Posted on 09/15/2017 11:05:47 AM PDT by End Times Sentinel
The lawyer for the mother of a 19-year-old woman who was discovered in a Rosemont hotel’s walk-in freezer said Friday “serious questions remain” about the circumstances involving her death.
Attorney Larry Rogers Jr. said “despite requests for all evidence, none of the snippets of the video” provided to the family show Kenneka Jenkins walking into the freezer at the Crowne Plaza Hotel.
Just a day before, Chicago activist Andrew Holmes said he saw surveillance footage and said Jenkins went into freezer by herself, without being forced inside.
“We all was wondering and wanted to know did anybody pull her down there?” Holmes said, contradicting Rogers’ statement. “Did anybody force her down there? Was anybody on the other side in that room when she got down there? And the answer to that is ‘no.’”
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On Thursday, the Crowne Plaza Hotel announced its intention to cover Jenkins’ funeral expenses.
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On a side note, I wonder if a long time Crowne Plaza employee passed away, if they'd pick up the funeral tab for them, 'cause Crowne Plaza just likes being magnanimous...
Out of curiosity, is it dark in the freezer, so the emergency push button couldn’t be seen? (It’s been a while since I was in a walk-in, but I remember a big red button which attached to a rod which opened the mechanism. I don’t know if it’s the same now. But, drunk and without a light, it might not be obvious.
I worked in several places that had walk in freezers and there wasn’t one that couldn’t be opened from the inside but I was never drunk.
If you overindulge at a home party and trip on the way to your BBQ, are you entitled to a jackpot?
Most people get nothing just for dying.
What makes Kenneka Jenkins so special?
Typically by code there is at last one light in those things that is always on, depending on the size. And by code there is safety hardware so you have to actually get locked in from someone outside.
My guess is she fell asleep, who knows, poor kid.
Obviously, I haven't seen that one, but a couple of reasons I think it was lit:
I've seen quite a few, and they all had lights on all the time (the exception is on cargo ships).
I just asked a friend who's an executive chef, and he said that's a regulation, at least in PA, pretty standard.
Lastly, if it was dark in there, we'd have heard about that very quickly.
If she’s drunk enough to walk into a stone cold freezer and close the door behind her (it’s all on surveillance video), THEN SHE PROBABLY PASSED OUT and ‘that’s all she wrote’!
It’s been decades but the restaurant walk-in that I was briefly trapped in had its light switch on the outside. I was putting away an order and rotating stock when a coworker flipped the switch as a joke. I just felt my way to the door (the only space that wasn’t shelving) and pushed the big button where a door handle would be. Wouldn’t be surprised if there are now more safety requirements or that the deceased’s family is going to go after the freezer manufacturer, the hotel, and the city.
Dumb idea by the hotel. It implies guilt.
Which is a damn shame but considering its Chicagoland, Jesse will probably show up soon to shake everyone down.
This 19 year old went to the party after midnight, driving out from the horrid west side of Chicago, dressed like a ho and lord only knows what really happened.
The one part I empathize with the mom about is how long it took before the hotel agreed to start looking for her daughter. Had to have a missing person report first which took several hours. Just seems ridiculous to me but I probably break laws every day.
Rosemont has a boat load of money, they also have believed ties to the mob. Should be interesting.
My guess is she fell asleep, who knows, poor kid.
Dumb idea by the hotel. It implies guilt.
I remember when I creamed a pedestrian once. It was OBVIOUSLY his fault, but the insurance company said it was imperative that I make no contact, don’t visit in the hospital, etc.
Sure enough, TWICE they started lawsuit proceedings, but my insurance company, Allstate, let them know they were going to fully represent my case in court and neither ever got beyond a “warning letter”. I confess that it crossed my mind three or four times until the statute of limitations expired.
Exactly
She wanted to give her boyfriend the cold shoulder.
Remove the body, replace the light bulb?
I was trapped in a walk-in freezer many years ago. The release button didn’t work. After much crying out, finally someone heard me.
Brings to mind that John Lithgow movie, “Out Cold”, maybe?
In 2001 a friend’s wife was murdered at a Best Western as she worked the night shift by a guy the police brought in and got her to give him a room for the night. Every lawyer he talked to told him there was nothing for which he could sue.
i apparently drunkenly discovered and walked into a maids closet once and woke up the next morning on a cot, looked over to see by buddy sprawled on the floor across the door threshold into the main hallway with and older couple looking down saying oh my, oh my..
In my case the closet was hot, very HOT.
We got out of there pretty quickly.
All because a supposed bud met a girl and locked us out of our room.
He’s lucky i didn’t pound his ass into the ground.
Anyways hot is better than freezing cold and as my buddy displayed in the middle of the night we were able to escape the heat if we wanted to.
I feel sorry for this poor drunk woman who found the wrong room to pass out in.
this was around 1987 for those wondering...
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