Two days before their bodies were found, McGeeney, Harrington, Johnson went over to Willis’s to watch the Chiefs defeat the Los Angeles Chargers. Picerno maintains Willis, 38, went to bed while his friends and a fourth guest lingered in his home, wished them a good night and got in bed at the end of a day whose low temperature was 29F.
Temperatures remained below freezing during the next two days while Willis worked from home and believed his friends left safely, Picerno’s statement said. During that time, Picerno said, Willis did not receive any calls or texts from people looking for his friends, who had not been heard from since going to Willis’s home.
Picerno’s statement said Willis did not immediately see one direct message sent to him on social media about at least one of the disappearances, according to the Kansas City Star newspaper. The statement said Willis failed to notice when a couple of people came over looking for the men, because he wore earphones and kept a loud fan on while sleeping.
The cars of two of the missing men were parked on his street, but Picerno said Willis just did not see them. Even if he had, Picerno said, Willis would not have thought it was unusual for his friends to leave their cars behind overnight.
Picerno said Willis did not realize his friends had died until after police showed up at his door. McGeeney’s fianc?e had broken into Willis’s basement and found the corpse of one of his friends on his back porch, police told reporters, as the Kansas City Star reported.
She called police out to Willis’s home, and they discovered the bodies of his two other friends.
Investigators have said they found no obvious signs of violence at or near Willis’s home, and a Kansas City police captain told Fox News Digital the case was not being treated as a triple homicide.