Family talks about Chicago teen found dead in Rosemont hotel freezer
Tereasa Martin, mother of 19-year-old Kenneka Jenkins, talks about the circumstances surrounding her daughter's death Sept. 10, 2017. Jenkins was found dead in a walk-in freezer at a Rosemont hotel...
View ArticleTeen from Chicago found dead in walk-in freezer at Rosemont hotel
For the latest updates on this story, click here. A 19-year-old West Side woman was found dead inside a walk-in freezer at a Rosemont hotel Sunday morning, about a day after she had gone missing from...
View ArticleViral Facebook video a focus of investigation into death of 19-year-old woman...
Police investigating the death of a young woman found in a Rosemont hotel walk-in freezer are reviewing video on social media that appears to show the victim in a ninth-floor room hours before she...
View ArticleRosemont Mayor Brad Stephens on the Crowne Plaza death investigation
Rosemont Mayor Brad Stephens speaks after a State of the Village luncheon Sept. 13, 2017. (Brian Cassella / Chicago Tribune)
View ArticleKenneka Jenkins' death strikes chord with amateur sleuths, police critics
Just about everyone thinks they know what happened to Kenneka Jenkins. More than 4 million people across the world have watched a Facebook video purportedly shot in a Rosemont hotel room where Jenkins...
View ArticleKenneka Jenkins' death prompts conversation African-Americans need to have
Kenneka Jenkins' mysterious death has hit a nerve with young African-Americans. Everyone seems to have a theory about how the 19-year-old Chicago woman's body ended up in a freezer in a deserted area...
View ArticleProtest to remember Kenneka Jenkins
People gather outside the Crowne Plaza Chicago O'Hare Hotel in Rosemont to protest the handling of the death investigation of Kenneka Jenkins, the 19-year-old found in a walk-in freezer in a vacant...
View ArticleAmid pressure from Kenneka Jenkins' family, police offer new details of death...
Rosemont officials released some new details late Wednesday about their investigation into the death of Kenneka Jenkins and said they will share hotel surveillance video with her mother. The...
View ArticleWhat we still don't know about Kenneka Jenkins' freezer death — despite...
Nearly three days after Kenneka Jenkins was found dead inside a walk-in freezer in a Rosemont hotel, police have said very little about what happened to the 19-year-old.No cause of death has been...
View ArticleProtest for Kenneka Jenkins
Protesters rally outside the Crowne Plaza Chicago O'Hare Hotel in Rosemont on Sept. 14, 2017, where Kenneka Jenkins, 19, was pronounced dead early Sept. 10, after she was found in a walk-in freezer....
View ArticleKenneka Jenkins' mother says activist who viewed freezer video misrepresented...
A Chicago community activist said Thursday that surveillance video from a Rosemont hotel shows Kenneka Jenkins entering a walk-in freezer alone.(Kenneka Jenkins' family's attorney released a statement...
View ArticleKenneka Jenkins video clips
Rosemont police on Sept. 15, 2017, released video clips that depict Kenneka Jenkins staggering alone through a deserted kitchen of the Crowne Plaza O'Hare Hotel, but they do not show her entering the...
View ArticleOn hotel video, Kenneka Jenkins last seen alive staggering through kitchen
Video released by Rosemont police Friday depicts Kenneka Jenkins staggering alone through a deserted hotel kitchen and disappearing around a corner - the last time she's seen alive. Though it doesn't...
View ArticleKenneka Jenkins memorial becomes a call for FBI's help with death investigation
A memorial to honor the life of a West Side teenager found dead in the walk-in freezer at a suburban hotel turned into a protest march and a plea for federal authorities to take over the...
View ArticleKenneka Jenkins case to remain with Rosemont police, not FBI
Police in Rosemont on Monday said the investigation into the death of Kenneka Jenkins, the Chicago teenager who was found dead in a hotel walk-in freezer Sept. 10, will remain in their hands despite...
View ArticleKenneka Jenkins case highlights mistrust of police
Video released by Rosemont police seemed to solve at least part of the Kenneka Jenkins mystery. The surveillance recordings depict Jenkins, 19, staggering alone through a kitchen of the Crowne Plaza...
View ArticleKenneka Jenkins' funeral draws hundreds: 'It's heartbreaking'
Denise Mitchell may not have personally known Kenneka Jenkins, but that didn't stop her from going to a Far South Side mega church on Saturday an hour early in hopes of paying her respects to the...
View ArticleAutopsy and toxicology report on Kenneka Jenkins' death
Cook County medical examiner's report on Kenneka Jenkins' death (PDF) Cook County medical examiner's report on Kenneka Jenkins' death (Text)
View ArticleKenneka Jenkins' death
Kenneka Jenkins, 19, was pronouced dead early Sept. 10, 2017, after she was found in a walk-in freezer at the Crowne Plaza hotel in Rosemont. The Cook County Medical Examiner's Office released photos...
View ArticleMedical examiner: Kenneka Jenkins died from exposure, and her death was an...
The Cook County medical examiner's office has determined that Kenneka Jenkins' death at a Rosemont hotel was an accident. She died of hypothermia from exposure to cold in a walk-in freezer, it said....
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