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By Dan Gooding
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The disappearance of a woman in Texas almost 25 years ago was solved at her ex-boyfriend's home this week, after investigators dug up his driveway.
Kimberly Langwell was 34 when she vanished on July 9, 1999, in Beaumont, Texas after calling her teenage daughter to say she would meet her for dinner at 6:30 p.m.
Langwell never showed for that dinner date and her car was later found abandoned.
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Over two decades later, new information led investigators to her ex-boyfriend Terry Rose's home, and on Monday they began executing a search warrant, with efforts lasting through Thursday, when new evidence was uncovered in the driveway.
"At this time, we are able to report that human remains were discovered during the search," Assistant chief of Beaumont Police, Jason Plunkett, told reporters Friday.
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Those remains were yet to be formally identified, Blunkett said, but his officers believed them to belong to Langwell.
On the night she disappeared, Langwell's abandoned car was found in a pharmacy parking lot. Her purse and car keys were gone, but her cellphone and other personal items were there.
She had been due to meet her new boyfriend and her 15-year-old daughter for dinner, but said she had to stop by Rose's home beforehand.
Despite officers checking out the ex-boyfriend at the time, they found no hard evidence linking him to the woman's disappearance.
In April this year, Langwell's daughter Tiffani McInnis told Oxygen that she had problems with Rose.
"He would be forceful with her to let her know that he can be in control, so I was uncomfortable with him," she told the outlet.
Investigators kept looking for clues and eventually they got lucky with a tip earlier this year that the victim was killed at her ex-boyfriend's home.
The Beaumont Police Department, assisted by the FBI, Jefferson County District Attorney's Office, ATF, Texas Equusearch, and City of Beaumont Public Works, carried out the search warrant this week.
On Thursday, they began breaking up concrete in Rose's front yard, using penetrating radar and cadaver dogs to assist in the search.
Under the driveway, detectives found human remains and cops arrested Rose, 67, on suspicion of murder.
"The important thing today is that we want to express our hopes that this brings some sense of justice to the Langwell family," Plunkett said.
"Beaumont Police Department, the District Attorney's office and our partners will continue to work this case until there is a complete resolution."
Rose is being held on a $1 million bond at the Jefferson County Jail.
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