 Stick Together – Stay Alive
“Footprints of Courage" invites you into our world. I wrote the book to honor our son and brother, Chris Jenkins, and the extraordinary life he led. The book describes our family’s seven-year journey for the truth and justice, clearly detailing why we chose each step of the path we walked. That path includes shining a light on the disappearances and subsequent deaths of dozens of college-age men in the past 12 years. We hope we’ve blazed a trail to save lives through awareness and safety precautions:  stick together, tell the truth, act with courage.
What footprints will you leave behind?”
-Jan Jenkins, author, Footprints of Courage
Suicide? Accident? No, Homicide.
If Chris Jenkins was allowed to go home with his friends after a 2002 Halloween party at a bar in downtown Minneapolis, he’d be alive today. Tragically, a series of heartless and preventable events forced the college student outside the bar, never to be seen again by those who loved him. His family and friends launched a massive search.
On February 27, 2003, four months after his disappearance, Chris’s body was recovered from the Mississippi River. Over the next 4 years, Chris’s family took extraordinary measures to force the truth into the light. Originally ruled an apparent drowning, his death was reclassified as a homicide in November 2006 by the Minneapolis Police Department.
Chris’s disappearance captivated a nation when the public learned that dozens of missing young men in the preceding decade had been found in water. While pushing to unravel the mystery of his murder, Chris’s family paved the way for federal involvement in the possible serial homicides of more than eighty victims.
“I definitely don’t believe that all the cases are related, BUT some may be.”
Minneapolis Police Chief Tim Dolan
-People Magazine (May 12, 2008)
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