CBS’s “48 Hours” is returning to the 1999 disappearance and murder of Kimberly Langwell, the Beaumont mother whose case went unsolved for 24 years and 11 months before investigators arrested Terry Rose. The episode, “Kimberly Langwell’s Hidden Grave,” airs Saturday at 9 p.m. on KFDM Channel 6 and also streams on Paramount+.
Peter Van Sant spoke Friday with KFDM anchor Aaron Drawhorn about the broadcast, which revisits how Langwell left work in 1999 and never made it home. Her teenage daughter, Tiffani McInnis, spent more than two decades searching for answers, a wait that ended only after Beaumont police reopened the investigation when new information surfaced years later.
The breakthrough came when detectives were led to a secret grave and, later, to a horrifying discovery at Terry Rose’s home. Beaumont police say investigators used cadaver dogs and ground-penetrating radar to uncover human remains buried beneath a bedroom floor, leading to Rose’s 2024 arrest. Authorities say Rose told an informant he killed Langwell in 1999 and buried her on the property, and he has since been indicted for murder.
The case had sat as a Beaumont cold case for decades before the new lead broke it open. Van Sant’s report from Beaumont follows the investigation, the discovery that revealed Langwell’s fate and the push for justice that finally moved the case from unanswered grief to a murder charge.
The broadcast also centers on the emotional toll on McInnis, who was a teenager when her mother vanished and spent much of her life without knowing what happened to her. For Beaumont, the episode closes one of the city’s longest-running cold cases; for McInnis, it answers the question that shaped more than 20 years of her life.
