MO - Furious Friends Demand Answers After 3 Men Found Dead at Kansas City Home Days After Watching Football Game, January 2024 #3

[sunflowermomma]

Friends Demand Answers After 3 Men Found Dead Outside Kansas City Home

Two friends of the men who spoke with Inside Edition Digital say Ricky Johnson, David Harrington and Clayton McGeeney had all gone to the house on Sunday to watch the Kansas City Chiefs game, and no one had heard from them since that time.

www.insideedition.com

"Three Missouri men went to watch a football game at a house in Kansas City, say friends and family.Three days later, those three friends were found dead outside the home.

Days after the bodies of these men were discovered, the Kansas City Police Department is revealing their identities — 38-year-old Ricky Johnson, 37-year-old David Harrington and 36-year-old Clayton McGeeney.
The bodies of all three men were discovered late Tuesday night when McGeeney's fiancée went to the house looking for the men, according to a spokesperson for the Kansas City Police Department.

Two friends of the men who spoke with Inside Edition Digital say that the three had all gone to the house on Sunday to watch the Kansas City Chiefs game, and no one had heard from them since that time.Those friends also claim that calls to the person who is currently living in that house went unanswered in the days after the game, an allegation police would not comment on at this time."

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[MadMcGoo]

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[MadMcGoo]

As of this post, the cause/manner of death of these men has yet to be released to the public. It is fine to reasonably discuss what may have led to their deaths based on the facts of this case. Discussing the specifics of certain drugs and how they're made, sold, administered, or counteracted quickly derails the thread when there has been no confirmation that drugs (or anything else for that matter) played a role in their deaths. Generalized discussion and posts that don't directly relate to this case are considered off-topic and will be removed.

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[Knitty]

Please continue the discussion here.

 

[SMK777]

 

[NoSpoonFeeding]

He got the image from a public record. No information on when the photo was taken.
Do these reporters think those chairs are fastened down and haven't moved around since that photo was taken?
Absurd to speculate that one of the victims was sitting in either of those exact locations or what the window coverings were at any given time.

 

[Arkay]

@MorningDove

Beside lightening. The only thing I keep coming up with is that there was a live electrical wire in a puddle on that patio

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I couldn’t carry your quote over from the last thread so I just snipped this part.

I have a friend who was struck by lightning on a golf course. He survived, but he had diagonal burns down to his legs.

IMO burn marks would show, probably even if it were a live wire instead. Not sure about that, though, as maybe a live wire just shocks the heart.

 

[SMK777]

New video shows Kansas City Chiefs fan Jordan Willis being cuffed moments after 3 pals found frozen to death in yard

New video has emerged of the scientist who hosted the fateful Kansas City Chiefs watch party where three men froze to death being questioned by police while handcuffed – moments after one of the vi…

nypost.com

 

[Forest_Wood]

MO - Furious Friends Demand Answers After 3 Men Found Dead at Kansas City Home Days After Watching Football Game, January 2024 #2

I have to admit I haven’t thought of that. Is that not something that could be determined fairly quickly though? You do mean electrocution, right? Yes, or shock enough to incapacitate them until the hypothermia kicked in. They would have to wait for Toxicology to rule out drugs and alcohol.

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@sunshineray

I'm just linking to your post 1047 from thread #2.

My original post was in response to your discussion about windows.

How would anyone be able to prove he saw his friends outside through any window, big or small, sliding or stationary?

For example: How could I prove you saw a bus drive by yesterday? You may have looked in that direction, but how would anyone know that it registered in your brain that a bus went by that was the color red or had snow on it or whatever?

If you said you didn't see it, then you didn't see it. I couldn't prove otherwise, could I?

So what would it matter then which window you were glancing through, where the bus was located, how big the bus was, how far away it was, where your eyes were looking when it went by, how fast or slow it was going, and so on.

I don't see how somebody claiming they didn't see something can be proved to be a false statement.

IMO.

 

[SMK777]

Kansas City Timeline: Final Hours of 3 Found Dead at Classmate's Home

Friends and family are not happy with what they say is a lack of information and want to know how Jordan Willis could not have seen the bodies in his backyard, and why he has not spoken with them about what happened the night.

www.insideedition.com

• JANUARY 7, 3:25 P.M. Official start time of the final regular season game of the football season for the Kansas City Chiefs, who are playing the Los Angeles Chargers at SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles.
• JANUARY 7, 6:30 P.M. The Chiefs defeat the Chargers by a final score of 13-12. Johnson, Harrington, and McGeeney arrive at the home of Willis at some point after the game, says Willis' lawyer John Picerno.
• JANUARY 7, 7 P.M. Alex Weamer-Lee arrives at the home of Jordan Willis, according to his lawyer Andrew Talge.
• JANUARY 7, 7;30 P.M. McGeeney tells his cousin Alan that he and Johson will take care of his construction job on Monday so that Alan can rest after suffering a back injury, according to Alan.
• JANUARY 8, 12:01 A.M. Weamer-Lee leaves Willis' home, according to his lawyer, and says goodbye to his host and the three friends who are all watching "Jeopardy."
• JANUARY 8, 12:30 A.M. Willis goes to bed while the three friends are still at his home, according to Picerno.
• JANUARY 9, 9 A.M. McGeeney's fiancée, April Mahoney, and Johnson's mother, Norma Chester, both text Weamer-Lee to ask if he knows the whereabouts of the three friends, according to Talge. Weamer-Lee then texts Willis but does not get a response, says Talge.
• JANUARY 9, 7:00 P.M. Dakota La Tier, a close friend of the men, bangs on the door at Willis' home for 20 minutes but gets no response, according to his wife, Kaylee.
• JANUARY 9, 9:00 P.M. Mahoney arrives at Willis' home and after seeing that the vehicles owned by two of the missing men are parked on the street, knocks on the door, according to two friends of the deceased. No one answers the door and there are no other entrances due to the fence that surrounds the backyard of the property, so Mahoney decides to break into the home through a basement window, according to the friends of the deceased. She calls out for Willis once inside the house to no avail, and once on the first floor sees a body on the back porch, according to the two friends. Mahoney then calls police.
• JANUARY 9, 9:51 P.M. KCPD officers arrive at the home and confirm that there is a body on the porch, according to a spokesperson. Officers also locate two other bodies in the backyard and speak with Willis, who is in the home and "cooperative with detectives." A spokesperson later says: "There were no obvious signs of foul play observed at or near the crime scene."
• JANUARY 10: The bodies of the deceased are sent to Frontier Forensics, a private company that provides autopsies for a number of counties in Missouri, including Platte County where the three men died. Police say they will not have an update on the case until the autopsy results are in, which can take up to eight weeks due to the time it takes to complete toxicology reports.
• JANUARY 12, 3 P.M. Inside Editon Digital asks a KCPD spokesperson if the person renting the home had been present when the bodies were discovered, but gets no response.
• JANUARY 12, 5 P.M. The names of the three deceased friends are released to the public by a KCPD spokesperson.
• JANUARY 15, 4 P.M. A KCPD spokesperson confirms to USA Today that the person renting the home was present when the bodies were discovered on Jan. 9. When Inside Edition Digital asks about the renter being home after that information is confirmed, a KCPD spokesperson says: "That would be part of the ongoing investigation and not available at this time."
• JANUARY 20: Picerno sends out his first news release as Willis' lawyer. In that release, he says that Willis “had absolutely nothing to do with their deaths,” did not know the bodies were in his backyard, did not hear anyone knocking because he wears air buds and uses a loud fan when he sleeps and also that he did not receive any messages about the missing men. At one point in the release, Picerno says that Willis does not know how or when his three friends “exited” the house, but then later says that “the last time he saw them was when they left his house.”
• JANUARY 21: Willis shuts down all his social media and moves out of the rental home, which his lawyer confirms days later.
• JANUARY 22: Picerno tells Inside Edition Digital that Willis went to bed while the three friends were still awake.
• JANUARY 23: Picerno says that a fifth person, later revealed to be Weamer-Lee, was with the men on Jan. 7 and still at the house when Willis went to bed that night.
• JANAURY 24 Weamer-Lee comes forward via his lawyer Talge to say he left the home before Willis went to bed and that he texted the renter and knows others reached out to him, too, despite Willis's claim that he received no messages, says Talge.
• JANUARY 25 Johnson's family members tell Inside Edition that they believe the men were poisoned on the night of their death.

 

[arielilane]

@alcaprari23

Here is a new view of Jordan Willis' backyard. You see those two chairs on the patio? David Harrington's brother tells us his body was found upright sitting in one of those. The other two men were found dead lying on the ground on or near the the patio. Notice the windows. There's six looking out, plus door-windows and a sliding glass door leading to the kitchen. It's hard for me to understand how you don't look out ANY of those windows for 2 days straight and notice three of your friends frozen bodies out there.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1752713991619547478

 

[Chimera]

Chiefs fan found frozen to death in backyard was discovered in unusual position, victim’s brother says

One of the Chiefs fans found dead in an HIV scientist’s backyard was positioned on a “lawn chair on the back porch” and was not lying flat, one of the victim’s brothers revealed.

nypost.com

One of the Kansas City Chiefs fans found dead in an HIV scientist’s backyard was positioned on a “lawn chair on the back porch” and was not lying flat, one of the victims’ brothers revealed as he slammed cops for failing to provide the grieving families with answers.

“I’m not saying there was or was not a crime, but if you immediately suspect no foul play, then you should have a story, you should have something to tell the families, and for no one to hear anything, that doesn’t make any sense,” he said.

Jordan Willis has claimed he spent the 48 hours between the game and when the bodies were discovered “asleep on the couch” next to a loud fan while wearing noise-canceling headphones, unaware of the flurry of calls and messages from loved ones trying to locate the missing men.
Red emphasis mine.
Some interesting comments at the link !

Re. the bolded : LE precisely will not reveal much to the families so that nothing is repeated by them that would jeopardize things, imo.
LE also need to protect the innocent if no foul play has occurred.
Rumors spread quickly and I think that LE want answers as much as anyone else, but they're not going to call it a homicide if there's no motive and esp. no proof.

I get it that the families are grieving and hopefully the tox results will be released soon.
When everything is revealed, the answers may be surprising.

Maybe the KCPD were too swift to declare it not a homicide, and only a death investigation ?
Might have been better to say something along the lines of : "The investigation is continuing."
Otoh, LE might have guessed early on what happened and stated thus.

Fwiw, the bereaved families are in more pain than anyone else, and it will remain that way.
They do not get to hear their loved one's voices, or share a meal together, or anything else.
So sorry for the devastated relatives.

For one to become ill or even die would've been terrible enough -- but all three ?
Boggles the mind.
The families aren't wrong to be pressing for answers !
Omo.

 

[Chimera]

@alcaprari23

Here is a new view of Jordan Willis' backyard. You see those two chairs on the patio? David Harrington's brother tells us his body was found upright sitting in one of those. The other two men were found dead lying on the ground on or near the the patio. Notice the windows. There's six looking out, plus door-windows and a sliding glass door leading to the kitchen. It's hard for me to understand how you don't look out ANY of those windows for 2 days straight and notice three of your friends frozen bodies out there.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1752713991619547478

Ita.
I don't blame the families for having questions.
Not at all.
Omo.

 

[SMK777]

Chiefs fan found frozen to death in backyard was discovered in unusual position, victim’s brother says

One of the Chiefs fans found dead in an HIV scientist’s backyard was positioned on a “lawn chair on the back porch” and was not lying flat, one of the victim’s brothers revealed.

nypost.com

One of the Kansas City Chiefs fans found dead in an HIV scientist’s backyard was positioned on a “lawn chair on the back porch” and was not lying flat, one of the victims’ brothers revealed as he slammed cops for failing to provide the grieving families with answers.

“I’m not saying there was or was not a crime, but if you immediately suspect no foul play, then you should have a story, you should have something to tell the families, and for no one to hear anything, that doesn’t make any sense,” he said.

Jordan Willis has claimed he spent the 48 hours between the game and when the bodies were discovered “asleep on the couch” next to a loud fan while wearing noise-canceling headphones, unaware of the flurry of calls and messages from loved ones trying to locate the missing men.
Red emphasis mine.
Some interesting comments at the link !

Re. the bolded : LE precisely will not reveal much to the families so that nothing is repeated by them that would jeopardize things, imo.
LE also need to protect the innocent if no foul play has occurred.
Rumors spread quickly and I think that LE want answers as much as anyone else, but they're not going to call it a homicide if there's no motive and esp. no proof.

I get it that the families are grieving and hopefully the tox results will be released soon.
When everything is revealed, the answers may be surprising.

Maybe the KCPD were too swift to declare it not a homicide, and only a death investigation ?
Might have been better to say something along the lines of : "The investigation is continuing."
Otoh, LE might have guessed early on what happened and stated thus.

Fwiw, the bereaved families are in more pain than anyone else, and it will remain that way.
They do not get to hear their loved one's voices, or share a meal together, or anything else.
So sorry for the devastated relatives.

For one to become ill or even die would've been terrible enough -- but all three ?
Boggles the mind.
The families aren't wrong to be pressing for answers !
Omo.

So @branmuffin was correct!!

 

[Smelly Squirrel]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1752713991619547478

 

[Chimera]

Kansas City Timeline: Final Hours of 3 Found Dead at Classmate's Home

Friends and family are not happy with what they say is a lack of information and want to know how Jordan Willis could not have seen the bodies in his backyard, and why he has not spoken with them about what happened the night.

www.insideedition.com

• JANUARY 7, 3:25 P.M. Official start time of the final regular season game of the football season for the Kansas City Chiefs, who are playing the Los Angeles Chargers at SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles.
• JANUARY 7, 6:30 P.M. The Chiefs defeat the Chargers by a final score of 13-12. Johnson, Harrington, and McGeeney arrive at the home of Willis at some point after the game, says Willis' lawyer John Picerno.
• JANUARY 7, 7 P.M. Alex Weamer-Lee arrives at the home of Jordan Willis, according to his lawyer Andrew Talge.
• JANUARY 7, 7;30 P.M. McGeeney tells his cousin Alan that he and Johson will take care of his construction job on Monday so that Alan can rest after suffering a back injury, according to Alan.
• JANUARY 8, 12:01 A.M. Weamer-Lee leaves Willis' home, according to his lawyer, and says goodbye to his host and the three friends who are all watching "Jeopardy."
• JANUARY 8, 12:30 A.M. Willis goes to bed while the three friends are still at his home, according to Picerno.
• JANUARY 9, 9 A.M. McGeeney's fiancée, April Mahoney, and Johnson's mother, Norma Chester, both text Weamer-Lee to ask if he knows the whereabouts of the three friends, according to Talge. Weamer-Lee then texts Willis but does not get a response, says Talge.
• JANUARY 9, 7:00 P.M. Dakota La Tier, a close friend of the men, bangs on the door at Willis' home for 20 minutes but gets no response, according to his wife, Kaylee.
• JANUARY 9, 9:00 P.M. Mahoney arrives at Willis' home and after seeing that the vehicles owned by two of the missing men are parked on the street, knocks on the door, according to two friends of the deceased. No one answers the door and there are no other entrances due to the fence that surrounds the backyard of the property, so Mahoney decides to break into the home through a basement window, according to the friends of the deceased. She calls out for Willis once inside the house to no avail, and once on the first floor sees a body on the back porch, according to the two friends. Mahoney then calls police.
• JANUARY 9, 9:51 P.M. KCPD officers arrive at the home and confirm that there is a body on the porch, according to a spokesperson. Officers also locate two other bodies in the backyard and speak with Willis, who is in the home and "cooperative with detectives." A spokesperson later says: "There were no obvious signs of foul play observed at or near the crime scene."
• JANUARY 10: The bodies of the deceased are sent to Frontier Forensics, a private company that provides autopsies for a number of counties in Missouri, including Platte County where the three men died. Police say they will not have an update on the case until the autopsy results are in, which can take up to eight weeks due to the time it takes to complete toxicology reports.
• JANUARY 12, 3 P.M. Inside Editon Digital asks a KCPD spokesperson if the person renting the home had been present when the bodies were discovered, but gets no response.
• JANUARY 12, 5 P.M. The names of the three deceased friends are released to the public by a KCPD spokesperson.
• JANUARY 15, 4 P.M. A KCPD spokesperson confirms to USA Today that the person renting the home was present when the bodies were discovered on Jan. 9. When Inside Edition Digital asks about the renter being home after that information is confirmed, a KCPD spokesperson says: "That would be part of the ongoing investigation and not available at this time."
• JANUARY 20: Picerno sends out his first news release as Willis' lawyer. In that release, he says that Willis “had absolutely nothing to do with their deaths,” did not know the bodies were in his backyard, did not hear anyone knocking because he wears air buds and uses a loud fan when he sleeps and also that he did not receive any messages about the missing men. At one point in the release, Picerno says that Willis does not know how or when his three friends “exited” the house, but then later says that “the last time he saw them was when they left his house.”
• JANUARY 21: Willis shuts down all his social media and moves out of the rental home, which his lawyer confirms days later.
• JANUARY 22: Picerno tells Inside Edition Digital that Willis went to bed while the three friends were still awake.
• JANUARY 23: Picerno says that a fifth person, later revealed to be Weamer-Lee, was with the men on Jan. 7 and still at the house when Willis went to bed that night.
• JANAURY 24 Weamer-Lee comes forward via his lawyer Talge to say he left the home before Willis went to bed and that he texted the renter and knows others reached out to him, too, despite Willis's claim that he received no messages, says Talge.
• JANUARY 25 Johnson's family members tell Inside Edition that they believe the men were poisoned on the night of their death.

Thanks for posting this !

Red bolded : So, JW was the very last person to see the three deceased men alive ?

Green bolded :How did the fifth person say goodbye if JW had gone off to bed ? That would leave DWL the last person to see the three alive.
Except he said he was not the last person to see them alive, correct ?

Even in the timeline there are contradictions.
If no one saw the three in any distress something happened very quickly, imo.
Which does not help those seeking answers.

At this point, I'm not certain the tox test/autopsies will clear this all up.
Omo.

 

[al66pine]

"...families have been invited to a MEETING tomorrow with the county prosecutors at the SITE of the HOME WHERE the men DIED." (my CAPS)

Doing this w property owner's permission?
Maybe I'm overlooking something, but otherwise I'm trying to imagine how LE/prosecutor could get warrant or ct order to do this, as part of their criminal investigation.

Trying to recall any case where prosecutor has done this.
[ETA: Prosecutor arranging for fam members of deceased to visit/tour a privately owned property which is a death scene but not officially deemed a crime scene.]
Anyone?

(Some fam of 4 uni/ID students wanted to go in 1122 King House, IIRC.
Did they? IF so, that was AFTER ARREST of BK and fam had LEGAL RIGHT to the return of students' personal property. I recall the pickup trucks being loaded, but IIRC, by LE, some for evd, some back to fam.)

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^ from a post by @sunshineray (entire post):
"Just listening the NewsNation Banfield re-broadcast from last night and she's saying one of the victim's father and step mother have informed NewsNation that the families have been invited to a meeting tomorrow with the county prosecutors at the site of the home where the men died. I hope they finally can have some questions answered <3"

 

[sunshineray]

"...families have been invited to a MEETING tomorrow with the county prosecutors at the SITE of the HOME WHERE the men DIED." (my CAPS)

Doing this w property owner's permission?
Maybe I'm overlooking something, but otherwise I'm trying to imagine how LE/prosecutor could get warrant or ct order to do this, as part of their criminal investigation.

Trying to recall any case where prosecutor has done this. Anyone?

(Some fam of 4 uni/ID students wanted to go in 1122 King House, IIRC.
Did they? IF so, that was AFTER ARREST of BK and fam had LEGAL RIGHT to the return of students' personal property. I recall the pickup trucks being loaded, but IIRC, by LE, some for evd, some back to fam.)

____________________________
^ from a post by @sunshineray (entire post):
"Just listening the NewsNation Banfield re-broadcast from last night and she's saying one of the victim's father and step mother have informed NewsNation that the families have been invited to a meeting tomorrow with the county prosecutors at the site of the home where the men died. I hope they finally can have some questions answered <3"

My first thought when I heard about the planned meeting wasn't of it in terms it being part of the investigation but more a chance to inform the families of what they've found out, maybe answer questions they might have about logistics? I could be way wrong about that

 

[NCWatcher]

"...families have been invited to a MEETING tomorrow with the county prosecutors at the SITE of the HOME WHERE the men DIED." (my CAPS)

Doing this w property owner's permission?
Maybe I'm overlooking something, but otherwise I'm trying to imagine how LE/prosecutor could get warrant or ct order to do this, as part of their criminal investigation.

Trying to recall any case where prosecutor has done this. Anyone?

(Some fam of 4 uni/ID students wanted to go in 1122 King House, IIRC.
Did they? IF so, that was AFTER ARREST of BK and fam had LEGAL RIGHT to the return of students' personal property. I recall the pickup trucks being loaded, but IIRC, by LE, some for evd, some back to fam.)

____________________________
^ from a post by @sunshineray (entire post):
"Just listening the NewsNation Banfield re-broadcast from last night and she's saying one of the victim's father and step mother have informed NewsNation that the families have been invited to a meeting tomorrow with the county prosecutors at the site of the home where the men died. I hope they finally can have some questions answered <3"

Excellent points. It is odd to me. It is also odd a friend gathered up supposed belongings of one of the deceased from the house (per the same article) unless it was with permission of LE (and I'd think JW.)

If there was a chance of a criminal prosecution, I can't imagine letting family members tramp around.

Finally some places say the meeting is today-- Wednesday-- and other sources say "tomorrow" often interpreted as Thurs.
MOO

 

[cenazoic]

"...families have been invited to a MEETING tomorrow with the county prosecutors at the SITE of the HOME WHERE the men DIED." (my CAPS)

I wonder if they think there may be other belongings of the dead men in the house they want them to try and identify.