SAC Bee Hennenberger Pulitzer: Cop serial rapist still walking free, Roger Golubski
A 5-foot-9-inch, 250-pound white male accused of sexually assaulting dozens of mostly poor Black women is at large in Kansas City, Kansas. No need to put out an APB, though, because the suspect, former homicide detective Roger Golubski, who retired in good standing and with a full pension from the Kansas City, Kansas Police Department, isn’t in hiding. There’s no mystery about his whereabouts, right in Wyandotte County, where he’s lived all his life. In a November deposition in a civil case against him, Golubski mostly declined to answer questions by invoking his Fifth Amendment right not to incriminate himself. He did that a nice round 555 times.
Among the questions he wouldn’t answer were these: Did he have a sideline in selling drugs and “facilitating prostitution” while he was a police detective? Ever get charges dismissed in return for sex? Ever rape a minor in his cop car? Or threaten to harm a woman if she turned him in?
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Golubski did, however, talk about the four years he spent in a Catholic seminary, studying to become a priest. And noted that though he is so faithful that he kept a prayer book in his police office “until someone stole it,” he never lost sight of how important it is to observe the separation of church and state. (For the record, that’s one line he does not stand accused of crossing.) He also complained that the department didn’t throw him much of a retirement bash 10 years ago when he left after 35 years on the force. A plate of cookies from Price Chopper is “not my definition of a party,” said Golubski, who is 68. Nor did he get a gold watch. “It must have got lost in the mail.”
She was scared, as he “kept moving close to me.
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https://www.kcur.org/news/2022-01-18/federal-probe-into-kansas-city-kansas-police-is-looking-at-officer-misconduct-decades-of-homicides
Federal probe into Kansas City, Kansas, Police is looking at officer misconduct, decades of homicides
Federal subpoenas reveal a sweeping investigation into the KCKPD during the time former detective Roger Golubski worked on the force, including demands ranging for more than two decades of homicide cases to a single rape kit.
A federal grand jury has demanded that the Kansas City, Kansas, Police Department hand over records covering two decades of homicide cases, internal affairs reports and informant files as part of what appears to be a wide-ranging investigation.
The nine subpoenas obtained by KCUR through a Kansas Open Records request reveal a search for information on homicide cases that cover the years Roger Golubski worked as a KCKPD detective, through 2010, the year he retired from the department.
KCKPD and the Unified Government of Wyandotte County and Kansas City, Kansas confirmed in October that since 2019 they were cooperating with a federal grand jury looking into allegations against Golubski.
Golubski is accused in a civil lawsuit of routinely exploiting Black women in Kansas City, Kansas, with sex and drugs, both for his own gratification and to pressure victims into fabricating testimony to clear homicide cases he investigated. In court filings, he has denied those claims.
But the subpoenas, issued between June 2019 through November 2021, indicate that the Justice Department may be casting a wider net than just Golubski. One subpoena seeks records related to five different officers.
Although the records are heavily redacted, they provide the best public window yet into the federal investigation of a police department that many in the Kansas City, Kansas, community say has been corrupt and not held accountable for decades.