KS KS - Rhonda Tribue, 34, KCK, Edwardsville; FBI seeks help; 8 Oct 1998

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Rhonda Tribue was a married mother of six. Her body was found along a lonely stretch of road between KCK and Edwardsville back in 1998. She had been beaten to death and run over by a car.

Feds investigating KCK cold case; it may have something to do with allegations of police corruption

In a rare move, the FBI is investigating a cold case from 1998 and are asking for your help.

“She did have DNA under her nails. She did fight back. Whoever it was, she did fight back. She didn’t just die, she fought for her life,” her daughter Jelica Tribue said

“My understanding is that Roger (Golubski) has wreaked havoc over Kansas City and that he has needs to be looked at and examined. Because there are several cases that are particular to the same instance of my mother’s case and that he’s the common denominator in all those cases. They are women, cold cases, brutally murdered found in the same areas. So, he is a target at this point,” Jelica Tribue said.

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There are terrible allegations swirling around Golubski. He’s now retired. He was a powerful detective who became a captain and his partner, Terry Zeigler, eventually became the police chief. Zeigler worked for 35 years inside the KCK Police Department.
Family in KCK cold case says FBI wants to know more about detective who worked case

 

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… There are terrible allegations swirling around Golubski. He’s now retired. He was a powerful detective who became a captain and his partner, Terry Zeigler, eventually became the police chief. Zeigler worked for 35 years inside the KCK Police Department.
Family in KCK cold case says FBI wants to know more about detective who worked case

Judge orders ex-Kansas cop released for jail pending trial

A former Kansas City, Kansas, police detective accused of preying on poor Black females for decades will be released from custody pending his trial

abcnews.go.com

Golubski, 69, was arrested and charged Thursday on six counts of civil rights violations alleging that as an officer with the Kansas City, Kansas, police department, he sexually abused a Black woman and a teenager more than two decades ago. Five counts allege that Golubski kidnapped or tried to kidnap the victims.

https://www.usnews.com/news/us/articles/2022-09-19/prosecutors-want-ex-kansas-cop-to-stay-in-jail-before-trial

 

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Golubski worked for the KCK Police Department for 35 years, retiring as a captain in 2010. For years, he has been the subject of allegations that he terrorized Black residents of the city, sexually assaulted women and exchanged drugs for information in order to clear cases.

In June, the Unified Government agreed to pay $12.5 million to settle a civil rights suit brought by Lamonte McIntyre, who was wrongfully imprisoned for more than 24 years for a double slaying he didn't commit.

The lawsuit named Golubski, various KCK police officers and the Unified Government. Golubski allegedly framed the then-17-year-old McIntyre for the double homicide in 1994.

When deposed by McIntyre's lawyers, Golubski invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination hundreds of times.

Emma Freudenberger, the lawyer who deposed Golubski, said in an email that she was "glad to see this step toward accountability for some of the harm he’s done."

"But this kind of corruption doesn’t happen in secret, and Golubski clearly made no effort to hide who he was," Freudenberger, a partner in the New York law firm of Neufeld Scheck & Brustin, said. "If anything, the record in the McIntyres’ civil case shows that he flaunted it. I hope that there will be a full investigation into who in the department knew what Golubski was doing and looked the other way, or worse."

Former KCKPD detective Roger Golubski arrested by FBI, charged with sexual assault and kidnapping

Golubski worked for the Kansas City, Kansas, Police Department for 35 years, retiring as a captain in 2010. For years, he has been the subject of allegations that he terrorized Black residents of the city, sexually assaulted women and exchanged drugs for information in order to clear cases.

www.kcur.org

 

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Sept 17, 2023 article

https://www.kansascity.com/news/local/crime/article279386449.html

[…]

Cold case unit IDs suspects in 11 KCK homicides dating back to 1979, police chief says

[…]

Melissa Underwood, a spokesperson for the Kansas Bureau of Investigation, which was working with the FBI, earlier this year said Tribue’s homicide remained an open investigation.

“We would still urge anyone to come forward with even the smallest information that might help law enforcement close her case,” Underwood said in May.

[…]

 

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https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.kansascity.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/melinda-henneberger/article250297794.html

 

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Rhonda Tribue was a married mother of six. Her body was found along a lonely stretch of road between KCK and Edwardsville back in 1998. She had been beaten to death and run over by a car.

Feds investigating KCK cold case; it may have something to do with allegations of police corruption

In a rare move, the FBI is investigating a cold case from 1998 and are asking for your help.

“She did have DNA under her nails. She did fight back. Whoever it was, she did fight back. She didn’t just die, she fought for her life,” her daughter Jelica Tribue said

“My understanding is that Roger (Golubski) has wreaked havoc over Kansas City and that he has needs to be looked at and examined. Because there are several cases that are particular to the same instance of my mother’s case and that he’s the common denominator in all those cases. They are women, cold cases, brutally murdered found in the same areas. So, he is a target at this point,” Jelica Tribue said.

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There are terrible allegations swirling around Golubski. He’s now retired. He was a powerful detective who became a captain and his partner, Terry Zeigler, eventually became the police chief. Zeigler worked for 35 years inside the KCK Police Department.
Family in KCK cold case says FBI wants to know more about detective who worked case

Has Golubski taken a DNA test to see if it matches that found under Ms Tribue's nails?

 

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Ex-police detective Roger Golubski, accused of raping and abusing multiple women, has reportedly died by suicide. His federal trial was set to begin today

https://twitter.com/x/status/1863627596899995790

 

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Roger Golubski found dead in home on day federal trial was set to begin

The Department of Justice alleges Golubski assaulted two teenage victims over several years in the late 1990s into the 2000s.

www.kctv5.com

He should've never been released on bail

 

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January 28, 2025

MISSION, Kan. (AP) — A former police detective in Kansas left five suicide letters before fatally shooting himself as he was about to stand trial last month over allegations that he sexually assaulted and terrorized vulnerable Black women for decades, investigators announced Tuesday.

Ex-detective in Kansas left suicide letters before his body was found ahead of trial

MISSION, Kan. (AP) — A former police detective in Kansas left five suicide letters before fatally shooting himself as he was about to stand trial last month over allegations that he sexually assaulted and terrorized vulnerable Black women for decades, investigators announced Tuesday.

www.whec.com