What Happened To Jimmy Hoffa?
The teamster union leader infamously known for his involvement in organized crime disappeared in Oakland County, Michigan, on July 30, 1975, and was declared legally dead in 1982. The identity of his killer (or killers) and the location of his body are ongoing mysteries. Police and forensic anthropologists have searched several different sites throughout Detroit and Oakland County with no luck.
One popular theory was that Jimmy’s body was buried beneath Giants Stadium in New Jersey. However, this theory was been debunked. On October 25 and 26, 2021, FBI agents visited a former landfill in New Jersey to conduct what they called a “site survey,” according to The New York Times. The survey is a result of the deathbed confession by a landfill worker claiming that people had asked him and his father with burying Jimmy Hoffa’s body in a steel barrel under the dump in 1975. The agents apparently didn’t find the steel barrel in question.
“Nothing of evidentiary value was discovered during that search,” Mara Schneider, an FBI spokeswoman in Detroit, said according to The Guardian in July 2022. “While we do not currently anticipate any additional activity at the site, the FBI will continue to pursue any viable lead in our efforts to locate Mr Hoffa.”
The identity of his killer is still no known. Before his death in 2006, Richard “The Iceman” Kuklinski, a hit man, claimed to have killed Hoffa and dumped his body in a scrap yard, The Guardian reported. An author named Philip Carlo visited Kuklinski in prison before he died and wrote a book on Kuklinski’s confessions. After the book came out, a number of police officers cast doubt on the confession in media interviews.
As the years go by, it is increasingly unlikely that Jimmy Hoffa’s remains will ever be located.
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