Karen Schepers was seen for the last time on April 16, 1983, at a work party at a bar in Carpentersville. She was the last one to leave, witnesses told Elgin police at the time, and she was never seen again. She was only 23 years old at the time.

The yellow vehicle was found 42 years after Karen Schepers vanished after she left a Carpentersville bar on April 16, 1983, Elgin officials said in a March 25 news release. During the search of Fox River, divers identified the 23-year-old woman’s vehicle using sonar technology and pulled it to shore, authorities said.

Police say the car belonging to a missing Illinois woman that was found in a river earlier this week was located nearly three years prior.