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. Facebook gives people the power to share and makes the world more open and connected. 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. However, Kading and Daryn Dupree, an LAPD gang detective on the team, copied Swann's words in police journals. [21] In a correction article written by Philips in May 2000, Muhammad was quoted as saying, "I'm a mortgage broker, not a murderer" and asking, "How can something so completely false end up on the front page of a major newspaper? 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! 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. [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. Because, the whole six-pack [photo lineup shown to Deal], the whole identification, the whole thing became corrupted. This is a very key element, because its this clue that takes the entire investigation down that rabbit hole of Russell Pooles. However, he mentions this Amir/Ashmir/Kenny/Keke guy is supposedly a Nation Of Islam guy, and maybe he was a Crip affiliate or maybe a Crip, and hes a hit-man. Kading also told Smith in a recorded phone call, It's always this way, man. Money that was immediate was what they worked for. Cal. DX: Well, Russell Pooles theory got a little bit more solidified in Nick Broomfields Biggie & Tupac documentary, when former Bad Boy Records bodyguard Eugene Deal identified Amir Muhammad as being present at the Petersen Automotive Museum that night, and that Amir actually approached Diddy first in a possible attempt to shoot him. 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. 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. But there's a perception out there and we're concerned that it might work against you in the Biggie case. Trust me, if theres anybody that I wanted to be guilty, it was David Mack. But Searight had guessed wrong the defense never called on Kading, who was forced to sit silently while the attacks on him in court piled up. 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. Voletta Wallace once told Rolling Stone that, before she learned of Detective Poole's conspiracy theory, I trusted the Los Angeles Police Department. But investigators are like softball parents: Their kid is always better than your kid. officers helped coordinate the shooting of her son outside of the Petersen Automotive Museum in the early hours of March 9, 1997. DX: So who do you believe was that lone person in that car who did the shooting? 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. Suge was in county jail and used Swann to make the solicitation and get at Biggie. Aiken - Ms. Theresa H. "Teri" Swann, 62, passed away Tuesday, December 6, 2022. 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. They had been shooting at each other, dealing drugs, stealing cars for their lives. He says Swanns description confirmed and expanded on evidence his team gathered in their probe. 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. . They werent able to keep that identification clean. It was the right decision.. 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. We put her in a corner to make those hard decisions, he said. The team's official mission was solving Biggie Smalls' murder, while Shakur's murder case was under the jurisdiction of Las Vegas police. Sullivan, in response, quoted the lead attorney of the Wallace estate calling the newspaper "a co-conspirator in the cover-up. Speaking on the 25th anniversary of Biggie's death, Kading told The Sun: Suge indirectly told Poochie to kill Biggie through Swann. He told me where Biggie would be you know, that party at the car museum. According to the report, three of the four shots were not fatal. 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. And so, we had this long discussion, and we said, Should we record this or should we not? And we came to the collective agreement that we wouldnt. [13] The New York Times described Broomfield's documentary as a "largely speculative" and "circumstantial" account relying on flimsy evidence, failing to "present counter-evidence" or "question sources. And theyre trying to help, and its all honest, but they influence each other, and sometimes they taint each others perceptions. 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. Reach the writers at [emailprotected] and [emailprotected]. Thank you for supporting LA Weekly and our advertisers. DX: Okay. And this is their own policy that you can look into and probably verify. [21] The Metro section also ran a photo of Muhammad, identified by police as a mortgage broker unconnected to the murder who appeared to match details of the gunman, printing his name and driver's license. Theresa lived at address, Vermont. In fact, Beck's detectives were doing the opposite. officers in your findings as having been part of the Biggie Smalls murder plot? For instance, have you ever seen that movie L.A. Wallace's autopsy report was released to the public in December 2012, fifteen years after his death. 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." His [given name is] Wardell Fouse. Because, the bottom of thats already been taken out and refuted. In his book he says that she fronted alot of businesses for Suge to wash/hide his money. And that something someone else coming forward to corroborate what we had didn't happen.. Previous Next. But for Duane Keffe D Keith Davis, a shot caller for the Southside Crips, it now happens to be his lawyer's office. I tell them what I think and they tell me if I'm right or not.. 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. The gang culture has no regard for the law. She was just a train wreck, Detective Kading tells the Weekly. I need to qualify that, because it might look negligent if you just said, Well, he never talked to him. [25] John Cook of Brill's Content noted that Philips' article "demolished"[24] the Poole-Sullivan theory of Wallace's murder. Best Match Powered by Whitepages Premium AGE Theresa Lynn Swann Breinigsville, PA (Trexlertown) Aliases Theresa Lynn Shoemaker Theresa Lynn Senesac View Full Report Addresses 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). heirs sue LAPD, officials, city", "Notorious B.I.G. Read an updated list of characters in the Tupac and Biggie murder cases. They robbed Suge on a personal and professional level. We took her statement, it was reinforced with these other statements by these other insiders, and then the circumstantial evidence of the car, the money transfers, all of the things that happened [that] led us to believe that she was telling the truth. Greg Kading: Yeah, absolutely. The LAPD was trying to cover up the Biggie Smalls murder, not by protecting corrupt cops but by undercutting the ability of its own investigators to solve the case. Corrupt LAPD Officer David Mack, poster boy for the late-1990s Rampart scandal that would come to cast doubt on much of what LAPD said and did, lurched to the forefront of Poole's investigation after Mack was arrested for an unrelated $722,000 bank heist. Theresa L Swann was born on month day 1933, at birth place, Vermont, to Loranger. 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.. 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. 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. So much so, says Kading, that in July 2006 he was handpicked to lead the Biggie Smalls murder investigation. 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. 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. First, do you believe Amir Muhammad was at the Petersen Automotive Museum the night Biggie was killed? Kading conducted Swanns interviews, but noted them on police interview forms rather than audio tape. If true, this means the LAPD has only in the past couple of months revived the probe. I had no idea there were such powerful forces involved in all of this.. So he provides these little details in his clue that are kind of vague, they dont really give you anything substantial: theres no last name, theres no real physical [description], theres no residence, nothing. He says his supervisors quietly informed him that he could take any assignment he wanted but was being removed from the Biggie Smalls murder case while a secret Internal Affairs investigation was conducted into his actions in the Numero Uno case. Name: Theresa Kay Swann: Credentials: Real Estate Broker: Experience: 34 yrs: Complete Address: 13062 Hwy 190 W, P O . The theory was based on evidence provided by an informant named Psycho Mike[16] and the general resemblance of Muhammad to the facial composite generated during the investigation. 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. 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. Watch the video of Greg Kading discussing why he wrote the book. On the eve of the trial, a key witness who was expected to testify, Kevin Hackie, revealed that he suffered memory lapses due to psychiatric medications. 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. When Kading published a book about the case, he gave Suge's girlfriend a fake name: Theresa Swann. Not only did Suge love Tupac, but he was his money maker. 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). It may be hard to understand that sum for taking someones life, but to those guys it was a different mentality.. The piece was almost entirely based on anonymous sources. [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. I dont believe that he was there completely alone though. 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? Greg Kading: Yeah, we have Theres we We had a good case. The prosecution basically got caught doing something they didn't know was wrong, but the judge ruled it a discovery violation, Kading says. 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. DX: And did you interview David Kenner about this meeting? 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,. 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. Greg Kading: No, Ive never interviewed David Kenner. Kading is working on a new podcast and documentary about former rogue cop Christopher Dorner called Fury And Flames. For other inquiries, Contact Us. So saying that, we have no reason to believe that Perez or Mack were there. Theresa Kay Swann is a real estate broker in Onalaska, Texas with license number 351980. DX: Speaking of that initial composite, even [for] the first composite Lil Cease describes someone in a suit and bow tie. Greg Kading: Its what we call a ruse. About Teresa Swann. "The sense is let lying dogs lie and that is not likely to change. Now Eugene Deals looking at Amir Muhammad but hes also now seeing Cause you know there were two [sketches of the suspected shooter], right? In response, LAPD told The Sun: "The case is still open and Robbery and Homicide Division will not be commenting. 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. 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 is working on a new podcast and documentary about former rogue cop Christopher Dorner called Fury And Flames. Once now all of the truth comes out on all the people who did 'Pac wrong, we still gotta be back on that mission.. Prior to leaving, the Los Angeles Fire Department closed the party early because of smoking and loud music. This service is provided on News Group Newspapers' Limited's Standard Terms and Conditions in accordance with our Privacy & Cookie Policy. 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. officers David Mack and Rafael Perez? 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. Theresa lived in Saint Albans, Vermont 05478, USA. [14][15] The book stated that one of Mack's alleged associates, Amir Muhammad, was the hitman who killed Wallace. Gradually, Kading says, all leads dead-ended. We had very explicit orders that any developments regarding Mack, Perez or any other L.A.P.D. Suge was in county jail and used Swann to make the solicitation and get at Biggie. Blasts LAPD Over Autopsy Report", "Notorious B.I.G. I was sitting there pulling out my hair saying, 'Searight, defend my fucking honor,' says Kading. But unlike Keffe D, who accused Combs but had no lingering ties to him, Swann was historically loyal to Knight, her child's father. Kading says they were all egregiously taken out of context, and LAPD's Internal Affairs appears to have agreed. And I think maybe he was trying to help too much, as opposed to just being perfectly honest. Kading says Sanders is wrong. [12] The investigation stalled, however, and no one was ever formally charged. Teresa Swann Marketing Operations Manager Carbondale, Colorado, United States 477 followers 476 connections Join to view profile Exclusive Resorts About Marketing professional experienced in. Steven Katz, the lead detective in the Wallace investigation. that you believe was him on video, any other evidence in addition to that? I have no problems with Greg, McClure says. "[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. Three years later, listening to the confessions fingering Sean Combs and Suge Knight, Kading felt he could almost see the finish line. Not only did Suge love Tupac, but he was his money maker. Dozens of gang members from both sides died in attempts to avenge Shakur's and Smalls' deaths. In July 2009, under former LAPD Chief William Bratton, lead detective Kading was abruptly pulled from the task force. . LAPD took nearly a year to complete its investigation of Kading. It took only three days to find Muhammad, who had a current ad for his brokerage business running in the Times. 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. There was a real possibility that the suit would end up being among the most expensive the department had ever had to pay out, Kading writes in Murder Rap. [19], On January 19, 2007, Tyruss "Big Syke" Himes, a friend of Shakur who was implicated in Wallace's murder by the Los Angeles Fox affiliate KTTV and XXL magazine in 2005, had a defamation lawsuit regarding the accusations thrown out of court.[37]. Its a conflict of interest for us to go and try to compare notes or have conversations. 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. Theresa is potentially known by Walter G Swann, Walter G Swann, Walter G Swann and twenty-nine other people due to residence history. I had to prioritize and it's not like I had unlimited resources.. By the time Kading was cleared of wrongdoing in the TorresNumero Uno case, the Biggie Smalls investigation had been called off. What real benefit does the LAPD have in closing the case when all it's going to do is create a negative public response?". 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. Read the response from Voletta Wallace's attorney. Ms. Wallaces belief that former L.A.P.D. to quickly search for other people with the same last name in the same cemetery, city, county, etc. DX: Lastly in regards to the Biggie Smalls murder investigation, were you ever implicitly instructed by your superiors in the L.A.P.D. So what Kenner had done was he brought Theresa Swann into the jail under the ruse of her being his legal aid. 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. If Death Row didnt retaliate Tupacs murder then talk is that they are punk bitches for letting Bad Boy walk over them. Greg Kading: No, actually I dont. ", 2020 THE SUN, US, INC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED | TERMS OF USE | PRIVACY | YOUR AD CHOICES | SITEMAP, Notorious B.I.G. Greg Kading: No, absolutely not. Facebook gives people the power to share and makes the world more open and connected. The consequences were also overshadowed by the benefit and reward in their minds.. What Poochie says, that's what happened.. Kading had properly handed his notebooks of interviews to the prosecution. Once Swann admitted her participation in the murder conspiracy, the FBI tried to use her to draw a confession from Knight. [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. He only gives that description after hes gone and talked to Eugene Deal. What evidence in addition to her statements, besides just you mentioned the I.D. They remain secret as the murder case is active. The law was only a deterrent if someone was stupid enough to get caught. Theresa passed away on March 1 1999, at age 65. 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. "[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. 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. he came to Theresa to grab $400 to get out of town. . DX: [Were] there any eyewitness reports of this conversation by prison employees? ", "Sean Combs Ordered Tupac Murder: LA Cop:And Suge Knight had Biggie Smalls killed in revenge, says book by former LAPD detective", "Lawyer For Notorious B.I.G. The suit also named two LAPD officers in the center of the investigation into the Rampart scandal, Perez and Nino Durden. A half-dozen lesser allegations that irritated Judge Wilson mostly involved phone snippets played during the trial that implied Kading was making promises to Smith and Del Real to get them to testify. 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". That's what I meant. But it was Searight who decided not to give them to Torres' lawyers. L.A. Weekly has verified her identity as Knight's longtime lover and business associate but has chosen not to reveal her name. Join Facebook to connect with Swann Theresa and others you may know. 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. Greg Kading: We believe its a guy named Poochie, who was a Blood affiliate of Suge Knights. 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. 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. 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. involved in all of our interviews [that] they have their own policy that they dont record their interviews. HipHopDX: I wanna start off by asking you about the crucial elements of The Notorious B.I.G. Kading says that, in fact, he facilitated Albert's surrender to local cops and nothing more. It was definitely necessary to follow-up on it, but it wasnt enough to build a whole theory around. Her confession is summarized in an official LAPD report reviewed by L.A. Weekly: During one or more of [Swann's prison visits], Knight instructed [Swann] to help him coordinate the murder of Christopher Wallace. [33], On April 16, 2007, relatives of Wallace filed a second wrongful death lawsuit against the City of Los Angeles. Theresa Swann See Photos Lives in Eight Mile, Alabama Theresa Swann See Photos Works at Happily Retired Lives in Alexandria, Louisiana Theresa Swann See Photos Theresa Swann (Terri Shoemaker Senesac) See Photos Works at MTS Ventures Design and Manufacturing Lives in Breinigsville, Pennsylvania Theresa Swann See Photos So it came as no surprise that the brass wasted no time in putting together a task force to finally solve the 9-year-old case, find the killer, and hopefully exonerate the police in the process.. It's nothing.' so yes I can name a much better trio like 10 more," added another . [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. In what seemed like an instant, however, Kading went from the top of the world to the depths of a very public hell. [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. 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. 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. In April 2009, a jury convicted Torres on 50 counts, including conspiracy to commit murder, racketeering and bribery.
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