(TNS) The mother of missing Bardstown woman Crystal Rogers stared down the man convicted of her daughter’s murder Wednesday afternoon and demanded he tell authorities where the body is.

“Did she beg for her life?” Sherry Ballard asked. “Did she feel any pain?”

The scene unfolded in a Bardstown courtroom as Brooks Houck, 43, awaited his sentence for murder — principal or accomplice — and evidence tampering.

Houck was eventually sentenced to life in prison, with the possibility of parole after 20 years. His codefendant, Joseph Lawson, 34, was sentenced to 25 years on charges of conspiracy to commit murder and evidence tampering, with the possibility of parole after a little more than 21 years.

A third suspect, Steven Lawson, 51, the father of Joseph Lawson, was convicted in a separate tr

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