Elgin detectives were dubious when their chief suggested starting a true crime podcast to help find Karen Schepers. But it ...

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. While ...

Police say the car belonging to a missing Illinois woman that was found in a river earlier this week was located nearly three ...

The Elgin Fire Department unknowingly found Karen Schepers’ vehicle in 2022 but did not conduct further investigation. The vehicle was finally recovered from the Fox River in March 2025 ...

When Karen Schepers’ remains were found in the Fox River last month, it was not only a moment of closure her loved ones had ...

The disappearance of Karen Schepers, missing since April 1983, was solved by the Elgin police this week after human skeletal remains found in a car pulled from the Fox River were confirmed to be hers.

The car belonging to Karen Schepers, who disappeared more than 40 years ago after a night out with co-workers, has been found in an Illinois river.

the Elgin Police Department said in a news release on social media. Along with the vehicle, investigators found license plates matching those belonging to Karen Schepers, who was 23 years old on ...

Detectives Matt Vartanian and Andrew Houghton from the Elgin, Illinois, Police Department's Cold Case Unit are shedding new ...

But Karen Schepers’ family has been notified and the assumption made that she has been found at last thanks to the Elgin Police Department’s cold case unit and their podcast, “Somebody Knows ...