WEBVTT - The Girlfriends S4/E3: The Two Day Trial 0:00:00.200 --> 0:00:04.720 Hey, it's Nikki, the host of The Girlfriend's Untouchable. This 0:00:04.840 --> 0:00:07.800 episode will tell the story of how an incredible group 0:00:07.840 --> 0:00:10.400 of people in my city fought to get justice for 0:00:10.440 --> 0:00:13.720 the people they love. But in the process we'll hear 0:00:13.840 --> 0:00:19.880 stories that involve violence, murder, suicide, and sexual assault. While 0:00:19.880 --> 0:00:22.920 it's rooted in hope, it may be a tough listen 0:00:22.960 --> 0:00:26.800 at times if you or someone you love has been 0:00:26.800 --> 0:00:30.040 affected by any of the themes in the show. We've 0:00:30.120 --> 0:00:33.239 left some links in the description that offer resources and 0:00:33.320 --> 0:00:40.120 support take care of yourself. There are some numbers I'm 0:00:40.159 --> 0:00:44.040 always going to remember my childhood best friend's birthday, my 0:00:44.080 --> 0:00:47.040 mom's old phone number, and the address of the house 0:00:47.120 --> 0:00:51.000 I lived in as a little kid. For Lamont McIntyre, 0:00:51.400 --> 0:00:54.200 those memorable numbers are a five digit. 0:00:53.920 --> 0:00:58.040 Code six, so five five eight. 0:00:58.840 --> 0:01:01.880 The inmate number he was given at seventeen years old. 0:01:02.560 --> 0:01:04.959 I was processed as a maximum security in made because 0:01:04.959 --> 0:01:07.800 I had two murders, so I became six or five 0:01:07.880 --> 0:01:10.479 five eight now no more than Lamon mgnatarre. 0:01:11.800 --> 0:01:15.959 He was sent to Hutchinson Correctional Facility, a state prison. 0:01:16.400 --> 0:01:17.720 They called it Gladair School. 0:01:18.200 --> 0:01:21.440 It's the most tension field bottom place you ever going 0:01:21.520 --> 0:01:22.000 your life. 0:01:22.480 --> 0:01:25.360 The first ten years in prison were rough. Lamon had 0:01:25.400 --> 0:01:28.399 been convicted of a double homicide. He insisted he had 0:01:28.480 --> 0:01:32.520 nothing to do with the experience plunged him into a deep. 0:01:32.319 --> 0:01:35.560 Depression, and they had me on suicide watch. As a 0:01:35.600 --> 0:01:37.000 young person, I don't know how to deal with that. 0:01:37.080 --> 0:01:41.240 So my nickname became Mugs because I never smiled. I 0:01:41.240 --> 0:01:44.160 started losing my hair, I started losing my health. 0:01:47.760 --> 0:01:50.520 While he would occasionally get visits from people he loved, 0:01:51.200 --> 0:01:53.920 Lamont realized that the life he'd left on the outside 0:01:54.040 --> 0:01:57.240 was moving on without him. He went through deep phases 0:01:57.280 --> 0:02:00.960 of despair until he made a friend behind barr And 0:02:01.000 --> 0:02:01.200 there was. 0:02:01.160 --> 0:02:03.600 A guy named Shorty. And there Shorty was dying and 0:02:03.640 --> 0:02:04.640 there was no cure for him. 0:02:04.640 --> 0:02:05.560 He was dying. He knew it. 0:02:06.080 --> 0:02:09.640 Shorty had severe liver damage, but he stared death in 0:02:09.680 --> 0:02:12.079 the eye with an inspiring level of clarity. 0:02:15.280 --> 0:02:18.200 Shorty had the most peaceful demeanor. He was so peaceful. 0:02:18.520 --> 0:02:22.120 He told me about spirituality. When I learned about being 0:02:22.200 --> 0:02:25.160 more peaceful, more calm, more in the moment, I started 0:02:25.200 --> 0:02:28.480 to educate myself. I started to meditate, I started to exercise. 0:02:29.120 --> 0:02:34.280 My mindset changed when my mindset changed. Everything changed. At 0:02:34.320 --> 0:02:37.560 the ten years of being there, I started the focus. 0:02:37.200 --> 0:02:42.799 On getting out, and the perfect opportunity came along when 0:02:42.840 --> 0:02:44.960 one of his prison buddies gave him a gift. 0:02:45.440 --> 0:02:48.920 It's not the Jet magazines, and these jet magazines were 0:02:49.000 --> 0:02:50.639 sitting here on Ministries. 0:02:50.600 --> 0:02:55.240 An organization that helps exonerate innocent people who've been falsely convicted. 0:02:56.520 --> 0:03:00.960 Lamont exchanged letters with Centurion Ministries for years as he 0:03:01.040 --> 0:03:04.240 tried to get them to take on his case. In 0:03:04.240 --> 0:03:06.880 two thousand and nine, he finally got a visit from 0:03:06.880 --> 0:03:12.200 their founder, Jim mcclowskey. 0:03:12.880 --> 0:03:15.720 He was November and it was cold, and he walked 0:03:15.720 --> 0:03:16.679 into the visitor room. 0:03:17.320 --> 0:03:19.800 Lamont felt a flicker of hope as he realized that 0:03:19.880 --> 0:03:22.800 the older white man in the room, Jim, was there 0:03:22.840 --> 0:03:23.560 to see him. 0:03:24.280 --> 0:03:26.360 He gave me a hug and he looked at me. 0:03:26.400 --> 0:03:28.760 He said, I got some good news for you. I said, 0:03:28.760 --> 0:03:31.480 what's the good news? He said, We're taking your case. 0:03:35.040 --> 0:03:38.240 Lamont was relieved to finally have a legal team willing 0:03:38.280 --> 0:03:41.640 to fight for him, but then they started digging into 0:03:41.680 --> 0:03:42.120 the case. 0:03:43.440 --> 0:03:45.640 My lawd come to see me and say you were 0:03:45.680 --> 0:03:48.320 set up. I said, what do you mean. 0:03:49.440 --> 0:03:52.119 Set up by Who and Why. 0:03:55.520 --> 0:03:55.720 Why. 0:04:01.760 --> 0:04:04.760 I'm Nikki Richardson and from the teams at Novel and 0:04:04.840 --> 0:04:29.320 iHeart Podcasts, This is the Girlfriend's Untouchable. By episode three 0:04:30.000 --> 0:04:43.960 the two day trial, Lamart McIntyre had found a team 0:04:44.000 --> 0:04:45.719 of lawyers to look into his case. 0:04:46.680 --> 0:04:49.520 Starting out, we just wanted to find out how did 0:04:49.520 --> 0:04:50.720 I end up in this situation. 0:04:51.360 --> 0:04:55.159 They needed to examine every aspect of the nineteen ninety 0:04:55.160 --> 0:04:59.279 four investigation into the murders of Donnielle Quinn and Donnie Ewing. 0:05:02.760 --> 0:05:05.839 Lamont's legal team's theory that he had been set up 0:05:06.279 --> 0:05:11.000 was based on two things. First, the witness testimonies which 0:05:11.000 --> 0:05:13.200 had put Lamont at the scene of the murders. 0:05:13.560 --> 0:05:17.200 Doing my lawyer's investigation, they come to find out that 0:05:17.240 --> 0:05:18.799 the district attorney and Tara Moore. 0:05:18.640 --> 0:05:23.600 Had cheated She threatened the witnesses. 0:05:24.760 --> 0:05:27.520 We reached out to Tara moorehead and her lawyer to 0:05:27.560 --> 0:05:31.440 ask her about Nico's claims of witness intimidation. She did 0:05:31.480 --> 0:05:36.080 not wish to provide a comment. Nico Quinn had recanted 0:05:36.120 --> 0:05:39.400 her testimony back in the nineties when Lamont first tried 0:05:39.400 --> 0:05:42.919 to appeal his case. That had come to nothing, but 0:05:43.000 --> 0:05:45.279 when the Mont's legal team reached out to her again. 0:05:45.400 --> 0:05:50.400 In twenty fourteen, she signed another affidavit confessing her false testimony, 0:05:51.640 --> 0:05:57.000 and there was more. Lamont's lawyers had gone in wanting 0:05:57.040 --> 0:05:59.960 to build a case for his innocence, but they kept 0:06:00.160 --> 0:06:03.840 finding stories about the detective at the heart of the investigation. 0:06:07.040 --> 0:06:10.119 The Raja Glupski thing popped up in my lawyer's face. 0:06:10.920 --> 0:06:14.320 Lamont's mother, Rose, had been sexually assaulted by Gallupski back 0:06:14.320 --> 0:06:18.080 in the eighties, but back then she'd been too scared 0:06:18.120 --> 0:06:20.000 of what he could do to her to report him 0:06:20.160 --> 0:06:24.440 or speak out, so she kept her story a secret 0:06:24.760 --> 0:06:28.920 out of fear that Gallupski might enact revenge. But now 0:06:28.960 --> 0:06:31.400 that her son had a solid legal team around him 0:06:31.960 --> 0:06:36.000 and culture was shifting to better support victims, Rose decided 0:06:36.040 --> 0:06:39.000 it was finally time to speak out. She hoped it 0:06:39.000 --> 0:06:42.159 would help her son's case, but finding out that his 0:06:42.240 --> 0:06:45.000 mother had been holding on to her painful secret for 0:06:45.120 --> 0:06:48.000 so long hit Lamont hard. 0:06:52.200 --> 0:06:56.360 I felt angry. I wanted to hurt that man his 0:06:56.560 --> 0:06:57.680 due violated my mother. 0:06:58.440 --> 0:07:03.680 Glupski had sexually as Rose intimidated Nico and rushed through 0:07:03.680 --> 0:07:07.599 a flawed investigation that had put Lamont behind bars. But 0:07:07.680 --> 0:07:11.120 as Lamont's lawyers dig deeper, they learned that the Queen's 0:07:11.360 --> 0:07:16.400 and McIntyre's weren't his only victims. They were on the 0:07:16.560 --> 0:07:19.680 edge of a shocking discovery, and. 0:07:19.720 --> 0:07:22.600 That changed the direction and altered the direction of my 0:07:22.680 --> 0:07:32.800 whole life. 0:07:33.520 --> 0:07:36.760 By twenty sixteen, Lamont's legal team had built up a 0:07:36.800 --> 0:07:40.280 case to try and prove his innocence, but they needed 0:07:40.280 --> 0:07:44.320 someone to help them further investigate Gelupski's history of misconduct, 0:07:45.160 --> 0:07:48.600 so they asked around until they found the perfect woman 0:07:48.720 --> 0:07:49.440 for the job. 0:07:52.480 --> 0:07:56.680 I am Kadizra Hardaway. I grew up in Kansas City, Missouri. 0:07:57.320 --> 0:07:59.840 Kadija is a black woman in her early fifties who 0:08:00.080 --> 0:08:03.360 loves God, art and helping people feel confident by doing 0:08:03.400 --> 0:08:07.080 their hair. The other central pillar of her life is 0:08:07.120 --> 0:08:09.040 social justice. 0:08:09.400 --> 0:08:14.280 Growing up, I was probably the most outspoken child in 0:08:14.320 --> 0:08:19.320 my family, and I still am. I was taught to 0:08:19.360 --> 0:08:21.920 be an activist, probably at the age of five, like 0:08:21.960 --> 0:08:25.000 I've been holding a bullhorn for that long. I'm fifty now. 0:08:28.440 --> 0:08:32.040 Kadija had spent years working with Alvin Sykes, a civil 0:08:32.160 --> 0:08:35.559 rights advocate who helped bring about the Emmet Till unsolved 0:08:35.559 --> 0:08:39.360 civil Rights Crime Act of two thousand and seven. The 0:08:39.480 --> 0:08:43.960 act allowed historic unsolved crimes committed against African Americans before 0:08:44.080 --> 0:08:49.360 nineteen seventy to be reopened by law enforcement, especially crimes 0:08:49.400 --> 0:08:51.040 related to the civil rights movement. 0:08:51.880 --> 0:08:54.880 We went around a country asking people to come forward 0:08:55.360 --> 0:08:57.880 so that their loved ones, if they were civil rights 0:08:57.960 --> 0:09:01.920 or human rights activists, their one's murders could be investigated. 0:09:02.360 --> 0:09:06.080 So I always find a way, I guess the spiritifires 0:09:06.120 --> 0:09:09.400 a way to have me work in cold cases. 0:09:10.040 --> 0:09:13.440 It was this background in unsolved crimes which led Lamont 0:09:13.480 --> 0:09:16.439 McIntyre's lawyers to reach out to Kadeza for help. 0:09:16.760 --> 0:09:19.880 When I heard the story, it was heart wrenching, right, 0:09:20.840 --> 0:09:23.120 but I didn't know who he was. I'd never seen 0:09:23.160 --> 0:09:25.080 a story in the media or anything. 0:09:25.720 --> 0:09:28.640 The more Kadiza discovered about what Lamont had been through 0:09:29.160 --> 0:09:33.280 at the hands of Detective Glupski, the more determined she 0:09:33.360 --> 0:09:36.760 became to get to the bottom of what had really 0:09:36.960 --> 0:09:37.800 been going on. 0:09:38.640 --> 0:09:40.760 And it was like we needed to get justice. 0:09:44.040 --> 0:09:47.960 In the spring of twenty seventeen, Lamont's legal team holds 0:09:47.960 --> 0:09:51.880 a press conference to raise awareness of his case. The 0:09:52.000 --> 0:09:56.800 venue is first Baptist church in Kansas City, Kansas a 0:09:56.920 --> 0:10:00.520 large red brick church which sits on Fifth Street, just 0:10:00.600 --> 0:10:02.079 blocks away from the courthouse. 0:10:03.040 --> 0:10:06.320 All of media of Kansas City was in the room. 0:10:06.640 --> 0:10:10.120 Every channel, every newspaper was in the room. 0:10:10.559 --> 0:10:14.040 The pews are filled with cameras and journalists holding microphones. 0:10:14.720 --> 0:10:16.800 There's a speaker's podium below the poolpit. 0:10:17.640 --> 0:10:22.839 The Kansasity, Kanson, the Kansas City Star, Channel four, five, nine, 0:10:22.960 --> 0:10:29.719 and forty one were all in the room. 0:10:29.840 --> 0:10:34.200 As the press conference begins, speakers are symbol beside the podium. 0:10:34.840 --> 0:10:39.240 There was Reverend Rowland, who is the minister at First 0:10:39.320 --> 0:10:45.119 Baptist Church, along with Lamont McIntyre's mother and lawyers. 0:10:45.800 --> 0:10:48.560 They all speak about their role in the case, and 0:10:48.600 --> 0:10:52.160 then they passed the mic to Khadija, who stands tall 0:10:52.480 --> 0:10:56.280 and looks straight ahead at the audience of reporters, steady 0:10:56.320 --> 0:10:59.760 beneath the glare of a dozen lenses. She asked that 0:11:00.000 --> 0:11:03.880 anybody who has stories about Roger Glupski or their experiences 0:11:03.920 --> 0:11:08.480 with the police department get in contact with her. She 0:11:08.600 --> 0:11:11.640 records her piece and goes home. When clips of the 0:11:11.640 --> 0:11:15.079 press conference are aired on TV that day, the response 0:11:15.440 --> 0:11:16.280 is astonishing. 0:11:17.200 --> 0:11:20.480 Once it hit the media, my phone immediately started ringing 0:11:20.600 --> 0:11:25.080 like I probably got when the first ten minutes of 0:11:25.120 --> 0:11:27.680 the news for broadcasts coming on, I probably got five 0:11:27.800 --> 0:11:30.280 calls of people saying, Hey, I know that guy, I 0:11:30.280 --> 0:11:31.960 know what he did to this person. I know what 0:11:32.040 --> 0:11:33.040 he did to that person. 0:11:33.720 --> 0:11:35.240 And the stories kept coming. 0:11:35.960 --> 0:11:38.800 I began to get calls from people who lived in 0:11:38.840 --> 0:11:42.160 Wyandot County who had loved ones who were affected one 0:11:42.160 --> 0:11:45.520 way or another by Roger Galuski and or the police department. 0:11:47.320 --> 0:11:51.000 In that moment, Kadizu realized that this story was much 0:11:51.040 --> 0:11:55.040 bigger than she'd imagined. What had begun as a plea 0:11:55.200 --> 0:11:58.440 to help exonerate one man was about to become a 0:11:58.559 --> 0:12:03.319 movement to expose decade's worth of abuse, and Khadiza was 0:12:03.360 --> 0:12:06.319 about to have a conversation with a woman whose story 0:12:06.400 --> 0:12:22.600 would change everything. I got you, I got you, I 0:12:22.720 --> 0:12:28.839 got you. One of the first survivors Kadeza Hardaway spoke 0:12:28.920 --> 0:12:32.320 to while trying to gather information to exonerate Lamont was 0:12:32.360 --> 0:12:36.960 Ophelia Williams in twenty seventeen. Ophelia is a black woman 0:12:37.000 --> 0:12:41.560 in her mid fifties with locks and weary eyes. Kadiza 0:12:41.640 --> 0:12:44.319 recalls the meeting for the first time. At first Baptist 0:12:44.440 --> 0:12:48.320 church in Kansas City, Kansas. They were introduced by the 0:12:48.360 --> 0:12:51.040 director of a local social justice organization. 0:12:51.880 --> 0:12:55.120 When I first met her, she was really timid. I 0:12:55.160 --> 0:12:59.080 wouldn't necessarily say there was like this spear in her, 0:12:59.600 --> 0:13:02.560 but you could sense the deep pain in her from 0:13:02.600 --> 0:13:04.079 what she had experienced. 0:13:04.800 --> 0:13:08.640 After talking for a little while and getting comfortable, Ophilia 0:13:08.720 --> 0:13:12.720 told Kadija her story, which began nearly twenty years earlier. 0:13:16.280 --> 0:13:19.240 It's a summer day in the August of nineteen ninety nine, 0:13:19.880 --> 0:13:23.960 and Ophilia William's two sons, Ronelle and Donnelle, have just 0:13:24.040 --> 0:13:27.760 been arrested in Kansas City, Kansas, on suspicion of a 0:13:27.760 --> 0:13:33.280 double homicide. Their children only fourteen, but they were sent 0:13:33.360 --> 0:13:36.559 to the police station and questioned without their mother or 0:13:36.600 --> 0:13:43.080 a lawyer present. Ophilia is devastated, sitting at home in 0:13:43.120 --> 0:13:48.000 a state of despair. Aphelia didn't speak publicly at the time, 0:13:48.480 --> 0:13:51.000 but she did talk to the press years later about 0:13:51.040 --> 0:13:52.000 what happened to her. 0:13:53.040 --> 0:13:59.240 To Looseby arrested my twin sons at the age of fourteen. 0:14:01.160 --> 0:14:05.440 While they locked up in jail, he decided to come 0:14:05.520 --> 0:14:06.559 over my house. 0:14:07.360 --> 0:14:10.880 Ophelia tells the story of how Gelupski sat beside her 0:14:11.000 --> 0:14:14.000 on her couch and told her that he knew people 0:14:14.000 --> 0:14:17.360 who could help her sons with their case, but he 0:14:17.440 --> 0:14:22.040 spent the entire conversation leering at her, looking at her 0:14:22.080 --> 0:14:25.960 body in a way that made her uncomfortable. After a moment, 0:14:26.520 --> 0:14:30.560 he placed his hand on her leg. Ophilia slapped it away, 0:14:31.440 --> 0:14:33.080 but he persisted. 0:14:36.000 --> 0:14:44.080 Golosey rape me. He came back and back. I said, 0:14:44.120 --> 0:14:48.000 I'm gonna tell and he said who you gonna tell? 0:14:49.200 --> 0:14:51.800 I said, I'm look all the police. He said, I 0:14:51.840 --> 0:14:53.640 am the police. 0:14:56.680 --> 0:14:59.360 If she couldn't turn to the authorities to report sexual 0:14:59.360 --> 0:15:02.120 assault because the man who had done it was a 0:15:02.120 --> 0:15:09.240 police officer, who could she turn to. Kadizu realized the 0:15:09.320 --> 0:15:14.000 story was early similar to that of Rose McIntyre, Lamont's mother, 0:15:14.640 --> 0:15:17.600 who Gulupski had assaulted before targeting her child. 0:15:18.880 --> 0:15:22.080 The reason why it took me so long to come out, 0:15:23.280 --> 0:15:29.080 like I said, my twins was only fourteen and Geloospi 0:15:29.640 --> 0:15:32.520 knew a lot of people in jail. 0:15:33.600 --> 0:15:36.760 Gulupski used his authority in the Kansas City, Kansas Police 0:15:36.800 --> 0:15:40.920 Department to enter Aphilia's home and use the threat of 0:15:40.960 --> 0:15:45.680 something happening to her sons against her, despite Kallupski's empty 0:15:45.720 --> 0:15:49.440 promises to help them. Ronelle and Donnelle were convicted of 0:15:49.520 --> 0:15:53.720 the double homicide in two thousand. Donnell took a plea 0:15:53.840 --> 0:15:58.240 deal and was given two concurrent life sentences. Ronelle maintained 0:15:58.240 --> 0:16:01.640 his innocence. His sentence will have him in prison until 0:16:01.640 --> 0:16:09.760 twenty fifty. Kadiza was struck by how much Aphilia had 0:16:09.800 --> 0:16:11.760 been holding on to alone. 0:16:12.000 --> 0:16:15.640 You definitely got the sense of pain and almost like 0:16:15.680 --> 0:16:19.240 a sense of urgency. You know, most victims, they seem 0:16:19.320 --> 0:16:22.520 to have a sense of urgency. You can just feel 0:16:22.680 --> 0:16:26.520 like this intensity for something to happen. 0:16:27.280 --> 0:16:31.520 And the stories kept coming. Some people told Khadija that 0:16:31.600 --> 0:16:36.000 they thought Gallupski was targeting their families. Others suspected that 0:16:36.120 --> 0:16:39.960 he'd framed their relatives for crimes they hadn't committed. But 0:16:40.080 --> 0:16:43.880 the majority of calls came from women who found themselves 0:16:43.920 --> 0:16:49.560 embroiled in a pattern of abuse. Kadiza's phone kept ringing. 0:16:50.080 --> 0:16:54.280 There were more and more stories about Detective Glupski. 0:16:55.400 --> 0:16:58.720 How he stalked them, sitting on their porch, sitting in 0:16:58.720 --> 0:17:01.720 front of their house, shining lights in their house in 0:17:01.760 --> 0:17:05.000 the middle of the night, calling people and just hanging 0:17:05.119 --> 0:17:08.320 up on them, following them on the road. Not just 0:17:08.800 --> 0:17:11.800 one person following them, but multiple people following them, the 0:17:11.840 --> 0:17:14.880 same kind of vehicles, same kind of cars mentioned in 0:17:14.960 --> 0:17:15.800 these stories. 0:17:16.600 --> 0:17:20.280 They had spent years siloed in silence, But as Kadiza 0:17:20.359 --> 0:17:23.440 compiled the story she was hearing, she began to map 0:17:23.480 --> 0:17:27.159 out the connections between Gallupski and families across the city, 0:17:27.800 --> 0:17:33.000 women who'd been too scared to speak out until now. 0:17:39.040 --> 0:17:42.480 The mcintires had spent years saying that Roger Glupski was 0:17:42.480 --> 0:17:45.160 at the heart of the miscarriage of justice that had 0:17:45.200 --> 0:17:50.080 decimated their family, but their investigation had opened the floodgates 0:17:50.080 --> 0:17:53.280 to dozens of stories from women and families just like them, 0:17:53.920 --> 0:17:57.080 people in the community whose lives had been destroyed by Gallupski. 0:17:58.080 --> 0:18:01.040 It was enough to start building a case for Lamont's innocence. 0:18:04.359 --> 0:18:07.840 I wouldn't necessarily say I thought I was prepared for 0:18:08.280 --> 0:18:11.560 the kind of fight that we took on. I just 0:18:11.640 --> 0:18:17.000 knew that it was important that we capitalized after that time, 0:18:17.920 --> 0:18:22.440 and so I encouraged that community to fight back. 0:18:24.160 --> 0:18:27.959 Nico Quinn was on board. Lamont's lawyers were locked in 0:18:28.760 --> 0:18:32.760 and there was evidence going back years. Now, all they 0:18:32.800 --> 0:18:58.600 needed to do was convince a court of law. In 0:18:58.640 --> 0:19:02.359 twenty seventeen, the city Kansas got a new district attorney, 0:19:02.880 --> 0:19:10.040 their first ever black DA, Mark Dupree. He had grown 0:19:10.119 --> 0:19:12.920 up in Casey, k and had known about Lamon's case 0:19:12.960 --> 0:19:13.960 for years. 0:19:14.920 --> 0:19:20.239 Lamont McIntyre when he went into custody, he was just 0:19:20.840 --> 0:19:24.360 about three years I believe older than me. People talked 0:19:24.359 --> 0:19:27.320 about it, and people on the street knew about it, 0:19:27.480 --> 0:19:32.080 and my church was not far from the location where 0:19:32.119 --> 0:19:33.440 all of this transpired. 0:19:34.200 --> 0:19:37.560 Dupre had direct connection to the community, and his role 0:19:37.640 --> 0:19:40.320 is the city's first black DA felt like a sign 0:19:40.359 --> 0:19:43.719 that things were changing. So Lamont's legal team did what 0:19:43.760 --> 0:19:48.200 they could to make reinvestigating Lamon's case his top priority. 0:19:49.680 --> 0:19:54.840 I was bombarded by the criminal defense attorneys who had 0:19:54.920 --> 0:19:59.320 been working with Lamont, sending me tons of information that 0:19:59.359 --> 0:20:02.840 the community was not aware of concerning his case and said, listen, 0:20:03.200 --> 0:20:06.400 if you get in there, you have to look into this. 0:20:07.520 --> 0:20:09.919 Dupre went to the prison to go and visit Lamont 0:20:10.040 --> 0:20:11.600 and talk to him about his case. 0:20:13.520 --> 0:20:15.000 I said, Danny came in. He said, what do you 0:20:15.040 --> 0:20:17.800 want to say to me? I said, fout evidence. I'm 0:20:17.800 --> 0:20:19.280 not gonna say anything. I'm not gonna beg you for 0:20:19.320 --> 0:20:21.000 my life. I'm not gonna do anything I said. All 0:20:21.040 --> 0:20:22.480 I want you to do is fault evidence. 0:20:25.640 --> 0:20:28.320 It was at that point that I really began to 0:20:28.400 --> 0:20:33.679 take a real strong legal look at this case, not 0:20:34.040 --> 0:20:36.800 the you know, the system just you know, gets over 0:20:36.840 --> 0:20:39.679 on people type of viewpoint, but more so of okay, 0:20:40.440 --> 0:20:42.000 what's happening and what's going on. 0:20:44.400 --> 0:20:47.919 When Da Dupre looked into how the investigation had been conducted, 0:20:48.640 --> 0:20:52.480 he was surprised to see just how quickly things had unfolded. 0:20:52.520 --> 0:20:56.600 Back in nineteen ninety four, Lamont had been arrested just 0:20:56.760 --> 0:20:59.560 hours after the shooting without any clear motive. 0:21:00.400 --> 0:21:07.600 Ultimately, it becomes the fastest investigation concerning a homicide ever 0:21:07.720 --> 0:21:10.359 to know, man, I think it took six hours, maybe 0:21:10.400 --> 0:21:15.960 eight to ultimately have Lamont McIntyre locked up and ready 0:21:16.000 --> 0:21:20.000 to be charged for a crime of double homicide. 0:21:20.320 --> 0:21:23.119 To pre examine the holes in the police investigation in 0:21:23.200 --> 0:21:27.639 Nico's claim that former DA Tara Moorehead had allegedly used 0:21:27.720 --> 0:21:30.800 witness intimidation to build her case. 0:21:32.680 --> 0:21:36.960 The facts ends up coming out that the story was 0:21:37.040 --> 0:21:40.160 not as it was told. In fact, the evidence ends 0:21:40.240 --> 0:21:44.920 up showing that this young lady tried to withdraw her testimony. 0:21:45.920 --> 0:21:50.520 The evidence was damning building in Lamont's favor, but the 0:21:50.600 --> 0:21:52.480 DA needed more. 0:21:53.520 --> 0:21:57.600 I went to multiple prisons to speak to individuals who 0:21:57.640 --> 0:22:01.320 were witnesses, individuals who were king pans back in the day, 0:22:01.359 --> 0:22:11.880 Individuals who refused to talk back then, but was absolutely involved. 0:22:13.560 --> 0:22:17.640 In October twenty seventeen, people from across Kansas City returned 0:22:17.640 --> 0:22:21.560 to the Windye County District Court. Die Dupree walked in 0:22:21.840 --> 0:22:25.680 equipped with his findings. The Mont's legal team laid out 0:22:25.720 --> 0:22:29.119 all the flaws they found in the original investigation and 0:22:29.200 --> 0:22:31.879 the evidence they gathered to try to prove his innocence. 0:22:33.040 --> 0:22:37.040 Another key piece of evidence was the testimony of Cecil Brooks, 0:22:37.720 --> 0:22:40.520 he and a guy called Monster, where the drug dealers 0:22:40.600 --> 0:22:44.399 Nico Quinn thought were responsible for her cousin Danielle's murder. 0:22:48.400 --> 0:22:51.720 Lamont's lawyers had found Cecil and questioned him about what 0:22:51.800 --> 0:22:55.960 had really gone down in nineteen ninety four. Here's part 0:22:56.000 --> 0:22:58.159 of what he had to say in a NAFFA David 0:22:58.840 --> 0:22:59.800 read by an actor. 0:23:00.960 --> 0:23:04.280 There was some conversation about Donnie still in dope. 0:23:04.440 --> 0:23:08.119 By Donnie, he means Danielle Quinn Nko's cousin. 0:23:08.520 --> 0:23:11.119 Some dope came up missing and he did not return 0:23:11.160 --> 0:23:15.919 with what he stole. As a result, two junkies, Donnie 0:23:16.400 --> 0:23:18.800 and the other Quinn got killed. 0:23:20.200 --> 0:23:21.320 And here's the kicker. 0:23:22.080 --> 0:23:25.440 Cecil alleges, the guy who got convicted for these murders 0:23:25.520 --> 0:23:26.680 had nothing to do with it. 0:23:27.080 --> 0:23:28.640 None of us had ever heard of him. 0:23:29.240 --> 0:23:32.800 Monster did the murders, Monster got paid to do the murder, 0:23:33.520 --> 0:23:34.920 the wrong guy got arrested. 0:23:39.040 --> 0:23:42.520 Cecil's allegations about Monster were never proven in a court 0:23:42.600 --> 0:23:47.959 of law, and Monster was never charged. After sitting in 0:23:48.000 --> 0:23:51.600 court for two days and listening to evidence and testimonies 0:23:51.640 --> 0:23:55.080 about how his case had been handled, Lamont went back 0:23:55.119 --> 0:23:58.440 to his holding cell. All he could do was wait. 0:23:59.640 --> 0:24:01.480 Normally I would sit there for forty five minutes, and 0:24:01.600 --> 0:24:04.800 today break I sat there for that long, and then 0:24:05.600 --> 0:24:07.320 something told me something was going on, but I don't 0:24:07.359 --> 0:24:09.760 know what. So when I got back to the courtroom, 0:24:09.880 --> 0:24:13.040 it was real quiet, and my lawyer was sitting across 0:24:13.040 --> 0:24:15.000 from me. She was looking down and I asked her, 0:24:15.000 --> 0:24:16.880 what's going on. She says, I don't know what's going on. 0:24:17.320 --> 0:24:21.040 So I'm sitting there, Mark dupre get up. He walks 0:24:21.080 --> 0:24:24.800 to the podium and he starts speaking. He says, I 0:24:24.840 --> 0:24:28.640 want to introduce Exhibit A through z is evidence. 0:24:31.800 --> 0:24:35.159 Dupree talked about the evidence Lamont's team had brought forward 0:24:35.600 --> 0:24:39.439 and the information he found through his own investigation. The 0:24:39.560 --> 0:24:41.640 trial was supposed to last around a week. 0:24:42.440 --> 0:24:45.480 By day two, on top of all of my investigation, 0:24:45.680 --> 0:24:49.040 it was very clear that the information they was providing 0:24:49.240 --> 0:24:51.840 aligned with the information that I had saw. 0:24:52.480 --> 0:24:55.520 Dupree had come to a conclusion about Lamont's conviction. 0:24:59.400 --> 0:25:02.840 He did not received a fair trial, He was not 0:25:03.040 --> 0:25:07.720 given adequate assistance and defense, along with the many other 0:25:07.960 --> 0:25:11.000 issues that occurred. But that was the real basis of 0:25:11.040 --> 0:25:15.520 the manifest injustice and this case. If you take away 0:25:16.280 --> 0:25:19.960 all of the fake stuff, if you take away all 0:25:20.000 --> 0:25:23.320 of the potential corruption, and you get down to the 0:25:23.880 --> 0:25:27.720 nitty gritty, which is what I ultimately did. The bottom 0:25:27.760 --> 0:25:32.639 line was that there was not enough facts or evidence 0:25:33.000 --> 0:25:34.959 to prove that Lamont did this. 0:25:36.240 --> 0:25:43.000 He didn't do his crime. The DA presents his final summary. 0:25:44.720 --> 0:25:46.879 And all of a sudden I heard him say, and 0:25:46.920 --> 0:25:53.840 I would like to drop all charges. They moved so fast, 0:25:53.840 --> 0:25:58.560 and having so fast, I felt the room shake. Everybody 0:25:58.560 --> 0:26:01.000 in the room just go crazy. I felt the eruption 0:26:01.160 --> 0:26:02.960 of the roar of the room. 0:26:05.119 --> 0:26:09.639 Lamont is finally free. He changes into regular clothes for 0:26:09.680 --> 0:26:13.000 the first time in twenty three years and walks out 0:26:13.040 --> 0:26:13.720 into the sun. 0:26:14.960 --> 0:26:17.080 My mother. I saw her and I hugged her. 0:26:17.640 --> 0:26:21.360 In that moment, Lamont felt numb, but that feeling would 0:26:21.400 --> 0:26:26.040 eventually turn to relief. The last time he hugged his 0:26:26.080 --> 0:26:29.720 mother Rose, he'd been a regular sixteen year old boy 0:26:29.960 --> 0:26:34.120 trying to get through high school. At forty one, he's 0:26:34.160 --> 0:26:37.280 a grown man who spent more than half of his 0:26:37.400 --> 0:26:41.760 life behind bars. Now he's finally free to dream about 0:26:41.800 --> 0:26:45.640 the life that lays ahead of him, But first he 0:26:45.720 --> 0:26:49.240 has to come to terms with everything his teenage self 0:26:49.520 --> 0:26:53.160 left behind. 0:26:54.119 --> 0:26:56.240 I walked out to a bunch of strangers that I 0:26:56.280 --> 0:26:59.960 had no connection with and my siblings. They look different, 0:27:00.240 --> 0:27:02.000 my friends I was really close to. 0:27:03.280 --> 0:27:05.880