Daily Herald opinion: While Elgin’s commendable cold case unit finally located the remains of a woman who disappeared almost 42 years ago, it also inspires questions about whether more could have been done initially to find Karen Schepers.

The Kane County Coroner on Thursday positively identified the remains of Karen Schepers, an Elgin woman who went missing in 1983.

The car pulled from the Fox River Tuesday that belonged to an Elgin woman who went missing in 1983 could have been recovered three years earlier but was misidentified by an Elgin Fire Department diver as an ATV.

Steven Thoren is one of eight candidates running for four seats on the Elgin City Council in the April 1 consolidated election.

When Elgin police found 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?

Authorities say skeletal remains were found inside the car that belonged to an Elgin woman who has been missing for 42 years.

Forty-two years after a 23-year-old Elgin woman vanished without a trace, Elgin police and a dive team searching the Fox River made a stunning find: the 1980 Toyota Celica Karen Schepers owned.

The search for a woman missing since 1983 will take Elgin police to the Fox River Monday.

Kane County sheriff’s deputies assisted Lombard police in stopping a driver who was suspected of attempting to run over three pedestrians and was trying to elude police, according to sheriff’s reports.

Elgin man charged with murder in stabbing death police are labeling “domestic-related.”