Jordan Willis’ father defends him after three friends found dead

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Kansas City man who hosted an NFL watch party at his rental home before three of his friends were found frozen to death in his backyard “didn’t do anything wrong,” his family insisted to The Post Thursday.

“He would never in a million years do anything,” Jordan Willis’ father said of his son as some relatives of the three men have wildly speculated over how they turned up dead.

Willis’ dad said his son is grieving just the same as his friends’ families, some of whom have publicly pointed fingers at Willis and theorized that drugs may be to blame for the deaths of David Harrington, Ricky Johnson and Clayton McGeeney.

Police have said foul play is not suspected and have stressed that it is not yet clear whether drugs were involved as detectives await autopsy and toxicology reports.

Harrington, Johnson and McGeeney were at Willis’ home on Jan. 7 to watch the Kansas City Chiefs game. The trio were discovered dead in the party host’s yard two days later when McGeeney’s fiancée requested a welfare check.

“These were all good friends of his, these were all people he went to school with and he took them to a football game the day before for the Chiefs,” Willis’ dad said Thursday outside his Kansas City home.

Willis’ attorney, John Picerno, has said Willis had been “asleep on the couch” next to the whirring of a loud fan for two days.

He was also wearing noise-canceling headphones when concerned family members came calling, the lawyer said.

He allowed police to search his rental home, leading to the gruesome discovery, which Willis said was the first he learned of his friends’ deaths.

Willis’ dad’s defense of his son comes just hours after Harrington’s own father said he’s “not buying” Willis’ version of what happened. 

“[Harrington’s mother] and I are both convinced that Jordan Willis played a part in this somehow,” Jon Harrington said Thursday.

“There were four of you in the house and now three of them are dead and you’re not. That doesn’t add up,” he added, theorizing that the men witnessed “something that they shouldn’t have seen” before they died.