Posted on 07/11/2024 6:54:00 AM PDT by Red Badger
It’s been six months since three Kansas City Chiefs fans were found dead in a friend’s backyard after gathering to watch their favorite football team play, but the victims’ families are apparently no closer to getting answers about the tragic incident.
This week “the families of those three dead men have few answers, and they say their questions are being ignored,” local news outlet WDAF-TV reported.
The frozen bodies of David Harrington, 37, Ricky Johnson, 38, and Clayton McGeeney, 36, were found Jan. 9 in the backyard of a home rented by their friend Jordan Willis.
They had gathered at the home two days earlier, along with a fifth friend, to watch the Chiefs play the Los Angeles Chargers. An attorney for that fifth friend said the other four had been watching “Jeopardy!” when he had left the watch party at about midnight Jan. 7.
For the next two days, family members of the three men called and came by Willis’ home, trying to reach their loved ones. Finally, McGeeney’s fiancee spotted a body in the yard and called police on Jan. 9.
Willis, described in media reports as “an HIV researcher,” reportedly claimed he had gone to bed Jan. 7, but said he had told the remaining three guests they could stay there as long as they wanted. He professed to have had no knowledge that the three were dead in his backyard until the police showed up two days later.
The families were verbally notified in February that preliminary toxicology reports showed cocaine, THC and fentanyl had been found in the men’s bodies.
McGeeney’s cousin, Caleb McGeeney, told NewsNation at the time that he believed Willis’ experience as a chemist was to blame for the deaths. “Jordan is somebody that is known from high school as, like, creating drugs for people, to make them feel better in certain situations,” he told the news outlet.
Meanwhile, Fox News reported Jan. 31 that Willis had viewed his friends’ deaths as a “wake-up call” and checked himself into rehab as a way of “facing his addiction head-on.”
Family members discovered this week that the autopsy reports had been finalized within a few weeks of the men’s deaths, unbeknownst to them.
“Yes, our office finalized cause and manners of death for all three of the referenced decedents,” Kelsie Gwartney, administrator at Forensic Medical of Kansas, told WDAF in a statement.
However, she added, “All three cases are under suppression status and not open records available for release at this time.”
The news outlet said a lawyer connected to the case speculated that “due to the amount of time that has passed and the lack of communication from police and prosecutors, it leads him to believe charges may never come.”
Harrington’s mother, Jennifer Marquez, told the station, “Through this whole thing, I’ve had a hard time getting anybody to answer me.”
McGeeney’s uncle, Jim McGeeney, complained, “My nephew died a tragic death along with two of his friends, and nobody is being held accountable.”
Johnson’s father, Ricky Johnson Sr., said the case had been turned over to the Kansas City Police Department’s drug task force, according to Fox News Digital.
“I think they need to arrest the guy and get him to talk,” he told the news outlet.
“My attorney told me to give more time [for police] to finish the investigation — [I’m] not pleased, but I’ll wait a little longer.”
Kansas City Police Department Sgt. Phil DiMartino said, “There are no updates at this time.”
“This case remains active and ongoing. Investigators continue to follow all leads. Our agency remains in contact and continues to work with the Platte County Prosecutor’s office for review of any applicable charges.”
The police department told Fox News Digital that the cases are “100 percent not being investigated as homicide[s].”
The coke was possibly laced with fentanyl.
Serving up deadly drugs is usually considered an action taken.
Isn't that the answer as to how they died?
Jordan is somebody that is known from high school as, like, creating drugs for people, to make them feel better in certain situations.
Now, law enforcement needs to look at this "Jordan" who created and then "served up" his "homemade drugs."
Think Dr Fauci. Just because he can.
Sorry but the foundation of ethical, rational behavior is an informed conscience and a sound mind. It was once almost universally taught in America that intoxicants , be they alcohol, marijuana or other drugs, voluntarily ingested however seemingly pleasurable rob an individual of the capacity for moral rationality. Today the message to young people is if it feels good, to it. The results are that three young men in the prime of their lives freeze to death in an intoxicated state. So it goes.
“I think they need to arrest the guy and get him to talk,”
A stellar understanding of our legal system.
Why wasn’t Willis found frozen out there, too?
“So who won the game?”
They were watching Jeopardy ...
A group of adults got together to watch the game while drinking and using drugs. They most likely passed out due to intoxication from the booze and drugs and froze to death. There is no mystery or crime (other than purchase of drugs). They did it to themselves.
But we live in a culture where SOMEBODY has to be to blame because the families can’t face the fact that their loved ones did something stupid that resulted in their deaths.
He went to bed......................
so drug abusers freeze and die. okay.
What are they gonna do with the guy renting the house, “lean on” him a little? The guys OD’d. Unless they have some way of linking him to the drugs that killed them the cops have no probable cause to hang their hats on. The hearsay contained in this article might be instructive in the long term but in itself it isn’t evidence.
CC
Hyperthermia is a documented side effect in fentanyl use.
CC
My guess is it wasn’t the team they bet on.
Hyperthermia is a documented side effect in fentanyl use.
Hyperthermia, or extreme elevations in body temperature, can be life-threatening and may be caused by prescription drugs or illegal substances acting at a number of different levels
Which then leads to going outside in the freeze to cool off. Thanks for the info. What to the drugees do in the summer?
a close friend who liked his drugs told me his fentynal story that made him quit everything and he’s still straight to this day. he’d scored some fentynal laced pot, went to his separate from the house garage, took two big puffs then tried to make it back to his house...in January. as he puts it “walked out the door and immediately layed out on the ground in freezing cold weather. I just couldn’t get back up off the ground or even crawl and since I had taken my jacket off inside the garage I was screwed. thankfully my wife came looking for me after an hour or so, was able to help me stumble back to the house and just barely got me in the door. she literally save my dumb ass”. since that incident he’s never touched any drug and he’s still married to the same woman. luckier that these guys.
Like George Floyd they sweat profusely.
CC
“This is not a crime.”
Well, if he gave them the illegal drugs and then they died, it’s arguably felony murder.
This. Passed out and froze. They were morons. Homeless people do this frequently.
He went to bed......................
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So his friends are dying in his backyard, and he is snoring. Great host.
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