Speaker 1: Hey, it's Nikki, the host of The Girlfriend's Untouchable. This
Speaker 1: episode will tell the story of how an incredible group
Speaker 1: of people in my city fought to get justice for
Speaker 1: the people they love. But in the process we'll hear
Speaker 1: stories that involve violence, murder, suicide, and sexual assault. While
Speaker 1: it's rooted in hope, it may be a tough listen
Speaker 1: at times if you or someone you love has been
Speaker 1: affected by any of the themes in the show. We've
Speaker 1: left some links in the description that offer resources and
Speaker 1: support take care of yourself. There are some numbers I'm
Speaker 1: always going to remember my childhood best friend's birthday, my
Speaker 1: mom's old phone number, and the address of the house
Speaker 1: I lived in as a little kid. For Lamont McIntyre,
Speaker 1: those memorable numbers are a five digit.
Speaker 2: Code six, so five five eight.
Speaker 1: The inmate number he was given at seventeen years old.
Speaker 3: I was processed as a maximum security in made because
Speaker 3: I had two murders, so I became six or five
Speaker 3: five eight now no more than Lamon mgnatarre.
Speaker 1: He was sent to Hutchinson Correctional Facility, a state prison.
Speaker 2: They called it Gladair School.
Speaker 3: It's the most tension field bottom place you ever going
Speaker 3: your life.
Speaker 1: The first ten years in prison were rough. Lamon had
Speaker 1: been convicted of a double homicide. He insisted he had
Speaker 1: nothing to do with the experience plunged him into a deep.
Speaker 3: Depression, and they had me on suicide watch. As a
Speaker 3: young person, I don't know how to deal with that.
Speaker 3: So my nickname became Mugs because I never smiled. I
Speaker 3: started losing my hair, I started losing my health.
Speaker 1: While he would occasionally get visits from people he loved,
Speaker 1: Lamont realized that the life he'd left on the outside
Speaker 1: was moving on without him. He went through deep phases
Speaker 1: of despair until he made a friend behind barr And
Speaker 1: there was.
Speaker 3: A guy named Shorty. And there Shorty was dying and
Speaker 3: there was no cure for him.
Speaker 2: He was dying. He knew it.
Speaker 1: Shorty had severe liver damage, but he stared death in
Speaker 1: the eye with an inspiring level of clarity.
Speaker 3: Shorty had the most peaceful demeanor. He was so peaceful.
Speaker 3: He told me about spirituality. When I learned about being
Speaker 3: more peaceful, more calm, more in the moment, I started
Speaker 3: to educate myself. I started to meditate, I started to exercise.
Speaker 3: My mindset changed when my mindset changed. Everything changed. At
Speaker 3: the ten years of being there, I started the focus.
Speaker 1: On getting out, and the perfect opportunity came along when
Speaker 1: one of his prison buddies gave him a gift.
Speaker 3: It's not the Jet magazines, and these jet magazines were
Speaker 3: sitting here on Ministries.
Speaker 1: An organization that helps exonerate innocent people who've been falsely convicted.
Speaker 1: Lamont exchanged letters with Centurion Ministries for years as he
Speaker 1: tried to get them to take on his case. In
Speaker 1: two thousand and nine, he finally got a visit from
Speaker 1: their founder, Jim mcclowskey.
Speaker 3: He was November and it was cold, and he walked
Speaker 3: into the visitor room.
Speaker 1: Lamont felt a flicker of hope as he realized that
Speaker 1: the older white man in the room, Jim, was there
Speaker 1: to see him.
Speaker 3: He gave me a hug and he looked at me.
Speaker 3: He said, I got some good news for you. I said,
Speaker 3: what's the good news? He said, We're taking your case.
Speaker 1: Lamont was relieved to finally have a legal team willing
Speaker 1: to fight for him, but then they started digging into
Speaker 1: the case.
Speaker 3: My lawd come to see me and say you were
Speaker 3: set up. I said, what do you mean.
Speaker 1: Set up by Who and Why.
Speaker 4: Why.
Speaker 1: I'm Nikki Richardson and from the teams at Novel and
Speaker 1: iHeart Podcasts, This is the Girlfriend's Untouchable. By episode three
Speaker 1: the two day trial, Lamart McIntyre had found a team
Speaker 1: of lawyers to look into his case.
Speaker 3: Starting out, we just wanted to find out how did
Speaker 3: I end up in this situation.
Speaker 1: They needed to examine every aspect of the nineteen ninety
Speaker 1: four investigation into the murders of Donnielle Quinn and Donnie Ewing.
Speaker 1: Lamont's legal team's theory that he had been set up
Speaker 1: was based on two things. First, the witness testimonies which
Speaker 1: had put Lamont at the scene of the murders.
Speaker 3: Doing my lawyer's investigation, they come to find out that
Speaker 3: the district attorney and Tara Moore.
Speaker 2: Had cheated She threatened the witnesses.
Speaker 1: We reached out to Tara moorehead and her lawyer to
Speaker 1: ask her about Nico's claims of witness intimidation. She did
Speaker 1: not wish to provide a comment. Nico Quinn had recanted
Speaker 1: her testimony back in the nineties when Lamont first tried
Speaker 1: to appeal his case. That had come to nothing, but
Speaker 1: when the Mont's legal team reached out to her again.
Speaker 1: In twenty fourteen, she signed another affidavit confessing her false testimony,
Speaker 1: and there was more. Lamont's lawyers had gone in wanting
Speaker 1: to build a case for his innocence, but they kept
Speaker 1: finding stories about the detective at the heart of the investigation.
Speaker 2: The Raja Glupski thing popped up in my lawyer's face.
Speaker 1: Lamont's mother, Rose, had been sexually assaulted by Gallupski back
Speaker 1: in the eighties, but back then she'd been too scared
Speaker 1: of what he could do to her to report him
Speaker 1: or speak out, so she kept her story a secret
Speaker 1: out of fear that Gallupski might enact revenge. But now
Speaker 1: that her son had a solid legal team around him
Speaker 1: and culture was shifting to better support victims, Rose decided
Speaker 1: it was finally time to speak out. She hoped it
Speaker 1: would help her son's case, but finding out that his
Speaker 1: mother had been holding on to her painful secret for
Speaker 1: so long hit Lamont hard.
Speaker 3: I felt angry. I wanted to hurt that man his
Speaker 3: due violated my mother.
Speaker 1: Glupski had sexually as Rose intimidated Nico and rushed through
Speaker 1: a flawed investigation that had put Lamont behind bars. But
Speaker 1: as Lamont's lawyers dig deeper, they learned that the Queen's
Speaker 1: and McIntyre's weren't his only victims. They were on the
Speaker 1: edge of a shocking discovery, and.
Speaker 3: That changed the direction and altered the direction of my
Speaker 3: whole life.
Speaker 1: By twenty sixteen, Lamont's legal team had built up a
Speaker 1: case to try and prove his innocence, but they needed
Speaker 1: someone to help them further investigate Gelupski's history of misconduct,
Speaker 1: so they asked around until they found the perfect woman
Speaker 1: for the job.
Speaker 5: I am Kadizra Hardaway. I grew up in Kansas City, Missouri.
Speaker 1: Kadija is a black woman in her early fifties who
Speaker 1: loves God, art and helping people feel confident by doing
Speaker 1: their hair. The other central pillar of her life is
Speaker 1: social justice.
Speaker 5: Growing up, I was probably the most outspoken child in
Speaker 5: my family, and I still am. I was taught to
Speaker 5: be an activist, probably at the age of five, like
Speaker 5: I've been holding a bullhorn for that long. I'm fifty now.
Speaker 1: Kadija had spent years working with Alvin Sykes, a civil
Speaker 1: rights advocate who helped bring about the Emmet Till unsolved
Speaker 1: civil Rights Crime Act of two thousand and seven. The
Speaker 1: act allowed historic unsolved crimes committed against African Americans before
Speaker 1: nineteen seventy to be reopened by law enforcement, especially crimes
Speaker 1: related to the civil rights movement.
Speaker 5: We went around a country asking people to come forward
Speaker 5: so that their loved ones, if they were civil rights
Speaker 5: or human rights activists, their one's murders could be investigated.
Speaker 5: So I always find a way, I guess the spiritifires
Speaker 5: a way to have me work in cold cases.
Speaker 1: It was this background in unsolved crimes which led Lamont
Speaker 1: McIntyre's lawyers to reach out to Kadeza for help.
Speaker 5: When I heard the story, it was heart wrenching, right,
Speaker 5: but I didn't know who he was. I'd never seen
Speaker 5: a story in the media or anything.
Speaker 1: The more Kadiza discovered about what Lamont had been through
Speaker 1: at the hands of Detective Glupski, the more determined she
Speaker 1: became to get to the bottom of what had really
Speaker 1: been going on.
Speaker 5: And it was like we needed to get justice.
Speaker 1: In the spring of twenty seventeen, Lamont's legal team holds
Speaker 1: a press conference to raise awareness of his case. The
Speaker 1: venue is first Baptist church in Kansas City, Kansas a
Speaker 1: large red brick church which sits on Fifth Street, just
Speaker 1: blocks away from the courthouse.
Speaker 5: All of media of Kansas City was in the room.
Speaker 5: Every channel, every newspaper was in the room.
Speaker 1: The pews are filled with cameras and journalists holding microphones.
Speaker 1: There's a speaker's podium below the poolpit.
Speaker 5: The Kansasity, Kanson, the Kansas City Star, Channel four, five, nine,
Speaker 5: and forty one were all in the room.
Speaker 1: As the press conference begins, speakers are symbol beside the podium.
Speaker 5: There was Reverend Rowland, who is the minister at First
Speaker 5: Baptist Church, along with Lamont McIntyre's mother and lawyers.
Speaker 1: They all speak about their role in the case, and
Speaker 1: then they passed the mic to Khadija, who stands tall
Speaker 1: and looks straight ahead at the audience of reporters, steady
Speaker 1: beneath the glare of a dozen lenses. She asked that
Speaker 1: anybody who has stories about Roger Glupski or their experiences
Speaker 1: with the police department get in contact with her. She
Speaker 1: records her piece and goes home. When clips of the
Speaker 1: press conference are aired on TV that day, the response
Speaker 1: is astonishing.
Speaker 5: Once it hit the media, my phone immediately started ringing
Speaker 5: like I probably got when the first ten minutes of
Speaker 5: the news for broadcasts coming on, I probably got five
Speaker 5: calls of people saying, Hey, I know that guy, I
Speaker 5: know what he did to this person. I know what
Speaker 5: he did to that person.
Speaker 1: And the stories kept coming.
Speaker 5: I began to get calls from people who lived in
Speaker 5: Wyandot County who had loved ones who were affected one
Speaker 5: way or another by Roger Galuski and or the police department.
Speaker 1: In that moment, Kadizu realized that this story was much
Speaker 1: bigger than she'd imagined. What had begun as a plea
Speaker 1: to help exonerate one man was about to become a
Speaker 1: movement to expose decade's worth of abuse, and Khadiza was
Speaker 1: about to have a conversation with a woman whose story
Speaker 1: would change everything. I got you, I got you, I
Speaker 1: got you. One of the first survivors Kadeza Hardaway spoke
Speaker 1: to while trying to gather information to exonerate Lamont was
Speaker 1: Ophelia Williams in twenty seventeen. Ophelia is a black woman
Speaker 1: in her mid fifties with locks and weary eyes. Kadiza
Speaker 1: recalls the meeting for the first time. At first Baptist
Speaker 1: church in Kansas City, Kansas. They were introduced by the
Speaker 1: director of a local social justice organization.
Speaker 5: When I first met her, she was really timid. I
Speaker 5: wouldn't necessarily say there was like this spear in her,
Speaker 5: but you could sense the deep pain in her from
Speaker 5: what she had experienced.
Speaker 1: After talking for a little while and getting comfortable, Ophilia
Speaker 1: told Kadija her story, which began nearly twenty years earlier.
Speaker 1: It's a summer day in the August of nineteen ninety nine,
Speaker 1: and Ophilia William's two sons, Ronelle and Donnelle, have just
Speaker 1: been arrested in Kansas City, Kansas, on suspicion of a
Speaker 1: double homicide. Their children only fourteen, but they were sent
Speaker 1: to the police station and questioned without their mother or
Speaker 1: a lawyer present. Ophilia is devastated, sitting at home in
Speaker 1: a state of despair. Aphelia didn't speak publicly at the time,
Speaker 1: but she did talk to the press years later about
Speaker 1: what happened to her.
Speaker 4: To Looseby arrested my twin sons at the age of fourteen.
Speaker 4: While they locked up in jail, he decided to come
Speaker 4: over my house.
Speaker 1: Ophelia tells the story of how Gelupski sat beside her
Speaker 1: on her couch and told her that he knew people
Speaker 1: who could help her sons with their case, but he
Speaker 1: spent the entire conversation leering at her, looking at her
Speaker 1: body in a way that made her uncomfortable. After a moment,
Speaker 1: he placed his hand on her leg. Ophilia slapped it away,
Speaker 1: but he persisted.
Speaker 4: Golosey rape me. He came back and back. I said,
Speaker 4: I'm gonna tell and he said who you gonna tell?
Speaker 4: I said, I'm look all the police. He said, I
Speaker 4: am the police.
Speaker 1: If she couldn't turn to the authorities to report sexual
Speaker 1: assault because the man who had done it was a
Speaker 1: police officer, who could she turn to. Kadizu realized the
Speaker 1: story was early similar to that of Rose McIntyre, Lamont's mother,
Speaker 1: who Gulupski had assaulted before targeting her child.
Speaker 4: The reason why it took me so long to come out,
Speaker 4: like I said, my twins was only fourteen and Geloospi
Speaker 4: knew a lot of people in jail.
Speaker 1: Gulupski used his authority in the Kansas City, Kansas Police
Speaker 1: Department to enter Aphilia's home and use the threat of
Speaker 1: something happening to her sons against her, despite Kallupski's empty
Speaker 1: promises to help them. Ronelle and Donnelle were convicted of
Speaker 1: the double homicide in two thousand. Donnell took a plea
Speaker 1: deal and was given two concurrent life sentences. Ronelle maintained
Speaker 1: his innocence. His sentence will have him in prison until
Speaker 1: twenty fifty. Kadiza was struck by how much Aphilia had
Speaker 1: been holding on to alone.
Speaker 5: You definitely got the sense of pain and almost like
Speaker 5: a sense of urgency. You know, most victims, they seem
Speaker 5: to have a sense of urgency. You can just feel
Speaker 5: like this intensity for something to happen.
Speaker 1: And the stories kept coming. Some people told Khadija that
Speaker 1: they thought Gallupski was targeting their families. Others suspected that
Speaker 1: he'd framed their relatives for crimes they hadn't committed. But
Speaker 1: the majority of calls came from women who found themselves
Speaker 1: embroiled in a pattern of abuse. Kadiza's phone kept ringing.
Speaker 1: There were more and more stories about Detective Glupski.
Speaker 5: How he stalked them, sitting on their porch, sitting in
Speaker 5: front of their house, shining lights in their house in
Speaker 5: the middle of the night, calling people and just hanging
Speaker 5: up on them, following them on the road. Not just
Speaker 5: one person following them, but multiple people following them, the
Speaker 5: same kind of vehicles, same kind of cars mentioned in
Speaker 5: these stories.
Speaker 1: They had spent years siloed in silence, But as Kadiza
Speaker 1: compiled the story she was hearing, she began to map
Speaker 1: out the connections between Gallupski and families across the city,
Speaker 1: women who'd been too scared to speak out until now.
Speaker 1: The mcintires had spent years saying that Roger Glupski was
Speaker 1: at the heart of the miscarriage of justice that had
Speaker 1: decimated their family, but their investigation had opened the floodgates
Speaker 1: to dozens of stories from women and families just like them,
Speaker 1: people in the community whose lives had been destroyed by Gallupski.
Speaker 1: It was enough to start building a case for Lamont's innocence.
Speaker 5: I wouldn't necessarily say I thought I was prepared for
Speaker 5: the kind of fight that we took on. I just
Speaker 5: knew that it was important that we capitalized after that time,
Speaker 5: and so I encouraged that community to fight back.
Speaker 1: Nico Quinn was on board. Lamont's lawyers were locked in
Speaker 1: and there was evidence going back years. Now, all they
Speaker 1: needed to do was convince a court of law. In
Speaker 1: twenty seventeen, the city Kansas got a new district attorney,
Speaker 1: their first ever black DA, Mark Dupree. He had grown
Speaker 1: up in Casey, k and had known about Lamon's case
Speaker 1: for years.
Speaker 6: Lamont McIntyre when he went into custody, he was just
Speaker 6: about three years I believe older than me. People talked
Speaker 6: about it, and people on the street knew about it,
Speaker 6: and my church was not far from the location where
Speaker 6: all of this transpired.
Speaker 1: Dupre had direct connection to the community, and his role
Speaker 1: is the city's first black DA felt like a sign
Speaker 1: that things were changing. So Lamont's legal team did what
Speaker 1: they could to make reinvestigating Lamon's case his top priority.
Speaker 6: I was bombarded by the criminal defense attorneys who had
Speaker 6: been working with Lamont, sending me tons of information that
Speaker 6: the community was not aware of concerning his case and said, listen,
Speaker 6: if you get in there, you have to look into this.
Speaker 1: Dupre went to the prison to go and visit Lamont
Speaker 1: and talk to him about his case.
Speaker 3: I said, Danny came in. He said, what do you
Speaker 3: want to say to me? I said, fout evidence. I'm
Speaker 3: not gonna say anything. I'm not gonna beg you for
Speaker 3: my life. I'm not gonna do anything I said. All
Speaker 3: I want you to do is fault evidence.
Speaker 6: It was at that point that I really began to
Speaker 6: take a real strong legal look at this case, not
Speaker 6: the you know, the system just you know, gets over
Speaker 6: on people type of viewpoint, but more so of okay,
Speaker 6: what's happening and what's going on.
Speaker 1: When Da Dupre looked into how the investigation had been conducted,
Speaker 1: he was surprised to see just how quickly things had unfolded.
Speaker 1: Back in nineteen ninety four, Lamont had been arrested just
Speaker 1: hours after the shooting without any clear motive.
Speaker 6: Ultimately, it becomes the fastest investigation concerning a homicide ever
Speaker 6: to know, man, I think it took six hours, maybe
Speaker 6: eight to ultimately have Lamont McIntyre locked up and ready
Speaker 6: to be charged for a crime of double homicide.
Speaker 1: To pre examine the holes in the police investigation in
Speaker 1: Nico's claim that former DA Tara Moorehead had allegedly used
Speaker 1: witness intimidation to build her case.
Speaker 6: The facts ends up coming out that the story was
Speaker 6: not as it was told. In fact, the evidence ends
Speaker 6: up showing that this young lady tried to withdraw her testimony.
Speaker 1: The evidence was damning building in Lamont's favor, but the
Speaker 1: DA needed more.
Speaker 6: I went to multiple prisons to speak to individuals who
Speaker 6: were witnesses, individuals who were king pans back in the day,
Speaker 6: Individuals who refused to talk back then, but was absolutely involved.
Speaker 1: In October twenty seventeen, people from across Kansas City returned
Speaker 1: to the Windye County District Court. Die Dupree walked in
Speaker 1: equipped with his findings. The Mont's legal team laid out
Speaker 1: all the flaws they found in the original investigation and
Speaker 1: the evidence they gathered to try to prove his innocence.
Speaker 1: Another key piece of evidence was the testimony of Cecil Brooks,
Speaker 1: he and a guy called Monster, where the drug dealers
Speaker 1: Nico Quinn thought were responsible for her cousin Danielle's murder.
Speaker 1: Lamont's lawyers had found Cecil and questioned him about what
Speaker 1: had really gone down in nineteen ninety four. Here's part
Speaker 1: of what he had to say in a NAFFA David
Speaker 1: read by an actor.
Speaker 7: There was some conversation about Donnie still in dope.
Speaker 1: By Donnie, he means Danielle Quinn Nko's cousin.
Speaker 7: Some dope came up missing and he did not return
Speaker 7: with what he stole. As a result, two junkies, Donnie
Speaker 7: and the other Quinn got killed.
Speaker 1: And here's the kicker.
Speaker 7: Cecil alleges, the guy who got convicted for these murders
Speaker 7: had nothing to do with it.
Speaker 2: None of us had ever heard of him.
Speaker 7: Monster did the murders, Monster got paid to do the murder,
Speaker 7: the wrong guy got arrested.
Speaker 1: Cecil's allegations about Monster were never proven in a court
Speaker 1: of law, and Monster was never charged. After sitting in
Speaker 1: court for two days and listening to evidence and testimonies
Speaker 1: about how his case had been handled, Lamont went back
Speaker 1: to his holding cell. All he could do was wait.
Speaker 3: Normally I would sit there for forty five minutes, and
Speaker 3: today break I sat there for that long, and then
Speaker 3: something told me something was going on, but I don't
Speaker 3: know what. So when I got back to the courtroom,
Speaker 3: it was real quiet, and my lawyer was sitting across
Speaker 3: from me. She was looking down and I asked her,
Speaker 3: what's going on. She says, I don't know what's going on.
Speaker 3: So I'm sitting there, Mark dupre get up. He walks
Speaker 3: to the podium and he starts speaking. He says, I
Speaker 3: want to introduce Exhibit A through z is evidence.
Speaker 1: Dupree talked about the evidence Lamont's team had brought forward
Speaker 1: and the information he found through his own investigation. The
Speaker 1: trial was supposed to last around a week.
Speaker 6: By day two, on top of all of my investigation,
Speaker 6: it was very clear that the information they was providing
Speaker 6: aligned with the information that I had saw.
Speaker 1: Dupree had come to a conclusion about Lamont's conviction.
Speaker 6: He did not received a fair trial, He was not
Speaker 6: given adequate assistance and defense, along with the many other
Speaker 6: issues that occurred. But that was the real basis of
Speaker 6: the manifest injustice and this case. If you take away
Speaker 6: all of the fake stuff, if you take away all
Speaker 6: of the potential corruption, and you get down to the
Speaker 6: nitty gritty, which is what I ultimately did. The bottom
Speaker 6: line was that there was not enough facts or evidence
Speaker 6: to prove that Lamont did this.
Speaker 1: He didn't do his crime. The DA presents his final summary.
Speaker 3: And all of a sudden I heard him say, and
Speaker 3: I would like to drop all charges. They moved so fast,
Speaker 3: and having so fast, I felt the room shake. Everybody
Speaker 3: in the room just go crazy. I felt the eruption
Speaker 3: of the roar of the room.
Speaker 1: Lamont is finally free. He changes into regular clothes for
Speaker 1: the first time in twenty three years and walks out
Speaker 1: into the sun.
Speaker 2: My mother. I saw her and I hugged her.
Speaker 1: In that moment, Lamont felt numb, but that feeling would
Speaker 1: eventually turn to relief. The last time he hugged his
Speaker 1: mother Rose, he'd been a regular sixteen year old boy
Speaker 1: trying to get through high school. At forty one, he's
Speaker 1: a grown man who spent more than half of his
Speaker 1: life behind bars. Now he's finally free to dream about
Speaker 1: the life that lays ahead of him, But first he
Speaker 1: has to come to terms with everything his teenage self
Speaker 1: left behind.
Speaker 3: I walked out to a bunch of strangers that I
Speaker 3: had no connection with and my siblings. They look different,
Speaker 3: my friends I was really close to.
Speaker 1: But there was one stranger in the crowd who he
Speaker 1: does recognize.
Speaker 2: I saw the witnesses when I marked up to me,
Speaker 2: and she looked sick.
Speaker 8: Nico Quinn, I was nervous, and what played in my
Speaker 8: head is this seventeen year old boy that I seen
Speaker 8: when he was seventeen. I hadn't seen him since then,
Speaker 8: so I had wrote a letter to Lamont, and it
Speaker 8: was just telling him that the twenty three years that
Speaker 8: he was incarcerated, so was I.
Speaker 5: Mentally.
Speaker 8: I had butterflies because I didn't know what his response
Speaker 8: to me would be.
Speaker 1: When they find each other outside court, all those worries
Speaker 1: fade away. I was able to hug him and tell
Speaker 1: him I was sorry, and.
Speaker 2: I hugged her, and I whispered too, I forgive you.
Speaker 3: I have been given her a long time ago, and
Speaker 3: I felt so there was a young person that was
Speaker 3: taking advantage of two I done. Had no harm it
Speaker 3: will towards her, But I seen her. I hugged her,
Speaker 3: and I whispered to, I forgive you. Being hateful and
Speaker 3: spiteful and angry that other people will only hurt you.
Speaker 3: I don't hold that energy inside of me because I'm
Speaker 3: the only one being affected by it.
Speaker 2: So I learned how to forgive people to free myself.
Speaker 1: Lamont is exonerated and Niko is freed of her guilt.
Speaker 1: But this story is not over. From the outside, it
Speaker 1: looked like the case of a seemingly corrupt assistant district
Speaker 1: attorney and a crooked cop coming together to frame an
Speaker 1: innocent man. But in looking for stories to help exonerate Lamont,
Speaker 1: Kadija had stumbled across something even darker, the decades worth
Speaker 1: of abuse Detective Roger Glupski had inflicted on women across
Speaker 1: Kansas City. And she was now determined to get justice.
Speaker 5: And so I was motivated to bring these women's story
Speaker 5: to life on a national platform.
Speaker 1: Because the time had come to stand up and speak
Speaker 1: out about Roger Gallupski.
Speaker 5: You may think you have the power today, but as
Speaker 5: God is my witness, the power is with the people,
Speaker 5: and we're going to turn the tables on you. You're
Speaker 5: coming out of here.
Speaker 1: Coming up on the Girlfriends Untouchable.
Speaker 5: He looks like the person who would cut up the
Speaker 5: cat and put it in his street.
Speaker 1: He does look hard, but he looks like somebody who would.
Speaker 2: Get away with it. Roger just being Roger. You know,
Speaker 2: that's kind of like a boye We'll be boy.
Speaker 5: It's just speaks to how tough this Fike is all
Speaker 5: the time.
Speaker 9: And I'm like, Father, God, why is this soul? Why
Speaker 9: am I the last one to talk to these women?
Speaker 9: And then they're gone.
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