HARDIN COUNTY, Ky. — Brooks Houck, the man charged with murder in the Crystal Rogers case, is asking the court to reduce his bond. 

Houck’s attorney moved to reduce his bond from $10 million down to $500,000. The reduced bond would include the special condition of electronic GPS monitoring with work release, according to the motion.

Houck is charged with murder and tampering with physical evidence stemming from the disappearance of Crystal Rogers, his former girlfriend, who went missing in July 2015.

Houck was arrested on Sept. 27, 2023, over eight years after Rogers’ disappearance.

The indictment against Houck alleges the crimes happened on July 3 or 4, 2015, in Nelson County.

Houck was Rogers’ boyfriend at the time of her disappearance and the father of her youngest child. He was the only person ever named publicly as a suspect in her case. He told officers that he had last seen her alive when they visited his family’s farm the night before she disappeared.

Rogers was reported missing by her mother, Sherry Ballard, on July 5, 2015. Her car was found abandoned with a flat tire at mile marker 14 on the Bluegrass Parkway in Bardstown. Rogers’ keys, phone and purse were still inside the red Chevrolet Impala. Houck has denied involvement with Rogers’ disappearance.

Rogers’ body has never been found. 

Investigators have searched properties belonging to Houck and his family multiple times over the years.

Last fall, the FBI said evidence found in connection to the Crystal Rogers’ case was being sent to the agency in Quantico, Virginia.

The FBI made several searches in the area as part of the investigation, most recently combing the Houck family farm, where Rogers was last seen, in Oct. 2022. 

Houck’s arraignment is set for Oct. 5. The circuit clerk says Shane Young, the Hardin County Commonwealth’s Attorney, is the special prosecutor on this case.