Elgin police believe Karen Schepers’ car went into the Fox River a mile or more from where it was recovered 41 years later, its locked emergency brake indicating she must have tried ...

Karen Schepers was laid to rest at Elmwood Cemetery during a private burial, 42 years after her disappearance, and detectives ...

ELGIN, Ill (WGN) — Karen Schepers’ missing persons case didn’t end when the Elgin Police Department found her and her car. It simply moved the question at the heart of their investigation ...

To share with the world their search for Karen Schepers, a young Elgin woman missing for more than 40 years? The detectives wondered if they could do it and, at first, wondered if it could even help.

ELGIN, Ill. (WGN) — The family of Karen Schepers released a statement Wednesday in the aftermath of a major breakthrough that brought her remains home after going missing nearly 43 years ago.

ELGIN, Ill (WGN) — An Elgin Fire Department dive team discovered the vehicle that was pulled from the Fox River in connection to Karen Schepers 42-year-old cold case years beforehand ...

The true crime podcast "Somebody Knows Something" helped detectives crack a 40-year-old cold case centered around a missing woman after she disappeared in 1983.

They have since been identified as those of 23-year-old Karen Schepers, who was last seen around 1 a.m. on April 16, 1983, the Elgin Police Department said in a news release. Police said the Kane ...

Elgin police said during this week's recovery of a vehicle related to the 1983 cold case investigation of Karen Schepers at the Slade Avenue boat launch, a person approached an Elgin police ...