[Stephanie Frederic] Two of the biggest
and most iconic rappers of all time killed
on the streets of major cities.
And you still don’t know?
Come on.
You crackers knocked my man off.
[Randall Sullivan] The LAPD claimed that they’d just forgotten about this evidence.
It sort of slipped their minds.
They know who committed this murder.
The LAPD wanted the truth, and that was our task.
[Phil Carson] They know who orchestrated it.
It wasn’t about them crooked cops.
It was just some straight up gangster [bleep].
Period.
Take ours, we’ll take yours. That’s what happened.
What are you hiding?
You want to finally put this case to rest, then unseal these documents.
The information’s out there.
It’s time to get to the truth.
Tupac and Biggie are just as big today as they were 25 years ago.
It was 2012.
It was the night that Pac performed at Coachella.
And Dr. Dre and his tech team had literally brought Pac back to life.
And even though it’s a hologram,
you just really felt like that was Pac.
And you got a chance to experience him again.
And you know, when he launched into "2 of Amerikaz Most Wanted"
with Snoop, I mean, it was a moment.
[Snoop] Hey, yo, Pac, let these... know
what kind of party they’re in right now.
♪ Ain’t nothin’ but a gangsta party ♪
The crowd went nuts.
♪ Gangsta party ♪
We were talking about that for weeks after.
I mean, for weeks.
Hey, y’all, I wanna share this special moment,
special announcement with y’all.
Notorious B. I. G.
is going to be inducted into the Rock & Roll [bleep] Hall of Fame.
[Stephanie] Puffy was losing his mind about the fact
that Biggie was going to be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.
Tupac did it, and now Biggie.
It’s a major accomplishment for any artist.
Huge, huge for a hip hop artist.
Biggie, you did it!
You did it! Yeah!
That’s Puffy, the ultimate hype man. Still hyping Biggie.
[rapping]
He was just telling his story from our neighborhood and our block,
but the whole world identified with that.
He was speaking the language that people understood.
It’s just timeless music.
He was just that good.
It still means something to this day.
That’s why the younger generation today
is grabbing a hold of it, because it’s that impactful, it’s that powerful.
And this was the main reason why the case is not going to go away.
People want to know what happened.
What happened to Tupac? Who killed Biggie?
They want justice for them.
Las Vegas police classified Tupac’s murder as an open, unsolved homicide.
Yet investigators know exactly what happened.
Why haven’t police solved this case?
And why isn’t anyone being brought to justice for his murder?
Pow. Pow, pow, pow, pow.
[Stephanie] There’s so much controversies over who killed Biggie.
No one’s been charged.
No one’s been prosecuted for his murder.
I can’t think of any other situation
where you’ve had two big stars murdered,
and yet their cases remain unsolved 25 years later.
Voletta Wallace doesn’t call him Notorious B. I. G.
She calls him Christopher Wallace.
That was her only son.
This woman has been fighting for 25 years
for someone to tell her who murdered her son.
Biggie left behind two young children.
His daughter, T’yanna, was three years old when he was murdered,
his son, C. J., only four months old.
Biggie’s children, essentially,
lived their entire lives not knowing what really happened
to their father or getting justice for their dad.
She was not only fighting for herself,
she was fighting for her grandkids.
In 2002, she sued the City of Los Angeles for wrongful death,
alleging that dirty cops were involved in her son’s murder.
In 2005, that lawsuit had reached a critical point.
The judge was threatening to dismiss the case
if the evidence couldn’t be produced that the family claimed existed.
I just realized that what these investigators had done was wrong.
It was a violation of law to hide evidence.
So I went up to see the judge.
I gave her all that I knew.
And she said, "Do you have any indication
of where this information might be?"
And I said, "Look, I can’t guarantee it,
but to the best of my knowledge,
it’s in the filing cabinet behind Steve Katz’s desk,"
who at the time was the lead investigator
on the murder of Biggie Smalls.
Federal marshals, armed with search warrants, raided robbery, homicide.
They had to pry open both his filing cabinets, as well as his desk.
And included in this treasure trove that they found
were all of the interviews with Kenny Boagni and Felipe Sanchez,
it was all there, hidden away.
Both Kenny Boagni and Felipe Sanchez
testified that when they were in the county jail with Perez,
he confessed to being involved in the murder of Biggie Smalls
and participating in it... with David Mack.
[Kenneth Boagni speaking]
Little did we know at the time what dark secrets lurk
in the desk drawers of homicide detectives.
And little did we suspect that so many lies
would be told under penalty of perjury.
The LAPD tried to explain that they just forgotten about this evidence.
It sort of slipped their minds.
Well, the Judge found that laughable.
[reporter 1] The judge was concerned
that Los Angeles police officers
had intentionally held back evidence.
When the judge saw that every single bit
of what had been withheld involved these two very compelling informants,
implicating LAPD officers in Biggie’s murder,
she realized that, of course, they’d been hiding it, and...
and she ruled accordingly.
[reporter 2] The judge said that evidence was deliberately held back.
With all of the issues that LAPD have had in the history,
it is hard to understand how they continue to have the same problems.
But the problems do exist, which is a major concern for the LAPD.
[Stephanie] To believe that the LAPD would do something like this,
that here you have the cops to protect and serve
and to hide evidence, we just couldn’t believe it.
The judge fined LAPD $1.1 million and declared a mistrial.
[Randall] This was unheard of that the police department
sanctioned $1 million for concealing evidence.
[Phil] So why? Why were they hiding those documents?
If you’ve got nothing to hide,
then why are you going to the lengths
and the depths of hiding the stuff?
I investigated this full-time for just over two years.
And one of the reasons why I’m sure the civil attorneys
wanted me to testify on their behalf is because the evidence
that I had would basically show that the LAPD
was involved in orchestrating this murder.
At the City of Los Angeles, they did not want that to happen,
and they did everything that they could to stop it,
including specifically asking everybody at the FBI,
you cannot have Agent Carson testify.
Well, if they weren’t worried about what I was going to testify about,
why would you go to that extreme
about asking the FBI to squash the subpoena?
[Randall] For Biggie’s family and his mother, in particular,
who has been raising her grandchildren
in the context of their father’s murder for their whole childhood,
she did consider this judgment,
the sanction against the LAPD to be a vindication.
[Voletta] It’s about honesty. It’s about integrity.
It’s about making a wrong right.
Someone murdered my son and the LAPD knew all about it.
[interviewer] Do you think that the person
that is responsible for Biggie’s murder
is going to be arrested and sent to jail?
I hope to God. I hope so.
The mistrial declaration meant the case would have to start over again
and there was going to be a new trial.
Then the LAPD did something no one was expecting,
and it completely changed the course of this case.
[Stephanie] The mistrial declaration meant
that there was going to be a new trial.
Then the LAPD announces that they’re going to launch
a new task force to reinvestigate the Biggie murder.
[reporter 3] After being shot to death in LA nine years ago,
a new police task force has been set up
to find the person responsible for killing Biggie Smalls.
Whether LAPD was trying to save face
or whether they finally decided to take this case seriously,
everything was about to start over.
[Greg Kading] In 2006, I was asked to join a group of investigators
to take a fresh look into the unsolved murder of Christopher Wallace,
AKA Biggie Smalls.
I was a police officer for 25 years.
Most of the emphasis of my career was on gangs, narcotics and homicide.
I dealt with several high-profile cases.
So I had a considerable amount of experience dealing
with these more complicated type of investigations.
You know, I lived my cases.
And I’m not the easiest guy to supervise.
And so, if I thought there was going to be interference,
I would have just declined to take the case.
I asked, very directly, is our job here to solve this murder?
And I was told, "Absolutely, we’re going to go wherever the facts lead us."
You know, if it leads us down the road of dirty cops
and exposing them, then so be it.
That’s our job.
All Voletta and the Wallace family knew
for sure was that the LAPD had reopened the investigation.
And what Voletta told me was that she really hoped
and believed that the LAPD did now want to solve this case.
And that’s all she ever wanted was to see her son’s murder solved.
[Greg] I saw the volume of material,
what had been done in the prior investigation.
It was almost overwhelming.
You know, it was 97 four-inch binders,
and that was just the hard copies of the case,
not the digital files that had been comprised over the previous nine years.
[Greg] One theory was that Amir Muhammad,
in conjunction with David Mack,
carried out the hit against Biggie Smalls at the behest of Suge Knight.
Essentially, that Suge Knight had hired David Mack,
who then in turn solicited the murder from his friend Amir Muhammad.
But the whole Amir Muhammad theory is based
on the information provided by a jailhouse informant,
who admitted that he lied about it.
Greg Kading’s wrong.
I know what the truth is from my own investigation.
There were literally numerous informants who presented evidence
that implicated David Mack and Amir Muhammad
and Suge Knight in Biggie’s murder.
Amir Muhammad was linked to Death Row Records and Suge Knight,
not just through David Mack, but also through an informant named Mario Ha’mmonds,
who was associated with Suge and met Amir Muhammad
at a couple of Death Row functions.
[investigator] You know who Suge Knight is, right?
[Mario] Yes, I do.
[investigator] Okay. And how do you know who Suge Knight is?
[Mario] Through our association with him.
In Mario Ha’mmonds’ sworn deposition,
he states that he was present when Amir Muhammad and David Mack
met with Suge Knight here in Los Angeles, as well as in Las Vegas.
[investigator] And how did you meet Mr. Muhammad?
[Mario] In L... in LA, in Las Vegas.
[investigator] And was Mr. Muhammad with David Mack at that time?
[Mario] Yes.
[investigator] And is that how you know who Mr. Muhammad is?
[Mario] That’s the only way I know.
That is the only way I know.
We looked into all of these allegations
and came to the very definitive conclusion
that it was all based on circumstance, hearsay and misinformation.
We found absolutely no evidence whatsoever to link David Mack,
Rafael Perez or Amir Mohammed to Biggie’s murder
in any way, shape or form.
There was just nothing to support that theory.
And so now we’re just left with that remaining Suge Knight component.
If Suge Knight’s involved in Biggie’s murder, who would he have do it?
So we began to look closely at associates of Suge Knight’s,
people that may know what happened.
We have to look at a weak link in his circle of friends.
Find somebody, because we know Suge Knight’s not going to be
stepping forward and admitting to his involvement.
And we had nothing over his head to use as leverage.
One of the other individuals that we wanted to talk to
was Reggie Wright Jr.
Reggie Wright Jr. was an ex Compton police officer,
who then became the head of security at Death Row Records.
They knew I had no involvement in that.
I told them respectfully, I’m... I will talk to you.
I’m an open book.
I got no problem talking to them about that.
When Suge was in prison that’s when I just started
running the company on a day-to-day basis and going up there
visiting him four days a week in prison.
[Stephanie] At the time of Tupac’s murder,
Suge Knight was already on probation for assault.
After Tupac’s murder,
Suge Knight was sentenced to nine years in prison for violating his probation,
for taking part in the beatdown
of Orlando Anderson in Las Vegas.
[Reggie] When Tupac got killed,
that probably was one of the worst nights of Suge Knight life.
Suge really loved Tupac Shakur,
had a lot of love and respect for him.
He lost his biggest star on the label ever, to be honest.
Around this time when Suge was in prison,
a lot of the major artists started leaving Death Row.
And then you start hearing the horror stories that were happening within.
The artists were complaining about not getting paid.
All of a sudden, the car that they thought was theirs
is not really theirs, because it’s not in their name.
After Tupac, that’s pretty much was the demise of Death Row,
because Suge didn’t have nobody else.
Snoop was ready to go. Dre was gone.
And we out.
With all of the artists leaving, Death Row was in trouble.
The debts were mounting up.
The legal bills were mounting up.
In 2009, Death Row was sold at auction.
[reporter 4] Walls of gold and platinum records,
industry awards and memorabilia that highlights
the success of a label and its recording artists.
Now it’s all up for auction.
The property has been seized from shamed CEO
Suge Knight’s Death Row Records office in West LA.
Once home to some of the biggest rappers
in hip hop, the label is now bankrupt.
The once billion dollar business was sold last week in federal court.
[Greg] In 2006, Suge Knight had declared bankruptcy
and it was claimed that he only held $10 million in assets.
However, there were $100 million worth of settlements
and judgments opposing him.
During our investigation,
we became aware that Suge Knight had transferred a bunch of master tapes
estimated to be worth like $20 million,
that he was trying to conceal from the bankruptcy court.
And also a female accomplice of his.
We discovered that this girl had a real history with Suge.
So that was an opportunity to target her to find out what more she knew.
[Greg] Theresa Swann was, in fact, one of Suge Knight’s baby mommas.
She had a daughter with Suge Knight.
Great lady. I love her like a sister.
[Stephanie] Theresa Swann is not her real name.
That’s sort of a name that the LAPD task force gave her to protect her real identity.
We began to look closely at her and her association with Suge Knight.
And then we went back historically and we saw that
she was also complicit in different types of fraud...
Even all the way back to the club in Las Vegas in 662,
when they attempted to obtain a fraudulent gaming license.
So this girl had a real history with Suge.
At the time that Biggie Smalls was killed,
we knew that Suge Knight was in jail.
So if he were going to solicit the murder,
he would have to rely on an intermediary.
We’re desperate to find somebody.
Maybe we can get her to tell us what she knows.
And then we became aware that she was using
false information to secure loans to buy automobiles.
So she was involved in this automobile fraud.
That was something we could hold over her head
and basically threatening her that if she didn’t sit down
and answer our questions, we would charge her.
She called me one day crying, "Reggie, they got me."
I knew Suge didn’t care about her anymore.
They were broken up.
She was the only one taking care of her two kids.
He had pretty much left her to dry, wasn’t taking care of her.
And so, I was pretty much, um, concerned for her.
That was my whole thing. Forget him.
You got to worry about yourself.
[Greg] She’s now going to have to make a decision
whether or not she wants to cooperate with us
and potentially provide information
against the father of one of her children,
against Suge Knight, or risk losing that child,
because she may end up going to prison.
And we knew that that would be a very compelling reason for her to cooperate.
As we were thinking of Suge Knight and who Suge Knight
might hire to carry out the hit on Biggie Smalls,
we went back to the investigative files again.
And one name continued to pop up,
and that was the name of an individual,
a Blood gang member named Wardell Fouse,
went by the street name of Poochie.
[Reggie] Poochie, he had two names.
His correct name is Wardell Fouse,
but he also had an alias name with Darnell Bolton.
[Greg] He was suspected of being involved in other murders.
We knew that he had done enforcement
type of activities on behalf of Suge before.
A lot of cats didn’t want to cross Poochie or come across Poochie.
He was a bodyguard for Death Row.
He was one of the guys that went out and handled business.
He would shoot you just to shoot you.
When killing became a part of us,
he was one of the guys that didn’t give a [bleep].
[Reggie] He had a relationship with Suge.
At the time that I saw Poochie around
Death Row it was just him and Suge
that were having a private meeting somewhere.
[Greg] When we questioned Reggie Wright Jr.,
he said that Suge Knight had purchased two Chevy Impalas.
One of those was for himself,
but he’d also purchased an additional vehicle which was reportedly
gifted or given to Poochie.
[Reggie] That wouldn’t have been the first time
someone got a car purchased by Suge for them.
I mean, all these others had cars that was purchased for them.
And so that’s not an unusual thing for Suge to buy someone a car.
[Greg] Suspiciously, that greenish Impala
coincidentally just matches the description of the Chevy Impala
that is used the night that Biggie Smalls is killed.
[indistinct radio announcement]
[Greg] The car is never recovered.
We can never tie Poochie to that car.
Is it coincidence? We don’t know.
It’s suspicious that that car was given to Poochie.
Additionally, Reggie is like, "Hey, there was this attempt to get money,
but they wanted the money to be off the books."
He informs us that just prior to the murder of Biggie,
he becomes aware of an effort to acquire
$25,000 of untraceable Death Row funds
that could be forwarded to Theresa Swann.
[Reggie] I got a call from the general manager
of the record company asking if I had $20,000 to $25,000 in cash.
I was told that the money was for Theresa Swann to help her with her bills.
[Greg] For us, this is all very suspicious.
Why is Suge Knight, from jail,
trying to get $25,000 of untraceable Death Row funds
forwarded to Theresa Swann?
Is that money intended to go towards paying off a contract killer?
We don’t know.
But obviously it’s very suspicious that it is attempting
to be done under the radar.
[Greg] So now we’re three years into this investigation,
it’s 2009 and we’ve exhausted just about every lead.
We know that Suge is going to need an intermediary
if he’s going to contract the killing of Biggie.
We have an individual, Poochie,
who fits the profile of a would-be murderer.
And then we also have Theresa Swann,
she’s criminally complicit with Suge.
[Greg] But now we’re faced with the reality
that although Poochie is now the most likely person
to have carried out the hit at the request of Suge,
he’s been dead for nearly seven years.
Poochie himself had been gunned down nearly seven years earlier
in the city of Compton as a result of infighting
amongst his gang and an affiliate gang.
So Poochie was not somebody that we’re going to be able to go and...
and... and confront.
So we decide that the best thing to do would be create a situation
where it would be easier for Theresa Swann to talk.
When a suspect in a crime is aware that somebody else
has already confessed to that crime,
that is often an effective way to get people to divulge information.
So we did a ruse.
We wrote a fictitious confession letter
that was supposedly written by Poochie prior to his death.
In this fictitious confession letter that we drafted,
we have Poochie writing that he himself had been solicited
to commit the murder of Biggie Smalls by Suge Knight.
That Poochie, along with other co-conspirators, then carried out the murder.
There was a risk involved.
If this is all wrong, and if Poochie wasn’t involved,
but she was, she knows that we’re [bleep].
She knows that this is just a weak attempt to get her to cooperate.
But it was a risk that we kind of needed to take.
I mean, we were at the end of our investigative leads.
We confronted Theresa Swann and said,
"Listen, we know that Poochie was involved in this murder.
He’s wrote a confession letter,
and it appears that maybe you’re implicated in this."
So we pass this fictitious confession letter over to Theresa Swann,
who reads it.
She seems to be completely bewildered by it.
She starts crying and says, that’s all true,
what Poochie wrote is what happened.
[Greg] We’ve asked Theresa Swann to tell us
in her own words what she knew about the murder.
And she starts by explaining that after the murder of Tupac Shakur,
that Suge was just devastated.
Beside himself, that he’d lost somebody
that was very, very close to him.
And now he’s languishing away in jail.
And she says she visits him at the county jail
under the auspices of being part of his legal team,
and that allows her and Suge to have unmonitored private conversations.
And she says, "Suge then asked me to get a hold of Poochie,
ask him to do the murder and to find out
what it would take in order for him to do that."
She then reports to Suge that this is what Poochie is asking in return,
and then the process is put into motion.
She explains that she met with Poochie several times.
There were two different exchanges of money.
One was reportedly for the amount of $9,000,
and the second was in the amount of $4,000.
Of the $25,000, that leaves about $12,000,
which likely went to her.
She does not admit to that, but she does say that
only $13,000 was transferred to Poochie
for the hit of Biggie Smalls.
The question’s then asked, $13,000,
that’s all it took to kill one of the most famous rappers of all time?
But you’ve got to understand the mentality
of a person like Wardell Fouse.
He’s got this loyalty to Suge, he’s got loyalty to his gang, The Bloods.
The South Side Crips had killed Tupac.
He knows that they have to answer to what happened in Las Vegas.
So the money is almost like a secondary component to the equation.
[James] He felt that you killed Tupac, we killed Biggie.
It’s a street thing.
Somebody had to be killed because Tupac was killed.
I mean, just the way we live and the rules that we live by,
certain things have to happen.
Everybody knew that Poochie was the go-to man for Biggie.
[Greg] So now that we’ve obtained the confession of Theresa Swann,
I get called into a meeting, and I’m told,
"Hey, Greg, there’s some allegations being made against you
in this other large federal racketeering case.
And until we adjudicate those allegations,
we’re going to have to take you off the Biggie case."
I’m dumbfounded.
I’m just like, "Are you kidding me?
Not only did we just accomplish something monumental,
we just protected your asses, right,
by getting the truth of the matter,
which now you’re going to be able to use
in your defense in court against this looming lawsuit."
It was one of those days where you just wanted to put your fist through a wall.
So I got my car and I drove home.
And in time, these allegations were disproven that by that time,
the evidence in the Biggie case had been presented
to the district attorney’s office.
They said this isn’t strong enough to pursue a prosecution.
I 100% believe that we solved the Biggie case.
But without the district attorney being willing to prosecute it,
you’re at the end of your ropes.
If Poochie killed Biggie, and you say you have the evidence to back it,
file the case and prosecute Theresa Swann or prosecute Suge Knight.
The case was the word of one woman
who had obviously made a deal to get out of going to prison for other crimes.
So she had every incentive to tell a story that Kading wanted to hear.
All conversation and any conversation I had with Theresa Swann,
she’s not 100% sure or convinced that Poochie carried out
what he’s accused of being done.
She still say that to this day that he could be
just taking credit for something he didn’t do.
She says she don’t know if he did it or didn’t do it.
We’ve got one unreliable informant who’s still not even sure
what exactly happened and... and if Biggie was killed by Poochie.
And that’s the only person, the only informant that you have,
that your case is 100% based on?
I mean, that... that’s beyond ridiculous.
Poochie is conveniently dead,
so we can’t really question him about any of this.
[Phil] One person could not have pulled this off.
And the theory that Poochie, who is a gangster,
was able to pull this murder off, it’s implausible.
The whole task force was a smokescreen.
Their goal was to cause a problem for the civil attorneys
to proceed with their case.
They use Kading’s investigation to shut down the lawsuit.
After the sanctions were applied,
there was going to be a new trial.
But because the LAPD was able to go to court
and say we can’t turn over any evidence,
because we have an active criminal investigation going on,
and it might compromise that investigation.
The case was brought to a standstill.
By 2010, Voletta was exhausted.
She was fighting cancer.
She’d been raising Biggie’s children in an environment
where their father’s murder was the main context of their lives.
So the Wallace side agreed to the temporary termination of the case.
It was put into this hiatus because the LAPD claimed
it was still investigating the case.
While the LAPD ended the investigation
immediately after the lawsuit was dismissed
and they never arrested anyone.
So now, a quarter century after his murder,
the LAPD takes the position that
the Notorious B. I. G. investigation is still an open case.
It’s a unsolved, um, open case at the LAPD.
Nobody’s proactively working it.
It’s just a cold case on the shelves,
waiting for more information to come in.
As long as this is an open investigation, by them saying
that it’s an ongoing murder investigation that gives them the cover.
[Randall] All of this evidence that was kept
from the Wallace family in relation to the lawsuit
was then and still is locked up in a steel vault in the federal courthouse.
I think, it’s the perfect metaphor for this case,
and anybody who wants to know the truth can stare at this metal door,
because that’s as close as you’re going to get to it.
Unseal the documents, make them public.
You let the evidence speak for itself.
Why not do that here, then?
I’d never seen this document before. I didn’t know it existed.
The LAPD has stated in their own words, in their own documents,
who they believe was involved in this murder.
So this is a document that was written
by the civil attorneys for the Wallace estate,
brought to my attention about a year ago.
This is three years after I’ve retired from the FBI.
I never knew this document existed.
And it states in this document, quote, "In January 2001,
the LAPD instituted a formal internal affairs investigation.
The LAPD itself alleged that Mack and Perez
conspired to murder and assisted in the murder of Mr. Wallace."
It says in January 2002,
the Mack Wallace murder internal affairs investigation
was illegally adjudicated, quote,
"insufficient evidence to adjudicate" a finding
which is not permitted under the federal consent decree."
Which basically means, they... the LAPD was not allowed
to adjudicate and make a... make a determination on it.
So while this is going on, the LAPD is under
the consent decree because of the Rampart case,
which means they’re being monitored by the Department of Justice.
And it states in here, "On July 1st, 2005,
approximately 14 to 16 Internal Affairs files
regarding Mack were removed from Internal Affairs
and concealed in a cabinet in risk management,"
which basically means you’ve got this voluminous number of files
regarding David Mack that were hidden and removed, so people would not see them.
Why does LAPD continue to have all those documents under seal?
You want to make all this go away or you want
to finally put this case to rest, then unseal these documents.
If they are not damning and they don’t implicate LAPD officers,
then you’ve got nothing to worry about.
Why not shut down every conspiracy theorist out there,
because you can prove that they were not involved?
Why won’t they?
Because they know who committed this murder.
They know who orchestrated it.
Suge Knight today is serving 28 years in prison
for voluntary manslaughter, for running over his good friend,
businessman Terry Carter.
Some people say it’s karma.
Others say it’s the chickens coming home to roost.
Either way, Suge Knight is sitting in prison today
and won’t be getting out any time soon.
-[photographer 1] All right. -[indistinct chatter]
[camera shutters clicking]
I don’t believe Greg Kading’s theory that Poochie killed Biggie.
I believe that Phil Carson’s theory is closer to the truth
that dirty cops were involved.
I think the best thing the LAPD can do now is have full transparency,
bring the evidence, lay it out, tell the truth.
That’s what I would like to see happen.
[Eugene Deal] Knowing that they have the evidence
to solve his murder is painful.
It hurts.
They want me to stop telling the truth.
I just hope the right person hear it
and want to do something about it, to get justice for B. I. G.
The fact that the murder of Christopher Wallace
could be swept under the carpet really puts a lot of things in context,
because he was, by far, the most famous
and successful hip hop artist on the planet at the time of his death.
He was a major celebrity, but that hasn’t been enough to compel
an honest investigation of his death.
I just think they didn’t care about these kind of people.
You know, people that come from where we come from
didn’t supposed to become stars and make it.
And we made it by telling real,
true stories and things about life.
And I just think the police was just like, okay,
if they’re rapping about it and carrying guns
and all that, you live by it, you die by it type of thing.
[Voletta] Oh, I miss his smile.
I miss that a lot, because he was a type of person, oh,
we would fight and then I would hang up
and he would still be on the phone.
And when I picked up the phone, I’m still here.
I was like, "Wait a minute, please hang up my phone."
"No, I’m not.
You’re going to have to apologize or tell me,
you love me before I hang up this phone."
And if I don’t say it, he’d be on that phone for an hour.
He would be lying down with that phone on his neck or his ears.
I miss that. I really miss our fights.
I think the Wallace family deserves to know the truth.
[Lil’ Cease] For Ms. Wallace, what I’d want for her
is what she’d been wanting all these years.
She just want justice.
She just want to know what happened to her son and why.
That’s all. That’s all she wants.