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

Karen Schepers and her yellow Toyota Celica went missing around 1 a.m. on April 16, 1983, after leaving a bar following a ...

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.

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.

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ELGIN, Ill. (WGN ... of the Fox River around 2:45 p.m. Tuesday in connection to the disappearance of Karen Schepers. Along with her 1980 Toyota Celica, Schepers vanished without a trace ...

The Toyota Celica of Karen Schepers is loaded onto a flatbed truck after being taken out of the Fox River on March 25, 2025, in Elgin. (Stacey Wescott/Chicago Tribune) Human remains found in car ...

WGN-TV Chicago Crews recover vehicle from Fox River in Elgin linked to Karen Schepers’ disappearance 42 years ago Posted: March 26, 2025 | Last updated: March 26, 2025 The Elgin Fire Department ...

Divers at the Fox River in Elgin, Illinois, on Tuesday pulled out ... the canary yellow 1980 Toyota Celica that belonged to Karen Schepers proved to be a complex one. Crews spent hours trying ...

Authorities have removed the car of missing woman Karen Schepers from the Fox River nearly 42 years after she vanished in 1983. The vehicle, a yellow 1980 Toyota Celica, was found submerged near ...