Keegan Harroz: Former defense attorney to testify against former lover in triple murder in which both are charged
She went from aspiring, successful attorney to accused killer when she got entangled in a love affair with a dangerous client
A former defense attorney has now become a prosecution witness against her lover as they both face accusations of committing a triple murder in 2019.
Keegan Harroz, 38-years-old at the time, met Barry Titus II, a 40-year-old man facing domestic violences charges from his ex-girlfriend when he hired her to defend him in court. The two became lovers over the course of that time, according to court documents.
Now, Harroz will testify against him during the upcoming trial the two will face for the first-degree murders of Titus’ ex-girlfriend, Tiffany Eichor, and her parents, USA Today reports.
On Sept. 7, 2019, at about 3 a.m., police say that someone shut the electricity off and kicked in the front door to the home of Eichor and her parents, 65-year-old Jack Chandler and his wife, Evelynn Kaye Chandler, 69. A security camera caught footage of two people walking up from the road, USA Today notes.
The District Attorney’s Office announced in 2022 that they would seek the death penalty for both defendants, describing them as remorseless and threats to society.
Titus was originally scheduled to face trial on March 31, 2025, but his attorneys asked the judge on March 11 for Harroz’s statement to prosecutors and her plea agreement “without a protective order in place,” according to court documents obtained by USA Today.
However, District Judge Pandee Ramirez issued a protective order over the statement, and sealed the defense’s request for the statement and the protective order, noting that a “compelling privacy interest” outweighed public interest in the records. References to Harroz’s statement and plea agreement were also removed from the docket sheet.
A March 6 legal filing by the prosecution, now also sealed, had already revealed that Harroz would be testifying for them, in which they asked the judge to bar any defense testimony that would bring up Harroz’s violent acts of the past during Titus’ trial.
“While Ms. Harroz’s credibility is certainly subject to impeachment, and rightfully so, the impeachment process is governed by the evidence code. These incidences do no go to her character for truthfulness or untruthfulness, her bias against the Defendant, or her motive for testifying. They cannot even be asked about on cross-examination,” the district attorney told the judge, according to USA Today.
Titus is denying any involvement in the murders, and has had his trial postponed due to his request to have the judge disqualified, claiming the judge is biased to favor the prosecution.
The Crime
The District Attorney’s office sent out a press release on April 8, 2021 which announced the charges against the couple, and outlined details of the murders. On Sept. 7, 2019, a family member went to the home of Jack Chandler and his wife, Kaye, where they lived with their daughter, Tiffany Eichor, at 6450 Lakeview Circle Road.
The release says that both police and the District 25 Violent Crime Task Force (VCTF) were summoned to the scene. The family member who found the bodies told investigators that Tiffany’s ex-boyfriend, Barry Titus, had been causing the family problems.
The crime scene soon told its harrowing story: police found that the three victims “had been shot multiple times with at least two different caliber weapons,” the release says. Multiple shell casings, 5.56 caliber and 9 mm, were both found at the scene. The perpetrators seemingly forced their way through the front door by kicking it in.
Digital surveillance cameras on the home recorded some of the events leading up the murders, the release says. The suspects arrived at the home in a light colored vehicle. Harroz owned a 2010 silver or light-colored Lexus Sedan registered in her name. Two people left the car after parking in the roadway southeast of the Chandler home. One person was a tall male, with the second person being smaller and shorter than the other. They approached the home on foot, then the video cuts out.
Investigators determined that the suspects pulled the electric meter before kicking the door in to get inside, the release says. Upon examining the clock on the stove once power was restored, investigators figured out the power was disconnected at about 3:04 a.m., leading them to believe the murders happened around that time.
Once inside the home, the suspects shot each family member, one by one, as they slept in their own beds, according to a KFOR report which cites court documents from April 2022 in which the prosecution announced their intentions to seek the death penalty should the couple be convicted.
Evelynn Chandler, Tiffany’s 69-year-old mother, watched her husband be shot to death as the home intruders opened fire upon entering the bedroom, before they turned the guns on her, the court documents allege. She tried to hide in the closet while her husband was murdered.
Tiffany, the main target of the brutal slaying, “suffered serious physical abuse, torture and pain prior to and during the course of her death,” the court documents reveal. Her parents were murdered simply because they would have gotten in the way of killing Tiffany.
A dark-colored ball cap had been left behind at the scene, as well as other items from which investigators collected DNA swabs. They were all submitted to the OSBI Laboratory for analysis. A notice to investigators revealed that the DNA from the ball cap hit a match in CODIS (Combined DNA Index System) to none other than Barry Titus.
Police later found that Titus allegedly assaulted Tiffany “on at least two previous occasions” and felony charges sat pending against him for one of those assaults, the release continues. Court records revealed that Tiffany also took out a protection order against her ex.
Barry Titus’s defense attorney for both the felony and protective order cases was none other than Keegan Kelly Harroz, who was also allegedly his wife by this time, the release says.
The couple tried to set up an alibi for the time of the murders by checking into the Red Roof Inn in Plano, Texas on the night of Sept. 6, 2019, after having dinner with Harroz’s family, USA Today notes.
Prosecutors believe Harroz and Titus drove the three hours back to Oklahoma to commit the murders before returning to Plano, and provided surveillance camera footage from surrounding businesses and a toll booth between the two places.
Harroz not only legally defended Titus — she tried to destroy his ex-girlfriend, too
This wasn’t the first time police had been called to this home, according to the release. In January 2019, the Chandlers found a suspicious package containing “a powdery substance” under their porch. Any tests on the substance to identity a controlled substance came back negative, however.
While investigating the homicides, a man facing a drug trafficking case in Oklahoma County came forward to admit that he had planted that package. Jose Uribe explained that he had been working with law enforcement in order to get a lighter sentence, trying to provide the prosecution with helpful information.
It appears, however, that his defense attorney, Keegan Harroz, tried to use him instead of help him. Harroz approached Uribe in January 2019 to ask him to plant the package, which he believed to be methamphetamine, at the Chandler home. She allegedly told him this was act of revenge against someone living there who would be testifying against one of her other clients. The powder later turned out to be sugar.
According to a Law & Crime report, Titus was facing charges for domestic abuse, assault and battery, strangulation, and kidnapping. Tiffany had also previously accused Titus of threatening her family.
Harroz allegedly took this one step further by telling Uribe to contact his handler with the Drug Task Force to tell them that drugs were being sold out of the home, the release says.
On Sept. 13, 2019, Harroz was charged for Witness Intimidation and arrested that same day. The charges remain pending.
Also on that day, Harroz’s brother, Jacoby Kelley, living in Saches, Texas, called investigators and handed over an AR15 rifle he told them he believed was used in a triple homicide in Beggs, Oklahoma. But he wouldn’t say anything more. Officers confiscated the rifle and turned it over to the District 25 VCTF.
The E-Trace conducted on the weapon revealed the original purchaser, who lives on a rural area property that has a shooting range, the release says. He told police that “he had purchased the receiver and built the rifle” before selling it to Barry Titus. Titus and Harroz allegedly went to the property to see the rifle before buying it.
“He further stated that during the negotiations, both Titus and Harroz fired the rifle. Once the transaction was completed, Harroz retrieved a second AR15 from the vehicle they arrived in, and both she and Titus fired this second rifle with the ammunition they had brought with them,” the release explains.
The man showed investigators where the rifles had been fired and advised them that no one else had fired any other weapons there since Titus and Harroz’s visit, the release says. Officers collected shell casings and two different kinds of 5.56 ammunition from the area.
“It was determined that the shell casings fired from the rifle Keegan Harroz retrieved from the vehicle matched those shell casings seized from the crime scene,” the release says.
In early October 2019, KFOR reports that investigators searched Harroz’s home for a second time right as her brother was subpoenaed to testify before a grand jury. At Harroz’s apartment, investigators seized a pair of boots they believed could match footprints they found at the murder scene.
A history of violence: Harroz’s ex-boyfriend called her and Titus “a match made in hell.”
Keegan Harroz had a promising future as an in-demand defense attorney. PEOPLE describes her reputation as a lawyer who would create a strong case for her clients and go the extra mile.
She graduated from Oklahoma City University School of Law in 2010, according to her LinkedIn profile. Harroz spent a year working as a law clerk after that before becoming a legal intern for the public defender’s office in Oklahoma County. She remained with that office to become an assistant public defender.
As of March 2014, LinkedIn shows that she was the owner of Harroz Law, establishing her office in Oklahoma City.
Throughout her years as an attorney, Harroz wasn’t a stranger to being the offender, PEOPLE reports. In May 2014, she was charged with domestic assault on her husband at the time, Nicholas Harroz, allegedly kicking him twice in the face. She also faced charges for assault and battery on a police officer.
PEOPLE cites the affidavit from that case: “The reporting officer documented that the [victim] had blood on his left ear, swollen lumps on his face, and abrasions to his forehead, cheek, and bridge of his nose.” The charges were later dropped.
She met Titus in 2018 when she began representing him for drug and firearm charges. Titus was a former crane operator. When Eichor charged him for the assault and filed the protection order, Harroz continued representing him on that case, too.
David Bedford, Harroz’s ex-boyfriend and former law partner, told PEOPLE that “her decision-making went down the tubes” when she began dating Titus.
“Not showing up at work. Her attitude was indifferent. She was not communicating. She started changing,” he said, adding that he filed a bar complaint against her.
“It was a match made in hell,” Bedford said of Harroz and Titus.
Lisa Weiszmiller said she met Harroz in 2013 at a veteran’s diversion program. Upon ending up in the hospital due to back surgery, Harroz picked her up, got medications for her, took her home and even cleaned her house.
In May 2019, though, Weiszmiller saw a different version of Harroz, PEOPLE says. She went to Harroz’s home to prepare for the case for which Harroz was representing her, but Weiszmiller said that it never happened, because Harroz was fixated on Titus.
Weiszmiller found out about Harroz’s arrest when a friend messaged her.
“She had texted me a picture of Keegan being arrested. She said, ‘Isn’t that a friend of yours?’ I said, ‘That’s my lawyer on top of it.’ I never got my file back. I never got my stuff back from her. I never got my collateral back from her,” Weiszmiller stated.
Tiffany Eichor was the woman simply trying to escape her ex
Eichor and Titus began dating in August 2017 after meeting on Tinder. The relationship was brief, but apparently tumultuous, according to a News On 6 report. A month later, Eichor claimed the abuse started. Titus would allegedly kick her, hit her, and strangle her as a way to “test her.” She also accused him of getting her involved in meth and heroin.
Three months into the relationship, Eichor said that Titus beat her so severely he hospitalized her. She had cracked ribs, a lacerated liver, lacerated kidney, and bruises covered her arms, legs, stomach and neck. Titus would pour water on her when she would pass out, she told police. When she awoke, he would beat and strangle her until she passed out again.
She didn’t cooperate with police at the time, News on 6 notes, so no charges were filed. She went to visit him in a Colorado prison in February 2018, and as they drove back to Oklahoma, she claimed he pistol-whipped her. They stopped in Amarillo on the way, where a witness called the cops to tell them Titus was beating her again. Eichor still wasn’t ready to press charges against him.
She told police in May 2018 that she had gone no-contact with Titus. Counseling had helped her gain the strength to finally go to the police about the abuse, she said.
In October 2018, Titus was charged with assault. News on 6 says that Eichor filed the protection order against her ex in June 2019, five months after the strange package arrived at her parents’ home.
Titus and Harroz have both been charged with three counts of first-degree murder and one count of burglary in the first degree, the DA’s release says. The arrest warrants were served while the couple were in prison on other charges.
Harroz was sentenced to years in federal prison for possessing a firearm after a victim protection order was filed against her, KFOR reports.
Law & Crime notes that Harroz is no longer listed under the Oklahoma Bar Association after the court issued an interim suspension against her on Feb. 10, 2021, and further suspected on June 7, 2021 for what court documents say was failure “to comply with mandatory legal education requirements for the year 2020” and failure to pay bar fees for 2021.
As of now, USA Today says that no trial date has been scheduled for Harroz.
Sources
KFOR
Oklahoma Department of Justice
People Magazine