LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) — Grand jury testimony from the month Crystal Rogers went missing in 2015 will be part of the evidence presented in Nick Houck's perjury trial this fall.
According to court documents, testimony from two different dates in July 2015 shortly after Rogers' July 3 disappearance will be used. Evidence also includes additional grand jury testimony in the decade since Rogers was last seen alive.
Hours of interviews between detectives and Nick Houck are also included in the evidence. The testimony of his ex-girlfriend, Amber Bowman, in the Rogers murder trial in 2025 is also being used as evidence.
Bowman was dating Nick Houck at the time of Rogers' disappearance. During the weekend she was last seen alive, Bowman said she and Nick Houck were supposed to move into a new house. She testified he never showed up and said he was helping his brother, Brooks Houck, with a rental property. Every time she tried to call him, she said his phone went straight to voicemail.
In court, Prosecutor Shane Young asked Bowman if that was normal behavior for Nick Houck.
"No," she testified. "He had never not come home at all before."
Bowman said she called him 15 times that night.
Nick Houck was arrested June 4 and charged with perjury. At the time of his arrest, Kentucky State Police said Nick Houck "allegedly committed perjury between 2015 and 2023." According to his indictment, he "made a material false statement, which he did not believe, in an official proceeding, while under oath required or authorized by law."
He's expected in back court next week ahead of his trial, which is set for Nov. 9.
This comes nearly a year after Brooks Houck was convicted of murder (principal or accomplice to the crime) and complicity tampering with physical evidence in the Rogers case. He was sentenced to life in prison, and his since appealed his conviction to the Kentucky Supreme Court.Â
Kentucky Attorney General Russell Coleman filed a brief urging the Kentucky Supreme Court to uphold Brooks Houck's conviction, arguing "in support of the substantial proof presented" during his murder trial last year. Rogers' body has never been found.
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