Kenneka Jenkins /// Part 1 /// 144 | Forensic Files

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true crime foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] yes I'm at the crown uh Crown Plaza at
O'Hare Airport and I was calling because my daughter came to this to a party here
last night a gathering with a friend and um now her friends they say that they left
on the front of the hotel and she's not able to be found now she's 19 years old and you said that this and as you
at diesel Plaza I don't at O'Hare Airport yes and they said that when her friends
was actually earlier today like about four o'clock in the morning because they can run the video cameras they said that
they didn't have no camera but now I came in there was a lady she said that if she if she heard music and she she
asked me did I want to go upstairs and we went upstairs on the 11th floor and it was someone came to the room and she
said that she did see my daughter there with a group of girls and and a couple of guys but
um that's how she just saw because she was trying to busy trying to get reception on her phone
all right well then um you know what um are you sure you don't mean the Crowne Plaza in Rosemont
yeah so proud yes it is I'm sorry the Crown Plaza Rosemont that's exactly where it's at
okay diary no no it's okay and have you spot and you said you spoke with the uh front desk I'm sitting outside right in
front of the hotel in a parking lot right now and they were saying that they've been
that they haven't seen your daughters said you left her no it's a different set this is a
different um uh a new uh I'm sorry it's a new shift and they said that they haven't
seen it why of course they wouldn't have seen it because this is like three or four in the morning and I can see this
thing she was here because I just found the ticket where where they ended this uh Hotel it was that um
1 36 P.M so hold on this part perfect because this is what I'm saying my daughter
wasn't here real quick I'm just going to see if maybe we I'm gonna see if maybe she was
here at all uh what's your daughter's name her name is Jenkins the road wasn't register in her name she
came with some friends here and uh yeah I just want to verify I'm obviously I actually just came in myself uh probably
been on ship for about 45 minutes so I just want to make sure that you know maybe she didn't she didn't get arrested
you're very welcome but um it doesn't look like we had any run-ins with her last night at all
um do you think it's possible maybe she went to one of her friends her friends no actually because she had my car she
was driving my car you know I don't like nobody to drive my car because my insurance will not pay for nowhere no
one besides her and um her friends kept calling my phone I told them to stay here they stayed out here
but they got me like about three times in the morning I was laying in the bed I just had breast surgery at birth date
novels I thought about breast cancer so I'm you know sedated off medication early and they telling me see out here
so once I rejuvenated myself enough to get up and drive out here to look for what they brought me my
car I came out right out here and I came to the hotel and I showed him a picture
of her and I asked them if they see it and it was a lady in the lobby and she heard me asking the front desk and she
said it was music she did hear music she called the one downstairs to report the
room and come to find out what's the people next door and when we knocked on the door
um that person said that she did see my daughter downstairs with it was like four of them and it was for them and she
said my daughter she uh she was with three of her friends so her three friends there
she was standing in the lobby in the front lobby and then when they came back down she wasn't there anymore
[Applause] and um eka no yes yes no I I remember what I'm saying is is that sure again she's only been gone
for a couple hours she's yeah I don't know maybe she's you know she could be someone with one of her friends or
something because I mean again it is only a couple hours since you since her friend supposedly hadn't seen
her correct let's say about um four three to four hours now they did they tell me
it was like four o'clock in the morning when he called me yeah all right well I I guess the the one are
you looking to file a missing persons report then or are you just [Applause] is it possible that maybe they can look
at the camera and see um it's because they send the police out here in accident I look at the cameras and see
if um they've seen it on their cameras around that time I was about to say yes detective's division
okay okay so so what what would you suggest well again again the only thing I would
suggest maybe just um you know give her a couple hours you know she could have went you know she could have once more
with one of her other friends I mean and who knows what her friends are saying it's true you
know what I mean exactly you could tell I'm not supposed to be saying you could say it don't sound right I'm a parent
I've been young before and it's not sounding right it don't sound right period That's why I came ahead myself
because if the Indians it sounded like they had been drinking you know honestly and I asked them did she drink and they
said she had only one cup you know but okay my daughter ate the type that normally she can't even take liquor her
liquor level is just like mine we can't take liquor we cannot take liquor we take the simple liquor we drunk honestly
I completely understand and I'm I'm like one cup is too much for her you know and well and I'm not like I
asked them and then they end up with her cell phone I pay her cell phone bill every month to make sure my daughter has
a ball how did she love her mom I don't understand how why would she leave her cell phone which you are and
just go disappear if you know I just had surgery you know as you know I should know my predicament Maya well then well
then for that in that case what I would uh what I would recommend just you know go home relax a little bit give it some
time she couldn't of all we know she very well could still be in the room she she could just be passed out you know
again you know as you drink it the night before you get the Army whatever else have you so just
give it a couple hours you know maybe see if you know see if she'll get a hold of you again you know I mean does she uh
does he know your number yes you know my number everywhere she's very smart okay well then like I said
you know just give her a couple hours you know what I mean you know you know give her some time again maybe
she you know maybe she went to one of her other friends places or maybe she's on the road you know just knocked you
know that knocked out you know what I mean yes I thank you okay and so when do you
how long does it take for me to file a missing person report well you can you can file it in any at uh at any time it
just uh like I said you know just you know just give it a little bit of time you know if if you hadn't heard from her
by I want to say about 10 11 o'clock then by all means you know give us a call again you can come to the station and uh
we can help you out from there okay I live in Chicago would it be better for me to come back to you all
station or should I go in Chicago and make out a mystery report all right you know I think you're uh you're um you
could try it you can try to file it out in Chicago they may tell you to come here since it happened in our town but I
do know that since she I do know that since she lives with uh yeah obviously she lives with you in the
city I think this might actually fall on them or at least or at least they'll be able
to take the report and then they'll get in contact with us and we'll be able to help them out with the investigation
from there okay well it doesn't it doesn't matter whichever one um if I have to come back out here I'll
come back out here but but as long as if we be able to see but we'll if I come okay I give it to
tomorrow it's 24 hours after 24 hours do you think you have to be if you can see
the video camera up today the civilians cameras for today yeah yeah yeah yes we'd definitely be able to probably yes
we'd definitely be able to get the footage okay thank you well I'll do that okay
thank you so much okay you're very welcome have a good day thank you so much you're very welcome
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Harry what kids can you win I'm in the rear by the dock area and the garbage foreign
[Applause] [Music] first up Captain we find ourselves in a bit of a unique situation don't we this
has been I find myself in the garage well this has happened before but it's rare but we have to seize the day we
have to seize the moment we were all geared up we had a case ready to cover this week an interesting case of course
but a cold case one with no recent activity on it now it doesn't make it any less
important or less tragic but there is this case in the news right now and it should be and we both agreed that now is
the time to discuss it because as we both agreed this case should and needs as many ears and eyes on it as possible
and it's possibly not getting the immediate attention it should right and now we're talking about the Kanika
Jenkins case of course a basic rundown before we dive into this thing we have a beautiful young lady just 19 years old
she goes to a hotel party with her friends on September 8th 2017. so just earlier this month
now her mother is at home recovering from a surgery she says that she last Saw Kanika at about 11 30 p.m at their
home she says Kanika borrowed her mother's car and left with two of her friends so I'm assuming that Kanika
lives with her mother yes now later we would see video footage of Kanika and three other young women all about her
age walking together from the hotel lobby now friends of this group of girls are up on the ninth floor they have a
room there and they are throwing a hotel party I've seen some reports that the group actually had rented two rooms that
night which I believe to be true but at about 4 a.m kanika's friends call her mother and they told her that they
could not find Kanika so she is missing now kanika's friends have her cell phone
and they have the keys to kanika's mom's car she's reported missing to the hotel
and then later to the police and then about a little under 24 hours after that she's found dead in a walk-in freezer at
that very same Hotel now usually I don't like to go into this whole basic rundown of the case but we
heard we heard all of that in the trailer we hear her mother calling 9-1-1 asking what she should do reporting her
missing and then later we hear the officer that found her in that freezer and those haunting chilling words that
he says you know we've we found the subject she's in a freezer and she's frozen solid yeah very very haunting
audio clip yeah now this case you you may have heard of about it in some form or another it's a bit of a water cooler
case right now now this young lady was she murdered was she drugged was someone after her we don't know but what what I
do know is as soon as people started talking Captain you and I started talking about this I was aware of this
case and had heard about it but you know when I looked it up last week and even up to earlier today I've been sucked
into this thing and spent a lot of time looking at a lot of different things actually and a big thank you to the
listeners because there were so many people on social media saying hey have you heard of this case nobody's talking
about this case and and we see this often um where a you know a white girl goes missing or something happens with a
white girl on media is all over it but this is a young beautiful black woman and not a lot of people are talking
about well it maybe in the realm of social media but as far as big time media goes you're you're exactly right
now uh I I've actually lost a few days on this one I mean completely like lost days on this thing so this is a rabbit
hole Yeah we know everyone out there is is very busy so you don't need to lose days on this days like we both have but
if you can hang with us in the garage for a little bit tonight and tomorrow we will bring you up to speed on everything
we'll tell you what you need to know tell you what they they meaning the authorities kanika's family and the
hotel need to know or I guess need to find out figure out because right now I believe kanika's family needs a lot of
information a lot of answers and support from both the local police and the Crown
Plaza Hotel I am happy to say that I have seen a lot of support for her family coming from the public and of
course we will all continue to do just that but if the police in the hotel don't have those answers they need to
work together and get them for kanika's family and we can even discuss here tonight if that is happening or not well
and we see it multiple times in multiple cases if major media Outlets push an issue right or talk about something talk
about a case enough that sometimes that puts enough pressure on police or people
of power to do the right thing or to get the answers faster right and there is you know I kind of
wanted to just explain what we were talking about in case people didn't recognize the name Kanika Jenkins
um I wanted to say that from the jump and from the get-go because this is similar in a way to the Brandon Lawson
case and the Missy beavers case where you know we're going to talk about things that are that were captured on
camera and so you know you need to pay attention out there because there will be homework homework assignment for you
all you know we're not going to tell you what you got to go do but I guarantee after listening to this case for a
little bit you're going to be trolling the internet looking for these videos wanting to see them with your own eyes
all right so you're going to give us homework but you're not going to tell us what it is that's the toughest kind of
homework you can receive my friend well let's start with the first footage that we see and it's of her and our friends
walking into the hotel and it's they're just going into a party all right so the
first thing I notice here and want to point out is there is a time stamp in the top right of this surveillance
footage and if you know the caveat here is if the time stamp is right this would
make it at about 12 13 a.m and we see Kanika along with three other girls inside the Crown Plaza O'Hare Hotel so
by this time it's technically September 9th this must be a hallway just off of the lobby because you can see there on
the right the the little business center you know with the the stack of computers
um from there the girls are going to get on an elevator now Kanika is wearing jeans and a jean jacket she does not
have a purse with her but she has what what appears to me to be a cell phone in one hand and car keys in the other hand
at this point in the video I think she looks pretty sober and of sound mind to me I mean that looks like all the ladies
in the video are pretty sober there's four of them total now keep in mind as we said just minutes ago there are
already people upstairs on the ninth floor that they're going to go meet so they they are not showing up and
checking into the hotel they are simply showing up to the hotel to meet the rest
of this group uh and how far into the party they are at this point we don't know and the speculation about this is
there's roughly about 30 some people at the party yeah that's correct so now in the next clip we're going to see the
elevator door open um the time stamp now reads uh 2 24 a.m um so just a little over two hours and
we see Kanika stumble off of the elevator and she almost runs into the wall there yeah it takes it takes her
about a minute or so to stumble down the hallway here and she's so disoriented that she almost falls into a rail
there's like a set of stairs there and she doesn't appear like she has any desire to go up those stairs just that
that she falls into the rail almost like a like a gut shot yeah there's a bunch of strange things here I mean anytime
she's walking down a hall she kind of bumps into the wall and that happens several times
um and there's several hours of this footage of her kind of roaming around the hotel that's what it sounds like
um but what has been released and what we are able to see are just minutes rather
um but after she after she falls into that rail she then goes away from the stairs and she looks like she's trying
to kind of like like Shake It Off like kind of like pull herself together like okay I got this you know I almost fell
into that rail but I'm gonna pull together now and she steps toward the camera uh she makes uh she goes to her
right but it's our our left that we're looking at now she's going to turn here and this part to me is very telling it I
mean telling of how like messed up she is like she she's walking with her head up and then her
head goes back like back pretty far um she's not watching where she's going um but her head goes back it's almost
like her head is too heavy or something and then she she's almost like like a zombie State at this point to me
like uh doesn't really seem to be in control of much other than her feet yeah and I think originally looking at some
of the footage you know with her bumping into the walls I I just assumed okay so she's 19 years
old she's at a party possibly hasn't drank that much or drank that often in her lifetime so maybe she just had way
too much to drink and then sometimes while you're at that party kind of a you know you have a fight or flight
mentality and sometimes you get really wasting okay I gotta get out of here and I think the key word words you said
there is way too much to drink when you when you see this when not the first time I saw it my first take was wow she
was at a hotel party she I mean she's consumed a lot of alcohol and I didn't even realize there was such a short
window of time from the time she arrives looking sober to the point where she gets off this elevator just two hours
later and she appears to have consumed a ton of alcohol in the disclaimer there's there hasn't
been an autopsy released yet and there hasn't been a toxicology report released yet so I will know more about that later
um but again it the running into the wall is okay maybe you're drunk but the the head leaning back I'm almost
like you said like a zombie State yeah that's when I started getting this gut feeling that this um this young 19 year
old female is not just intoxicated that she's not just she didn't just drink alcohol or maybe shots that there's
something else going on here that's put in her in a whole nother realm now what that is I'm not really for sure now we
see her go out of frame for just a like a split second or two uh and then she appears on camera again and she stumbles
into a door and it looks like she actually enters whatever kind of room that is I I saw somewhere that it that
it might be a restroom or maybe even a men's restroom but whatever it is uh she's only in there for about 40 to 45
seconds now once she appears again from that room she turns and she's heading in the
direction of the camera it's it's hard to say but I think the way that she is walking it almost appears to and looks
to me like she's getting more intoxicated or more disoriented uh by the minute uh and at this point she has it appears
like she has something in her hand and it's it's not what I saw before this this seems different uh okay so what you
thought you saw before was a cell phone yes yeah I thought I saw uh it it what looked very obvious to me in that first
frame was that she had the cell phone and keys this is neither one of those objects to me this is appears smaller
could even possibly be you know I've heard some speculation on this I when I see it it looks to me
almost like a napkin or a tissue or paper towel of some sort maybe even wad it up and now my question would be do
you see this before she goes into the men's restroom or I give her I did not notice it until after she comes out of
that room okay so maybe she tried to get sick somewhere you know sometimes when you're
I mean especially when you're drunk sometimes you just go hey if I can if I can puke I'll feel better right or if I
can splash some water on my face um yeah I I couldn't tell because sometimes I'm so drunk that I'll get
into into a sink and just take a shower in the sink like a like a little bird you know what I mean well prior to her
going into that room she may have had this object in her hand I don't know but she most of the time she is walking away
from the camera or she's got a side we have a side view of her and it's not until she's facing the
camera again that I see this small object let's dive more into the footage of Kanika Jenkins right after this quick
beer break [Music] all right we're back cheers mates cheers now where we left off is Kanika is now
she's stumbling down the hallway and she's walking back toward the camera and this will bring us to the time stamp of
about 232. um now we have Kanika she is in the kitchen or in a kitchen and it's obvious
that it's not an operating kitchen I mean this kitchen from what I can see here on the camera is extremely empty I
mean it doesn't it doesn't even look like a kitchen that was shut down for the evening because you know we're in
the wee hours of the morning well sometimes you know because I'd play a lot of weddings back in the cover band
days and so you'd play at a hotel and you'd have your Main Kitchen uh that was used
for the hotel guests and all that stuff but they have other kitchens like um like almost like remote kitchens that
they'd use for events right where they're just caters that come in or things that come in for that night or a
weekend and then they disappear it seems like that's what this is well and one thing I want to make clear here is you
know when we say that we see her walking uh it's taking her a lot longer obviously to get down to make a path
through a hallway or through the kitchen than it would anybody that would be sober you know often she's not taking a
direct path to where she's attempting to go I guess you would say um but you know so she's stumbling about
and it takes her quite some time to navigate through the hallways through this kitchen
um right so I mean we have an individual again fight or flight right we think that she's
you know trying to leave that situation leave the party why is she trying to leave what happened there
she's definitely uh drunk or on drugs now when we say that a lot of people are going to say well your victim blaming no
I'm saying that she is on drugs then the question becomes why is she on those drugs right did she take them or were
they were given to her by somebody else and was it and was it like here take this you'll feel good and then she took
it or was it she took these drugs not knowing so we have an individual that is on something and I I bet money when that
toxicology report comes out we're going to have a lot more answers and it's not just going to be alcohol
and and so but she's trying to get through this area this this hotel and you know totally wasted right and she
doesn't know her way it's a large hotel too yeah so so when you say it's taken her some time I think some of it is
because of that intoxication but some of it is she won doesn't know where she's going
and she's never been there before right you know I mean now where we left off and where this video is going to end you
know she's in the kitchen making her way through the kitchen and then she's heading in the direction of what would
look to me like like the back part of the kitchen where possibly the freezer is or the freezer door would be
um and we will we will certainly find the best clips of this that we can find and put it on our website at
truecrimegarage.com all right let's start diving into some of the questions like why are they there why are they at
this hotel um you know Hotel parties are not super common or at least in my world they they
are I mean even though you know a big supporter of hotel motel Holiday Inn and the captain is free on Friday night so
if if you know of a good one call me you know anyway so here's what I can gather Captain is that it it was for
a birthday um and I believe it to be Irene Robert's birthday that they were going to be
celebrating at this hotel party um I'm a little unclear as to how close Kanika and Irene actually were right uh
there's a lot of reports out there that say they were best friends um there's also uh just as many reports
out there that says Irene was more of a friend of a friend yeah um and then it might have been somebody in that group
of four girls that we saw walking into the hotel one of you know that would have been very much closer with Irene
than Kanika would have been well every hotel party I've ever been at it was always I was a friend of a friend I mean
I I don't think I've ever went to a party whereas one of my close friends throwing a hotel party now we
have a little bit of background stuff um it would be nice if we could fill out that evening a little bit more if we
could fill out those hours and those minutes more but what I can throw in there to kind of book in this thing a
little bit to help out um there's a report of Kanika having talked on the phone with her sister at
around 1 30 a.m that night all right so we we don't see her on camera uh as far as what's been released for about two
hours we we have her going up the elevator after midnight and then appearing stumbling off the elevator
after two in the morning so right in the middle there around that 1 30 Mark she called her sister okay now what was that
conversation I don't know what the conversation was about but what I can throw in there is that there's no
reports of anybody saying she sounded disorder oriented or she sounded in trouble
that has not come out um so right I don't believe that to be the situation or I think we would have
heard that by now uh eventually her friends called kanika's mother uh her name is Teresa Martin now they called to
say that they were going to be driving Teresa's car remember Kanika borrowed her mother's car that they were going to
be driving Teresa's car back to her uh Teresa said that she then went to the hotel arriving there around 5 a.m to
look for her daughter rewind a little bit okay so they called the mother at what time
um she reports on the 9-1-1 call that it was roughly around four in the morning okay so at four in the morning they're
calling and they say we can't find her right and we've looked around right yeah and now see here's the tough
thing is that the police have like 36 hours of surveillance footage and but you know mainly that footage is
of Kanika but is there footage of her friends looking oh my God I I would wonder that because
to me that you know if you're calling somebody saying hey your daughter's missing we can't find her but there's no
evidence of you looking well I think there was evidence of them looking okay or or at least there's
people saying that they looked for her okay good okay you know I'm just trying to get all the little bits of evidence
out there well and there's that's the whole thing here that there seems to be a lot missing from the story right and
that makes me call in a question everybody at this point um you know so first off what did
kanika's friends say happened to her well that seems like it has been a little Hush Hush or maybe just severely
overshadowed shadowed by all of the other stories regarding this case but I have heard two versions okay one several
of her friends had last seen Kanika in the hotel lobby they left and when they returned she was no longer there but she
they saw her in the lobby that that was the first version of this story that I heard yes so she's entire so your friend
is messed up by herself in the lobby needs to kind of Walk Away really well that's what kind
of person you are like I said that's the version I heard and I didn't hear it directly from any of those girls so I
don't know how accurate that statement is one let's just get you know one of the elephants you know that's in the
room is you have this 19 year old I mean she obviously looks I mean you can't really tell what her age is from the
footage but I'm saying I mean she looks a little bit older than 19 is what I'm saying but
but not much and so you have this um female by herself walking these Halls intoxicated and security never comes up
if she's in the lobby nobody none of the staff comes up and talks to her right I mean you have a responsibility
you know and not just as you know not just as a hotel worker you just have a responsibility as a human
well you do you want to hear the other version of the last time we saw Kanika story yeah yeah however in the other
version of this story Captain uh we only have one friend that was with with her outside of the room outside of the hotel
room and she says uh didn't leave her in the lobby says that she thought Kanika was walking right behind her and at some
point she turns around and that is not the case Kanika is not there of course we have to question both of those
stories yeah where was this friend walking to um I the way that I've heard it is that
she was walking in a hallway now this could be a hallway on the ninth floor on the 11th floor the third floor the lobby
I don't know so we but we could assume the majority of the individuals at this party are you
know 19 to let's say 25. yeah yeah I would say that's an accurate statement so I mean that comes in to play I mean
as far as maturity and being able to go forth and talk to adults and come forward and say and tell the truth
I'd say that comes into play well and of course I have to question both of those
stories because we have all of this other video footage that's supposedly out there but we have
no footage confirming which if either of these stories are actually true now there was one report that I read that
said that that she that Kanika was spotted uh walking near the lobby stumbling that is of course super
unclear because does that mean she was spotted on camera you know as we have already seen or was she spotted by a
hotel employee or someone other than you know one of her friends uh because if so
I'm not sure why they would really peace portions of the tape and then not release other portions of the tape
you know and speaking of the tape let's let's get into this this whole argument right well you know look they have to
when they find her body right we don't know what what other evidence they have right
so as of right now all we're hearing is that she walked into the freezer there was a camera above the freezer
that wasn't on or didn't work for whatever reason right so they don't have actual footage of her going in or how
she got in and so that um you know leads to speculation that maybe somebody was with her but all the video footage
before that kind of you know I would say argues that point argues that there was somebody else with
her so but what else do they know was there a puncture wound you know was her head hit did she have a black eye
you know I mean there could be all these things that maybe they know that we don't know
so to be on the cop's side here maybe they've only released certain amount of footage because the either the other
footage is like it doesn't matter you don't need to see that because when they say 36 hours of footage they could have
an hour of footage where she's way off in the distance and you can't really see anything but they also have an
investigation that they have to do and maybe there's certain key moments like you said her talking to her friends in
the lobby or whatever that the police are trying to get to the bottom of and they don't want to mess up their
investigation I don't believe they have 36 hours of footage of Kanika Jenkins I don't think so either not for not for a
second that's a hard sell for me because that means she's you got several hours of her stumbling around I mean
she didn't stumble around for a day and a half well I think maybe when they said
that we have 36 hours I mean you might have let's say in one hallway you might have two or three cameras so if she
stumbles around in let's say for 20 minutes and you have three or four different angles of this shot then
you're adding that to the time right so so possibly it's like when she's in the kitchen there it seems like there's
multiple camera angles and stuff of this footage in the kitchen and so it's like
okay so maybe they they have a combined you know um and they might have some footage I'd
be interested in this too I mean I wonder if they have some footage of that the floor that the party was on
right so you're talking about if they have footage of that and you have people going in and out of that party
you're and you have two angles of that and so you go well we got eight hours of that well two camera angles that's 16
hours we're getting a lot closer to 36 but like you said I we're in agreement on the fact that the the footage you
know they've released what 30 40 minutes to the mother I believe so yes and that might be all
they have right and they're getting kind of a bad rap for that but that's a lot of footage that's a lot more footage
than most people get well okay let's let's go down that road for a little bit and um you know and then we'll get into
the whole argument about these tapes because obviously the police wanted the tapes right obviously uh then the family
wanted the tape but there seems to have been some delay just getting it to the police
um and uh here I'm gonna try to offer a little bit of insight regarding the cameras the first obvious thing I have
here is these are motion censored cameras emotion triggers the recording and it records until the camera no
longer detects motion uh one thing I was a little curious about is when Kanika is
seen stumbling on tape and goes into the what I said could be a restroom the camera quickly stops and then it starts
again after she returns and you would say Nick that makes sense because you just said they record once they detect
motion and then shut off once they don't and that could be the case but the systems I'm familiar with didn't time
out that fast when when the systems I used archived footage they would do one of the following depending on which
system I was using but one would tack on five seconds to before motion was detected and then tack on another five
seconds at the end yeah but it's reason it's reasonable to believe that they edited this footage before they release
it and then maybe in and again it might not be the cops that are editing it it just might be the news clip that's
showing footage that they go well why do we need the five seconds of nothing for
right but then that's the concern right the now the the other system I have used
in the past would record uh until it had not detected motion for 30 consecutive seconds well and okay so for some of the
listeners that you know they don't know you personally you don't know your Deep Thoughts
they don't know your inner my shallow thoughts no but you used to do security for
um well one would be similar to this situation where I did security at a high-rise building for for many years
um so here's the thing regardless that means one of two things right we either have you can adjust the times on both
those systems that I used you can make them more efficient maybe you can't you can't have the ability to hold so much
archive footage so you really want to trim that down so those can be adjusted but it means one of two things either
like you said it's edited or they have it set to time out immediately now the hotel they have 47 cameras on
this property and so maybe for the storage purposes they wanted or set those systems to timeout immediately but
the reason why I bring that up though is because that's an obvious point where it
is some kind of edit uh or it timed out immediately the concern here being is like you said who edited that tape was
it the was it the news papers or the news footage was it the police was it the hotel right not the newspaper but
yeah the news news teams or or was it the police yeah now here's the thing about these these systems and I'm I'm
assuming this is a digital system usually the systems that are motion detective detected in a Timeout like
that are all digital systems well I'm just I mean it's 2017. right and the the problem with that is when you are when
you need to give footage to somebody it's not it's not as easy as one might think this might be the cause for some
delay of getting that footage to the police the way that I've heard this explained to me is that the police did
witness some of this video camera footage at the hotel itself but they're saying we want our own copy of this and
we want a copy of everything that you have and you said 36 hours I'm guessing what
that 36 hours means is that between the time that she arrived to about the time that they found her is roughly 36 hours
we want to see all 36 of hours of that because we want to know and see everything that that she could have seen
experienced or witnessed from the time she arrived until the time she was found wanna maybe also we want to see from the
time that she goes missing the actions of employees and actions of people from the party I mean it puts the cops in a
tough situation too because then they have to believe you know let's say there is something nefarious that happen you
know let's say by a hotel worker or whatever then who has access to these tapes and who's in charge of getting
giving the tapes to the cops so I mean that that causes for a lot more speculation now I sh I do want to throw
this out there because at both places that I worked where we operated these sophisticated camera systems we had a
lot we had a large staff at both places okay in the last place that I worked there would be only two people that
would probably be able to provide you with archived footage there would only be two people that would even be able to
know how to go back in time and show the footage to somebody there let alone send
it off to them and at the place I worked before that it was even larger staff there might have been three or four
people that knew how to do that so that's obviously going to create some kind of delay
does it mean anything I don't know should we blame anybody for it probably probably because if you have a few
people that can do that let's get that person in here and let's get this squared away as quick as possible yeah
but again you're again I think some of this stuff is you know whether there's five seconds there five seconds not I
mean we we kind of get pretty much the full picture of what happened the big question is why didn't that camera above
the freezer work you know that there was a camera above the freezer there there's been an
argument that there is no camera that's in that location right but that's the tough thing about this case is whatever
is brought up there's an argument there's an equal argument against that so we have had publicly we have the
family fighting to see all of the video which I think is which is a fair fight um even though they're not met with
fairness on the other end um you know we have the where's the pushback coming from probably the police
and the hotel as well uh but I thought yeah there's been a lot of conflict between the family and the police
department for from the get-go I mean I think the mother wanted to see her daughter's body in the freezer and I
don't think they they said it's crime scene you can't come see this you know you know to me and that's a
very odd statement because well if it's a crime scene then yeah I get the reason why you don't want her to
see the body or you don't want her to contaminate any of that the crime scene but then if you start saying well we
have a reason to believe that this was accidental death well then is that a crime scene well
well I guess it's it's an investigation scene because here's here's what their statement is
this is the um this was as of uh September 25th the Rosemont police department has classified this case as a
death investigation the Cook County medical examiner's office has said the cause and manner of Jenkins death is
pending both additional police work and toxicology results police say that she had been at the party with as many as 30
other people on the ninth floor of the clown Crown Plaza Hotel in Rosemont okay so we don't know I'm glad it's not
the Clown Plaza because that would be scary well the the Crown Plaza is acting like the clown posit and
the plaza in the situation but um but so we we don't know Captain if if they think this is an accidental death
um it sounds like you know the theories and the uh the people on the outside are
speculating that they that the police believe it to be an accidental death I don't think they do but they're they're
their their official statement is that they have classified this case as a death investigation and the medical
examiner's office says that it's the manner of her death is pending depend you know because they're waiting on
additional police work and toxicology results well because that toxicology report is that's the Holy Grail on this
case right because I think based off that and again we got a bunch of 19 and 20 year old people being irresponsible
not telling the truth not telling the you know that's what's sad is a lot of these
knew her they were friends with her or at least acquaintances with her and they're not coming forward and telling
the truth and that's odd to me we should know more information about that party and we
don't and that's odd to me well and here's something that's really odd to me too is is the whole argument about these
tapes so I want I want to kind of go through this just briefly here okay so this was a statement that was released
from Powers Rogers and Smith um I'm sorry power Rogers and Smith this is the attorneys that kanika's mother
has hired to represent her and to basically start their own investigation because we're not happy with the current
investigation so their official statement was serious questions remain regarding what happened to Kanika
Jenkins at the Crown Plaza Hotel on September 9 2017. Kanika was found dead in the
freezer of the hotel more than 36 hours after her family reported her missing and told the hotel staff she was
somewhere on their premises despite requests for all evidence we have only been provided Snippets of video none of
which shows Kanika is walking into a freezer the family has not been provided any video or other evidence of Kanika
Jenkins walking into a freezer serious questions remain as to how she ended up in the Crown Plaza Hotel freezer and why
it took a day and a half for the hotel to find Kanika her death requires a thorough complete and independent
investigation the family thanks the public for its prayers concerns and for bringing attention to this tragedy the
mother has retained Larry Rogers Jr of power Rogers and Smith LLP and Sam Adam Jr to conduct an investigation and speak
on behalf of the family no other person is or has been authorized to speak on behalf of Kanika Jenkins family please
respect their privacy as They Mourn and prepare to bury their beautiful 19 year old now the reason why I kind of got
loud on the no other person has been authorized rise or or is authorized to speak on behalf of the Kanika Jenkins
family is because we have this Chicago activist his name is Andrew Holmes he comes forward and he
gives a press conference in which he says and this is not verbatim but he says that he was shown the video footage
and he claims that they were when when looking at and looking at it and viewing it himself
they wanted to see it he wanted to see it because he was looking to see if somebody walked her into that freezer if
somebody placed her in there pulled her in and he said the video footage he had seen did not show that his words make it
sound like that he claims to have seen Kanika walk into the freezer alone right so there's this throws this whole thing
into into a tizzy because everybody immediately wants to know well if there is that footage and we can clear this
whole thing up right then and there why hasn't this been released why hasn't this been shown to the family so they
quit bringing this to the attention of the police and and battling with the police about what was found and what was
not found um I think this Andrew Holmes I think he misspoke during his press conference I I watched it time and time
again it looks to me like he like he's simply saying we don't see somebody pull her in there we don't see
anybody walk her in there and the way he words it makes it sound like uh you know
I saw footage of her walking in on her own I don't believe that that's what he saw but but I have an issue with him
being shown this footage when we have family who have been denied certain pieces of this footage right and
here's what I think happened with the situation if he saw the footage though well or if he's just talking out of his
ass I mean there are some people that will just talk excuse me out of my ass or well I believe he saw the footage
Captain I believe he was shown the footage I think he probably misrepresented uh the family by saying I
think he probably presented himself as he's representing the family but he wasn't in fact
um I think police showed him this footage because they were catching a lot of right so why would they show the
footage to this guy that has no connection to the case at all and not show it to the family well the Public's
in an upcry The public's in a stir I think they thought that if if they show it to him and he makes some kind of
Public Announcement but this thing will die down if you're willing to show it to
him why aren't you willing it to show it to the mother right and that's the big problem I have I have I have a huge
problem with that and I think this was all crowd control I think this was just a way of of trying to calm the masses
right and look I'm all forthrown the police under the bus when they do something
shitty but I don't know if this is that case you know I this guy might just be misspeaking completely and this footage
was not shown it doesn't make any sense why they'd show it to activists and not the mother
you know um I mean what what are they trying to get out of that I mean like you said
well they showed it to somebody so then that clears the air and look I I think that was their
intention and I I don't know that that came from the police it could have came from the mayor I don't know that but I
think that that was their intention the reason why I believe that is because I have another statement from kanika's
mother who says that when protesters were gathering outside of the hotel she was contacted by Andrew Holmes the same
activist and he tells her to get online and call off the protesters because the hotel is is broke and they're not making
any money this is this to me is another another spin another crowd control technique
yeah but what's the motivation for that because if there's a wrongful death you need
that that hotel to be in business so you can sue them now the other thing here is
we have police who will will come out and they will say that they are busy analyzing the video from again uh 47
different Hotel cameras and certain videos related to this investigation see those are interesting words certain
videos related to this investigation yeah you know what that is that's like Snapchat that's Facebook that's all this
other stuff because there's some [ __ ] that happened in that party and it was captured by cell phones and they're
trying to get to the bottom of that and the other problem too is when there's a speculation of 30 some individuals at
this party and the police have come out and said hey we're having a really hard time talking to half of them
half of them aren't being cooperative or we don't even know who half of them are
and and you know maybe the police don't know who half of them are but the other half the people that the party know who
they are and why aren't you telling the cops who they are well police also announced that they were reviewing a
Facebook live video that reportedly shows Jenkins sitting on a hotel bed with other people and a ninth floor room
authorities also have interviewed 12 people as part of their investigation eight of whom were at the hotel party uh
that night they are looking for four others who were present that night okay so look there's so much more to get into
right oh this case is so frustrating um look I think as far as the footage goes because let's wrap it up on the footage
talk right as far as the footage goes I think it's important to see to kind of get idea of
what mental state she is in or what physical state she's in you know again bumping into the walls is kind of weird
but I mean hidden rails and catching yourself or walking with your head super far back
it's like again what was she on and I don't think there's any clear footage of anybody with her in that kitchen and I
could be wrong I had but I just out of all the footage I've seen doesn't make any sense I think she
walked into that Freezer by herself now my question is what drug was she on who gave it to her
and was there some purpose for giving her that drug and to me this is not you know when we
first you know I got email after email and Facebook and Instagram and and all that
stuff people saying hey you gotta check out this case are you following this case
you know I look into it I don't know 15 20 minutes in I'm like I'm okay it's accidental death
it's a it's a 19 year old that went to a party and maybe got into some stuff that
she shouldn't right that's that was my initial thought then you start diving into some of this speculation and some
of these things that that don't add up then I started going saying that axle this is not an accidental death and I
actually don't think that the police think that either even though they they're saying it's a death
investigation I believe that's what it should be at this point but I'm with you Captain I don't think they think it's
accidental right but that's why they're making the statement they're not saying this is an accidental death
investigation they're saying this is a death investigation yeah because I think they know some stuff and and people
eventually crack and I think they know more than that they can tell and the reason why so you can't sit there and
just go hey piece of [ __ ] cop piece of [ __ ] cup law enforcement's out to screw
this family over some of it is they might know some stuff and they got to keep that in
because if that gets out then people might stop talking right yeah so I think they know more
than they're leading on and that's why they called it a death investigation and I think eventually it's going to become
a murder investigation I think you're exactly right and I think uh you know all right so on to my this this case
like it's just one of those cases that just like pisses you off right and here's what we're gonna do sorry if we
sound like crazy Psychopaths well we're gonna present some different things to you that will back up our beliefs and
why this should be a murder investigation and it will and will eventually evolve into that and I also
think this is a very solvable case uh I think right now we're sitting here needing a lot of answers the family
needs and deserves a lot of answers I think they're going to start piecing this thing together and there could be a
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Earlier this month 19 year Kenneka Jenkins went to a hotel with some friends. They were joining others at the Crowne Plaza hotel for a birthday party. About four hours after arriving, Kenneka is reported missing. Police were not called but Kenneka's friends called her mother. Her mother raced to the hotel and requested the hotel staff's assistance in locating her daughter. There's good reason to question the amount of assistance offered by the hotel. Kenneka would later be found dead in a freezer at the hotel. Tonight we search for answers as we take a look at the death investigation of young Kenneka Jenkins.Beer of the week - 5 Lizard Latin-Style Witbier by 5 Rabbit BrewingGarage grade - 3 & 3/4 bottle caps out of 5

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Brief Summary

The episode discusses Kanika Jenkins' disappearance and death, highlighting investigation issues and media coverage disparities.

Key points

Kanika Jenkins Case Overview. A tragic case of a young woman who went missing after a hotel party.
Shocking Discovery. Kanika Jenkins was found dead in a walk-in freezer at the hotel.
Public Attention Needed. The case of Kanika Jenkins highlights disparities in media coverage.
Kanika's Disturbing State. Kanika appears disoriented and possibly intoxicated, raising concerns about her well-being.
The Mystery of Kanika's Condition. Speculation arises that Kanika's state may involve more than just alcohol consumption.
Conflicting Accounts from Friends. Two versions of the last sighting of Kanika emerge, creating confusion.

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