Mystery shrouds deaths of 3 Kansas City Chiefs fans as 5th friend named, family says victims 'saw something they shouldn’t have seen'

Sunday will be three weeks since loved ones last saw three Kansas City Chiefs fans who were all found dead under suspicious circumstances. It is still a mystery how the three men allegedly froze to death, and the families of the deceased football fans demand answers.

As Blaze News previously reported, a group of friends got together to watch the Chiefs take on the Los Angeles Chargers in the final game of the regular season on Jan. 7.

Ricky Johnson, 38; David Harrington, 37; and Clayton McGeeney, 36; went to watch the game at a friend's house in Kansas City, Missouri.

McGeeney's fiancee could not get in touch with her future husband, so she attempted to contact the host of the party – Jordan Willis. However, she was unsuccessful at getting in touch with Willis.

Fox News reported, "A friend of the three men, Kaylee La Tier, wrote in a Facebook post that her husband 'banged on [Willis's] door for 20 minutes.' Lyndsey Rae Baldwin wrote that she and other friends had attempted to contact Willis for 24 hours with no response."

After two days of not hearing from McGeeney, the fiancee went to the home of Willis and made a grisly discovery on Jan. 9.

“When there was no answer at the door, she broke into the basement of the residence and located an unknown dead body on the back porch," the initial police report on the incident read. "Officers responded to the back porch and confirmed there was a dead body. Upon further investigation, officers located two other dead bodies in the backyard. There were no obvious signs of foul play observed at or near the crime scene."

The fiancee told police that she announced her presence after breaking into the home and shouted for Willis, but there was no response.

John Picerno, the attorney for Willis, said his client did not hear the knocks at his door or the woman breaking into his home. Willis also said that he had no idea that his friends were outside of his house. Willis claimed to have slept for nearly 48 hours after the NFL party.

However, Picerno later amended his statement, and said Willis slept "a lot" of the two days and likely didn't hear the knocks on his door because he uses noise-canceling headphones.

Picerno said Willis walked McGeeney, Johnson, and Harrington out of his house and then went to sleep on his couch.

The Kansas City Police Department said Willis was "cooperative with detectives."

"First and foremost, this case is 100% not being investigated as a homicide," Capt. Jake Becchina of the Kansas City Police Department stated. "There have not been any arrests [or] charges, and no one is in custody. There are no specific threats or concerns for the surrounding community at this time. The resident at the house was cooperative with detectives the day the deceased were discovered."

Picerno noted that Willis allowed police to search his home without a warrant and with no lawyer present.

Ross Nigro, an attorney for Johnson's family, told Fox News that police conducted a second search with a warrant on Jan. 11.

Picerno said of the claims of people contacting him, "None of those people called him on his cellphone."

"One of them, I believe it was the fiancee, did send him a message on Facebook Messenger. But he didn’t receive it until after police had," he said.

Officer Alayna Gonzalez, a spokeswoman for the Kansas City Police Department, told the Associated Press on Saturday, "This still remains a death investigation and nothing more. We still have no evidence or indication of foul play, no one is in police custody."

Picerno said his client moved out of his house because he is in fear of "retaliation."

Picerno previously said there were four men at the gathering. However, he now says there were five and that he previously misspoke.

The attorney for the fifth man, Andrew Talge, told WDAF-TV that his client left Willis' home around midnight after the Chiefs game was over and the other men stayed and watched "Jeopardy."

The Daily Mail reported that the fifth man at the football party was "long-time friend Alex Weamer-Lee."

Jennifer Marquez, Harrington's mother, said her son was the "best person [she has] ever known," and she plans to do everything in her power to "find out what happened that night."

"Yes, I believe that something happened that night and that Jordan had something to do with it," Marquez told Fox News. "We all believe that Jordan had something to do with that."

"Jordan's not telling the truth," Marquez asserted. "When you tell the truth, your story is solid. It's when you're lying that your story changes, and that's what's been happening. I don't understand why the police don't see that."

Jon Harrington, Harrington's father, told Fox News that he is "not buying" that story and he "doesn't believe anything [Willis'] attorney says."

"[Harrington's mother] and I are both convinced that Jordan Willis played a part in this somehow," Jon Harrington stated on Thursday. "We just haven’t figured out how yet. What else could it be? Perfectly healthy men don’t just drop off the face of the earth."

"There were four of you in the house, and now three of them are dead, and you’re not. That doesn’t add up," the distraught father noted. "I’m thinking that he, the three of them learned something or saw something that they shouldn’t have seen, and he decided, 'Well, I need to get rid of you now.’ Friends or not."

The senior Harrison admitted, "I'm aware that they may have done some substances that were questionable – but the idea was to get high, not dead. If they were supposed to be friends, why didn’t [Willis] come find them. I’m sure they have a hundred different answers to that, but that’s my question."

Johnson was found outside not wearing a coat – something he would "never" do, according to his father.

On the night of the Chiefs game, there was a low temperature of around 33 degrees.

Forensic pathologist Dr. Michael Baden theorized that the tragic situation could have been the result of taking a drug like fentanyl.

"If these four people all took it together, the guy on the couch sleeps it off for a long time, whereas the three who went outside disoriented, maybe didn’t have on their coats," Baden told Fox News. "Because of the freezing weather, it [could be] a combination of the drugs and hypothermia that caused their death."

"It would be the type of drug that causes a person to be disoriented," Baden said. "Fentanyl-type drugs can cause disorientation and can cause a rapid sleep-like loss of consciousness.

"If they all took alcohol, they would not collapse around the same time," he added. "People react differently to large doses of alcohol, metabolize it at different speeds."

The Kansas City Police Department is awaiting the reports on the causes of death from Frontier Forensics, and it could take six weeks or more to get the toxicology reports.

Willis holds a Ph.D. and is a senior principal scientist at IAVI Neutralizing Antibody Center's Schief Lab in Kansas City, but he reportedly works from home.

Norma Chester, Johnson's mother, suggested that Willis may have poisoned the three friends.

"Something that comes to my mind: This guy wants to brag about how smart he is, he’s a scientist," Chester said earlier this week. "My thoughts are that he concocted something and gave it to all three men. I know I’m just thinking, but how could this have happened?"

Picerno brushed off the accusations of drugging or poisoning, and called the notion "ridiculous."

Jonathan Price, Johnson's brother, questioned why Willis would sleep all day on a Monday if he was a "responsible individual" with a PH.D. and a job as a scientist.

"That part makes no sense to me. Especially when, it seems like you're a responsible individual, a responsible enough individual to gain a Ph.D. in what seems like a very complicated science," Price said during an interview on "Fox & Friends."

Willis reportedly owns two dogs, and there are questions about how they weren't let outside in the backyard where the dead men were.

Picerno claimed that the dogs were staying with Willis' father.

Nigro reportedly said the fifth man recalled that there were dogs present during the football gathering.

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