2 rap murders were long unsolved. Tupac case closed but not Biggie Smalls'

For decades, two of the music world's most notorious killings remained unsolved. First, Tupac Shakur was gunned down on the Las Vegas Strip in 1996. Six months later, Christopher Wallace, known as Biggie Smalls, was fatally shot on Wilshire Boulevard after a music event at the Petersen Automotive Museum. Both killings captivated the public and seemed tied to gang feuds involving the rap world. But despite lengthy investigations, amateur sleuthing and endless speculation, neither case came to a resolution. Until this week. On Monday, a Las Vegas jury found a onetime Compton gang leader guilty in the slaying of rapper Shakur. It took jurors only a few hours of deliberation to find that Duane "Keffe D" Davis had orchestrated the fatal 1996 shooting of Shakur as the rapper sat in a BMW next to Death Row Records founder Marion “Suge” Knight.