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Melinda Henneberger

Read Melinda Henneberger’s Pulitzer Prize-winning columns on ex-KCK cop Roger Golubski

Melinda Henneberger is the 2022 Pulitzer Prize winner for commentary.
Melinda Henneberger is the 2022 Pulitzer Prize winner for commentary.

The Star’s Melinda Henneberger dug deep into allegations that retired police detective Roger Golubski raped, abused and exploited multiple women in Kansas City, Kansas, over a span of many years. She told the victims’ wrenching stories with honesty, compassion and outrage.

Here are her columns that won this year’s Pulitzer Prize for commentary:

Why is Roger Golubski, an accused rapist and former KCK cop, still walking around free?

Murdered KCK prostitutes all connected to one man: police detective Roger Golubski

Air Force vet has PTSD not from her service, but from attempted rape by ex-KCK cop

Why KCKPD won’t investigate: ‘She was a streetwalker. What else do you want us to do?’

Roger Golubski wasn’t the only alleged rapist in KCKPD, but DA ‘declined to prosecute’

She’s not the first to accuse this former KCK cop. But she had a rape kit done the next day

Former KCK cop: Friend told him years ago Golubski raped her. ‘I believed her 100%’

This story was originally published May 9, 2022 at 2:15 PM.

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