Jimmy Hoffa Research Paper
Cheryl Cavin
Professor Kelly Daubek
English 111-48A
30 November 2014
Where is Jimmy Hoffa?
America’s biggest missing person case is probably the disappearance of James Riddle Hoffa. For decades, investigators have spent great effort, time and money to find the answer to the question, “What happened and where is Jimmy Hoffa?”
It was Wednesday afternoon, July 30, 1975, a hot and muggy 92° summer day, outside the Machus Red Fox Restaurant in Bloomfield Township, Michigan. James Riddle “Jimmy” Hoffa, age 62, was impatient and surveying the parking lot, keeping an eye out for the men he was supposed to meet for lunch at 2:00 pm. Wearing a dark blue short-sleeve shirt, blue pants, white socks and black Gucci loafers he walked to the nearby hardware …show more content…
store to use the pay phone and called his wife, Josephine (“James Riddle Hoffa”).
Jimmy Hoffa believed he was meeting with New Jersey Teamster Official Anthony “Tony Pro” Provenzano for a peace conference, mediated by Detroit Mafia boss Anthony “Tony Jack” Giacalone and to discuss Hoffa’s intention to regain the International Brotherhood of Teamsters presidency (“The Day Jimmy Hoffa”).
At 2:15 pm, he spoke with his wife and told her that he had apparently been stood up and that he would return home around 4:00 pm to have dinner. Hoffa returned to the restaurant parking lot. Shortly after, a maroon 1975 Mercury Marquis Brougham nearly hit a delivery truck, driven by Robert Hall O’Dell, pulling out of the parking lot. O’Dell immediately recognized Jimmy Hoffa sitting in the back seat behind the driver of the car, but did not get a good look of anyone else in the Mercury (“Document: ‘Hoffex Memo,’ official”).
The next day, Detroit police found Hoffa’s unlocked green 1974 Pontiac Grand de Ville in the restaurant’s parking lot. They searched the car and opened the trunk, nothing unusual was found and there was no sign of a struggle. Using O’Dell’s description of the Mercury, investigators were able to trace the car to its owner, Joe Giacalone, the son of Detroit mobster Anthony Giacalone. Joe Giacalone claimed he lent the Mercury to teamster Charles “Chuckie” O’Brien (“Document: ‘Hoffex Memo,’ official”).
O’Brien was very close to Hoffa and at one time had actually lived with the Hoffa family.
When the car was located, O’Brien’s fingerprints were recovered from items in the automobile. The investigators believed that Hoffa would have been comfortable with O’Brien to get into the car. O’Brien claimed that he had not seen Hoffa on July 30 and gave investigators an account of his whereabouts. O’Brien’s story could not be corroborated by the investigators (“Document: ‘Hoffex Memo,’ official”).
Anthony Provenzano and Anthony Giacalone claimed to know nothing about a scheduled meeting to take place with Hoffa on July 30, 1975. Both were able to provide witnesses and iron clad alibis to their whereabouts that day, with Provenzano being in New Jersey and Giacalone at the Southfield Athletic Club (“James Riddle Hoffa”).
Eight days after Hoffa’s disappearance, and with the Federal Bureau of Investigations now involved, specially trained scent dogs were flown in and given a pair of shorts and moccasins Hoffa wore the day before he disappeared. The dogs picked up Hoffa’s scent in the back seat and the trunk of Joe Giacalone’s maroon Mercury. In March 2001, 26 years later a DNA match was made between a hair found in the car and a hair taken from Hoffa’s hair brush (“Document: ‘Hoffex Memo,’ …show more content…
official”).
Investigators questioned and surveilled suspects, Anthony Giacalone, Vito “Billy Jack” Giacalone, Raffael “Jimmy Q” Quasarano, Paul Vitale, Rolland McMasters, Anthony Provenzano, Stephen Andretta, Thomas Andretti, Salvatore “Sal” Briguglio, Gabriel “Gabe” Briguglio, Russell Bufalino and Francis “Frank” Sheeran. All of the suspects were represented by the same attorney, William E. Bufalino, and most of them took the Fifth Amendment, when questioned before the Grand Jury (“Document: ‘Hoffex Memo,’ official”).
Authorities interviewed Hoffa’s wife, Josephine, whom he married in 1936, along with his children, James P. Hoffa and Barbara Crancer. They also interviewed friends and associates Louis Linteau, Cynthia Green, Marvin Adell, Robert Holmes, Frank Fitzsimmons, Joseph Bane, Sr., Anthony Zerilli, Joseph Zerilli and Giacamo Tocco (“Document: ‘Hoffex Memo,’ official”).
James R. Hoffa joined the International Brotherhood of Teamsters in the 1930’s. He was always involved with the union, becoming local president, then International vice president 1952 and finally in 1961 he was elected International President. He remained president until the start of his prison sentence in 1967 (“James Riddle Hoffa”).
Jimmy Hoffa was involved in numerous investigations and indictments by the Justice Department who failed to win their cases. However, in March 1964, Hoffa was found guilty of bribery and jury tampering in his 1962 federal conspiracy trail. In July 1964, he was also convicted of misusing the Teamsters union pension funds by making loans to mobsters to finance casinos in Las Vegas. After three years of appealing his convictions, Hoffa began serving his 13 year prison sentence in 1967 (Kalikow).
Hoffa, hand-picked Frank Fitzsimmons to take over as union president while he served out his prison sentence. The mob found Fitzsimmons to be more complaisant and they were able to receive larger loans with Fitzsimmons as union president. Just before Christmas 1971, President Richard M. Nixon granted Jimmy Hoffa clemency, banned him from any union activity until 1980 (“The Hoffa Files: The Missing”).
After his release from prison, Jimmy Hoffa, made his intentions very clear that he was going to get the restriction waived and return to being union president. The mob feared that Hoffa may be willing to air some dirty laundry to the Justice Department to get his dearly wanted old job back. They also found that Frank Fitzsimmons was easier to control and could get what they wanted from him. Hoffa also suspected and possibly discovered some details that Fitzsimmons had negotiated the restrictions of his union involvement (“The Dissappearance of Jimmy”).
Over 200 FBI agents have been involved in the Hoffa investigation. 95 individuals have appeared before the Federal Grand Jury in Detroit, and 22 of these individuals asserted their Fifth Amendment rights and refused to testify. The individuals refusing to testify were Teamster Officials, many under indictments or aware of pending indictments in unrelated cases or known members of the La Cosa Nostra mob family (“Document: ‘Hoffex Memo,’ official”).
In 1982, James R. Hoffa was declared legally dead, but the case remains open. A special agent in the FBI’s Detroit field office is constantly assigned to this case. Gathered from interviews, wiretaps and surveillance, over 16,000 pages of documents has been compiled from this investigation (“Document: ‘Hoffex Memo,’ official”). There have been hundreds of leads and dozens of stories as to what happened to Jimmy Hoffa. Authorities are certain that Hoffa was killed the day he disappeared, but what happened and where is his body? It was put in a 55 gallon barrel and taken away by truck to a garbage dump; it was mixed in concrete and used in the construction of the New York Giant’s football stadium; it was buried in a 100 acre gravel pit in Highland, MI; it was encased in the foundation of a public works garage in Cadillac, MI; it was buried under a swimming pool at a mansion in Bloomfield Hills, MI; it was ground up and dumped in a Florida swamp; it was crushed in an automobile compactor in Hamtramck, MI; it was buried in a field in Waterford Township, MI, it was weighted down and put in the Au Sable River in Michigan, it was disintegrated at a fat-rendering plant in Michigan, it was buried under the Sheraton Savannah Resort Hotel’s helipad; it was buried under a horse barn in Milford, MI and other leads were checked out to no avail (“They got Hoffa-ed: Lives”). However, the confession made by Jimmy Hoffa’s close friend, Francis “Frank” Sheeran is the most convincing. The other stories were almost always told by some mobster who was not involved, yet heard or knew where to find the body. Sheeran actually confessed to the ordered hit and murder of Jimmy Hoffa. Russell Bufalino knew that Jimmy was planning to run for the union presidency and had documents that implicated some of his people in illegal activities. Hoffa had run his mouth, threatening to turn over the documents to the authorities so that his union restrictions would be lifted in time for the union election. Jimmy Hoffa became a man obsessed, when it came to him returning to his old union office. He was spouting off and threatening exposure of those who may and were getting in his way. Russell Bufalino, his wife, her older sister along with Frank Sheeran and his wife were driving to Detroit for a wedding. They were three hours away from Detroit and stopped at a restaurant in Port Clinton, Ohio. Bufalino and Sheeran excused themselves and told the women that they had to take care of some business. They left the restaurant and went to a grass field air strip in the area. Sheeran knew if he did not do as told, Hoffa would still be killed, but then so would himself. Bufalino had stayed with the car, while Sheeran made the hour flight to the Pontiac, Michigan airfield. There was a brown Ford car in the parking lot, just like Bufalino said there would be. The keys were on the floorboards and there was an address and directions to a house in the car (Brandt 249-250). Sheeran followed the directions down Route 24 past the Machus Red Fox restaurant and made a right on Seven Mile Road. Driving another half mile he turned right after crossing over a creek onto the road that would take him to the house. He parked his car in the driveway behind the Buick that was already there, and went to the front door. It was unlocked and inside the house was Salvatore “Sally Bugs” Briguglio and the two cleaners to remove all signs of the crime and the body, Stephen and Thomas Andretta (Brandt 251). Shortly Charles O’Brien arrived and picked up Sheeran and Briguglio and took them to the Machus Red Fox Restaurant where they found Hoffa in the parking lot. Jimmy felt comfortable that Frank was there to be his backup at the meeting and got into the back seat of the Mercury (Brandt 252). O’Brien drove them a couple of minutes back to the house. Hoffa and Sheeran exited the car and walked to the front door of the house. O’Brien and Briguglio drove away (Brandt 256).
Hoffa entered the house, with Sheeran close behind, and looked around unable to find Anthony Provenzano and Anthony Giacalone present. Hoffa turned around to go back outside and walked past Sheeran whose gun was drawn. As Hoffa reached for the door, Sheeran shot him twice behind his right ear, then dropped the gun, went outside and left in the car he had originally arrived in and returned to the airfield in Pontiac. He then flew back to Port Clinton, where Bufalino was waiting at the airfield, and they returned, in under three hours, back to the women waiting at the restaurant (Brandt 257-258).
The men inside the house were there to clean up. They were to take Hoffa’s body, place it in a body bag and have the bag cremated at a local funeral home where they had connections. This explains why Hoffa’s body has never been found. The plan was put together so that no one person could actually say what happened to Jimmy Hoffa that day.
Twenty-nine years later, after Sheeran’s confession, investigators pulled up linoleum in the home where the murder was supposed to have occurred. Traces of blood were found and sent the FBI for DNA testing. Investigators were skeptical that anything of evidentiary value would be discovered, due to the probable degradation of the sample recovered. The tests did determine that it was male blood on the floor but could not tie it directly to James R. Hoffa (“Hot Hoffa Hunt – Blood”).
The numerous other stories of where the Jimmy Hoffa’s body was supposed to be buried were all disclaimed, as no evidence of Hoffa or his body was ever found at any of the sites. It would have been very risky to have disposed Hoffa’s body out of state. The chances of getting caught would have greatly increased moving the body hundreds of miles away. It would have taken hours or even days to transport the body to New Jersey or Florida. Also, after Hoffa’s family had reported that Jimmy was missing, many police agencies were involved and had numerous suspects under surveillance watching their every move.
Most of the suspects are no longer alive. The Hoffa family will never know really happened to Jimmy Hoffa, that hot and muggy Wednesday afternoon, on July 30, 1975. However, Frank Sheeran accurately described the inside of the house were he said the hit took place. Sheeran’s confession of being the man who pulled the trigger, along with the degraded blood found in the house indicate that his story is extremely plausible. Sheeran statement that Hoffa’s body was immediately cremated after the hit, explains why the body has never been found since his disappearance, thirty-nine years ago. For these reasons, I believe and find it very credible that Frank Sheeran was involved and committed Hoffa’s murder. Works Cited
Brandt, Charles. "I Heard You Paint Houses": Frank: the Irishman" Sheeran and the inside story of the Mafia, the Teamsters, and the last ride of Jimmy Hoffa. Hanover: Steerforth Press, 2004. Print. The Day Jimmy Hoffa Disappeared.
The Toronto Sun, 30 July 2014. Web. 31 Sept. 2014. <http://blogs.canoe.ca/parker/news/the-day-jimmy-hoffa-disappeared/>. The Dissappearance of Jimmy Hoffa. University of Florida, n.d. Web. 27 Sept. 2014. <http://iml.jou.ufl.edu/projects/Fall05/slewis/index.html>.
"Document: 'Hoffex Memo, ' official FBI report on Jimmy Hoffa disappearance." San Jose Mercury News. Mercury News, 1 Oct. 2012. Web. 10 Oct. 2014. <http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_21647886/document-hoffex-memo-official-fbi-report-jimmy-hoffa>. The Hoffa Files: The Missing Body of Jimmy Hoffa. 8newsnow.com, 16 Nov. 2006. Web. 20 Sept. 2014. <http://www.8newsnow.com/story/5689300/the-hoffa-files-the-missing-body-of-jimmy-hoffa>.
"Hot Hoffa Hunt - Blood Clue Leads DA to Tear up Detroit Home." New York Post [New York, NY] 29 May 2004: n. pag. Print. James Riddle Hoffa. The Biography.com, 2014. Web. 28 Sept. 2014. <http://www.biography.com/people/jimmy-hoffa-9341063>.
Kalikow, Lisa, prod. "Who Killed Jimmy Hoffa?" Hosted by Tukufu Zuberi, Kaiama Glover, and Wes Cowan. Episode #4. History Detectives Special Investigations. PBS. WTTW, Chicago. Television. Missing Persons - Jimmy Hoffa. Foxnews.com, 30 July 2014. Web. 10 Oct. 2014.
<http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/07/30/eric-shawn-investigates-hit-on-hoffa/>. They got Hoffa-ed: Lives turned upside down in search for Teamsters boss. CNN News, 4 Aug. 2014. Web. 10 Oct. 2014. <http://www.cnn.com/2014/08/02/us/hoffa-disappearance-anniversary-searches/>.
Professor Kelly Daubek
English 111-48A
30 November 2014
Where is Jimmy Hoffa?
America’s biggest missing person case is probably the disappearance of James Riddle Hoffa. For decades, investigators have spent great effort, time and money to find the answer to the question, “What happened and where is Jimmy Hoffa?”
It was Wednesday afternoon, July 30, 1975, a hot and muggy 92° summer day, outside the Machus Red Fox Restaurant in Bloomfield Township, Michigan. James Riddle “Jimmy” Hoffa, age 62, was impatient and surveying the parking lot, keeping an eye out for the men he was supposed to meet for lunch at 2:00 pm. Wearing a dark blue short-sleeve shirt, blue pants, white socks and black Gucci loafers he walked to the nearby hardware …show more content…
store to use the pay phone and called his wife, Josephine (“James Riddle Hoffa”).
Jimmy Hoffa believed he was meeting with New Jersey Teamster Official Anthony “Tony Pro” Provenzano for a peace conference, mediated by Detroit Mafia boss Anthony “Tony Jack” Giacalone and to discuss Hoffa’s intention to regain the International Brotherhood of Teamsters presidency (“The Day Jimmy Hoffa”).
At 2:15 pm, he spoke with his wife and told her that he had apparently been stood up and that he would return home around 4:00 pm to have dinner. Hoffa returned to the restaurant parking lot. Shortly after, a maroon 1975 Mercury Marquis Brougham nearly hit a delivery truck, driven by Robert Hall O’Dell, pulling out of the parking lot. O’Dell immediately recognized Jimmy Hoffa sitting in the back seat behind the driver of the car, but did not get a good look of anyone else in the Mercury (“Document: ‘Hoffex Memo,’ official”).
The next day, Detroit police found Hoffa’s unlocked green 1974 Pontiac Grand de Ville in the restaurant’s parking lot. They searched the car and opened the trunk, nothing unusual was found and there was no sign of a struggle. Using O’Dell’s description of the Mercury, investigators were able to trace the car to its owner, Joe Giacalone, the son of Detroit mobster Anthony Giacalone. Joe Giacalone claimed he lent the Mercury to teamster Charles “Chuckie” O’Brien (“Document: ‘Hoffex Memo,’ official”).
O’Brien was very close to Hoffa and at one time had actually lived with the Hoffa family.
When the car was located, O’Brien’s fingerprints were recovered from items in the automobile. The investigators believed that Hoffa would have been comfortable with O’Brien to get into the car. O’Brien claimed that he had not seen Hoffa on July 30 and gave investigators an account of his whereabouts. O’Brien’s story could not be corroborated by the investigators (“Document: ‘Hoffex Memo,’ official”).
Anthony Provenzano and Anthony Giacalone claimed to know nothing about a scheduled meeting to take place with Hoffa on July 30, 1975. Both were able to provide witnesses and iron clad alibis to their whereabouts that day, with Provenzano being in New Jersey and Giacalone at the Southfield Athletic Club (“James Riddle Hoffa”).
Eight days after Hoffa’s disappearance, and with the Federal Bureau of Investigations now involved, specially trained scent dogs were flown in and given a pair of shorts and moccasins Hoffa wore the day before he disappeared. The dogs picked up Hoffa’s scent in the back seat and the trunk of Joe Giacalone’s maroon Mercury. In March 2001, 26 years later a DNA match was made between a hair found in the car and a hair taken from Hoffa’s hair brush (“Document: ‘Hoffex Memo,’ …show more content…
official”).
Investigators questioned and surveilled suspects, Anthony Giacalone, Vito “Billy Jack” Giacalone, Raffael “Jimmy Q” Quasarano, Paul Vitale, Rolland McMasters, Anthony Provenzano, Stephen Andretta, Thomas Andretti, Salvatore “Sal” Briguglio, Gabriel “Gabe” Briguglio, Russell Bufalino and Francis “Frank” Sheeran. All of the suspects were represented by the same attorney, William E. Bufalino, and most of them took the Fifth Amendment, when questioned before the Grand Jury (“Document: ‘Hoffex Memo,’ official”).
Authorities interviewed Hoffa’s wife, Josephine, whom he married in 1936, along with his children, James P. Hoffa and Barbara Crancer. They also interviewed friends and associates Louis Linteau, Cynthia Green, Marvin Adell, Robert Holmes, Frank Fitzsimmons, Joseph Bane, Sr., Anthony Zerilli, Joseph Zerilli and Giacamo Tocco (“Document: ‘Hoffex Memo,’ official”).
James R. Hoffa joined the International Brotherhood of Teamsters in the 1930’s. He was always involved with the union, becoming local president, then International vice president 1952 and finally in 1961 he was elected International President. He remained president until the start of his prison sentence in 1967 (“James Riddle Hoffa”).
Jimmy Hoffa was involved in numerous investigations and indictments by the Justice Department who failed to win their cases. However, in March 1964, Hoffa was found guilty of bribery and jury tampering in his 1962 federal conspiracy trail. In July 1964, he was also convicted of misusing the Teamsters union pension funds by making loans to mobsters to finance casinos in Las Vegas. After three years of appealing his convictions, Hoffa began serving his 13 year prison sentence in 1967 (Kalikow).
Hoffa, hand-picked Frank Fitzsimmons to take over as union president while he served out his prison sentence. The mob found Fitzsimmons to be more complaisant and they were able to receive larger loans with Fitzsimmons as union president. Just before Christmas 1971, President Richard M. Nixon granted Jimmy Hoffa clemency, banned him from any union activity until 1980 (“The Hoffa Files: The Missing”).
After his release from prison, Jimmy Hoffa, made his intentions very clear that he was going to get the restriction waived and return to being union president. The mob feared that Hoffa may be willing to air some dirty laundry to the Justice Department to get his dearly wanted old job back. They also found that Frank Fitzsimmons was easier to control and could get what they wanted from him. Hoffa also suspected and possibly discovered some details that Fitzsimmons had negotiated the restrictions of his union involvement (“The Dissappearance of Jimmy”).
Over 200 FBI agents have been involved in the Hoffa investigation. 95 individuals have appeared before the Federal Grand Jury in Detroit, and 22 of these individuals asserted their Fifth Amendment rights and refused to testify. The individuals refusing to testify were Teamster Officials, many under indictments or aware of pending indictments in unrelated cases or known members of the La Cosa Nostra mob family (“Document: ‘Hoffex Memo,’ official”).
In 1982, James R. Hoffa was declared legally dead, but the case remains open. A special agent in the FBI’s Detroit field office is constantly assigned to this case. Gathered from interviews, wiretaps and surveillance, over 16,000 pages of documents has been compiled from this investigation (“Document: ‘Hoffex Memo,’ official”). There have been hundreds of leads and dozens of stories as to what happened to Jimmy Hoffa. Authorities are certain that Hoffa was killed the day he disappeared, but what happened and where is his body? It was put in a 55 gallon barrel and taken away by truck to a garbage dump; it was mixed in concrete and used in the construction of the New York Giant’s football stadium; it was buried in a 100 acre gravel pit in Highland, MI; it was encased in the foundation of a public works garage in Cadillac, MI; it was buried under a swimming pool at a mansion in Bloomfield Hills, MI; it was ground up and dumped in a Florida swamp; it was crushed in an automobile compactor in Hamtramck, MI; it was buried in a field in Waterford Township, MI, it was weighted down and put in the Au Sable River in Michigan, it was disintegrated at a fat-rendering plant in Michigan, it was buried under the Sheraton Savannah Resort Hotel’s helipad; it was buried under a horse barn in Milford, MI and other leads were checked out to no avail (“They got Hoffa-ed: Lives”). However, the confession made by Jimmy Hoffa’s close friend, Francis “Frank” Sheeran is the most convincing. The other stories were almost always told by some mobster who was not involved, yet heard or knew where to find the body. Sheeran actually confessed to the ordered hit and murder of Jimmy Hoffa. Russell Bufalino knew that Jimmy was planning to run for the union presidency and had documents that implicated some of his people in illegal activities. Hoffa had run his mouth, threatening to turn over the documents to the authorities so that his union restrictions would be lifted in time for the union election. Jimmy Hoffa became a man obsessed, when it came to him returning to his old union office. He was spouting off and threatening exposure of those who may and were getting in his way. Russell Bufalino, his wife, her older sister along with Frank Sheeran and his wife were driving to Detroit for a wedding. They were three hours away from Detroit and stopped at a restaurant in Port Clinton, Ohio. Bufalino and Sheeran excused themselves and told the women that they had to take care of some business. They left the restaurant and went to a grass field air strip in the area. Sheeran knew if he did not do as told, Hoffa would still be killed, but then so would himself. Bufalino had stayed with the car, while Sheeran made the hour flight to the Pontiac, Michigan airfield. There was a brown Ford car in the parking lot, just like Bufalino said there would be. The keys were on the floorboards and there was an address and directions to a house in the car (Brandt 249-250). Sheeran followed the directions down Route 24 past the Machus Red Fox restaurant and made a right on Seven Mile Road. Driving another half mile he turned right after crossing over a creek onto the road that would take him to the house. He parked his car in the driveway behind the Buick that was already there, and went to the front door. It was unlocked and inside the house was Salvatore “Sally Bugs” Briguglio and the two cleaners to remove all signs of the crime and the body, Stephen and Thomas Andretta (Brandt 251). Shortly Charles O’Brien arrived and picked up Sheeran and Briguglio and took them to the Machus Red Fox Restaurant where they found Hoffa in the parking lot. Jimmy felt comfortable that Frank was there to be his backup at the meeting and got into the back seat of the Mercury (Brandt 252). O’Brien drove them a couple of minutes back to the house. Hoffa and Sheeran exited the car and walked to the front door of the house. O’Brien and Briguglio drove away (Brandt 256).
Hoffa entered the house, with Sheeran close behind, and looked around unable to find Anthony Provenzano and Anthony Giacalone present. Hoffa turned around to go back outside and walked past Sheeran whose gun was drawn. As Hoffa reached for the door, Sheeran shot him twice behind his right ear, then dropped the gun, went outside and left in the car he had originally arrived in and returned to the airfield in Pontiac. He then flew back to Port Clinton, where Bufalino was waiting at the airfield, and they returned, in under three hours, back to the women waiting at the restaurant (Brandt 257-258).
The men inside the house were there to clean up. They were to take Hoffa’s body, place it in a body bag and have the bag cremated at a local funeral home where they had connections. This explains why Hoffa’s body has never been found. The plan was put together so that no one person could actually say what happened to Jimmy Hoffa that day.
Twenty-nine years later, after Sheeran’s confession, investigators pulled up linoleum in the home where the murder was supposed to have occurred. Traces of blood were found and sent the FBI for DNA testing. Investigators were skeptical that anything of evidentiary value would be discovered, due to the probable degradation of the sample recovered. The tests did determine that it was male blood on the floor but could not tie it directly to James R. Hoffa (“Hot Hoffa Hunt – Blood”).
The numerous other stories of where the Jimmy Hoffa’s body was supposed to be buried were all disclaimed, as no evidence of Hoffa or his body was ever found at any of the sites. It would have been very risky to have disposed Hoffa’s body out of state. The chances of getting caught would have greatly increased moving the body hundreds of miles away. It would have taken hours or even days to transport the body to New Jersey or Florida. Also, after Hoffa’s family had reported that Jimmy was missing, many police agencies were involved and had numerous suspects under surveillance watching their every move.
Most of the suspects are no longer alive. The Hoffa family will never know really happened to Jimmy Hoffa, that hot and muggy Wednesday afternoon, on July 30, 1975. However, Frank Sheeran accurately described the inside of the house were he said the hit took place. Sheeran’s confession of being the man who pulled the trigger, along with the degraded blood found in the house indicate that his story is extremely plausible. Sheeran statement that Hoffa’s body was immediately cremated after the hit, explains why the body has never been found since his disappearance, thirty-nine years ago. For these reasons, I believe and find it very credible that Frank Sheeran was involved and committed Hoffa’s murder. Works Cited
Brandt, Charles. "I Heard You Paint Houses": Frank: the Irishman" Sheeran and the inside story of the Mafia, the Teamsters, and the last ride of Jimmy Hoffa. Hanover: Steerforth Press, 2004. Print. The Day Jimmy Hoffa Disappeared.
The Toronto Sun, 30 July 2014. Web. 31 Sept. 2014. <http://blogs.canoe.ca/parker/news/the-day-jimmy-hoffa-disappeared/>. The Dissappearance of Jimmy Hoffa. University of Florida, n.d. Web. 27 Sept. 2014. <http://iml.jou.ufl.edu/projects/Fall05/slewis/index.html>.
"Document: 'Hoffex Memo, ' official FBI report on Jimmy Hoffa disappearance." San Jose Mercury News. Mercury News, 1 Oct. 2012. Web. 10 Oct. 2014. <http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_21647886/document-hoffex-memo-official-fbi-report-jimmy-hoffa>. The Hoffa Files: The Missing Body of Jimmy Hoffa. 8newsnow.com, 16 Nov. 2006. Web. 20 Sept. 2014. <http://www.8newsnow.com/story/5689300/the-hoffa-files-the-missing-body-of-jimmy-hoffa>.
"Hot Hoffa Hunt - Blood Clue Leads DA to Tear up Detroit Home." New York Post [New York, NY] 29 May 2004: n. pag. Print. James Riddle Hoffa. The Biography.com, 2014. Web. 28 Sept. 2014. <http://www.biography.com/people/jimmy-hoffa-9341063>.
Kalikow, Lisa, prod. "Who Killed Jimmy Hoffa?" Hosted by Tukufu Zuberi, Kaiama Glover, and Wes Cowan. Episode #4. History Detectives Special Investigations. PBS. WTTW, Chicago. Television. Missing Persons - Jimmy Hoffa. Foxnews.com, 30 July 2014. Web. 10 Oct. 2014.
<http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/07/30/eric-shawn-investigates-hit-on-hoffa/>. They got Hoffa-ed: Lives turned upside down in search for Teamsters boss. CNN News, 4 Aug. 2014. Web. 10 Oct. 2014. <http://www.cnn.com/2014/08/02/us/hoffa-disappearance-anniversary-searches/>.