Elgin police believe Karen Schepers’ car went into the Fox River a mile or more from where it was recovered 41 years later, ...

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 ...

After a 42-year-long cold case, detectives Andrew Houghton and Matt Vartanian finally found Karen Schepers and her 1980 ...

the only two members of the department’s cold case unit, started the podcast to solicit tips and bring greater transparency to cold cases in Elgin. While the initial idea came from Elgin Police ...

Elgin police are investigating a shooting Sunday morning that left a man hospitalized with a gunshot wound. According to ...

A Rolling Meadows police sergeant is on leave, after being involved in a traffic dispute during which a gun went off, police ...