The judge in the Crystal Rogers investigation cases is allowing for DNA testing of hairs found in Crystal Rogers’s car.
Nelson Circuit Judge Charles Simms III on Wednesday issued an agreed order to permit Bode Technologies to test two hairs tape-lifted from the vehicle in order to obtain a DNA profile.
According to the order, the hairs were obtained from the vehicle in September of 2016. A hair found in a different location was tested at that time, but the two hairs involved in Wednesday’s order were not tested at that time. The order notes that the testing process may consume the hairs. The FBI was ordered in 2016 to maintain the DNA obtained from the third hair for independent testing.
The special prosecutors for the Commonwealth and defense attorneys for Brooks Houck agreed to the order, with the Commonwealth paying for the testing.
Houck and Joseph Lawson are due to go to trial on June 24.
