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   Thursday marks two months since three long-time high school   
   friends gathered to watch football at a friend's Kansas City   
   home on a frigid January Sunday afternoon.   
      
   It also marks the last time anyone saw them alive.   
      
   Ricky Johnson, 38, David Harrington, 37, and Clayton McGeeney,   
   36, were found dead outside their friend's suburban Missouri   
   home Jan. 9 - two days after the Kansas City Police Department   
   reported they met to watch the game.   
      
   For nearly two months, some - including members of the victims'   
   family - have speculated the trio died because of a drug   
   overdose - potentially one involving fentanyl, a synthetic   
   opioid approved for treating pain often laced into cocaine and   
   other illicit recreational drugs.   
      
   Yet despite officials confirming autopsies were conducted in   
   January on all three men, their respective official cause and   
   manner of death remained a mystery Thursday.   
      
   According to information gathered by USA TODAY Thursday, it   
   appears those results will not be released anytime soon.   
      
   KC triple death investigation timeline:Here's what's happened   
   since 3 football fans were found dead outside a Missouri home   
      
   What's new in the Kansas City three death investigation?   
   On the night of the game, temperatures dipped to 29 degrees, the   
   National Weather Service reported.   
      
   Some 48 hours later, police reported, officers received a call   
   from McGeeney’s fiance´e who said she visited the home after not   
   hearing from him and, when no one answered the door, broke   
   inside and found a dead body out back. When officers arrived,   
   they also found two other men dead in the backyard.   
      
   On Thursday, Kansas City police spokesperson Officer Alayna   
   Gonzalez said no new information had been released publicly in   
   the case.   
      
   "We are still in contact with the Platte County prosecutor's   
   office and the family members as the death investigation   
   continues," Gonzalez told USA TODAY.   
      
   Why have Johnson, Harrington and McGeeney's autopsy results not   
   been released?   
   Autopsy and toxicology results typically take six to eight weeks   
   to be officially released to the public.   
      
   But Lauren McDaniel, with Forensic Medical in Kansas City where   
   the men had their postmortem exams conducted, confirmed the   
   results remained sealed under Missouri law on Thursday.   
      
   "It's a death investigation and, as part of any death   
   investigation, police and prosecutors want to rule out any   
   potential criminal conduct," Platte County District Attorney   
   Eric Zahnd told USA TODAY.   
      
   The prosecutor said the autopsy records remained closed as the   
   investigation remains "active and ongoing."   
      
   Any release of them would constitute a misdemeanor charge,   
   Missouri state statue shows.   
      
   When will Johnson, Harrington and McGeeney's autopsy results be   
   released?   
   Both autopsy and toxicology results in the case will remain   
   closed until the case becomes inactive, the head prosecutor said.   
      
   Zhand said that will take place as soon as:   
      
   He decides not to prosecute the case.   
   The statute of limitations to file criminal charges expires or   
   10 years after the offense date (whichever occurs first).   
   Someone is convicted in connection to "information contained in   
   the investigative records" and the convict's appeal process is   
   exhausted.   
   "I do not know when my office will make a final decision on   
   whether we can file criminal charges" Zahnd said.   
      
   The home where the men were found is rented by a 38-year-old   
   scientist who lives alone and works remotely for a New York   
   hospital, the man's Kansas City-based lawyer, John Picerno   
   previously said.   
      
   USA TODAY is not naming the man who lives in the home where the   
   bodies were found because he has not been arrested or charged   
   with a crime.   
      
   Parents previously spoke out   
   According to their obituaries, McGeeney, Johnson and Harrington   
   graduated from Park Hill High School and, according to Picerno,   
   had been friends since a young age.   
      
   In an interview with NewsNation’s Chris Cuomo, posted on Cuomo's   
   Facebook page Feb. 2, Theresa Harrington and her husband, John   
   Harrington, spoke about their son and if they thought drugs   
   including fentanyl played a factor in his death.   
      
   The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration considers a lethal dose   
   of fentanyl to be 2 milligrams.   
      
      
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