Rachel White

Hi, Andrea.

Sure.

So Crystal Rogers was a 35-year-old mother of five.

At the time of her disappearance, she and her boyfriend, Brooks Houck, had been together for several years, and they shared a child together named Eli.

On July 3, 2015, she and Brooks went to his family farm.

At the time, Brooks told investigators that they spent the day there and then went back to their home together.

He said that when he went to bed, Crystal was playing games on her phone like she usually did.

But when he woke up the next day, Crystal was gone.

So prosecutors argued that Crystal never went back to her home that night, that she was killed on the Houck family farm.

Jurors heard evidence of infidelity and growing problems between the two.

Prosecutors said that Brooks stood to face personal and financial consequences if Crystal did leave him.

like paying child support or losing custody of their son, and that that's why he killed her.

And they argued that Brooks also enlisted others to help him carry out this plan.

At the time Crystal disappeared, he was a local police officer with the Bardstown Police Department.

And just a few days after Crystal went missing on July 8th, 2015, Brooks was being interviewed by investigators when Nick called him.

And Brooks takes the call.

And what happens next is captured on the tape of this police interview.

You can't hear Nick's side of the call.

So we can't know for sure what Nick was telling Brooks to do.

But we did interview the detective that was in the room during this call for our Dateline episode, as you know.