Attorneys for Brooks Houck filed an appeal with the Kentucky Supreme Court, asking that Houck's conviction in the murder of Crystal Rogers be thrown out.
In summarizing the two-week Crystal Rogers murder trial, prosecutor Shane Young tried to keep his conclusion very simple for a Warren County jury.
A digital forensic expert testified Friday that Brooks Houck was at his family's farm most of the day Crystal Rogers' disappeared, destroying a statement he gave police about his timeline on July 3, 2015.
Bardstown residents said the community is "heartbroken" for the presumed death of Crystal Rogers.
A judge declined to delay the May 27 trial of Steve Lawson, one of three defendants charged in the murder of Crystal Rogers in order to perform DNA testing on two hairs found in her car in 2015 that have not previously been tested.