ROSEMONT, Ill. -- Police investigating the death of a woman whose body was found inside a suburban Chicago hotel freezer are examining a video that appears to show her in a room at the hotel hours earlier. The Chicago Tribune reports that the Facebook Live video appears to show 19-year-old Kenneka Jenkins of Chicago sitting on a bed with other people nearby in a 9th-floor room of the Crowne Plaza Chicago O'Hare Hotel & Conference Center in Rosemont.
Jenkins' body was found inside a walk-in freezer at the hotel around 12:30 a.m. on Sunday, CBS Chicago reports, 24 hours after concerned relatives contacted the hotel and police.
Jenkins' mother, Teresa Jenkins, says police told her that her daughter was intoxicated when she let herself into the freezer where she died. An autopsy has been conducted but a cause of death hasn't been determined.
Authorities in suburban Chicago are investigating a young woman's mysterious death over the weekend, a case that's gained national attention as her mother angrily suggested there was foul play and accused police and others of failing to act fast enough upon learning of the disappearance.
Kenneka L. Jenkins, 19, was found dead inside an industrial walk-in freezer at Rosemont's Crowne Plaza around midnight Sunday, more than 24 hours after leaving her home on Chicago's West Side to party with friends at the hotel and conference center near O'Hare International Airport.
"To me, I feel like they helped kill my child: the police department and this hotel," Teresa Martin, Jenkins's mother, told local media during a heart-wrenching interview alongside other family members. She said neither the authorities nor the hotel's staff did enough to address her repeated pleas for help.
It remains unclear how Jenkins died. An autopsy was performed Sunday but proved inconclusive, the Chicago Tribune reported, and officials say it could be several weeks before toxicology results are available.
Rosemont police have released few details, citing an open investigation.
Jenkins's mother said authorities told her the freezer, though in a vacant part of the hotel complex, was functioning and cold, the Tribune reported. It's unclear who found Jenkins's body, however, or whether there were signs of trauma.
A spokesman for the Rosemont police, Detective Joe Balogh, told The Washington Post on Monday that investigators are interviewing others who were with Jenkins at the hotel, and reviewing surveillance footage and various social media posts that have circulated since the incident.
One, a viral Facebook Live video apparently made during the party, appears to show Jenkins and others listening to loud music inside a hotel room. Authorities have indicated the video is a key piece of evidence, telling the Tribune that they have identified most people captured in it.
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