Her yellow 1980 Toyota Celica with license plate XP8919 was found on Monday, March 24, in the Fox River, police said. The car was recovered a day later, and skeletal human remains were found inside.

ELGIN, Ill. (WLS) -- Skeletal human remains found inside a car pulled from the Fox River linked to a decades-old cold case have now been identified, the Kane County Coroner said Thursday.

The skeletal remains found in a car pulled from the Fox River in Elgin, Illinois this week was confirmed Thursday to be those of Karen Schepers — who was last seen nearly 42 years ago.

A car pulled from an Illinois river belonged to a woman missing since 1983, officials said. Photo by City of Elgin Distinct features of a car found at the bottom of an Illinois river helped ...

When Elgin police discovered Karen Schepers’ car in the Fox River on Monday, one question immediately popped into the public’s mind: Why wasn’t it found long ago? And did authorities even ...

The car belonging to a woman who disappeared more than 40 years ago has been found in an Illinois river. Karen Schepers disappeared on April 16, 1983, at the age of 23, according to the Elgin ...

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Divers recovered the body of her one-year-old son, Jonas Allen, on Sunday morning after the car they were in entered the Trinity River Saturday night. Tuesday morning, the mother of a young child ...

FORT WORTH, Texas — A deceased child was recovered from the Trinity River Sunday after a car went into the water Saturday evening, police said. According to the Fort Worth Police Department ...

A Fort Worth Fire Department dive team found a 1-year-old child’s body in the Trinity River on Sunday, the morning after his mother’s car crashed into the water, authorities said. First ...