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Marvin Heemeyer

1951 - 2004

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Marvin John Heemeyer (October 28, 1951 – June 4, 2004) was an American automobile muffler repair shop owner who demolished numerous buildings with a modified bulldozer in Granby, Colorado in 2004. Heemeyer had various grudges against Granby town officials, neighbors of his muffler shop, the local press, and various other citizens of Granby. Over about eighteen months, Heemeyer secretly armored a Komatsu D355A bulldozer with layers of steel and concrete. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Marvin Heemeyer has received more than 9,047,656 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Marvin Heemeyer is the 227th most popular extremist (up from 517th in 2019), the 6,976th most popular biography from United States (up from 7,937th in 2019) and the 78th most popular American Extremist.

Marvin Heemeyer was an American man from Granby, Colorado who became known for his brutal revenge rampage in 2004 when he upgraded a bulldozer with layers of steel armor and weaponry and demolished numerous buildings in the town after disputes with municipal officials. This notorious event, called the "Killdozer" rampage, drew national attention and made Heemeyer an infamous anti-government figure before he died by suicide inside the armored bulldozer.

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Among EXTREMISTS

Among extremists, Marvin Heemeyer ranks 227 out of 283. Before him are Robert Berdella, John List, Amparo Poch y Gascón, John Christie, Mildred Gillars, and Mikhail Popkov. After him are Donato Bilancia, John Hinckley Jr., Édouard Vaillant, Warren Jeffs, Joseph Paul Franklin, and Abubakar Shekau.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1951, Marvin Heemeyer ranks 353. Before him are Guy Lafleur, Kim Manners, Jan Krzysztof Bielecki, Miguel Sandoval, Phil Neal, and Gary Rossington. After him are Don Quarrie, Marsha Ivins, Andranik Eskandarian, Hans-Jürgen Dörner, Donato Bilancia, and Andris Bērziņš. Among people deceased in 2004, Marvin Heemeyer ranks 227. Before him are Laurance Rockefeller, Richard Dembo, András Toma, Shirley Strickland, Michel Colombier, and Neil Campbell. After him are David Reimer, Daniel J. Boorstin, Anna Lee, Volodymyr Kaplychnyi, André Hazes, and Tom Turesson.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Marvin Heemeyer ranks 6,976 out of 20,380. Before him are Dina Merrill (1923), Pauline Pfeiffer (1895), Gregg Rolie (1947), Connie Sawyer (1912), Tom Hayden (1939), and Lewis Stone (1879). After him are Gary Wright (1943), Edgar Bergen (1903), Marsha Ivins (1951), Thomas Hampson (1955), Kenny Johnson (1963), and Peter Friedman (1949).

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Among EXTREMISTS In United States

Among extremists born in United States, Marvin Heemeyer ranks 78. Before him are Ottis Toole (1947), Marshall Applewhite (1931), Gary Gilmore (1940), Robert Berdella (1949), John List (1925), and Mildred Gillars (1900). After him are John Hinckley Jr. (1955), Warren Jeffs (1955), Joseph Paul Franklin (1950), Francis Parker Yockey (1917), Bobby Joe Long (1953), and Eric Rudolph (1966).

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