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

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?

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