Read a transcript of Slow Burn: Season 3, Episode 8.
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In 2006, still under pressure from the wrongful death suit, the LAPD announced it was reopening its investigation into Biggie’s murder. The detective who recruited Greg Kading for that investigation told him thatthe department had nothing to hide—that the LAPD was willing to implicate its officers, if that’s where the evidence led.He goes, “We’re going to go where the clues go. Whatever it is, it is. If there’s dirty cops, fuck it, so be it. Let’s get ‘em outta here.
I recently spent two hours talking to Kading at his home in Southern California. We covered his involvement in the case from start to finish. Anderson’s uncle, Keffe D, had been nearby when both Tupac and Biggie were murdered. He’d been with Anderson that night in Las Vegas in September 1996. He was also at the Soul Train Awards after-party in Los Angeles the following March—the night Biggie was killed.He said he got to Vegas a day before his nephew Orlando Anderson showed up with two friends.So he then goes to explain how they went out there to watch the Tyson fight. Had no real intentions of getting into anything with anybody.
The next morning, they went back to L.A. And that, according to Greg Kading of the LAPD, is how Tupac’s murder went down.There is this kind of tendency to be like, “Nah, it can’t just be that simple.” It is that simple.Crips one million dollars The investigation didn’t go any better in the days that followed. It seemed to Cathy Scott that the Vegas police weren’t even trying to solve the case.I was told that it would be bad for publicity to have a case that high profile, um, involving a black rapper and in in Las Vegas, that it would be bad for tourism. So I don’t know. I don’t know. It was all, always stumped me, but like I was told it would have been bad for tourism, I don’t know.
Suge was consumed by Death Row’s beef with Bad Boy, just as Tupac had been. And he believed there was a reason to retaliate against Biggie.After Tupac was shot in Las Vegas, the rumors started to spread that Biggie had been in Las Vegas, and that Biggie had provided the gun, and that Biggie had hired the Southside Crips. And so now it looks like Biggie’s responsible for Tupac’s murder. And so, you know, that all added up to him getting targeted.
So we go and do the same thing again, build the case against her. I say, here, we need to sit down and talk with you and otherwise you’re going to go to prison for this list of crimes.Meanwhile, the task force was pursuing other leads. They came to believe that the person who pulled the trigger on Biggie was likely Wardell Fouse, who went by the nickname “Poochie.”
He drew up a phony statement, one that he claimed Poochie had made before his death. It said that Suge had hired Poochie to kill Biggie.We showed it to her and she’s just looking at it almost, like, mesmerized and her eyes are big. And she’s like, “Yeah, that’s exactly what happened.”According to Kading, Swann said she visited Suge several times while he was in jail for his role in the casino beatdown of Orlando Anderson.
Today, Kading lives with his wife in a comfortable home in the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains.And Kading has bad news for those hoping for convictions in the Biggie and Tupac cases.There will never be any judicial closure, in so far as anybody being prosecuted. And that is for most people unsatisfying.That’s Randall Sullivan, a journalist who wrote two books on Biggie’s murder.
The LAPD detective Russell Poole thought the department was covering up for Mack. He quit the force in 1999 and took his complaints public.Poole says he retired early from the LAPD out of frustration because of this case, saying the department didn’t allow him to pursue leads that involved other cops.I think, uh I was getting too close to the truth, I think they feared that the truth would be a scandal.That’s what prompted Biggie’s estate to file a wrongful death suit against the LAPD.
Sullivan remembers getting a phone call from Poole in August 2015. Poole had been invited to present his findings to the LA Sheriff’s Department, which operates independently from the LAPD.He’s really excited. He thinks that the Sheriff’s Department really is serious about you know reopening the case and looking at it from a fresh angle, and you know not being intimidated or distracted by the LAPD.
“Tupac was very political, and he said a lot of things that people didn’t really want to hear,” a college student told the Philadelphia Inquirer, theorizing that Tupac was hiding out for his own safety. Others speculated that Tupac faked his death for commercial reasons—that he “would sell more records dead than alive.”
Biggie and Tupac remain towering figures in hip-hop. Forever linked together, they serve as a cautionary tale for rappers, and a reminder of how quickly fortunes can change.CHEO HODARI COKER: I listen to music all the time. When I’m up late writing scripts for this podcast. Or walking to the office from my Airbnb in Bed-Stuy. Or just driving somewhere with my wife.
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