As the family of slain rapper Notorious B.I.G. prepares a return to court this summer with a new wrongful death lawsuit against the city of Los Angeles, newly disclosed police documents seem to go against their theory that a rogue LAPD detective was behind the murder.
The family of the late rapper, whose real name was Christopher Wallace, continues to believe the theory proposed by former LAPD detective Russell Poole, who was originally assigned to the case but later retired from the force and became an expert witness for Wallace's family.
Poole believes that rap mogul Marion "Suge" Knight conspired with a corrupt LAPD detective, David A. Mack, to kill Biggie as part of a bicoastal rap feud linked to the Las Vegas killing six months earlier of Tupac Shakur. Both Knight and Mack, who is now in prison for robbing a bank, have denied any involvement and were dropped as suspects by both the LAPD and the FBI.
According to writer Chuck Philips of the Los Angeles Times, the newly disclosed police records show how Poole's theory started coming together in late 1997 and sprang from the work of two other detectives, Brian Tyndall and Greg Grant, who were investigating the bank robbery in which Mack was convicted. Tyndall, who declined to comment, now heads an LAPD task force created last year to solve the Wallace murder case and lay to rest the rogue cop theory.
The records, a series of interview logs that are part of the 'murder book' in the Wallace case, were obtained by Mack through the discovery process in the wrongful-death suit, in which he was originally named as a defendant. He recently included them as part of a motion he filed in federal court challenging his bank robbery conviction.
Beyond illuminating the origin of the theory, the logs help explain why the theory fell apart: almost everything Tyndall and Grant reported about Mack was later debunked in police documents and court papers.
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The family of the late rapper, whose real name was Christopher Wallace, continues to believe the theory proposed by former LAPD detective Russell Poole, who was originally assigned to the case but later retired from the force and became an expert witness for Wallace's family.
Poole believes that rap mogul Marion "Suge" Knight conspired with a corrupt LAPD detective, David A. Mack, to kill Biggie as part of a bicoastal rap feud linked to the Las Vegas killing six months earlier of Tupac Shakur. Both Knight and Mack, who is now in prison for robbing a bank, have denied any involvement and were dropped as suspects by both the LAPD and the FBI.
According to writer Chuck Philips of the Los Angeles Times, the newly disclosed police records show how Poole's theory started coming together in late 1997 and sprang from the work of two other detectives, Brian Tyndall and Greg Grant, who were investigating the bank robbery in which Mack was convicted. Tyndall, who declined to comment, now heads an LAPD task force created last year to solve the Wallace murder case and lay to rest the rogue cop theory.
The records, a series of interview logs that are part of the 'murder book' in the Wallace case, were obtained by Mack through the discovery process in the wrongful-death suit, in which he was originally named as a defendant. He recently included them as part of a motion he filed in federal court challenging his bank robbery conviction.
Beyond illuminating the origin of the theory, the logs help explain why the theory fell apart: almost everything Tyndall and Grant reported about Mack was later debunked in police documents and court papers.
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