The brother of one of the Kansas City Chiefs fans found dead in a friend’s backyard says that one of the men’s frozen bodies was found sitting in a lawn chair, which he says “paints a picture we didn’t have from the beginning.” 

Ricky Johnson, 38; Clayton McGeeney, 36; and David Harrington, 37, were all found dead outside their friend Jordan Willis’ rental home on Jan. 9 after attending an NFL watch party there two days earlier. A fifth man at the party said he left the house around midnight, according to his attorney, while Willis’ lawyer has said he has no knowledge of what happened. 

The Kansas City Police Department has insisted in interviews with Fox News Digital that their deaths are “100% not being investigated as a homicide,” that Willis is not considered a suspect and that he has cooperated fully with investigators.

On Monday, Ricky Johnson’s brother Jonathan Price offered more insight into their confounding deaths in an interview with NewsNation. 

The backyard and porch of Jordan Willis’ home in Kansas City, Missouri on Friday, Jan. 26, 2024. The bodies of Willis’ three friends – Ricky Johnson, Clayton McGeeney and David Harrington – were found in Willis’ backyard, with one body found on the porch, on Jan. 9, 2024, two days after attending a Kansas City Chiefs watch party at the home. (DWS for Fox News Digital)

In an interview with NewsNation last week, Harrington’s mother Jennifer Marquez pleaded for Willis to come forward with more information. 

“I want Jordan to come forward and say you know this wasn’t meant to happen, but this is what happened. I did this, or I saw this, you know, just tell us,” she said. 

Friends and family of the three men allege that they sent numerous calls and messages to Willis in the time period before the bodies were found, even knocking at his front door and calling out for him outside.

Picerno has denied these allegations, first telling Fox News Digital that he only received one message on Facebook Messenger, then telling NewsNation that Willis had only incoming messages – not outgoing messages that would indicate he had seen them before police arrived. 

“I think that’s why he didn’t answer the text messages that people sent him and I think that’s why he waited too long to let anybody know what happened with the men,” Marquez said. “I heard from several people that said they kept texting him, you know they went and knocked on the door, they banged on the door… how could you keep missing texts and people knocking on your door and not notice texts or any of that?”

David Harrington, far left, Clayton McGeeney, second from right, and Ricky Johnson, right, were found dead in their friend’s backyard two days after they had gathered to watch the Kansas City Chiefs game. (Ricky Johnson on Facebook)

Previously, Johnson and Harrington’s parents told Fox News Digital they believe Willis played an active role in their sons’ deaths by “drugging” them or “concocting something.”

Meanwhile, a source close to Willis’ family told Fox News Digital that “the mad scientist agenda is absolutely ridiculous,” and that Willis is “devastated” over the deaths of his friends. 

“Not only is the whole country accusing him of murdering his friends without factual details, evidence or any charges at this time, but he also lost three close friends,” the source, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, told Fox Nation in an exclusive interview Saturday. 

“He didn’t get to say goodbye or go to their funerals due to the circumstances of these wild speculations and accusations.”