The Girlfriends S4/E3: The Two Day Trial

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Speaker 5 But in the process, we'll hear stories that involve violence, murder, suicide, and sexual assault. While it's rooted in hope, it may be a tough listen at times.

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Speaker 5 There are some numbers I'm always going to remember. My childhood best friend's birthday, my mom's old phone number, and the address of the house I lived in as a little kid.

Speaker 5 For Lamotte McIntyre, those memorable numbers are a five-digit code.

Speaker 10 60558.

Speaker 5 The inmate number he was given at 17 years old.

Speaker 10 I was processed as a maximum security inmate because I had two murders. So I became 60558.
Not no more than Lamont McIntyre.

Speaker 5 He was sent to Hutchinson Correctional Facility, a state prison.

Speaker 10 They call it Gladiator School. It's the most tension-filled bottom place you ever...
go in your life.

Speaker 5 The first 10 years in prison were rough. Lamont had been convicted of a double homicide he insisted he had nothing to do with.
The experience plunged him into a deep depression.

Speaker 10 And they had me on suicide watch. As a young person, I don't know how to deal with that.
So my nickname became Mugs because I never smiled. I started losing my hair.
I started losing my health.

Speaker 5 While he would occasionally get visits from people he loved, Lamont realized that the life he'd left on the outside was moving on without him.

Speaker 5 He went through deep phases of despair until he met a friend behind bars.

Speaker 10 And there was a guy named Shorty in there. Shorty was dying and there was no cure for him.
He was dying. He knew it.

Speaker 5 Shorty had severe liver damage, but he stared death in the eye with an inspiring level of clarity.

Speaker 10 Shorty had the most peaceful demeanor. He was so peaceful.
He told me about spirituality. And I learned about being more peaceful, more calm, more in the moment.
I started to educate myself.

Speaker 10 I started to meditate. I started to exercise.
My mindset changed. When my mindset changed, everything changed.

Speaker 10 After 10 years of being there, I started to focus on getting out.

Speaker 5 And the perfect opportunity came along when one of his prison buddies gave him a gift.

Speaker 10 A stack of jet magazines. And these jet magazines were Centurion Ministries.

Speaker 5 an organization that helps exonerate innocent people who've been falsely convicted.

Speaker 5 Lamont exchanged letters with Centurion Ministries for years as he tried to get them to take on his case.

Speaker 5 In 2009, he finally got a visit from their founder, Jim McClowski.

Speaker 10 It was November and it was cold and he walked into the visitor room.

Speaker 5 Lamont felt a flicker of hope as he realized that the older white man in the room, Jim, was there to see him.

Speaker 10 He gave me a hug and he looked at me. He said, I got some good news for you.
I said, what's the good news? He said, we're taking your case.

Speaker 5 Lamont was relieved to finally have a legal team willing to fight for him.

Speaker 5 But then they started digging into the case.

Speaker 10 My lawyer came to see me and say, you were set up.

Speaker 10 I said, what do you mean?

Speaker 5 Set up by who?

Speaker 5 And why?

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Speaker 5 I'm Nikki Richardson, and from the teams at Novel and iHeart Podcasts, this is the Girlfriends, Untouchable.

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Speaker 5 Episode 3, the two-day trial.

Speaker 5 Lamont McIntyre had found a team of lawyers to look into his case.

Speaker 10 Starting out, we just wanted to find out how did I end up in this situation.

Speaker 5 They needed to examine every aspect of the 1994 investigation into the murders of Donielle Quinn and Donnie Ewing.

Speaker 5 Lamont's legal team's theory that he had been set up was based on two things.

Speaker 5 First, the witness testimonies which had put Lamont at the scene of the murders.

Speaker 10 During my lawyer's investigation, they come to find out that the district attorney Tara Moorhead cheated.

Speaker 10 She threatened the witnesses.

Speaker 5 We reached out to Tara Moorhead and her lawyer to ask her about Nico's claims of witness intimidation. She did not wish to provide a comment.

Speaker 5 Nico Quinn had recanted her testimony back in the 90s when Lamont first tried to appeal his case. That had come to nothing.

Speaker 5 But when Lamont's legal team reached out to her again in 2014, she signed another affidavit confessing her false testimony. And there was more.

Speaker 5 Lamont's lawyers had gone in wanting to build a case for his innocence, but they kept finding stories about the detective at the heart of the investigation.

Speaker 10 The Roger Golovsky thing popped up in my lawyer's face.

Speaker 5 Lamont's mother, Rose, had been sexually assaulted by Golupski back in the 80s, but back then, She'd been too scared of what he could do to her to report him or speak out.

Speaker 5 So she kept her story a secret, out of fear that Golupski might enact revenge.

Speaker 5 But now that her son had a solid legal team around him and culture was shifting to better support victims, Rose decided it was finally time to speak out. She hoped it would help her son's case.

Speaker 5 But finding out that his mother had been holding on to her painful secret for so long hit Lamont hard.

Speaker 10 I felt angry. I wanted to hurt that man.

Speaker 10 This dude violated my mother.

Speaker 5 Galoopski had sexually assaulted Rose, intimidated Nico, and rushed through a flawed investigation that had put Lamont behind bars.

Speaker 5 But as Lamont's lawyers dug deeper, they learned that the Quinns and McIntyres weren't his only victims.

Speaker 5 They were on the edge of a shocking discovery.

Speaker 10 And that changed the direction and altered the direction of my whole life.

Speaker 5 By 2016, Lamont's legal team had built up a case to try and prove his innocence, but they needed someone to help them further investigate Golubski's history of misconduct.

Speaker 5 So they asked around until they found the perfect woman for the job.

Speaker 14 I am Khadija Hardaway.

Speaker 16 I grew up in Kansas City, Missouri.

Speaker 5 Khadija is a black woman in her early 50s who loves God, art, and helping people feel confident by doing their hair. The other central pillar of her life is social justice.

Speaker 14 Growing up, I was probably the most outspoken child in my family, and I still am.

Speaker 18 I was taught to be an activist probably at the age of five, like I've been holding a bullhorn for that long.

Speaker 14 I'm 50 now.

Speaker 5 Khadija had spent years working with Alvin Sykes, a civil rights advocate who helped bring about the Emmett Till Unsolved Civil Rights Crime Act of 2007.

Speaker 5 The act allowed historic unsolved crimes committed against African Americans before 1970 to be reopened by law enforcement, especially crimes related to the civil rights movement.

Speaker 17 We went around the country asking people to come forward so that their loved ones, if they were civil rights or human rights activists, their loved ones' murders could be investigated.

Speaker 19 So I always

Speaker 17 find a way, I guess the spirit finds a way to have me work in cold cases.

Speaker 5 It was this background in unsolved crimes which led Lamont McIntyre's lawyers to reach out to Khadija for help.

Speaker 16 When I heard the story, it was heart-wrenching, right?

Speaker 14 But I didn't know who he was.

Speaker 17 I'd never seen a story in the media or anything.

Speaker 5 The more Khadija discovered about what Lamont had been through at the hands of Detective Galewski, the more determined she became to get to the bottom of what had really been going on.

Speaker 14 And it was like we need to get justice.

Speaker 5 In the spring of 2017, Lamont's legal team holds a press conference to raise awareness of his case. The venue is First Baptist Church in Kansas City, Kansas.

Speaker 5 A large red brick church which sits on Fifth Street, just blocks away from the courthouse.

Speaker 20 All of the media of Kansas City was in the room.

Speaker 14 Every channel, every newspaper was in the room.

Speaker 5 The pews are filled with cameras and journalists holding microphones. There's a speaker's podium below the pulpit.

Speaker 14 The Kansas City Kansan, the Kansas City Star, Channel 4, 5, 9, and 41 were all in the room.

Speaker 5 As the press conference begins, speakers assemble beside the podium.

Speaker 14 There was Reverend Roland, who is the minister at First Baptist Church, along with Lamotte McIntyre's mother and lawyers.

Speaker 5 They all speak about their role in the case, and then they pass the mic to Khadija. who stands tall and looks straight ahead at the audience of reporters.

Speaker 5 Steady beneath the glare of a dozen lenses, she asks that anybody who has stories about Roger Glubski or their experiences with the police department get in contact with her.

Speaker 5 She records her piece and goes home. When clips of the press conference are aired on TV that day, the response is astonishing.

Speaker 14 Once it hit the media, my phone immediately started ringing.

Speaker 22 Like I probably got

Speaker 16 in the first 10 minutes of the news broadcast coming on, I probably got five calls of people saying, hey, I know that guy.

Speaker 18 I know what he did to this person.

Speaker 19 I know what he did to that person.

Speaker 5 And the stories kept coming.

Speaker 14 I began to get calls from people who lived in Wyandock County, who had loved ones who were affected one way or another by Roger Galewski and or the police department.

Speaker 5 In that moment, Khadija realized that this story was much bigger than she'd imagined.

Speaker 5 What had begun as a plea to help exonerate exonerate one man was about to become a movement to expose decades' worth of abuse.

Speaker 5 And Khadija was about to have a conversation with a woman whose story would change everything.

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Speaker 5 One of the first survivors Khadijah Hardaway spoke to while trying to gather information to exonerate Lamont was Ophelia Williams.

Speaker 5 In 2017, Ophelia is a black woman in her mid-50s with locks and weary eyes. Khadija recalls them meeting for the first time at First Baptist Church in Kansas City, Kansas.

Speaker 5 They were introduced by the director of a local social justice organization.

Speaker 17 When I first met her, she was really timid.

Speaker 16 I wouldn't necessarily say there was like this fear in her. but you could sense the deep pain in her from what she had experienced.

Speaker 5 After talking for a a little while and getting comfortable, Ophelia told Khadija her story, which began nearly 20 years earlier.

Speaker 5 It's a summer day in the August of 1999, and Ophelia Williams' two sons, Ronnell and Donnell, have just been arrested in Kansas City, Kansas on suspicion of a double homicide.

Speaker 5 They're children. only 14, but they were sent to the police station and questioned without their their mother or a lawyer present.

Speaker 5 Ophelia is devastated, sitting at home in a state of despair. Ophelia didn't speak publicly at the time, but she did talk to the press years later about what happened to her.

Speaker 36 Galoopsky arrested my twin sons

Speaker 36 at the age of 14.

Speaker 36 While they locked up in jail, he decided to come over my house.

Speaker 5 Ophelia tells the story of how Galoopski sat beside her on her couch and told her that he knew people who could help her sons with their case.

Speaker 5 But he spent the entire conversation leering at her, looking at her body in a way that made her uncomfortable. After a moment, he placed his hand on her leg.
Ophelia slapped it away, but he persisted.

Speaker 36 Garusby raped me.

Speaker 36 He came back

Speaker 36 and back.

Speaker 36 I said, I'm going to tell.

Speaker 36 And he said, who you gonna tell?

Speaker 36 I said, I'ma call the police. He said, I am the police.

Speaker 5 If she couldn't turn to the authorities to report sexual assault, Because the man who had done it was a police officer, who could she turn to?

Speaker 5 khadija realized the story was eerily similar to that of rose mcintyre lamont's mother who galoopski had assaulted before targeting her child

Speaker 36 the reason why it took me so long to come out

Speaker 36 like i said my twins was only 14 and Galoopsby knew a lot of people in jail.

Speaker 5 Galoopski used his authority in the Kansas City, Kansas Police Department to enter Ophelia's home and use the threat of something happening to her sons against her.

Speaker 5 Despite Galoopski's empty promises to help them, Ronnell and Donnell were convicted of the double homicide in 2000. Donnell took a plea deal and was given two concurrent life sentences.

Speaker 5 Ronnell maintained his innocence. His sentence will have him in prison until 2050.

Speaker 5 Khadija was struck by how much Ophelia had been holding on to alone.

Speaker 16 You definitely got the sense of pain and almost like a sense of urgency, you know. Most victims, they seem to have a sense of urgency.

Speaker 19 You can just feel like this intensity for something to happen.

Speaker 5 And the stories kept coming. Some people told Khadija that they thought Golubski was targeting their families.
Others suspected that he'd framed their relatives for crimes they hadn't committed.

Speaker 5 But the majority of calls came from women who found themselves embroiled in a pattern of abuse.

Speaker 5 Khadija's phone kept ringing. There were more and more stories about Detective Golubsky.

Speaker 14 How he stalked them.

Speaker 14 Sitting on their porch, sitting in front of their house, shining lights in their house in the middle of the night, calling people and just hanging up on them, following them on the road.

Speaker 14 Not just one person following them, but multiple people following them. Same kind of vehicle, same kind of cars mentioned in these stories.

Speaker 5 They had spent years siloed in silence, but as Khadija compiled the story she was hearing, she began to map out the connections between Goloopski and families across the city.

Speaker 5 Women who'd been too scared to speak out until now.

Speaker 5 the McIntyres had spent years saying that Roger Golubski was at the heart of the miscarriage of justice that had decimated their family.

Speaker 5 But their investigation had opened the floodgates to dozens of stories from women and families just like them, people in the community whose lives had been destroyed by Goloopsky.

Speaker 5 It was enough to start building a case for Lamont's innocence.

Speaker 22 I wouldn't necessarily say I thought I was prepared for the kind of fight that we took on.

Speaker 14 I just knew that it was important

Speaker 15 that we capitalize after that time.

Speaker 22 And so I encouraged that community to fight back.

Speaker 5 Nico Quinn was on board. Lamont's lawyers were locked in.
And there was evidence going back years.

Speaker 5 Now all they needed to do was convince a court of law.

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Speaker 31 That's what I knew I couldn't control, and that's what I knew you have a disease of some sort. I couldn't explain it.

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Speaker 5 In 2017, Kansas City, Kansas got a new district attorney, their first ever Black DA, Mark Dupree.

Speaker 5 He'd grown up in KCK and had known about Lamont's case for years.

Speaker 38 Lamont McIntyre, when he went into custody, He was just

Speaker 38 about three years, I believe, older than me. People talked about it and people on the street knew knew about it.
And my church was not far from the location where all of this transpired.

Speaker 5 Dupree had direct connection to the community and his role as the city's first black DA felt like a sign that things were changing.

Speaker 5 So Lamont's legal team did what they could to make reinvestigating Lamont's case his top priority.

Speaker 38 I was bombarded by the criminal defense attorneys who had been working with Lamont sending me tons of information that the community was not aware of concerning his case and said, listen, if you get in there, you have to look into this.

Speaker 5 Dupree went to the prison to go and visit Lamont and talk to him about his case.

Speaker 10 I said, Danny came in. He said, what do you want to say to me? I said,

Speaker 10 follow the evidence. I'm not going to say anything.
I'm not going to beg you for my life. I'm not going to do anything.
I said, all I want you to do is follow the evidence.

Speaker 38 It was at that point that I really began to take a real strong legal look at this case, not the, you know, the system just, you know, gets over on people type of viewpoint, but more so of, okay, what's happening and what's going on.

Speaker 5 When D.A. Dupree looked into how the investigation had been conducted, He was surprised to see just how quickly things had unfolded back in 1994.

Speaker 5 Lamont had been arrested just just hours after the shooting without any clear motive.

Speaker 38 Ultimately, it becomes the fastest investigation concerning a homicide ever to know, man.

Speaker 38 I think it took six hours, maybe eight, to ultimately have Lamont McIntyre locked up and ready to be charged for a crime of double homicide.

Speaker 5 Dupree examined the holes in the police investigation in Nico's claim that former DA Tara Moorhead had allegedly used witness intimidation to build her case.

Speaker 38 The facts ends up coming out that the story was not as it was told. In fact, the evidence ends up showing that this young lady tried to withdraw her testimony.

Speaker 5 The evidence was damning, building in Lamotte's favor. But the DA needed more.

Speaker 38 I went to multiple prisons to speak to individuals who were witnesses, individuals who were kingpins back in the day, individuals who refused to talk back then, but was absolutely involved.

Speaker 5 In October 2017, people from across Kansas City returned to the Wyandack County District Court. D.A.
Dupree walked in equipped with his findings.

Speaker 5 Lamont's legal team laid out all the flaws they found in the original investigation and the evidence they gathered to try to prove his innocence.

Speaker 5 Another key piece of evidence was the testimony of Cecil Brooks. He and a guy called Monster were the drug dealers Nico Quinn thought were responsible for her cousin Danielle's murder.

Speaker 5 Lamont's lawyers had found Cecil and questioned him about what had really gone down in 1994.

Speaker 5 Here's part of what he had to say in an affidavit, read by an actor.

Speaker 21 There was some conversation about Donnie stealing dope.

Speaker 5 By Donnie, he means Danielle Quinn, Nico's cousin.

Speaker 21 Some dope came up missing, and he did not return with what he stole.

Speaker 10 As a result, two junkies, Donnie and the other Quinn,

Speaker 39 got killed.

Speaker 5 And here's the kicker. Cecil alleges.

Speaker 21 The guy who got convicted for these murders had nothing to do with it.

Speaker 12 None of us had ever heard of him.

Speaker 21 Monster did the murders. Monster got paid to do the murder.
The wrong guy got arrested.

Speaker 5 Cecil's allegations about Monster were never proven in a court of law, and Monster was never charged.

Speaker 5 After sitting in court for two days and listening to evidence and testimonies about how his case had been handled, Lamont went back to his holding cell. All he could do was wait.

Speaker 10 Normally, I would sit there for 45 minutes until they break. I sat there for that long, and then something told me something was going on, but I didn't know what.

Speaker 10 So, when I got back to the courtroom, it was real quiet. And my lawyer was sitting across from me.
She was looking down, and I asked her, What's going on? She says, I don't know what's going on.

Speaker 10 So, I'm sitting there. Mark Dupree gets up, he walks to the podium, and he starts speaking.
He says, I want to introduce exhibit A through Z is evidence.

Speaker 5 Dupree talked about the evidence Lamont's team had brought forward and the information he found through his own investigation. The trial was supposed to last around a week.

Speaker 38 By day two, on top of all of my investigation, it was very clear that the information they was providing aligned with the information that I had saw.

Speaker 5 Dupree had come to a conclusion about Lamont's conviction.

Speaker 38 He did not receive a fair trial. He was not given adequate assistance and defense, along with the many other issues that occurred.
But that was the real basis of the manifest injustice.

Speaker 38 And this case, if you take away all of the fake stuff, If you take away all of the potential corruption and you get down to the nitty-gritty, which is what I ultimately did. The bottom line was that

Speaker 38 there was not enough facts or evidence to prove that Lamont did this.

Speaker 2 He didn't do this crime.

Speaker 5 The DA presents his final summary.

Speaker 10 And all of a sudden I heard him say, and I would like to drop all charges.

Speaker 10 It moved so fast. It happened so fast.

Speaker 10 I felt the room shake. Everybody in the room just go crazy.
I felt the eruption of the roar of the room.

Speaker 5 Lamont is finally free. He changes into regular clothes for the first time in 23 years and walks out into the sun.

Speaker 10 My mother, I saw her and I hugged her.

Speaker 5 In that moment, Lamont felt numb, but that feeling would eventually turn to relief.

Speaker 5 The last time he hugged his mother, Rose, he'd been a regular 16-year-old boy trying to get through high school. At 41, he's a grown man who's spent more than half of his life behind bars.

Speaker 5 Now he's finally free to dream about the life that lays ahead of him. But first, he has to come to terms with everything his teenage self left behind.

Speaker 10 I walked out to a bunch of strangers that I had no no connection with. Like my siblings, they looked different.
My friends, I was really close to.

Speaker 5 But there's one stranger in the crowd who he does recognize.

Speaker 10 I saw the witnesses. One of them walked up to me and she looked sick.

Speaker 5 Nico Quinn.

Speaker 40 I was nervous. And what played in my head is this 17-year-old boy that I seen when he was 17.
I hadn't seen him since then.

Speaker 40 So I had wrote a letter to Lamont and it was just telling him that the 23 years that he was incarcerated, so was I mentally.

Speaker 40 I had butterflies because I didn't know what his response to me would be.

Speaker 5 When they find each other outside court, all those worries fade away.

Speaker 40 I was able to hug him and tell him I was sorry.

Speaker 10 I hugged her and I whispered to her, I forgive you.

Speaker 10 I had forgiven her a long time ago and I felt sorry. It was a young person that was taken advantage of too.

Speaker 10 I didn't have no harm, no ill will towards her, but I seen her and I hugged her and I whispered to her, I forgive you.

Speaker 10 Being hateful and spiteful and angry at other people will only hurt you. I don't hold that energy inside of me because I'm the only one being affected by it.

Speaker 10 So I learned how to forgive people to free myself.

Speaker 5 Lamont is exonerated and Nico is freed of her guilt. But this story is not over.

Speaker 5 From the outside, it looked like the case of a seemingly corrupt assistant district attorney and a crooked cop coming together to frame an innocent man.

Speaker 5 But in looking for stories to help exonerate Lamont, Khadijah had stumbled across something even darker.

Speaker 5 The decades worth of abuse Detective Roger Golupski had inflicted on women across Kansas City.

Speaker 5 And she

Speaker 5 was now determined to get justice.

Speaker 14 And so I was motivated to bring these women's stories to life on a national platform.

Speaker 5 Because the time had come to stand stand up and speak out about Roger Galewski.

Speaker 15 You may think you have the power today, but it's God is my witness.

Speaker 14 The power is with the people and we're going to turn the tables on you. You're coming out of here.

Speaker 5 Coming up on the girlfriends, Untouchable.

Speaker 20 He looks like the person who would cut up the cat and put it in his freezer.

Speaker 5 He does look like, but he looks like somebody who would get away with it.

Speaker 21 Roger, just being Roger, you know, that's kind of like a boys will be boys.

Speaker 20 It just speaks to how tough this fight is all the time.

Speaker 40 And I'm like, Father God, why is this so? Why am I the last one to talk to these women and then they're gone? I got you, I got you, I got you.

Speaker 5 The Girlfriend's Untouchable is produced by Novel for iHeart Podcast.

Speaker 5 For more from Novel, visit novel.audio. The show is narrated by me, Nikki Richardson.
It was written and produced by Rufaro Mazarura. The editor is Joe Wheeler.

Speaker 5 Our assistant producer is Mohamed Ahmed. The researcher is Zayana Youssef.
Production Management from Cherie Houston and Joe Savage. The fact-checker is Findall Fulton.

Speaker 5 Sound design, mixing, and scoring by Daniel Kimpson with additional engineering by Nicholas Alexander. Music supervision by Rufaro Mazurura, Nicholas Alexander, and Joe Wheeler.

Speaker 5 Original music by Amanda Jones. The Girlfriend's theme was composed by Amanda Jones and Louisa Gerstein.
The series artwork was designed by Christina Limpoo.

Speaker 5 Story development by Olivia Smart and Nell Gray Andrews. Novel's Director of Development is Selena Mehta.
Willard Foxton is Novel's Creative Director of Development.

Speaker 5 Max O'Brien and Craig Strachan are executive producers for Novel. Katrina Norvell and Nikki Itor are the executive producers for iHeart Podcast, and the marketing lead is Allison Cantor.

Speaker 5 Special thanks to Will Pearson. And a special thanks to Carly Frankel and the whole team at WME.

Speaker 7 Meet Lisa, a mom of two who loves the holidays, but not the endless to-do list.

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Speaker 27 Hey guys, it's Erin Andrews from Calm Down with Erin and Carissa. So as a sideline reporter, game day is extra busy for me, but I know it can be busy for parents everywhere.

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Speaker 41 This is Bowen Yang from Los Culturists with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang.

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