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

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

“When is he a murder suspect?” she said this week. She said she had followed the cold case of Karen Schepers, the Elgin woman who disappeared in April 1983 and whose remains and car were found ...

Karen Schepers, 23, vanished on April 16, 1983, after leaving a bar in the Chicago suburbs. Despite a lengthy investigation, her disappearance remained unsolved — until now. Earlier this year, the ...

When Karen Schepers’ remains were found in the Fox River last month, it was not only a moment of closure her loved ones had waited decades for, but also a validation for the detectives who led ...

And they knew their first case – the disappearance of Karen Schepers in April 1983 – would make a compelling story. But to put a podcast together, themselves, and host it? To investigate the ...

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.

ELGIN, Ill. (WGN) — Police in Elgin, Illinois, have confirmed that remains found within a car submerged in the Fox River have been positively identified as Karen Schepers, a 23-year-old who went ...

ELGIN, Ill. (WGN) — Police in Elgin, Illinois, have confirmed that remains found within a car submerged in the Fox River have been positively identified as Karen Schepers, a 23-year-old who went ...