According to CNN, the LAPD is once again actively pursuing leads into the 1997 slaying of Christopher Wallace, aka Biggie Smalls/The Notorious B.I.G. One law enforcement source told them that the unsolved case was "reinvigorated" months ago due to new information, although they didn't reveal any other details about said info. But in addition to the LAPD and the L.A. County District Attorney's Office, it seems that the FBI is now involved with the case. Might that imply there's some sort of conspiracy afoot?
To recap briefly: 24-year-old Biggie was gunned down in a car in L.A. by an African American male dressed in a blue suit and bow tie on March 9, 1997. There have been numerous convoluted conspiracy theories bandied about as to who orchestrated the murder; one of the more popular theories is that the killing was an off-shoot of the hip-hop East Coast/West Coast rivalry, and set into motion by Death Row Records co-founder Suge Knight (that theory was prominent in the "investigative documentary" Biggie and Tupac). For more background on the case and its many theories, Vulture points to Randal Sullivan's 2005 Rolling Stone article, which among other things accused the LAPD of being complicit in a cover-up, and not fully investigating links with Death Row Records.
We're not holding our breath that this mystery will be solved, at least not until we find out just what all the vague "new information" is. Till then, all we can do is sit back in the jacuzzi, and fill our belly's with a t-bone steak, cheese eggs and Welch's grape.
