Outrage and a demand for answers in the death of a woman found in a hotel freezer near Chicago
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A week and a half later, no one seems to know what exactly happened to Kenneka Jenkins. On September 9, the 19-year-old went to a party with friends at the Crowne Plaza hotel in Rosemont, Illinois. She never made it home. She was later found dead inside oOutrage and a demand for answers in the death of a woman found in a hotel freezer near Chicago
A week and a half later, no one seems to know what exactly happened to Kenneka Jenkins. On September 9, the 19-year-old went to a party with friends at the Crowne Plaza hotel in Rosemont, Illinois. She never made it home. She was later found dead inside of a freezer in the hotel. While results of the autopsy are pending, the theory police are currently working with is that Jenkins was drunk and wandered into the freezer, accidentally locked herself in, and died there. Her family isn’t convinced. “To me, I feel like they helped kill my child: the police department and this hotel,” Teresa Martin, Jenkins’s mother, told local media during a heart-wrenching interview alongside other family members. She said neither the authorities nor the hotel’s staff did enough to address her repeated pleas for help. [...] Jenkins’s friends, Martin said, told her the young woman disappeared after they briefly left her alone in the hotel hallway to retrieve her car keys and cellphone from inside the room. But Martin has since questioned that account, telling local media that the friends’ description of events keeps changing. According to Martin, Kanneka’s friends called her around 4 AM to tell her that they were unable to find her daughter. She proceeded to call the police and tried to file a missing report—citing that Kanneka wasn’t the type of person to just wander off and that she was worried because she didn’t have a high tolerance for alcohol. The dispatcher told her to give it some time and the police did not file a missing person’s report until 1PM. It was then that the family began their own search in the hotel. The police found her body sometime after 12:30 AM the next morning. Video from social media and surveillance cameras seems to capture her last moments. Read more