Keffe D's Tupac Confession Came With a Promise Cops Put on Tape

True Crime Today | Daily True Crime News & Interviews · Aug 21, 2026 · 11m

For fifteen years, the government held a recording of Duane "Keffe D" Davis explaining his role in the death of Tupac Shakur, and no charge followed. The Tupac trial in Las Vegas just showed the jury why that changed.

The 2008 interview ran under a proffer agreement, which Davis later called the deal of a lifetime, and it legally blocked prosecutors from building a case out of what he said in the room. On the recording, detectives tell him directly that his statements cannot be used against him. Jurors heard those assurances played back in open court.

They also heard what Davis did with the…