Hi, guys. Welcome to another episode of Legally Brunette. I will be your host today, Emily Simpson with...

Shane.

Today, we are very excited because we're going to have a very special guest coming on later. I would call her the Queen of True Crime. If you follow True Crime at all or you watch Dateline, you will recognize the name Andrea Canning. And she's going to come on a little later with us.

And we're going to talk about today. It's a case that comes out of a little small town called Barts Town in Kentucky.

And it is the disappearance of Crystal Rogers. Now, I have to say, I did not follow this case.

And it was not on my radar, even though it received a lot of global

attention and media attention. It was not one of those cases I followed, but I have done the best

I can to research. So we're going to give you, you know, a brief overview of the case so you guys

can can get to know it. And then we're going to ask Andrea some more specific questions. I'm sure

she has a lot more details about the case. So Crystal

Rogers was a 35-year-old mother of five children from Bardstown, Kentucky, and was reported

missing on July 5th of 2015. She was last seen by her boyfriend, Brooks Halk, on the night of July

3, 2015, at the home they shared.

Two days later, Roger's car was found abandoned along a parkway with a flat tire.

Her keys, purse, and cell phone were still located inside the car.

The discovery of her car quickly raised suspicions of foul play. The case took a darker turn in November of 2016 when Crystal's father, his name is

Tommy Ballard, who had been actively searching for his daughter, was shot and killed while

hunting on his property. His death remains unsolved, but it is widely believed that this murder is

connected to Crystal's disappearance. Years pass with very little progress,

but in August of 2023,

the FBI made a significant breakthrough.

As of 2025, Crystal's body has still never been located.

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