The Elgin Fire Department found Karen Scheper’s car in the Fox River three years ago, but believed it was an ATV and did not recover it.
Elgin fire department found missing woman’s car three years ago, but didn’t recover it
Category: Crime and Public Safety
1 dead, 5 injured in overnight traffic crash in Garfield Ridge
A 28-year-old man was killed and five other people were injured in an overnight traffic accident in the Garfield Ridge neighborhood, Chicago police said. About 3:25 a.m., a Ford Fusion was headed east in the 5600 block of West 55th Street when the driver made a U-turn striking a Hyundai Palisade headed west, police said. […]
Southwest Side man detained in slaying of brother, partner inside Gage Park home
A Chicago man accused of shooting and killing his brother and his brother’s partner in their Gage Park home over the weekend before stabbing a woman at a nearby sports bar was ordered detained Wednesday. Robert Romo, 57, was charged with first-degree murder, attempted murder and aggravated battery in the fatal shooting of Richard M. […]
SAFE-T Act increasing expenses in Kane County, state’s attorney says
Kane County State’s Attorney Jamie Mosser told the county board the SAFE-T Act is increasing costs and is also too limited in its list of detainable offenses.
Shooting at White Sox game in 2023 still a mystery with new season opening
Nineteen months after two women were shot in the bleachers at a White Sox game, there’s little clarity in the case.
Southland crime: Armed robbery in Oak Lawn, road rage in Palos Park, and more
Crime reports from south and southwest suburban agencies from police and court reports and news releases.
33-year-old found fatally wounded early Wednesday morning on Far South Side
A 33-year-old man was discovered fatally wounded Wednesday morning outside on the Far South Side in the Roseland neighborhood, Chicago police said. Shortly after 5 a.m., the victim was found unresponsive in the 10100 block of South Prairie Avenue with multiple gunshot wounds to the body. He was pronounced dead at the scene. No one […]
Clearing neighborhood man charged in fatal stabbings in Gage Park
A 57-year-old man was charged Wednesday in connection with the fatal stabbings of two people in recent days in the Gage Park neighborhood, Chicago police said. Robert Romo of the Clearing neighborhood was charged with two counts of first degree murder in the stabbing deaths of a 64-year-old woman and a 63-year-old man on March […]
Human remains found in car pulled from the Fox River belonging to Elgin woman missing since 1983
Human remains were found inside a car pulled Tuesday from the Fox River that belonged to Karen Schepers, an Elgin woman who has been missing for nearly 42 years.
Gunman who killed 23 in racist attack at Texas Walmart offered plea deal to avoid death penalty
The gunman who killed 23 people in a racist attack at an El Paso Walmart in 2019 in one of the the deadliest mass shootings in U.S. history has been offered a plea deal to avoid the death penalty, a Texas prosecutor said Tuesday.