case 5
Ok, ladies and gentlemen, this week is going to be a little
different. This case that I am about to discuss only happened 11 days ago. It’s
still fresh. And people are still hurting over it. So, I’m going to go ahead
and ask that everyone be respectful and open to discussion. I’m not positing
that anything untoward happened here, I’m simply pointing out some
discrepancies that I have found with the case. That being said, in my humble
opinion, there could definitely have been a different outcome on this case if
one or two things had been handled differently. So, without further ado, let’s
discuss the Kenneka Jenkins case.
19 year
old Kenneka Jenkins went out to party with her friends on September 8, 2017,
only to never be seen alive by her mother again. Kenneka and her friends went
to a party at the Crowne Plaza Hotel a few miles outside of Chicago. What happened
later that night is the material for a heated debate today.
Kenneka’s
friends claim that before leaving the hotel, Kenneka realized she had left her
phone in the hotel room where the party was being held and asked them to go
retrieve it, informing them that she was going to stay in the lobby. When the
friends returned, Kenneka was nowhere to be seen. After searching for a few
hours, the friends called Kenneka’s mother, Tereasa, and informed her that they
could not find her daughter. Tereasa drove to the hotel and asked the workers
there if they could review the video footage in an attempt to help her find her
missing child. The hotel denied her request, stating that there was nothing
they could do until there was a missing person’s report from the police. Tereasa
then called 911 and asked to have police intervention, to which the dispatcher
advised her to check with Kenneka’s friends and wait until a later time to
contact police again. Believing she had no other choice, Tereasa obliged. By the
time the police got involved officially and came to the hotel to review the
footage, it was the next day. Upon review of the footage from an abandoned part
of the hotel that was under construction, Kenneka was discovered to have been
walking down the hallway quite inebriated. (Video linked below) Following the
lead given on the video, a hotel worker went to the last place Kenneka had been
spotted by the cameras and made a disturbing discovery in the freezer. Kenneka
Jenkins was inside. Dead.
Now, we
don’t know much about evidence yet because the case is so fresh, so there isn’t
a lot to go on that’s been released to the public. No cause of death has been
released, nor has any blood test results. That being said, that has not stopped
the massive amounts of public scrutiny and hype the case has received. Everyone
has an opinion. And everyone claims to see things in both the security footage
and a Facebook live video from the same night. But let’s be honest, most of
that is just people with too much time on their hands wanting to cause a stir. Now,
I don’t have a solid opinion on the case yet, but I do have quite a few things
that I find to be a little suspicious. I’ll list them now.
1.
No 19 year old that I know is going to willingly
A). wait alone in the lobby of a strange place B) . let someone else go get
their phone for them or C). purposely walk away from said meet up place if by
some odd occurrence they did do the two above things. So, to me, this makes the
statement given by her friends highly suspicious.
2.
There is security video of Kenneka walking with her
friends that was taken only a short while before the video of her alone, and in
the former she appeared to be completely sober. In my experience, you do not
get that drunk that quickly. I’d also like to point out that I have seen drunk
people, and it looked like Kenneka had something else going on there, which
leads me to believe that she might have been drugged.
3.
Which begs the question: if she was drugged, why
didn’t someone follow her to act upon that vulnerability? And if they did
somehow get past the cameras, why did they leave her in the freezer. In her
state, she’d never have been able to make an ID.
4.
What took her friends so long to get back to the
lobby and start searching for Kenneka?
5.
And finally, the car was Tereasa’s, and Kenneka
knew she would need it to get back to her mother (who is suffering from breast
cancer), so why would she give up the keys to someone in her friends group, who
then left the hotel without her. It was stated that she didn’t drink much, so
she’d have had no need to give the keys up.
Now, to me, these are just
questions that I think should be answered. I’m not accusing anyone of anything,
but the case is sketchy. Nonetheless, this child lost her life. And this mother
lost her child. I only hope that one day there will be a clear answer as to
what really happened.
Stay curious,
Dahlia
Security Video:
References and Additional Resources:
Kendall Rae- “ 19 YO Kenneka Jenkins Body Found in Hotel
FREEZER…”
Danelle Hallan- “What Really Happened to Kenneka Jenkins??”
http://www.chicagotribune.com
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