Vigilante Opportunist

Marvin Heemeyer was nearing his breaking point after a decade-long battle with his local zoning commission.

He believed they were conspiring against him.

Heemeyer demanded justice, and in an effort to secure the justice he believed he deserved, he turned to an armored bulldozer and terrorized his local community.

Two years ago, Kyle MacLachlan, the star of Twin Peaks, called investigative journalist Joshua Davis with a strange story. Kyle had heard a rumor that Pablo Escobar did a deal in the early 1980s with a remote, coastal Southern town of 300 people. In exchange for vast wealth and limitless cocaine, Escobar would be allowed to land planes and ships in the area. Over the last 24 months, Josh and Kyle investigated the rumor, journeying to Varnamtown to knock on doors and find out what really happens when a firehose of money and cocaine is turned on a small, tight knit community.

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"In a weird, f****d up way, you're doing good."

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"They were thriving on the secrecy. The secrecy was their currency."
 
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Host Allie Conti joins Hannah Smith (The Opportunist) in conversation about the making of Vigilante, season one.
 
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