Killdozer marvin heemeyer biography

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Marvin Heemeyer was an American welder who is best known for rampaging a town with his ‘killdozer’.

Inside the killdozer

His killdozer was essentially a modified bulldozer that wreaked havoc in Granby, Colorado on June 4, 2004.

Let us take a look at Marvin Heemeyer’s Killdozer Rampage.

1) The Background

Heemeyer moved into Granby, Colorado in the early 1990s. Here he bought a few acres of land and started his own muffler repair shop. According to the locals, he was a jovial blue-collar worker.

2) Marvin Heemeyer negotiates with the Docheff family

In 1992, Heemeyer bought 2-acres of land from the Resolution Trust Corp for a price of $42,000.

However, he subsequently agreed to sell it to the Docheff family, which wanted to build a concrete batch plant on the property.

What happened to marvin heemeyer

He initially agreed to a price of $250,000, but further increased it to $375,000. Ultimately at some point, he charged approximately $1 million. As the price was too steep, the Docheff family termin