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The recent resolution of a cold case from 1983 out of suburban Elgin gripped so many after the missing car of Karen Schepers was found.
Good morning, Chicago. Less than a year ago, two Elgin detectives were named to the police department’s new cold case unit. Soon after Chief Ana Lalley presented the unit’s first – and, so far, only – ...
Elgin detectives were dubious when their chief suggested starting a true crime podcast to help find Karen Schepers. But it ...
Karen Schepers’ remains were finally identified after being found in a car submerged in the Fox River, nearly 43 years after ...
Karen Schepers' 1983 disappearance is resolved as divers locate her car in the Fox River, providing closure to her family.
Calling it “an incredible miracle,” the family of Karen Schepers issued a statement Wednesday thanking all those involved in ...
Skeletal remains found in an Illinois river have been identified as those of a young woman who disappeared more than four decades ago in a case that prompted detectives to launch their own podcast ...
The family of Karen Schepers is speaking out for the first time since the decades old Elgin cold case was solved.
Cold Case Unit Detectives Andrew Houghton and Matt Vartanian ... open enough to allow us to do a podcast which allowed us to ...
Neither Schepers nor her 1980 Toyota Celica were seen again, until now. In January, detectives from the Elgin Cold Case Unit started a podcast in an effort to solve the case.