Roger Golubski (Shawnee County Detention Center).
The disgraced Kansas police detective accused of raping Black women and girls for decades died by suicide the day he was slated to face a jury of his peers in a federal trial, authorities say.
The Edwardsville Police Department received a 911 call shortly after 9 a.m. Monday from a resident in the 700 block of S. 9th Street about a gunshot. Officers arrived on scene and found a man later identified as 71-year-old Roger Golubski dead on the back porch. The Kansas Bureau of Investigation is conducting a death investigation but there are no signs of foul play. An autopsy will determine the official cause of death.
Golubski, a former detective with the Kansas City Police Department, was set to go on trial in federal court for alleged civil rights violations for acting under color of law to commit aggravated sexual assaults for decades. Indicted in September 2022, Golubski was accused of raping two women multiple times over several years in the late 1990s and early 2000s. He allegedly used his position as a police officer to force himself upon them.
