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\nLaw enforcement officials were searching an area of Nelson County on Wednesday in connection to one of three unsolved homicide cases in the area, according to Special Prosecutor Shane Young.<\/p>\n
\nLaw enforcement officials were searching an area of Nelson County on Wednesday in connection to one of three unsolved homicide cases in the area, according to Special Prosecutor Shane Young.<\/p>\n
Kentucky State Police and the FBI confirmed the search is being conducted on a farm on Thompson Hill Road. Young wouldn’t confirm the specific details of the search but he was appointed in January 2023 to prosecute the deaths of Crystal Rogers, her father, Tommy Ballard, and former Bardstown Officer Jason Ellis, all of whom were killed in the last 10 years.<\/p>\n
Rogers was last seen on July 3, 2015. The next day, her car was found on the side of the Bluegrass Parkway with her purse, phone and keys still inside. But there was no sign of the mother of five.<\/p>\n
Her father, Tommy Ballard, was shot and killed in November 2019 while out hunting on family property with his grandson. While police initially called his death a hunting accident, Sherry Ballard, his wife and Rogers’ mother, has said from the beginning that it was no accident. She believes her husband was murdered.<\/p>\n
Ellis was on his way home from a shift in May 2013 when he was ambushed clearing debris from the road, shot and killed. Shell casings from a 12-gauge shotgun were found at the scene the day of the murder. His weapon was still in his holster.
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