NC GAZETTE / WBRT RADIOSTAFF REPORT Friday, Dec. 8, 2023 — Steven Eugene Lawson, 53, of Chaplin, was indicted Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2023, on charges connected with the July 2015 disappearance and death of Crystal Rogers. Lawson is the third person indicted in the Rogers case. Lawson’s son, Joseph Lee Lawson, and Rogers’ boyfriend, Brooks […]
By JIM BROOKSNelson County Gazette / WBRT Radio Thursday, Oct. 5, 2023 — With a crush of state and national media in attendance physically and electronically, the man charged with the murder of Crystal Rogers entered a not guilty plea Thursday afternoon via video teleconference in Nelson Circuit Court. Appearing from the Hardin County Detention […]
NC GAZETTE / WBRT RADIOSTAFF REPORT Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2023 — Richard Samuel Gray Jr., 33, was found guilty of the murder his 33-year-old girlfriend, Tabitha Murray, in February 2022 at her Bardstown home. On Tuesday, a Nelson County jury found Gray guilty of murder as well as unlawful imprisonment, second-degree. The jury recommended Gray […]
NC GAZETTE / WBRT RADIOSTAFF REPORT Thursday, Sept. 7, 2023 (updated Friday, Sept. 8, 2023) — A Nelson County man has been charged in connection to the death of Crystal Rogers. According to WDRB, Joseph Lee Lawson, 32, was named in two sealed indictments for conspiracy to commit murder and tampering with physical evidence in […]
NC GAZETTE / WBRT RADIOSTAFF REPORT Monday, Oct. 10, 2022 — A Bardstown man was arrested Thursday on child abuse charges following an investigation by the Nelson County Sheriff’s Office. In the early morning hours of Oct. 2, 2022, the Nelson County Sheriff’s Office was dispatched to an address on Cliffwood Drive for a report […]
By JIM BROOKSNelson County Gazette / WBRT Radio Tuesday, Jan. 25, 2022 — In a 4 p.m. press conference, Bardstown Mayor Dick Heaton confirmed that the Tracy Hudson, the city’s former chief financial officer, was arrested by federal agents earlier Tuesday and was facing charges related to her alleged embezzelment of $764,000 in city funds […]
NC GAZETTE / WBRT RADIOSTAFF REPORT Thursday, Aug. 5, 2021 — A New Haven man was indicted Wednesday, Aug. 4, 2021, on charges that include rape, incest, sodomy and sexual abuse of a minor under the age of 12. John Daniel Rister, 36, of New Haven, was indicted Wednesday by a Nelson County Grand Jury […]
NC GAZETTE / WBRT RADIOSTAFF REPORT Wednesday, May 19, 2021 — A Bardstown man was faced charges last year of allegedly sexually abuse of two minors was indicted Wednesday for an additional charge of sexual abuse of a minor. Kelly Kidd, 37, of Bardstown, was indicted Wednesday, May 19, 2021, by a Nelson County Grand […]
Editor’s Note: The indictment of a person by a grand jury or otherwise is an accusation only and that person is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty. Sunday, March 14, 2021 — The following people were indicted by a Nelson County grand jury on Wednesday, March 3, 2021. They are scheduled to be arraigned […]
NC GAZETTE / WBRT RADIOSTAFF REPORT Friday, Sept. 18, 2020 — A Nelson County Grand Jury heard six hours of testimony on Wednesday related to the April 2020 death of Jamie Keene and declined to issue an indictment in the case against the alleged perpetrator. During the testimony, members of the grand jury heard from […]
