House where Kansas City Chiefs fans partied has large windows facing yard where 3 froze to death
The Kansas City house where three Chiefs fans froze to death in the backyard has several large windows facing the area where three men died — apparently unseen by a friend who was inside for days.
Real estate photos from the home’s interior show five sets of wide ground-floor windows overlooking the backyard where the frozen corpses of Jordan Willis’ three friends languished for two days.
Two more windows overlook the yard from the bedrooms upstairs, photos show.
Willis’ three friends — Clayton McGeeney, 36, David Harrington, 37, and Ricky Johnson, 38 — were found dead in the home’s backyard by police on January 9, two days after they were last seen watching a football game at the house on January 7.
Willis initially didn’t respond to any concerned messages or even people knocking at his door seeking answers.
Cops went to the Missouri house for a welfare check after McGeeney’s fiancée finally called for help because he never came home.
Everything to know about the 3 Kansas City Chiefs fans who froze to death outside their friend's home
Three Kansas City Chiefs fans were found frozen to death in the backyard of their friend’s home on Jan. 9, where they had gathered to watch a football game.
The bodies of David Harrington, 37, Ricky Johnson, 38, and Clayton McGeeney, 36, had possibly been there for two days.
Jordan Willis, the man renting the home, insisted he had “no knowledge” of the fate of his friends.
Willis’ lawyer said the man was “asleep on the couch” for two days while his friends’ loved ones frantically tried to contact him.
“This case is 100% NOT being investigated as a homicide,” Kansas City police Capt. Jake Becchina told Fox News Digital.
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- Kansas City Chiefs fan found dead did not use drugs, was ‘murdered,’ longtime girlfriend says
- House where Kansas City Chiefs fans partied has large windows facing yard where 3 froze to death
- 5th Kansas City Chiefs fan at party where 3 friends were later found frozen to death ID’d: report
- Parents of Chiefs fan found frozen to death alongside 2 friends in yard think trio was drugged, ‘dragged’ outside by scientist pal: ‘He concocted something’
- Drugs a possibility in grisly Kansas City Chiefs fans’ freezing deaths outside home, doctor says
When Kansas City Police arrived they were met at the door by Willis holding a wine glass, insisting he had no idea his three friends had been dead in his yard the past two days.
But photos from inside the house show that unless all blinds were closed it would have been difficult for Willis not to see into the backyard.
Two sets of large windows and a windowed door occupy the wall of the living room facing the backyard, and an opening from the kitchen into the living room lines up directly with those three windows.
There is also a double-wide window directly over the kitchen sink.
Around the corner from the kitchen, a room with double windows on three sides juts out from the house and peers into the backyard.
A set of full-length sliding glass doors overlook the length of the back patio, where one of the bodies was found.
Willis owns two dogs, according to a 2022 professional profile.
His attorney, John Picerno, claimed the dogs were at his parents’ home when the Chiefs fans froze to death outside.
Picerno said Willis had been “asleep on the couch” next to the whirring of a loud fan for two days.
He was also wearing noise-canceling headphones when concerned family members came calling, the lawyer said.
The day before, however, Picerno said Willis had been sleeping in his bedroom on January 7 and 8, only leaving the room “sporadically” and not leaving the house at all. It is unclear whether there was a couch in Willis’ bedroom.
Temperatures hovered in the 30s on January 7 and 8 and several inches of snow fell in Kansas City on January 9, but records from WeatherUnderground indicate there was no significant accumulation in the neighborhood the day after the friends went missing in the backyard.
Kansas City Police have said they are “100%” not looking into the deaths as a homicide, and that Willis has been cooperative since they became involved.
“There were no obvious signs of foul play observed at or near the crime scene,” police noted in a report. “The resident at the house was cooperative with detectives the day the deceased were discovered.”
Some have speculated that the group may have become sedated after combining some kind of drugs with alcohol, then passed out in the cold after stepping outside.
“It’s one thing for a person to tragically end up in a snowdrift after leaving a bar. But it’s a completely different story for three people to end up dead sitting on somebody’s back porch after a party,” Dr. Caleb Alexander, an epidemiologist specializing in drug use and safety at Johns Hopkins University, told The Post.
“It certainly could be consistent with opioids, benzodiazepines, antihistamines, barbiturates, muscle relaxants,” he said.
The doctor added that until a toxicology report comes out there will be no way to tell what exect;y happened to the men.
“There are dozens of potential prescription drugs that when combined with alcohol could cause a level of sedation that would lead to ultimately freezing to death,” the doctor said.
