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We go into great detail with every case that we cover and do our best to bring viewers

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Trigger warnings from the stories we cover may include violence, rape, murder, and offenses against children.

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It's December 20, 1973.

In a major film called Magnum Force has just been released in theaters around America.

The film stars Clint Eastwood, who plays Inspector Harry Callahan,

a man on the hunt for a group of vigilante police officers that are murdering people in San Francisco.

An Ogden Utah hundreds of people piling to the movie theaters

and anxiously eat their popcorn as the movie intensifies.

In one scene, a Pemp Force's Drainow down a prostitute's throat,

and she instantly dies from the toxic chemicals.

While most people in the theater are disturbed by the scene,

there's one man watching who is inspired.

In fact, he would return to that theater at least three more times just to watch that specific scene.

That life imitates art, and in this case, the man watching the film decided to carry out his own version of Magnum Force against a group of people inside of a store in Ogden Utah.

But his imitation of this film was far worse than what was shown on the big screen.

In fact, the murders inside of the high-fi store would go on to be one of the most disturbing hostage situations in United States history.

This is the story of the high-fi murders.

I'm Courtney Rowan, and I'm Colin Brown.

We're listening to Murder in America.

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