I am just going to ignore JW's lawyer because I am not going to accuse JW of anything, but...
I can think of a couple of ways it could be true the friends and family sent multiple messages yet also true when JW says he only saw one. It's basic phone stuff, so i am not going to be specific.
What i am not sure of is the part where the messages were marked as read. This may be a phone thing that idk. But, the most likely explanation is someone just swiped through them quickly without reading them OR JW really did not get a torrent of messages because reasons even though the messages were sent (although i think those things would not say the message was read, but i am not sure).
It says cars (plural) were there. They did not uber. (I think if uber or similar was involved, that might be mentioned by now) Imo, i don't even think they carpooled because imo i think they all came from different locations and all planned to go to different locations afterwards.
Man #5, it is possible that he can at least say what time (approximately) the people arrived which might help figure out how long they were there and alive. So, i don't need to know his lifestory, but i hope he can help the police give some kind of reasonable explanation to the deceased men's families. It is possible he could some idea where those guys initially parked to know if their cars were found in a different location.
I am saying this because what if one or more of the guys who owned those cars moved them for some reason (left and came back, for example). Idk why this would happen or even if it did happen, but people do this sometimes for all kinds of reasons.
This is just my opinion, but i think the fiancee who broke in and found the first deceased man was still there when the police arrived. I just don't see any reason for her to leave... Maybe she left the house, but i have a feeling she was still nearby. She would want to know asap what happened to her fiance, and staying at least in close proximity would be the fastest way to learn this. So, she might have seen JW greet this police, this may be why part of the story is that he was in his boxers, etc.
It's interesting he apparently did not hear her, but he heard the cops. Because it doesn't sound like there was a delay in opening the door for the police. But, there could be an explanation for that.
What i don't get in the slightest is the idea these men were somehow trapped in the backyard. Okay, we will say JW is far from the door to the "porch" and guy 5 says he already left. Well, i don't care, three grown men (two of whom worked in construction) can escape a backyard even with a fence. There's a shed and 2 trees in the corner of the fence and the neighbor's house is on the other side. Unless they were physically incapable of movement, they would have gotten out, imo.
Also, where are their phones? One article says one guy left his coat in the house. Okay, what about the other two guys' coats... Did they have coats? But, mostly, what about their phones? Because you know people were calling, texting, messaging them if they were going so far as to go to JW's house. Were their phones in their pockets or outside somewhere? Because if they were in the house, they would have been making all sorts of noise.
And if they had their phones, they could have called friends or family (or uber or 911) to help them out unless they just immediately all fell unconscious for some reason. Every explanation i have seen kind of works if it had just been one guy, but three?
Eta: JW had been friends with at least two guys for 20 years. So, i can see why he was hanging out with them.