309: Evil Lurking on the Farm: His Girlfriend Disappears & EVERYONE is Connected | Crystal Rogers
Serialously with Annie Elise
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🗓️ 18 August 2025
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| 0:00.0 | Well, imagine not knowing for almost 10 years what happened to someone you loved. |
| 0:04.6 | They disappear and then all you know is that whatever did happen to them wasn't good. |
| 0:09.4 | July 3rd, 2015 was the last day 35-year-old Crystal Rogers, a mother of five was seen alive by her boyfriend, Brooks Howg. |
| 0:18.5 | This was devastating for Crystal's parents, |
| 0:21.0 | and her dad, Tommy Ballard, |
| 0:22.9 | made it his mission to find his missing daughter. |
| 0:26.5 | Lawson's one of three men in charge. |
| 0:27.9 | She could actually did the death of Crystal Rogers. |
| 0:29.7 | Another tense day in court to the point |
| 0:32.3 | that a court officer had to stand in between the lead attorneys. |
| 0:36.9 | Okay, they not find here. Let me see you. between the lead attorneys. Okay, let me see you to it. |
| 0:40.2 | Now the whole world, especially Nelson County, knows that possibly, hopefully justice has been and will be served. |
| 0:50.8 | Hey, true crime besties. Welcome back to an all-new episode of Serialistly. |
| 1:19.9 | Hello, hello, hello, and welcome back to an all new episode of Serialessly with me, your host, |
| 1:25.3 | Annie Elise. I hope you had a great weekend. I hope you are like kickstarting the week, doing something fun. I know a lot of you are probably commuting into work right now. Some of you listen to this while you're cleaning. So maybe you're, you know, elbow deep in a toilet or a bathtub, cleaning that out. But the point is, whatever it is you're doing right now. Hope you had a great weekend. Hope you are starting the week off on the right foot. Although now that I say that out loud, I realize that I'm probably |
| 1:45.7 | contradicting all of that, right? Because I'm about to like jump in and like sweep all over |
| 1:49.6 | your good happy day and just dump all over it and ruin your day with this case. But you know what, |
| 1:56.3 | maybe not because that is what you're here for, right? No. Now, the case we're talking about today is one that I |
| 2:02.2 | covered very briefly in the past, but there have been a lot of updates and it finally just came to a |
| 2:08.2 | conclusion. A lot of you have also been requesting that I cover this case. And when I say a lot of |
| 2:14.2 | you, I am talking about you've been in my DMs, in my comment section, |
| 2:18.4 | tagging me, blowing me up over on Patreon. So many of you have been requesting it. So you know |
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