After a 42-year-long cold case, detectives Andrew Houghton and Matt Vartanian finally found Karen Schepers and her 1980 ...

Elgin police believe Karen Schepers’ car went into the Fox River a mile or more from where it was recovered 41 years later, ...

To share with the world their search for Karen Schepers, a young Elgin woman missing for more than 40 years? The detectives wondered if they could do it and, at first, wondered if it could even help.

They have since been identified as those of 23-year-old Karen Schepers, who was last seen around 1 a.m. on April 16, 1983, the Elgin Police Department said in a news release. Police said the Kane ...

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.

ELGIN, Ill. (WGN) — Nearly 42 years after her disappearance, Karen Schepers’ family still maintains her childhood home in ...