Speaker 1: Hey, I'm Nikki, the host of the new series of
Speaker 1: The Girlfriends Untouchable. It's a story that takes place in
Speaker 1: my hometown, Kansas City, Kansas, and over the next eight episodes,
Speaker 1: you're going to meet a lot of incredible people, including
Speaker 1: some of the truly inspiring women I get to call
Speaker 1: my friends. But it's also a tough story, one that
Speaker 1: will dive into topics including sexual assault, violence, and murder.
Speaker 1: There will also be some strong language if you or
Speaker 1: someone you love has been affected by any of the
Speaker 1: themes in the show. We've left some links in the
Speaker 1: description that offer resources and support take care of yourself.
Speaker 1: When Nico Quinn gets up in the morning, she heads
Speaker 1: straight over to the truck she's driving that day, an
Speaker 1: eighteen wheeler with a cabin up top.
Speaker 2: God pray first touched the wheels and everything on the
Speaker 2: truck and pray for a save trip.
Speaker 1: Nico works as an over the road truck driver, hauling
Speaker 1: fifty to eighty thousand pound freights across the country for
Speaker 1: hundreds or sometimes thousands of miles a week.
Speaker 2: I love traveling. I have been to Canada, I've been
Speaker 2: all the way up to Maine, and Maine is so
Speaker 2: beautiful and even Oregon. I mean it's just beautiful, just
Speaker 2: so green, and you see in all kind of animals
Speaker 2: like elk and rams, and I'm like, wow, you know,
Speaker 2: because something you never seen before.
Speaker 1: She never feels more free than when she's out on
Speaker 1: the open road.
Speaker 2: I've always said, if I came back as another creature,
Speaker 2: I would want.
Speaker 1: To be an eagle, because eagles are pretty good at
Speaker 1: weathering storms.
Speaker 2: Just like I wather the storm that I've been through.
Speaker 1: For Nico, the storm began not on the open road,
Speaker 1: but in the city where she grew up. Nico was
Speaker 1: raised on the northeast side of Kansas City, Kansas, in
Speaker 1: a neighborhood close to the banks of the Missouri River
Speaker 1: named Quindero.
Speaker 2: It was a village over there. Both sides of the
Speaker 2: street was filled with either houses or black owned businesses.
Speaker 2: The Wilson's had a piece of shop right at the
Speaker 2: corner of eighteenth Street. We had one restaurant called CNS
Speaker 2: that was the best burghers. They used to sell the
Speaker 2: hand packed ice cream. Oh my goodness.
Speaker 1: Quendero was rich in community, but by the nineties, decades
Speaker 1: of economic neglect had put a cap on the neighborhood's growth,
Speaker 1: and while Nico tried to stay out of trouble, she
Speaker 1: found herself pulled into what was going on around her.
Speaker 1: She had four young kids to support and what she
Speaker 1: needed to do to put food on the table.
Speaker 2: I was in the streets. I was selling drugs, and
Speaker 2: I don't agree with my lifestyle, but you know, being young,
Speaker 2: selling drugs was a thing back then. I felt like,
Speaker 2: if I can make money off of it, that's what
Speaker 2: I'll do.
Speaker 1: But she and her family were also trying to create
Speaker 1: a better future for themselves by getting an education.
Speaker 2: It was like about five or six of us going
Speaker 2: to school to get our GEDs, my cousin done, my sister.
Speaker 2: We all used to get up, get ready, get in
Speaker 2: the car. Well used to ride together. We'd get up
Speaker 2: there to Donnelly College and be acting the food. We
Speaker 2: was just having fun and trying to get our lives intact.
Speaker 1: By April nineteen ninety four, things are looking up. It's
Speaker 1: one of the first days of that year that feels
Speaker 1: like spring.
Speaker 2: It was nice that day, the sun was out.
Speaker 1: As she walks down the familiar tree lined street near
Speaker 1: her mother's house, Nico notices an unusual car parked on
Speaker 1: the side of the road.
Speaker 2: I seen a blue kellac sitting there. I'm like, who
Speaker 2: the heck is that? And I said, all they must
Speaker 2: be waiting on somebody. And I seen this guy coming
Speaker 2: across the field, black hat, black shirt, black jeans, black
Speaker 2: tennis shoes, and I said, oh, maybe they're waiting on him.
Speaker 2: And then then I heard the first pal.
Speaker 1: Nico heard the man fire three shots into the car.
Speaker 2: My mama duck behind her truck. My sister came out
Speaker 2: and started jumping up and down, screaming, saying, oh my god,
Speaker 2: it's little Done. Oh my god, little Don. My legs
Speaker 2: turned to mush. I just fell and started screaming.
Speaker 1: Nico's favorite cousin, Little Don, has just been shot. He's
Speaker 1: only twenty one years old.
Speaker 2: My legs felt like I was in mud or something.
Speaker 2: I couldn't move. Everybody is a, you know, chaos.
Speaker 1: The shooter turns around and disappears into a field. One
Speaker 1: of Nico's neighbors, Ruby gets a good look at him.
Speaker 2: She said, oh my god, that's Lamont. I said, I
Speaker 2: don't know, no Lamont.
Speaker 1: Nico's family members run out of their houses and onto
Speaker 1: the street. She follows them.
Speaker 2: I went to the car and don was looking over
Speaker 2: trying to talk. This whole side of his face was gone.
Speaker 1: The man in the passenger seat, another cousin named Donnie Ewing,
Speaker 1: has been shocked too.
Speaker 2: We was asking what happened and who did it, and
Speaker 2: we're asking him to hold on, and he was just
Speaker 2: looking at us, trying to speak. And my mom had
Speaker 2: walked around and she put her hand on him and
Speaker 2: she started praying for him, and she said, he's gone.
Speaker 2: I've seen him take his last breath, but I was
Speaker 2: hoping he was still alive. It's like your best friend,
Speaker 2: that person that you can fight it in. I can
Speaker 2: save him. That day was the worst day of my life,
Speaker 2: The worst day of my life.
Speaker 1: Nico's cousins were dead, murdered in broad daylight, but the
Speaker 1: quest to find out who had killed them and why
Speaker 1: would go way beyond this murder investigation. There was a
Speaker 1: dark scandal at the heart of Kansas City, Kansas, a
Speaker 1: story of violence and corruption spanning decades, and it would
Speaker 1: take my friend Nico, along with a band of incredible women,
Speaker 1: on a journey to speak up, reveal the truth, and
Speaker 1: fight for the city we love.
Speaker 2: Oh God, why God.
Speaker 1: I'm Nikki Richardson from the teams at Novel and iHeart Podcasts.
Speaker 1: This is the Girlfriend's Untouchable.
Speaker 2: I Had You, You Got You?
Speaker 1: Episode one, No Place Like Home You April fifteenth, nineteen
Speaker 1: ninety four turned Nico Quinn's life upside down. Her favorite cousin, Danielle,
Speaker 1: had been shot murdered right in front of her. It
Speaker 1: was a devastating loss. Just like that, her soulmate was gone.
Speaker 2: We was two peas in a pot ever since we
Speaker 2: was kids. Donielle was like my brother from another mother.
Speaker 2: He was my best friend. He was a jack of
Speaker 2: all trade, master nun. He could dance, he could fix things,
Speaker 2: he can sing, he can dress. He was mac Daddy
Speaker 2: other year let him tell it. And he was a comforter.
Speaker 2: He was a giver. If he was still alive, you
Speaker 2: wouldn't even be able to interview him. He would have
Speaker 2: you in tears. Just try laughing, because he is. He
Speaker 2: was that much of a food.
Speaker 1: But like so many other people in Quendero, he lost
Speaker 1: his way in his teenage years.
Speaker 2: Danielle ended up getting gone drugs on crack cocaine, started
Speaker 2: dealing with the wrong people.
Speaker 1: Hours after witnessing his murder, Nico began to wonder were
Speaker 1: those wrong people involved. Two weeks earlier, a group of
Speaker 1: men had shown up to punish Danyelle for a debt
Speaker 1: he owed allegedly stealing drugs from their stash house.
Speaker 2: About six to seven people jumped on and beat them
Speaker 2: with poles, and he was beat up real bad, and
Speaker 2: he ended up coming down on my house, sitting on
Speaker 2: my mother's porch. So I started talking to him. I
Speaker 2: went and got some bandage and stuff and started attending
Speaker 2: to his wounds.
Speaker 1: Nico says that Donyelle claimed the attack had been instigated
Speaker 1: by a drug dealer named Cecil Brooks and a local
Speaker 1: guy everyone calls Monster. Nico says that after the attack,
Speaker 1: she decided to help Donielle pay off his debts.
Speaker 2: So I sent my sister and somebody else up there
Speaker 2: to ask the person, can I paid a debt for him?
Speaker 2: They said it was okay, it was cool.
Speaker 1: A few days later, the men came back and tried
Speaker 1: to take Donyell away, but Nico's family intervened and told
Speaker 1: them to back off. The Next day, Danielle showed up
Speaker 1: at Nico's house. His mood had changed.
Speaker 2: Don came in and he was singing. He was singing
Speaker 2: Christian songs. I have never seen him his fear just
Speaker 2: so happy. He came back and he told me, say,
Speaker 2: I just want took a shower. I'm about to go
Speaker 2: see my baby and cousin. I'm gonna check myself in.
Speaker 2: I'm about to get myself right. I can't go down
Speaker 2: this road again.
Speaker 1: Danielle had a young son. He wanted to go to rehab,
Speaker 1: get himself clean, and start afresh.
Speaker 2: He kissed me on my cheek or maybe my forehead,
Speaker 2: told me he loved me, and then he walked out
Speaker 2: the door.
Speaker 1: A few minutes later, Danielle was dad.
Speaker 2: I wasn't okay. I had all types of emotions. Everywhere
Speaker 2: I went that day. I kept seeing my cousin in
Speaker 2: the state that I had last seen him, and it's horrible.
Speaker 2: The police came over.
Speaker 1: Nico opened her front door.
Speaker 2: I came out and I was asking them, you know
Speaker 2: what did they want?
Speaker 1: They had come to investigate the murders of Donielle Quinn
Speaker 1: and Donnie Ewing. The lead officer was a detective named
Speaker 1: Roger Gallupski.
Speaker 2: He was a chunky white guy that thought he was
Speaker 2: Rigo Suavee. He had black hair slicked back, wore these glasses,
Speaker 2: a ring on his spinky finger. He had a couple
Speaker 2: of chains on his neck. He made sure you seen
Speaker 2: his badge yet, his badge on his belt, his gun
Speaker 2: on his side.
Speaker 1: Detective Gaulupski wanted Nico to take a look through a
Speaker 1: list of suspects.
Speaker 2: But I'm going through the pictures, I said, I know
Speaker 2: he didn't do it. Oh, I know he didn't do it.
Speaker 2: I said, I don't see the person in there that
Speaker 2: did it.
Speaker 1: Nico hadn't seen the shooter's face clearly enough to say
Speaker 1: for sure, but she thought she knew how her main
Speaker 1: suspects were. Speaking to the police in a community as
Speaker 1: tight knit as Quandero was risky, but Nico didn't care.
Speaker 1: This was about family.
Speaker 2: I said, we know who did it. Was the person
Speaker 2: that tried to pick him up the night before, who
Speaker 2: kept trying to get him, who jumped on him.
Speaker 1: Cecil and Monster, the guys who allegedly jumped Donyelle, But
Speaker 1: they weren't included in the photos the police showed her.
Speaker 1: Nico didn't identify any of their other suspects, so the
Speaker 1: cops left.
Speaker 2: They came back again the next morning early in the morning.
Speaker 2: They were like, we need you to look at these
Speaker 2: pictures again.
Speaker 1: They showed her a picture of a boy named Lamont McIntyre.
Speaker 1: This name took Nico straight back to the moment her
Speaker 1: cousin was shot. After the gunshots, her neighbor had shouted
Speaker 1: out a name Lamont, but when she examined the photo,
Speaker 1: she shook her head.
Speaker 2: I said no, his ears was too big and the
Speaker 2: person that did it is didn't stick out like hes did.
Speaker 2: I said, no, he didn't do it.
Speaker 1: As one of the few witnesses to the shooting, Nico
Speaker 1: hoped the police would take her at her word, but
Speaker 1: Gallupski seemed insistent that Nico looked again, so he pushed
Speaker 1: the photo of Lamont McIntyre towards her.
Speaker 2: So I took the picture again and I'm like, no,
Speaker 2: he didn't do it.
Speaker 1: They reached a standstill, waiting each other out. Eventually, the
Speaker 1: officer left her house, but Nico's part in the investigation
Speaker 1: wasn't over. What she didn't know was that the man
Speaker 1: in blue leaving her front porch had already chosen his
Speaker 1: lead suspect. Because Roger Gilupski was no regular detective, he
Speaker 1: was a dangerous man with enough power to destroy lives,
Speaker 1: starting with that of a boy in handcuffs on the
Speaker 1: other side of Kansas City. The spring of nineteen ninety
Speaker 1: four was a season that would irreversibly change dozens of
Speaker 1: lives in Kansas City, including that of a sixteen year
Speaker 1: old boy raised in Quindero.
Speaker 3: My name is Lamont McIntyre. Growing up where I'm from
Speaker 3: was it was fun times. We didn't notice poverty because
Speaker 3: we had each other, like we were really type with
Speaker 3: my family.
Speaker 1: Lamont didn't live that far away from the Queen cousins,
Speaker 1: but he was young and had his own group of friends.
Speaker 4: We was hip hop heads.
Speaker 3: I was in the hip hop I had the car
Speaker 3: main like the flat time would dye in it. I
Speaker 3: was really in up fashion and clean shoes and gold
Speaker 3: chains and my rings.
Speaker 1: He liked to keep up with the latest styles. So
Speaker 1: one day he decided to experiment with his brother's hair.
Speaker 3: So my mother's in work one day and I got
Speaker 3: some clippers from Kmart and I cut my brothers in
Speaker 3: hair and I messed it up bad. My mother was
Speaker 3: mad at me, But after that I learned how to
Speaker 3: get it right. And then from my brother's hair, I
Speaker 3: saw I cutting everybody in the neighborhood's hair. My cousin's in hair,
Speaker 3: and I became the barber. So I was cutting hair
Speaker 3: back then bout three dollars of haircut. I was a hustler,
Speaker 3: so I would cut grass, I would paint. I would
Speaker 3: do anything I could to get some money, just to
Speaker 3: go get some fresh shoes or something like that.
Speaker 1: Those side hustles were reserved for the afternoons and weekends
Speaker 1: because Lamont spent his days at school.
Speaker 4: My mother was a strict parent and wanted me to
Speaker 4: be educated.
Speaker 1: He was a good student. He showed up to class
Speaker 1: and left science. He would occasionally get in trouble for
Speaker 1: talking too much.
Speaker 3: Though I was a popular kid, I guess, but only
Speaker 3: because I was funny. I had big ears and I
Speaker 3: was skinny, so they made fun of me, and that's
Speaker 3: how it became good and making fun of other people.
Speaker 4: I was just a class clown.
Speaker 1: He did his best to stay out of serious trouble,
Speaker 1: but he didn't always stick to the rules. On the
Speaker 1: fifteenth of April nineteen ninety four, Lamont decides to skip school.
Speaker 1: He decides to spend the day going back and forth
Speaker 1: between his uncle and auntie's houses, kicking back and hanging
Speaker 1: out with his family. It's a pretty regular spring morning
Speaker 1: in Kansas City until he gets the call.
Speaker 3: My grandmother called me and said what did you do?
Speaker 3: And I said, what do you mean?
Speaker 4: What did I do? She said, what did you do?
Speaker 5: Where did you be?
Speaker 4: And I said, I haven't been nowhere.
Speaker 5: It's early.
Speaker 3: It was like still, it wasn't eleven o'clock yet, So
Speaker 3: I say, ain't being nowhere, Grandmother?
Speaker 4: What you mean?
Speaker 3: So she said, well, the police just left my house.
Speaker 3: They've been all over my house looking for you, and
Speaker 3: it looked seriously like it was looking for you, like
Speaker 3: he killed somebody.
Speaker 4: I called my mother.
Speaker 3: I said, Mom, they looking for me at grandma house,
Speaker 3: So take me to the police agent so I can
Speaker 3: see what's going on. She called then and told him
Speaker 3: digging meet us at her job.
Speaker 1: Lamon's mother, Rose, isn't going to let her son meet
Speaker 1: the police on his own, so she picks him up
Speaker 1: from his auntie's house. Sitting in the back seat, Lamont
Speaker 1: racks his mind trying to figure out why the police
Speaker 1: are looking for him. He's gotten in trouble in the
Speaker 1: past for selling drugs and being in the wrong place
Speaker 1: with family members caught up in the street life. But
Speaker 1: when he arrives at his mom's workplace, it's clear that
Speaker 1: the cops mean business.
Speaker 3: It was three detective cars and like four or five
Speaker 3: patrol cars.
Speaker 4: They asked me, do I know.
Speaker 3: Anything about a gang related activity today? Something gang related today?
Speaker 3: And I said no. They told my mother, well, he's
Speaker 3: not underrest. We want to take him down there for
Speaker 3: questioning and then he'll be able to go in, but
Speaker 3: we just want to ask him a few more questions.
Speaker 1: Lamarck complies and says goodbye to his mother.
Speaker 3: So they put me in a police car took me
Speaker 3: to the police station. When I get to the police
Speaker 3: station and I got into the room where I was
Speaker 3: being interrogated, that's when everything kind of changed.
Speaker 1: They clearly haven't called him in to talk about drugs
Speaker 1: or hustling.
Speaker 3: They start screaming at me and asking do I know
Speaker 3: Donnie Ewing and Donielle Quinn And I said no. On
Speaker 3: on they said it was funny because one of them
Speaker 3: lived long enough to say you was a person responsible
Speaker 3: for killing him, And I started laughing because I didn't
Speaker 3: know his names. Like, man, I'm getting up, I'm telling
Speaker 3: him to go to my mom, and I'm like, I
Speaker 3: don't y'all got the wrong person.
Speaker 4: My name is Lama Macat. I don't know who y'all
Speaker 4: looking for.
Speaker 3: And that's when they got real serious and they started
Speaker 3: screaming at me, you know, calling me a nigga killer,
Speaker 3: saying I know you did it. I was scared because
Speaker 3: he's really going through with charged me with two council
Speaker 3: first of your murder.
Speaker 1: Lamont had begun the day as a regular teenage boy
Speaker 1: skipping school, but now he's in handcuffs being escorted around
Speaker 1: the police station in a whirlwind of accusations. He doesn't understand.
Speaker 1: Two officers march him down the stairs to an underground area.
Speaker 4: A mother was part at the police station.
Speaker 1: By the time he sees his mother, Lamont is in tears.
Speaker 3: She seen me come out of handcuffs and I said, Mama,
Speaker 3: they charged me two councer first of your murdered And
Speaker 3: she said, what do you mean. I said, they charged
Speaker 3: me two councer first of your murder. I don't know
Speaker 3: none about it. And that's when it dined on me.
Speaker 5: Though they were serious.
Speaker 1: I got you, did you ever play a game called
Speaker 1: ding Dong? Ditch when you were a kid, where you
Speaker 1: knock on someone's front door and then run away before
Speaker 1: they can answer. Nico Quinn and her sisters played it
Speaker 1: together as kids growing up in Quendero.
Speaker 2: We call it nigga knocking. When somebody come and knock
Speaker 2: on your door, you go to the door. Ain't nobody there.
Speaker 1: But this childhood game is about to take a dark turn.
Speaker 1: It's the night after the shooting. She's sitting at home
Speaker 1: with her children when she hears a sound.
Speaker 2: It was a boom boom, bom, bom boom.
Speaker 1: First it's at her front door, and then the.
Speaker 2: Back door, the side, and then when I go look,
Speaker 2: there's nobody there. And that's what happened to me. For
Speaker 2: maybe the next week after Don was killed, somebody was
Speaker 2: knocking on my door. No, I need to be a
Speaker 2: house full of people down in my house. Nobody had
Speaker 2: been down there after Don had got guilt, not like that.
Speaker 1: So she knows it's not her friends or family coming
Speaker 1: to visit her. Nico peers out of her window.
Speaker 2: And I see this car sitting outside, a dark colored
Speaker 2: for a door, looked like a caprice or cutless.
Speaker 1: She believes it's cecil and monster, the men she suspects
Speaker 1: of being involved in her cousin, Danielle's murder.
Speaker 2: I was always thinking that they were watching me, they
Speaker 2: were after me. I was scared they would do something
Speaker 2: to my kids.
Speaker 1: Fearing for her family, Nico packed up her things and
Speaker 1: moved out. She and her kids went to stay with
Speaker 1: different friends and relatives for a while, but it wasn't
Speaker 1: a long term solution. She needed stability. Me and my
Speaker 1: boyfriend was talking.
Speaker 2: He said, well, won't you see if the police they
Speaker 2: can do something for you know, they can move you,
Speaker 2: relocate you.
Speaker 1: So she called the man who had been assigned to
Speaker 1: her cousin's case, Detective Glupski. I was telling him, Hey,
Speaker 1: these people keep knocking on my door. You know, they
Speaker 1: taunt me. I don't feel safe in my home. Detective
Speaker 1: Gulupski agrees to see Nico, but he doesn't want to
Speaker 1: meet at the police station.
Speaker 2: He asked me to meet him at Wanda High School.
Speaker 1: Weird, but Nico needs to move, so she agrees.
Speaker 2: I asked my boyfriend what he take me. He said, yeah,
Speaker 2: I take you.
Speaker 1: It's not a long drive, but Nico spends the journey
Speaker 1: deep in thought.
Speaker 2: I was nervous anxious at the same time, because I
Speaker 2: went to tell him what I knew, and I was
Speaker 2: scared a little bit, but I had my ex boyfriend
Speaker 2: with me.
Speaker 1: When they parked up next to the high school, her
Speaker 1: boyfriend tendses up.
Speaker 2: He told me to keep the door open or the
Speaker 2: windowdill because he didn't trust me.
Speaker 1: Most people in Quendero know at least one person who's
Speaker 1: had a bad interrack with law enforcement. But Nico is
Speaker 1: on a mission, so she walks across the road and
Speaker 1: over to the police car.
Speaker 2: It was a dark blue detective car.
Speaker 1: Detective Glupski is in the driver's seat, his police badge
Speaker 1: is on show, and there's a loaded pistol on his belt.
Speaker 1: Nico sits in the passenger seat as Gallupski starts talking.
Speaker 2: He was like, what you doing with him? You brought
Speaker 2: your bodyguard with you.
Speaker 1: It's an odd comment, but Nico ignores it, telling him
Speaker 1: about the door knocking instead.
Speaker 2: And I said, I know that this is Cecil Nil
Speaker 2: knocking on my door. I know this is them.
Speaker 1: She explains her theory about the guys who beat Donielle up.
Speaker 1: Glupski watches her as she speaks, but there's a strange
Speaker 1: look in his eyes.
Speaker 2: He sat there and he had this little smirklike look
Speaker 2: on his face.
Speaker 1: Something isn't right. Suddenly the car feels smaller.
Speaker 2: He kind of like, when you need to quit saying
Speaker 2: Cecil's name.
Speaker 1: Nico looks over at him. She doesn't understand. Gallupski carries on.
Speaker 2: He said, I just want to let you know we
Speaker 2: found his ex girlfriend body remains out behind Washington High
Speaker 2: School at a park.
Speaker 1: Nico hadn't seen any evidence Hesi had killed his ex girlfriend,
Speaker 1: but when Nico spoke to Glupski, he said.
Speaker 2: Well, I'm just telling you I wouldn't be saying his name,
Speaker 2: saying Cecil's name because he's a dangerous person.
Speaker 1: That moment felt like a warning, almost a threat. But
Speaker 1: she's determined to get answers and insists she knows who
Speaker 1: killed Danielle.
Speaker 2: I said, I don't care what you found. I know
Speaker 2: what happened. I know who killed him.
Speaker 1: Nico leaves the car, feeling shaken and confused. Danielle has
Speaker 1: been murdered. There's scary men knocking on her door, and
Speaker 1: the officer who's supposed to be investigating her cousin's murder
Speaker 1: is acting strangely. She doesn't know what's going on, but
Speaker 1: she knows she needs to get out of Guendero.
Speaker 2: A few weeks later, I get a call from Public Housing.
Speaker 2: Me and my kids sleeping in hotels because I did
Speaker 2: not want to go back to that house. So I
Speaker 2: go down fill out the application. Maybe a week or
Speaker 2: two later, they moved me down on four thirty seven Cleveland,
Speaker 2: right off of Fifth Street.
Speaker 1: Nico was put into social housing in another area of
Speaker 1: Kansas City, Kansas.
Speaker 2: They called them the Scattered Sites because it was really
Speaker 2: nothing down there.
Speaker 1: It's not perfect, but it's a fresh start.
Speaker 2: I had a little bit of normal, but I found
Speaker 2: out that I was down the street from who I
Speaker 2: was trying to get away from.
Speaker 1: Cecil and Monster have direct links to the scatter Sites.
Speaker 1: Nico has been relocated to.
Speaker 2: Matter of fact, right up around the corner from me.
Speaker 2: Had two or three houses over there, and they knew
Speaker 2: where our state.
Speaker 1: Nico tries to tough it out, ignore the paranoia that
Speaker 1: comes from being surrounded, but it becomes impossible to ignore
Speaker 1: when one night Monster turns up outside her house. Monster
Speaker 1: hasn't gotten back to us with his side of the story,
Speaker 1: but this is how Nico remembers it.
Speaker 2: He was asked me that I know who he was,
Speaker 2: and I said, yeah, we all grew up together and
Speaker 2: this and the other. Since I was playing it.
Speaker 1: Off, Nico plays it cool, pretending their only connection is
Speaker 1: their childhood in Guendero. Eventually, Monster leaves with a bunch
Speaker 1: of other guys. Later on, Nico bumps into someone who
Speaker 1: witnessed the encounter.
Speaker 2: That's when he told me what was supposed to happen
Speaker 2: that night.
Speaker 1: Rumor was that if she'd mentioned monstrous connection to her
Speaker 1: cousin Danielle.
Speaker 2: I would have been killed that night.
Speaker 1: Nico knows that is one of the few witnesses to
Speaker 1: her cousin's murder. She might be called on to testify
Speaker 1: about what happened that day, but the lead investigator, Detective Glubski,
Speaker 1: is refusing to investigate the men she believes are responsible.
Speaker 1: He's relocated her to a dangerous place and charged another boy,
Speaker 1: La McIntyre, with the double homicide. Nico notices something else
Speaker 1: about Detective Glupski. He's hanging around the scatter sites a lot.
Speaker 2: He passed my house every day all day, even at night.
Speaker 2: They would just sit there.
Speaker 1: The police are supposed to be finding the truth, getting
Speaker 1: justice and protecting the community. But nothing Detective Gulupski is
Speaker 1: doing makes any sense. Nico wants answers justice for her
Speaker 1: cousin Danielle's murder, but she's about to be drawn into
Speaker 1: something much more sinister, be faced with an impossible decision
Speaker 1: that could change her children's lives, and discover what has
Speaker 1: really been happening to the women of Kansas City, Kansas,
Speaker 1: at the hands of the police officer who is supposed
Speaker 1: to be protecting them. Coming up on The Girlfriends Untouchable.
Speaker 2: The corruption is so deep it's ridiculous. If I didn't
Speaker 2: say Lamont killed my cousin, I would not see my
Speaker 2: keys again. They come up.
Speaker 4: It just got worse as it went along.
Speaker 2: They won't tell you nothing.
Speaker 1: If it was your mom that got killed in the eighties,
Speaker 1: what would.
Speaker 2: You have of doing this. Dude is the devil. He's
Speaker 2: a snake. He heard you.
Speaker 1: The Girlfriend's Untouchable is produced by Novel for iHeart Podcasts.
Speaker 1: For more from Novel, visit novel dot Audio. The show
Speaker 1: is narrated by me Nicki Richardson. It was written and
Speaker 1: produced by Rufaro Mazarura. The editor is Joe Wheeler. Our
Speaker 1: assistant producer is Mohammed Ahmed. The researcher is Zaiyana Yusef.
Speaker 1: Production management from Shuri Houston and Joe Savage. The fact
Speaker 1: checker is Fendell Fulton. Sound design, mixing and scoring by
Speaker 1: Daniel cam with additional engineering by Nicholas Alexander. Music supervision
Speaker 1: by Rufaro Masurura, Nicholas Alexander and Joe Wheeler. Original music
Speaker 1: by Amanda Jones. The Girlfriend's theme was composed by Amanda
Speaker 1: Jones and Louisa Gerstein. The series of artwork was designed
Speaker 1: by Christina Limpool. Story development by Olivia Smart and Nel
Speaker 1: Gray Andrews. Novel's director of Development is Selena Metta. Willard
Speaker 1: Foxton is Novel's creative director of Development. Max O'Brien and
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