Greg Kading: No, Ive never interviewed David Kenner. View Teresa Swann results including current phone number, address, relatives, background check report, and property record with Whitepages. 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. Greg Kading: No, I never did actually. Swann wore a body-wire during a meet with Suge, now out of prison, which ended in failure. Respected Robbery-Homicide Detective Russell Poole, who inherited the Biggie Smalls case from the Wilshire Division a month after the rapper was shot, had developed a growing suspicion that a handful of rogue cops, taking orders from Suge Knight, were accomplices in Smalls' murder and that corrupt LAPD officials, under then-Chief Bernard Parks, had rushed to cover their bloody trail. 163 (C.D. They robbed Suge on a personal and professional level. She had been a resident . 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. officers (and affiliates of then CEO of Death Row Records, Marion Suge Knight) David Mack and Rafael Perez directed the godfather of Macks children, Amir Muhammad, in the shooting death of her son stemmed from initial investigating done by former L.A.P.D. 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. We put her in a corner to make those hard decisions, he said. 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. As a matter of fact, we did the exact opposite. [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]. That stuff gets purged out. Greg Kading: No, I dont, actually. Swanns lawyer secured her prosecution immunity for attempting to get Knights admission deal and she has stayed silent ever since. 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. The law was only a deterrent if someone was stupid enough to get caught. 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.. In the three years he worked that case, he was keeping tabs on Smith and Del Real in preparation for Torres' trial in 2009. To inquire about a licence to reproduce material, visit our Syndication site. DX: And, ultimately you believe Biggies mother is mistaken in her apparent loyalty to Russell Pooles original theory that Amir Muhammad murdered her son at the direction of former L.A.P.D. The LAPD retiree is hoping that, despite the lawsuits he will potentially face for accusing Sean Combs and Suge Knight in Murder Rap, the high-profile probe he began and wanted so desperately to finish will finally get its day in court. LAPD higher-ups pulled Kading off the double investigation right when he was poised to drive it home, he says. Previously, I worked in the legal field as a secretary/bookkeeper. 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. 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. But, thats not how you conduct an investigation. [12] The investigation stalled, however, and no one was ever formally charged. 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. But it never happened.. Prior to leaving, the Los Angeles Fire Department closed the party early because of smoking and loud music. 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: I would love to sit down and show you their actual statements, because you see that Lil Cease doesnt give that description in his initial interview. DX: Okay. 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. 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. Including 662. . Suges criminal instincts kept him from taking the bait when she raised Biggies death. [5] The accuracy of the article was later challenged in a letter by the Assistant Managing Editor of the Los Angeles Times, who accused Sullivan of using "shoddy tactics." Suge is not an idiot, but a criminally sophisticated guy, "If you know someone is working with law enforcement and you go out and do something to them - who is their number one target now?". It was described by The New York Times as "one of the longest running and most contentious celebrity cases in history. But it wouldn't last. 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. They were the fruit of an intensive investigation by a special task force of LAPD officers plus agents from the Drug Enforcement Agency and Federal Bureau of Investigation that had begun years earlier, in May 2006. In his confession, Keffe D takes the officers on a trip back to the night Shakur died. "[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. The following evening, March 8, he and the Bad Boy Records entourage attended an after-party hosted by Vibe magazine and Qwest Records at the Petersen Automotive Museum set up by Kidada Jones in the Carthay Circle community of Los Angeles. Combs may take heat for these new revelations or he may not. In what seemed like an instant, however, Kading went from the top of the world to the depths of a very public hell. Kevin McClure with the blessing of brand-new LAPD Chief Charlie Beck. Kading conducted Swanns interviews, but noted them on police interview forms rather than audio tape. Aiken - Ms. Theresa H. "Teri" Swann, 62, passed away Tuesday, December 6, 2022. 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. Theresa Swann is on Facebook. In Murder Rap, though, almost all of LAPD's informants are on the record. 104 records for Teresa Swann. It took only three days to find Muhammad, who had a current ad for his brokerage business running in the Times. Keffe D places himself in the passenger seat of the old white Cadillac that famously pulled up, full of Crips, on the right side of the BMW carrying Shakur and Knight toward a club just off the Vegas Strip. Theresa L Swann in Vermont Death Index, 1985-2012. 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. As his net worth has skyrocketed to nearly $500 million, his image has softened at the same rate: He's a mentor to tween heartthrob Justin Bieber and an MTV reality-show regular. This is not the first time a gangster has done business at this Beverly Hills office building. DX: You believe he did the shooting himself? And so when you have these guys and [theyre like], What did you see? However, Chuck Philips, a staff writer for the Business section of the Times, searched for Muhammad, whom the Metro reporters could not find for comment. 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. officers in your findings as having been part of the Biggie Smalls murder plot? member Lil' Cease, and driver Gregory "G-Money" Young. [4] The next morning Wallace was scheduled to go to London but this did not happen. Greg Kading: Well, we dont know. so yes I can name a much better trio like 10 more," added another . The consequences were also overshadowed by the benefit and reward in their minds.. [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. Kading says they were all egregiously taken out of context, and LAPD's Internal Affairs appears to have agreed. 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. In a taped confession fully reviewed by L.A. Weekly, Keffe D says, [Combs] took me downstairs and he's like, 'Man, I want to get rid of them dudes.' Just as investigators had done with Keffe D, they tracked Swann (again, not her real name) until they had gathered enough evidence against her to put her away for other crimes to motivate her to talk. His [given name is] Wardell Fouse. Read the response from Voletta Wallace's attorney. 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. 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. to not identify former L.A.P.D. Kading is working on a new podcast and documentary about former rogue cop Christopher Dorner called Fury And Flames. In his book he says that she fronted alot of businesses for Suge to wash/hide his money. They included: In one snippet, Kading was made to sound as if he had helped Del Real's brother, Albert, evade spousal-abuse charges. 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. Greg Kading: Well, no, theres no I.D. 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. Kading recalls in Murder Rap that his direct supervisor, Cmdr. 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.. 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]. Sean Combs traveled in the other vehicle with Eugene "Gene" Deal, Tone, Stevie J and driver Kenny. 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.. According to her, the solicitation was $25,000 and she gave Poochie 14 grand, clearly she kept the remainder. The suit also named two LAPD officers in the center of the investigation into the Rampart scandal, Perez and Nino Durden. 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.. It was an in-person [meeting]. 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. 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. Without his years of nuanced insight into the vast array of characters involved, he says, the investigation began to peter out as he watched helplessly. They had been shooting at each other, dealing drugs, stealing cars for their lives. In December 2012, the LAPD released the autopsy results conducted on Wallace's body to generate new leads. [9], Wallace's death was mourned by fellow hip hop artists and fans worldwide. [34], United States District Judge Florence-Marie Cooper granted summary judgment to the city on December 17, 2007, finding that the Wallace family had not complied with a California law that required the family to give notice of its claim to the State within six months of Wallace's death. 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. Reach the writers at [emailprotected] and [emailprotected].