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

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 ...

The 1983 case of Karen Schepers was solved 42 years later. Elgin detectives share how their podcast 'Somebody Knows Something' helped crack the case.

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

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 ...

That car was pulled from the Fox River with skeletal remains inside on Tuesday, and was found to have belonged to a woman who disappeared nearly 42 years ago. Karen Schepers was seen for the last ...

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 ...

Remains found in a car recovered from the Fox River in Illinois have been identified as Karen Schepers, a woman who went missing in 1983. Schepers' car was located by Chaos Divers, a volunteer ...

LATEST UPDATE: Kane County Coroner’s Office confirms human remains were found inside of car pulled from Fox River in connection with disappearance of Karen Schepers. Click HERE for latest details.

Karen Schepers was seen for the last time on April 16, 1983, at a work party at a bar in Carpentersville. Her car, which contained bones that have now been confirmed to be hers, was pulled from the ...