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 ...

Karen Schepers’ remains were finally identified after being found in a car submerged in the Fox River, nearly 43 years after ...

Karen Schepers’ remains were finally identified after being found in a car submerged in the Fox River, nearly 43 years after ...

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 ...

The Elgin Police Department’s Cold Case Unit, which we profiled back in January, scored its first big victory this week with ...

Karen was 23 years old when she was last seen attending a party with co-workers at a bar in the early hours of April 16, 1983 ...

Divers at the Fox River in Elgin, Illinois ... will lead us to a new vehicle — Karen's missing Toyota Celica — and maybe even lead us to her," Detective Andrew Houten said in the March 17 episode of ...

Police in Illinois have identified the skeletal remains of a young woman who went missing 40 years ago, crediting the ...

Remains found in an Illinois lake have been positively identified ... 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 ...

More than 40 years after Karen Schepers vanished without a trace, authorities have confirmed that skeletal remains found in her submerged car in the Fox River belong to the missing woman.

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.