Greg Kading: No, I never did actually. Kadings force strategically manipulated Swann into an interview as she faced other criminal charges. [25] John Cook of Brill's Content noted that Philips' article "demolished"[24] the Poole-Sullivan theory of Wallace's murder. But it wouldn't last. 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. of him on video, so sorry if I misrepresented that. Theresa L Swann was born on month day 1933, at birth place, Vermont, to Loranger. Keffe D's and Theresa Swann's confessions were stunning but in no way sudden. Kading's big break came in 2003, when he was assigned to a task force of federal and local officers investigating George Torres, Numero Uno supermarket magnate and an alleged drug kingpin. Sullivan, in response, quoted the lead attorney of the Wallace estate calling the newspaper "a co-conspirator in the cover-up. Suges criminal instincts kept him from taking the bait when she raised Biggies death. Read the response from Voletta Wallace's attorney. Select the best result to find their address, phone number, relatives, and public records. Detective Poole traded his job to pursue a labyrinth of failed litigation against LAPD. 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. The law was only a deterrent if someone was stupid enough to get caught. Its a conflict of interest for us to go and try to compare notes or have conversations. Read about the Internal Affairs report clearing Kading's name in the George Torres case. So detectives took a different approach. Swanns lawyer secured her prosecution immunity for attempting to get Knights admission deal and she has stayed silent ever since. 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. When you see that the foundation of his theory implodes cause it was all based on this very arbitrary clue from a jailhouse informant that I think weve disproven once that foundation falls apart the whole Amir Muhammad thing, the whole David Mack thing, the whole thing is irrelevant. Ms. Wallaces belief that former L.A.P.D. 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. 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. 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. All Im trying to say here is that, that I.D., the video I.D. McClure says it was his decision to shelve the case, and the Beck administration merely went along. And then later on when the detectives come back, he incorporates Eugene Deals details into his own statement. It may be hard to understand that sum for taking someones life, but to those guys it was a different mentality.. As a result of the newly discovered evidence, the judge declared a mistrial and awarded the Wallace family its attorneys' fees. 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. Not only had the Shakur and Smalls investigations hit dead ends, he says, but McClure needed his elite detectives for more pressing matters. "[23] The story cleared Muhammad's name.[21][24]. Kevin McClure with the blessing of brand-new LAPD Chief Charlie Beck. Journalist Randall Sullivan devoted both a sprawling Rolling Stone article and a popular novel to Poole's allegations. She could either go to jail or tell us what she knew about the murder. I dont believe that at all. DX: And I understand you had her read a faked confession from Poochie, who was already deceased? 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. Harry Billups (suspected shooter by, This page was last edited on 25 February 2023, at 20:52. [in Biggie & Tupac] where [Nick Broomfield] gets up and Eugene Deal points at [a photo of Amir Muhammad in a lineup], theres a lot of problems with that legally, and the way that it was developed. Advertising disclosure: We may receive compensation for some of the links in our stories. I have no problems with Greg, McClure says. 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. Also, the U.S. Attorney's Office redacted everything in Kading's journals that was not pertinent to Torres, but the defense found blacked-out entries that did relate to Torres. 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. Swann wore a body-wire during a meet with Suge, now out of prison, which ended in failure. SpouseParentChildSiblingFamily memberOther, Sweet James has my permission to help provide a free police report, Tupac Shakur; Credit: PHOTO COPYRIGHT NEWSCOM, Ciel Spa aka @CielSpaBH located the SLS Hotel i, Welcoming over 100,000 people every year, what beg, The holiday season is a time of giving! . ", "Biggie Told Interviewer He Worried About Safety". Do you accept Eugene Deals identification of Amir as being credible? Kading explains to the Weekly that it was an innocent use of words, played wildly out of context. Poole's theory quickly gained solid ground in high places, and motivated Voletta Wallace to sue LAPD in federal court. Greg Kading: Yeah, we have Theres we We had a good case. Kading says he never got the chance to clear up the confusion because he was never called to testify. Swann broke down in tears and gave detectives the story in her own words: Knight, reeling from Shakur's death, ended up giving her $13,000 to pay Poochie for a revenge hit on Smalls, according to LAPD documents reviewed by L.A. Weekly. Because, the bottom of thats already been taken out and refuted. I had to prioritize and it's not like I had unlimited resources.. He had previously testified to knowledge of involvement between Knight, Mack, and Muhammed, but later said that the Wallace attorneys had altered his declarations to include words he never said. Kading's job was to look into several murders possibly connected to Torres. [7] Wallace traveled in the front passenger seat alongside his associates Damion "D-Roc" Butler, Junior M.A.F.I.A. 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. 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. In April 2009, a jury convicted Torres on 50 counts, including conspiracy to commit murder, racketeering and bribery. 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. to quickly search for other people with the same last name in the same cemetery, city, county, etc. Greg Kading: I do believe that. They remain secret as the murder case is active. 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,. . [21], Muhammad, who was not an official suspect at the time, came forward to clear his name. 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 would ask, and if anybody tells us, Hey, it was David Mack, well we would immediately draft up a report, [and] wed give that to the Internal Affairs division, which was handling the lawsuit against the city. Pat Gannon, called him into his office and told him, Allegations were made in the Torres case. Greg Kading: No, absolutely not. Found more than one record for entered Email. And, we were always recognizing because we had taken this to the federal investigative level including [having] the F.B.I. They had been shooting at each other, dealing drugs, stealing cars for their lives. And thats where the solicitation and the conspiracy was fostered. DX: Just out of curiosity though, did you ever converse with Russell Poole during your investigation? Most of Judge Wilson's key attacks upon the prosecutors did not blame Kading, even if much of the media coverage (including this paper's) tended to paint Kading as a villain. Amir? 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. But Kading says the big money was an official $50,000 reward being offered in an entirely different case that Smith knew something about. However, Kading says the cop who replaced him as lead investigator into Combs and Knight was a bizarre choice by LAPD brass. murder investigation. And you dont see that Eugene Deal brings up the fact that theres this guy in the parking lot who he identifies as a Nation Of Islam-looking guy who approached them that stuff doesnt get brought up until a second interview, at which time Lil Cease and Eugene Deal have had a chance to kinda compare notes. Voletta Wallace decided to withdraw her final lawsuit against LAPD in April 2010. "Notorious 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." Criminals are more comfortable affirming information than providing it. Swanns lawyer secured her prosecution immunity for attempting to get Knights admission deal and she has stayed silent ever since. However, as youll read in the book, there was a third person there, which was Suge Knights attorney, David Kenner. 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.. The man who shocked the Hip Hop world by challenging the seemingly solid theory put forth by Russell Poole regarding the murder of Biggie Smalls further raised eyebrows in his discussion with DX by refuting several previously established facts in the case, and even challenged one of the most convincing criminal identifications ever captured on film. It wasnt out of a desire not to talk to him, but because I was an employee with the L.A.P.D., with the city of Los Angeles, conducting an ongoing criminal investigation, and he was a witness in a civil suit for the plaintiff against the city of Los Angeles. The contact address for Theresa Kay Swann is 13062 Hwy 190 W, P O Box 1827, Onalaska, Texas, 77360 and contact number is 936-646-5253. . Theresa has been a resident of six cities, including Navarre, FL and Gulf Breeze, FL. Wrongful-Death Case Declared A Mistrial", "Lawsuit involving rapper death dismissed", Notorious: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Murder_of_the_Notorious_B.I.G.&oldid=1141591318, Short description is different from Wikidata, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, Amir Muhammed a.k.a. Though Kading spends a chapter attacking Poole's stubborn conviction that Death Rowaffiliated LAPD officers helped take out the nation's fastest-rising rap star, and follows many of the same leads as the Times, Kading's core criticism that the LAPD sacrificed justice for self-preservation tends to parallel Poole's. And I think maybe he was trying to help too much, as opposed to just being perfectly honest. Furious, Judge Florence-Marie Cooper concluded that the seizure showed LAPD was scrambling to conceal evidence relating to the Biggie Smalls murder. DX: Now, I dont 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 Knights nine-year-old daughter, Michelle? Greg Kading: Well, no, theres no I.D. Remember, theres a scene in there where theyve got these two guys in there that theyre interrogating, and they convince the one guy in one room that the other guy is ratting out on him, and then they start to that opens the door for them to then [be like], Oh, okay, well if hes ratting him out then Im gonna do it. Well, its kinda that same psychological technique that we use a lot in law enforcement. Kevin McClure, who supervised the task force as head of the Robbery-Homicide Division, confirms that he got approval from LAPD brass to dismantle the team. I had to believe that they wanted to find out who the murderer of my son was. This service is provided on News Group Newspapers' Limited's Standard Terms and Conditions in accordance with our Privacy & Cookie Policy. Wallace". 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. Suge told her to go see Poochie and take care of Biggie. They werent able to keep that identification clean. He says Swanns description confirmed and expanded on evidence his team gathered in their probe.