Authorities say skeletal remains were found inside the car that belonged to an Elgin woman who has been missing for 42 years.

When Elgin police discovered Karen Schepers’ car in the Fox River on Monday, one question immediately popped into the public’s mind: Why wasn’t it found long ago? And did authorities even ...

ELGIN, Ill. (WLS) -- Skeletal human remains have been found inside a car linked to a decades-old cold case, the Kane County coroner confirmed on Tuesday evening. Chopper 7 was over the scene as ...

The identification process could take several weeks, Lalley said. Schepers’ car was discovered late Monday afternoon by Elgin police and a dive team, which had spent the day searching locations ...

Karen Schepers was seen for the last time on April 16, 1983, at a work party at a bar in Carpentersville. She was the last one to leave, witnesses told Elgin police at the time, and she was never seen ...

A vehicle recovered from the Fox River this week linked to the 1983 cold case of missing woman Karen Schepers was initially found by fire dive crews in 2022, but it was not recovered when it was ...

An Elgin man and his wife were killed after the car in which they were driving crossed ... cause of death was “multiple ...

A vehicle believed to belong to a woman missing since 1983 was found Monday by divers in suburban Elgin, a step toward ... any searches for Schepers or her car in the water in the 1980s, despite ...

As police were recovering the car with the missing woman's remains inside, a man told them of the 2022 search.

Divers found a car in the Fox River in Elgin, Illinois, Monday, with a license plate that matched the car linked to the 1983 cold case disappearance of a suburban woman. The Elgin Police ...

Skeletal remains were found in the car that belonged to an Elgin woman who has been missing for 42 years, authorities said.