The hearing was originally scheduled for Thursday, Aug. 21 in Nelson County.
Brooks Houck is spending a lot of time on the phone from jail after being convicted of murdering Crystal Rogers. In the two weeks following his conviction, Houck made more than 120 phone calls from the Oldham County Jail.
Brooks Houck owns nearly $13.5 million in property in Nelson County, assets that, after his conviction in the murder of his former girlfriend, Crystal Rogers, he attempted to sell off ahead of an impending civil lawsuit.
In one phone call, Brooks Houck tells his brother, Nick Houck "there's a good chance that I'm gonna die in here."
The filing comes about two months after attorneys for Lawson asked a judge to either grant him a new trial or throw out the May 30 guilty verdict, arguing he was denied a fair trial.
Brooks Houck, Rogers' boyfriend at the time of her disappearance, and his alleged accomplice, Joseph Lawson, will stand trial in Bowling Green, Kentucky.
The Crystal Rogers murder case returns to court next week in Bowling Green with two men set to stand trial in one of Kentucky's most closely watched criminal investigations.
The disappearance of Crystal Rogers has been a mystery for nearly a decade. What happened to the Bardstown mother of five? As the second trial in her murder case is set to get underway next week, let's look at what's happened the past 10 years.
The first trial in the murder of Crystal Rogers began Tuesday in Bowling Green nearly 10 years after the Bardstown mother went missing.
For a third straight day, dozens of federal agents searched two rural Nelson County properties that were once owned by members of Brooks Houck's family in the latest investigation into Crystal Rogers' death.