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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvin_Heemeyer
- Name Marvin John Heemeyer
- Birth October 28 1951.
- date of death and rampage june 4 2004 age 52
- The type of bulldozer was a komatsu D355A
- Was a welder and owner of a muffler repair shop
- Lived in grand lake colorado, 16 miles from granby colorado
- Known by most as a very kind and friendly man, but according to one individual he was
threatened over a dispute about a muffler repair.
- Marvin moved to the area without any family or anything in the area, it seems to be a
mystery why he mover to the granby green lake area.
- In 1992 Marvin purchased 2 acres of land from the resolution trust company for $42,000,
this land would be used for his muffler shop
- He agreed to sell this land to Cody Docheff the owner of the infamous concrete plant, the
original agreed price was $250,000, which was then raised to $375,000 and then later
tried to negotiate for approximately 1 million. All before the zoning commision of town
hall.
- In 2001 the zoning commision approved construction of a concrete batch plant that
Heemeyer tried to repeal the construction that was claimed to block the road to his shop.
But was unsuccessful in repeal.
- Heemeyer was fined $2,500 by granby for having junk cars on the property and not
being hooked up to the sewer line. But mainly fined for dumping his waste into the
irrigation ditch.
- Heemeyer had leased his business and sold his land months before the rampage.
- He said the he was a reasonable man who was forced to do unreasonable things, he
was surprised that no one saw the killdozer as it had been in plain sight. As well as many
more notes and audio tapes.
- The killdozer took about a year and a half to prepare.
- Several men had visited the garage during the construction if the killdozer, but never saw
it or never asked about it
- The killdozer was covered with tool steel withe 5000-psi quikrete, making what is called
composite armor. Making it impervious to small arms and resistant to smaller explosives.
With 3 explosive charges being set on the killdozer and 200 rounds of ammo fired at it,
and the killdozer showed no signs of penetration.
- The killdozer had several cameras fitted on the outside of it sourneded in 3 inch bullet
proof plastic, as well as compressed air nozzles to blow off any dust that might get on it.
these cameras were connected to 2 monitors on the dashboard of the killdozer.\
- As well as on board fan and air conditioner to keep the driver cool.
- The killdozer had 3 gunports fitted for a .50 caliber rifle, .308 semi automatic rifle, and a
.22LR rifle, covered by ½ inch steel
- The armor would be lowered on the bulldozer by a crane, and the armor was made so
that once a person inside put it on, the person wouldn’t be getting out.
- It is speculated he used a homemade crane to do this
- The name of the killdozer came from a short story by Theodore Sturgeon
- Heemeyer drove his armored bulldozer through the wall of his former business, the
concrete plant, the Town Hall, the office of the local newspaper that editorialized against
him, the home of a former mayor (in which his widow then resided), and a hardware
store owned by another man Heemeyer named in a lawsuit, as well as a few others.
Owners of all of the buildings that were damaged had some connection to Heemeyer's
disputes.
- The attack lasted for two hours and seven minutes, damaging 13 buildings.
- Damage was estimated at $7 million.
- They used reverse 9-1-1 to tell the citizens of the emergency
- People say that heemeyer went out of his way not to hurt anyone, but it seems not to be
the case he fired 15 bullets at power transformers and propane tanks, which officials say
if these tanks ruptured and exploded anyone with in half a mile would have been in
danger. The sheriff's office also said that heemeyer fired many shots at Cody Docheff the
owner of the concrete batch plant
- Mr Dochef also tried to stop the rampage on his plant by using a Wheel tractor scraper to
stop the killdozer.
- He also fired on 2 state patrol officers before they fired at him
- 11 of the 13 buildings Heemeyer bulldozer were occupied until moments before their
destruction
- In the town library a children's program was underway while it was being destroyed.
- One officer threw a flash bang down the killdozer exhaust pipe with no effect.
- Attempts to shoot the cameras through the 3 inch bullet proof plastic proved to not be
effective.
- Glenn Trainor climbed atop the bulldozer and rode it "like a bronc-buster, trying to figure
out a way to get a bullet inside the dragon"
- Then-governor Bill Owens allegedly considered authorizing the National Guard to use
either an Apache attack helicopter equipped with a Hellfire missile or a two-man fire
team equipped with a Javelin anti-tank missile to destroy the bulldozer, only to deem the
option unnecessary due to Heemeyer getting stuck in the Gambles hardware store.
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- They planned on using a crane to lift the shell of the bulldozer off after they cut a whole
in it.
- City officials said he was angry over a zoning dispute and fines for city code violations at
his business in the town about 50 miles west of Denver.
- He plowed through town hall, a former mayor’s home and at least five other buildings
Friday before the machine ground to a halt in the wreckage of a warehouse.
- Authorities detonated three explosions and fired at least 200 rounds against the heavy
steel plates welded to the bulldozer which showed no effect
- After the third explosive failed the authorities had to use a cutting torch to cut a 1
squarefoot hole inside the bulldozer
- Besides the suicide of marvin heemeyer no other injuries were reported.
- the dozer’s armor plates consisted of two sheets of half-inch steel with a layer of
concrete between them.
- He used a video camera and two monitors found inside to guide the dozer. Two guns
were mounted in front and aimed through portals. Other portals were cut in the back
- Authorities speculated Heemeyer may have used a homemade crane found in his
garage to lower the armor hull over the dozer and himself.“Once he tipped that lid shut,
he knew he wasn’t getting out,” Dailey said.
- They found concrete and steel in his garage so it is speculated it was built their.
- dozens of officers walking ahead or behind it, firing into the machine and shouting at
townspeople to flee.
- One officer,identified as Trainor, was perched on top, firing shot after shot into the top
and once dropping an explosive down the exhaust pipe.“He just kept shooting,” Moore
said. “The dozer was still going. He threw what looked like a flash-bang down the
exhaust. It didn’t do a thing.”
- “Gunfire was just ringing out everywhere,” said Sandra Tucker, who saw the bulldozer
begin the rampage from her office on Main Street. “It sounded to me like an automatic
rifle, firing about every second.”
- He was angry after losing a zoning dispute that allowed a cement plant to be built near
his muffler shop.Heemeyer also was fined $2,500 in a separate case for not having a
septic tank and for other city code violations at his business, Hale said.
- When he paid the fine, he enclosed a note with his check saying “Cowards,”
- The buildings included the cement plant, a utility company, a bank, a newspaper office, a
hardware store and warehouse, the home of former Mayor L.R. “Dick” Thompson and
the municipal building, which also housed a library.
- Crumpled patrol cars and service trucks lay in the dozer’s path. A pickup was folded
nearly in half and had been rammed through the wall of a building.
Mountain Life - July 2004 - Colorado Central Magazine - No. 125 - Page 12
https://cozine.com/2004-july/looking-at-the-dark-side-of-paradise/
- Destroyed buildings :the newspaper office, library, town hall, Gambles, an electric
co-operative, concrete plant, bank, and private home
- True enough, Granby had managed to survive 99 years — largely without incident.
Named after a railroad attorney, Granby Hillyer, it was nondescript enough that Denver
newspaper reporters misspelled it Grandby with some regularity, perhaps confusing it
with the name of the county, Grand County.
- slogan that appeared on the front page of the local newspaper for several years. The
Sky-Hi News proclaimed, this was God’s country, “dedicated to his majesty the tourist.”
- Heemeyer’s neighbor ( the concrete batch company ) had been given the green light for
an industrial use, and Heemeyer had objected, saying it harmed his business, a muffler
repair shop.
https://www.denverpost.com/2014/06/04/granby-bulldozer-rampage-revisited-ten-years-later/
- It took three explosive charges and an hour with a cutting torch to get inside the cab
- fearing Heemeyer had left them a postmortem booby trap, authorities waited hours
before using a crane to gingerly remove his body Saturday morning
- there were no leftover explosives
- had cameras mounted outside and three video monitors
- It had a .50-caliber gun on the front and two smaller-caliber semi-automatic weapons,
one on each side, protruding through portals. It was equipped with an air conditioner,
and its hydraulics were protected by armor. Its cab was reinforced with quarter- to
half-inch metal plates, with a foot of concrete between them. Inside, there were a gas
mask and two handguns, said Granby Mayor Edward Wang.
- “It looks like something out of a Mad Max movie, but better done,” Wang said. “It’s eerie.
And it’s huge.”
- It was 13 feet tall
- Dick Thompson served on the city council for 20 years and was mayor during the zoning
dispute, he was dead by the time of the rampage with an 82 year old widow, Thelma
Thompson
- Along with destroying the Thompson house, which the Thompsons built more than 56
years ago, Heemeyer bulldozed their garage. He smashed the buildings they owned and
rented to Xcel Energy, Thelma Thompson said. And he hit Thompson & Sons
Excavating, the business behind her house.
- Wang said the anger didn’t surprise him. At 6-foot-4 and 230 pounds, Heemeyer was an
unpleasant man, full of bluster and rage, said the mayor, who had presided over portions
 of the zoning dispute.“I’m trying to be politically correct, but this guy was a nasty son of a
bitch,” Wang said. “He had the maturity level of a 5-year-old.”
- On Saturday, several officials visited the metal shed where Heemeyer retrofitted the
bulldozer. Though Heemeyer had sold the shed to a partnership including Bob Martin,
owner of a local trash company, the new owners allowed Heemeyer to lease part of the
shed for storage. Welding, Martin said, wasn’t part of the agreement.
- Martin and 0his employees worked in the building every day, but they never saw
Heemeyer welding the bulldozer.
- “He must have been working in there at night, because we’re here early and we leave
late most days,” Martin said.
- Martin said the lease was up June 1, and there have been inquiries from potential
buyers. Observers think the impending loss of the shed’s use may be why Heemeyer
launched his attack last week.
- He dropped the door, Dailey said, and used the bulldozer to knock down the wall of the
shed and begin his trek.
- he tore into the side of the plant. Witnesses told Dailey that the plant’s owner, Cody
Docheff, cranked up a front loader, but failed to upend the bulldozer.
- Eric Brenner, 15, who lives nearby, said he heard gunfire and watched the bulldozer
crash into two buildings, run over a white police SUV and tangle with the front loader.
“some of the employees told me and my dad that they tried to fire their guns at him, but
their bullets bounced off,”
- some of the employees told me and my dad that they tried to fire their guns at him, but
their bullets bounced off,”
- He stopped in front of a propane company to fire numerous rounds from the .50-caliber
Browning semi-automatic mounted at the front. The sheriff’s news release said
Heemeyer was aiming at electrical transformers and large propane tanks, which
ultimately were not damaged.
- Heemeyer doubled back with black smoke and fluid coming from the dozer, he headed
for the gambles of granby hardware store, owned by the town board of trustees that
approved the concrete plant heemeyer became stuck in the store, the engine stopped
soon after and a single shot came from inside the vehicle, this is when heemeyer shot
himself.
- The grand county sheriff was rodney johnson
- There was a handgun lying on the floor
- The day after on saturday,Granby was overwhelmed with offers to help rebuild said
wang “this town isn’t going away. this is a setback. Were going to rebuild. This is a tough
town.”

https://www.denverpost.com/2018/07/02/fourteen-years-ago-the-bulldozer-attack-on-my-newspa
per-in-granby-was-a-warning/
- left 13 buildings destroyed, causing $10 million in damage.
- One of the buildings completely destroyed was the Sky-Hi News
- I decided to stay in the office with another editor so we could cover this bizarre event.
 - In the course of writing my book “KILLDOZER: The True Story of the Colorado Bulldozer
Rampage,”
- The newspaper covered extensively (and fairly, I believe) his fight against a proposed batch plant
next door to his muffler shop. But as he revealed in tapes he left behind, he disliked me and the
newspaper because we had disagreed over an attempt he backed to bring legalized gambling to
Grand Lake way back in 1992.
- Heemeyer’s paranoia about government and the media pushed him to the point where he felt
justified in lashing out like a vigilante, taking the law into his own hands.
- Heemeyer is known to many as “the last great American folk hero.”
- Patrick Brower is the former publisher and managing editor of the Grand County Newspapers,
which includes the Sky-Hi News. He is the author of the new book KILLDOZER: The True Story
of the Colorado Bulldozer Rampage. He continues to live in Granby, Colorado.

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