1 00:00:00,640 --> 00:00:03,680 Speaker 1: Hey, I'm Nikki, the host of the new series of 2 00:00:03,720 --> 00:00:08,160 Speaker 1: The Girlfriends Untouchable. It's a story that takes place in 3 00:00:08,240 --> 00:00:13,320 Speaker 1: my hometown, Kansas City, Kansas, and over the next eight episodes, 4 00:00:13,600 --> 00:00:17,000 Speaker 1: you're going to meet a lot of incredible people, including 5 00:00:17,040 --> 00:00:20,200 Speaker 1: some of the truly inspiring women I get to call 6 00:00:20,400 --> 00:00:25,599 Speaker 1: my friends. But it's also a tough story, one that 7 00:00:25,640 --> 00:00:30,120 Speaker 1: will dive into topics including sexual assault, violence, and murder. 8 00:00:30,720 --> 00:00:34,320 Speaker 1: There will also be some strong language if you or 9 00:00:34,360 --> 00:00:36,919 Speaker 1: someone you love has been affected by any of the 10 00:00:36,920 --> 00:00:39,680 Speaker 1: themes in the show. We've left some links in the 11 00:00:39,720 --> 00:00:44,400 Speaker 1: description that offer resources and support take care of yourself. 12 00:00:50,640 --> 00:00:53,400 Speaker 1: When Nico Quinn gets up in the morning, she heads 13 00:00:53,440 --> 00:00:56,840 Speaker 1: straight over to the truck she's driving that day, an 14 00:00:56,840 --> 00:00:59,480 Speaker 1: eighteen wheeler with a cabin up top. 15 00:01:00,520 --> 00:01:03,720 Speaker 2: God pray first touched the wheels and everything on the 16 00:01:03,800 --> 00:01:05,600 Speaker 2: truck and pray for a save trip. 17 00:01:10,360 --> 00:01:13,360 Speaker 1: Nico works as an over the road truck driver, hauling 18 00:01:13,400 --> 00:01:16,400 Speaker 1: fifty to eighty thousand pound freights across the country for 19 00:01:16,640 --> 00:01:19,400 Speaker 1: hundreds or sometimes thousands of miles a week. 20 00:01:21,840 --> 00:01:24,560 Speaker 2: I love traveling. I have been to Canada, I've been 21 00:01:24,840 --> 00:01:26,600 Speaker 2: all the way up to Maine, and Maine is so 22 00:01:26,720 --> 00:01:30,560 Speaker 2: beautiful and even Oregon. I mean it's just beautiful, just 23 00:01:30,640 --> 00:01:34,200 Speaker 2: so green, and you see in all kind of animals 24 00:01:34,360 --> 00:01:37,760 Speaker 2: like elk and rams, and I'm like, wow, you know, 25 00:01:37,800 --> 00:01:39,840 Speaker 2: because something you never seen before. 26 00:01:41,880 --> 00:01:44,160 Speaker 1: She never feels more free than when she's out on 27 00:01:44,200 --> 00:01:44,920 Speaker 1: the open road. 28 00:01:45,600 --> 00:01:47,840 Speaker 2: I've always said, if I came back as another creature, 29 00:01:47,880 --> 00:01:48,480 Speaker 2: I would want. 30 00:01:48,320 --> 00:01:52,160 Speaker 1: To be an eagle, because eagles are pretty good at 31 00:01:52,200 --> 00:01:55,560 Speaker 1: weathering storms. 32 00:01:54,240 --> 00:01:56,640 Speaker 2: Just like I wather the storm that I've been through. 33 00:02:00,160 --> 00:02:03,120 Speaker 1: For Nico, the storm began not on the open road, 34 00:02:03,880 --> 00:02:09,799 Speaker 1: but in the city where she grew up. Nico was 35 00:02:09,880 --> 00:02:12,799 Speaker 1: raised on the northeast side of Kansas City, Kansas, in 36 00:02:12,919 --> 00:02:15,400 Speaker 1: a neighborhood close to the banks of the Missouri River 37 00:02:15,760 --> 00:02:16,560 Speaker 1: named Quindero. 38 00:02:17,639 --> 00:02:19,919 Speaker 2: It was a village over there. Both sides of the 39 00:02:19,919 --> 00:02:24,519 Speaker 2: street was filled with either houses or black owned businesses. 40 00:02:25,200 --> 00:02:28,120 Speaker 2: The Wilson's had a piece of shop right at the 41 00:02:28,120 --> 00:02:32,560 Speaker 2: corner of eighteenth Street. We had one restaurant called CNS 42 00:02:33,080 --> 00:02:36,320 Speaker 2: that was the best burghers. They used to sell the 43 00:02:36,480 --> 00:02:39,959 Speaker 2: hand packed ice cream. Oh my goodness. 44 00:02:40,760 --> 00:02:45,160 Speaker 1: Quendero was rich in community, but by the nineties, decades 45 00:02:45,200 --> 00:02:49,200 Speaker 1: of economic neglect had put a cap on the neighborhood's growth, 46 00:02:50,480 --> 00:02:53,000 Speaker 1: and while Nico tried to stay out of trouble, she 47 00:02:53,120 --> 00:02:55,680 Speaker 1: found herself pulled into what was going on around her. 48 00:02:57,360 --> 00:03:00,440 Speaker 1: She had four young kids to support and what she 49 00:03:00,480 --> 00:03:02,359 Speaker 1: needed to do to put food on the table. 50 00:03:03,440 --> 00:03:06,000 Speaker 2: I was in the streets. I was selling drugs, and 51 00:03:06,440 --> 00:03:11,800 Speaker 2: I don't agree with my lifestyle, but you know, being young, 52 00:03:12,520 --> 00:03:16,120 Speaker 2: selling drugs was a thing back then. I felt like, 53 00:03:16,880 --> 00:03:18,640 Speaker 2: if I can make money off of it, that's what 54 00:03:18,680 --> 00:03:19,040 Speaker 2: I'll do. 55 00:03:23,200 --> 00:03:25,680 Speaker 1: But she and her family were also trying to create 56 00:03:25,680 --> 00:03:28,519 Speaker 1: a better future for themselves by getting an education. 57 00:03:33,680 --> 00:03:35,520 Speaker 2: It was like about five or six of us going 58 00:03:35,560 --> 00:03:40,520 Speaker 2: to school to get our GEDs, my cousin done, my sister. 59 00:03:41,080 --> 00:03:43,880 Speaker 2: We all used to get up, get ready, get in 60 00:03:43,880 --> 00:03:47,600 Speaker 2: the car. Well used to ride together. We'd get up 61 00:03:47,600 --> 00:03:52,880 Speaker 2: there to Donnelly College and be acting the food. We 62 00:03:52,880 --> 00:03:56,520 Speaker 2: was just having fun and trying to get our lives intact. 63 00:04:02,720 --> 00:04:06,640 Speaker 1: By April nineteen ninety four, things are looking up. It's 64 00:04:06,680 --> 00:04:08,760 Speaker 1: one of the first days of that year that feels 65 00:04:08,800 --> 00:04:09,320 Speaker 1: like spring. 66 00:04:09,960 --> 00:04:12,280 Speaker 2: It was nice that day, the sun was out. 67 00:04:13,040 --> 00:04:15,880 Speaker 1: As she walks down the familiar tree lined street near 68 00:04:15,920 --> 00:04:20,680 Speaker 1: her mother's house, Nico notices an unusual car parked on 69 00:04:20,720 --> 00:04:21,640 Speaker 1: the side of the road. 70 00:04:24,240 --> 00:04:26,400 Speaker 2: I seen a blue kellac sitting there. I'm like, who 71 00:04:26,440 --> 00:04:28,000 Speaker 2: the heck is that? And I said, all they must 72 00:04:28,040 --> 00:04:30,839 Speaker 2: be waiting on somebody. And I seen this guy coming 73 00:04:30,880 --> 00:04:35,880 Speaker 2: across the field, black hat, black shirt, black jeans, black 74 00:04:35,920 --> 00:04:39,760 Speaker 2: tennis shoes, and I said, oh, maybe they're waiting on him. 75 00:04:39,839 --> 00:04:41,640 Speaker 2: And then then I heard the first pal. 76 00:04:46,760 --> 00:04:49,560 Speaker 1: Nico heard the man fire three shots into the car. 77 00:04:50,680 --> 00:04:53,880 Speaker 2: My mama duck behind her truck. My sister came out 78 00:04:54,560 --> 00:04:57,239 Speaker 2: and started jumping up and down, screaming, saying, oh my god, 79 00:04:57,240 --> 00:05:02,760 Speaker 2: it's little Done. Oh my god, little Don. My legs 80 00:05:02,839 --> 00:05:07,440 Speaker 2: turned to mush. I just fell and started screaming. 81 00:05:09,120 --> 00:05:13,719 Speaker 1: Nico's favorite cousin, Little Don, has just been shot. He's 82 00:05:13,760 --> 00:05:15,040 Speaker 1: only twenty one years old. 83 00:05:17,960 --> 00:05:23,480 Speaker 2: My legs felt like I was in mud or something. 84 00:05:24,600 --> 00:05:32,160 Speaker 2: I couldn't move. Everybody is a, you know, chaos. 85 00:05:33,800 --> 00:05:37,520 Speaker 1: The shooter turns around and disappears into a field. One 86 00:05:37,560 --> 00:05:40,360 Speaker 1: of Nico's neighbors, Ruby gets a good look at him. 87 00:05:41,040 --> 00:05:43,919 Speaker 2: She said, oh my god, that's Lamont. I said, I 88 00:05:43,960 --> 00:05:44,960 Speaker 2: don't know, no Lamont. 89 00:05:45,680 --> 00:05:48,279 Speaker 1: Nico's family members run out of their houses and onto 90 00:05:48,320 --> 00:05:50,960 Speaker 1: the street. She follows them. 91 00:05:51,680 --> 00:05:55,680 Speaker 2: I went to the car and don was looking over 92 00:05:55,880 --> 00:06:04,440 Speaker 2: trying to talk. This whole side of his face was gone. 93 00:06:05,240 --> 00:06:08,679 Speaker 1: The man in the passenger seat, another cousin named Donnie Ewing, 94 00:06:09,000 --> 00:06:10,400 Speaker 1: has been shocked too. 95 00:06:10,680 --> 00:06:16,520 Speaker 2: We was asking what happened and who did it, and 96 00:06:16,560 --> 00:06:20,279 Speaker 2: we're asking him to hold on, and he was just 97 00:06:20,320 --> 00:06:23,080 Speaker 2: looking at us, trying to speak. And my mom had 98 00:06:23,120 --> 00:06:25,159 Speaker 2: walked around and she put her hand on him and 99 00:06:25,200 --> 00:06:31,400 Speaker 2: she started praying for him, and she said, he's gone. 100 00:06:31,960 --> 00:06:34,279 Speaker 2: I've seen him take his last breath, but I was 101 00:06:34,320 --> 00:06:40,239 Speaker 2: hoping he was still alive. It's like your best friend, 102 00:06:41,800 --> 00:06:44,600 Speaker 2: that person that you can fight it in. I can 103 00:06:44,720 --> 00:06:53,000 Speaker 2: save him. That day was the worst day of my life, 104 00:06:54,720 --> 00:07:00,120 Speaker 2: The worst day of my life. 105 00:07:02,279 --> 00:07:06,960 Speaker 1: Nico's cousins were dead, murdered in broad daylight, but the 106 00:07:07,040 --> 00:07:09,880 Speaker 1: quest to find out who had killed them and why 107 00:07:10,360 --> 00:07:15,920 Speaker 1: would go way beyond this murder investigation. There was a 108 00:07:16,040 --> 00:07:20,040 Speaker 1: dark scandal at the heart of Kansas City, Kansas, a 109 00:07:20,080 --> 00:07:24,680 Speaker 1: story of violence and corruption spanning decades, and it would 110 00:07:24,680 --> 00:07:28,320 Speaker 1: take my friend Nico, along with a band of incredible women, 111 00:07:28,840 --> 00:07:32,840 Speaker 1: on a journey to speak up, reveal the truth, and 112 00:07:32,960 --> 00:07:35,440 Speaker 1: fight for the city we love. 113 00:07:37,160 --> 00:07:41,200 Speaker 2: Oh God, why God. 114 00:07:46,280 --> 00:07:50,520 Speaker 1: I'm Nikki Richardson from the teams at Novel and iHeart Podcasts. 115 00:07:50,720 --> 00:07:53,600 Speaker 1: This is the Girlfriend's Untouchable. 116 00:08:03,920 --> 00:08:10,960 Speaker 2: I Had You, You Got You? 117 00:08:12,480 --> 00:08:27,680 Speaker 1: Episode one, No Place Like Home You April fifteenth, nineteen 118 00:08:27,760 --> 00:08:34,360 Speaker 1: ninety four turned Nico Quinn's life upside down. Her favorite cousin, Danielle, 119 00:08:34,520 --> 00:08:39,000 Speaker 1: had been shot murdered right in front of her. It 120 00:08:39,080 --> 00:08:46,920 Speaker 1: was a devastating loss. Just like that, her soulmate was gone. 121 00:08:48,200 --> 00:08:50,040 Speaker 2: We was two peas in a pot ever since we 122 00:08:50,080 --> 00:08:54,880 Speaker 2: was kids. Donielle was like my brother from another mother. 123 00:08:54,960 --> 00:08:57,800 Speaker 2: He was my best friend. He was a jack of 124 00:08:57,880 --> 00:09:02,520 Speaker 2: all trade, master nun. He could dance, he could fix things, 125 00:09:02,559 --> 00:09:05,720 Speaker 2: he can sing, he can dress. He was mac Daddy 126 00:09:05,760 --> 00:09:08,760 Speaker 2: other year let him tell it. And he was a comforter. 127 00:09:09,440 --> 00:09:12,719 Speaker 2: He was a giver. If he was still alive, you 128 00:09:12,760 --> 00:09:14,880 Speaker 2: wouldn't even be able to interview him. He would have 129 00:09:14,920 --> 00:09:18,080 Speaker 2: you in tears. Just try laughing, because he is. He 130 00:09:18,360 --> 00:09:19,520 Speaker 2: was that much of a food. 131 00:09:20,600 --> 00:09:23,800 Speaker 1: But like so many other people in Quendero, he lost 132 00:09:23,800 --> 00:09:27,600 Speaker 1: his way in his teenage years. 133 00:09:29,320 --> 00:09:33,480 Speaker 2: Danielle ended up getting gone drugs on crack cocaine, started 134 00:09:33,520 --> 00:09:34,640 Speaker 2: dealing with the wrong people. 135 00:09:36,040 --> 00:09:40,880 Speaker 1: Hours after witnessing his murder, Nico began to wonder were 136 00:09:40,920 --> 00:09:47,560 Speaker 1: those wrong people involved. Two weeks earlier, a group of 137 00:09:47,600 --> 00:09:50,080 Speaker 1: men had shown up to punish Danyelle for a debt 138 00:09:50,120 --> 00:09:53,640 Speaker 1: he owed allegedly stealing drugs from their stash house. 139 00:09:54,280 --> 00:09:56,640 Speaker 2: About six to seven people jumped on and beat them 140 00:09:56,640 --> 00:10:00,640 Speaker 2: with poles, and he was beat up real bad, and 141 00:10:00,679 --> 00:10:02,560 Speaker 2: he ended up coming down on my house, sitting on 142 00:10:02,600 --> 00:10:05,360 Speaker 2: my mother's porch. So I started talking to him. I 143 00:10:05,360 --> 00:10:08,120 Speaker 2: went and got some bandage and stuff and started attending 144 00:10:08,160 --> 00:10:09,079 Speaker 2: to his wounds. 145 00:10:10,040 --> 00:10:13,640 Speaker 1: Nico says that Donyelle claimed the attack had been instigated 146 00:10:14,000 --> 00:10:17,800 Speaker 1: by a drug dealer named Cecil Brooks and a local 147 00:10:17,880 --> 00:10:25,000 Speaker 1: guy everyone calls Monster. Nico says that after the attack, 148 00:10:25,679 --> 00:10:28,600 Speaker 1: she decided to help Donielle pay off his debts. 149 00:10:29,200 --> 00:10:31,360 Speaker 2: So I sent my sister and somebody else up there 150 00:10:31,400 --> 00:10:34,199 Speaker 2: to ask the person, can I paid a debt for him? 151 00:10:34,640 --> 00:10:36,160 Speaker 2: They said it was okay, it was cool. 152 00:10:37,040 --> 00:10:39,120 Speaker 1: A few days later, the men came back and tried 153 00:10:39,120 --> 00:10:42,720 Speaker 1: to take Donyell away, but Nico's family intervened and told 154 00:10:42,760 --> 00:10:47,480 Speaker 1: them to back off. The Next day, Danielle showed up 155 00:10:47,480 --> 00:10:50,040 Speaker 1: at Nico's house. His mood had changed. 156 00:10:54,400 --> 00:10:57,280 Speaker 2: Don came in and he was singing. He was singing 157 00:10:57,360 --> 00:11:00,560 Speaker 2: Christian songs. I have never seen him his fear just 158 00:11:00,640 --> 00:11:04,040 Speaker 2: so happy. He came back and he told me, say, 159 00:11:04,160 --> 00:11:05,640 Speaker 2: I just want took a shower. I'm about to go 160 00:11:05,679 --> 00:11:08,760 Speaker 2: see my baby and cousin. I'm gonna check myself in. 161 00:11:08,800 --> 00:11:10,720 Speaker 2: I'm about to get myself right. I can't go down 162 00:11:10,760 --> 00:11:11,640 Speaker 2: this road again. 163 00:11:13,080 --> 00:11:16,360 Speaker 1: Danielle had a young son. He wanted to go to rehab, 164 00:11:16,880 --> 00:11:19,600 Speaker 1: get himself clean, and start afresh. 165 00:11:19,840 --> 00:11:22,840 Speaker 2: He kissed me on my cheek or maybe my forehead, 166 00:11:23,320 --> 00:11:26,520 Speaker 2: told me he loved me, and then he walked out 167 00:11:26,559 --> 00:11:26,959 Speaker 2: the door. 168 00:11:29,720 --> 00:11:32,440 Speaker 1: A few minutes later, Danielle was dad. 169 00:11:36,040 --> 00:11:42,920 Speaker 2: I wasn't okay. I had all types of emotions. Everywhere 170 00:11:42,960 --> 00:11:49,400 Speaker 2: I went that day. I kept seeing my cousin in 171 00:11:49,440 --> 00:11:56,000 Speaker 2: the state that I had last seen him, and it's horrible. 172 00:11:59,080 --> 00:12:00,240 Speaker 2: The police came over. 173 00:12:03,240 --> 00:12:04,560 Speaker 1: Nico opened her front door. 174 00:12:07,640 --> 00:12:10,520 Speaker 2: I came out and I was asking them, you know 175 00:12:10,800 --> 00:12:11,600 Speaker 2: what did they want? 176 00:12:12,440 --> 00:12:15,480 Speaker 1: They had come to investigate the murders of Donielle Quinn 177 00:12:15,760 --> 00:12:20,640 Speaker 1: and Donnie Ewing. The lead officer was a detective named 178 00:12:20,760 --> 00:12:22,280 Speaker 1: Roger Gallupski. 179 00:12:25,480 --> 00:12:31,439 Speaker 2: He was a chunky white guy that thought he was 180 00:12:31,520 --> 00:12:38,280 Speaker 2: Rigo Suavee. He had black hair slicked back, wore these glasses, 181 00:12:39,320 --> 00:12:43,000 Speaker 2: a ring on his spinky finger. He had a couple 182 00:12:43,080 --> 00:12:45,679 Speaker 2: of chains on his neck. He made sure you seen 183 00:12:45,720 --> 00:12:49,120 Speaker 2: his badge yet, his badge on his belt, his gun 184 00:12:49,200 --> 00:12:53,960 Speaker 2: on his side. 185 00:12:55,880 --> 00:12:58,720 Speaker 1: Detective Gaulupski wanted Nico to take a look through a 186 00:12:58,760 --> 00:12:59,760 Speaker 1: list of suspects. 187 00:13:00,480 --> 00:13:03,480 Speaker 2: But I'm going through the pictures, I said, I know 188 00:13:03,559 --> 00:13:05,679 Speaker 2: he didn't do it. Oh, I know he didn't do it. 189 00:13:06,240 --> 00:13:07,840 Speaker 2: I said, I don't see the person in there that 190 00:13:07,920 --> 00:13:08,200 Speaker 2: did it. 191 00:13:08,880 --> 00:13:11,480 Speaker 1: Nico hadn't seen the shooter's face clearly enough to say 192 00:13:11,520 --> 00:13:14,400 Speaker 1: for sure, but she thought she knew how her main 193 00:13:14,480 --> 00:13:18,200 Speaker 1: suspects were. Speaking to the police in a community as 194 00:13:18,240 --> 00:13:22,440 Speaker 1: tight knit as Quandero was risky, but Nico didn't care. 195 00:13:23,200 --> 00:13:24,280 Speaker 1: This was about family. 196 00:13:25,080 --> 00:13:26,640 Speaker 2: I said, we know who did it. Was the person 197 00:13:26,679 --> 00:13:28,680 Speaker 2: that tried to pick him up the night before, who 198 00:13:28,760 --> 00:13:30,840 Speaker 2: kept trying to get him, who jumped on him. 199 00:13:30,760 --> 00:13:34,960 Speaker 1: Cecil and Monster, the guys who allegedly jumped Donyelle, But 200 00:13:35,000 --> 00:13:37,680 Speaker 1: they weren't included in the photos the police showed her. 201 00:13:38,760 --> 00:13:42,280 Speaker 1: Nico didn't identify any of their other suspects, so the 202 00:13:42,280 --> 00:13:43,640 Speaker 1: cops left. 203 00:13:43,920 --> 00:13:47,280 Speaker 2: They came back again the next morning early in the morning. 204 00:13:47,360 --> 00:13:50,280 Speaker 2: They were like, we need you to look at these 205 00:13:50,280 --> 00:13:51,000 Speaker 2: pictures again. 206 00:13:51,720 --> 00:13:55,120 Speaker 1: They showed her a picture of a boy named Lamont McIntyre. 207 00:13:56,000 --> 00:13:58,320 Speaker 1: This name took Nico straight back to the moment her 208 00:13:58,400 --> 00:14:02,040 Speaker 1: cousin was shot. After the gunshots, her neighbor had shouted 209 00:14:02,080 --> 00:14:06,040 Speaker 1: out a name Lamont, but when she examined the photo, 210 00:14:06,720 --> 00:14:07,640 Speaker 1: she shook her head. 211 00:14:08,240 --> 00:14:11,000 Speaker 2: I said no, his ears was too big and the 212 00:14:11,040 --> 00:14:13,720 Speaker 2: person that did it is didn't stick out like hes did. 213 00:14:13,800 --> 00:14:15,000 Speaker 2: I said, no, he didn't do it. 214 00:14:15,480 --> 00:14:18,400 Speaker 1: As one of the few witnesses to the shooting, Nico 215 00:14:18,520 --> 00:14:21,200 Speaker 1: hoped the police would take her at her word, but 216 00:14:21,240 --> 00:14:26,600 Speaker 1: Gallupski seemed insistent that Nico looked again, so he pushed 217 00:14:26,600 --> 00:14:28,720 Speaker 1: the photo of Lamont McIntyre towards her. 218 00:14:29,800 --> 00:14:32,320 Speaker 2: So I took the picture again and I'm like, no, 219 00:14:32,960 --> 00:14:33,680 Speaker 2: he didn't do it. 220 00:14:37,120 --> 00:14:42,600 Speaker 1: They reached a standstill, waiting each other out. Eventually, the 221 00:14:42,680 --> 00:14:47,440 Speaker 1: officer left her house, but Nico's part in the investigation 222 00:14:47,680 --> 00:14:51,280 Speaker 1: wasn't over. What she didn't know was that the man 223 00:14:51,360 --> 00:14:54,520 Speaker 1: in blue leaving her front porch had already chosen his 224 00:14:54,600 --> 00:15:00,240 Speaker 1: lead suspect. Because Roger Gilupski was no regular detective, he 225 00:15:00,400 --> 00:15:04,040 Speaker 1: was a dangerous man with enough power to destroy lives, 226 00:15:06,440 --> 00:15:08,920 Speaker 1: starting with that of a boy in handcuffs on the 227 00:15:08,960 --> 00:15:33,200 Speaker 1: other side of Kansas City. The spring of nineteen ninety 228 00:15:33,200 --> 00:15:36,280 Speaker 1: four was a season that would irreversibly change dozens of 229 00:15:36,320 --> 00:15:40,080 Speaker 1: lives in Kansas City, including that of a sixteen year 230 00:15:40,120 --> 00:15:42,200 Speaker 1: old boy raised in Quindero. 231 00:15:42,680 --> 00:15:49,240 Speaker 3: My name is Lamont McIntyre. Growing up where I'm from 232 00:15:49,360 --> 00:15:53,040 Speaker 3: was it was fun times. We didn't notice poverty because 233 00:15:53,040 --> 00:15:55,280 Speaker 3: we had each other, like we were really type with 234 00:15:55,320 --> 00:15:55,840 Speaker 3: my family. 235 00:15:56,480 --> 00:15:58,960 Speaker 1: Lamont didn't live that far away from the Queen cousins, 236 00:15:59,560 --> 00:16:02,280 Speaker 1: but he was young and had his own group of friends. 237 00:16:02,920 --> 00:16:04,000 Speaker 4: We was hip hop heads. 238 00:16:04,000 --> 00:16:05,400 Speaker 3: I was in the hip hop I had the car 239 00:16:05,520 --> 00:16:08,240 Speaker 3: main like the flat time would dye in it. I 240 00:16:08,400 --> 00:16:12,000 Speaker 3: was really in up fashion and clean shoes and gold 241 00:16:12,080 --> 00:16:13,160 Speaker 3: chains and my rings. 242 00:16:13,840 --> 00:16:16,600 Speaker 1: He liked to keep up with the latest styles. So 243 00:16:16,760 --> 00:16:19,880 Speaker 1: one day he decided to experiment with his brother's hair. 244 00:16:20,680 --> 00:16:22,920 Speaker 3: So my mother's in work one day and I got 245 00:16:22,920 --> 00:16:25,720 Speaker 3: some clippers from Kmart and I cut my brothers in 246 00:16:25,800 --> 00:16:28,040 Speaker 3: hair and I messed it up bad. My mother was 247 00:16:28,080 --> 00:16:30,000 Speaker 3: mad at me, But after that I learned how to 248 00:16:30,160 --> 00:16:33,440 Speaker 3: get it right. And then from my brother's hair, I 249 00:16:33,480 --> 00:16:36,080 Speaker 3: saw I cutting everybody in the neighborhood's hair. My cousin's in hair, 250 00:16:36,560 --> 00:16:38,840 Speaker 3: and I became the barber. So I was cutting hair 251 00:16:38,920 --> 00:16:41,720 Speaker 3: back then bout three dollars of haircut. I was a hustler, 252 00:16:41,800 --> 00:16:44,720 Speaker 3: so I would cut grass, I would paint. I would 253 00:16:44,720 --> 00:16:46,200 Speaker 3: do anything I could to get some money, just to 254 00:16:46,200 --> 00:16:47,840 Speaker 3: go get some fresh shoes or something like that. 255 00:16:48,680 --> 00:16:51,920 Speaker 1: Those side hustles were reserved for the afternoons and weekends 256 00:16:52,440 --> 00:16:54,400 Speaker 1: because Lamont spent his days at school. 257 00:16:55,320 --> 00:16:57,840 Speaker 4: My mother was a strict parent and wanted me to 258 00:16:57,880 --> 00:16:58,600 Speaker 4: be educated. 259 00:16:59,440 --> 00:17:02,080 Speaker 1: He was a good student. He showed up to class 260 00:17:02,240 --> 00:17:05,960 Speaker 1: and left science. He would occasionally get in trouble for 261 00:17:06,040 --> 00:17:06,760 Speaker 1: talking too much. 262 00:17:06,880 --> 00:17:10,240 Speaker 3: Though I was a popular kid, I guess, but only 263 00:17:10,280 --> 00:17:13,000 Speaker 3: because I was funny. I had big ears and I 264 00:17:13,040 --> 00:17:14,920 Speaker 3: was skinny, so they made fun of me, and that's 265 00:17:14,920 --> 00:17:16,879 Speaker 3: how it became good and making fun of other people. 266 00:17:17,680 --> 00:17:18,879 Speaker 4: I was just a class clown. 267 00:17:23,720 --> 00:17:26,320 Speaker 1: He did his best to stay out of serious trouble, 268 00:17:27,000 --> 00:17:31,199 Speaker 1: but he didn't always stick to the rules. On the 269 00:17:31,200 --> 00:17:35,320 Speaker 1: fifteenth of April nineteen ninety four, Lamont decides to skip school. 270 00:17:36,080 --> 00:17:38,639 Speaker 1: He decides to spend the day going back and forth 271 00:17:38,680 --> 00:17:42,760 Speaker 1: between his uncle and auntie's houses, kicking back and hanging 272 00:17:42,800 --> 00:17:46,399 Speaker 1: out with his family. It's a pretty regular spring morning 273 00:17:46,400 --> 00:17:50,240 Speaker 1: in Kansas City until he gets the call. 274 00:17:51,440 --> 00:17:55,120 Speaker 3: My grandmother called me and said what did you do? 275 00:17:55,680 --> 00:17:56,560 Speaker 3: And I said, what do you mean? 276 00:17:56,560 --> 00:17:57,959 Speaker 4: What did I do? She said, what did you do? 277 00:17:58,160 --> 00:17:58,679 Speaker 5: Where did you be? 278 00:17:58,760 --> 00:18:00,000 Speaker 4: And I said, I haven't been nowhere. 279 00:18:00,080 --> 00:18:00,480 Speaker 5: It's early. 280 00:18:00,480 --> 00:18:02,879 Speaker 3: It was like still, it wasn't eleven o'clock yet, So 281 00:18:02,880 --> 00:18:04,159 Speaker 3: I say, ain't being nowhere, Grandmother? 282 00:18:04,200 --> 00:18:04,680 Speaker 4: What you mean? 283 00:18:04,880 --> 00:18:06,800 Speaker 3: So she said, well, the police just left my house. 284 00:18:06,800 --> 00:18:09,040 Speaker 3: They've been all over my house looking for you, and 285 00:18:09,119 --> 00:18:10,840 Speaker 3: it looked seriously like it was looking for you, like 286 00:18:10,840 --> 00:18:12,560 Speaker 3: he killed somebody. 287 00:18:15,400 --> 00:18:16,400 Speaker 4: I called my mother. 288 00:18:16,520 --> 00:18:18,760 Speaker 3: I said, Mom, they looking for me at grandma house, 289 00:18:18,800 --> 00:18:20,320 Speaker 3: So take me to the police agent so I can 290 00:18:20,359 --> 00:18:22,600 Speaker 3: see what's going on. She called then and told him 291 00:18:22,640 --> 00:18:24,080 Speaker 3: digging meet us at her job. 292 00:18:26,000 --> 00:18:28,520 Speaker 1: Lamon's mother, Rose, isn't going to let her son meet 293 00:18:28,520 --> 00:18:30,919 Speaker 1: the police on his own, so she picks him up 294 00:18:30,920 --> 00:18:34,679 Speaker 1: from his auntie's house. Sitting in the back seat, Lamont 295 00:18:34,760 --> 00:18:37,160 Speaker 1: racks his mind trying to figure out why the police 296 00:18:37,160 --> 00:18:40,560 Speaker 1: are looking for him. He's gotten in trouble in the 297 00:18:40,600 --> 00:18:43,320 Speaker 1: past for selling drugs and being in the wrong place 298 00:18:43,359 --> 00:18:46,560 Speaker 1: with family members caught up in the street life. But 299 00:18:46,680 --> 00:18:49,959 Speaker 1: when he arrives at his mom's workplace, it's clear that 300 00:18:50,000 --> 00:18:51,640 Speaker 1: the cops mean business. 301 00:18:53,800 --> 00:18:57,680 Speaker 3: It was three detective cars and like four or five 302 00:18:57,760 --> 00:18:58,840 Speaker 3: patrol cars. 303 00:18:59,240 --> 00:19:01,640 Speaker 4: They asked me, do I know. 304 00:19:01,640 --> 00:19:05,280 Speaker 3: Anything about a gang related activity today? Something gang related today? 305 00:19:05,320 --> 00:19:07,360 Speaker 3: And I said no. They told my mother, well, he's 306 00:19:07,359 --> 00:19:09,600 Speaker 3: not underrest. We want to take him down there for 307 00:19:09,720 --> 00:19:12,679 Speaker 3: questioning and then he'll be able to go in, but 308 00:19:12,720 --> 00:19:14,240 Speaker 3: we just want to ask him a few more questions. 309 00:19:14,720 --> 00:19:17,280 Speaker 1: Lamarck complies and says goodbye to his mother. 310 00:19:18,000 --> 00:19:20,199 Speaker 3: So they put me in a police car took me 311 00:19:20,240 --> 00:19:22,119 Speaker 3: to the police station. When I get to the police 312 00:19:22,119 --> 00:19:24,240 Speaker 3: station and I got into the room where I was 313 00:19:24,280 --> 00:19:26,320 Speaker 3: being interrogated, that's when everything kind of changed. 314 00:19:28,080 --> 00:19:31,520 Speaker 1: They clearly haven't called him in to talk about drugs 315 00:19:31,560 --> 00:19:32,160 Speaker 1: or hustling. 316 00:19:32,800 --> 00:19:34,560 Speaker 3: They start screaming at me and asking do I know 317 00:19:35,080 --> 00:19:38,800 Speaker 3: Donnie Ewing and Donielle Quinn And I said no. On 318 00:19:39,040 --> 00:19:40,679 Speaker 3: on they said it was funny because one of them 319 00:19:40,720 --> 00:19:42,560 Speaker 3: lived long enough to say you was a person responsible 320 00:19:42,560 --> 00:19:47,320 Speaker 3: for killing him, And I started laughing because I didn't 321 00:19:47,320 --> 00:19:49,920 Speaker 3: know his names. Like, man, I'm getting up, I'm telling 322 00:19:49,960 --> 00:19:51,159 Speaker 3: him to go to my mom, and I'm like, I 323 00:19:51,160 --> 00:19:52,240 Speaker 3: don't y'all got the wrong person. 324 00:19:52,240 --> 00:19:53,840 Speaker 4: My name is Lama Macat. I don't know who y'all 325 00:19:53,840 --> 00:19:54,239 Speaker 4: looking for. 326 00:19:55,240 --> 00:19:56,880 Speaker 3: And that's when they got real serious and they started 327 00:19:56,880 --> 00:19:59,280 Speaker 3: screaming at me, you know, calling me a nigga killer, 328 00:19:59,600 --> 00:20:02,760 Speaker 3: saying I know you did it. I was scared because 329 00:20:02,760 --> 00:20:04,840 Speaker 3: he's really going through with charged me with two council 330 00:20:04,880 --> 00:20:05,600 Speaker 3: first of your murder. 331 00:20:09,480 --> 00:20:13,280 Speaker 1: Lamont had begun the day as a regular teenage boy 332 00:20:13,359 --> 00:20:17,840 Speaker 1: skipping school, but now he's in handcuffs being escorted around 333 00:20:17,880 --> 00:20:21,720 Speaker 1: the police station in a whirlwind of accusations. He doesn't understand. 334 00:20:22,880 --> 00:20:25,840 Speaker 1: Two officers march him down the stairs to an underground area. 335 00:20:26,200 --> 00:20:28,159 Speaker 4: A mother was part at the police station. 336 00:20:28,760 --> 00:20:31,960 Speaker 1: By the time he sees his mother, Lamont is in tears. 337 00:20:34,720 --> 00:20:37,119 Speaker 3: She seen me come out of handcuffs and I said, Mama, 338 00:20:37,320 --> 00:20:40,000 Speaker 3: they charged me two councer first of your murdered And 339 00:20:40,040 --> 00:20:41,400 Speaker 3: she said, what do you mean. I said, they charged 340 00:20:41,440 --> 00:20:42,879 Speaker 3: me two councer first of your murder. I don't know 341 00:20:42,920 --> 00:20:46,439 Speaker 3: none about it. And that's when it dined on me. 342 00:20:46,480 --> 00:21:04,080 Speaker 5: Though they were serious. 343 00:21:06,400 --> 00:21:11,680 Speaker 1: I got you, did you ever play a game called 344 00:21:11,760 --> 00:21:14,800 Speaker 1: ding Dong? Ditch when you were a kid, where you 345 00:21:14,880 --> 00:21:17,359 Speaker 1: knock on someone's front door and then run away before 346 00:21:17,359 --> 00:21:20,800 Speaker 1: they can answer. Nico Quinn and her sisters played it 347 00:21:20,840 --> 00:21:22,720 Speaker 1: together as kids growing up in Quendero. 348 00:21:23,560 --> 00:21:26,320 Speaker 2: We call it nigga knocking. When somebody come and knock 349 00:21:26,359 --> 00:21:28,560 Speaker 2: on your door, you go to the door. Ain't nobody there. 350 00:21:29,280 --> 00:21:32,160 Speaker 1: But this childhood game is about to take a dark turn. 351 00:21:33,080 --> 00:21:35,680 Speaker 1: It's the night after the shooting. She's sitting at home 352 00:21:35,680 --> 00:21:37,840 Speaker 1: with her children when she hears a sound. 353 00:21:39,640 --> 00:21:42,760 Speaker 2: It was a boom boom, bom, bom boom. 354 00:21:42,800 --> 00:21:45,880 Speaker 1: First it's at her front door, and then the. 355 00:21:45,920 --> 00:21:49,160 Speaker 2: Back door, the side, and then when I go look, 356 00:21:49,200 --> 00:21:52,320 Speaker 2: there's nobody there. And that's what happened to me. For 357 00:21:52,440 --> 00:21:56,680 Speaker 2: maybe the next week after Don was killed, somebody was 358 00:21:56,760 --> 00:22:01,480 Speaker 2: knocking on my door. No, I need to be a 359 00:22:01,480 --> 00:22:04,640 Speaker 2: house full of people down in my house. Nobody had 360 00:22:04,680 --> 00:22:07,600 Speaker 2: been down there after Don had got guilt, not like that. 361 00:22:08,240 --> 00:22:10,480 Speaker 1: So she knows it's not her friends or family coming 362 00:22:10,520 --> 00:22:13,960 Speaker 1: to visit her. Nico peers out of her window. 363 00:22:16,760 --> 00:22:20,520 Speaker 2: And I see this car sitting outside, a dark colored 364 00:22:20,520 --> 00:22:23,600 Speaker 2: for a door, looked like a caprice or cutless. 365 00:22:24,000 --> 00:22:27,480 Speaker 1: She believes it's cecil and monster, the men she suspects 366 00:22:27,560 --> 00:22:29,840 Speaker 1: of being involved in her cousin, Danielle's murder. 367 00:22:30,800 --> 00:22:33,479 Speaker 2: I was always thinking that they were watching me, they 368 00:22:33,520 --> 00:22:36,200 Speaker 2: were after me. I was scared they would do something 369 00:22:36,240 --> 00:22:36,879 Speaker 2: to my kids. 370 00:22:39,800 --> 00:22:42,919 Speaker 1: Fearing for her family, Nico packed up her things and 371 00:22:43,000 --> 00:22:46,040 Speaker 1: moved out. She and her kids went to stay with 372 00:22:46,119 --> 00:22:49,600 Speaker 1: different friends and relatives for a while, but it wasn't 373 00:22:49,600 --> 00:22:53,960 Speaker 1: a long term solution. She needed stability. Me and my 374 00:22:54,000 --> 00:22:54,800 Speaker 1: boyfriend was talking. 375 00:22:54,840 --> 00:22:57,280 Speaker 2: He said, well, won't you see if the police they 376 00:22:57,359 --> 00:22:58,960 Speaker 2: can do something for you know, they can move you, 377 00:22:59,080 --> 00:23:00,000 Speaker 2: relocate you. 378 00:23:00,400 --> 00:23:02,320 Speaker 1: So she called the man who had been assigned to 379 00:23:02,400 --> 00:23:07,320 Speaker 1: her cousin's case, Detective Glupski. I was telling him, Hey, 380 00:23:07,400 --> 00:23:10,480 Speaker 1: these people keep knocking on my door. You know, they 381 00:23:10,600 --> 00:23:14,360 Speaker 1: taunt me. I don't feel safe in my home. Detective 382 00:23:14,359 --> 00:23:17,440 Speaker 1: Gulupski agrees to see Nico, but he doesn't want to 383 00:23:17,480 --> 00:23:18,439 Speaker 1: meet at the police station. 384 00:23:19,160 --> 00:23:21,199 Speaker 2: He asked me to meet him at Wanda High School. 385 00:23:22,080 --> 00:23:25,960 Speaker 1: Weird, but Nico needs to move, so she agrees. 386 00:23:26,640 --> 00:23:28,760 Speaker 2: I asked my boyfriend what he take me. He said, yeah, 387 00:23:28,760 --> 00:23:29,280 Speaker 2: I take you. 388 00:23:32,800 --> 00:23:35,679 Speaker 1: It's not a long drive, but Nico spends the journey 389 00:23:35,800 --> 00:23:36,440 Speaker 1: deep in thought. 390 00:23:37,000 --> 00:23:41,879 Speaker 2: I was nervous anxious at the same time, because I 391 00:23:41,960 --> 00:23:44,879 Speaker 2: went to tell him what I knew, and I was 392 00:23:44,880 --> 00:23:47,200 Speaker 2: scared a little bit, but I had my ex boyfriend 393 00:23:47,280 --> 00:23:47,480 Speaker 2: with me. 394 00:23:48,359 --> 00:23:50,600 Speaker 1: When they parked up next to the high school, her 395 00:23:50,600 --> 00:23:51,640 Speaker 1: boyfriend tendses up. 396 00:23:52,280 --> 00:23:53,879 Speaker 2: He told me to keep the door open or the 397 00:23:53,880 --> 00:23:55,600 Speaker 2: windowdill because he didn't trust me. 398 00:23:56,440 --> 00:23:59,119 Speaker 1: Most people in Quendero know at least one person who's 399 00:23:59,119 --> 00:24:02,359 Speaker 1: had a bad interrack with law enforcement. But Nico is 400 00:24:02,400 --> 00:24:05,040 Speaker 1: on a mission, so she walks across the road and 401 00:24:05,119 --> 00:24:06,240 Speaker 1: over to the police car. 402 00:24:07,320 --> 00:24:09,919 Speaker 2: It was a dark blue detective car. 403 00:24:10,720 --> 00:24:14,240 Speaker 1: Detective Glupski is in the driver's seat, his police badge 404 00:24:14,320 --> 00:24:17,000 Speaker 1: is on show, and there's a loaded pistol on his belt. 405 00:24:18,200 --> 00:24:21,360 Speaker 1: Nico sits in the passenger seat as Gallupski starts talking. 406 00:24:21,960 --> 00:24:25,120 Speaker 2: He was like, what you doing with him? You brought 407 00:24:25,160 --> 00:24:26,280 Speaker 2: your bodyguard with you. 408 00:24:26,760 --> 00:24:32,439 Speaker 1: It's an odd comment, but Nico ignores it, telling him 409 00:24:32,440 --> 00:24:34,360 Speaker 1: about the door knocking instead. 410 00:24:34,640 --> 00:24:38,200 Speaker 2: And I said, I know that this is Cecil Nil 411 00:24:38,760 --> 00:24:40,920 Speaker 2: knocking on my door. I know this is them. 412 00:24:41,760 --> 00:24:44,480 Speaker 1: She explains her theory about the guys who beat Donielle up. 413 00:24:46,600 --> 00:24:50,000 Speaker 1: Glupski watches her as she speaks, but there's a strange 414 00:24:50,040 --> 00:24:50,840 Speaker 1: look in his eyes. 415 00:24:52,280 --> 00:24:55,160 Speaker 2: He sat there and he had this little smirklike look 416 00:24:55,240 --> 00:24:55,919 Speaker 2: on his face. 417 00:24:56,600 --> 00:25:00,560 Speaker 1: Something isn't right. Suddenly the car feels smaller. 418 00:25:02,200 --> 00:25:04,920 Speaker 2: He kind of like, when you need to quit saying 419 00:25:05,359 --> 00:25:06,200 Speaker 2: Cecil's name. 420 00:25:07,040 --> 00:25:12,080 Speaker 1: Nico looks over at him. She doesn't understand. Gallupski carries on. 421 00:25:13,280 --> 00:25:14,760 Speaker 2: He said, I just want to let you know we 422 00:25:14,840 --> 00:25:19,280 Speaker 2: found his ex girlfriend body remains out behind Washington High 423 00:25:19,320 --> 00:25:20,080 Speaker 2: School at a park. 424 00:25:22,640 --> 00:25:26,199 Speaker 1: Nico hadn't seen any evidence Hesi had killed his ex girlfriend, 425 00:25:27,359 --> 00:25:30,400 Speaker 1: but when Nico spoke to Glupski, he said. 426 00:25:30,760 --> 00:25:33,080 Speaker 2: Well, I'm just telling you I wouldn't be saying his name, 427 00:25:33,240 --> 00:25:36,760 Speaker 2: saying Cecil's name because he's a dangerous person. 428 00:25:39,119 --> 00:25:45,640 Speaker 1: That moment felt like a warning, almost a threat. But 429 00:25:45,680 --> 00:25:49,640 Speaker 1: she's determined to get answers and insists she knows who 430 00:25:49,720 --> 00:25:51,680 Speaker 1: killed Danielle. 431 00:25:54,920 --> 00:25:56,879 Speaker 2: I said, I don't care what you found. I know 432 00:25:56,920 --> 00:25:58,920 Speaker 2: what happened. I know who killed him. 433 00:26:00,080 --> 00:26:04,520 Speaker 1: Nico leaves the car, feeling shaken and confused. Danielle has 434 00:26:04,560 --> 00:26:09,439 Speaker 1: been murdered. There's scary men knocking on her door, and 435 00:26:09,520 --> 00:26:12,480 Speaker 1: the officer who's supposed to be investigating her cousin's murder 436 00:26:13,240 --> 00:26:17,840 Speaker 1: is acting strangely. She doesn't know what's going on, but 437 00:26:17,960 --> 00:26:20,359 Speaker 1: she knows she needs to get out of Guendero. 438 00:26:28,520 --> 00:26:31,280 Speaker 2: A few weeks later, I get a call from Public Housing. 439 00:26:31,640 --> 00:26:33,800 Speaker 2: Me and my kids sleeping in hotels because I did 440 00:26:33,840 --> 00:26:36,480 Speaker 2: not want to go back to that house. So I 441 00:26:36,600 --> 00:26:40,159 Speaker 2: go down fill out the application. Maybe a week or 442 00:26:40,200 --> 00:26:44,159 Speaker 2: two later, they moved me down on four thirty seven Cleveland, 443 00:26:44,600 --> 00:26:45,760 Speaker 2: right off of Fifth Street. 444 00:26:46,320 --> 00:26:49,040 Speaker 1: Nico was put into social housing in another area of 445 00:26:49,119 --> 00:26:50,440 Speaker 1: Kansas City, Kansas. 446 00:26:50,920 --> 00:26:54,000 Speaker 2: They called them the Scattered Sites because it was really 447 00:26:54,040 --> 00:26:54,880 Speaker 2: nothing down there. 448 00:26:55,560 --> 00:26:58,040 Speaker 1: It's not perfect, but it's a fresh start. 449 00:26:58,680 --> 00:27:02,119 Speaker 2: I had a little bit of normal, but I found 450 00:27:02,119 --> 00:27:04,080 Speaker 2: out that I was down the street from who I 451 00:27:04,160 --> 00:27:05,639 Speaker 2: was trying to get away from. 452 00:27:06,840 --> 00:27:10,760 Speaker 1: Cecil and Monster have direct links to the scatter Sites. 453 00:27:10,960 --> 00:27:12,639 Speaker 1: Nico has been relocated to. 454 00:27:13,400 --> 00:27:15,359 Speaker 2: Matter of fact, right up around the corner from me. 455 00:27:15,680 --> 00:27:18,120 Speaker 2: Had two or three houses over there, and they knew 456 00:27:18,119 --> 00:27:18,720 Speaker 2: where our state. 457 00:27:19,640 --> 00:27:23,000 Speaker 1: Nico tries to tough it out, ignore the paranoia that 458 00:27:23,040 --> 00:27:27,240 Speaker 1: comes from being surrounded, but it becomes impossible to ignore 459 00:27:27,320 --> 00:27:32,920 Speaker 1: when one night Monster turns up outside her house. Monster 460 00:27:33,000 --> 00:27:35,520 Speaker 1: hasn't gotten back to us with his side of the story, 461 00:27:36,119 --> 00:27:37,880 Speaker 1: but this is how Nico remembers it. 462 00:27:42,359 --> 00:27:44,119 Speaker 2: He was asked me that I know who he was, 463 00:27:44,280 --> 00:27:46,760 Speaker 2: and I said, yeah, we all grew up together and 464 00:27:46,800 --> 00:27:48,320 Speaker 2: this and the other. Since I was playing it. 465 00:27:48,280 --> 00:27:52,240 Speaker 1: Off, Nico plays it cool, pretending their only connection is 466 00:27:52,280 --> 00:27:56,440 Speaker 1: their childhood in Guendero. Eventually, Monster leaves with a bunch 467 00:27:56,480 --> 00:28:00,360 Speaker 1: of other guys. Later on, Nico bumps into someone who 468 00:28:00,359 --> 00:28:01,320 Speaker 1: witnessed the encounter. 469 00:28:03,840 --> 00:28:07,119 Speaker 2: That's when he told me what was supposed to happen 470 00:28:07,200 --> 00:28:07,560 Speaker 2: that night. 471 00:28:08,560 --> 00:28:11,639 Speaker 1: Rumor was that if she'd mentioned monstrous connection to her 472 00:28:11,680 --> 00:28:13,399 Speaker 1: cousin Danielle. 473 00:28:13,080 --> 00:28:14,520 Speaker 2: I would have been killed that night. 474 00:28:18,440 --> 00:28:21,000 Speaker 1: Nico knows that is one of the few witnesses to 475 00:28:21,040 --> 00:28:24,280 Speaker 1: her cousin's murder. She might be called on to testify 476 00:28:24,400 --> 00:28:29,520 Speaker 1: about what happened that day, but the lead investigator, Detective Glubski, 477 00:28:30,000 --> 00:28:33,800 Speaker 1: is refusing to investigate the men she believes are responsible. 478 00:28:34,840 --> 00:28:39,120 Speaker 1: He's relocated her to a dangerous place and charged another boy, 479 00:28:39,520 --> 00:28:45,160 Speaker 1: La McIntyre, with the double homicide. Nico notices something else 480 00:28:45,240 --> 00:28:52,080 Speaker 1: about Detective Glupski. He's hanging around the scatter sites a lot. 481 00:28:52,760 --> 00:28:56,640 Speaker 2: He passed my house every day all day, even at night. 482 00:28:58,840 --> 00:28:59,880 Speaker 2: They would just sit there. 483 00:29:03,440 --> 00:29:06,440 Speaker 1: The police are supposed to be finding the truth, getting 484 00:29:06,640 --> 00:29:11,560 Speaker 1: justice and protecting the community. But nothing Detective Gulupski is 485 00:29:11,600 --> 00:29:18,360 Speaker 1: doing makes any sense. Nico wants answers justice for her 486 00:29:18,360 --> 00:29:22,120 Speaker 1: cousin Danielle's murder, but she's about to be drawn into 487 00:29:22,160 --> 00:29:26,880 Speaker 1: something much more sinister, be faced with an impossible decision 488 00:29:27,360 --> 00:29:31,640 Speaker 1: that could change her children's lives, and discover what has 489 00:29:31,720 --> 00:29:34,560 Speaker 1: really been happening to the women of Kansas City, Kansas, 490 00:29:35,000 --> 00:29:37,600 Speaker 1: at the hands of the police officer who is supposed 491 00:29:37,640 --> 00:29:48,200 Speaker 1: to be protecting them. Coming up on The Girlfriends Untouchable. 492 00:29:50,680 --> 00:29:54,840 Speaker 2: The corruption is so deep it's ridiculous. If I didn't 493 00:29:54,840 --> 00:29:57,280 Speaker 2: say Lamont killed my cousin, I would not see my 494 00:29:57,360 --> 00:29:59,520 Speaker 2: keys again. They come up. 495 00:30:00,960 --> 00:30:02,520 Speaker 4: It just got worse as it went along. 496 00:30:02,760 --> 00:30:04,480 Speaker 2: They won't tell you nothing. 497 00:30:05,120 --> 00:30:07,880 Speaker 1: If it was your mom that got killed in the eighties, 498 00:30:08,040 --> 00:30:08,800 Speaker 1: what would. 499 00:30:08,520 --> 00:30:11,280 Speaker 2: You have of doing this. Dude is the devil. He's 500 00:30:11,320 --> 00:30:14,560 Speaker 2: a snake. He heard you. 501 00:30:26,840 --> 00:30:31,200 Speaker 1: The Girlfriend's Untouchable is produced by Novel for iHeart Podcasts. 502 00:30:31,960 --> 00:30:35,640 Speaker 1: For more from Novel, visit novel dot Audio. The show 503 00:30:35,720 --> 00:30:39,239 Speaker 1: is narrated by me Nicki Richardson. It was written and 504 00:30:39,280 --> 00:30:44,240 Speaker 1: produced by Rufaro Mazarura. The editor is Joe Wheeler. Our 505 00:30:44,280 --> 00:30:49,840 Speaker 1: assistant producer is Mohammed Ahmed. The researcher is Zaiyana Yusef. 506 00:30:50,240 --> 00:30:55,000 Speaker 1: Production management from Shuri Houston and Joe Savage. The fact 507 00:30:55,040 --> 00:30:59,440 Speaker 1: checker is Fendell Fulton. Sound design, mixing and scoring by 508 00:30:59,480 --> 00:31:04,520 Speaker 1: Daniel cam with additional engineering by Nicholas Alexander. Music supervision 509 00:31:04,640 --> 00:31:09,959 Speaker 1: by Rufaro Masurura, Nicholas Alexander and Joe Wheeler. Original music 510 00:31:10,080 --> 00:31:14,160 Speaker 1: by Amanda Jones. The Girlfriend's theme was composed by Amanda 511 00:31:14,240 --> 00:31:17,960 Speaker 1: Jones and Louisa Gerstein. The series of artwork was designed 512 00:31:18,000 --> 00:31:21,960 Speaker 1: by Christina Limpool. Story development by Olivia Smart and Nel 513 00:31:21,960 --> 00:31:26,520 Speaker 1: Gray Andrews. Novel's director of Development is Selena Metta. Willard 514 00:31:26,560 --> 00:31:31,120 Speaker 1: Foxton is Novel's creative director of Development. Max O'Brien and 515 00:31:31,200 --> 00:31:35,480 Speaker 1: Craig Strachan are executive producers for Novel. Katrina Norvel and 516 00:31:35,560 --> 00:31:39,960 Speaker 1: Nikki Etour are the executive producers for iHeart Podcasts, and 517 00:31:40,040 --> 00:31:44,400 Speaker 1: the marketing lead is Alison Cantor. Special thanks to Will 518 00:31:44,520 --> 00:31:48,160 Speaker 1: Pearson and a special thanks to Carley Frankel and the 519 00:31:48,200 --> 00:31:50,000 Speaker 1: whole team at w M E.