Documents detail events leading up to Bardstown officer's dismissal
The boyfriend of a missing Bardstown woman, presumed dead by police, is a suspect in her disappearance.
The boyfriends맥스카지노 brother, former Bardstown police Officer Nick Houck, was fired from the department a week ago for interfering with the investigation.
비바카지노 Viva has obtained 190 pages of documents giving new detail on what led to Houck맥스카지노s firing.
Some of the reasons include interfering with a criminal investigation, delaying a polygraph test and not cooperating with investigators looking into Crystal Rogers' disappearance.
"We just can't give up looking for her. She's out there somewhere, so I just have to find her," Sherry Ballard, Rogers맥스카지노 mother, said.
Rogers has been missing since July 3.
Her car was found abandoned two days after her disappearance.
Last week, the Nelson County sheriff announced, Rogers' boyfriend, Brooks Houck, is a suspect and that his brother, Nick Houck, had been fired.
"Not that I didn't think that all along, but just to see it out there, that they can release that information now, was just very good," Ballard said.
During a closed administrative hearing, Bardstown Police Chief Rick McCubbin explained why Nick Houck should be off the force.
The letter sent to Houck about his suspension stated Houck refused to talk with detectives.
McCubbin wrote: "I gave him a verbal command to cooperate with the lead investigator and to meet with him. He stated to me that he 'had nothing to say to them, and that if he knew anything, he would have already talked to him."
McCubbin also wrote that when Nich Houck took a polygraph test, the examiner had "grave concerns" with the results.
Police said Nick Houck also interfered with an investigation by calling his brother while Brooks Houck was being interviewed by a detective.
In an affidavit, Nick Houck states, "The purpose of the call was not to interfere with the investigation, but to check on my brother and make sure that he was ok."
According to the transcript of the administrative meeting, Nick Houck testified in front of a grand jury in July.
Nick Houck's attorney asked the lead detective: "Is it fair to say that at that point he was a suspect in the case, not just a witness?"
The detective replied: "Yeah, I think they suspected he had involvement in it."
Nelson County's sheriff believes Rogers is dead, but members of her family say, they won't give up.
"I don't give up that little slight hope. We love her and we're still looking and we will do what we have to do to bring her home one way or the other," Ballard said.
Neither Brooks Houck nor Nick Houck have been charged in this case.
Ballard says she has not talked with anyone from the Houck family since the day she reported Rogers missing.
Roger's family is offering a $71,000 reward for information about her disappearance.