The weathered license plate from Karen Schepers’ car, which had last been seen in 1983, sits on top of its evidence envelope at the Elgin Police Department on April 11, 2025. Cold case ...

Elgin police will search the Fox River Monday as part of a cold-case investigation into a woman missing since 1983. Officials announced in a release Sunday they will resume the search for Karen ...

Cold Case Unit Detectives Andrew Houghton and ... to no avail. In January, the Elgin Police Department began airing its podcast, “Somebody Knows Something,” and highlighted Schepers' case ...

The divers, along with Elgin Police detectives, conducted the search after the department recently launched a cold case unit and a podcast. According to officials, the car is believed to belong to ...

A vehicle recovered from the Fox River this week linked to the 1983 cold case of missing woman ... Kane County coroner The Elgin Police Department had no knowledge of the dive team's activities ...

Corrections & Clarifications: This story has been updated to clarify which department received a tip in 2022 about a possible vehicle in the Fox River. The tipster called the Elgin Fire Department ...

with a license plate that matched the car linked to the 1983 cold case disappearance of a suburban woman. The Elgin Police Department worked with the nonprofit Chaos Divers to search the Fox River ...

A vehicle discovered earlier this week in the Fox River that investigators determined was connected to a cold ... The case was launched back into the spotlight when the Elgin Police Department ...