No, I never got a chance to talk to Russ. [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]. 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. Not only did Suge love Tupac, but he was his money maker. [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." to quickly search for other people with the same last name in the same cemetery, city, county, etc. The Metro section of the paper was opposed to running a retraction, but the business desk editor, Mark Saylor,[22] said, "Chuck is sort of the world's authority on rap violence" and pushed, along with Chuck Philips, for the Times to retract the article. to not identify former L.A.P.D. Greg Kading: Its what we call a ruse. It once served as the bullet-riddled headquarters of the now-defunct Death Row Records, run by Bloods with a strict policy of never talking to cops. 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. He was 24 years old. In April 2009, a jury convicted Torres on 50 counts, including conspiracy to commit murder, racketeering and bribery. Swann Theresa is on Facebook. 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. Kading is working on a new podcast and documentary about former rogue cop Christopher Dorner called Fury And Flames. heirs sue LAPD, officials, city", "Notorious B.I.G. DX: And I understand you had her read a faked confession from Poochie, who was already deceased? Immediately, the media including L.A. Weekly painted Kading as a rogue cop. But, thats not how you conduct an investigation. Kading recalls in Murder Rap that his direct supervisor, Cmdr. Two minutes later, a dark-colored 19941996 Chevrolet Impala SS pulled up alongside Wallace's Suburban. Kading says Sanders is wrong. Kading had properly handed his notebooks of interviews to the prosecution. Greg Kading: No, I dont believe that. Previously, I worked in the legal field as a secretary/bookkeeper. DX: Do you believe the shooter drove a dark-colored Chevrolet Impala as witnesses claimed? 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?". During the yearlong internal LAPD probe of his actions, Kading felt betrayed and heartbroken. So what Kenner had done was he brought Theresa Swann into the jail under the ruse of her being his legal aid. 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. After Philips and his editors mistakenly quoted from the faked documents, Philips was pushed out by the Times. Now chief of police in Montebello, McClure says Kading's perception is skewed. So no deputy or no prison employees gonna be able to stand there and listen to it. 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. And Russell Pooles theory of course leads to the inevitable lawsuit about the police being involved because Russell Poole finds out that a guy named Amir had visited David Mack at the Montebello City Jail after his bank robbery arrest. | music at popturf", "Notorious B.I.G. [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. Three years later, listening to the confessions fingering Sean Combs and Suge Knight, Kading felt he could almost see the finish line. Wallace's autopsy report was released to the public in December 2012, fifteen years after his death. The problem was we never got any. Voletta Wallace was horrified. Swann wore a body-wire during a meet with Suge, now out of prison, which ended in failure. involved in all of our interviews [that] they have their own policy that they dont record their interviews. In his confession, Keffe D takes the officers on a trip back to the night Shakur died. I am a native Houstonian a city that I love regardless of our unpredictable weather. Nearly a year later, in April 2010, when Voletta Wallace withdrew her lawsuit against the City of Los Angeles, what remained of the task force was quickly dismantled by Robbery-Homicide Capt. 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. [1] Voletta Wallace's attorney Sanders tells the Weekly that Kading's book does not meaningfully refute theories that corrupt LAPD cops were involved, and Sanders does not believe that alleged co-conspirators Swann, Knight and Poochie could have known Smalls was at the Petersen Automotive Museum party on the night he was gunned down. 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. Were precluded from having any conversations. In what seemed like an instant, however, Kading went from the top of the world to the depths of a very public hell. officer tied to Death Row, we had to make a special note of it and then hand that over. 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. 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. As a result of the newly discovered evidence, the judge declared a mistrial and awarded the Wallace family its attorneys' fees. There was never a last name or anything else connected to it. DX: So who do you believe was that lone person in that car who did the shooting? 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? 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. Money that was immediate was what they worked for. After losing Biggie Smalls, he expanded his hip-hop empire newly titled Bad Boy Entertainment Worldwide to encompass the film, restaurant and apparel industries. After speaking with a handful of gang members, Philips wrote a 2002 front-page article accusing Biggie Smalls of paying the Crips $1 million to knock off his West Coast competition. What evidence in addition to her statements, besides just you mentioned the I.D. 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. [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? Kading's reputation almost certainly will become an issue upon Murder Rap's publication. so yes I can name a much better trio like 10 more," added another . Thank you for supporting LA Weekly and our advertisers. - also known as Biggie Smalls -was killed 25 years ago in a drive-by shooting, Greg Kading, a retired detective, lead an investigation into Biggie's murder, Suge Knight is currently serving 28 years for voluntary manslaughter in a separate case, Biggie was shot in Los Angeles on March 9, 1997, aged 24, Suge allegedly set up Biggie's murder in retaliation for his friend Tupac's death, Tupac was killed in a drive by shooting in Las Vegas in 1996, Funeral cars filled with floral tributes for Biggie in Brooklyn in a farewell drive-by, Former detective Kading does not believe the LAPD will ever close Biggie's case, 1996 murder of his money maker Tupac Shakur, Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO). View our online Press Pack. What real benefit does the LAPD have in closing the case when all it's going to do is create a negative public response?". Former L.A.P.D. DX: You believe he did the shooting himself? 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. Though Kading is well aware of the litigation to which he's exposing himself by implicating Combs and Knight the wealthy Combs threatened to sue the Los Angeles Times over much less Kading believes that the story's bigger than the LAPD, and that if he doesn't share his findings with the public, nobody's ever going to know what really happened.. 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. I was sitting there pulling out my hair saying, 'Searight, defend my fucking honor,' says Kading. And on this surreal morning on Dec. 18, 2008, Keffe D is going to snitch. Kading writes in Murder Rap that his former teammates carried all of the team's hard-earned evidence to the LAPD archive room to collect dust. Kading did not know it, but his mother's plan was to drive south of the border to meet a boyfriend who was buying drugs, then smuggle the stash into California under the guise of a vacationing family. "Notorious B.I.G. Teresa Swann Marketing Operations Manager Carbondale, Colorado, United States 477 followers 476 connections Join to view profile Exclusive Resorts About Marketing professional experienced in. 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 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.. We put her in a corner to make those hard decisions, he said. Its a conflict of interest for us to go and try to compare notes or have conversations. 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. 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. 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. DX: And do you believe Poochie dressed up in Nation Of Islam garb? 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. 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. DX: Okay. So detectives took a different approach. Kading claims that while Poochie was looking to ingratiate himself with Knight, the record boss needed to strike back at East Coast gangsters for Tupacs killing six months earlier in Las Vegas. According to that April 14, 2010, Internal Affairs report, reviewed by L.A. Weekly, Kading was not to blame for wrongdoing that caused Judge Wilson to overturn Torres' conviction. Seated at the head of a long conference table in the DEA's chilly downtown L.A. offices on May 28, 2009, Swann stared at the false confession as if [Detective Dupree] had pulled out a rattlesnake and placed it on the table, writes Kading. According to the claim, Perez, an alleged affiliate of Death Row Records, admitted to LAPD officials that he and Mack (who was not named in the lawsuit) "conspired to murder, and participated in the murder of Christopher Wallace". 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). Kading now says the blame fell squarely upon the U.S. Attorney's Office and prosecutor Tim Searight. [3] Life After Death was scheduled for release on March 25, 1997. He had been wrongly accused of the U.S. Attorney's errors, and he had already elicited two confessions that put him on the brink of solving Shakur's and Smalls' murders yet had been yanked from the case. This is for the best. While her real name has been mentioned online and in books, Swann has always shied away from the limelight. After a 25-year career in law enforcement, Kading retired in 2010 and began writing his book detailing the three years he investigated the murders of The Notorious B.I.G. Kading says they were all egregiously taken out of context, and LAPD's Internal Affairs appears to have agreed. By 12:45a.m. (PST), the streets were crowded with people leaving the museum. Kevin McClure with the blessing of brand-new LAPD Chief Charlie Beck. [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. Greg Kading: I do believe that. The defense later obtained many older phone recordings on its own, and Wilson made clear it was the U.S. Attorney's fault. [12] The investigation stalled, however, and no one was ever formally charged. Poochie was not a guy who was afraid to go out and pull the trigger. 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. ", 2020 THE SUN, US, INC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED | TERMS OF USE | PRIVACY | YOUR AD CHOICES | SITEMAP, Notorious B.I.G. 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. 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. 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. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. Greg Kading: Well, we dont know. 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." 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. 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. It now appears that Kading was unfairly blamed by Judge Wilson and the media. So there were some problems in the development. Knight is having a tougher time. Wait a minute, I have a clue with a guy named Amir on it. It was a very loose connection. View Teressa Swann results including current phone number, address, relatives, background check report, and property record with Whitepages. On Monday (October 3rd), the LA Weekly published a jaw-dropping article regarding the revelations made by former Los Angeles Police Department detective Greg Kading in his just-released book, Murder Rap: The Untold Story of the Biggie Smalls & Tupac Shakur Murder Investigations. But Kading says the big money was an official $50,000 reward being offered in an entirely different case that Smith knew something about. 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? [14][15], In 2002, filmmaker Nick Broomfield released a documentary, Biggie & Tupac, based on information from the book. But Swann's reaction meant everything, especially because, in Poochie's staged false confession, Swann herself was named as a conspirator in Smalls' murder. 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. Suge told her to go see Poochie and take care of Biggie. 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. Kading conducted Swanns interviews, but noted them on police interview forms rather than audio tape. Sanders says he can't remember which LAPD official under Beck made this promise, but definitely recalls it being made. Prior to leaving, the Los Angeles Fire Department closed the party early because of smoking and loud music. This is a very key element, because its this clue that takes the entire investigation down that rabbit hole of Russell Pooles. In July 2009, under former LAPD Chief William Bratton, lead detective Kading was abruptly pulled from the task force. Theresa L Swann in Vermont Death Index, 1985-2012. When Kading published a book about the case, he gave Suge's girlfriend a fake name: Theresa Swann. 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. Do you believe that he didnt see what he thought he saw? According to her, the solicitation was $25,000 and she gave Poochie 14 grand, clearly she kept the remainder. Select the best result to find their address, phone number, relatives, and public records. Nobody ever had anything beyond that. Greg Kading: No, absolutely not. For Kading, as soft-spoken and level-headed as hip-hop cops come, finishing what he started and stepping into a potential legal and media maelstrom is the right thing to do. 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. Name: Theresa Kay Swann: Credentials: Real Estate Broker: Experience: 34 yrs: Complete Address: 13062 Hwy 190 W, P O . 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.. Greg Kading: Yeah, absolutely. Previous Next. He cited the prosecution's failure to disclose evidence to the defense, such as phone calls between Kading and Smith and between Kading and Del Real, as well as his police notebooks. Cal. If somebody thinks that somebody else has already let the cat out of the bag, its much more easier for them to [talk]. DX: Okay. [5] Wallace's entourage rushed him to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, where doctors performed an emergency thoracotomy, but he was pronounced dead at 1:15a.m. (PST) at the age of 24. I managed the case, I made the recommendation to my superiors as to what I wanted to do, had concurrence to do it and, I'll be quite honest with you, I'd do it again right now. Theresa L Swann was born on month day 1933, at birth place, Vermont, to Loranger. The Sun website is regulated by the Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO), Our journalists strive for accuracy but on occasion we make mistakes. 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. L.A. Weekly has verified her identity as Knight's longtime lover and business associate but has chosen not to reveal her. It's nothing.' 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. His wife had temporarily left him. 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. While her real name has been mentioned online and in books, Swann has always shied away from the limelight. [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. We have no idea who mightve been helping him. But there's a perception out there and we're concerned that it might work against you in the Biggie case. And hes like, Oh, shoot! Wallace cited that the reasons for the decision were not only the ongoing East CoastWest Coast hip hop feud and the murder of Tupac Shakur six months prior, but that security was simply a necessity for high-profile celebrity figures in general. She could either go to jail or tell us what she knew about the murder. 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. Had Los Angeles lost the suit, the city's liability could, by some reckoning, have risen to $500 million, the estimate of Biggie Smalls' lost earnings. While her real name has been mentioned online and in books, Swann has always shied away from the limelight. 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. Murder Case: Finally Time for Answers? Greg Kading: Yeah, we have Theres we We had a good case. Two months after Swann's 2009 confession that she was the paymaster in Biggie Smalls' killing, Kading was taken off the case because Internal Affairs had to probe his role in the Torres prosecution in which he was ultimately cleared. 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. However, the rap moguls accused of hiring them were still very much alive. The whole Amir Muhammad theory we were able to refute. Suges criminal instincts kept him from taking the bait when she raised Biggies death. 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. However, Kading and Daryn Dupree, an LAPD gang detective on the team, copied Swann's words in police journals. Gradually, Kading says, all leads dead-ended. Furious, Judge Florence-Marie Cooper concluded that the seizure showed LAPD was scrambling to conceal evidence relating to the Biggie Smalls murder. "The Sun", "Sun", "Sun Online" are registered trademarks or trade names of News Group Newspapers Limited. Pat Gannon, called him into his office and told him, Allegations were made in the Torres case. [25] John Cook of Brill's Content noted that Philips' article "demolished"[24] the Poole-Sullivan theory of Wallace's murder. But when Kading visited Voletta Wallace in Pennsylvania a couple weeks ago to hand her a copy of his book, he says she thanked him, saying it would prove very beneficial.. Hackie took full blame for filing a false declaration. And so when you have these guys and [theyre like], What did you see? He says that he heard that it was Amir, or Ashmir, or Kenny, or Keke. So when hes interviewed, and hes giving information to the detectives, he says this is what he heard, is that, It was a guy named Amir. It was a guy named maybe Amir or Ashmir. Hes not even sure. 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. He says Swanns description confirmed and expanded on evidence his team gathered in their probe. That article was later retracted by Times editors because it quoted FBI court documents that turned out to have been faked by a rap-scene gadfly. 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. In response, LAPD told The Sun: "The case is still open and Robbery and Homicide Division will not be commenting. Wilson publicly singled out Kading for making what appeared to be inappropriate promises of leniency and favors to the two witnesses. While her real name has been mentioned online and in books, Swann has always shied away from the limelight. Theresa kept the remaining $12,000 for being a lookout to give info to Poochie of Biggie's location when he was leaving the party. McClure says it was his decision to shelve the case, and the Beck administration merely went along. 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. And that something someone else coming forward to corroborate what we had didn't happen.. 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. LAPD took nearly a year to complete its investigation of Kading. Deaths Were Nearly 'The End Of Rap', "Review: Rappers' deaths probed in 'LAbyrinth'", "Slain rapper's family keeps pushing suit", "Witness in B.I.G. 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. Greg Kading: No, I never did actually. Detective Poole traded his job to pursue a labyrinth of failed litigation against LAPD. 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?". Kadings force strategically manipulated Swann into an interview as she faced other criminal charges. The Murders of gangsta rappers Tupac Shakur and Notorious B.I.G. 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.. What Poochie says, that's what happened.. By the time Kading had Swann in the hot seat, two other sources had pointed to Poochie (Fouse) as Smalls' probable killer. Estate of Wallace v. City of Los Angeles, 229 F.R.D. All Im trying to say here is that, that I.D., the video I.D. The son of an honest-to-goodness 1960s flower child, Kading may have been the most unlikely man imaginable to extract confessions in two seemingly unsolvable celebrity homicide cases. [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. For instance, have you ever seen that movie L.A. They robbed Suge on a personal and professional level. 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 ", "Interview: Former L.A.P.D. Eric Johnson's best photograph", "Rapper Is Shot to Death in Echo of Killing 6 Months Ago", "where biggie smalls was shot and killed in los angeles: the notorious b.i.g. 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. 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