By JIM BROOKSNelson County Gazette / WBRT Tuesday, July 8, 2025 — A jury of six men and six women deliberated for about four hours Tuesday morning and found Brooks Houck and his co-defendant, Joseph “Joey” Lawson guilty of the charges against them. The jury found Brooks Houck guilty of the murder of Crystal Rogers […]
By JIM BROOKSNelson County Gazette / WBRT Radio Monday, July 7, 2025 — The attorneys defending Brooks Houck and Joseph “Joey” Lawson made their closing arguments today in Warren Circuit Court. BROOKS HOUCK DEFENSE. Brooks Houck’s defense team made it clear they never believed Houck was guilty of murder. The Commonwealth is throwing everything they […]
By JIM BROOKSNelson County Gazette / WBRT Radio Thursday, July 3, 2025 — On the 10th anniversary of Crystal Rogers’ disappearance, the trial of her boyfriend — Brooks Houck, the last man to see her alive and is charged with her murder — heard the final defense witnesses. Houck faces murder and tampering with evidence […]
By JIM BROOKSNelson County Gazette / WBRT Radio Wednesday, July 2, 2025 — Brooks Houck’s sister, Rhonda McIlvoy testified Wednesday morning in her older brother’s trial on charges of murder and tampering with physical evidence in the 2015 disappearance of his girlfriend, Crystal Rogers. McIlvoy testified that she and Rogers together planned most of the […]
By JIM BROOKSNelson County Gazette / WBRT Radio Tuesday, July 1, 2025 — During testimony on Day 6 of the Brooks Houck murder trial, a search and rescue expert testified that his dog — trained in locating live humans and human remains — hit on the rear trunk area of a white Buick LeSabre previously […]
By JIM BROOKSNelson County Gazette / WBRT Radio Thursday, June 26, 2025 — Danny Singleton, a construction worker who worked for Brooks Houck for years, testified Thursday that he was working at a Houck home under construction when he was approached by Houck’s mother, Rosemary Houck. He testified that she approached him to ask if […]
By JIM BROOKSNelson County Gazette / WBRT Radio Wednesday, June 25, 2025 — Opening arguments in the trial of Brooks Houck and Joseph Lawson took place this morning at the Warren County Justice Center before Nelson Circuit Judge Charles Simms III. Houck is facing charges of murder and tampering with evidence, while his co-defedent is […]
By JIM BROOKSNelson County Gazette / WBRT Radio Monday, June 23, 2025 — The trials of Crystal Rogers defendants Brooks Houck, the man accused of the 2015 murder of Crystal Rogers, and Joseph Lawson, a Houck employee who is charged with complicity to murder and tampering with physical evidence, begins Tuesday morning at the Warren […]
By JIM BROOKSNelson County Gazette / WBRT Radio Friday, June 6, 2025 — The attorneys for Stephen Lawson, the first of the three Crystal Rogers defendants to go to trial, have asked the court for a either a new trial or to set aside the guilty verdicts based on a series of errors that occurred […]
By JIM BROOKS Nelson County Gazette / WBRT Radio Friday, May 30, 2025 — The trial of Stephen Lawson, the first of the three defendants in the Crystal Rogers case, was convicted Friday afternoon of conspiracy to commit murder and conspiracy to tamper with physical evidence. The four-day trial was moved to the Warren County […]
