Content warning: This story contains descriptions of suicide.
Five days before his Dec. 2 federal trial, Roger Lee Golubski, a retired Kansas City, Kansas, police detective facing potential prison time, wrote four letters.
Two were addressed to his 41-year-old son, Matthew. The first, labeled “Plans-Do List,” outlined Golubski’s funeral arrangements, where he was to be buried and what he should be wearing, along with property and financial concerns. In the second letter, Golubski, 71, told his son what it was like to be his father, that he loved him, and to “stay strong.”…