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Elgin PD’s Safe Together Police Academy starts in May. Applications are available for the Elgin Police Department’s Safe ...
Detectives Matt Vartanian and Andrew Houghton from the Elgin, Illinois, Police Department's Cold Case Unit are shedding new ...
The 1983 case of Karen Schepers was solved 42 years later. Elgin detectives share how their podcast 'Somebody Knows Something' helped crack the case.
Elgin detectives were dubious when their chief suggested starting a true crime podcast to help find Karen Schepers. But it ...
In the more than 40 years since she disappeared, detectives have continued to look into the case, but nothing turned up. In May of last year, however, the Elgin Police Department created a Cold ...
Karen Schepers' 1983 disappearance is resolved as divers locate her car in the Fox River, providing closure to her family.
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 ...
Calling it “an incredible miracle,” the family of Karen Schepers issued a statement Wednesday thanking all those involved in ...
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 ...
ELGIN, Ill. (WLS) -- The family of Karen Schepers is speaking out for the first time since the decades old Elgin cold case was solved. Schepers went missing on April 16, 1983 after attending a ...