A new discovery in Elgin, Illinois could bring a decades old cold case to a close. For the first time in nearly 40 years, a 1980 Toyota Celica is back on dry land. The car, belonging to Karen ...

Police in Illinois have identified the skeletal remains of a young woman who went missing 40 years ago, crediting the discovery to diligent police work that included a podcast to revive interest and ...

Detectives Matt Vartanian and Andrew Houghton from the Elgin, Illinois, Police Department’s Cold Case Unit are shedding new ...

Elgin detectives were dubious when their chief suggested starting a true crime podcast to help find Karen Schepers. But it ...

Skeletal remains found in an Illinois river have been identified as those of a young woman who disappeared more than four decades ago in a case that prompted detectives to launch their own podcast ...

(WGN) — Police in Elgin, Illinois ... case in 2010 — but again — the investigation dried up. Schepers’ case wasn’t revisited for another 14 years. In May 2024, EPD created their Cold ...

The discovery "changes everything," the sister ... Last year the Elgin Police Department formed a cold case unit. Schepers' disappearance was the first case on the docket. In a podcast the ...

A haunting breakthrough has finally come in the cold case of Karen Schepers, 23, who vanished over 40 years ago in Elgin, Illinois, a suburb outside of Chicago. The Elgin Police Department ...