LOUISVILLE, Ky. — FBI Louisville has returned to search a property in Nelson County, Kentucky, on Wednesday in the hopes of finding Crystal Rogers' remains.
Attorney Nick Mudd said in a live interview with WHAS11 News that not having a body is helpful for the defense.
"Having the body is of utmost importance so that a forensic exam can be done, which kind of lets you piece together the past of what actually happened to this young lady," he said. "Any prosecutor in any sort of homicide case has to piece together the past for the jury. A person starts innocent until proven guilty."
While Mudd was curious if law enforcement got a search warrant or if the property owners gave investigators permission to look around, regardless, he said "the tips must have been important enough for them to go out there and spend all this time and resources to look for the remains."
The property is located in Cox's Creek, just southern of Mt. Washington, near the Nelson and Bullitt county line. This is at least the second day of the search.
Brooks Houck is one of three people charged in Rogers' death. She disappeared over the Fourth of July holiday in 2015.
The last time a property was searched in connection to the Crystal Rogers investigation was in 2023 when the FBI and Kentucky State Police combed through a wooded area off Thompson Hill Road in Cox's Creek.
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