I think it's important to gain a little bit of a sympathetic point of view of Marv. Nothing could be more false, the town paid dearly for the way they treated Heemeyer and that was just his intention. In the late 1990s—after years of protests, petitions, and town meetings—it became obvious to the 52-year-old that he was entwined in a gross miscarriage of justice. Hello James. ©2020 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved. The town also has a large new library that was built on a different spot across the intersection of the new Town Hall and across the street from the Granby Post Office. (Luckily, he did not hit any of the propane tanks and no explosion occurred.). 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I think you are mistaken. “The thing that alarmed me the most was when we got word that he had pushed his way into the library, city hall building and there had been a lot of kids in that building just moments earlier.”. Then he ran over and smashed a new truck just purchased by the sheriff's department. Firefighters get the body of Marvin Heemeyer out from the bulldozer at Gambles store in Granby on Saturday morning, June 5, 2004. And he proceeded to basically attack anyone he thought had done him wrong. Get the latest posts delivered to your mailbox: Patrick Brower personally covered almost all of the hearings and interactions relating to the Killdozer rampage before it took place. But he opened a muffler repair business in Granby, in 1992, after moving to the county. (image credit: CBS). “Nothing.”. I’ve tried to break down the costs into the four categories. He had no “sewage” that needed to get fixed. And then shortly thereafter, he got involved in trying to sell property he had bought at auction to his neighbors, the Docheffs. The Granby Library was also located in the Town Hall building. And one of the reasons I wrote my book was to try to point out, well, here's what really happened. I was born in Kremmling 1969. The place where Heemeyer then drove so he could fire at large propane tanks with his 50-caliber rifle looks only slightly different than it did 14 years ago. Stacey Wright. For instance, numbers I published in the Sky-Hi News estimated the value of the damage at $7 million. Something snapped in Heemeyer, I don’t condone his actions as a whole but do agree with most of his tape recordings. Still visit..own land there which I pay taxes on and look forward to building in a town free of the biggest con man my childhood home has ever seen. But the truth is that the victims all would be perfectly happy with their old buildings just the way they were on the morning of June 4, 2004. The rampage ended when the bulldozer … There are those who think that Heemeyer did Granby a favor through the rampage. For some reason, Marv internalized anything that didn’t go his way as more than just life in the United States. Now, a new documentary film explores the people and events involved in the 2004 Granby bulldozer rampage. Marvin Heemeyer of Granby, Colorado was a profoundly frustrated muffler repair man. Distinct 'Meow Wolf' Building Squeezed Into Triangular Footprint Between I-25 Overpasses In Denver, Denver Police Officer Matthew Graves Suspended For Derogatory Comments Toward Hispanics: ‘This Is America, We Speak English’, Denver Gas Station Employee Stabbed By Man Who Refused To Leave Property, Denver Weather: It Finally Snows! He headed east into town where he proceeded to destroy many other buildings. Something I don’t understand why couldnt he get the sewage fixed properly and more importantly why was the road to his property denied, it seems that the road he was prepared to build which the city denied him is the cause of this 8 billion dollar tragedy that will be a stain on your town. Crews brought in a giant landmover, but were unable to stop Heemeyer and his bulldozer. Akin worked for CBS4 at the time as the reporter in Copter4. He ended up suing the town and the Docheffs. The film looks back at the June 2004 incident by Marvin Heemeyer in Granby, Colorado. Stating he is a “good man”, when he is a miserable, arrogant and intolerable crook. That was higher than an estimate from a year earlier of $6 million. Heemeyer then drove his Killdozer back into town where he damaged the front of Kopy Kat Printing, apparently by mistake. The office where people now do business is the very place where Marv slaved away to build what he called his MK Tank (Marv’s Komatsu Tank). © Copyright Patrick Brower and Deer Track Publishing 2017. He didn't know who was in or not in the buildings. I basically saw the whole thing from the very beginning of Marv’s interactions in the community. Governments are, generally speaking, a thorn in the side of Joe Citizen…and most of us come away feeling less than stellar about our interactions with gov’t entities. It’s a shame…he could have achieved so much more if he put his energy towards something with a positive outcome. Mr. Brower the only favor that memory bashing..woman hating..self loathing.. king of the snowmobile riders did that day, was to eat a bullet. On June 4, 2004, Marvin Heeymeyer unleashed his gigantic, armored, tank-like bulldozer upon the small town of Granby, Colorado. Heemeyer’s next target was the Granby Town Hall, which he totally destroyed. ‘And now he’s going down here… and he appears to be heading into the propane yard and that’s troubling,’” she recalled of her report. He damaged many buildings, and ended up dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Town officials say he was angry about a zoning dispute. Biden Says It Would Be 'Difficult' To Lose Sanders Or Warren From Senate For Admin. What set Heemeyer off was a zoning dispute he had been having with town officials over a plan to permit the construction of a concrete batch plant near his muffler shop. This interview is part of KUNC’s Colorado Edition for Feb. 19. The house was a total loss. The Thompsons have a brand new home in place of the old one. That building was repaired quickly. 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