Sublime True Crime

18: Ep 18 - The Dirty Harry Wannabes

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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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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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PYROMANIAC (ARSONIST EDIT) by Pablo Perez.
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https://infopablo00.blogspot.mx/
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