The Mystery of Kenneka Jenkins' death
On Sunday morning, Kenneka Jenkins was found in a walk-in freezer at Rosemont's Crowne Plaza and later, at 12:48 pm, was pronounced dead. The circumstances of her death are still unknown but some have tried to make assumptions of what happened to her on their own. Her mother, Teresa Martin, suspects foul play and feels that the hotel staff and the police helped in her daughter's murder. Kenneka's friends may also be suspects in her murder, according to Martin, her friends' alibis keep changing and many viewers believe that they set Kenneka up. There has been a lot of speculation around this case, especially around the live video streamed before Kenneka's death.
In the video, one of her friends is live streaming, she had on mirrored glasses and through her glasses, you could see the other side of the room where Kenneka appears to be sitting. Some viewers say that she can be heard saying help or that she's being attacked but no one knows for sure. The words in the video were often muffled due to the loud music and the people talking over each other. The video is a key part to the investigation and the police have identified everyone in the video. Kenneka was last seen on the ninth floor of the hotel, apparently too drunk to function.
Martin feels as though the hotel staff and the police played a part in Kenneka's murder because they didn't act fast enough. The hotel staff told her that they wouldn't look at any surveillance videos without a missing person's report and also called the police after Martin's family came for the 3rd time to the hotel but, this time knocking on people's doors asking if they had seen Kenneka. When the police arrived, they told Martin to wait a few days before filing a missing persons report. After pleading with the police, they finally looked at the surveillance videos and found Kenneka stumbling near the front desk of the hotel.
Then, after finding Kenneka's dead body, they wouldn't let Martin see her and once she did, Kenneka was cleaned up. Martin wanted to see how she died, she wanted to see for herself that she was dead. The police told her that Kenneka was very intoxicated and entered the freezer herself and that, "freak accidents like that do occur." Martin now questions how her daughter could've gotten those heavy freezer doors open being highly intoxicated. There has not been any update with the police and they have said that they will not be making any statements about what happened, regarding her mother.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/true-crime/wp/2017/09/11/a-woman-was-found-dead-in-a-hotel-freezer-her-family-says-the-police-havent-done-enough/?utm_term=.126ea0f2a9d0
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-kenneka-jenkins-hotel-freezer-timeline-20170912-story.html
This is crazy! The police are acting really sketchy about all of this. I'll have to keep an eye on this and see how it pans out
ReplyDeleteThis is crazy! I wonder what else is going to be relived in the near future
ReplyDeleteThat's positively horrifying. The circumstances surrounding the death are enough to give me chills alone, but factor in the less-than-credible law enforcement and the suspicious mother and you've got a tragic odyssey.
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DeleteI find it incredible that the law enforcement and the hotel staff acted the way they did. They seemed slow to react and help, and it makes sense that the evidence is jumbled.
ReplyDeleteThis is terrifying. The fact that almost no one knows about this is worse. There must be some surveillance footage or something of that sort? The sketchiness is overwhelming. There's definitely something going on.
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