Murder Of Biggie Smalls
After 20 years, the Mafia-style murder of Biggie Smalls remains one of the most baffling mysteries in rap history. The Brooklyn-born hip-hop legend was shot dead by a bow-tied assassin March 9. Two of the most notorious unsolved cases in the history of American crime - the murders of renowned rap stars Tupac Shakur and Biggie Smalls - have been the subject of exhaustive investigations, relentless speculation, and a web of conspiracy theories and dark secrets.
It had been nearly a decade after the 1996, aka Biggie Smalls, aka The Notorious B.I.G. Before Greg Kading started formally investigating them in 2006, as The Huffington Post reported. Kading hadn't been the first LAPD detective to look into those cases either — that would be the in the late '90s, according to The Independent. He is, however, the person whose interpretation of the cases had the most significant influence on the USA true crime drama, portrayed in the series by Josh Duhamel, wrote the book that Unsolved based its narrative on and also served as a co-executive producer on the series, premiering Feb. According to Billboard, the show: 1993, portraying the budding friendship of Shakur and Wallace; 1997, during the initial LAPD investigation headed by Poole; and 2006, with Kading's task force taking a fresh look at the evidence. Kading used Poole's 1997 investigation as a starting point for his own, and eventually published his own findings in the book. That book was adapted into a 2016 documentary titled Murder Rap, before, per The New York Times.
UnsolvedUSA on YouTube While the three time periods all feature different central characters, Kading's book provides the filter. Shakur and Wallace will never be able to give their accounts, aside from what they revealed about their own lives before their passing. Poole is unable to comment on the accuracy of Unsolved as, according to Rolling Stone. Of the four central characters of Unsolved, Kading was the only one left to tell his version of the story. And while the mystery itself remains formally unsolved, Kading believes he knows who is responsible for the deaths of Tupac and The Notorious B.I.G. When asked who he in a Reddit AMA, Kading confidently claimed that the artist was shot and killed by a man named Orlando Anderson, assisted by four co-conspirators.
He also claimed that Death Row Records' then-CEO to kill Wallace in retaliation for Tupac's death. Kading also said that he believes 'ongoing beefs between multiple factions of [Biggie's record label] Bad Boy and [Tupac's record label] Death Row' are the reason both men were killed. According to The Los Angeles Times, the LAPD ' a few months prior to his death in May of 1998.
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Kading told Reddit, 'Unfortunately, by the time we had factual proof, from an unrelated gang shooting.' The Los Angeles Times reported that by gunshots on July 24, 2003. Neither Anderson or Fouse were ever arrested or charged in conjunction with Shakur or Wallace's murders. UnsolvedUSA on YouTube Whether the narrative of Unsolved concludes with an explicit declaration of guilt is yet to be seen. The Guardian reported that in 2009 'owing to an internal affairs investigation relating to a separate case,' which derailed their work. The publication goes on to say that Kading was exonerated of that issue, but retired soon afterwards. Kading told The Guardian that since the publishing of Murder Rap and the disbanding of the taskforce, he was staying busy 'all over the map.'