LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) — Newly unsealed court documents claim Brooks Houck’s mother didn’t use her cellphone between June 16 and Aug. 4, 2015, indicating she was using a different phone around the time Crystal Rogers was murdered.
The new evidence came Tuesday, one week after Houck and Joseph Lawson were found guilty in Crystal Rogers’ murder. In the documents, the state filed a motion to make the judge aware it planned to claim Rosemary and Nick Houck — Brooks’ Houck’s mother and brother — were part of the conspiracy to kill Rogers.
Prosecutor Shane Young made that claim throughout the trial the two were “unindicted co-conspirators” but the state’s argument in sealed documents went a step further, saying both Houcks were part of the conspiracy to kill Rogers…