The longtime girlfriend of one of three Kansas City Chiefs fans found dead after an NFL game party says her boyfriend was not using drugs and believes she and their friends were “murdered.” ” he claimed.
The body of David Harrington, 37, Laurie Kruse’s boyfriend of 17 years, was found on January 25th, along with high school friends Ricky Johnson, 38, and Clayton McGeeney, 36. , was frozen in the backyard of Jordan Willis’ home in Kansas City. 9.
They were last seen alive two days ago inside a house watching a game between the Chiefs and Los Angeles Chargers. Willis said he has no idea what happened to his friends.
Kansas City police told Fox News Digital their deaths were “100% not being investigated as homicides” and Willis has not been charged with a crime. But Kruse insisted in an interview Friday with News Nation’s Chris Cuomo that Harrington’s death was not an accident.
“David was murdered,” she told Mr. Cuomo. “Those three were killed.”
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David Harrington (far left), Clayton McGeeney (second from right), and Ricky Johnson (right) in a friend’s backyard two days after gathering to watch a Kansas City Chiefs game. He was found dead. (Ricky Johnson on Facebook)
“I don’t know if Jordan gave them what they’re talking about,” she continued. “David wasn’t a drug addict like people say…David didn’t do that.”
“Maybe they were drinking and ingested something,” she continued. “But I know David wouldn’t accept that.”
Willis’ attorney, John Picerno, told Fox News Digital that Willis was working from home and was arrested by police around 8 a.m. after allegedly escorting friends from his home after a Chiefs game on Jan. 7. He said he had been asleep for most of the time until a knock came on his door. His body was discovered on his property at 51:00 pm on January 9th. So despite having a large window overlooking the backyard, Picerno said he didn’t notice his friends in the snow.
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An exterior view of the backyard and porch of Jordan Willis’ home in Kansas City, Missouri, on Friday, January 26, 2024. The bodies of three of Willis’ friends, Ricky Johnson, Clayton McGeeney, and David Harrington, were found in Willis’ home. On January 9, 2024, two days after attending a game party at the home of the Kansas City Chiefs, a body was found on a porch in a backyard. (Delbert Shaw, Fox News Digital)
McGeeney’s fiance called police on January 9 after discovering one of the bodies in Willis’ backyard, the family said. She said her texts and calls were not returned and her knocks on her door went unanswered, so she became desperate and broke onto her property.
“Three men lay dead in the garden, [Jordan] I slept for 48 hours,” Kruse told Cuomo.
“I’ve heard of Jordan before, but I’ve never met him. I’ve heard so many terrible things about him,” she said. “I don’t know the truth…David has never talked about Jordan. I’ve only heard the name Jordan when he was talking to friends…I’ve never heard a story about Jordan at all. I don’t think so.”
He also told Cuomo that Willis was “using drugs,” but did not provide further details.
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Laurie Kruse, David Harrington’s girlfriend of 17 years, said her partner was not a drug user and speculated that his death was no accident. (Facebook)
Harrington’s mother, Jennifer Marquez, also disputed claims that intentional drug use could have played a role in Harrington’s death, saying her son was not a drug addict.
“I think Jordan knows,” Marquez told Cuomo. “And I’m asking Jordan to come forward and tell the truth because he knows what happened that night… He’s the only one who can give our entire family peace.”
In a previous interview, Marquez told FOX News Digital that her son was “smoking and drinking beer with friends,” but that she didn’t believe her son had overdosed. [is going to] It all has to do with what we learn about his death. ”
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Family and friends of Clayton McGeeney (left), David Harrington and Ricky Johnson (right) speak out after the trio mysteriously died in the frigid temperatures outside a friend’s home in Kansas City. and are crying out for answers. (Facebook)
“Yes, I believe something happened that night and Jordan had something to do with it,” Marquez said. “We all believe Jordan had something to do with it.”
“I don’t believe in anything,” Harrington’s father, John Harrington, told Fox News Digital. [Willis’] says the lawyer. ”
”[Harrington’s mother] I also believe that Jordan Willis was involved in this in some way,” the elder Harrington said Thursday. . . . What else could there be? Perfectly healthy humans do not just disappear from the face of the earth. ”
After speaking with the Platte County Prosecutor’s Office, Harrington’s father said, “We hope the police will treat this as a drug overdose and continue their work.”
“Perfectly healthy humans do not just disappear from the face of the earth.”
“But I don’t think it’s that simple,” he said. “I know they may have used questionable drugs, but the idea was to get high, not die…If they were supposed to be friends, why didn’t they?” Is that so?” [Willis] Come and find out. I’m sure they have a hundred different answers to that, but that’s my question. ”
A spokesperson for Frontier Forensic Midwest, the private company that Platte County contracted to perform the autopsy, told Fox News that the results of the man’s toxicology report will take six to eight weeks, but a full autopsy report will not be available. He said it would not be made public in the next period. 10-12 weeks.
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Kansas City Police Department Lt. Jacob Becchina told FOX News Digital last week:[es] “We do not expect any additional information to be released prior to the coroner’s findings. A determination on the cause of death is the next step in determining what additional investigative work is needed.”
