Brooks Houck, 41, has been arrested by the FBI and the Kentucky State Police on charges of murder and tampering with physical evidence in the 2015 disappearance of his girlfriend, Crystal Rogers.
The former boyfriend of Kentucky mom of five Crystal Rogers has been arrested by the FBI and state police for allegedly murdering her and then trying to cover it up more than eight years ago.
Brooks Houck, 41, was taken into custody by federal agents and Kentucky state troopers Wednesday morning “stemming from the Crystal Rogers investigation,” the FBI announced in a statement on X, formerly Twitter.
Houck was apprehended in Nelson County and was later transferred to the Hardin County Jail, where he was booked on counts of murder and tampering with physical evidence, according to court documents cited by station WHAS11.
He was ordered held on $10 million bond and barred from having any contact with Rogers’ family.
Houck’s indictment remains sealed and additional details concerning his case will be revealed during his arraignment on October 5, officials said.
Houck, who was Rogers’ boyfriend and the father of her youngest child, told officers that he had last seen her alive when they visited his family’s farm the night before she disappeared over the Fourth of July weekend in 2015.
