Two unemployed friends from Dundee loved the film Dirty Harry so much they used it as inspiration to commit their own set of crimes.



Their first step was to get some guns, which directly led to one of them killing a local shop manager with 48 strikes of an axe. 



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References/Further Reading:
 
Websites:
https://www.ddtours.co.uk/archive/gordon-johnston-1989/
https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/11970054.two-jailed-for-life-after-atrocity-at-gun-shop/
https://www.eveningtelegraph.co.uk/2014/01/31/gows-of-dundee-owner-the-store-meant-everything-to-me/
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/nude-calendar-photo-of-killer-is-condemned-c2g22tkmhdk
Newspapers:
Glasgow Herald: https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2507&dat=19891125&id=2DNAAAAAIBAJ&sjid=UFkMAAAAIBAJ&pg=4317,2186038&hl=en

 
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Music used in this episode:  All music used is sourced from http://freemusicarchive.org/ or http://www.opsound.org/ and is used under an Attribution Licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
 
Playlist Tracks:
PYROMANIAC (ARSONIST EDIT) by Pablo Perez.
http://www.opsound.org/artist/pabloperez/
https://infopablo00.blogspot.mx/
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