[Music] [Laughter] [Music] okay I want to introduce myself I'm Ed madingley I'm the Nelson County Sheriff it's spelled e d last name m a TT i n g y uh we called a press conference today because of a missing person report that we have taken and uh that we are currently working with the family and several agencies are trying to locate a crystal Rogers um I've got some information here that I want to hand out to you all which went out in a uh press release it's uh the pict pictures of the of the caller
that we have up on the screen and uh pictures of crystal uh how this I want to just fill you in and bring you up to date where we started uh yesterday afternoon at approximately 3:00 a family member came to the Sheriff's Office to report that they believed that Crystal Rogers was missing uh shortly thereafter another family member found Crystal's car near the 14 m marker on the Bluegrass Parkway uh it raised a bunch of concern because a tire on the vehicle was flat and Crystal's personal belongings including her cell phone and purse were left
in the vehicle keys were still in the car um we immediately uh began trying to retrace uh Crystal steps and the uh last person that we know that Crystal was with was uh her boyfriend or a common law husband they have a child together they live here in barstown and uh his name is Brooks how and I want everyone to know that he has been completely Cooperative with our investigation and has tried to assist us in any way that he can and has been helping us today as well as he did yesterday and uh uh
we need everyone's help and everyone in the Ballard family and in the Brooks h family to come together to try and figure out where crystal is at uh I want to introduce uh uh Captain Tom Ry with the barstown police department uh the barstown police department has been assisting us as well as the Kentucky State Police the Kentucky State Police crime lab uh the Harden County Narcotics task force uh um we've had an air unit from the Kentucky State Police involved and uh we are working as a team to try and find out where crystal
is and what has happened um the some of the family members are here this is uh uh Tommy Ballard who is Crystal's father this is uh her sister Brooke and uh other family members uh and they have chosen uh Tom Roby to speak to them uh if you're wondering uh crystal is a niece to uh one of my deputies Barbara Roby who has retired from the barstown police department and uh she has been the Lea on between the family and us and we're trying to to uh find out every bit of information we can uh
to locate her and what I'm asking is that if the public saw anything on the Bluegrass Parkway near the 14 M marker involving the maroon Chevrolet andala behind me that is also on the handout and Crystal uh anytime between uh late Friday night and yesterday afternoon uh we would like to hear from them what they saw and if there's anything that they can relay to us that might help in this investigation uh we currently have many people uh with boots on the ground uh searching areas uh checking and processing uh the vehicle and with that
said I would like uh if Tom Roby would speak on behalf of the ballot family thank you uh on behalf of all the Crystal's family and friends thank you for helping us get the word out um I also like to ask everyone for the continued support everyone who shared information on social media uh spreading the word uh thank everyone for the the prayers and their support um if you think you saw something or if you think you know something even what you may think is insignificant please call because it could be very important U we
also that Crystal can hear our voice uh we love you we want to know where you're at contact us you're okay and uh just I continue to pray your help us thank you at this time I'll answer any questions that anybody may have uh regarding what we've done uh it may be limited and what I can answer because we're currently uh working in several different areas so if anybody has any questions we can take them can you be more specific in the search efforts as far as what resources you're using I know we saw helicopter
using dogs uh the family has done a whole lot of searching themselves uh that I'm I haven't been directly involved in um there's nothing worse than sitting idle when you're feeling this way and you want to be a part of the solution and uh they have been out working been out on forers checking different Farms as far as the police department uh we're currently processing the vehicle at an undisclosed location with uh members of the Kentucky State Police crime lab and uh uh uh assistant from the barstown police crime unit um our guys have uh
been out to her home and searched her home um and we have also uh been in contact with uh other members of the family on the farms currently looking in those areas the air unit has searched along the Blue Grass Parkway as well as the family uh just looking for any type of lead and uh uh what we're hoping by putting this information out to the public is that uh somebody saw something somewhere that'll get us going in the right direction was there any sign of a struggle at the car or has she been in
any kind of argument or altercation we do not have that at this point in the investigation do you suspect fou play I have no reason to suspect Foul Play other than the circumstances if it was your sister that left her car on the Bluegrass Parkway and hadn't been seen from for 3 days and her person her car keys were in the car that's where we're at and it's very it's it's very unusual that that that's that's where I'm at when was the last time she was seen the last time we know for a fact that
she was seen was Friday evening where was that uh with her boyfriend and her baby uh on a family farm was the car unlocked when when it was first discovered yes so the first indication you have that car being par there is some we're getting we're getting conflicting reports of when the car was seen there and uh uh we have people that say they saw it Saturday we have people that didn't see it Saturday people that saw it yesterday and we just don't know for sure does anybody see her at the at the scene of
the car like try to fix a flat tire or something like that you know when when you put something out in the media that is uh I don't like to put a whole lot of weight on one what one person saw I want two or three people to see the same thing and that's why I say we have conflicting reports CH were there any possessions all outside the people no does she have any connections to Elizabeth Town or west of here where she may have been going to ewn for something we have investigated um that
they that her and her boyfriend were friends with a couple uh in the Harden County area but other than that we have no reason we don't understand why she was at that spot and it it doesn't make a a lot of sense that she was there who's taking care of her children her family how many children does she have did the boyfriend mention if there was any type of argument or anything out the that they would separate you know when you when you interview people you go back and there there's no relationships out there that
are are golden uh we do not know of any immediate uh Cas or the boyfriend has been questioned but Extreme he has been extremely cooperative and uh uh we've got other things that we're going to do in the future and and uh a lot of times when you get into personal relationships one side of the family might not like the other side of the family as much and as police officers we have to work with everyone and the only way we will ever arrive at the truth is being respectful non accusatory unless we have information
that says that some person did something and until we have that information we don't go there who reported her missing the boyfriend or other family members other family members confir she she lives in lwn that's correct she native lwn yes can you spell the boyfriend's last name h o u c k you're saying right now there's not a suspect person interest there there is not a suspect the only the you start with the people that are the closest and it's terrible that uh that we're at this point and uh you have to go back and
retrace footsteps and as far as we know right now he was the last person that was with her but that's simply what that means he was the last person that was with there and we do not need to be accusatory towards anyone so will you be retracing footsteps with the final rescue such I know the family is out there what the process next day yourself excuse what what do we we we plan we can we plan on receiving phone calls and following up tips I've got detectives from several different agencies working several different directions trying
to retrace the footsteps that we know and uh pull different videos trying to to trace cars back and uh right now we need the Public's help and that's what we're looking for how many people from the public contacted we've had his phone calls I can't a bunch is that her exact car is that a model like it that is the co that is her car we're not looking for the car we have the car it's just if somebody recognize seeing that car on the Bluegrass Parkway or saw anything unusual I mean a bunch of people
saw the car I'm looking for somebody that saw some person around the car you say it had a flat tire yes was it uh intentionally flat flattened or let let the air out from what we can tell at the scene it's a flat tire uh uh you can trace it off the road to where it stopped so the flat tire you believe whoever was driving caused him to pull over yes here today uh yes he was uh and he wanted me to and to say that he was willing to be here but I did not
want to have any uh controversy here in this office is there any record she called on those are all things that are under investigation that we working on turn so is it safe to say on a time frame you suspect when she was driving last no we're just saying that her car is on the Bluegrass Parkway and it had a flat tire we don't know who was driving in there what we're just saying that her car was located on the Bluegrass Parkway that had had a flat tire pulled off to the side of the road
headed towards bston headed towards Elizabeth Town westbound on the blueg grass parkway at the 14 M okay thank you all for coming I appreciate [Music] it [Music] hey
