Russell Poole (3rd from right) and Sergio Robleto (far right), posing with the then-LAPD Chief Willie Williams (center) and detectives from LAPD South Bureau Homicide.

First two reward posters prepared by the LAPD in connection to the murder of Christopher Wallace, aka the Notorious B.I.G. The one on the right was distributed before Poole and his partner Fred Miller determined that the Impala driven by the killer was black, not green.

Perry Sanders Jr. (left) and Robert Frank (right), the lead attorneys for Voletta Wallace and the other heirs of Christopher Wallace in the wrongful death lawsuit filed against the City of Los Angeles.

Judge Florence-Marie Cooper, who presided over the Wallace v. Los Angeles lawsuit for seven years and made the mistrial ruling in 2005.

Voletta Wallace with a wax statue of her son, Notorious B.I.G. (top), speaking to reporters outside the federal courthouse in Los Angeles (bottom left), and posing with Biggie’s son C.J. Wallace (bottom right).

Former LAPD officer David Mack (above) and his friend Amir Muhammed, aka Harry Billups, aka Harry Muhammed (below left), accused in the Wallace v. Los Angeles lawsuit of conspiring to murder Notorious B.I.G. To the right of Muhammed is the sketch of the killer made with the help of witnesses riding with Biggie when he was shot to death.

Former LAPD Deputy Chief Michael Berkow, accused by former FBI agent Phil Carson and others of conspiring with disgraced Los Angeles Times reporter Chuck Philips to derail the federal investigation of the murder of Notorious B.I.G.

Sergio Robleto, the former head of LAPD South Bureau Homicide who became the lead investigator for Biggie’s family in the Wallace v. Los Angeles lawsuit.

Biggie’s mother Voletta Wallace and his widow Faith Evans, who grew closer to one another after the murder.

Former Death Row Records bodyguard Kevin Hackie, whose changing story complicated Wallace v. Los Angeles.

Marion “Suge” Knight, former head of Death Row Records suspected of arranging the assassination of Notorious B.I.G. Shown here while in custody at the Los Angeles County Men’s Central Jail.

Biggie with Bad Boy Entertainment head Sean “Puffy” Combs, whose failure to help solve the murder of Notorious B.I.G. frustrated the attorneys prosecuting the Wallace v. Los Angeles lawsuit.

Rafael Perez, the dirtiest of the LAPD’s dirty cops, fabricator of the Rampart Scandal, accused by Kevin Boagni and Felipe Sanchez, among others, of involvement in the Notorious B.I.G. murder.

Bernard Parks, the former LAPD chief alleged to have covered up the employment of LAPD officers by Death Row Records, protected Rafael Perez and his false narrative of the Rampart Scandal, and stymied Russell Poole’s investigation of the Notorious B.I.G. murder; perhaps no man in the history of Los Angeles will go to his grave with more secrets than Parks.

Gerald Chaleff, the former Los Angeles defense attorney who became an LAPD deputy chief and gave the court testimony that blocked the release of evidence in the Notorious B.I.G. murder investigation that remains hidden in the bowels of the federal courthouse in Los Angeles.

Chuck Philips, the disgraced former Los Angeles Times reporter accused by Phil Carson and others of serving as the conduit of the LAPD’s disinformation campaign during the Wallace v. Los Angeles lawsuit.