This Feels Criminal: A True Crime Podcast (Formerly Killer Queens)

Who Killed Tupac? The Murder, the Suspects & the Case Against Keffe D | Part 1

August 25, 2026

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In September 1996, Las Vegas was electric. Mike Tyson had just knocked out Bruce Seldon in under two minutes, and the MGM Grand lobby was flooded with fight fans. Among them was Tupac Shakur, riding high with Suge Knight, the most powerful and feared man in the music industry. Security cameras captured Tupac and his crew swarming a man in the lobby, beating him to the ground. Three hours later, Tupac was riding in a black BMW when a white Cadillac pulled up alongside at a red light. Someone inside fired a .40 caliber Glock. Tupac was hit four times and died six days later. He was 25 years old. For nearly 30 years, the murder remained officially unsolved—not for lack of suspects, but because almost nobody would talk. Except one man, who couldn't stop talking.

The Man Who Talked Too Much

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1 (00:01) **Episode Introduction & Context** - Hosts set up the two-part structure, noting the trial just began and this episode will serve as a primer on the backstory and shooting.
2 (03:37) **The Night of the Shooting: The Fight with Orlando "Baby Lane" Anderson** - The setting is Las Vegas, September 1996, right after the Mike Tyson fight; the crew sees Orlando Anderson in the lobby and attacks him.
3 (09:20) **What We Actually Know: The Established Facts of the Shooting** - The hosts clarify the sparse, confirmed details of the murder.
4 (13:00) **Tupac's Background & the Context of the Case** - A biographical sketch of Tupac, from his birth to his mother's Panther activism to his career, establishing his larger-than-life figure.
5 (18:02) **The Cold Case & The "No Snitching" Culture** - Why the case went cold immediately, despite being a high-profile, crowded event.
6 (25:14) **The Key Witness: Keefe D's Decades of Talking** - The man now on trial, Duane "Keefe D" Davis, spent 20 years telling his story publicly, which became the basis for the case.
7 (34:11) **What Keefe D is Actually Charged With** - Clarifying that Keefe D is not on trial for pulling the trigger, but for orchestrating the murder.

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Show Notes

Nearly 30 years after Tupac Shakur was shot and killed on the Las Vegas Strip, a man is finally on trial for his murder.

On September 7, 1996, Tupac and Death Row Records founder Suge Knight were leaving the Mike Tyson fight in Las Vegas when a white Cadillac pulled alongside their BMW and someone opened fire. Tupac was hit four times. Six days later, he died at just 25 years old.

For decades, theories about his murder have implicated rival gangs, the East Coast–West Coast rap feud, Suge Knight, Orlando "Baby Lane" Anderson, and more. But the case remained unsolved—until investigators turned their attention to a man who had spent years publicly talking about what happened that night: Duane "Keffe D" Davis.

In Part 1, we break down the events leading up to Tupac's murder, the MGM Grand fight that may have set everything in motion, the original investigation, the suspects, Keffe D's extraordinary history of interviews and admissions, and how his own words eventually helped put him on trial almost three decades later.

Because after nearly 30 years of theories about who killed Tupac, a jury is finally going to hear the case.

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