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0:00This is the Big Breakdown. A long look back at some of the biggest stories we're covering for you at the Hidden Killers Podcast and True Crime Today. This is Hidden Killers with Tony Rewski. Talk about an efficient investigation. I mean, does it get much more efficient than this? Almost 30 years! To the day of the shooting and the death of Tupac Shakur, someone's finally been convicted. Only took 30 years and him going on podcasts, talk shows, writing books, saying it to anyone who would listen. For the person who is allegedly responsible, who is responsible, convicted now of being responsible for handing the gun to Orlando Anderson and saying, do your thing.

1:05Only took 30 years. Wow! We're going to go to the verdict here. What happened in that courtroom? As this moment, 30 years in the making has finally come about. And where does it leave us? Where does it leave us at the end of the day? Is this justice? Is everybody wants to go for it? Justice for this. Justice for that. Is this justice for Tupac Shakur? On one side of the Las Vegas Corp of an August 31st of 2026, 2026, number was 1996. When all of this story started, if you were just joining us, I was about 15. It's like we have set Shakur, cried quietly, and reached for the person behind her.

2:10Tupac's sister. On the other side, Dwayne Keefiddi Davis raised his fist towards the gallery, as he was led away between them, a verdict, guilty. First degree murder with use of a deadly weapon in the killing of Tupac Shakur. Took the jury only about three hours. The defense's closing argument had lasted almost two. The jury was faster than the lawyer by almost, almost was. Not a great defense. Our clients allire. That's pretty much all we got. He admitted, yeah, he's foolish yet though. You might have believed in this, you want to believe in stuff? Yeah. Davis is 63 years old. He's the only person ever charged in two-pox murder. He's now the only person ever convicted. Sentencing is set for October 13th. His son was in the courtroom and the verdict was red and covered his face with one hand.

3:15He told the judge he plans to appeal. He also asked for his phone and laptop back. Davis has been held without bail since his arrest in September of 2023, nearly three years in the Clark County Attention Center, including for a trial that lasted nine days in a verdict that took three hours. Most murder convictions are built on physical evidence, a weapon, DNA, surveillance footage, a phone record that put someone in the wrong place. This had none of that, mainly because at the time of the crime, none of that really existed. As a possibility, the idea in 1996, let's go to the phone record. Let's see where it's been tracking you at. You could have do what? What are you talking about? Your phone's going to track you? What are you nuts? The phone. Huh? Wasn't a thing. DNA technology. Also, not extremely new at the time, but a hell of a lot more behind where we are today.

4:22Go watch an unsolved mysteries episode from 1996 or forensic files and see how futuristic they're talking about the technology. It'll take you back. The 40 caliber, glauco allegedly used in the shooting has never been recovered. The white Cadillac, the car prosecutor say Davis was riding and has also never been found. Can you imagine if you're in possession of either of those things today? And I'm sure they were probably disposed of at the time. But what kind of cash that those objects might pull in for someone wanting to put them in a museum? No fun records place. Davis in Las Vegas on September 7, 1996. No receipts, no surveillance footage. Investigators found a hotel bill at Davis's home during a police search. But it was undead and nobody can account for where that evidence is actually now. Shugdite, the man who was driving the BMW when the shots came through, the only surviving eyewitness to the shooting refused to cooperate with either side throughout the case.

5:28Night has been in a California prison since 2018 on an unrelated voluntary manslaughter conviction. He would not talk to prosecutors and would not talk to the defense either. After the verdict prosecutors dropped the gang enhancement from the charge chief deputy DA Beno Pallal told the court it was due to witness logistics, a former officer who would have testified for about 10 to 15 minutes and logistical issues that prevented it from happening. Thank you lucky stars, key fee. Although it doesn't really change a lot. The conviction stands as first degree murder with use of a deadly weapon. What the jury did have was keep it his own voice. And at the end of the day, turns out your own voice and your own words are one of the most damning things you can have against your record for recorded statements spanning 18 years of memoir and video of Davis promoting that memoir as the real truth.

6:29The real truth everybody right here comes to it. The prosecution's entire case was built from one man's words aimed right back at him. Everything else was context. The first statement was a 2008 federal proffer interview. A proffer it works like this. A defendant facing serious charges sit down with law enforcement and tells them what he knows about other crimes and other people in exchange. The government agrees not to use those specific words against defendants in its own case. Wink, wink. Most attorneys will be like, don't do that. Don't do that. There's a lot of loopholes in proffer agreements. Sometimes they're not even on paper. But he did. The catch is that the defendant has to tell the truth. That's the price of the deal. If he lies, the deal is off in the statements can be used against him. Davis was facing a life sentence in a federal drug case when he sat down for the proffer. So it was kind of like, well, take this. It's not the most secure agreement.

7:30But it gets you off on the drug charges and they're telling you they're not going to go after you for these other ones if you talk about them to them for that investigation. Notice they didn't say go write a book. Go go do a podcast. Go go go just tell anyone and everyone this story over and over and over and over. About how you basically told us about one of the most infamous murders in history and we did nothing about it. Go go tell everybody about that. That won't have any sort of repercussions. Wink wink. That might actually trigger something and it did. He told federal agents. He was in the Cadillac on September 7th of 1996. He told them he obtained the gun from a man named Eric Zip Martin. He told them his nephew Orlando Anderson fired the shots that killed two pox Shakur.

8:31The second statement was a 2009 interview with Las Vegas Metro police detectives retired detective Dan Long who conducted the interview later testified for the defense. He could not independently verify Davis was in the Cadillac. Not without relying on what Davis himself had said. The third was a 2017 death row Chronicles documentary on BET. The fourth was this 2019 memoir Compton Street legend. The defense fought to have the memoir excluded from the evidence. The book carries a disclaimer saying some facts were changed. Some just Carly Kearney ruled the statements admissible. Finally, Davis had adopted the material as his own by repeatedly promoting it as the real truth during the trial prosecutors played a clip of Davis on video doing exactly that selling the book as the true account of what happened. Chief deputy DA Paul a Pallal built is a closing argument around those those four formats. Davis's accounts on that night had evolved over the years.

9:32Pallal acknowledged sometimes he named the shooter. Sometimes he wouldn't have a Pallal argued one detail never moved in every version across nearly two decades. Davis placed himself inside that white Cadillac. Then Pallal delivered the line. The prosecution has been building towards he held up the memoir and told the jury that OJ Simpson wrote a book called if I did it. Dwayne Davis, Pallal told them wrote the book. I did it. OJ hatched and Davis did not. Pallal argued premeditation the group searched for Shakur before spotting him on the road and making a U turn a plan. Pallal said none of them pulls. And Pallal closed with one ask. Nearly 18 years, Davis has told police television networks, book authors, YouTube interviewers and anyone who would listen that he is responsible for the murder of two poxie court. Tell him. Tell him you hear him.

10:32By finding him guilty three hours later, they did defense attorney Michael snaps closing ran almost two hours. So longer than his entire case presentation. When you only got so much to work with you only got so much to work with he'd called three witnesses in a single afternoon, all former law enforcement officers, his argument was that every word Davis ever said about the killing was fiction. Snap pointed to the inconsistencies across the four recordings and the book. In some accounts, Davis described seeing Shakur hanging out the car window, waving to fans, witnesses at trial test to five they didn't see that. He picked up Compton Street legend and read an excerpt allowed while reading from the text. He said the N word in the courtroom people in the over four flow room recoiled. He compared the case to the Titanic, the ship sinking is historical fact he argued. But the stories people tell about it are fiction.

11:33There are no facts to point to Keithy. Snap told the jury. Not one. The paradox the fiction defense couldn't escape is this if Davis lied in 2008. He lied to federal agents in a proper we're telling the truth was the deal. He was trying to avoid a life sentence in a drug case fabricating a murder confession to federal agents is its own federal crime. The defense needed 12 people to believe that Davis risked more prison time to invent a murder confession for leverage in a drug case and then repeated that story to police a year later to document her in eight years after that and in a book under his own name 11 years after the proper the rebuttal. The prosecutor said told the jury Davis was trying to beat them. Prosecutor called the case a slam dunk until the jury not to turn their verdict into a referendum on whether investigators should have charged Davis sooner. The question the prosecutor argued is what Davis said and whether the jury believes it.

12:36Three hours that's how long they needed Davis told federal agents what he did in 2008 and no arrest followed lost Vegas detectives in a video in 2009 and no arrest followed. They feared in the nationally broadcast documentary in 2017 describing the shooting and still no one charged him that published a memoir in 2019 and promoted it on video as the real truth and nothing happened. The grand jury indictment came in 2023 the arrest came on September 29th of that year 27 years after the murder 15 years after the proper Davis was walking near his home in Henderson Nevada when police took him into custody. Trial lasted nine days more than two dozen prosecution witnesses and three defense witnesses then three hours of deliberation and a conviction on first degree murder was the case that they gave you. The evidence that convicted Davis in August 31st existed in a federal file in 2008 Davis wasn't hiding he was on camera on bookshelves in police interview rooms in documentary studios he wasn't a fugitive.

13:42And he wasn't quiet every year between 2008 and 2023 is a year the state in Nevada had a recorded confession from a man who described his role in the killing of two poxichor 15 years of a man telling everyone who would listen what he did and the system didn't act on it. Here here's what I've noticed in years of covering true crime. Authorities don't like being embarrassed they don't necessarily like people calling them out or pointing out hey this person is confessing to one of the biggest unsolved murder cases of the last century. Why don't you do anything about it and when you have no good answer. Other than I don't know why we don't do anything about it. Things sometimes happen sometimes you got to you got to apply the pressure apply the pressure from the outside through media through all of this stuff to get things to happen.

14:50And sometimes pointing out those those pain points those embarrassment points those things like why didn't you do the obvious here. Like arresting the man that's consistently talking about murdering two pox has seemingly the whole story information nobody else really has. Why isn't anything been done well turns out. If you just give it 30 years. Things might get done. Enjoy needed three hours to reach that guilty verdict. The system needed nearly 30 years to bring the case to trial the verdict answered the question of whether key fee did it. Why it took so long for anyone to ask is a different question and nobody in that courtroom can answer it. September 13th marks 30 years since two pox. She died in a Las Vegas hospital at 25 years old. It's been longer now than his entire lifespan.

15:53The only person ever convicted in his murder. Raised his fist on the way out of the courtroom. And the other side of the room his sister was still crying. So where does that take us? Next to the two pox. It's did he next that's the big question everyone has. We're going to try to answer that. Another video coming up. If you're watching this as we're releasing another one tomorrow on the feed and we're going to dive into that very question for a subscribe. You're curious. Because we'll take a deep dive into that lane. Does this conviction change anything over there? To where did he who's always said I had nothing to do with this. So all rumors is there all lies that I'm connected. It's all BS. That's where he stands today. But on the record. Kftd the man who's now convicted of being part of the murder of two pox.

16:58You're part of his story. Is that he was offered a million dollars to make it happen. But never collected. So what is that? Is that part of the story part of the tale? And if it is, well, I guess we just believe the tale we convicted and we put him away. So what parts of the tale do we believe and do we not believe? And more importantly, what can actually be prosecuted in the court of law? We're going to talk about that tomorrow. So press subscribe as we continue the discussion on the murder of two pox. I don't know that the case is closed yet. Not sure. You tell me your thoughts on the comment section on substack in YouTube links are in the description. Anywhere conversation right there, take the podcast with you. There's the QR code on the screen. Scan it. Take us with you wherever you get podcasts. We'd appreciate that. Until next time, I'm Tony Versky. We'll talk again real soon.

18:17All right. The big question everybody's asking and we've talked about this before, but we haven't talked about it since there's been a conviction in the death of two pox. The core, what does it mean that key PD has been convicted for the murder of two pox for Sean. Did he comes? Stam came up a lot in this trial. But does it mean anything? Will this go anywhere? We're going to talk about that today. Let's get your thoughts in the comment section as we work our way through this tangled mess. A retired Los Angeles police detective sat in the Las Vegas court. We're been told to jury that to ain't key PD Davis claim Sean did eat comes was supposed to funnel a million dollars through a Harlem intermediary called named Eric Zip Martin in payment according to Davis. So the murder of two pox. The detective Darren DePree testified that Davis told investigators come solicited the killing during a conversation.

19:20Greenblatt's deli in Los Angeles. The money was supposed to flow from coms to zip Martin to Davis. It allegedly never arrived. Members of two pox family were sitting in the courtroom when DePree said it sources close to comes responded with an hour. See, absolutely nothing to do with it. That's been their stance. It's still is today. He's denying everything to do with this. That exchange allegation from the witness stand denial from the other side has been happening in different forms for nearly two decades. Davis first made the claim to police in 2008 comes has never been charged. He's never been a suspect and Las Vegas police have publicly said he has never been considered one. If there's enough to say it in open court, the obvious question is why there has never been enough to do anything about it. The answer is a single word. Most people have never had to think about it in the courtroom. Once you understand it, you'll understand exactly why nothing has happened and whether it ever could. The claim starts back in 2008. Davis was facing federal drug charges in Los Angeles.

20:22Investigators use that leverage to get him into a room. A proper is an agreement where a suspect provides information to law enforcement and in exchange investigators agree not to use his specific statements against him. Wink, wink. Obviously they did. It is sometimes called a queen for a day session. The detective running the interview, LAPD's Greg Cating told Davis on tape, nothing you say can be used against you. The session was originally about the 1997 murder of Christopher Wallace, notorious B.I.G. Davis started talking about two pockets. Wait a second. We're not talking about that, but you're what? You did what? And then interview Davis told investigators that Combs pulled him aside at Greenblatt's Delhi on sunset Boulevard and told him he had a couple of problems he needed handled, naming two pockets and shug night. Davis alleged Combs said something to the effective. I would give anything for those dudes' heads. The alleged offer according to Davis, a million dollars, right? It threw his associate, Zip Martin.

21:24Davis claims he told his crew Combs would pay for the hit and comes apart that matters for what happened next. The alleged payment never arrived. Davis says he tried to collect from Zip Martin after the murder. Martin told him Combs did not pay. Sorry. Davis said he tried to reach Combs directly. The phone calls went unanswered in his own words in the 2008 tape. I wish I never met Puff Daddy. Period. He messed up my life, man. Yeah. Or you should have just said, no, I don't really want to go kill someone for money. I don't know. That might have been another choice, another option you had. Investigators took the claim seriously enough to act on it in 2009. Davis traveled to New York as a confidential police informant with a specific assignment. Verify the Combs connection and rekindle his relationship with Zip Martin. The goal was to get Martin talking about the money that allegedly passed from Combs to Martin and never reached Davis. The operation produced no usable evidence.

22:25But Davis didn't stop talking. He repeated versions of the same account in the 2009 follow-up interview with Las Vegas police in a BET documentary series in 2018. And an MMORN 2019 called Compton Street Legend. He said it on YouTube. He said it to anyone with a camera or a microphone. Why did nobody act on it? Well, the answer is coordination and corroboration. To charge a person with murder conspiracy based on what a cooperating witness says, prosecutors need something independent that confirms the claim, a payment record, a contemporaneous witness, a recording of the request, financial documents tracing the money for the Combs allegation specifically every potential cooperating witness. Happens to be dead. Eric Zip Martin, the alleged intermediary who was supposed to deliver the money died in 2012 from cancer. Orlando, baby lane Anderson, the man Davis says, fired the shots that killed Tupac was killed in an unrelated gang shooting at a Compton car wash in 98. He was 23.

23:33DeAndre Bigdray Smith, who was in the backseat of the white Cadillac next to Anderson died in 04. Terrence bubble up brown, who was driving the Cadillac was killed in a shooting at a Compton medical marijuana dispensary in 2015. Every person Davis places in the chain between Combs and the bullet dead. No financial records tracing a million dollar payment have surfaced in 30 years. No surveillance from the alleged meeting at Greenblast deli exists. The murder weapon has never been recovered. The white Cadillac was never found. There's no physical evidence connecting Combs to the shooting to the car, to the gun or to the alleged payment. A claim without a second source that was out of paper trail without a living witness who can put Combs in the room is not a prosecutable case. It is a story told by one man. As much as you wish it was something else. Court documents in the key FD case reference Combs roughly 77 times across his various names and Netflix documentary produced by Fiddy sent released in late 25 entitled Sean Combs the reckoning put the bounty claim.

24:40In front of millions Kirk Burrows who co founded Bad Boy Records of the Combs said that in the documentary he believes Combs was involved in two pox death in April of 26th and April of 26th two pox step brother Maurice Mo'Prime Shakur filed a wrongful death lawsuit in Los Angeles County Superior Court. The complaint named key FD and a hundred unnamed John Don't defendants citing the Netflix documentary and grand jury transcripts as evidence of a broader conspiracy. The family's attorneys wrote that individuals involved in two pox murder have avoided accountability for 30 years might that be an in road. Stay tuned we're going to we're going to keep an eye on that civil suit. None of that changes the math though Burrows is not a firsthand witness to the specific transaction Davis describes. He's a man with his own decades long legal war against Combs lawsuit. So, ledging he was beaten with a baseball bat and forced to sign over his 25% stake in bad boy records. His belief does not fill the evidentiary gap as compelling as it is.

25:46A civil lawsuit operates on a lower burden of proof that's where we're going to watch that space than a criminal case and even that lawsuit names Combs only through unnamed defendants the family hopes to identify through discovery. The documentary surfaces allegations it is not produced the independent evidence a prosecutor needs to bring a charge. That's the reality. Every road back to Combs runs through one man and that man is sitting in a Las Vegas jail now soon to be prison who's on trial for murder with his own defense attorney telling the jury he made every single word of. The prosecution's case was. Built almost entirely on his own statements the 2008 proper recorded the 2009 police interview the BET documentary the memoir Jeric calls prosecutors alleged Davis told the truth about his role in the two fog murder. The orchestrated the retaliation obtained the gun road in his white Cadillac and pass the weapon to the back seat Davis is charged with one count of murder with a deadly weapon and there was a gang enhancement he's been fun guilty.

26:57Davis is defense attorney told the jury the opposite Davis they say fabricated everything for leverage entertainment money and fame needed a deal and eight so invent the story. The director of the BET documentary test to fight in court the Davis was paid similar between 10 and 20 thousand dollars for his on camera appearance staff told jurors that investigators did not charge Davis after the oh wait interview because they did not find him credible. It's because they knew he was full of crap he said if that is true if the people who heard Davis in person walked away unconvinced that the claim about combs was born from an unreliable narrator the foundation. Was suspect from the first hour. Follow the logic on the combs question from both directions if or now that the jury has convicted Davis have decided his recorded confessions are real. Well his allegations about combs might gains in weight as potential leads part of the story but the allegations still lack independent cooperation that's the problem.

28:07And the government convicted murderer with every reason to claim someone bigger was behind it. That's the reality. Murder has no statute limitations in Nevada. The clock for September 7th 1996 is not a legal shield if genuinely new independent verifiable evidence ever surfaces a payment to witness a recording that exists outside of key feed ease own voice. The calculation changes on the date appears combs is serving a 50 month federal sentence at fci4dix and new jersey on unrelated charges. He's not charged in this case he is not been subpoenaed. The one man whose words could change any of that has not been convicted of the murder that he says he didn't get paid for.

29:07The million dollar question was never whether key feed set it the question has always been whether anyone else can prove it 30 years in an a conviction. No one has your thoughts in the comments section on substacking you to will they will we ever get that far down the road. I think we will talk again real soon.