A
19-year-old woman was found dead inside a walk-in freezer at a Chicago
Rosemont hotel, on Sunday morning.
Kenneka
Jenkins had gone missing on Saturday from a party that she attended with
friends. According to the victim's mother, Teresa Martin, Kenneka left
home around 11:30 p.m. claiming they were going to a show and bowling. Instead,
she and her friends attended a party in a hotel room at the Crowne Plaza
Chicago O'Hare Hotel & Conference Center in Rosemont.
The teenager was last
seen on the ninth floor at 1.30 a.m. on Saturday, around the same time she last
used her phone to text her sister. After 4 a.m., Martin received a phone
call from her daughter's horrified friends, saying they had lost track of
Kenneka in the hotel and left after they were unable to find her. The friends
stated that they were in Kenneka's car and they had her cellphone.
The hotel's video
footage shows Kenneka staggering drunk near the hotel's front desk. Her friends
told her mother that the three of them were getting ready to leave the party
but realized that Kenneka had left her phone and car keys back in the hotel
room. She stayed in the hallway while the friends said they retrieved her
stuff. But when they got back to the hallway she was gone.
Ms
Martin expressed her doubts about the friends' accounts of what really happened
that night since their "stories continued to change over and
over." According to Ms. Martin, police said Jenkins had let herself
into the freezer while drunk, and died inside. But she questioned their
claims, insisting her daughter would have struggled to open the freezer door if
she was drunk.
Ms
Martin added: "Those were double steel doors, she didn't just pop them
open."
Although an autopsy has
been performed, it has not yet been made clear if she died also because of foul
play. The police are investigating the incident to find out what really
happened to Kenneka Jenkins on Saturday night.
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