Police in Illinois have identified the skeletal remains of a young woman who went missing 40 years ago, crediting the ...

Karen Schepers’ remains were finally identified after being found in a car submerged in the Fox River, nearly 43 years after ...

Calling it “an incredible miracle,” the family of Karen Schepers issued a statement Wednesday thanking all those involved in ...

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 ...

A southern Illinois based dive team discovered a missing Elgin woman's remains in a car pulled from the Fox River.

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

Karen Schepers, a 23-year-old woman who went missing in 1983, was positively identified from human skeletal remains found in a car pulled from the Fox River in Illinois.

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.