Steve Vockrodt
Former Investigative Editor, Midwest NewsroomSteve Vockrodt is an investigative journalist who has reported in Kansas City since 2005. Areas of reporting interest include business, politics, justice issues and breaking news investigations.
As investigative editor for the Midwest Newsroom, he provides direction and guidance for reports around the region and continues to produce his own stories.
-
The new research, funded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, examines the practice of plea negotiations in St. Louis County, Milwaukee and Philadelphia.
-
Kansas City, Kansas, Police Chief Karl Oakman insisted Monday that his department can handle a review of more than 150 cases handled by former detective Roger Golubski. Critics say the department's involvement won't lead to an independent review.
-
A Cole County judge ordered the Missouri Attorney General to pay $12,000 in penalties for violating the Missouri Sunshine Law when it failed to turn over public records that were potentially embarrassing to then-attorney general Josh Hawley.
-
The U.S. Department of Labor said a company hired to clean meatpacking plants may have used children to work potentially dangerous jobs at facilities in Nebraska and Missouri.
-
Lawyers for Eric DeValkenaere say the former Kansas City police detective should have his conviction for the 2019 killing of Cameron Lamb thrown out, or at least get a new trial. They say a Jackson County judge used the wrong interpretation of the law to convict DeValkenaere.
-
Cerner, the city's largest private employer, is closing its world headquarters in North Kansas City and Realization Campus in South Kansas City. The moves come just months after the company was acquired by Oracle in a multi-billion-dollar deal.
-
Prosecutors had urged the judge to keep Golubski, who was indicted last week on charges of violating two women's civil rights when he allegedly assaulted them more than two decades ago, in detention until trial.
-
Durante 35 años Golubski trabajaba en el Departamento de Policía de Kansas City, Kansas, y se retiró como capitán en el 2010. Durante años, ha sido objeto de acusaciones de que aterrorizaba a los residentes negros de la ciudad, agredía sexualmente a las mujeres e intercambiaba drogas por información para cerrar casos.
-
In an unusually graphic motion aimed at keeping Golubski in jail before trial, federal prosecutors laid out how the former Kansas City, Kansas, detective engaged in a pattern of kidnapping and sexually assaulting women and girls as young as 13 years old, before threatening his victims into silence.
-
Golubski worked for the Kansas City, Kansas, Police Department for 35 years, retiring as a captain in 2010. For years, he has been the subject of allegations that he terrorized Black residents of the city, sexually assaulted women and exchanged drugs for information in order to clear cases.