NFL fan who hosted party where three friends froze to death checks into rehab
The Kansas City Chiefs fan who hosted a watch party where three of his friends froze to death in his backyard has checked into rehab.
Jordan Willis is reported to be looking to tackle his addiction in rehab, following the tragic freezing deaths of his three pals, which a family friend has described as an "enormous, heartbreaking wake-up call."
"After the shocking loss of three of his close friends under extremely tragic circumstances, Jordan recognised that he had a problem with addiction," the source revealed to Fox News Digital.
The bodies of Ricky Johnson, 38, Clayton McGeeney, 36, and David Harrington, 37, were found outside Willis' Kansas City home on the evening of January 9, nearly 48 hours after arriving for the party. They were last seen alive inside the house at a watch party for the Chiefs game against the Los Angeles Chargers on January 7. Mystery surrounds what happened and Mr Willis was said to have not responded to attempts at communication from the missing men's worried families, nor did he make a report to police.
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Clayton McGeeney was discovered dead, with two friends, days after going to a football watch party (Clayton McGeeney / Facebook)A neighbour shared with Fox News Digital that they saw two of the now-deceased men arrive at Willis' house with two 30-packs of beer that night.
Alex Weamer-Lee, another man present at the watch party, left Willis' house around 11pm on January 7 as the four other men were watching "Jeopardy!," his lawyer, Andrew Talge, told FOX4 Kansas City.
"He doesn't know what happened," Talge said. "We don't know anything until the toxicology reports come back, if they show anything... these men were my client's good friends."
There are conflicting reports that, after the deaths were discovered, Weamer-Lee may have texted other people about drug use at Willis' house during the watch party.
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Ricky Johnson was also tragically lost that day (Facebook)The Kansas City Police Department has confirmed to Fox News Digital that the case is "100% not being investigated as a homicide," and no foul play is suspected in the men's deaths.
Medical and law enforcement experts previously suggested to Fox News Digital that substances such as fentanyl, a fentanyl analog or even a synthetic easily mistaken for marijuana like K2 could have contributed to the men's deaths, causing them to pass out in the snow and succumb to hypothermia.
David Harrington, 37, was found dead outside pal Jordan Willis’ home on Jan. 9 (David Harrington / Facebook)However, family members of the deceased have accused Willis, 38, of playing a more active role in his friends' deaths after he failed to report the dead men in his backyard to police or answer alleged repeated attempts at communication. Family members of the missing men claim they even phoned the house and knocked on the door across two days, but he did not answer.
One man's worried fiancee made a call to the Kansas City Police Department around 8.51pm on January 9 after she found one of the men's bodies on Willis' property. According to family members, she broke into the man's house after he failed to answer messages or his front door as she searched for her partner for days.
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Jordan Willis pictured is an award-winning HIV scientist who has moved home and deleted all of his social media after three of his friends were mysteriously found dead on his property (Github)Willis' lawyer, John Picerno, has stated that Willis, an HIV-researcher with the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative, works from home and slept with noise-cancelling headphones for "a lot of" the two days following the Chiefs watch party.
Willis escorted the men out of his home before going to bed after the Chiefs game, Picerno said, and it was not abnormal for his friends to leave their cars on his street. Willis' dogs were at his dad's house, so he didn't need to go out in the snow, his lawyer said. He only found out about the tragedy when the police knocked on his door.
Picerno mentioned that Willis left his home on Northwest 83rd Terrace fearing revenge after his friends' deaths hit the news. Neighbours told Fox News Digital that they saw two men packing his stuff into a U-Haul shortly after his friends' bodies were found.
On Wednesday, a source close to Willis' family said his belongings are now in storage. They added that he will "still cooperate with the police department in their investigation."
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