It will be six weeks before the toxicology results come back for three friends found dead in the backyard of a Missouri house, a police sergeant told Newsweek.
Homicide is not suspected in the case, leading to speculation about what happened the night that the friends visited the home of Jordan Willis, a laboratory scientist.
Sergeant Phil DiMartino of the Kansas City Police Department said there is no exact time yet on when the results will come back.
"The last we were told was six weeks," he said.
DiMartino would not say whether Willis was handcuffed when police went to his house on January 9.
"This information would be part of an ongoing investigation," he said.
On January 9, the bodies of David Harrington, 37, Ricky Johnson, 38, and Clayton McGeeney, 36, were found in Willis' backyard in Kansas City.
They had apparently been there since January 7, when the three men visited Willis to watch the Kansas City Chiefs play the Los Angeles Chargers.
Ricky Johnson's family has hired a private detective amid a seemingly stalled police investigation and an intense public debate about what happened to the men.
On January 31, NewsNation interviewed Caleb McGeeney, Clayton McGeeney's cousin, who suggested that Willis was known for using his lab skills to create synthetic drugs and that he (was) "f**ked up" on the night the men called over. Newsweek has not been able to verify the allegation.
McGeeney was speaking after a video emerged online of Willis speaking to police after the three bodies were found in his backyard.
The grainy, nighttime video shows Willis allegedly handcuffed and talking to police, according to NewsNation reporter Alex Caprariello, who posted the video on Tuesday. Willis was later questioned by Kansas City police and released.
Neighbor Ashton Brady, who recorded the video on his phone, told NewsNation that he was locking up his house for the night when he noticed something strange across the street.
"I saw a woman come out the backyard on her phone, and she looked distressed cause she kept looking back at the house," Brady said.
Ten minutes later, Brady said an ambulance and three police cars arrived, so he started recording with his phone.
Newsweek has reached out to Brady via Facebook and Instagram for comment.
"The police searched the house, went to the backyards, everything, and I had no idea what had happened," Brady told NewsNation. "The next morning I saw the news. I just was kind of in disbelief."
A spokesperson for the Kansas City Police Department previously told Inside Edition Digital that "there were no obvious signs of foul play observed at or near the crime scene," and stressed that this is "100 percent not being investigated as a homicide."
A spokesperson for the department said there have been no arrests or charges in connection to the deaths and that no one had been taken into custody.
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