A Kentucky man has been charged in reference to the dying of Crystal Rogers, a mother-of-five who vanished and not using a hint through the Fourth of July weekend in 2015.
Joseph Lawson, 32, was arraigned in Nelson Circuit Courtroom on Thursday the place he pleaded not responsible to costs of legal conspiracy to commit homicide and complicity in tampering with bodily proof. His bond was set at $500,000 money.
The conspiracy to commit homicide cost was filed 24 July and the cost of tampering with proof was filed in June, in keeping with Nelson County circuit court docket paperwork.
Ms Rogers was not talked about by title within the indictment, however Lawyer Kevin Coleman, who represents Mr Lawson, acknowledged his consumer’s case is in relation to the mom’s dying, in keeping with WRDB. He declined to remark additional.
Mr Lawson has not been charged with Ms Rogers’ homicide, however as a substitute faces a conspiracy cost which suggests prosecutors consider he was concerned in a roundabout way.
Joseph Lawson is charged in connection to the dying of Kentucky mother Crystal Rogers, who went lacking in 2015
(Nelson County Sheriff’s Workplace)
The indictment states that on July 3, 2015, and/or July 4 2015, “the above-named Defendant, dedicated the offense of Prison Conspiracy to Commit Homicide, when, with the intention of selling or facilitating the crime, when he agreed to help a number of individuals within the planning or fee of the crime or an try or solicitation to commit the crime, when he, and/or a co-conspirator, deliberately prompted the dying of one other.”
Ms Rogers has not been seen or heard from because the night of three July 2015. Her pink Chevrolet Impala was discovered deserted the identical day at mile marker 14 on Bluegrass Parkway. The automobile had a flat tire and inside had been her keys, telephone and purse, in keeping with the FBI’s workplace in Louisville.
Her boyfriend on the time, Brooks Houck, who can also be the daddy to her youngest baby, was named a suspect simply months after she went lacking, however has by no means been charged. He’s thought-about to be the final one that noticed her alive.
(Nelson County Sheriff’s Workplace)
A number of houses in Bardstown, Kentucky have been searched through the years, together with the houses of Houck household farm, the houses of Mr Houck and his brother, Nick, and a storage unit belonging to Ms Rogers.
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Her case was transferred from the Nelson County Sheriff’s Workplace to Kentucky State Police the FBI took it over in 2020.
The FBI can also be investigating the dying of her father, Tommy Ballard, who was shot and killed in 2016 whereas searching on his personal property greater than a 12 months after his daughter went lacking.
In January 2023, Lawyer Basic Daniel Cameron appointed a particular prosecutor to research each Ms Rogers and Mr Ballard’s deaths.
The FBI searched a farm in Bardstown that’s personal by Ms Rogers then-boyfriend’s household. It was believed to be one of many final locations Ms Rogers was final seen earlier than she went lacking.
