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Nick Houck is a former Bardstown police officer. He was fired from the department in 2015 for interfering with the investigation. Officials said Nick Houck called his brother while he was being interviewed by the Nelson County Sheriff's Department.
Sherry Ballard took care of four of her daughter's children on her own after Rogers went missing and Tommy died. Houck has full custody of the child he had with Rogers.
It was a small piece of justice for the family of missing Bardstown mother Crystal Rogers. Crystal Maupin was arrested for the crime in July. Ballard said she stole a yard sign from a gas station that reads "Standing with the Ballards” and the gas station caught the act on camera.
Crystal Maria Rogers is an American woman from Bardstown, Kentucky who went missing on July 3, 2015.
Crystal Rogers' 2015 disappearance Her keys, phone and purse were inside the car, according to the FBI. Search efforts have been carried out periodically in the six-plus years since Rogers' disappearance. She is presumed dead, but her body has never been found.
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BARDSTOWN, Ky. — After spending several days searching a property in Bardstown, FBI Louisville confirms their recent search for Crystal Rogers has ended. Over the course of their investigation, the FBI dug up the driveway and front yard of a home in the Woodlawn Springs subdivision.
Rogers' father, Tommy Ballard, is shot and killed on family property near Bluegrass Parkway in Bardstown.
The city is famed for its brilliantly brewed bourbon and hence has earned the nickname "Bourbon Capital of the World." It has various historical monuments and museums for you to visit. It is located right in the heart of Kentucky and is a significant place for Nelson County.
five murdersOne prime suspect has been named. But all five murders remain unsolved… with no one behind bars.
Rogers went missing in 2015. Her car was found abandoned with a flat tire on Bluegrass Parkway in Bardstown with her phone, purse and keys still inside. She had five children, one with Houck. While he is the only person since she disappeared to be named as a suspect, he has never been charged.
Up and Vanished podcast host Payne Lindsey agrees with Guana's theory. “Kristal was going to report the rape to police or confront the men about it, and then she was murdered on or around July 14, when she went off the radar,” he told Oxygen.
The Disappearance of Crystal Rogers.
WDRB reported that Houck was indicted on four felony counts and four misdemeanor counts of theft after he was accused of taking “more than 200 ‘bundles’ of roofing shingles from Lowe’s” in Nelson County over a period of multiple days.
Houck’s attorneys had the trial held in Bowling Green out of concerns that Houck would be unable to get an impartial jury in Nelson County due to the disappearance of Crystal Rogers, WDRB reported; after less than two hours deliberating, the jury acquitted him.
According to WDRB, Houck said that when his son would return from visiting the Ballards, his son would be “sullen and uncooperative,” “extremely accusatory” and demanding to know, “‘what did you do to my mommy.'”.
According to WDRB, he owns 129 properties and 11 houses. According to Dun & Bradstreet, the company has four employees and made nearly $330,000 in sales.
Brooks Houck entering the courtroom followed by family of Crystal Rogers. This arraignment has to do with felony theft charges. from Lowes. pic.twitter.com/fg7nhk25jc
A judge ruled in February of 2019 that Rogers’ 6-year-old son could not sit with Ballard until the custody case was complete, WDRB reported. Ballard initially had visitation with her grandson, but after several custody hearings, a trial court began to have concerns.
However, Nick Houck’s behavior led to his dismissal. Former Chief Rick McCubbin said that Nick told his brother, Brooks, to leave the interrogation room, and Brooks did. McCubbin said that Houck’s conduct was unbecoming and showed poor ethics and integrity, WHAS-11 reported.
Two of the felony counts stem from April 3, when Houck allegedly took 52 bundles and then 48 bundles of roofing shingles from Lowes without paying for them. The next day, April 4, he is accused of taking 39 more bundles, accounting for the third charge.
The fourth came from April 14, when he is accused of taking 86 bundles. The misdemeanor stems from April 4, when Houck is accused of stealing nine bundles. Bardstown Police worked the case, and Bardstown Police Officer Andrew Riley was listed on the indictment as the grand jury witness.
Houck is accused of stealing squares of shingles from Lowe’s on three different days in April. The grand jury returned four felony indictments and a misdemeanor charge. The four charges of theft by unlawful taking are Class D felonies punishable by up to five years in prison. “We hope to bring this case to trial in 2018,” Nelson County ...
The misdemeanor stems from April 4, when Houck is accused of stealing nine bundles.
Brooks Houck indicted by grand jury. Brooks Houck, the man investigated for three years in connection to the disappearance of his former girlfriend, was indicted on four unrelated felonies Wednesday by a Nelson County grand jury.
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Detective Jon Snow of the Nelson County Sheriff's Office climbs the steps to the home of Brooks Houck while he and other police searched the premises following Houck’s indictment Wednesday on felony theft charges. The charges were unrelated to the disappearance of Crystal Rogers, Houck’s former girlfriend, but at least four agencies from the local, state and federal levels took part in the search.
That’s the theory Kentucky State Police detectives laid out to former Bardstown Police Officer Nick Houck near the end of a 104-minute interview on July 15, 10 days after the 35-year-old mother of five was reported missing by her family.
Nick said he had placed the blanket in his cruiser when he was using it to protect furniture while he was moving into a new home , and had left it in his cruiser until he could return it.
The detectives said the lab used Luminol, a chemical used by forensics specialists to detect trace amounts of blood during investigations, on a blanket and trunk of the Bardstown Police cruiser.
According to a clock on the wall of the interrogation room, Brooks left the interview at 7:10 p.m.
At the end of the interview, Nick agreed to take a polygraph test the following Monday (the interview was on a Wednesday). According to documents filed in Nick’s administrative hearing that led to his firing Friday, he later backed out of that agreement. Bardstown Police Chief Rick McCubbin filed documents during the administrative hearing indicating Nick finally took the polygraph on July 24, and that the test indicated he was lying on several of his responses to the test.
KSP detectives Jon Vaughn and Ryan Johnson both told Nick they did not believe his or his brother’s claims of coincidence and “amnesia” surrounding the days immediately following the report of Rogers missing.
Brooks Houck confronted Crystal Rogers about her having an affair the night of July 3 while the two of them were at his family’s farm, Houck overreacted and killed her, and then called his brother to help dispose of the evidence.
The FBI was/is investigating the Bardstown and Nelson County police departments for corruption. Other police departments across the state don't want to work with them because the corruption is so bad.
It's not the family farm that is located just off the Bluegrass Parkway exit where Ellis was killed, it was the family home. Their mother lived there at the time of Ellis' death but they sold the place shortly after Ellis died and she moved to the family farm which is off of Highway 49 between Bardstown and Holy Cross.
Several of Brooks Houck's properties were and are being used to hide and move drugs as well as evidence of his and his brother's crimes.
Two years later, Nick and his brother Brooks, who was also in on the drug smuggling, killed Brooks's then girlfriend, Crystal Rogers, who had uncovered information on the drugs and the murder of Officer Jason Ellis. She confided in a friend that if she were to ever go missing, or turn up dead, that she had a manilla envelope with evidence against Brooks. The envelope has never been found. Where Crystal's body, or remains, are is still unknown except to those who murdered her. Until the body is found, Nick and Brooks Houck will likely never be charged with her murder, or any others they've committed.