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A year after Kenneka Jenkins was found dead in hotel freezer, conspiracy theories abound

One year after Kenneka Jenkins was found dead in a walk-in freezer, the videos keep coming.

Digital sleuths float theories on YouTube and Facebook dozens of times a day, saying they've found evidence to undermine the official story - that Jenkins had gotten intoxicated at a hotel party, wandered away from her friends and stumbled into a freezer she was unable to escape.

All of that is a lie, they say. Jenkins didn't die from a tragic accident, but murder, perhaps at

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