LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- A suspect charged in Crystal Rogers' death has asked for the trial to be moved out of Bardstown.
Joseph Lawson joined Brooks Houck and his father Steve Lawson in requesting a change of venue.
Attorneys for Houck, one of the three men charged in connection with the murder of Rogers, asked last week that the 2025 trial be moved out of Bardstown because the massive amount of publicity has tainted potential jurors.
Houck, Joseph Lawson and Steve Lawson are all scheduled to stand trial on Feb. 10, 2025, in Nelson Circuit Court on charges of criminal conspiracy to commit murder and tampering with physical evidence in the 2015 disappearance of Rogers. It is not clear if they will stand trial together.
Houck was identified as the primary suspect in the Rogers case days after she went missing July 2015. He now faces charges of murder and tampering with physical evidence after being indicted by a Nelson County grand jury Sept. 20.
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