Top ex-NYPD cop says rapidly unfolding details in bizarre case of three Chiefs fans found dead in frozen garden could lead local police to ‘change their minds’ after insisting it is NOT a homicide investigation
A former NYPD officer has suggested that the bizarre case of three Kansas City Chiefs found dead in their friends’ Kansas City yard could be labeled a murder investigation as rapidly evolving details emerge.
On January 9, the bodies of David Harrington, Ricky Johnson and Clayton McGeeney were found dead in Jordan Willis’ backyard after a football viewing party two days earlier.
Former investigator and attorney Paul Mauro told Fox and Friends ‘there are some things in this story that don’t quite add up.
“The police have some things to do here. The police commissioner has said that this is 100 percent not a murder at this point. He might change his mind,” he explained.
“That doesn’t mean there isn’t something they’re looking at.
Former investigator and attorney Paul Mauro said Fox and Friends investigators could still consider this a murder investigation
Jordan Willis is an award-winning HIV scientist who moved and deleted all his social media after three of his friends were mysteriously found dead on his property
David Harrington (second from left), Clayton McGeeney (second from right) and Ricky Johnson (right) are shown with two unidentified fellow Chiefs fans, neither of whom are believed to be involved in the mystery. Harrington, McGeeney and Johnson were found dead in the backyard of another man’s home on January 9
“People have said, let’s wait for the toxicology report and the autopsy and see if there was a substance involved.
“But they do have some other possibilities, they have Mr. Willis who is still alive and they have a fifth person who was still alive.
Adding, “And then you have their electronics, and they’re already asking for the passwords.”
“The story is changing,” Mauro concluded.
Willis’ attorney claims he said goodbye to his friends — two of whom he had known since high school — and then “collapsed” on the couch.
A short time later he says he went upstairs to bed and left the doors unlocked. The three men, he says, then returned to the property and at some point went outside.
A fifth friend who was at the house that night told FOX 4 Kansas City, who did not identify him by name, that when he left the house at midnight, all the men were still alive.
The fifth man insisted that it is “absolutely not true” that he was the “last person to see the three men alive,” the outlet reported.
His criminal defense lawyer Andrew Talge said his client arrived at Willis’ house at 7pm – and they all hung out until midnight. The four other men were watching Jeopardy as he left.
Willis with a family member. He claims he had nothing to do with the deaths of his friends. Police say there is no foul play and have not arrested or charged him
Willis (pictured) told police the men had frozen to death in his backyard. Their loved ones have raised questions about the lack of coverage of their bodies, and the snow they say was not deep enough to submerge them
One of the bodies was found on the back porch of the property by the fiancée of one of the men, who broke in after not receiving a response from Willis.
The other two bodies were found in the backyard. Police initially said there was no foul play, but have yet to confirm the cause of death of the three men
The lawyer also said that on Tuesday – the day after – the fifth man texted Jordan Willis. He sent this after Clayton McGeeney’s fiancée and Ricky Johnson’s mother reached out with questions about their loved ones.
This contradicts what Willis’ attorney Picerno has said repeatedly. He said his client only received messages on Facebook Messenger, not text messages or calls.
Kansas City police have said there was no evidence of any criminal activity or foul play at the scene.
Police classified the ordeal as a death investigation and not a homicide. Willis has not been charged.
For two days, the victims’ families said they visited Willis’ home, calling him and sending him Facebook messages asking where they were. He didn’t respond.
Eventually, the fiancée of one of the men broke into the house through the basement and found the first body in the backyard. She then called the police, who arrived to find Willis in his underwear, holding a wine glass.
His lawyer claims he did nothing wrong and has cooperated with police.
The medical examiner’s office has yet to reveal the cause of death or whether any of the men had drugs in his or her system.
Ricky Johnson, a father of three, was one of three men found dead
David Harrington was found dead on his friend’s property on January 9
Clayton McGeeney was also found dead in the backyard
‘He has nothing to hide. He went to the police station and spoke to officers without a lawyer present, he let them search his house… these were his friends.
“He had bought tickets for all of them for the next Chiefs game, he didn’t want any harm to come to them. There was no ill will,” attorney John Picerno told DailyMail.com.
He blasted internet sleuths and those who assumed he was to blame, calling the speculation “unfair.”
Picerno declined to answer questions about whether the men used drugs. The results of the medical examiner’s toxicology report have not yet been released.
Willis insists he spent the next two days in his house, oblivious to the fact that his friends’ cars were still outside, and only learned they had been killed when the fiancée of one of the men arrived in broke into the house. the hope of finding him.