She was a young, independent, accomplished trailblazer with a very bright future,” the family said in a press release.

More than 40 years after Karen Schepers vanished without a trace, authorities have confirmed that skeletal remains found in a ...

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

The Kane County Coroner’s Office announced Thursday night that the skeletal remains found inside a car removed this week from ...

The Kane County coroner said the remains, found Tuesday, belonged to Karen Schepers, who went missing 42 years ago.

The Kane County coroner on Thursday positively identified the remains of Karen Schepers, an Elgin woman who went missing in ...

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 was seen for the last time on April 16, 1983, at a work party at a bar in Carpentersville. She was the last ...

Skeletal remains found in an Illinois river have been identified as those of a young woman who went missing more than four ...

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

Elgin Police Chief Ana Lalley discusses the Karen Schepers missing person case with two detectives who found her car and remains in the Fox River after 41 years.

The family of Karen Schepers is speaking out for the first time since the decades old Elgin cold case was solved.