(TNS) Lawyers for a man recently sentenced to life in prison for the disappearance and presumed death of Bardstown woman Crystal Rogers have requested an appeal to the Kentucky Supreme Court.

Brooks Houck, 43, on Monday filed an appeal to the state’s highest court to reconsider five orders issued by Judge Charles Simms, who presided over Houck’s trial.

Houck was sentenced Sept. 17 to life in prison on charges of murder — principal or accomplice — and evidence tampering in the disappearance of his former girlfriend, Rogers, 35. Her body has never been found.

A jury convicted Houck in July after a 10-day trial.

He was tried alongside Joseph Lawson, 34, who was convicted of conspiracy to commit murder and evidence tampering. He was sentenced to 25 years in prison. Lawson has filed an appe

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