If you haven't heard by now...Beanie Sigel is in the news again. This time not for anything that he did (as far as we know), this time it's family related. If you don't know the story....here it is:Moody Found Safe After Kidnapping
Derry Died Of Multiple Gunshot Wounds
POSTED: 7:47 am EDT October 4, 2005
UPDATED: 7:13 am EDT October 6, 2005
PHILADELPHIA -- Wallace Moody, a man allegedly kidnapped who had ties to a rap star's stepfather, has been released by his captors and is now back home.
Moody is a friend of rapper Beanie Sigel's stepfather, Sam Derry, who found shot to death with his body set on fire about 4 a.m. Tuesday morning.
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Moody told police he was released late last night. He was taken to a local hospital with minor injuries and spoke with police before he was cleared to go back home.
Police had no comment about Moody's abduction, his release and the search for suspects.
On Wednesday, police said Moody was taken as he was leaving his North Third Street home.
Police said that just before 6 a.m. Wednesday, two dark-colored sedans pulled up to Moody's house. As Moody was walking out of his home, three men, who were wearing gray hooded shirts, approached Moody at gunpoint, forced him into one of the sedans and headed toward Cheltenham Avenue.
Late Wednesday afternoon, police towed away Moody's car and took a smashed cell phone in for evidence.
Derry's family members told NBC 10 News that they are offended by reports that his death had anything to do with Sigel's recent acquittal on attempted homicide charges.
Wednesday morning, police impounded a car found on the 1200 block of Sydney Street that is believed to be owned by Derry. It was not immediately known if Derry had driven the car just prior to his death. Investigators believe that Derry was killed somewhere else and then dumped in the Forrest Avenue alley.
Sigel remained inside his mother's home Wednesday, refusing to talk about the brutal killing of his 46-year-old stepfather.
"I can say Bennie, as well as the entire family, is devastated. There is hope whoever committed this crime is brought to justice," said Sigel's attorney, Fortunato Perri Jr.
Perri, who represented the rapper during last month's retrial on attempted homicide charges, said that he has heard speculation that Derry's killing could be some sort of retaliation against his client, but he doesn't think those rumors are true.
"There is nothing I'm aware of that Bennie has done or been through that would link him to this tragic situation," Perri said.
Police are continuing to look for a white van or sport utility vehicle that witnesses reported seeing near the scene at 8100 Forrest Ave., where Derry's body was dumped and set on fire.
A witness on Tuesday told NBC 10 News that she saw several men dump Derry's body in a secluded driveway.
"I (saw) a van drive up. I saw two people dragging something, three people just dragging something into the trash," said Denise Calhoun.
"I heard a whoosh, a big whoosh and then all of a sudden it was this fire. I said, 'Oh, they're putting the trash on fire back here.' But I said, 'Oh, my goodness, that's no trash, that's a body,'" Calhoun said. Calhoun said she saw a leg or an arm and called 911.
The body was so badly burned that authorities, at first, were not even sure of the victim's race.
In late September, Sigel (right)was acquitted on charges he shot and nearly killed a man two years ago on a crowded Philadelphia street.
That trial began only a few weeks after his release from federal prison on a federal weapons charge that stemmed from a 2002 traffic stop in Philadelphia. He faces yet another city trial for allegedly breaking a man's eye socket during a January 2003 argument.
The 31-year-old rapper, born Dwight Grant, has a long arrest record that dates to his youth in south Philadelphia. His three albums -- "The Truth" in 2000, "The Reason" in 2001 and "The B. Coming" -- each hit the top five on the Billboard album chart. Many of Sigel's songs depict guns, drugs and violence.
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If you live in Phila or the surrounding areas, you've already heard the story and most likely all the hype surrounding Beanie Sigel. I hear people saying "You know it's bout to be a war up in philly now!" or "You know Beanie gonna get back at dem niggaz!" Now I'm not to say whether he is or isn't, cause I honestly don't care. But I personally think Beanie has enough legal problems right now...but then again, more court cases=more record sales. Which is why I'm positively sure that there will be a "Based on a true story" movie coming out in which the whole situation is explained. He can call this one "STATE PROPERTY: INDITED"