KANSAS CITY, Kan. — The Kansas Bureau of Investigation now says the autopsy for disgraced Kansas City Police Detective Roger Golubski happened on Tuesday. There still isn’t a final ruling on the cause or manner of death from the medical examiner.
The 71-year-old didn’t show up to court for his Federal Civil Rights trail on Monday and was found dead at his home soon after.
One of the dozens of rallygoers, who showed up at the federal courthouse in Topeka on Monday, was Madella Henderson.
She, among others, grabbed the microphone to share words; one where, she says, Golubski assaulted her in the mid-70s.
“I didn’t get raped, and all of that, but I am just saying I was the first one,” Madella Henderson shared with FOX4.
Henderson says five decades ago Golubski and others showed up at her house to recover what police were told to be a ‘stolen auto’, but before finding out that wasn’t the case, she says she and her husband were arrested.
“(Roger Golubski) ran up on the porch and Roger Golubski said: “I’m going back to the back (of the house) to get the car,” she shared. “They grabbed me in my collar and had me running out to the back of the police car. Handcuffed me. When I got there, they banged my head on the back of the police car. I got a big knot on my head. My husband looked across the street and said: “you don’t do my wife like that”. He got in a scuffle with them,” she says recalling her encounter with Golubski in the mid-70s.
She says her and her husband were then placed in separate police cars.
“Roger (Golubski) gets out the car, opens up the car door. Takes his pistol out. Cocks it and put it to my head and said hurry up and get out the car you (expletive).”
Before being booked though, she says, someone called and said there was actually no auto theft. Henderson and her husband were then free to go, she said.
“Because of that and my injuries and everything, I tried to sue the Kansas City Kansas Police Department.”
She says the judge ‘ruled in her favor’, but added there was no disciplinary action for the officer.
“There was nothing that became of that.”
FOX4 went to the Wyandotte County courthouse to trace any records of this encounter that she says took place in 1974, but were unable to locate any document with a date that far back in time involving this.
“My thing is, if they would have listened to me in the beginning, because you got a bad cop over here and he did not act alone. It could have saved, these women didn’t have to lose their lives.”
Golubski worked for the KCK Police Department for over three decades, retiring in 2010.
More allegations about his abuse while on the job came to light starting in 2018, allegedly targeting Black women and children for decades.
Henderson says she only had one encounter with Golubski, but it was enough.
“Can you imagine someone cocking a pistol and putting it to your head? You see on TV and I’ve lived it. That’s one thing I can truthfully say, I thank him, because he didn’t pull that trigger,” she shared. “I’m blessed. I’m here today in order to be able to tell about it.”
FOX4 asked the KCK Police Department about this encounter between the two, but the department was unable to provide any information regarding court documents.