KY KY - Crystal Rogers, 35, Bluegrass Parkway, 3 July 2015 #1

[Cardinal47]

It hadn't occurred to me that BH would be thinking about stomach contents. That makes sense.

But, I think he couldn't name what they ate for dinner because there was no dinner.

JMO

I too thought it strange how he bumbled around with the dinner question NG posed to him. Most men remember meals if nothing else.

After reading that thoughtful post up thread I think he was thinking like the Sheriff he wanted to be...just saying.

 

[jULIA_bEE]

Just thinking aloud here....maybe the car was there only AFTER she went missing, perhaps even a day or so after, rather than WHEN she went missing.

Has this been discussed already?

It has been discussed but none of us know. That is one reason I said if we had a nosey neighbor, we could piece a lot of this info together. I highly doubt the car sat there 36+ hours with no one noticing it but stranger things have happened. Much more likely that the car was stored in a machinery shed/barn & placed on parkway in the wee hours between Sat & Sun. JMO

You should read about Officer Ellis's murder. It might give you a better idea of the kind of traffic the parkway sees. Someone had enough time to put a bunch of limbs on an off ramp, wait for him to stop and get out, shoot him and then leave. By the time civilians got to the ramp, whoever did it was gone and never found and Ellis was dead. It's not busy like most of the other interstates. Someone said up above that this isn't a case that's going to be solved by witnesses and unfortunately, that's probably true.


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[Tssiemer]

Hmm that is a strange connection.


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[jULIA_bEE]

Not to debate the point but I think that's a long time for a car to sit on the side of a highway on a holiday weekend with nobody stopping to see if somebody might need assistance.

They surely moved quickly once her mother reported her missing.

It's not though. Especially on a holiday weekend when they get all kind of calls that have to be checked out. I was coming home last night and never saw a single cruiser a long the parkway. Not KSP or even anyone from any of the counties. When I drove it on the 4th, there was one KSP car sitting under an overpass but it was further up front Nelson County. It's just not an area with a lot of traffic or even police presence. I've seen other cars sit for days before they were even tagged on the parkway. I'm sure KSP noticed them sitting there too, but waited a while before tagging them to see if anyone was going to come back for them. They have roads within the county that are a lot busier than the parkway. I can understand why someone would dump a car there. It's just not like the average highway that sees a lot of volume.


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[Inthedetails]

Most of them have no reason to probably be on the Parkway. Everything you could need is pretty much in Bardstown. Whenever I go places, I usually use the back roads in my town as opposed to the interstates because they make it a farther drive. I think the car sat there from after midnight on Friday to Sunday. Saturday was 4th of July. I know when I was driving home on Sunday evening that they had quite a few cruisers and officers parked in the shoulder walking up and down the parkway. I can't remember what time her dad and brother actually found the car though.

Abandoned cars aren't a priority. With as busy as KSP probably was that holiday weekend, they're not going to stop for a car on the side of the road until they've noticed it sitting for a while. At that point, they'd usually tag it for removal.


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I don't know....I kind of like thinking that if I had an emergency and pulled over, LE driving by would check out the car. What if the driver had a heart attack or stroke, or passed out drunk or otherwise needed some assistance? I want to think an abandoned car on an interstate would be noticed before a couple of days elapsed.

 

[jULIA_bEE]

Hmm that is a strange connection.


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I hope it's NOT connected. I'm just using it to show how it's possible for something awful to happen on that parkway and not be seen by anyone, law enforcement included. Especially that late at night.


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[Tssiemer]

But it's not an interstate. It's a parkway no one hardly takes anymore. Why would I take the parkway when I can take I-64 over that way? Now I travel the parkway to eastern KY. It's the fastest way.


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[lauriej]

Any word if the older children have been questioned? The two she dropped off to dad are old enough to know if they went to Wal-Mart prior to being dropped off.

--her Aunt saw her @ Walmart (per NG July 15th) her family has the receipt.


http://www.kystandard.com/content/rogers-left-walmart-after-430-pm-july-3

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PLG-TV and The Kentucky Standard have obtained a copy of the receipt Crystal Rogers reportedly received at Walmart on Friday, July 3, sent to us via picture message by her father, Tommy Ballard.

According to the receipt, Rogers was at the register at 4:36 p.m. and purchased several food items, a T-ball plate, a junior sniper air rifle, a bucket and two boys T-shirts.
Although police say she was seen later that day at the farm of her boyfriend’s family, the receipt is one of the last verifiable documents of the missing mother’s whereabouts to be made public.

Family members reported seeing Rogers with three of her children, including her 2-year-old son, at the retail store that afternoon. From there, Ballard says Rogers took the two older children to their father and then had an appointment to show a real estate listing at 5 p.m.

 

[jULIA_bEE]

I don't know....I kind of like thinking that if I had an emergency and pulled over, LE driving by would check out the car. What if the driver had a heart attack or stroke, or passed out drunk or otherwise needed some assistance? I want to think an abandoned car on an interstate would be noticed before a couple of days elapsed.

I do too...but it doesn't work that way. In Louisville, on holiday weekends or during extreme weather, they won't even come out on minor accidents anymore because they're so busy.

Nelson County's SO isn't a big department. There is a KSP post kind of near but they're usually on the busier county roads.


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[Tssiemer]

I hope it's NOT connected. I'm just using it to show how it's possible for something awful to happen on that parkway and not be seen by anyone, law enforcement included. Especially that late at night.


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Yeah but isn't LE involved in this case too?


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[jULIA_bEE]

But it's not an interstate. It's a parkway no one hardly takes anymore. Why would I take the parkway when I can take I-64 over that way? Now I travel the parkway to eastern KY. It's the fastest way.


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Exactly! There's really no reason to have to take it. The only reason I even take it is because it's a straight shot to Grayson co. Otherwise, I take 65 or 64 everywhere.

I remember in one article where BH stated that she would stay at her cousins sometimes who lived in Boston, KY. Her car was right between the second Bardstown/Hodgenville exit and the Boston exit. That's a pretty convenient spot for her car to be.


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[Inthedetails]

I do too...but it doesn't work that way. In Louisville, on holiday weekends or during extreme weather, they won't even come out on minor accidents anymore because they're so busy.

Nelson County's SO isn't a big department. There is a KSP post kind of near but they're usually on the busier county roads.


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Okay! I've got the picture now.

 

[karenky]

But it's not an interstate. It's a parkway no one hardly takes anymore. Why would I take the parkway when I can take I-64 over that way? Now I travel the parkway to eastern KY. It's the fastest way.


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People in the area use the Bluegrass to get to Lexington and to Elizabethtown. We don't have access to I64 here.

 

[jULIA_bEE]

Yeah but isn't LE involved in this case too?


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Kind of. BH has a brother in Bardstown PD and she has some family members in Nelson Co SO. Honestly, those counties are so small it's almost hard not to have someone close in some capacity of law enforcement or other political realms. I agree though- it's weird.


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[jULIA_bEE]

People in the area use the Bluegrass to get to Lexington and to Elizabethtown. We don't have access to I64 here.

Right. Other than the people from the counties surrounding it, there aren't a lot of outside people taking the Parkway.


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[MommyDoll2]

I lived in E-town for 3 years & all of the locals in the area use the parkways a lot. For example a lot of people live in surrounding counties but work in Louisville or on Ft. Knox. It is very common there for people to travel 30-60 minutes to work each way. Now I realize that was a holiday weekend but lots of people go to cook outs, lake retreats, campgrounds & fireworks etc. I know tons of people go the fireworks @ Ft. Knox as the display there is amazing! All of this leads me to believe the car was ditched late Saturday or early Sunday. JMO

 

[jULIA_bEE]

I lived in E-town for 3 years & all of the locals in the area use the parkways a lot. For example a lot of people live in surrounding counties but work in Louisville or on Ft. Knox. It is very common there for people to travel 30-60 minutes to work each way. Now I realize that was a holiday weekend but lots of people go to cook outs, lake retreats, campgrounds & fireworks etc. I know tons of people go the fireworks @ Ft. Knox as the display there is amazing! All of this leads me to believe the car was ditched late Saturday or early Sunday. JMO

I-65 would take them to Ft Knox or Louisville from Etown. They could take the parkway to Lexington though. There's a big one in Louisville on the waterfront every year too but you wouldn't take Bluegrass pkwy to get there.


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[jULIA_bEE]

[video=youtu;RVvAByvB0P4]http://youtu.be/RVvAByvB0P4[/video]

This is the other time lapsed video from during the day. It's exit to exit. It won't play on forum apps so you'll have to watch it from the actual website.


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[travelbug]

The what's for dinner question/answer is a joke. BH did not admit he does not remember what is for dinner because this would be most likely unbelievable...He knows she was cooking for about an hour and a half but does not say meat and potatoes or roast chicken or homemade pizza....he says nothing special haha what a joke. I personally could only think of 3 reasons why I would answer the dinner question this way. 1) We had an argument, I got mad and left the house to plot my next moves for the evening and was not there to see what she ate. 2) I know what she ate for dinner...nothing!...because something had already happened by then and if I say she had hotdogs for dinner, they won't find hotdogs in her stomach during the autopsy if they find her body and get close to T.O.D. 3) We did actually have roast beef and potatoes but if I share this info and they do find her body and autopsy results show how far along the food was digested LE can tell when she was killed (assuming she is found dead) and that time could very well be close to when I said she was playing games on her cell phone...just MHO. Has it been confirmed that relatives of BH did see CR that Friday night like at 8pm or 9pm at the small family gathering on BH's side?

Well stated and, personally, I wouldn't believe any statements made by the family of BH. jmoo

 

[MommyDoll2]

I-65 would take them to Ft Knox or Louisville from Etown. They could take the parkway to Lexington though. There's a big one in Louisville on the waterfront every year too but you wouldn't take Bluegrass pkwy to get there.


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You can't take only 65 to Ft. Knox from Bardstown, you would take Bluegrass Parkway to E-town & head north on the Dixie or on 65. Most locals avoid the traffic on 65 at all costs unless traveling to Louisville.