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00:11I think we have to fight hard for our loved ones,
00:14and we have to listen to them and be cautious about the people
00:18that we allow into our lives.
00:22I wish so much that I would have fought harder for mom.
00:30I'm an only child of Kim Langwell.
00:35She made me her whole world.
00:37She was my best friend.
00:41In July of 1999, I was a normal 15-year-old teenager.
00:48Everything seemed pretty perfect in life.
00:56July 9th.
00:57What are your plans for that night?
00:59We were going to go out to eat.
01:01She called me after work, just to make sure that I was on track,
01:05you know, ready for dinner that night.
01:08And then I can't get a hold of her.
01:11I immediately start texting her 911.
01:14She just never called.
01:16And all I could think about was,
01:19maybe there's something, you know, that she's just not telling me.
01:24And you just keep thinking, she was just there.
01:27She was just on the phone.
01:28What do I do?
01:32I woke up to my phone ringing, and it was Ken Weatherford, my mom's boyfriend.
01:36Hey, did your mom come home?
01:38And I said, no, she's not here.
01:40And he said, well, Tiffany, I didn't tell you last night what I was looking for.
01:44And I saw her car, I think you need to call somebody. I think something's wrong.
01:49So, Detective, where was her car?
01:53Her car was parked right about where I'm parked now.
01:56You're looking for physical evidence. We were looking for blood, and we were looking for a body,
02:02looking for a crime scene. And we had none of that. She just disappeared.
02:08I think for the first year, I kept it together. And then after that, it just falls apart.
02:13The person that you depend on for everything is now gone.
02:26In the spring of 2023, my supervisors filled me in on reopening the investigation.
02:32Our overall goal was just to get answers for the family. We definitely got the feeling that people
02:39were not being completely honest in their statements that they had provided back in 1999.
02:45She had a social life, and she interacted with a lot of people.
02:49This man was writing her love letters.
02:51There is a stack an inch and a half thick. This is a lot of love letters.
02:56It's a lot. Kim, I have developed this terribly strong crush on you. Something must be done about it.
03:01We're seeing obsessive behavior here. We didn't want to get tunnel vision. Do we have any named
03:08suspects in this file? You know, some cases rely on the physical evidence. There's DNA. There's a body.
03:14This doesn't exist. We cannot find Kimberly. We called Tim Miller. He's the founder of Texas EquiSearch,
03:22and they actually specialize in looking for missing people. It doesn't matter when we get that phone call.
03:28We're there to help the family, help law enforcement. We took a chance in. It was a good choice.
03:34This house is where we found the most disturbing scene. Something I've never seen or heard of in
03:41my law enforcement career.
03:42I'm here.
05:23In front of an Eckert pharmacy.
05:26My mom's car is there and nobody's checked it out.
05:29We need to see what's in the car.
05:32Kim's daughter, Tiffany McInnes, who was just 15 at the time, and Kim's sister, Susan Butts, had already arrived at
05:40the scene.
05:41When you looked through the window, what did you see in the car?
05:43I saw her briefcase and a phone.
05:46No purse, no wallet, no keys.
05:48Yeah, the purse was not in there. The car was locked.
05:50No keys inside?
05:51Mm-mm, nothing. It just looked like somebody walked away.
05:54This is where Kim's vehicle was.
05:57This is where Kim's vehicle was parked.
05:59And what did that suggest to you?
06:01It suggested to me that she either met someone here and left with them or that she had been kidnapped
06:07out of this parking lot.
06:08But no one could recall seeing anyone get in or out of Kim's car.
06:15I do know that they said to me, maybe she just went off. Maybe she just had started a new
06:19life and left her child. No, she didn't. She didn't do that.
06:24Esther Randall was like a second mom to Kim, who called her Mimi.
06:30I thought of her as my own. We adored her. She was easy to love. She was fun.
06:38She was an amazing mom. She had me at a very young age, but she treated me like I was
06:44everything.
06:46Hi, Mommy.
06:47Hi, Beth.
06:49It became clear to Detective Ball that Kim would never abandon her only child.
06:56I was pretty sure that something had happened to her.
07:00So we focused on those who were closest to Kim, starting with Kim's boyfriend, Ken Weatherford.
07:06He was the one who discovered her abandoned car in the parking lot the evening she disappeared.
07:13He seemed like a really nice guy. He cared about my mom.
07:16He cared about me.
07:18Kim and Ken had met at the mobile chemical plant where they both worked.
07:23They had been dating for just six months.
07:26Weeks before Kim disappeared, they took a trip to Cozumel, Mexico.
07:31She had a great time and she had a tan and it was fun.
07:35Did you sense they were both in love?
07:37Yes. She was like, I'm happy, Mimi.
07:40However, Detective Ball says he was suspicious of Weatherford, mostly because of what he didn't do the night Kim disappeared.
07:49He saw her car in the parking lot, but he did nothing.
07:52He didn't tell anybody.
07:54He waited until the next day before he told anybody that he knew where Kim's car was.
07:59And did you think to yourself, this man may be hiding something from me?
08:03I suspect everybody. Everybody's a suspect.
08:07And that included co-workers and former bosses like Frank McCormick.
08:12This is an ID photo taken of him decades later.
08:16Frank McCormick was a supervisor out in Mobile and he worked in the same building as my mom.
08:23Tiffany says McCormick, who was married, often came around their house and left Kim presents, like chocolates from Paris.
08:31He adored her. He talked about her big blue eyes and how sweet she was.
08:36And then it went from that to a little darker.
08:40McCormick began sending Kim love letters, dozens of them.
08:44He also sent disturbing photo collages.
08:48These are grainy copies that were given to 48 Hours by investigators.
08:53Pictures of all kinds of women with Kim's face on the bodies.
08:58Esther said that Kim was upset about McCormick's bizarre behavior, but she didn't report him for fear of retribution.
09:07Kim was nice to everybody, but I think he just thought because she was nice to him that she liked
09:13him.
09:14Detectives say despite McCormick's obsessive behavior, he had an alibi.
09:19Around the time Kim disappeared, he told investigators he was at a grocery store to buy some chips for a
09:27poker game.
09:28And he had the receipt to prove it.
09:31We looked at him, we talked to him, and we were able to rule him out as a suspect.
09:36But authorities had someone else on their radar.
09:40Terry Rose, Kim's ex-boyfriend.
09:43Kim and Terry dated and lived together for about six years.
09:46After they broke up, the two stayed in contact.
09:50I do know that she kept a friendly relationship.
09:53He would help her do things.
09:55In fact, the night Kim disappeared, Kim had stopped by Terry Rose's house on the way home from work.
10:02He was doing something in the house and needed help hanging some boards, which I thought was strange.
10:08Just two days after Kim's disappearance, Terry Rose willingly came into the police station and provided a statement.
10:17Terry said on the evening she disappeared, Kim arrived about 5.10 or 5.15 p.m.
10:24and was at his house for just a short time before leaving to meet Tiffany.
10:30Terry claimed he had not heard from her since.
10:34I felt like Terry was not being completely truthful with us.
10:37It was the tone of the whole interview and how vague he was about details.
10:44Yet Terry Rose was cooperative.
10:46He allowed police to search in and around his house.
10:49We went into every room in that house.
10:52It was just a very junky house.
10:55There was stuff everywhere.
10:57Made it very difficult to conduct a search.
11:00Ball says there were no signs of Kim at the house and no evidence that any violence had taken place
11:06there.
11:07But he had Terry take a polygraph test and he failed.
11:12At that point, I was pretty focused on Terry.
11:16I was pretty sure that he was lying, but I didn't have any evidence to confront him with.
11:21If not even the authorities can do something to find my mom, who's going to help us?
11:43Once mom was gone for a little while, you know, you come to realize that, hey, she's not going to
11:50come back.
11:52Tiffany McInnes endured the typical teenage growing pains.
11:56Under the shadow of her mother's missing person investigation.
12:00I got to a point of just complete denial.
12:02You just don't want to look anymore.
12:06And Susan did a really good job keeping it going.
12:08She did searches and stuff like that.
12:14Like investigators, Susan says she became more and more convinced who was responsible.
12:20It just always ended up right back at Terry.
12:22Esther says Kim had shared her fear of Terry Rose well before her disappearance.
12:29I'm afraid he's going to kill me.
12:31If I leave, he's going to kill me.
12:34Kim had described Terry's obsessive and possessive behavior during their six-year relationship, says Esther, which she sometimes witnessed firsthand.
12:44She came to my house, my phone ring the entire time she was there.
12:49When are you coming?
12:49Are you still there?
12:50Is she still there?
12:51Controlling.
12:52Controlling.
12:53Unbelievably controlling.
12:54Esther says Kim told her that at times that need for control boiled over into violence.
13:02And what are some of those things he did to her?
13:03Strangled her.
13:05They threw her on a bed and strangled her until she couldn't breathe anymore.
13:10And then she woke up and he was gone.
13:12Tiffany believes her mother shielded her from witnessing any abuse, but says she did experience Terry Rose's obsession firsthand after
13:21the relationship finally ended.
13:23He would call the house at all times during the day, night, if mom wasn't home.
13:30He questioned me, you know, where is she at?
13:32Where has she been?
13:33When do you expect her home?
13:35We had found him lurking outside the house.
13:39But that all stopped abruptly once Kim was gone.
13:43Was Terry concerned about your sister?
13:46No, not at all.
13:47Did he help look for her?
13:48No, never.
13:51In 2001, two years after Kim's disappearance, the FBI assisted by interviewing Terry Rose.
14:00He admitted to one physical confrontation with Kim where he slapped her in the face.
14:06And he acknowledged that he had no alibi for the crucial hours from approximately 5.30 p.m. on the
14:14day Kim went missing until he met up with a friend that evening.
14:18He called his friend David Wiley and they shot Poole from about 9.30 until probably midnight or a little
14:28after.
14:29But after I talked to David Wiley, I was even more suspicious because I was pretty sure David Wiley was
14:35lying to me too.
14:36But investigators still lacked any physical evidence of an actual crime.
14:41And the case went cold.
14:44Decades passed.
14:46Until 2023, when the TV program Cold Justice chose to investigate the unsolved case.
14:54And the Beaumont PD appointed detectives to work alongside them.
14:59When I got assigned the case, we set the bar pretty low.
15:03Detective Heather Wilson became the lead investigator, working alongside Lieutenant Mitch Sligar and Detective Jesus Tamayo.
15:12They began by looking at all the original suspects once again, like Kim's last boyfriend, Ken Weatherford.
15:20We had already narrowed down the time frame when we believed something happened to Kim.
15:25Weatherford declined an interview with 48 Hours.
15:28He was actually with Tiffany around the time Kim went missing.
15:32So investigators ruled him out.
15:35We also looked into a former boss of Kim's named Frank McCormick.
15:39That boss who had sent Kim all those disturbing love letters and images.
15:45You have to ask yourself, how far was he willing to go to get her attention?
15:49Because obsession can lead to something dangerous.
15:52Absolutely.
15:53Frank McCormick declined an interview with 48 Hours, but he did speak to investigators.
15:59Detective Wilson confronted him with a stack of those letters.
16:04Let's bring him back some memories for you.
16:07It's been a long time.
16:07Oh, I bet.
16:09As I sit here, it's hard for me to believe I wrote this.
16:12Obviously, it's my handwriting.
16:14Regardless of what he said he remembered, McCormick still had that alibi.
16:18documented by the grocery store receipt from around the time Kim disappeared.
16:24So, ultimately, we felt like Frank was not relevant to this case.
16:29Who became your top suspects in the disappearance of Kim?
16:34Our top suspect was Terry Rose.
16:37He's showing all the typical behaviors of someone who is abusive.
16:41He just couldn't let go.
16:44But when approached more than two decades later, Terry Rose, now 66 years old, was still adamant
16:52he had nothing to do with Kim Langwell's disappearance.
16:56What's your theory on what happened to her?
16:58What do you think?
16:59I don't really know.
17:01Once we broke it off, I figured just leave her alone.
17:04And so, we're trying to find his inner circle.
17:07So, we wanted to find these people that were close to Terry.
17:11One of those people was David Wiley, who Terry Rose played pool with the night Kim went missing.
17:18We could feel that David was the weakest link.
17:23Mr. David.
17:25Yes, sir.
17:25Good morning.
17:26Detective Jesus Tamayo showed up at David Wiley's door in 2023 and interviewed him in his patrol vehicle.
17:34Knowing Terry like he knew Terry, did he have anything to do with Kimberly's disappearance?
17:40I don't think so.
17:42Not at all.
17:43And I just don't think he's that type of person.
17:46Investigators were convinced Wiley wasn't telling them everything he knew.
17:50So, in April of 2024, the DA convened a grand jury where Terry Rose and David Wiley would have to
17:58testify under oath.
18:00Rose stuck to his original story, but Wiley, while also consistent, seemed uneasy.
18:07He was very nervous.
18:09He seemed very uncomfortable.
18:11So, we decided to call David Wiley and see if he would just be willing to come in and take
18:15a polygraph test.
18:17He immediately was like, you're going to need to contact my attorney and ended the phone call.
18:23So, we knew at that point that we were on to something.
18:27That hunch was confirmed when Wiley's attorney called back.
18:31He does have information for y'all that's going to help you find her.
18:48How are you doing today?
18:49Good. How are you doing?
18:50Great.
18:51In April 2024, more than two decades after Kim Langwell disappeared, David Wiley was ready to talk to investigators.
19:00This was huge.
19:02This is what we needed.
19:03But only under one condition.
19:06His attorney told us he wants full immunity from any kind of prosecution.
19:10He said, okay, we kind of need to know what we're working with here.
19:14Detectives wondered if Wiley could have been an accomplice.
19:17He said, no, he didn't.
19:19He's not saying that he killed her, that he just has information of what happened to her.
19:23So, we're like, we can work with that.
19:25With assurances of an immunity deal, David Wiley met with investigators at his attorney's office.
19:33Our goal is you're here to tell the truth.
19:37Okay?
19:38Wiley told detectives that on July 9th, 1999, the day Kim disappeared, he received a call around 6.15 p
19:47.m.
19:47from his friend and former boss, Terry Rose.
19:51He called me and asked me to pick him up at Walmart.
19:57He just said, when you get close to the parking lot, call me.
20:01I called, and he was in Kim's car.
20:03When I pulled up next to him, he said that he did not like that parking lot and to follow
20:09him.
20:11Did you ask him, why are you in the car?
20:13No, I did not ask.
20:15So, y'all left Walmart and you followed him to Colonnade?
20:19Turned into the Colonnade shopping center parking lot.
20:23He stopped in a spot, got out and got in my truck.
20:28And I took him and dropped him off at his house and went back to my little trailer I was
20:32living in.
20:34Later that evening, Wiley said he met up with Terry to play pool.
20:38The two then had breakfast the next morning.
20:41Wiley was foggy on the timing, but says Terry, out of the blue, told him a horrific story about what
20:49had happened to Kim.
20:51He told me that she was at his house and I guess they argued and they shot her.
21:01And then after that, did he say, what did he do with the body?
21:07He told me that he put her under the slab in one of the bedrooms.
21:15One of the bedrooms?
21:17I mean, did he say which one?
21:18No, he did not say which one.
21:24We couldn't quite comprehend she's under the slab in a bedroom in his house.
21:32Days later, David Wiley was given a polygraph test.
21:36Did Terry tell you he shot Kim?
21:39Yes.
21:40Did Terry tell you where he buried Kim?
21:42Yes.
21:43And passed.
21:44But before they could arrest Terry Rose, the district attorney's office insisted they get physical evidence that would back up
21:52Wiley's story.
21:53We still had a lot of work to do.
21:55We're going to be cracking the slab of this house.
21:57We're going to be looking under the floor as David described where she was.
22:01It was going to be a huge operation.
22:03And it would take intricate and secretive planning.
22:07Detectives feared that if Terry Rose found out, David Wiley's life could be in danger.
22:12They were also concerned about the safety of Terry's common-law wife, Violet.
22:18What is his mindset?
22:19If this man is really the narcissist psychopath we believe him to be, will Violet's life be in danger too?
22:27So they devised a ruse.
22:29On June 10, 2024, Terry Rose and Violet were called to the police station to discuss another case.
22:37Terry's father had been a victim of a homicide five years after Kim disappeared.
22:44After that conversation, the Langwell investigators stepped in.
23:01I think he was truly caught off guard that he was called to the police station for one thing, and
23:06now this is happening.
23:09As detectives Tamayo and Wilson served Terry Rose with the search warrant, investigators were at his house, ready to begin
23:17looking for Kim Langwell.
23:19I want you to understand what all it entails.
23:23It's going to be a thorough search of the house, possibly under the house.
23:28So if there is information that you want to tell us, is Kimberly on the property?
23:34Is there any evidence of her murder on the property?
23:39It shouldn't be.
23:41No.
23:42Did you murder Kim?
23:43No.
23:45So is there any reason why we're going to find any kind of blood or evidence or remains or anything
23:51like that anywhere on your property, sir?
23:53No.
23:55I don't know what you want.
23:57We want the body.
23:58Well, I understand that.
23:59I don't have anything to tell you.
24:01Okay.
24:02We just want to give you that opportunity.
24:04Is this mine or...
24:05You can give it.
24:06Yes, sir.
24:07I think at that point, he knew that his world was crashing down, but he couldn't stop it.
24:13Help me, Violet.
24:14Hi.
24:15Detectives Wilson and Tamayo then went to speak to Violet.
24:20We have the search warrant to look for Kimberly Namwell all through the property.
24:26Okay.
24:27If there's anything that we need to know now before we begin, this is the time.
24:32I honestly can tell you I don't know anything about where she is or anything about that.
24:40She really wasn't worried about Terry, I don't think.
24:42I think that she really thought that he had nothing to do with this and we weren't going to find
24:46whatever we were looking for.
24:48So, yeah, I'll just do what you have to do.
24:50If I had known this, I wouldn't wash the dishes.
24:53Don't worry about that.
24:54Don't be fine.
24:56Oh, gosh.
24:58Terry Rose and Violet were free to go, but not to their home.
25:02Police put tracking devices on Terry's vehicles so they could monitor his movements.
25:07The next day, an FBI evidence response team assisted Beaumont PD investigators at Terry's house.
25:15They brought in their own equipment, ground penetrating radar.
25:19So they started that tedious process of scanning all the rooms.
25:23By day three of the search, they scanned one of the two bedrooms in Terry Rose's house.
25:29But the next morning, the equipment had to be pulled.
25:33Now there was a little bit of a scramble and a panic of, we need to get another GPR out
25:37here, ground penetrating radar.
25:38But Detective Wilson had a great idea and somebody we could call him.
25:44That somebody was Tim Miller, the founder of Texas EquiSearch, an organization that specializes in finding missing people.
25:54You know, it doesn't matter when we get that phone call.
25:56We're there to help the family, help law enforcement.
26:01Later that afternoon, Miller and his team got to work on the second bedroom.
26:07Literally within three or four minutes, we noticed that there's something here.
26:11There's no wire mesh.
26:12This area has been disturbed.
26:14And then I pounded on it just a couple times lightly, and that area was hollow.
26:20You could hear it.
26:21I could hear it.
26:21And it was like, she has to be here.
26:25Almost immediately, we start breaking the tile flooring that was in that bedroom.
26:30We started with sledgehammers.
26:32And once we made that initial break in the tile, we realized that he had stacked cinder blocks underneath the
26:38flooring.
26:38So those cinder blocks just immediately collapsed, and there was a divot.
26:43Yeah, a void.
26:45So we knew this is not normal.
26:47We knew we were in the right area.
26:52Then, Detective Tamayo made a discovery.
26:56I found a, like, a keychain in a pair of sunglasses.
27:02Not long after, they found something else.
27:05One of our ID technicians actually found three small, very small bones that we believe were toe bones.
27:32Once we found human bones, we knew she was there.
27:38And the decision was made, it's time to get an arrest warrant.
27:43On June 13, 2024, more than two decades after Kim Langwell disappeared, undercover Beaumont police officers had their eyes on
27:53Terry Rose, tracking his every movement as they waited for an arrest warrant for murder to be signed by a
28:01judge.
28:02Mitch, you're being briefed on all this, right?
28:05Yes.
28:05I'm back at the police station.
28:06And where is Terry?
28:08Terry is going to a local restaurant here in town to have dinner with his wife.
28:11Terry Rose is walking out of the restaurant, and I could hear the chatter.
28:15Sorry, I got eyes on him.
28:17Is that a warrant sign?
28:18We see him moving.
28:19He's paying his check.
28:20He's walking.
28:21And then I say, warrant sign, arrest him.
28:23All right, I say move.
28:24Boys, feet on the ground.
28:29Hands, hands, let me see your hands.
28:31Hands up!
28:32Hands up!
28:33Hands up!
28:34Back up, Violet.
28:35Back up.
28:36Terry, over here.
28:37Over here.
28:37Get down on the ground.
28:38Over here.
28:40Get hurt.
28:41Get hurt.
28:42His demeanor was different.
28:43It wasn't the same Terry I'd seen.
28:46You could see the defeat on his face.
28:47I think he knew it was over.
28:49Hang on.
28:50Hang on.
28:51Got it.
28:51Don't hurt me.
28:53Terry Rose was immediately transported to the police department, where detectives Wilson
28:58and Tamayo were waiting to question him.
29:02I haven't seen him right here.
29:07We do have an arrest warrant for you for the offensive murder.
29:10You don't want to talk?
29:12What can I say?
29:15Well, there's probably a lot to say.
29:17I mean, are you curious about what we have found or why we're here?
29:24No.
29:25You got what you want.
29:26His true character is being revealed in that moment.
29:30I won't be believed anyway.
29:31I don't, I'm not going to waste my breath.
29:33I mean, I'm interested in what you have to say.
29:35I really am.
29:36I will hear you out.
29:38Doesn't matter.
29:39Their family might be.
29:40Do you have anything to say to Kim's family?
29:44No.
29:47Detectives then brought Terry Rose's wife, Violet, along with her brother and sister-in-law,
29:53into the interrogation room.
29:55I was going to ask the obvious question.
29:57I was going to say, I assume we're here because you found something.
30:01They found him.
30:02Yes.
30:02May I ask where?
30:05Under one of the bedrooms.
30:08Hey, Violet.
30:09I'm going to sleep.
30:10It's okay, Violet.
30:11It's okay.
30:12Violet.
30:13Violet, you didn't know it.
30:16You trusted it.
30:17It's okay.
30:17It's okay, Violet.
30:19It's okay.
30:20I'm sleeping.
30:20I understand, Violet.
30:21I understand.
30:24Oh, my God.
30:25Oh, my God.
30:26You're going to get through this.
30:27You're going to get through this.
30:29Mm-hmm.
30:30Mm-hmm.
30:30I know.
30:33Okay.
30:33Okay.
30:34Okay.
30:36I'm sorry.
30:37Don't be.
30:38Don't be sorry.
30:39Oh, well, that's a shock.
30:40Do you believe that Violet knew nothing about the fact that her husband murdered this woman
30:47and buried her under the floor of the house?
30:51I believe that she did not know any of that.
30:53I don't think she ever speculated that he was actually involved.
30:56Violet declined our request for an interview.
31:01Now in custody, Terry Rose headed to jail, facing a murder charge.
31:07And we watched him walk down the stairs in handcuffs, you know, with police escorting
31:12him to the police car and then, you know, stared him down, gave him the looks that he deserved
31:19as he, you know, had to drive right past us to go to prison.
31:28And your eyes were sending a message, right?
31:31Absolutely.
31:32And that message was?
31:48Back at the Rose property, investigators continued to dig into the early morning hours
31:54to make sure they recovered all of the remains.
31:57So the whole excavation process took about 13 hours.
32:01So we were there through the night.
32:03We found her completely skeletonized.
32:06She had been wrapped in a blanket, so luckily she was all there.
32:09We found all of her.
32:10And there was also a very obvious gunshot wound to the back of her head.
32:14Is there an emotional component for you at this moment?
32:17It is.
32:18It's very, it's kind of hard to describe the room, but it was very quiet.
32:23And we all knew that this was a grave site, somewhere that she had been buried and imprisoned
32:29for years.
32:30And it was a great moment knowing that we're finally getting her out of this house to bring
32:36her home to her family.
32:38Weeks later, the results from DNA testing and dental records verified what everyone already
32:45knew, that the remains were in fact Kim's.
32:54We were very excited about going to trial in this case.
32:57Jefferson County Prosecutor Luke Nichols was also confident.
33:02They found a murder victim's body under a man's floor.
33:04So as far as proving it, it was a great case, strong case.
33:09Nichols was ready to share with jurors his theory of what happened to Kim Langwell the evening
33:15she was murdered.
33:16Something that Kim said or did brought home to Terry Rose that he lost, that he lost her,
33:21that she was moving on with her life.
33:23She had a new boyfriend that she was getting serious with.
33:25She did not need him anymore.
33:28And that set him off.
33:29I think once he killed her and made the decision to put her body under his floor, it was just
33:34a sick, twisted way of maintaining physical control over her body.
33:39Terry Rose, you're being charged with the murder of Kimberley Langwell.
33:42But just a week before the trial was to begin, Rose's defense attorney approached Nichols about
33:49a plea deal.
33:50Nichols offered a maximum sentence of 40 years without the ability to appeal in exchange for
33:57a guilty plea from Terry Rose.
34:00With a guilty plea, he's admitting guilt for the first time since this happened.
34:05More importantly, we can't promise that a jury of 12 people is going to always get it right.
34:11When presented with the deal, Tiffany and Susan had mixed feelings.
34:17I wasn't happy, you know, at first.
34:19What I had to think about is the fact that we have lived and breathed this situation for
34:2625 years.
34:28And if I can walk away from this courtroom and I don't have to come back for any kind
34:32of appeals, that's a good day.
34:36Rose's attorney agreed to the terms.
34:39Now, Prosecutor Nichols would have to persuade the judge to give Terry Rose the maximum 40-year
34:46sentence.
34:47We had this horrible story of what he had done to this family, and I thought it was important
34:51to get all that out there.
34:53Nichols would present crucial evidence at the sentencing hearing, including testimony
34:58from his star witness, David Wiley.
35:01What I told him was, this is your chance to make it as right as you can at this point.
35:05You can't go back 25 years and start telling the truth, but you can start now.
35:10State calls David Wiley.
35:29I'm anxious, I'm nervous to have to look at him.
35:33So, a lot of nerves going in to that moment.
35:40That moment, over a quarter of a century in the making, came in December of 2025, when Tiffany
35:48McInnes, flanked by supporters, faced her mother's killer in a courtroom.
35:59The terms of the plea deal were, he would get anything up to 40 years.
36:03At his age, 40 years is a life sentence, and my goal from the get-go is to make sure
36:07he never
36:07breathed one more breath of free air.
36:10Prosecutor Nichols called David Wiley to the stand.
36:13Do you swear or affirm the testimony you're going to give in this hearing will be the
36:16truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth?
36:18Yes, I do.
36:19Who recounted Terry Rose's confession to him back in 1999.
36:24Did he give you any detail as to how that happened and where he shot her?
36:28The only thing he told me was the back of the head.
36:30That he shot Kim in the back of the head?
36:32Correct.
36:33Now, the police asked you about this in 1999, didn't they?
36:36Yes, they did.
36:36And did you tell them the truth about what had happened and what Terry had said?
36:39No, I did not.
36:40And so you kept your mouth shut, didn't he?
36:42I did.
36:42You kept Terry's secret?
36:44I did.
36:45Wiley said he now regrets guarding that secret, which caused so much needless heartache and
36:51despair.
36:5225 years after it happened, what made you come forward?
36:56I didn't want to live it any longer.
36:58Tired of the beat on my conscience.
37:00Is there something you want to say to Tiffany McInnes and her family?
37:04I wish I'd have came forward right when it happened.
37:07What was it like to listen to Wiley on the stand?
37:10What was it like to say to Tiffany McInnes and her family?
37:11Frustrating.
37:12It's frustrating that here we spent all this time trying to figure out what the hell happened
37:21and you had an answer right in your back pocket.
37:24So, Tiffany, I'm sorry you have to be here.
37:29Me too.
37:30Tiffany was called to testify.
37:32And once I'm on the stand, all I can think about is do not stare at him because I don't
37:37know if I'll be able to talk.
37:38She described those agonizing years not knowing where her mother was or what had happened to
37:44her.
37:44My mom is the person that I go to for everything, so I'm lost, very lost.
37:52Tiffany recalled her devastation on learning her mother's fate all those years later.
37:58I just screamed and pulled over my car.
38:01And then expressed her hope for Terry Rose's punishment.
38:05I would like him sentenced to at least 40 years.
38:09I think he deserves that.
38:10And you and I have spoken.
38:12There's not a number that really makes this right, is it?
38:15No, there never will be.
38:18The judge also heard from Terry Rose himself.
38:22This is a prepaid call from Terry Rose.
38:26Via a recorded jail call with his son.
38:29At one point, Terry Rose callously described his frame of mind when he killed Kim Langwell.
38:36Uh, you know, I'm not like a psychopath, sociopath, crazy ass, you know, I'm not none of that.
38:43I'm just, I had a bad day, I dealt with it wrong, I f***ed up, and yeah, I've got to
38:47deal
38:47with it.
38:48Then, the two coldly discussed what they wished for Tiffany.
38:53She's in her 40s.
38:54People die in their 40s and 50s all the time.
38:57That'd be sweet.
38:59I mean...
39:00Yeah, that'd be sweet.
39:01I will pee in a cup, send it to y'all, to pull on her grave.
39:07I will mail you a cup of my p***, and you can pour it on her grave.
39:12And to say that about the daughter of a woman you killed is just horrific.
39:20The fact on that phone call that you said you're not a psychopath.
39:24Who isn't a psychopath that kills someone that they once cared about and buries them
39:32in their house and lives on top of them for 25 years?
39:34I would think that's the definition in Webster's Dictionary of a psychopath.
39:39Now, Judge West handed down her sentence.
39:42And Tiffany's right.
39:4440 years isn't enough.
39:46There is a part of me that wishes I had not accepted this plea agreement and that we had
39:50gone to trial last week.
39:51Because I do think a jury would have given you life for 99 years.
39:54I actually do.
39:56I'm going to sentence you to a term of 40 years in the Institutional Division of the
40:00Texas Department of Corrections.
40:03And Tiffany got the final word.
40:07Milestones that should have been shared with my mom, my 16th birthday, my 18th birthday,
40:14my high school graduation, have all been shadowed by her absence.
40:19It wasn't until we got to my victim's statement that I really stared at him and I wanted him
40:24to hear my words because I meant every single one.
40:28You refer to the day you murdered my mother and buried her beneath your bedroom as a bad
40:33day?
40:34That bad day cost me everything.
40:37If he's watching, do you have anything to say to Terry Rose?
40:42I don't think I have anything left to say to him.
40:45I hope he rots in jail.
40:54When you think about your mom now, what do you think about?
40:58Um, I try to remember all the good times with mom more than anything.
41:06The good memories, her humor.
41:09My mom was so strong and she deserves us talking about her and keeping her alive in that way.
41:16How she lived as opposed to how she died.
41:19Absolutely.
41:21Yeah.
41:23Yeah.
41:23Yeah.
41:27Yeah.
41:28Yeah.
41:30Yeah.
41:41Yeah.
41:45Yeah.
41:46Yeah.
41:47Yeah.
41:47Yeah.
41:48Yeah.
41:48Yeah.
41:50Yeah.
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