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    Dead Wrong: The Continuing Story of City of Lies, Corruption and Cover-Up in the Notorious BIG Murder Investigation
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    Dead Wrong: The Continuing Story of City of Lies, Corruption and Cover-Up in the Notorious BIG Murder Investigation
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    Dead Wrong: The Continuing Story of City of Lies, Corruption and Cover-Up in the Notorious BIG Murder Investigation

    By Randall Sullivan

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    “[An] engrossing, damning tale of widespread unchecked corruption in one of the nation’s largest police departments, one that deserves attention . . . Exhaustively researched . . . The most thorough examination of these much-publicized events.”—Boston Globe, on LAbyrinth

    In 2002, acclaimed journalist Randall Sullivan’s groundbreaking book LAbyrinth ignited a firestorm with its startling disclosures about corruption in the LAPD. It told the story of Russell Poole, a highly decorated LAPD detective, who uncovered a cabal of “gangsta cops” tied to Marion “Suge” Knight’s notorious rap label, Death Row Records, and allegedly to the murders of Tupac Shakur and the Notorious B.I.G. Over twenty years later, no one has been held accountable for their killings.

    Now Dead Wrong tells the story of the last sixteen years in the B.I.G. investigations, and uncovers the conspiracy of silence that met the estate’s wrongful death suit against the City. Back in 2001, an eyewitness identified the man who shot Biggie as Amir Muhammad, a man who was former LAPD officer, Death Row associate, and convicted bank robber David Mack’s college roommate and the only man to visit him in prison. Poole’s investigation was repeatedly directed away from Mack and Muhammad, and the wrongful death lawsuit sought to make the city explain why—but instead, investigators encountered a disturbing pattern of selective investigation, hidden evidence, and possible witness tampering. Exclusive interviews with the FBI’s lead investigator of the Biggie murder demonstrate a conspiracy that went to the top, and which implicates some of the most powerful men in law enforcement nationally. A gripping investigation into murder, police corruption, and the corridors of power in Los Angeles, Dead Wrong is full of shocking revelations about a mystery that continues to hold us twenty years on.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAtlantic Monthly Press
    Release dateJun 18, 2019
    ISBN9780802147004
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    Dead Wrong: The Continuing Story of City of Lies, Corruption and Cover-Up in the Notorious BIG Murder Investigation
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    Randall Sullivan

    RANDALL SULLIVAN was a contributing editor to Rolling Stone for over twenty years. His writing has also appeared in Esquire, Wired, Outside, Men’s Journal, The Washington Post, and the Guardian. Sullivan is the author of The Price of Experience; LAbyrinth, which is the basis for the forthcoming feature film City of Lies; The Miracle Detective, the book that inspired the television show The Miracle Detectives, which Sullivan co-hosted and which premiered on the Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN) in January 2011; and Untouchable. He lives in Portland, Oregon.

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      Excellent! a captivating read. very well written and researched. a must-read.
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      Dead Wrong: The Continuing Story of City of Lies, Corruption and Cover-Up in the Notorious B.I.G Murder Investigationsby Randall Sullivan due 6-28-19 Grove/ Atlantic 4.5 / 5 Very few actual facts about the murder of Notorious BIG have been shared, with the public or with his family. We have a date, place and 7 bullet casing that are from rare bullets, only made in 2 places in the USA. There is enough evidence to at least question individuals, hold them accountable. Nothing has ever really been done with this evidence. Corruption runs deep. The truth is easily distorted or manipulated by the media, and by police, and this is a case in point of how easily it is done and the damaging effects corrupt ideals can have generations of a family, because of someones pride, lack of accountability and the intentions of disingenuous people. When more energy is spent attempting to lure the public away from the proof of police officers and others involvement, than is spent solving the crime, corruption lives on. We have no answers. This book is about that cover-up, that corruption and misuse of power. It is extensively researched and well written, very hard to put down for me. It brings up some very important facts.Voletta Wallace, Biggieś mother, deserves a responsible, honest and direct answer to what happened to her son.She successfully sued the LAPD for wrongful death, but still was given no concrete answers. Voletta felt the evidence of her sons murder was only given AFTER evidence of police involvement was found, and she now wanted to see them commit to solving her sons murder. She is still waiting. She worries about how the trial will affect her grandchildren-now teenagers-and how much of a role manufactured public perception could play in their futures. Corruption runs deep and the cover up is more important than the crime they are suppose to be investigating. This needs to change.I hope this book will shine new light and energy into this case. I hope it will help uncover the truths of this case, and help this family to finally have answers they deserve, and finally be able to start the healing process.Many thanks to Grove/ Atlantic for this ARC for review. #netgalley #DeadWrong