The "sitting in the chair" detail makes me even more firmly in the camp of accidental OD that JW knew nothing about, either because he too was sickened by the drugs but had the good fortune to be rendered unconscious inside or because he simply didn't partake. In fact, Kate Quigley, who lost three friends to fentanyl-laced cocaine and herself just barely survived, said this about her friend who OD'd: "Quigley said she attempted to speak to Colangeli, who 'didn’t look dead.' 'I started to say, "Hey, Rico, Rico,"' she recalled. 'I just thought he fell asleep, he even still had the guitar – he was holding a guitar in his hands. It never crossed my mind he was dead.'" (Read the full article here:
Kate Quigley recalls witnessing three friends dying from ‘horrific’ fentanyl overdose)
If JW was a brilliant mastermind/mad scientist who murdered his friends for no reason (or as part of some Deep State conspiracy, maybe in coordination with Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce or whatever other crazy nonsense people are saying online), it seems like he could do better at hiding their bodies than ... leaving them in his backyard.
And if they died inside from an OD and he panicked and dragged them outside (which I'm at least willing to entertain as a theory), why on earth would he stage one in a chair? It seems like he would've put them in the shed or otherwise tried to conceal them. Or even just drag them out and leave them there. But NOT prop the dead weight of a full-grown man in a lawn chair. That boggles belief.
This case is terribly sad, and as someone who has lost far too many loved ones to addiction, through both actual ODs and terrible decisions made under the influence, I absolutely understand the families' shared shock and grief. But lashing out at JW with wild and unfounded accusations is not the path to peace and acceptance. It's spreading and prolonging the anguish, and it could have legal consequences if they continue to defame his character.