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The trials of the next two suspects charged in the Crystal Rogers investigation will begin next week at the Warren County Justice Center in Bowling Green.
Brooks Houck, who was dating Rogers at the time of her disappearance, was arrested on September 27, 2023 on two charges: one for Murder and one for Tampering with Physical Evidence. The Murder count in Houck’s indictment reads that on July 3 and/or on July 4, 2015, in Nelson County Houck “acting alone or in complicity with another, committed the offense of Murder by intentionally or under circumstances manifesting extreme indifference to human life wantonly causing the death of Crystal Rogers.”
Houck’s arrest came about three weeks after the arrest of Joseph Lawson, who is charged with Conspiracy to Commit Murder and Tampering with Physical Evidence as part of the investigation. Nelson Circuit Judge Charles Simms III ordered for Houck and Lawson’s trials to be consolidated in November of 2024. The trial date of June 24 was also set that November.
The trials come about four weeks after a jury in Warren County found Lawson’s father Steven Lawson guilty of Conspiracy to Commit Murder and Tampering with Physical Evidence. Steven Lawson’s trial was separated from the other two suspects due to concerns with the use of Lawson’s grand jury testimony as evidence in his case creating undue prejudice against Joseph Lawson and Houck.
Crystal Rogers was last seen on July 3, 2015.
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