girl found in freezer, social media's bag of theories

        Throughout this week, social media users have been playing detective work, trying to figure what happens to a young woman named Kenneka Jenkins, a 19-year-old woman who first disappeared from a Friday night party in the Rosemont’s Crowne Plaza Chicago O’Hare hotel in Chicago, Illinois.  Unfortunately, she was found dead in the hotel’s walk-in freezer last Sunday morning.  As police quietly continue to collect more evidence and interviewing more people through this investigation, users of Facebook, Youtube, Instagram and other social media outlets are calling out for justice for the victim.  They also demanded an immediate arrest of the victim’s friends based on their Facebook posts and a video of the party around the time of Jenkin’s disappearance in which believe that foul play was taken place.  The article from the Chicago Tribune, “‘Kenneka Jenkins’ death strikes a chord with amateur sleuths, police critics” conveys the idea of how far people willing to come up with theories but putting the gaps away from the truth.
        The article discusses how Jenkin’s mysterious death captivated a lot of people online, creating a trend of alternative theories of how and why it happens to this victim.  “Social media are the psychics of our era,” (Keilman & Rosenberg-Douglas), explaining what people are willing to come up with stories that could support the investigation and perhaps give an understanding of why the situation took place.  They even felt solely responsible to help the victim’s family because she was African American who may not get national media attention.  When the story came out about Jenkins, there was claimed that she had must of put herself in the freezer but online users weren't buying it.  Also, the article explained how people were so fixated of the Facebook video that was shot by one of the victim’s friends, showing the alleged room where the party was taking place even though the victim wasn’t in it.  The video only showed some people hanging out, talking and music playing loud; made users created assumptions that something terrible was taking place.     
        Another point the article explained that authorities are giving out little information about the case and calling it a death investigation, not homicide.  Of course, the police are also looking into social media for clues but “they have now much larger haystack than they did before…” (Keilman & Rosenberg-Douglas) In which means that all the information involving the party would be complicated to pinpoint facts.
        In this case, everyone in social media is not really solving the case at all.  Making up bias conspiracies will only put too much distance from the truth and it’s not giving any peace to those who are very close to her, especially her family.  Yes, honestly her friends were not very good friends because they let their friend disappear before she was found dead.  The best thing to do is let the right authorities conduct the investigation and find the conclusion for this matter.  

Keilman, John, and Katherine Rosenberg-Douglas. “'Kenneka Jenkins' Death Strikes Chord with Amateur Sleuths, Police Critics.” Chicagotribune.com, Chicago Tribune, 13 Sept. 2017, www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-kenneka-jenkins-freezer-death-interest-met-20170912-story.html. Web. 14 Sept. 2017