Episodes

  • Introducing: Overlooked

    Introducing: Overlooked
    Sep 19 2022
    Former Kansas City, Kansas, detective Roger Golubski is accused of putting an innocent man in jail, exploiting vulnerable Black women, and terrorizing the community for decades. How did he get away with it for so long, and what does justice look like?
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    3 mins
  • Chapter 1: Niko Quinn’s truth

    Chapter 1: Niko Quinn’s truth
    Oct 4 2022
    After watching her cousin get murdered in 1994, Niko Quinn became one of the eye witnesses who sent Lamonte McIntyre to jail for a crime he didn’t commit. Quinn says then-Kansas City, Kansas, detective Roger Golubski pressured her into submitting false testimony, and she’s been trying to “make it right” ever since.
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    40 mins
  • Chapter 2: The wrong Lamonte

    Chapter 2: The wrong Lamonte
    Oct 19 2022
    In 1994, Kansas City, Kansas, Police arrested Lamonte McIntyre for a double homicide he didn’t commit — sending him to prison for more than two decades before he was finally exonerated. Except McIntyre was a mile away from those Hutchings Street murders. As it turns out, the only evidence police had to charge McIntyre was his first name, and the coerced testimony of two eyewitnesses.
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    Less than 1 minute
  • Chapter 3: Stacey Quinn’s story

    Chapter 3: Stacey Quinn’s story
    Oct 26 2022
    Kansas City, Kansas, detective Roger Golubski started taking advantage of Stacey Quinn when she was only a teenager. Local activists allege this was a pattern for “Golubski’s girls”: The detective would pick up vulnerable women in the neighborhoods he patrolled, sexually abuse them for years, and manipulate them into silence. And just like Stacey Quinn, many of them were murdered.
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    38 mins
  • Chapter 4: Roger Golubski, the chameleon

    Chapter 4: Roger Golubski, the chameleon
    Nov 2 2022
    Who is Roger Golubski? Once interested in being a Catholic priest, Golubski spent 35 years in the Kansas City, Kansas, Police Department, which had a reputation for racism and corruption. The secret to Golubski’s career was his use of “confidential informants,” who he cited to secure countless convictions — including at least one person who was innocent. Now, Golubski is facing a federal indictment for kidnapping, raping and assaulting women.
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    Less than 1 minute
  • Chapter 5: A list of murdered women

    Chapter 5: A list of murdered women
    Nov 16 2022
    Former detective Roger Golubski is connected to a litany of murdered women in Kansas City, Kansas. Several were sex workers who Golubski was accused of abusing and using as informants. But their cases were never solved by his fellow officers, and their families have spent decades without closure.
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    41 mins
  • Chapter 6: Untouchable

    Chapter 6: Untouchable
    Nov 23 2022
    Residents of Kansas City, Kansas, had been sounding alarms about detective Roger Golubski and corruption in the police department for decades. But city leaders did nothing, and Golubski retired in peace while the families of his victims mourned. It wasn’t until a year after KCUR started working on this podcast that the FBI finally arrested Golubski — on just a fraction of his alleged crimes. What does justice even look like after all this time?
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    41 mins
  • Golubski On Trial: What we know

    Golubski On Trial: What we know
    Nov 20 2024
    More than two years after being arrested, Roger Golubski finally has a trial date set. On Dec. 2, the former Kansas City, Kansas, detective will face federal prosecutors, his alleged victims and a jury over charges that he kidnapped and raped vulnerable Black women using the power of his badge. In our new podcast season, “Overlooked: Golubski On Trial,” we’ll be exploring the history of the case and reporting what happens in the courtroom.
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    21 mins