The Girlfriends S4/E1: No Place Like Home

The Girlfriends: Untouchable - Season 4

iHeartPodcasts and Novel

True Crime, Relationships, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.2 • 6K Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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When tragedy strikes on a quiet spring morning, Niko Quinn’s tight knit community is torn apart. But that moment is just the start of an investigation that will uncover deep corruption, decades of abuse and a dark scandal at the heart of her hometown, Kansas City Kansas. US resources for Violence and Sexual Assault: https://rainn.org/ International resources for Violence and Sexual Assault: https://nomoredirectory.org/ US Suicide & Crisis Helpline: https://988lifeline.org/ International Suicide & Crisis Helplines: https://blog.opencounseling.com/suicide-hotlines/ The Girlfriends: Untouchable is produced by Novel for iHeart Podcasts. For more from Novel, visit https://novel.audio/. You can listen to new episodes of The Girlfriends: Untouchable completely ad-free and 1 week early with an iHeart True Crime+ subscription, available exclusively on Apple Podcasts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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0:00.0	This is an I-Heart podcast. Guaranteed Human.
0:04.6	Hey, I'm Nikki, the host of the new series of The Girlfriends, Untouchable.
0:10.5	It's a story that takes place in my hometown, Kansas City, Kansas.
0:15.8	And over the next eight episodes, you're going to meet a lot of incredible people,
0:22.2	including some of the truly inspiring women I get to call my friends. But it's also a tough story, one that will dive into
0:30.6	topics including sexual assault, violence, and murder. There will also be some strong language.
0:39.9	If you or someone you love has been affected by any of the themes in the show, we've left some links in the description that offer
0:45.0	resources and support. Take care of yourself. When Nico Quinn gets up in the morning, she heads straight over to the truck she's driving
0:59.5	that day, an 18-wheeler with a cabin up top.
1:04.0	I pray first. Touched the wheels and everything on the truck and pray for a safe trip.
1:17.0	Nico works as an over-the-road truck driver,
1:20.5	hauling 50 to 80,000 pound freights across the country for hundreds or sometimes thousands of miles a week.
1:25.8	I love traveling. I have been to Canada.
1:28.5	I've been all the way up to Maine, and Maine is so beautiful.
1:32.2	And even Oregon, I mean, it's just beautiful, just so green.
1:36.4	And you see in all kind of animals like elk and rams.
1:40.6	And I'm like, wow, you know, because something you never seen before.
1:45.9	She never feels more free than when she's out on the open road.
1:49.9	I've always said if I came back as another creature, I would want to be an eagle.
1:54.3	Because eagles are pretty good at weathering storms.
1:58.4	Just like I weathered the storm that I've been through.
2:03.6	For Nico, the storm began not on the open road, but in the city where she grew up.
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