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    The teen’s cause of death was hypothermia due to cold exposure,
    with alcohol and topiramate intoxication as “significant”
    contributing factors, the office said in a statement Friday.
    Topiramate is a medication used to treat epilepsy and migraines;
    her family said Jenkins was not prescribed the drug, according
    to the office.

    The medical examiner’s report was a long-awaited development in
    the much-publicized death of Jenkins, whose disappearance from a
    party at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Rosemont, Ill., prompted
    repeated pleas for help from her family. She was found dead in
    the walk-in freezer of an empty kitchen at the hotel on Sept.
    10, nearly 24 hours after Jenkins’s mother reported her missing.

    An autopsy conducted later that day found mucosal erosions, or
    Wischnevsky’s lesions, in Jenkins’s stomach, indicative of
    hypothermia. There was an abrasion on the teen’s right ankle and
    a purple contusion on her right leg, but no other evidence of
    external or internal trauma, the office said. Jenkins’s brain
    was swollen, but it did not indicate a specific cause of death,
    the office added.

    Toxicology tests found alcohol, caffeine and the topiramate in
    Jenkins’s system — but no “date rape drugs,” the office said.
    It’s likely the alcohol and topiramate exacerbated each other’s
    effects and possibly brought on death more quickly.

    [A woman was found dead in a hotel freezer. Video shows her last-
    known moments.]

    “Alcohol and topiramate are synergistic. When combined, the
    effect of either or both drugs is enhanced,” the office said.
    “Topiramate, like alcohol, can cause dizziness, impaired memory,
    impaired concentration, poor coordination, confusion and
    impaired judgment. Central nervous system depression, or
    impairment, combined with cold exposure can hasten the onset of
    hypothermia and death,” the office said.

    Although Jenkins did not have a prescription for topiramate,
    police said, there was no evidence Jenkins was forced to consume
    either the drug or the alcohol, according to the examiner’s
    office.

    “There is no evidence of another person in the vicinity of the
    kitchen with the decedent and there is no evidence of an
    altercation or interaction with another individual in the time
    immediately prior to demise,” the office said.

    The autopsy results are unlikely to quash theories that
    Jenkins’s death may have involved foul play. Surveillance video
    from the Crowne Plaza showed nearly all of Jenkins’s last-known
    moments: About 1:15 a.m. Sept. 9, a Saturday, she enters the
    hotel with three others to attend a party in one of the rooms. A
    little more than two hours later, shortly before 3:30 a.m.,
    Jenkins can be seen stumbling through the empty halls of the
    hotel, apparently alone and disoriented, for several minutes.
    She finally walks into an unused kitchen before disappearing
    from the frame.

    However, the surveillance video did not show how Jenkins entered
    the walk-in freezer where she was later found dead. The
    examiner’s office said Friday that Jenkins had been discovered
    lying facedown in the freezer, which was itself inside a walk-in
    cooler. Both the cooler and the freezer were operational, and
    the doors to both were closed when Jenkins was found.

    The walk-in freezer was about 34 degrees Fahrenheit two hours
    after Jenkins was found, the office said.

    “The cooler and freezer were both outfitted with external
    handles that must be pulled to open. The inside of the freezer
    door was equipped with a circular release mechanism,” the office
    said. “Rosemont police told Medical Examiner staff that the
    light inside of the freezer was not on when Ms. Jenkins was
    found. There is a light switch outside of the cooler door.”

    [A woman was found dead in a hotel freezer. Her family says the
    police haven’t done enough.]

    Teresa Martin, Jenkins’s mother, has accused police and hotel
    staff of not responding quickly enough the morning she reported
    her daughter missing, saying they initially downplayed her
    disappearance as typical after a night of partying.

    “What I would recommend is just go home, relax a little bit,
    give it some time,” a police dispatcher told Martin at first,
    according to the Chicago Tribune. “All we know, she very well
    still could be in the room. She could just be passed out. You
    know how it is. You’re drinking the night before, you get — you
    know what I mean.”

    At an emotional news conference days after her daughter was
    discovered dead, Martin said she wanted more proof.

    “I also want to know what happened,” she told reporters. “I want
    to see it all. I want to see her actually walking into this
    freezer and closing herself within this freezer and freezing to
    death.”

    Neither attorneys for Jenkins’s family nor a spokesman for the
    Rosemont Police Department immediately responded to requests for
    comment Saturday morning.

    Rosemont police said in a statement Friday they were continuing
    to investigate Jenkins’s death and are searching for two people
    who had checked into the Crowne Plaza, just east of O’Hare
    International Airport, for the same party.

    Police said they have conducted dozens of interviews and are
    still looking for six of at least 36 people who were at the
    party that night, which was booked with a stolen credit card,
    according to the Chicago Tribune. One is Shaniqua Watkins, who
    is being sought on four arrest warrants, the newspaper reported.

    Attorneys for Martin filed an emergency petition Friday asking
    the Crowne Plaza to preserve surveillance footage and provide a
    schedule of any employees and contractors inside the hotel from
    Sept. 8 through 10, among other requests, according to the
    Chicago Sun-Times:

    Though no lawsuit has been filed, Martin’s attorneys contend
    that employees knew the party — which had 20 underage attendees
    and was funded with a stolen credit card, according to police —
    was going on. The motion also states that several of the hotel’s
    walk-in freezers are equipped with padlocks, but not the one
    Jenkins was found in.

    Additionally, Martin’s attorneys say that though they’ve been
    provided most security footage they’ve requested, no video from
    two other cameras has been given to them. Specifically, one
    “near the upstairs abandoned kitchen, and another outside the
    lower level functioning kitchen.”

    The hotel said it is cooperating with authorities.

    “As we previously assured the family’s attorney, we will
    preserve all the evidence they requested, including video
    recordings and documents,” the hotel said in a statement,
    according to the newspaper. “In fact, we have already done so.”

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