BARDSTOWN, Ky. — An attorney for Joseph Lawson, a suspect in the Crystal Rogers murder case, filed additional information in Lawson's motion to be tried separately from the other two suspects: his father, Steven Lawson, and Brooks Houck. 

It was filed Oct. 18 in Nelson Circuit Court. Lawson and his father are charged with conspiracy to commit murder and tampering with physical evidence in connection with the 2015 disappearance of Rogers in Nelson County while Houck is charged with her murder.

The new document argued Joseph Lawson's trial should be severed from his father's because Steven implicated his son during grand jury testimony last year. The document said Steven testified his son "was closer to Brooks Houck than he was" and "Joseph Lawson worked with Brooks Houck frequently." It added "while confessing that he moved Crystal Rogers' car, he further implicates Joseph Lawson by testifying that Joseph Lawson did it with him ... that he saw a Louisville Slugger baseball bat inside the car and that the bat belonged to Joseph Lawson."

The motion said those grand jury statements will be shared in court Friday, Oct. 25.

Joseph Lawson's attorney also argued his case should be separate from Houck's case because of the amount of media coverage surrounding Rogers' disappearance. For now, all three are still being tried together and preparing their arguments, with the trial set to begin in early Feb. 2025 in Warren County. 

Rogers, a 35-year-old mother of five, is presumed dead. Her car was found abandoned on the Bluegrass Parkway, and her body has never been found.