Heemeyer, Marvin John (anarcho-primitivism)

personality

Granby, Colorado, shop owner, retired military engineer, US Air Force airfield technician

target

destroy the Mountain Park Concrete plants and cause maximum damage.

motive

a conflict with the Mountain Park Concrete company which left him in debt, then his wife left him and he became lonely.

his manifesto

about Mountain Park Concrete where he curses her and wishes for her death

weapon

He equipped a Komatsu D355A-3 bulldozer with armor and will destroy the building

ideology

Anarcho-primitivism

history of the conflict

Heemeyer lived in Grand Lake, Colorado, about 25 km from Granby. Neighbors said he moved to Granby about 10 years before the events described. His friends said he had no relatives in the Granby or Grand Lake area. In 1992, Heemeyer purchased 2 acres (8,100 m²) of land from the Resolution Trust Corporation. He paid about $42,000 for the land. He later agreed to sell his property to the Docheff family, who were planning to expand their nearby concrete plant. The agreed-upon price was $250,000, but according to Susan Docheff, Heemeyer changed his mind and raised the price to $375,000, and later to about $1 million. These negotiations took place long before the land rezoning proposal was submitted to the city. According to other sources, they did not offer him a lot of money, but bought other plots for a small price and also offered him a small price. In 2001, the zoning commission and city officials approved the construction of a concrete plant. Heemeyer unsuccessfully appealed the decision. For years, Heemeyer had used the adjacent lot as a driveway to his own muffler repair and sales business. The expansion of the concrete plant would have deprived him of that access. The city also fined Heemeyer $2,500 for various violations, including “junk vehicles on the property, no sewer hookup.” Heemeyer had leased his business and property to a garbage disposal company a few months before the incident. Two years before, he had purchased a bulldozer to build a road to a car repair shop, but the city would not allow him to build the road. It took a year and a half to prepare the bulldozer. In notes later found by investigators, Heemeyer wrote: "I wonder how I haven't been caught yet. The project has taken up part of my time for more than a year and a half."

nature

calm, strong, brave, smart, persistent.