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

Remains found in a car recovered from the Fox River in Illinois have been identified as Karen Schepers, a woman who went ...

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.

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

Divers at the Fox River in Elgin, Illinois ... to recover the canary yellow 1980 Toyota Celica that belonged to Karen Schepers proved to be a complex one. Crews spent hours trying to properly ...

ELGIN, Ill. (WGN) — Police in Elgin, Illinois, have confirmed that remains found within a car submerged in the Fox River have ...

Members of the Elgin Police Department and the nonprofit Chaos Divers use sonar to search for Karen Schepers and her 1980 Toyota Celica in the Fox River on March 24, 2025, in Elgin. (Stacey ...

ELGIN, Ill. (WGN) — The human remains found in the car pulled from the Fox River on Tuesday have been positively ID’d as Karen Schepers, a 23-year-old woman who went missing after leaving a ...

The skeletal remains found in a car pulled from the Fox River in Elgin, Illinois this week was confirmed Thursday to be those of Karen Schepers — who was last seen nearly 42 years ago.

"Yesterday's search of the Fox River was conducted because as a reexamination ... On April 16, 1983, then 23-year-old Karen Schepers went to a bar in Carpentersville bar with coworkers.