Crystal Rogers

The inmate claims Ellis was shot because "he was close to an investigation of a ring of storage shed burglaries and business burglaries."

Sherry Ballard says they're waiting on prosecutors to get "on board" a year after investigators found multiple items of interest in a development where prime suspect Brooks Houck built several homes. 

"I pray the items of interest will be connected to my daughter so we can bring her home to rest in peace beside her daddy," Sherry Ballard, mother of Crystal Rogers, told Oxygen.com.

Crystal Rogers, a Kentucky mother of five, has been missing since July 2015.

"We know there are individuals in the community who have information on Crystal's disappearance. Now is the time to come forward," the FBI said as their search of a subdivision in Bardstown, Kentucky continues.

FBI agents are focusing on a home in a Bardstown, Kentucky subdivision built by Crystal Rogers' boyfriend Brooks Houck, the only person identified as a suspect in the case. 

Crystal Rogers' mom Sherry Ballard told Oxygen.com that she is "praying for closure" as cadaver dogs search a neighborhood subdivision.

Crystal Rogers, a 35-year-old mother of five, went missing from her Bardstown, Kentucky home in July 2015.

Sherry Ballad has been trying for years to regain weekend visitation to her daughter's youngest son, who remains in the sole custody of Brooks Houck, his father and a suspect in his mother's 2015 disappearance.

Sherry Ballard told Oxygen.com that she doesn't think it's just that the number one suspect in her daughter's disappearance now has full custody over one of the children.