This week, Drewby and Yergy dive into a YouTube listener suggested case - thank you so much Chiffon for your suggestion!
Kenneka Jenkins was a teenager girl found deceased inside a latched walk in freezer in a remote kitchen within the Crowne Plaza Chicago O'Hare hotel in Rosemont, Illinois, after attending a party there on September 10, 2017.
The medical examiner's report found Jenkins' death to be accidental. Alcohol and Topiramate found in her system were thought to have hastened the effects of hypothermia sustained by Jenkins remaining inside the freezer. While the Rosemont police department did not suspect foul play, they stated that their investigation was incomplete. Jenkins' family and friends criticized the initial police response, and a lawsuit was subsequently filed against the hotel and others.
The case was also rife with conspiracy theories, many pointing fingers at several of Kenneka's friends, with one of the more outrageous theories claiming that Kenneka was murdered in order to provide Selena Gomez with one of her kidneys.
We also have a guest interview with a clinical pharmacist to cover Topiramate, the effects it could have had on Kenneka, and if it is possible that she could have been slipped an undetectable drug.
(If you think we botched this, we want to correct it. We thought Elisa Lam was murdered, and if Kenneka was too then we want to signal boost that. If you can point us in the right direction on sources, or let us know what we need to scrutinize more, we can do a follow up episode. We spent many hours on this, and its possible some of the wilder theories like Selena Gomez killing her got in the way of us seeing more legitimate theories.)
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Source Material:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Kenneka_Jenkins
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-met-kenneka-jenkins-hotel-death-anniversary-20180906-story.html
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