 The FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation) has re-vamped its website in recent months, adding a new feature called "The Vault," in which the public can view documents scanned into digital copies.
FBI.gov describes the new "Vault" section as their "new electronic reading room, containing more than 2,000 documents that have been scanned from paper into digital copies so you can read them in the comfort of your home or office."
Among a slew of new files -- that have been released and added to their digital reading room, as part of a Freedom of Information request -- were documents on the murder case of the Notorious B.I.G.
According to the Vault home for Biggie, the FBI opened a "civil rights/color of law investigation into the murder", which took place in Los Angeles in March 1997. The case was closed in 2005, and remains unsolved.
The Biggie documents consist of FBI files gathered between 1997 and 2005, totaling 359 pages of scanned material -- including newspaper clippings, private emails, faxes, legal docs, and more.
The files reveal little about the controversial investigation that isn't already known. However, one new finding that has drawn the the most attention is a list of items that were found on the late rapper's person after the shooting.
As detailed by unsealed records from L.A. homicide detectives, investigators found a bag of marijuana, a pair of size 13 Timberlands, a Bernini sweater, an asthma inhaler, a pair of blood-stained Karl Kani jeans ... and "3 condoms" that the LAPD noted were "Magnum" and of a "larger size."
The Notorious B.I.G. murder case was closed in 2005, after the FBI abandoned theories former LAPD police officers may have helped orchestrate the murder alongside former Death Row Records founder Suge Knight.
View the full archive of Biggie files over at FBI.gov, and Tupac's 102-page file here.
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