Introducing: 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.
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Speaker 1 Who would you call if the unthinkable happened?
Speaker 1 I just fell and started screaming. If you lost someone you loved in the most horrific way.
Speaker 1 My sister was shot 22 times.
Speaker 1 The police, right?
Speaker 1 But what if the person you're supposed to go to for help is the one you're the most afraid of?
Speaker 1
This dude is the devil. He's a snake.
He'll hurt you.
Speaker 1 I watched her walk out my door, walk up the street. Then the next morning, they find her dead.
Speaker 1 I'm Nikki Richardson, and this is the girlfriends, Untouchable.
Speaker 1 This season, we're traveling to my hometown, Kansas City, Kansas, to explore how a murder case in the 90s took a group of women, including me, on a decades-long journey that exposed a deadly pattern of sexual abuse and submerged us in the dark underworld of a corrupt police officer, Roger Galoopski.
Speaker 1 For years, the women of Kansas City, Kansas stayed silent, terrified of what might happen to them if they spoke out.
Speaker 1 He walks in and he catches Galoopski involved in a sexual compromising situation with a black female. And this man has sexually assaulted so many black women of the community.
Speaker 1 Roger just being Roger, you know, that's kind of like a boys will be boys. The whole time he's driving them to the cemetery, he's holding a gun to their head.
Speaker 1 There's a lot of people whose lives he ruined that we could have prevented by taking him out, removing him from his position.
Speaker 1 As a police officer, this man seemed untouchable.
Speaker 1 Until the women of Kansas City found each other.
Speaker 1 This is unbelievable. For all of these years, I've always thought it was just me.
Speaker 1 As individuals, we were terrified, but our sisterhood made us braver, determined to expose corruption, speak truth to power, and take Detective Galewski down.
Speaker 1
If it was your mom that got killed, what would you have done? They said, we would have left it alone. Well, I'm not y'all.
The power is with the people.
Speaker 1 I told Roger Galewski, I said, you're going to see my face to the day that you die.
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