A White former police detective in Kansas City, Kansas, accused of assaulting Black women and preying on impoverished residents was found dead in his home Monday after he didn’t show up for the first day of his federal civil rights trial, authorities said.
Roger Golubski, 71, had been charged with six counts of deprivation of rights, with prosecutors alleging he used his power as a law enforcement official to abuse two women multiple times between 1999 and 2002, allegedly raping and sodomizing them in their homes and in his vehicle, according to the Justice Department’s indictment.