LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WHAS11) – It’s been three years of searching, praying and believing that Crystal Rogers will come home.
The community gathered at St. Thomas Catholic Church Monday to say, “she has not been forgotten”.
“I would've never dreamed I would've made three years with her missing, it's just unthinkable that she's been gone three years and we don't know where she's at,” Crystal’s mother Sherry Ballard said.
Rogers’ disappearance remains one of Bardstown’s biggest mysteries.
Police say they are investigating the case as a homicide.
Her former boyfriend, Brooks Houck has been named the main suspect, but police have not made any arrests.
Crystal's family and friends determined to put an end to the questions that have haunted them since July of 2015.
“I definitely feel like this is the year. I don't intend on having another one of these. I think we will get our answers, we will get our arrest, hopefully soon,” Mary Taylor, a family friend, said.
Pink ribbons, lanterns, even shirts filled the chapel and soon, the town.
Mary Taylor and Crystal's mother, Sherry Ballard made it their mission to paint the town pink — businesses already taking part, memory jars with her picture — to remind folks that her story isn't finished.
“I hope whoever took her from her children, from her mother, everywhere they go this week in town, everywhere they eat at, everywhere they shop at has that jar and they have to be reminded they took that great person from their children, from her mother,” Taylor said.
Ballard is going through the week without her husband and Crystal's father, Tommy Ballard by her side. He made it his mission to find his missing daughter, and was shot and killed more than a year after she disappeared.
He's not here with me physically, but he's here with me in every other way,” she said.
A family and a community refusing to give up.
A $100,000 reward has offered for information in Rogers’ case.
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