The Girlfriends S4/E5: I Smell A Rat

The Girlfriends: Trust Me Babe

iHeartPodcasts and Novel

True Crime, Society & Culture, Relationships, Documentary

4.4 • 6.3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

As Stacey Quinn’s life goes into a downward spiral, her sister Niko watches on, desperate to save Stacey before it’s too late. But the walls are closing in on her, and it will take a whole sisterhood of women to get to the bottom of what’s really going on in Kansas City. 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.

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0:00.0	This is an I-Heart podcast.
0:02.5	Guaranteed Human.
0:04.6	Hey, it's Nikki.
0:06.5	I just wanted to let you know that this is a pretty tough episode.
0:10.5	It's a story of love, resilience, and the links the women of Kansas City went to try and look out for each other.
0:18.0	But in the process, we delve into stories about substance abuse, violence, murder,
0:24.8	and sexual assault.
0:26.6	If you or someone you love has been affected by any of the themes in the show, we've left
0:32.5	some links in the description that offer resources and support.
0:36.8	Take care of yourself.
0:42.8	After seeing her older sister Stacy get kidnapped and losing two friends to murder,
0:47.8	Niko was at a loss.
0:50.0	Stacy was working on the streets, addicted to drugs.
0:53.7	And Roger Golubski, the police officer who lurked
0:56.6	in the shadows of their lives, seemed unstoppable.
1:01.6	Then, in the fall of 1999, Niko got a call.
1:07.5	She had got caught in somebody's house, a drug house, and basically she took the rap for everything that they found.
1:16.5	Stacey was arrested and charged.
1:19.2	I heard what the judge told her that she was too pretty to be out here, and he wanted her to get her life together and get cleaned up.
1:26.4	He was going to give her 37 months
1:28.0	in prison and I was relieved. Niko reasoned that Stacy would be safer behind bars than surrounded
1:35.1	by temptation in Quindaro. At some point, she went to visit her sister in prison. It took them
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