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Episode 391: Tupac & Biggie’s Murder Solved By Greg Kading

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4.81.7K Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2019

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Greg Kading is an American author and former Los Angeles Police Department detective best known for working on a multi law-enforcement task force that investigated the murders of rap stars Tupac Shakur and Biggie Smalls in the mid-2000s. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/valuetainment/support

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0:01.0

One time for the underdder.

0:04.0

Ignition sequence star.

0:07.0

Let me see you put them up.

0:09.0

Reach the skies, let the stars up above because it's one time for the underdog one time for the underdog

0:17.4

I'm Patrick made of your host of value team and today I'm sitting now with

0:20.0

Greg Kading who is the detective from LA trying to solve the Biggie homicide, who killed Biggie, that led to him finding out who killed Tupac.

0:30.0

And all I can tell you is, if you remember the 90s West Coast East Coast hip-hop rap the rivalry that was going on

0:36.4

You're gonna be very interested in today's sit down

0:38.8

Greg. Thanks for making the time from coming out of my pleasure. Thank you for having me

0:42.0

So so before getting this you had already

0:46.4

done 200 cases give or take. Yeah throughout my career I was already a senior detective at the time that I got this case but I had come through narcotics and homicide and had a really deep background in gang investigation so it just seemed like a natural fit to to take on this case.

1:04.0

Now was this something that you went after was it something that was just given to you out of nowhere?

1:09.5

It was given to me out of nowhere really.

1:11.0

I was working major narcotics and I got a phone call one day

1:13.8

from a detective at robbery homicide division who was overseeing the new resurrected

1:21.4

Christopher Wallace Biggie Small's murder, which was being re-examined due to a lawsuit that was being waged against the city of Los Angeles, wherein allegations had been made from the Wallace estate that L.A.P.

1:34.7

officers were complicit in the murder.

1:37.1

Complicit in the murder.

1:39.4

And is that kind of what attracted you to it or you already kind of knew this was taking place?

1:44.9

I had some knowledge of the case, but very limited, really just superficial knowledge

1:51.0

of the case.

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