FBI ends latest Crystal Rogers search, says evidence was collected
After a five days in Bardstown, Kentucky, the FBI has concluded its search on the farm where Crystal Rogers was last seen alive in 2015.
FBI officials said that they collected evidence, and hope it will help move the investigation forward.
"We hope that the evidence collected will move our investigation one step closer to holding accountable the individual(s) responsible for Crystal Rogers' disappearance," said special agent Jodi Cohen.
Over the past five days, they've been honing in on a specific area of the 200-acre property using drones, cadaver dogs and excavating equipment.
The FBI said they, along with other law enforcement partners, are committed to resolving the case and giving Crystal's family peace and justice.
They had previously said they thought there was a "good chance" investigators would find what they were looking for. What exactly they were looking for was never disclosed.
There were multiple items of interest found during a search last year, which were also never disclosed to the public.
More background on Rogers
Rogers went missing in 2015. Her car was found abandoned with a flat tire on Bluegrass Parkway in Bardstown with her phone, purse and keys still inside.
His home, and brother Nick Houck's home, have been searched.
At one point, investigators zeroed in on Houck's grandmother, Anna Whitesides.
The state believed her car may have been used to dispose of Rogers' body. Whitesides, who had previously talked to investigators, later invoked her Fifth Amendment right, refusing to testify when called to court.
Just a year after Rogers died, on Nov. 19, 2016, her father was shot and killed on family property near Bluegrass Parkway, and his killing also remains unsolved.