on this surreal morning on Dec. 18, 2008, Keffe D is going to snitch. At age 13, he finally found it with the family of his best friend, whose father was a lieutenant with the Orange County Sheriff's Department. Greg Kading: Well, we dont know. Money that was immediate was what they worked for. They had been shooting at each other, dealing drugs, stealing cars for their lives. I was sitting there pulling out my hair saying, 'Searight, defend my fucking honor,' says Kading. Two years later, Kading moved north, where he became a rising star at LAPD. 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. Facebook gives people the power to share and makes the world more open and connected. He goes, Maybe its Kenny, or maybe it was Keke. So there were these four different names that that informant gave out. As a matter of fact, we did the exact opposite. The Murders of gangsta rappers Tupac Shakur and Notorious B.I.G. However, Kading and Daryn Dupree, an LAPD gang detective on the team, copied Swann's words in police journals. And if you look at the initial statements of Eugene Deal, and Lil Cease, if you look at the eyewitnesses statements [from the people] that were actually in the car, theyre very vague, and theyre very contradictory. Reach the writers at [emailprotected] and [emailprotected]. About Teresa Swann. She could either go to jail or tell us what she knew about the murder. Theresa lived at address, Vermont. 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. However, Kading says the cop who replaced him as lead investigator into Combs and Knight was a bizarre choice by LAPD brass. [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. Greg Kading: Yeah, and thisll probably sound a little bit suspicious to you, but working in these federal task forces all the different agencies have their own internal policies about interview protocol. 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.
Theresa Kay Swann in Onalaska, Texas - Real Estate Broker Theresa was born in Long Beach, CA, daughter of the late John and Betty Dudley Holsenback. The hit was allegedly orchestrated by Death Row Records boss Marion "Suge" Knight in response to the 1996 murder of his money maker Tupac Shakur and to maintain his hardcore gangster status, according to former LAPD detective Greg Kading. 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,. ", "Biggie kept saying: 'Is this where they dump the dead bodies?' In Murder Rap, though, almost all of LAPD's informants are on the record. 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. 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." Searight declined to comment to the Weekly. (Knight would survive that night's shooting with a bullet wound to the head.). 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. Now, in the pages of his potentially game-changing self-published book Murder Rap, set for release Oct. 4, former Los Angeles Police Department Detective Greg Kading reveals that LAPD has been sitting on extensive tapes and documents containing confessions from key players behind the alleged assassinations of Shakur and Smalls (Wallace). I was involved in the criminal investigation. A barrel-chested black man with a front tooth missing, relaxed yet instinctively cautious, is seated across from four spellbound cops in a glass-walled conference room at 8200 Wilshire Blvd. And we have these reports of Poochie doing these other shootings for Suge. Kading tells him on tape: Everything in this report has to be right on, because if down the road it's determined that some of these details are incorrect, then everything's off the table. Keffe D responds, Don't bullshit me, and I won't bullshit y'all.. In 1998 I found love in selling & promoting Real Estate by helping families sell or find their dream home! 2005);Reid, Shaheem (July 5, 2004). [3] Life After Death was scheduled for release on March 25, 1997. 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.. 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. He told me to tell Poochie to get over there and take care of it, you know what I mean?. 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.