Harris, along with Kenneth Scott Frazier, forced their way into Vietnamese immigrant Trang Nguyen's house, threatening her with a knife in front of her three children.
Harris was friends with Elaine de Jong, who was the sister of 62-year-old Peter Wennerbom.
On 17 October 1998 Harris went to the house of 33-year-old Yvonne Ford, who had a mild intellectual handicap.
[2] The following evening he borrowed Elaine de Jong's car and drove Galvin's body to nearby Uranquinty.
[2] She declined to sentence him to life imprisonment without parole due to his confessions and guilty pleas, and psychiatric evaluations finding that Harris had avoidant, schizoid and schizotypal personality disorder and could possibly be rehabilitated with psychological counselling.
Justice Wood, Chief Judge at Common Law, noted that "I am of the view that the criminality of the respondent, and the level of his dangerousness, are such that, notwithstanding the principles there discussed, it is necessary for the Court to intervene".