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

But Karen Schepers’ family has been notified and the assumption made that she has been found at last thanks to the Elgin Police Department’s cold case unit and their podcast, “Somebody Knows ...

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.

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

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ELGIN, Ill (WGN) — An Elgin Fire Department dive team discovered the vehicle that was pulled from the Fox River in connection to Karen Schepers 42-year-old cold case years beforehand ...

Karen Schepers was seen for the last time on April 16, 1983, at a work party at a bar in Carpentersville. She was the last one to leave, witnesses told Elgin police at the time, and she was never ...

When Karen Schepers’ remains were found in the Fox ... Detectives Andrew Houghton and Matt Vartanian of the Elgin Police Department talked about how the discovery almost didn’t happen.

The disappearance of Karen Schepers, missing since April 1983, was solved by the Elgin police this week after human skeletal remains found in a car pulled from the Fox River were confirmed to be hers.

The Kane County coroner’s office announced Thursday night that the skeletal remains found inside a car removed this week from the Fox River belong to Karen Schepers, the 23-year-old Elgin woman ...

the Elgin Police Department said in a news release on social media. Along with the vehicle, investigators found license plates matching those belonging to Karen Schepers, who was 23 years old on ...