Family still searching for answers to daughter's disappearance

Karen Schepers had a good job and friends and was close to her family. The 23-year-old played the piano, sewed her own clothes and was good with kids. Just before she went missing, she deposited a tax-return check into her bank account, but never withdrew any of the money. That was 25 years ago. The Sycamore High School graduate, who had recently moved to Elgin, went out with friends on April 16, 1983, in Carpentersville. She never made it back home, and no trace of her or her yellow 1980 Toyota Celica has ever been found. Now, Schepers' family and police are hoping new technology and the public will help shed light on this cold case and find out what happened to the woman. “With the modern technology we have now ... we're hoping that some