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A fifth person now claims he was at the home where three Kansas City Chiefs fans were found dead in the backyard, reportedly frozen to death, two weeks ago.
The three men who died, identified as Ricky Johnson, 38, Clayton McGeeney, 36, and David Harrington, 37, were found at the home of Jordan Willis two days after they went over there to watch the Chiefs play the Chargers.
Police, who were called to the scene by one of the victims’ fiancée when he failed to return home, initially claimed that there was “no obvious signs of foul play.”
However, when officers arrived at the home Willis claimed he had “no idea” the dead bodies were outside his home.
“They were in the backyard. He doesn’t use that particular door. He goes out in the front. And so, he had no knowledge that they were out there until, you know, Tuesday when he was told that they were out there,” Willis’ attorney John Picerno told NewsNation.
Picerno would later tell NewsNation that Willis was the last person to see the men alive.
“The basic scenario is they had watched the Chiefs game in a couple of different places,” he said. “They went back to his place afterwards to play some video games and hang out. And at some point during that process, he got tired and he fell asleep. … When he woke up, they were gone.”
Two weeks later, John Picerno changed his story again.
Now he claims that a fifth person was still at the home with the other Kansas City Chiefs fans after Willis had gone to sleep.
“At some point, he got tired and went to sleep while there were these guys in the home, and as I know now there was a couple of other people in the home,” Picerno said Monday, Fox 4 KC reports.
However, this fifth man’s attorney says that is not true. After hearing that, Picerno backtracked and claimed that he misspoke.
The fifth man’s attorney says his client said arrived at Willis’ house around 7 p.m. that Sunday and when he left the house around midnight the four men were watching Jeopardy! on TV.
He also claims that on Tuesday he sent a text message to Willis, but never received a response.
Picerno declined to comment on that claim.
“It’s got a lot of holes in it. Like last time he saw them, they were leaving the house, but he didn’t know they had left. That doesn’t make much sense,” Caleb McGeeney, cousin of Clayton McGeeney told Fox 4 KC.
Stephanie Walling, Ricky Johnson’s niece, told NBC News, “I just want to bring awareness to what’s going on to hopefully bring answers out because there is so many questions and not very many answers.”
Jonathan Price, Johnson’s brother, told Fox News this week, “There’s way too many questions still needing to be answered, and nobody can answer those questions. And honestly, except for Jordan [Willis] … the fifth person, he was there, but he wasn’t there after a certain time frame.
“That’s just the stuff that’s not adding up,” he continued. “If you have to change your story, then how do we know at any time where you’re telling the truth? It doesn’t make any sense.”
This is the second time in less than a year, including the infamous “Chiefsaholic,” in which Kansas City Chiefs fans have been caught up in a disturbing mystery involving law enforcement.