The former LAPD officer at the core of the Tupac Shakur murder trial has called key suspect Keefe D dumb and claimed he sunk his own ship with his media statements.
Keefe D, a confessed mobster, has openly blamed Greg Kading for his jail following his arrest last summer.
Ex-gang task force special detective Kading is currently writing a book about the Pac murder investigation, which detailed Keefe’s confession of being the ringleader in the rapper’s shooting.
Keefe, actual name Duane Davis, faces life in prison for Tupac’s first-degree murder in a Las Vegas district court.
He blames Kading for his legal problems, which sprang from a private interview with the detective in 2008, in which Keefe described how he assisted his nephew Orlando Anderson in shooting Tupac in a car.
That interview, known as a proffer, was recorded, and excerpts were published in Kading’s book and aired on the television show Murder Rap: The Untold Story of the Biggie Smalls and Tupac Shakur Murder.
Earlier this year, much to Keefe’s chagrin, prosecutors introduced the full audio as evidence, which Kading says must be used in the future trial.
In an exclusive interview, Kading defended the decision, claiming that Keefe was responsible for the Ghetto Gospel star’s death.
Kading describes Keefe’s statements about masterminding the murder in September 1996 as “damning” and “key evidence”.
Keefe’s public argument has been that he lied about killing Tupac for fame and money, but Kading claims he “one hundred percent believes” Keefe told the truth during their 150-minute conversation.
Following a Grand Jury hearing last year, Vegas authorities accused Keefe on the basis of his confessions in media interviews and his own memoir.
Keefe claimed that Kading included the recording of the proffer in the Murder Rap documentary because “it was his story to tell” – but the interview should not be used as evidence because it is a fake confession.
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Kading stated, “There is a contradiction in his thoughts and words, and the contradiction is that he claims that I told his story, that it was his story to tell.”
Kading was brought in by the Los Angeles Police Department to lead a multi-law enforcement task group to uncover the assassin of musician Biggie Smalls in the mid-2000s, and he ended up investigating Tupac’s death almost by mistake.
During his investigation, Kading recruited Keefe, the leader of Compton’s Southside Crips, as an informant to explain the rap warfare.
In his conversation, Keefe shared an unexpected detail about Tupac’s death. However, after gathering this information, the case came to an end when all investigations were turned over to Metro Police.