The appeals. The unsolved Bardstown murders. A family's renewed push to find Tommy's killer. And Sherry Ballard's promise to never stop fighting.

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"He should be here."

That's what kept running through Sherry Ballard's mind when the guilty verdicts came down. When the courtroom erupted. When her family hugged and cried and finally exhaled after ten years of fighting.

Tommy Ballard. Crystal's father. The man who searched every field and farm looking for his daughter. The man who posted on Facebook about a white Buick. The man who was murdered six months later.

He should have been there to see it.

The Crystal Rogers case ended with guilty verdicts. Brooks Houck is in prison for life. Joseph Lawson got 25 years. Steve Lawson got 17.

But the Ballard family's fight for justice? That's far from over.

Episode 10 of "Circumstantial: The Crystal Rogers Trial" is live now. It's the final episode of this series. And it's about everything that comes next.

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