“Something Went Wrong”: The Double Murder That Austin Nearly Forgot

“Something Went Wrong”: The Double Murder That Austin Nearly Forgot

Stephen Harrigan met John White while a student at the University of Texas. He remembers him well, but Harrigan has “often wondered whether my memory of John White is so vivid because of the power of that first impression—or because only a week or so later he was murdered.” White was brutally killed along with his new girlfriend, Keitha Morris, during a trip to Bull Creek, a shallow stream to the west of Austin. The tragedy shook the whole commu…