Where is Jimmy Hoffa’s body?
What started as a case of disappearance ended up as a murder case, but unfortunately, for the past four and a half decades, no one knows where the former Teamster union boss, James R. Hoffa, was buried. Many theories have come up over the years about where he could have been buried. Some seemed absurd, yet others seemed too close to solving the mystery of his disappearance on July 30th, 1975. With the many speculations, the public remains intrigued by this cold case as the authorities grow frustrated every time a tip hits a dead end. However, all is not lost because the search for Jimmy Hoffa‘s body continues close to half a decade since his disappearance.
The former union boss had mob ties while in power, which led to his imprisonment and a ban to vie for the seat until 1980. Even though he did not finish his prison term, his release did not put him in a good place with his former friends in the mob. On the day of his disappearance, he was believed to have had a lunch meeting with the mafia at a restaurant in Bloomfield Township, the Machus Red Fox restaurant. However, the meeting did not go as planned because among the last calls that Hoffa made were to complain about Anthony Provenzano and Tony Giacalone standing him up to his wife. That was the last of what was ever heard of Jimmy Hoffa because he disappeared after that and was only officially declared dead seven years after his disappearance.
Several leads have been presented to investigators over the years as to where Jimmy Hoffa’s body might be buried, and the theories travel beyond the borders of the United States. What remains constant in all these theories was that Jimmy Hoffa was killed at the hands of his enemies. Was it because he had any intention of testifying in the Church Committee about the mafia‘s involvement in a plot backed by the US to assassinate Cuban President Fidel Castro? We will never find out, but here are some of the theories and what they have to say about Hoffa’s body.
He was buried in Gardena, California.
This theory suggests that his murder was due to negation with a Gardena businessman and body being buried in a poker club and restaurant’s foundations.
Michigan has, over the years, provided several tips of where Hoffa’s body could have been buried.
Frank Sheeran’s home in Bloomfield was a friend to Hoffa, but some believe that he murdered him after a falling out in his home in Bloomfield and buried him there. Another tip suggested that Hoffa was buried beneath a backyard shed in Roseville. Yet another piece of information still in Michigan claimed that Hoffa’s body was buried under a horse barn in Milford, a place that the FBI believed Hoffa might have been buried there before his body was moved elsewhere.
Still in Michigan, another tip led the authorities to Thumb neighborhood’s backyard pool in Hampton. It is believed that the briefcase containing the pharmaceutical material and syringe that killed him was buried.
The old Giant’s stadium.
Donald Frankos, a mob hitman, denied any involvement in the killing; however, he claimed that two Jersey wise guys killed, dismembered, and buried Hoffa beneath one of the stadium’s end zone.
His body might have been shipped to Japan.
This theory suggests that he was killed and dismembered. Still, instead of being buried, his body parts were compacted in a local factory in Detroit and added to the steel produced for auto manufacturing, then the shipment exported to Japan.
He was dumped in a swamp in Florida.
Another hitman Charles Allen came out in 1982, the same year Hoffa was declared dead, and said that he was killed shortly after disappearing; his body was grounded up, dumped in a steel drum, and brought to Florida and left in Everglades.
However, there has recently been a promising lead from Frank Cappola, son of the mobster who buried Hoffa’s body. He claims that before his father died, he told them where he had buried Hoffa’s body. According to Frank, Hoffa was buried in a 55-gallon steel drum head first. His father then piled 15-30 steel drums with chemicals. Frank claims that Hoffa was buried in a formerly owned landfill site owned by the mobsters and now is being used to store unused dumpsters by a local waste management company. The burial site’s location is beneath the bridge over rivers Passaic and Hackensack and connecting Newark to Jersey City. The place is the Pulaski Skyway. Philip Moscato Jr, son to the partner of Cappola, also confirms that that was indeed the burial site of Jimmy Hoffa.
