You Were Lied To About Killdozer

Stop data brokers from exposing your personal information. Go to our sponsor’s site at to get a 14-day free trial and see how much of yours is being sold. In November 1991, Marvin Heemeyer took a vacation to Grand Lake, Colorado, fell in love, and decided to make it his home. Less than a year later, in April of 1992, he found himself the owner of a muffler shop he never intended to buy. Six months later, he tried to be a good citizen and connect the property to the town sewer system. What followed was a decade of delays, miscommunications and lies which ate away at Marv’s business and his hope. In July of 2002, Marv stumbled across an auction ad for a Komatsu D355A bulldozer. Around this time, Marv began to perceive that he - and his bulldozer - were to be the instruments of God’s retribution against the corrupt. Two years later, on June 4, 2004, after welding himself inside his heavily modified Komatsu, Marv Heemeyer, a reasonable man, was compelled to do unreasonable things. Welcome back to the Lore Lodge... Subscribe on Patreon to support The Lore Lodge for just $1 per month! Get our new signature coffee blend at Shop our online retail store, find other content, and buy our partners’ products at Discord: Shop sustainable products at using code “LORE“ Join this channel to get access to perks: 0:00:00 - Cold Open 0:00:20 - Introduction 0:07:47 - A Reasonable Man 0:15:13 - The Auction 0:25:12 - The Sewer Issue 0:34:43 - Escalation 0:42:57 - The Unclosable Deal 0:51:42 - The Zoning Trial 0:55:10 - Unreasonable Things 1:00:27 - Killdozer 1:08:00 - Hero or Villain?