Heemeyer had retained a lawyer who found a loophole and had the daily fines stopped. He still refused and eventually forked over $3,350 to avoid arrest. The town council responded by ordering the bylaw enforcement department to fine Heemeyer daily until he complied. This required a lengthy pipe run and would cost Heemeyer somewhere around fifty thousand dollars to construct which he refused to pay. The town bylaws disallowed this, and officials ordered Heemeyer to hook up to the civic sanitary system. He managed his sewage through a non-approved holding tank and a makeshift drainfield. Shortly, a sanitation issue arose about Heemeyer’s property. In 1998, they applied to the Town of Granby for a rezoning application so they could build a concrete batching plant. The Docheff family owned an adjacent property to Heemeyer. His Granby neighbors and town officials saw him otherwise. Friends found him a natural leader and a generous soul. Heemeyer was popular with his friends and was an avid outdoorsman, particularly a love of snowmobiling. Soon, Heemeyer had a thriving business and accumulated a good deal of wealth. He was a highly skilled mechanic and a supreme welder. He bought two acres of land and set up a welding and muffler repair shop.
Marv, as he was known by everyone, moved to Granby, Colorado in 1992.
Marvin John Heemeyer was born in South Dakota. It’s a story of feuds, a story of paranoia, and a story of an ingenious man who built a single purpose machine - an assault system solely made for a devastating attack on a small Colorado town.
Never had anyone taken an ordinary construction bulldozer and, over the course of a year, turned it into an impenetrable war machine equal to an armed military tank.Īlso unprecedented was the story behind Heemeyer’s rampage on his town. Fortunately, no one was injured except for Heemeyer whose life ended with a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head. In two hours and nine minutes, Heemeyer and his Kill Dozer destroyed thirteen buildings along with many vehicles, causing $7 million in damages. On June 4 th, 2004, fifty-two-year-old Marvin Heemeyer went on a rampage at Granby, Colorado in an armor-fortified bulldozer he hand built for the job.
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