Introducing Season 4 of The Girlfriends: Untouchable

When Niko Quinn saw her favourite cousin murdered in broad daylight, her life turned upside down. She went looking for justice, but instead uncovered a dark scandal at the heart of her community: A police detective had spent decades targeting, threatening and sexually abusing black women across Kansas City Kansas.

 

Detective Roger Golubski used the power of his badge to launch a reign of terror. He acted as if he was above the law, until Niko, and an incredible group of women, came together to take him down.

 

The Girlfriends: Untouchable tells the story of a courageous sisterhood who exposed the dark underworld of a corrupt police officer, and brought their city’s horrifying truths to light. Because when the women of Kansas City Kansas realised the police weren’t coming to save them from their abuser, they stepped up to save themselves.

 

US resources for Violence and Sexual Assault: https://rainn.org/   

International resources for Violence and Sexual Assault: https://nomoredirectory.org/   

US Suicide & Crisis Helpline: https://988lifeline.org/  

International Suicide & Crisis Helplines: https://blog.opencounseling.com/suicide-hotlines/ 

 

The Girlfriends: Untouchable is produced by Novel for iHeart Podcasts. For more from Novel, visit https://novel.audio/. 

 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Who would you call if the unthinkable happened? I just
fail and started screaming if you lost someone you loved
in the most horrific way about twenty two times the police, right,
But what if the person you're supposed to go to
for help is the one you're the most afraid of.

(00:24):
This dude is the devil.

Speaker 2 (00:25):
He is a snake. He hurt you. I watched her
walk out my door, walk up the street, and then
the next morning they find her dead.

Speaker 1 (00:38):
I'm Niki Richardson, and this is the girlfriend's untouchable. This season,
we're traveling to my hometown, Kansas City, Kansas, to explore
how a murder case in the nineties took a group
of women, including me, on a decade's long journey that
exposed the deadly pattern of sexual abuse and sum just

(01:00):
in the dark underworld of a corrupt police officer, Roger Gulupski.
For years, the women of Kansas City, Kansas State silent,
terrified of what might happen to them if they spoke out.

Speaker 2 (01:15):
He walks in and he catches Swoopski involved in a
sexual compromising situation with a black female.

Speaker 1 (01:21):
This man has sexy assaulted so many black women of
the community. Roger just being Roger. That's kind of like
a boy's Olie boys.

Speaker 2 (01:29):
The whole time he's driving them to the cemetery, he's
holding a gun to their head. There's a lot of
people whose lives he ruined that we could have prevented
by taking him out, removing him from misposition.

Speaker 1 (01:41):
As a police officer. This man seemed untouchable until the
women of Kansas City found each other.

Speaker 2 (01:52):
This is unbelievable. For all of these years, I've always
thought it was just me as individuals. We were terrified,
but our sisterhood made us braver, determined to expose corruption,
speak truth to power, and take Detective Glupski down. If

(02:16):
it was your mom that got killed, what would you
had have done? They said, we would have left it alone.

Speaker 1 (02:22):
Well, I'm not, y'all. The power is with the people.

Speaker 2 (02:25):
I told Roger Glupski, I said, you're gonna see my
face to the day that you die.

Speaker 1 (02:36):
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