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Information reaching Kossyderrickent has it that video of hotel staff in freezer area near time of Kenneka Jenkins disappearance story.Â
The circumstances surrounding Jenkins’ death gained international attention after police said she died after wandering inside a commercial kitchen freezer at the Crowne Plaza Chicago O’Hare Hotel and Conference Center in Rosemont, Illinois. An autopsy determined the cause of death to be hypothermia, with alcohol and a drug used to treat epilepsy and migraines “significant contributing factors.”
Jenkins went to the hotel to attend a late-night party on the ninth floor but never returned home, igniting a frantic search by the teen’s loved ones. Nearly 24 hours later, her body was found inside the walk-in freezer.
Security video showed Jenkins stumbling through the hotel, entering an “abandoned” kitchen and rounding a corner toward a walk-in freezer at 3:32 a.m., the lawsuit stated.
About 4 a.m., friends alerted Martin that they had not seen her daughter since they first left the room. Martin reached out to the hotel and was told that they would review the surveillance footage, the lawsuit alleged.
Jenkins’ body was not found for more than 21 hours after she is believed to have entered the freezer.
When police came to the hotel to investigate, the surveillance footage was reviewed for the first time. Hotel or security staff had not watched the recordings, the lawsuit said.
The suit alleged the hotel failed to properly monitor the security cameras, arguing that doing so “would have saved her life.”
Witnesses told police they lost track of Jenkins at about 1 a.m. on September 9, 2017, when the teen left the party to fetch her car keys and phone from another room.
By roughly 2:30 a.m., Jenkins’ family members and her friends were telling hotel staff that she was missing.
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