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.
On Tuesday, the Elgin police and fire departments, working with Chaos Divers, recovered the car owned by Karen Schepers, who was 23 when she vanished 42 years ago after attending a party with coworkers.
Her case had become the focus of Elgin’s newly formed Cold Case Unit, culminating in the recovery of her 1980 Toyota Celica and human remains found inside.
But on Wednesday night, Elgin police said in a press release that they were approached by a man who believed he found the car in 2022.
The man told authorities on Tuesday that he had been using sonar equipment while fishing in the area three years ago and found an “unusual object” in the river. He then reported it to the Elgin Fire Department.
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