The Elgin Police Department’s Cold Case Unit, which we profiled back in January, scored its first big victory this week with ...

The remains belong to 23-year-old Karen Schepers, who was last seen leaving a bar around 1 a.m. on April 16, 1983 in ...

Skeletal remains found in an Illinois river have been identified as those of a young woman who went missing more than four ...

Two police detectives started a podcast last year, which renewed interest and sparked new leads in the cold case.

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 ...

Divers at the Fox River in Elgin, Illinois ... will lead us to a new vehicle — Karen's missing Toyota Celica — and maybe even lead us to her," Detective Andrew Houten said in the March 17 episode of ...

Karen was 23 years old when she was last seen attending a party with co-workers at a bar in the early hours of April 16, 1983 ...

More than 40 years after Karen Schepers vanished without a trace, authorities have confirmed that skeletal remains found in her submerged car in the Fox River belong to the missing woman.

The Kane County coroner on Thursday positively identified the remains of Karen Schepers, an Elgin woman who went missing in ...

Schepers, 23, was last seen around 1 a.m. on April 16, 1983, after leaving PM Bentley’s, a bar located in the Meadowdale ...

Chicago area officials have fished a vehicle out of a river containing skeletal remains possibly belonging to a woman who went missing nearly ... those belonging to Karen Schepers, who was 23 ...