Roger Golubski, a 71-year-old former Kansas police detective accused of abducting and r*ping two women in the 1900s and 2000s, was found dead on Monday, December 2, 2024, hours before jury selection was set to begin for the long-awaited criminal civil rights trial. According to CNN, Golubski was found dead on his back porch.
His death has sparked outrage among community members, including survivors who demanded accountability from authorities who allowed him to stay on house arrest while awaiting trial. Survivor, Michelle Houcks told ABC affiliate KMBC news.
“It's not fair at all. They should have locked him up so he could face his accusers. I feel there was a lot of stuff probably going to come out at that court.”
Community member, Star Cooper, who believes the former detective killed her mother over 40 years ago, told NBC affiliate KSHB:
"I just felt he took the easy way out. He’s a coward — he didn’t want to face everything that he’s done."
Golubski died of a gunshot wound, was out on bond awaiting the trial for s*xually assaulting vulnerable Black women, whom he called “confidential informants," over multiple decades.
Who is Roger Golubski?
According to Iowa Public Radio, Roger Golubski, who was born in 1952, was from a big Polish family that settled in Kansas City as immigrants. The former police detective, who was born to Josephine and Edward Golubski, has one brother, Randy. Golubski was married four times and had a son.
The publication reported that Golubski’s mother, who died in 2018, was an active member of the Moose Lodge, a national organization that only allowed white people to join.
Golubski, who spent his high school years at a now-closed Catholic seminary Savior of the World, reportedly planned to be a priest but instead joined the Kansas City, Kansas, Police Department in 1975.
Golubski, who was a member of St. Patrick’s Catholic Church, worked in the department for 35 years before he retired in 2010. The former detective’s time in the department was reportedly marred with multiple controversies, including the death of a 41-year-old man who died of internal bleeding after he was arrested by Golubski in 1978.
Despite Golubski admitting to striking the man with his nightstick while transferring him from a bar to a detox cell at the jail, a coroner’s jury reportedly ruled the man died from an accident.
Despite the concerning incident, Golubski moved up the ranks as he had acquired a reputation for clearing cases faster by using confidential informants.
The confidential informants reportedly included vulnerable black women who were allegedly coerced into giving him information and s*x in exchange for money and drugs.
Roger Golubski's The First 48 appearance
Roger Golubski appeared in an episode of a police reality TV show “The First 48,” in 2007 in which he demonstrated authorities are most likely to find a homicide suspect within the first 48 hours.
In 2022, Roger Golubski was arrested and charged with abusing his power as a police officer to violate the civil rights of two women, including one as young as 13, by kidnapping, r*pe, and s*xual assault. Golubski had pleaded not guilty to the charges and was released on house arrest despite prosecutors contending he posed a danger to society.
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However, U.S. Magistrate Judge Rachel E. Schwartz ruled against imprisonment, citing Golubski’s poor health, including Type 1 diabetes and renal failure.
Roger Golubski, who retired from the Kansas City, Kansas, Police Department, Golubski in 2010, went to work for the Edwardsville police department. He retired in 2016.
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