The man at the center of wild speculation about what happened to three friends found dead outside his home after watching a Kansas City Chiefs game earlier his month has checked himself into rehab.
A source close to the family told Fox News that Jordan Willis, 38, was “facing his addiction head-on” and that the deaths of his three friends was an “enormous, heartbreaking wake-up call.”
The bodies of Ricky Johnson, 38; Clayton McGeeney, 36; and David Harrington, 37, were found outside Willis’s home in Kansas City, Missouri, on January 9, two days after they and another man, who left before the others, had gathered at Willis’s home for Chiefs game with the Los Angeles Chargers.
A neighbor told Fox that two of the now-dead men showed up and Willis’s house with two 30-packs of beer.
Police are still awaiting autopsy and toxicology results to determine their next steps. The toxicology tests will take six to eight weeks and the autopsies 12 weeks, authorities said.
“After the shocking loss of three of his close friends under extremely tragic circumstances, Jordan recognized that he had a problem with addiction,” the source told Fox News on Wednesday. “He immediately checked himself into rehab after vacating his home and putting his things into storage.”
Family members of some of the dead men have accused Willis of poisoning them or being involved in some other way, with Harrington’s girlfriend claiming the three were murdered, with no evidence to support the claim, as CrimeOnline has reported.
Police have said they have seen no evidence of foul play in the men’s deaths. The circumstances surrounding the discovery of the bodies, however, has led to accusations of Willis’s involvement in the deaths.
When the men failed to respond to texts and phone calls — including Willis — one man’s fiancee went to the house and broke in. She found a body in the backyard and called police.
Police arrived and found the three men. They questioned Willis, but he has not been charged with a crime, prompting the men’s families to go ballistic and spread rumors as far as the tabloid press will carry them.
Willis’s attorney, John Picerno, said that his client works from home and slept with noise canceling headphones for much of the two days after the football game. He did not go to his snow-covered backyard and did not see the men’s vehicles still parked on the street outside, Picerno said.
The Kansas City Police Department told Fox that the case is “100% not being investigated as a homicide.”
The source who told Fox Willis had checked into rehab said he still planned to fully cooperate with the investigation.
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[Featured image: David Harrington, Clayton McGeeney, and Ricky Johnson/Facebook]
