I’ve been watching for updates. The toxicology report and autopsy results have not been released yet. I did find this bit interesting from one of the victim’s brother:
No answers in deaths of Kansas City Chiefs fans: Family (newsnationnow.com)
But the guy wasn’t a complete stranger either. Some people knew his phone number and where he lived. Hopefully, the police are trying to find out what he was doing during the three days the bodies were in his backyard.
I can’t find it again but I saw something about neighbors seeing a UHaul truck pulled up to the house. KCTV5 news has the latest and greatest coming up at 6:00, which is in a 1/2 hour.
The did say a UHaul had been seen at the house after this incident, but they also said the house had just recently been rented.
So asleep for 3 days. Sounds like one hell of a party.
Well that clears things up completely. Nothing to see here; move along.
Article is paywalled (I guess I could answer their questionnaire to get 48 hours free, but I don’t wanna). What does it say?
Me too
It just says in bed rather than sleeping. If he had paid $19.89 for the Eras movie rental, he was probably watching it on continuous loop for the allotted 48 hours.
You can read it if you [redacted] Here are the important bits:
When there was no answer at the door, McGeeney’s fiancée broke into the basement and found a dead body on the back porch, police said. Officers arrived and found two other men dead in the backyard.
Police said there were no obvious signs of foul play at or near the scene and are awaiting the results of a medical examination to learn the causes of death for the men.
John Picerno, an attorney who represents Willis, said his client knew nothing about the men’s deaths and last saw them when they exited his home and Willis went to bed. Willis didn’t know that the men remained in his backyard and may have needed medical attention, Picerno said in a news release.
Picerno said Willis hadn’t received calls or texts from the loved ones of his friends prior to the police showing up at his home. Two people came to Willis’ home, but he didn’t hear them because he sleeps with headphones and a loud fan, according to the news release.
One person contacted him on Facebook Messenger, but Willis didn’t see the message until after police contacted him, Picerno said.
Two of the men parked their cars on the street, but Willis didn’t notice them and wouldn’t find it unusual for his friends to leave their cars at his house overnight, the attorney said.
When police arrived, Willis allowed them into his home, told them what he knew and willingly consented to a search of his home, according to Picerno.
“Jordan is unaware of how his friends died,” Picerno said. “Like the rest of us, Jordan is anxiously awaiting the results of the autopsy and toxicology report.
See, nothing at all suspicious. Three days of sleeping with headphones on and a loud fan explains everything.
Thanks.
Here’s a Fox article with a video that includes an interview (not much of one) with the attorney representing the homeowner. No paywalls.
The attorney says something odd along the lines of “Willis was largely at home [between the time his friends left and when they were found],” which makes it sound like he did leave the house one or more times. The attorney seems to be saying that all three bodies were in the back yard where the homeowner rarely went.
A deadly/almost deadly overdose of something seems like the likeliest explanation at this point. It still seems weird that the friends’ cars weren’t noticed, but maybe the attorney has an explanation for the fact that it supposedly “wasn’t unusual” for his friends to leave their cars at his house overnight.
There is something very, very wrong with this explanation. And, I’m still not clear on why none of the men just left the yard, instead of just hanging out until they froze to death.
Well you obviously haven’t seen the Eras movie.
I find the loud fan suspicious. It’s a frozen tundra here in NE kansas.
I’m really questioning someone sleeping for three days, outside of a level of sedation I would expect would require medical supervision, most likely in a hospital.
Drugs covers a lot of weird things. Including re-dosing during the 3 days.
(I’m not saying Swiftie isn’t a better explanation.)
Yet these people say they did call and send texts. I guess at this point, the police can’t look at Willis’ phone.
He didn’t hear someone yelling inside his house but did hear police when they arrived.
Yeah, Willis’ story doesn’t explain anything.
Kinda.
So some sleeping in there someplace.
This bit’s not real helpful either.
I usually notice whether folks leaving my house are exiting the front door towards where their cars are or exiting the back door leading only to a walled backyard.
Although back around their ages I have bailed out on parties at my house when I got too wasted to stay awake. “Hey y’all lock up on the way out; I’m going to bed.” And did. But if so I’d have told my attorney to tell the newspapers: “I last saw them when I went into my room to go to bed and at that time they were still partying like mad in my living room and eating everything in my fridge.” rather than what the guy did say.
IMO had the guy awoken the next day, even in the afternoon, and seen the bodies, or had the GF come to the house that next morning and done as she did and discovered the first body all of this would have looked like an accident.
It’s the two extra days between the going to bed and the waking up to policemen that provide all the problems to this guy’s story.
My money is on: game’s over, everybody decides to go home, the 3 deceased went in the backyard to top up on their drug dosage before they hit the road. Maybe they overdosed outright, maybe they just nodded off long enough for hypothermia to get them. Friend never knew because they were supposed to be headed home.
Sad thing either way. Drugs are dumb but nobody deserves to die that way.
I’m not saying he isn’t lying, but I’m not sure that the two days implies anything more nefarious. He finds them dead, has no bright ideas what to do in a drug-addled state himself, possibily implicated because they bought the drugs from him or with him, doses himself up again. It’s not as though he used the time to do anything to move the bodies or to do anything to make things look less weird.