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[Music] crime this is true crime garage and this is the case of Kena [Music] Jenkins
[Music] okay good afternoon I want to thank everybody for coming out uh we're here
today to because we need to know and find out what happened to Kena Jenkins um you're sitting here looking
at her Mother Teresa Martin who on August 16th underwent a double myectomy and a couple of weeks later she traveled
to the Crown Plaza Hotel in search of her daughter explicitly telling them and asking them to help her find her
daughter asking them to show the videotapes because she knew her daughter was on the premises up to today's date
we still have not received the entirety of the video showing what happened to Kena Jenkins uh we've asked you to come
here today because they been a lot of things said out there in the media about what happened including that there is
some videotape showing and displaying her walk into a freezer um we've been given some Snippets of video I'd say
less than 30 to 40 minutes of video out of 36 hours and none of that video shows
kenneka Jenkins walking into a freezer so still today we have the question and we're committed to finding out what
happened to Kena Jenkins the Snippets um show a young lady who's disoriented a young lady who clearly is
in need of some attention she's trying to find her way no one from Crown Plaza Hotel
responds to her no one from Crown Plaza Hotel um is seeking to provide assistance to her and for over a
day um approximately a day and a half apparently she was some how down in this freezer and they have no way of
explaining or they haven't to this date at least explained how someone got into an area that clearly or apparently was
not being utilized and a freezer that apparently was on and not being um not being used
in function function so Miss Martin has asked us to conduct an independent investigation we've
committed to her that we will not stop till we get all of the video we will not stop till we get all of the recordings
we will not stop till we get all of the statements because we want to give her an explanation and she's entitled to an
explanation as to what happened to her daughter on that evening I can tell you that in my line
of work I've come across some very strong individuals but after hearing some of the 91 on one tapes after having sat
down and met kena's mom I've never met anybody strong what she could do for her daughter was unlimited you're going to
hear I'm sure they're going to end up releasing the 911 tapes you're going to actually see hopefully they'll release
it today hopefully we can get today the video we've been asking for for the last
48 hours but you are going to hear when those tapes are released least M Martin called up and asked time
and time again please check the vide tapes at the hotel my daughter is missing she went after having an
infection in her chest after having a double myectomy went over 5:00 in the morning begging the hotel to please just
check the videotapes in a vacuum that might sound innocuous but what we have at least been
told through you the media there are 47 cameras and 36 hours of tape that they never looked for they never checked they
never searched they never did anything while a young 19-year-old disoriented girl is sitting in their freezer now
there has to be an answer to how that happened better yet there has to be an answer to why that happened why why is
Teresa sitting here having now to go over to the corners to pick up her child when on their videotape in their hotel
in their freezer all they had to do was watch it I have guaranteed this mom guaranteed
her we will get to the bottom of it we will only go to where the facts lead us that's right but once we are there we
will have answers that I promised and that I promise you there are a lot of people wondering
what happened to this young lady it's it's a community concern she's a 19-year-old girl who is apparently found
in a freezer um after day after a day and a half of being asked for and they they she's been asked they've asked for
videos for a day and a half the mom went to the front desk asking will you please
look at the videos from the very beginning and got nothing but resistance from the Crown Plaza
Hotel I did not receive contact all of you have been able to reach reach me and and call me and we have not received it
look look look look we are here right now it's not hard it's not hard they don't know like they don't know where
power Rogers and Smith is bring the tape now that's not hard that that that's what you call spin I don't want to sound
like the the national that's what you call spin what what's happened here is they're mad because the protesters are
out front they're going to tell you anything they want what we want to know is if they if they offered it they can't
send the messenger they can't send somebody over here with the tape right now and then they could prove us wrong
so that's my point what we want to know is where is it we want to see it I'm not
going to worry about the last 48 hours I'm going to worry about the next 48 hours I want to know when this uh mother
here a grieving mother is going to see the tape in the next 48 hours when you can answer that and when they can answer
that then I care I don't care what happened 48 hours ago get us the tap now get us the tap
now yes I thank everybody for your help the love and support but I also want to know what
happened I want to see all I want to see her liter actually walking into this freezer and closing us up within this
freezer and freezing to death race is not of importance to me right now until I know what happened it
is it something that could come up I expected it maybe it could I don't know as of right now that's not my concern
I'm not looking for I'm not what I'm not trying to do is I'm not trying to have an answer and then get the facts to
support my answer I want to have my facts that will lead me to the answer because that's what is due to her if
this was was about an agenda I could come in here and give you whatever spin I wanted Larry and I are't going to do
that we want we truly and honestly want to know what happened so that we can have this poor woman know what happened
to her daughter at the end of the day that's all this is we have a child who is dead and a mother who doesn't know
why and that's the only thing Larry and I are trying to get to everything else can go to the Wayside because I know
what it's like to be a father and I know what it's like to have a sick child I can't imagine what it's like to have one
that is deceased and you don't know why and that's all we're trying to do one of
the first things she I said to her when she called was I'm glad you called because you needed help she's on TV
asking the same questions and then I find out she's going to the front desk and not getting any assistance and I
told her I'm glad you called I want to help you yes I to be honest I don't know what Mr
Holmes saw or he didn't I I I have no idea and and quite frankly to our investigation it's irrelevant I
understand that this is a media case I understand that but that really doesn't affect us we're not moved by any
protests we're not moved by any any protesters or activist we are only moved by trying to find out what happened to
Kena other than that I don't make it expect I don't care because that doesn't get me to where we need to be which is
why is Kena dead that's where we need to [Music] be the mysterious death investigation of
young 19-year-old Kena Jenkins it has led us to this Captain we've we've seen the video we've talked about what we saw
in the video um but we would be remiss if we didn't talk about what others are saying is hiding in the frames of that
video yeah um and to give this kind of a good overview is that there are a few spots
throughout these little Snippets that we've seen you know some of these are might be shadows that some people say
that they see a man waiting to jump out at Kena some say that they see two guys or maybe even a guy and a girl following
her at different times during the these Snippets that we've seen there's one portion in particular where people say
that they can see a hand reaching out from a side hallway this is where she kind of turns back to the cam camera
stumbles a bit and there's a hallway to her right it would be to our left as we view her where it looks like almost like
someone just very quickly sticks out their hand and tries to grab her her jacket or her leg um this very well
could be I've looked at this portion of the video over and over again and I in full honesty here there have been a
couple times where I thought I saw a hand the majority of the time I think I'm just seeing a shadow or some kind of
reflection um that that may give an appearance of something coming out from that hallway
well I think it depends on how much you've been drinking well the the other thing too is you know I don't know that
everybody's this way but I am if I sit there and I watch something too many times in a row I might start seeing
something that that isn't there you know what I mean uh but but my overall opinion of that is that that is some
kind of shadow that she is casting on the corner of that wall as she's moving closer to it well and all these clips
are pixelated mhm so I mean sometimes that makes it a little bit harder to distinguish what you're seeing now
there's one spot in particular that's been of great interest MH and this would be at the end of the video and I say the
end of the video because these are all kind of Snippets that are thrown together to create this full length
quote unquote full length video that we've seen and we know we're not seeing all the footage but there's a portion
where she walks back to what I believe is some type of freezer or back portion to that kitchen where they say that you
can see a guy or an arm trying to grab her or pull her in that direction now a lot of people including myself believe
that that's where that freezer is located I hate to kind of flip this thing on its side and tell you that
we're wrong myself included but I have heard a a recent interview with one of the gentlemen you heard the two Two
Gentlemen there that are representing kenneka Jenkins family the two lawyers yes so there is a recent uh thing that
came out interview with him where he's stating that after they had walked the hotel and after they were able to
compare what they saw on those video Snippets to what they saw in real life walking the hotel looking at the walls
and the floors and the doors and everything he's saying that that kitchen that we see her in at the end of the
video it it's not the freezer it's not the same kitchen that she was eventually found in right and like we said before
that there's these kind of like remote kitchens that they set up for different events or if they run out a ballroom or
something like that for a wedding or a reunion or something so it's possible that she was in multiple remote type
kitchens and that doesn't mean that there's not a person there kind of grabbing her or pulling her or leading
her in some type of direction that doesn't mean it just means that you know when you
think that okay we're seeing the last seconds before she's going into the freezer that's probably not the case
it's it's probably more what this gentleman says that that's not the kitchen that she was eventually found in
I did get on the hotel's website I you know Captain you know that I'm not the best guy for these type of task for
internet I couldn't locate like a like a layout or a floor plan of the hotel but
you know if if you go to the library with him he'll take you to that card catalog show you how it's done You're
darn skippy uh but the thing here is Captain I did notice when I was on that particular uh website of that particular
Hotel they had multiple um they had multiple I there's a restaurant there's like kind of a quick grab and go kind of
thing um so it wouldn't surprise me if we're dealing with multiple kitchens and then on top of that this is considered
like a conference Center type Hotel so it's a larger one where they're going to host events um like you had mentioned uh
weddings and and stuff of that nature so who knows how many kitchens are in that
hotel now but to be honest with you there is one spot there's only one spot for me that I have a big problem with
there's a tiny little spot on the tape that I that I feel I see something that if these videos are not altered in any
way well then this shouldn't be there uh there is just a split second when she is
this is I guess when she first walks into the kitchen where I see kena's head down and you can clearly see her hair
hanging in front of her MH um but you see a face and it's it's not kena's face it appears to be like a a young black
man's face wearing a hoodie or a dark hoodie um I can't say with 100% certainty that that that's what I'm
seeing it could be some kind of Illusion it could be any number of things Reflections Shadows or anything like
that but I believe that I'm seeing her with her head down in something or someone that might be just to the side
of her you know walking walking with her MH she's on her feet but if this is true
what I'm seeing it almost appears like this person would be guiding her yeah it's definitely 100% not true what
you're seeing because look if you freeze the frame it does look like somebody's behind her
holding her up maybe there's an arm around her waist and there's a hoodie and you see a face right if you freeze
the frame mhm but the couple steps it takes her for to get into the kitchen you don't see anybody no I get
that and you don't see anybody afterwards right so did this this anomaly just I mean you don't no what
what what persons are saying is that this is or what you said well hang on a second you're putting words in my mouth
you just said we could rewind the tape no I know what I said but I want I want to be very clear about this what people
are saying that you are seeing there is that they have photoshopped somebody out
of the video and this was a portion where he is visible and they did not catch it before they photoshopped this
out okay okay so you're saying they okay this is what the conspiracy guys and girls are saying all right that there's
there's been somebody photoshopped out of portions of this video right more so than the than the one that I say I see
something you know they're talking about her being followed in the hallways and and there were Shadows that were
forgotten to be removed that they just removed the person um all I'm saying here is I said I can't say with 100%
certainty that I'm seeing a person there what I what I'm saying is for a second there for that Split Second I see
something that I cannot explain I cannot say if it's Kena by herself I cannot say
if these conspiracy people are are wrong you know I I'm just when I there's one very tiny little spot where I see
something that I can't say with 100% certainty what I'm looking at like I said we just watched it so that at that
one spot it's like well that's weird can't explain that but again you have very bad cameras you got
a lot of pixelation so it's very hard to tell you know it would take a lot of work to photoshop somebody out I think
one of the reasons why when you hear this conspiracy theory it makes some sense is because the way in which she is
moving is so unnatural at some points right leaning back so far where it's like it's almost like she had you know
she has to be being Guided by something and and I think that's when you watch it and then you if
somebody if somebody said to you hey watch this clip and by the way somebody is walking beside her but they
photoshopped her out you'd go well that makes some logical sense mhm but you know how much work it would take for
them to photoshop somebody out no I understand it would be very difficult and that's
why I think that if somebody did do that there's a chance they made a mistake where along the along the lines there um
yeah but hear me out too you got to follow the money if there is this suspect that is
guiding her from the party we should assume it's from the party and led her into the
freezer then this is murder you charge that person with murder is the hotel at fault are they liable for
anything I'd argue no I think you're on to something here because I think I don't know the
legality of the whole thing as far as lawsuits go but I would have to believe that yes if you have video of somebody
leading her to the freezer you're a lot less liable than if she's walking by herself yeah I believe that I think
you're on to something there um right so who has control of the tapes so you're going to say that this
hotel um is so um they're they're either trying to cover their ass so much or or
they're so racist that they photoshopped out and you know this suspect well I'm not saying that they did that I'm not
saying you I'm saying what I am saying is they kind of set themselves up for that didn't they when you don't when you
hold on to the tapes when you make a delay in releasing them when you won't let the mother see them when you delay
getting them to the police well then people call in question what they're seeing and why why did it take so long
for it to get to the rest of us I don't question them on how long it took for them to get the tapes to the mother or
to their attorneys or to law enforcement I don't question that because we got a lot of footage that they had to sift
through and maybe again maybe they had to call it person there are people you know I I'd play in chain bars mhm and if
there was a problem with the sound system they didn't have anybody in town that could fix it there's plenty of
sound companies that could fix it in town but because they're a big chain they have one guy and he lives in
Florida so we have to fly him right mhm so there could have been some it guy that had to you know fly out or drive a
couple hours sift through all the information cut the clips like we were saying before the 5 Seconds here and
there that make no sense you don't need those edit them down give them to the people I don't have an issue with that
the big issue I have with the hotel and what frustrates me to no end you have a mother that comes
down that is you know seems like a very nice person seems like a very intelligent person she she doesn't you
know she's not screaming you know especially like on the 911 call she's very Cal calm cool
collect she comes down hours after her daughters found missing or not found missing but reported missing and she
asking for the tapes then mhm you should be reviewing those tapes they should have reviewed those tapes and look they
don't have to have the mom see those tapes but if they would have reviewed those tapes they would have been able to
find her daughter and possibly she' still be alive today MH and that's what that's my biggest problem with the hotel
I agree I agree I don't think that they did everything immediately that they could have and should have
and therefore who knows just go ahead and say it because this is true crime garage
they didn't do their due diligence right right and who knows what the outcome would have been if this process was sped
up quite a bit well and this is not the only footage that we need to discuss no cuz there there is footage of the actual
party itself inside the hotel room mhm uh and it looks like you said about 30 people in there um probably ages 18 to
25 I would guess that's what was reported is roughly about 30 people yeah I didn't count heads when when I was
viewing the video but I'd say roughly 30 people some of them hard to watch cuz the you know they're not professional
camera people at time yeah this is filmed on somebody's phone and at times the party seems during this video anyway
seems very loud uh I believe people are smoking in that hotel room um there so there's only really two things that I
want to point out one's kind of small and one is very big in my opinion the first one being is there is a a man
there a young man who's in the in the middle of the party and at some point I clearly hear him say to another person
that oh was that the manager or oh the manager just left it what I gather from that is that
at some point the manager probably got called to this room or to that floor because the party was so loud probably
knocked on the door spoke to somebody for a brief second or two and then left I was a little surprised by just the
five minutes that I saw on the video that the party wasn't broken up yeah there immediately um it seemed to me
like they were they were doing things on this video that shouldn't have been allowed in that in within the walls of
that hotel yeah it makes you wonder though did they know this manager I mean you can't smoke in a hotel anymore no
and I can't believe I from what I saw I would be shocked if when he opened up the door here or she the manager opened
up the door that they didn't see obvious signs immediately of of that rule being
broken yeah some people just don't want to do their jobs though so it's I I guess that's the first thing that I that
I spotted now I think the big thing that I spotted is that a lot of these women do not look
21 and it's clear that people are drinking right so you know whether it's the smoking or the drinking it's like
hey well again like I said I I believe it would been very easy to spot that there are several rules or laws being
broken within the that hotel room that would have been caused to break up that party mhm or notify the authorities well
I need to break up this party real quick we'll be right back after this quick beer
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the actual party itself uh that was filmed on somebody's cell phone yeah so we're guessing like uh Facebook live or
maybe Snapchat and to give a kind of a quick rundown of what the video is is it appears that somebody is one showing
themselves at this party but also they kind of kind of go past each person almost in in one side of the party and
as they do that you can see behind some people that appear to be sitting down you can see Kena Behind these people if
it's not Kena it's somebody that has the exact same hair do and exact same outfit
on okay you're exactly right so then where near the end of this video is the thing that I think is a big
deal it shows I believe three girls in the restroom the door is open and they all appear to be looking in the mirror
and maybe fixing their hair or fixing their makeup uh there are other I'm guessing there might be drinks that are
being made at this countertop as well MH and the reason why I say that is that one of the girls when she's done doing
whatever she's doing it's hard to see her like I said there's multiple people in a small room and you're seeing it
from an angle but you can clearly see her leave the restroom with the drink and she says something to the fact of
this drink is for her or I'm going to give this drink to that girl now when the when the film when the video shuts
off she's seen walking in the direction of Kena um and that leads leads me to wonder the big question that we've had
from the get-go on this was she drugged did somebody feed her something that put
her in this state that messed her up this bad um and this is it's not 100% proof you know it's not an open and shut
case here but it seems very strange to me that I see this girl saying those exact words oh this this is for her this
drink is for her or I'm going to give this Drink To That Girl almost like she's telling her friends yeah don't
take this one yeah I doctored this one up this ain't for you guys this is for her and I'm walking in her Direction
it's a special drink there's not a lot of girls in that same direction that she's walking there are other girls it
could have been somebody else that she was talking about but there's not a lot of other girls in that direction that
she was walking well it's super fascinating cuz I mean clearly we I had to stop cuz I didn't see what you saw
originally and you can clearly see like it's almost like girls are scheming in the
bathroom uh and then you clearly hear her say when she walks out of the bathroom I'm going to give this to that
girl over there or something like that um but once she walks past it's like there wasn't enough time to hand her the
drink so she either set the drink down on like a table and was like hey there's your drink mm or it was for somebody
further in the room but uh but the video cuts off right about that time too well
yeah yeah yeah just just shortly after she just passed Kena I guess thing that I find most strange about this is in the
clips that we just watch these I don't know if they're Facebook live videos or SnapChat videos
whatever the thing that's Most Fascinating to me is every time that you see Kena mhm that I don't see a drink in
her hand right so that that is U how' she get so drunk so fast you're right right and if somebody didn't drug her I
believe she was I mean I mean I said it in the last episode so I can't hold it back I mean I think that's just extra
proof now these clips are very small they're minutes long and but you know you see her at the beginning of the
video no drink couple minutes go by you see her again no drink so somebody that you know somebody walking around like a
zombie you know doesn't get that way you know unless you got a drink in your hand
and that girl leaving the bathroom clearly says I'm going to give this drink to that girl over there clearly
says that and you cannot see what's going on at that on that countertop in the bathroom who knows who knows yeah
but yeah what did she give her that drink I don't know but what it is evidence of is that there are people
making drinks for other people yep and so the possibility of her getting a drink that had something in it like rofi
or whatever I think that was planned though and this is like I said said this is not just like a death investigation
this is this will be a murder investigation well we got a lot more to get to Captain because there's also a
video of Irene Roberts now remember I said she's the one that I believe was having her birthday party at the hotel
um and there's a video of her where she is this must be Facebook live um and she
is wearing a pair of uh reflective sunglasses and there's a lot of people speculating as to what they can see in
the reflection of her of her sunglasses um there are some people that hold on a second I just want to say
U to all the True Crime army people out there that have spent 6 hours sometimes eight hours watching a video like this
MH trying to see something in glasses I feel for you I told you I got lost for 3
days I went down into my base and then I emerg 75 hours later after watching all kinds of videos looking in
people's glasses looking in the reflections of mirrors and windows and listening to things with headphones on
and then with them off and then slowing them down and speeding them up trying to
figure out what I'm hearing yeah okay so what what's in these classes or what do
people think all right so there are a few there's actually a lot of things that people think and think that they're
hearing and seeing I'm going to only go through the things that um somewhat makes sense well that somewhat makes
sense and that this is in the same sense that I cannot disagree with these people
um I can't say 100% what I'm hearing or what the intentions of those words are but I can't disagree with the people
that have pointed these things out the first thing that that should be discussed is that at some
point it's believed that you can see Kena in the reflection of these glasses and that she appears to be passed out on
on the bed and this would be away from this Irene Roberts person mhm um I cannot say that that's not Kena there I
I I can't say 100% that it is the jeans is what I see in her reflection cuz she has like ripped jeans yes the jeans that
I see to me if I had to do a jean lineup uh I would pick those as as kena's jeans
mhm um so I cannot disagree with that there's another portion on there and this is somewhere between the 220 to 255
Mark into this video where the the girl sitting next to Irene she leans in and says something to the girl now a lot of
people believe that she is saying they're they're in there raping that girl yeah [ __ ] um which I can't tell
exactly what she's saying um Irene responds to this as I told you it's clear to me that Irene says I told you
but I cannot say 100% that that's that's what that girl says to her now again this is a lot of these things are going
to be answered with autopsy and a lot of things will be answered with a toxicology report as well MH and so I
mean there has been no reports that there was any sexual assault or anything so know know this sooner than later now
one thing I do want to point out that I spent a lot of time on and I want to save you all the time out there is that
if you start looking into this Irene Roberts is videotaping herself on a cell phone several times during this video
she picks up a cell phone and answers a call okay and you can hear her say we're
in room 926 telling somebody to park in the parking lot she answers this phone more
than once I've done some research and I've been able to figure out that the phone that she's talking on is actually
her phone the phone that she's recording this Facebook live video on is a girl named Monifa uh Monifa Shelton it's her
phone well her parents didn't like her too much to name her mo mo what's her name Monifa now after finding after
finding evidence and reports that that was the situation with the phones I believe this to be true because at some
point she does hand off the phone she's recording the video on to Monifa who then takes it into another room there is
one part on this on this video where people say that they can hear Kena saying help me okay um and
then people speculate that well they must be attacking her on this bed where you potentially see her passed out or
laying backwards on if those are in fact her jeans mhm um I I actually disagree with this I do hear something that
sounds somewhat like help me but there is music that's being turned on and turned off they're in the video they're
trying to listen to some kind of some kind of rap song and this song they're trying to play it through I believe
through YouTube and because you hear you hear Irene complain about the internet connection or about the phones are not
working right and I believe they're trying to play this through YouTube and it's cutting off because they're losing
the connection and you hear the vocals kind of go in and out the Music Stops they go in and out again I personally
what I think I'm hearing is not a girl saying help me I believe that I'm hearing some skewed version of those
lyrics uh because the like I said the music is turning on and then turning off my Pro again my problem with that theory
is one we'll know once we get the autopsy back but the problem with that theory is um Kena in the videos of her
walking around that hotel room this is somebody that is completely out of their mind and so if they drugged her and then
they raped her that for her to then have her outfit back on you know what I mean
and you know it because even though she's walking like she's in a whole on a whole another planet I mean her outfit's
still intact me her shoes are on they're tied so to you know the idea or the to sus suspect that they drugged her and
raped her and then redressed her or she was able to dress herself I don't even think she would be able to dress herself
mhm and then then they just push her out on the hallway and she goes wandering around well the the problem with that is
as far as these videos go and what we think we might be seeing or hearing in these videos the problem is um you know
I guess we're assuming that this video was taken before she's seen out wandering the Halls um she was missing
for for so many hours before her body was found um and I know that they they reported her missing at like 4: I'm just
calling into question what time are these videos from if that makes any sense at this point I've gotten in this
case I'm questioning everything Captain yeah well see and what we talked about earlier is kind of like the fight ORF
flight mentality and could you imagine let's say they that somebody did drug her and maybe she's laying on a bed cuz
she's not feeling so good and maybe maybe there is talk uh you know somebody says oh they're going to rape her or
something like that because that's what a lot of the speculation is is that they
invited her to this party and yeah she was friends with these people but it was at this point of the relationship where
it was like you know what we're not friends with her anymore and we're going to be you know we're going to take this
way too far and we're going to get her all drugged up and and they're going to rape her and this is going to be payback
for something you know what I'm saying well yeah yeah that's the that's what people
are speculating and so my thought is the the way she you know she is in another world
when she's walking through these halls and it's almost like she has some destination in her head and there's so
many times that she leans back so far that you can't believe that's why people think somebody's photoshopped out cuz
you can't even believe that she stayed standing but I think she was running from something and whatever she's
running from is probably what drugged her mhm or what she's trying to flee and and I don't think somebody's chasing her
I'm just saying that whatever happened in that room it got to a point where she's like I got to get out of here and
when she took off nobody was trying to chase her but all that is the cause of her death
and that's what's going to end up being a murder case well do you want to hear some information that has been on social
media and this is you know I I like when something like this happens I'm not a big social media person but I've seen
people in the past commit crimes they brag about it or they can't stay off of social media and we all know how rope
works if you give certain people enough rope they hang themselves and I I want to take some time here and present some
things that have been on social media regarding some bickering going back and forth from people that were at the hotel
that night and I'll go through the information I'm going to have to try to clean it up a little bit as I go through
it um there's one word in particular that I will just replace it with uh Fig Newton no I'll just replace it with
really nice guy okay um so this is the first post that we have um and this States this is from one of the young
girls that was at the party all we wanted to do was enjoy ourselves for Rene's birthday we did that but who
would have known our Smiles would have gone quickly changed into frowns Kena Martin you hearded us with this one we
all was just turning up together after you knew you was too lit you wanted to lay down and MFS made sure of that why
Nea I'm guessing she's referring to Nea there mhm why Nea couldn't just leave you instead of picking you up so that
y'all could leave you was in our eyesight till they took you out the room nobody knows WTF what happened outside
that room now in there's something that sounds like it's almost a response to that this this is from Monifa how do you
how do you respond to that well this is this is from Monifa I'll read it you can
take your draw your own conclusions here says when I saw Kena wasn't behind me we
got the look in everybody in that hotel room mhm was laughing didn't nobody bother to Get TF up and help us I look
for her to the top floor to the bottom I was knocking on mf's door rooms I look where the car was at and everything for
you all to sit on here and keep saying [ __ ] we know effed up we was drunk WTF you all staying saying it's our fault
like that [ __ ] is so effing lame man MH then you all want to switch the story around I'm waiting to talk to the police
if a MF knew some I would okay sorry I would have said some I told her mom who all was there you you the boys was and
everything mhm well I mean I don't like her name um but I think there's more important
things to talk about than her name here no but well my point is is I I made fun of her name I probably shouldn't have
because what she's actually saying is you know there sounds like there's some truth to that we have this drunk
individual and for some reason they left the room they leave the room and she turns back around and she's not with her
anymore mhm so and then she goes and looks for her and possibly is one of the people that ends up calling her parents
um or calling her mother and then what she is is doing and saying guess what you idiots uh yeah you guys were all
drunk but this girl went missing and nobody helped me out and nobody went looking for her right that's what she's
saying and then she's saying uh basically you guys are a bunch of idiots and I went looking and you just sat
there and did nothing and by the way I told all the cops about you so I mean that's what it sounds like she's saying
and if that if that is the true statement then I commend her because you know if your friend goes missing or even
acquaintance goes missing from a party be a freaking human and and try to find her well there's more captain and uh
there's these are all from I believe them to be from Monifa okay um and I'm remember I'm going to replace a certain
word with the really nice guy or really nice guys so we have me and Kena left out the room because them really nice
guys was acting weird ain't saying no names when we left they was following us so I told her to let's just go back in
the room because they not going to leave us alone by then we were on a different
floor she goes on to say we was already drunk bro we didn't know what was really
happening they already was feeling all up on Kena a lot before Irene even went live now what I think she's referring to
there is remember I said Irene Roberts did a live video um she's saying that before this point that these dudes were
already feeling up on Kena uh effing really nice guy in red was talking to his friend saying that he
bet $200 that he going to f Kena by the end of the night and by this time she was really drunk yes they kept giving
her drinks and S and I stood there on my behalf and watched her drunk okay so they were giving her drinks and [ __ ] is
what what they're saying yeah okay um well I didn't know if it was just s and then I'm then I'm wondering you know is
s a type of drug no no sorry I'm sorry I'm trying to read these and clean them up a little bit at the same time it's
all right you should have just had me read them cuz I I'll say it me and Kena split up outside of the hotel hotel room
yes we both left out she agreed to go to the third floor and I agreed to stay on
that floor but to be lowkey and I should have just went with her it seems like they need uh like auto correct on some
of this stuff well sometimes they're shortening the the words you know just to be faster typers uh and other times
just bad words um but there's there's a story that's forming here in this and I think it's it's starting to get easier
to follow along so this continues maybe maybe for listen listen it was a minute before I decided to go back to the room
and when I did the really nice guys wasn't there I was asking where they go and where is my best friend they said
they had left and said they was leaving but they was rushing and [ __ ] okay so possible suspects right mhm uh she goes
on to say we was drunk and on some play [ __ ] dog we should wait she was drunk and on some play [ __ ] dog we was drunk
and on some play [ __ ] dog okay so that that is some kind of drug reference I I'm guessing we shouldn't have actually
split up and went on different floors dog when I went down to the floor she wasn't there of course neither was the
guys they were nowhere in sight bro I started to panic bro OMG okay so she's panicking because she doesn't know where
these guys are or her friend well or both yeah yeah now there's I'm going to kind of sum up this next portion because
she takes a lot of words to please do explain to us that she says uh already put her phone and keys in my purse in
the room what she's saying is that that's remember they had kena's phone and keys she's saying that that took
place well before Kena got lit and remember I pointed out that she that she didn't bring a purse into the party with
her that we could see right I'm guessing that they went up to the party and she's
like can you hold my phone and my keys for me because we're going to be dancing and and drinking and hanging out with
all these with with everybody MH um this one's really interesting to say the least uh she says I feel effing stupid
bro I just want to kill myself bro because before we started drinking I told everyone that I dare one of us to
go in the free freezer and stay in there and put it on live before we leave that's how everybody knew where the
freezer was what well i' I'm trying to nail this down Captain but I I've not been able to do so to say 100% mhm but
one of the girls that was at the party worked at the hotel she had either was currently working at the hotel or had
previously worked at well like I said they probably knew the manager somehow I've seen reports that state that Irene
Robert worked at the hotel and I've seen reports that say Monifa Shelton worked at the hotel um from what I can gather
it's it's one or the other it's not both um but I'm I'm unable to nail down which
of the two girls was working at the hotel I don't think that matters too much well but the thing here is it might
mean some truth to what she's saying that that's why everybody knew where the freezer was at was that this this is
reported as a portion of the hotel that wasn't being used for any reason at all um it has actually been reported on
several occasions as a vacant a vacant part of the hotel um so yes I I somebody that worked there would obviously know
where this freezer was located right but she's saying that she dared somebody to
go into the freezer and do a Facebook live mhm I I don't get this either I mean you're at a party you don't need
to you want to broadcast that to everybody for what what's the point um I don't know but I don't know what what
the point is of a lot of these um these sessions of going back and forth where people are talking to each other and
accusing one another of different stuff what they knew who's to blame as far as who was at the party um and then putting
it on where a lot of people can see right and and again they're still not telling you everybody that's at the
party mhm you know there's still people that were at the party that they don't have names for and yeah that's which I
still find ridiculous so so the question here is so she she was daring people to
go and do a Facebook live in the freezer and that's how people knew where the freezer was MH did they like walk
past this and then she was like see in there I don't know all I can go off of is that short paragraph you know the
other thing too is this could just be complete BS you know and I'm just going to put out this
BS you know and I I think that's what it is I think a lot of these back and forth
social media comments are just BS and they're trying to in a clever way cover their asses MH well then here's another
separate interaction between two people and this is from somebody going by the name of shooter um and I believe one of
the men at the party that night McGavin was nicknamed shooter um and apparently this interaction is between him and
Irene Roberts and this has caused a lot of a lot of questions as well um and and
I'll kind of you read through this it's very short okay uh but shooter says what
what you go pop in for tonight you and your friends and Irene responds back going to this hotel I got for my
birthday let me and my partners slide through trying to make $200 she responds hell yeah he says your
friend diss me and I'm trying to get that she says okay don't make it obvious I need the 200 bucks or I need the 200
when you walk in he says okay same with y'all are it's gone be a sorry okay same
with y'all okay are are it's gone be a problem I'm rape her she responds I ain't been liking that [ __ ] for a long
time and I could use that 200 all right so what does all this crap mean well well we're still sifting through crap
here Captain we got more crap because there there's another there's another one this is from a person going by the
handle of young ryos I've never felt so dumb and so smart at the same time well he says young Ros says we didn't mean to
kill her she had a heart attack while we was raping her I'll let you all know why
we put her in the freezer later okay so what can we what can we draw from any of
this now yeah but there's there's not much evidence if any evidence that somebody
actually put her in the freezer mhm so that we know of that we know of right right because there is footage that
hasn't been released right um but again then why would the cops say that this is
a death investigation and not a murder investigation if they have video footage of people putting her into a freezer
well and I'm with you Captain I don't think that they have that I don't think that they have any obvious proof or
evidence that that happened I think that we have this weird convoluted situation
that got out of hand and somebody ended up dead but I believe there's a lot of people to blame for this I think that
there's a lot of people that know what happened know who was probably involved they've not come forward with those
stories they've told some of them on social media if those if those post and everything that I just read to you are
people being honest and telling portions of the story it it it slaps together a pretty quick and easy story for me to
figure out she went up to the room with with people that she thought were her friends she partied with these people
there were this group of guys there that was probably up to no good that were looking to get with a girl started
making trouble in the neighborhood probably get with her if if this one guy was targeting her as you know we have
some interaction between him and Irene at some point she gets drugged maybe somebody set her up one of those other
girls or one of the guys sets this up right but that text message to me sounds like a plan mhm you know that's what I'm
saying yeah yeah yeah they set this up and then when she's passing out when kena's passing out on the bed or trying
to go somewhere to black out so she can sleep this thing off and feel better in the morning mhm her friend Monifa
decides it's a good idea to get her up walk her around take her out of the hotel room and for some reason they're
out there with this group of guys one of them or several of them targeting Kena following them around and at some point
they decide to split up she leaves her friend or goes elsewhere maybe Kena goes elsewhere these guys they take off she's
told when she gets back to the room and doesn't see kenek she's told by her friends that these guys left well they
said they left okay well then I go back to where I think Kena is and she's not there and neither of these guys aren't
there either MH you know so I I think it pains yeah but but what the guy is saying at the end she has a heart attack
while we're raping her yeah and that's that's where the the toxicology report and the autopsy comes back into play
like you said the toxicology could very well be the Holy Grail to this case and I think and I hope here's what I hope I
hope that once they F when once they firm that up a little bit and and have a manner and a cause of death I hope they
don't release that to the public I hope that they keep that to themselves and I know this is a case where everybody's
screaming for more information and more things to be released to the public but I think the police need to keep that to
themselves because I tell you what I don't know how much of these text Facebook post and things like that are
true mhm I think there some truth in these and I think that somebody in that group has cooked their Goose man and I
think that once the police have a certain amount of evidence and a certain amount and they have reason to believe
that this was a uh homicide I think they can go to some PE some of these people and I think they
get some of them to talk yeah well and they might not even need them to talk they might have the information right on
social media and I think that like I said I think there's several people in this group that maybe they don't know
100% what happened but I think there's some people in this group that if you start piecing their stories together it
starts to fill out that timeline quite a bit and we can narrow this thing down a
bit now there's another insane R rumor that has sorry there's another kind of there's another rumor out there a big
rumor that is a whole another Rabbit Hole yes and this would be that this this murder let's go ahead and say
kena's situation was a murder um that her murder would be tied to a previous one and this took place in
2014 there's a man by the name of Joshua Martin he along with some other people killed a guy by the name of Corey
Williams how does this tie in well Joshua Martin the rumor is is kena's older brother okay that they're they're
related so basically her older brother killed somebody yes and then this would be a re venge killing yeah it was like a
fatal shooting some type of shootout possibly um but we have a person and I and I've been on the fence about this
for days because there there are two people that are named two guys that are named in social media with their first
in last name as people that should be suspects and I don't know that I can say their names and and I and I hate to hold
back from y'all but the thing is I I don't know that I can't confirm that these people were at the party now there
are people in this Inner Circle that are saying these people were at the party well what is the tie in here other than
just Josh Joshua being kena's older brother well the tie-in is that this person who's been named on the Internet
is supposed to be monifah's boyfriend and somebody that has supposedly been seen in those videos of the party now I
don't know this guy so I can't confirm that I saw him in those videos what I can say is if this person uh monifah's
boyfriend and we'll give him the name th if he was at the party uh and if he is in fact monifah's boyfriend i' I've seen
video of him and this is another one of these Facebook live deals where he appears to be bragging that he's no
longer in Chicago on this Facebook live video and the rumor is that he had left shortly
after Kena was disappeared or was discovered that he left Chicago shortly after that and they've not been able to
locate him or contact him to speak with him about that night well it's pretty simple uh th right mhm
so this report's going to come out both reports are going to come out they're going to start investigating this as a
murder and that th is going to stand for the hunt and they'll start hunting this
individual I'll tell you what Captain here's here's my deal right now I'm at a situation where I've seen kena's Mom
talk I've I've watched her in interviews uh I do want to throw out there I know that there were protesters in front of
the hotel she did something that I commend her for she told all the protesters this is to be a peaceful
gathering this is to be a peaceful meeting um we're trying to make awareness here we're not trying to make
a scene um so commend her for that I I want to be sad for her I want to be sad for her the problem is this is where I'm
at right now I'm so angry about this thing I haven't got to the sad part yet I not for me and I see it on her face
and I feel I feel for her but I am I am so angry that this happened to this girl
in this hotel surrounded by people that were supposed to be her friends and I cannot get over the fact that I I
believe I don't know what the truth is here Captain I know we presented a lot of different things but I believe as I
said before and I'll say it again I think several people there that night have a good idea what happened and they
are keeping their mouth shut or they're talking to the wrong people and we need to get this thing cleared up I'm so
angry at these people I really am and and you're really angry at these very nice guys well no here's the problem
this is what I'm very angry it's she went there going she there that night thinking she was surrounded by
people that were her friends and i' I've seen several things go down that tell me
I don't know if she had a friend in that entire group out a out of 30 people not
if any of if any of them yeah and there wasn't a decent human being in that group well and the thing here out of 30
people not one person could have been her friend that night when it counted when it counted so I here here's where
try to comfort myself and where I try to feel good and feel better about this I think this thing's solvable I think it's
very solvable I think once they clear up that toxicology like you said once they
clear up this manner of death I think they're going to they have a small circle of people to work with I think if
they can interview and locate everybody I think I think that we are going to see
some justice and I think we're going to see it very soon [Music] all right Colonel do we have any
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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 Brewing Garage grade - 3 & 3/4 bottle caps out of 5

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Brief Summary

The episode investigates Kena Jenkins' mysterious death, discussing video footage, party dynamics, and social media interactions among attendees.

Key points

Video Footage Controversy. Questions arise about the missing video footage related to Kena's disappearance.
The Strength of a Mother. Kena's mother showcases incredible strength while seeking the truth about her daughter.
The Search for Kena Jenkins. A mother pleads for answers about her daughter's mysterious death at a hotel.
The Hotel's Liability. Discussion on whether the hotel is liable for the incident based on video evidence.
Mother's Calm Demeanor. The mother of the missing girl remains calm while seeking answers from the hotel.
Suspicious Drink Exchange. A girl is seen leaving the restroom with a drink intended for Kena, raising concerns.

Episode highlights

Episode quotes

We will not stop till we get all of the video.

A commitment to uncovering the truth for Kena's mother.

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