By Michael W. Cuneo
Darrell Mease grew up within the Ozark Mountains of southern Missouri, in a slice of rural the US the place faith flourished and culture thrived. everybody acknowledged he was once an outstanding child: a little bit a clown, possibly now not too interested by his experiences, yet candy and type and quickly to make acquaintances. whilst, as a clean-cut teen, he signed up with the military, the folks of Reeds Springs, Missouri, anticipated to listen to not anything yet great things approximately R.J. and Lexie Mease's eldest son.
It wouldn't determine that manner. Darrell Mease could prove at the entrance traces of the Vietnam battle and may come domestic a drug addict. Over the in my opinion tumultuous, drifting many years that undefined, he'd make a brand new identify for himself within the Ozarks: as a difficult drug broker. Then, in 1987, he gunned down a 69-year-old meth kingpin, his spouse, and their 20-year-old paraplegic grandson. After a determined cross-country break out, he was once captured, hauled again to Missouri, and sentenced to loss of life for his crimes.
In penitentiary, Mease skilled a spiritual conversion, and he made a surprising prediction: he will be stored via excellent intervention.
No one believed it'll ensue. however it did.
On January 27, 1999, Pope John Paul II visited St. Louis and spoke to Missouri's then-governor, Mel Carnahan. It was once an identical date that specialists had set for Mease's execution. The pope requested that he be spared. Carnahan agreed.
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Christopher Wallace, he told them, was gone. m. A stunned silence followed, punctuated by the sobs of Evans and Foster. A tentative discussion began among Biggie’s closest confidants as to who would inform his mother. It was D-Roc who finally made the call, reaching Voletta Wallace in her Brooklyn home at 5:21 EST. He could hardly speak through choking sobs and Voletta, immediately fearing the worst, let out a piercing scream. Her sister-in-law, who was staying with her at the time, took the phone and eventually coaxed the grim news from D-Roc, informing the prostrate mother of what she already knew.
Protection Service, for round-the-clock security, beginning with Biggie’s arrival at the airport. Also on duty was Paul Offord, head of security for Bad Boy Records, and Reggie Blaylock, a moonlighting Inglewood police officer, retained by Story to provide additional muscle. As a result, there was never fewer than a half dozen heavyweights following the rapper and his crew wherever they went. “We take precautions,” Combs told MTV News in answer to a question about his retaining the services of an off-duty cop.
March 25, 1997, a teaser for the upcoming Life After Death album. Riding shotgun beside G-Money, Biggie was joined in the vehicle by Lil Caesar, D-Roc and Groovy Lew Jones. At the wheel of the Blazer, the last vehicle in the line, was Reggie Blaylock, who shared the front seat with Paul Offord. The convoy pulled into the northbound lane of Fairfax and started to cross Wilshire Boulevard. As the GMC with Puffy aboard moved into the intersection, the stoplight turned yellow and Ken Story accelerated quickly to get to the far side.