Introducing Season 4 of The Girlfriends: Untouchable

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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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Speaker 9 I watched her walk out my door, walk up the street, and then the next morning they find her dead.

Speaker 12 I'm Nikki Richardson and this is the girlfriends, Untouchable.

Speaker 12 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.

Speaker 12 and submerged us in the dark underworld of a corrupt police officer, Roger Golupski.

Speaker 12 For years, the women of Kansas City, Kansas stayed silent, terrified of what might happen to them if they spoke out.

Speaker 14 He walks in and he catches Skloopski involved in a sexual compromising situation with a black female. This man has sexually assaulted so many black women of the community.

Speaker 14 Roger just being Roger, you know, that's kind of like a boys will be boys.

Speaker 12 The whole time he's driving them to the cemetery, he's holding a gun to their head.

Speaker 15 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 12 As a police officer, this man seemed untouchable.

Speaker 12 Until the women of Kansas City found each other.

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Speaker 13 For all of these years, I've always thought it was just me.

Speaker 12 As individuals, we were terrified. But our sisterhood made us braver, determined to expose corruption, speak truth to power, and take Detective Goloopski down.

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