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Elgin detectives were dubious when their chief suggested starting a true crime podcast to help find Karen Schepers. But it ...
Karen Schepers was seen for the last time on April 16, 1983, at a work party at a bar in Carpentersville. Her car, which contained bones that have now been confirmed to be hers, was pulled from the ...
Karen Schepers’ remains were finally identified after being found in a car submerged in the Fox River, nearly 43 years after she went missing, thanks to the efforts of the Elgin Police ...
The 1983 case of Karen Schepers was solved 42 years later. Elgin detectives share how their podcast 'Somebody Knows Something' helped crack the case.
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 – ...
Detectives Matt Vartanian and Andrew Houghton from the Elgin, Illinois, Police Department’s Cold Case Unit are shedding new ...
When Karen Schepers’ remains were found in the Fox ... Detectives Andrew Houghton and Matt Vartanian of the Elgin Police Department talked about how the discovery almost didn’t happen.
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 ...
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.