444. TRUE CRIME: Marvin Heemeyer's A Man Apart-- The "Killdozer" Story

Failure To Stop

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True Crime, Society & Culture, Comedy

4.6 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 22 November 2023

⏱️ 110 minutes

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Granby, Colorado, 2004: A master welder and resident of Granby Colorado has just endured 12 years of good-ol'-boy city politics, nepotism, and cronyism. "Sometimes reasonable men must do unreasonable things," Marvin Heemeyer declared. And so using his talent, time and skills he retrofitted a commercial bulldozer, made composite armor out of steel and concrete, fixed guns and cameras, and set about causing 7-million dollars of damage to the city. His targets mostly were the kingdoms of those men who had mistreated him, including his nemesis next door neighbor. Knowing it was a suicide mission, he recorded his rationale to leave behind. Dubiously called his "manifesto" by his detractors and his explanation by his supporters-- Marvin is upheld as a hero of the libertarian "Dont tread on me" ethos and as a domestic terrorist by those who think he should have backed down. Only Marvin was killed in the rampage. Former police officer Kendra and active 911 dispatcher Jon breakdown one of the most strange stories in American history, which never got much traction in the national media since it preceded the death of Ronald Reagan by a day. Do you think Marvin was right or wrong? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Well, howdy there?
0:03.0	It's Tuesday night, which means it's true crime Tuesday on failure to stop.
0:08.0	Tonight, something for which we can all be truly thankful,
0:11.0	the story of Marvin Heemeyur and the kill-dozer.
0:17.0	The growing calls across the nation to defund the police.
0:21.0	To end policing as we know it.
0:23.6	Off the charts violence in New York City.
0:26.0	11 people shot in just eight hours on Sunday.
0:29.2	The police officers, officers who every single day put on that uniform and they run towards danger when we run away from it. guns up getting up getting a pull back. To all others hello and welcome to
0:48.8	all others hello and welcome to players stop true to Stops Our Network, it's the number one podcast and platform,
0:57.0	where we entertain and inform first responders and our friends.
1:02.0	Kendra and I are both first responders. Kendra, our
1:05.0	host, is a former police officer. I am an active 911 dispatcher in the field.
1:10.0	The whole purpose of failure to stop is that we bring a slant to the news and things from a
1:16.7	pro law enforcement perspective. The mainstream media out there and other news outlets
1:21.6	and other media sources are not in favor of
1:24.6	first responders and police that's what we do here we're going to talk today
1:29.6	about the classic case from 2004.
1:34.1	You've probably heard of it given who our main audience is,
1:36.9	but Marvin Heemire, Granby, Colorado,
1:40.2	who took a bulldozer and set out to set things right.
1:44.0	Our host is Kendra Drama, my ex-wife.
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