Post Mortem | Kimberly Langwell's Hidden Grave
48 Hours
CBS News
4.1 • 7.8K Ratings
🗓️ 14 April 2026
⏱️ 24 minutes
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48 Hours correspondents Anne-Marie Green and Peter Van Sant discuss the case of Kim Langwell, who was missing for more than two decades until her body was discovered under the floor of her ex-boyfriend’s house. They discuss how a nonprofit search team helped locate the remains, the emotional impact statement that Kim’s daughter, Tiffani, gave at sentencing, and the judge’s reaction to a recorded jail call between the killer and his son that was played in court.
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| 0:00.0 | When beloved family patriarch, Gary Ferris went missing, his family looked everywhere on their |
| 0:05.9 | property until they came across something horrifying. It's a homicide. |
| 0:10.3 | Absolutely. The blame game in this family went round and round. This is Blood is Thicker, |
| 0:16.5 | the Ferris Wheel. I don't see how anyone can look at this story and think they were happy. |
| 0:21.7 | Follow and listen to Blood is Thicker, The Ferris Wheel on the free Odyssey app or wherever you get your |
| 0:27.3 | podcast. |
| 1:10.9 | Welcome to Postmortem. I'm your host, Anne Marie Green, 48-hour correspondent. And today we are discussing the case of Kim Langwell, who went missing on July 9, 1999 in Texas. Her daughter, Tiffany McKinness, was just 15 years old at the time and then spent over two decades wondering what happened to her mother. And then in 2024, investigators found Kim's body buried under the floor of her ex-boyfriend's house, who was still living there all those years later. |
| 1:16.2 | So with me now to discuss his report is 48 hours correspondent Peter Van Sant. |
| 1:17.0 | Peter, welcome. |
| 1:19.5 | This is quite a case. |
| 1:23.0 | Yes, and great to be with you again, Anne-Marie. I've covered a lot of cases in which people have disposed of their victims in, shall I say, unique ways, |
| 1:29.3 | burning, sinking, burying, dismembering, and scattering, even leaving them out for animals to consume, |
| 1:36.1 | but never have I covered one, where a victim is buried under the floorboards in the killer's house. |
| 1:42.7 | It's just mind-boggling when you really put this together. |
| 1:45.9 | And as we hear from the judge what she had to say in this hour, this killer was a real |
| 1:51.5 | psychopath. Mm-hmm. A quick reminder to everyone. If you haven't actually watched this episode |
| 1:57.5 | yet or listen to it, it's called Kimberly Langwell's Hidden Grave. Go check it out |
| 2:03.2 | and then come on back for this conversation. All right. So when Kim Langwell first disappeared, |
| 2:09.6 | investigators considered a few possible suspects, including her then boyfriend, Ken Weatherford, |
| 2:15.4 | and Kim's former boss Frank McCormick who police |
| 2:19.0 | discovered would send her love letters leave presents at her home and then |
| 2:23.7 | Frank's behavior became sort of even more suspicious when they discovered |
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