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Keith Harrington

Case from Dana Point, CA dated Aug 19, 1980

Victim Details

Keith Harrington

Male

White / Caucasian

Dana Point

CA

1980-08-19

24

Keith

Harrington

08/22/2026

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In the quiet, upscale gated community of Niguel Shores in Dana Point, California, a young couple's promising future was brutally extinguished on August 19, 1980. Keith Eli Harrington, a 24-year-old medical student at the University of California, Irvine, and his wife, Patrice Briscoe Harrington, 27, a pediatric trauma nurse, were found murdered in the home they had been married in just three months prior. Keith's father, Roger Harrington, made the horrifying discovery after he went to check on t ...
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