ELGIN, Ill. (WGN) — Episode 6 of the Elgin Police Department’s “Somebody Knows Something” Cold Case Podcast dives into detectives’ third theory: Karen Schepers safely left P.M. Bentley’s before someone possibly stopped her—maybe a serial killer—on the way home.
Previous episode: The “Beaver Squeezer” and John Wayne Gacy’s nephew
Detectives Andrew Houghton and Matt Vartanian open the episode by laying out the background behind why they believe it was unlikely Schepers would go anywhere besides her Elgin apartment after leaving P.M. Bentley’s.
According to friends and family, no one lived in the surrounding Chicagoland area or had plans to go to another bar the night of her disappearance. Detectives also thought it key to point out this was before the era of cell phones where police could track a person’s location, or when people could quickly create plans to meet elsewhere as they left bars or other establishments.
As detectives investigated this theory, they came up with only one other person who lived in close proximity to P.M. Bentley’s where Schepers could have gone afterward…