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MaxMolyneux Photography Ninja Of The Night!
Great Old One Joined: 07 Jun 2005 Total posts: 1651 Location: Liverpool England United Kingdom Age: 27 Gender: Male |
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| Kondoru wrote: | A friend is following this...its local to him.
He says the media are having a cynical ball.
I said if it was a pro job the body would have been disposed of properly. |
Well being buried in a road is quite pro like as it would be hard to get a road closed to find a body. |
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| ramonmercado Psycho Punk
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| Posted: 31-05-2006 13:18 Post subject: |
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| Quote: | FBI fails to find Hoffa's remains
The FBI used heavy construction equipment at the farm
An exhaustive two-week search of a Michigan horse farm for the body of influential union boss Jimmy Hoffa has ended without result, the FBI says.
Agents tore down a barn and dug up several sites on Hidden Dreams Farm 32km (20 miles) from the restaurant where he was last seen in 1975.
They had acted on a tip-off from a convict who lived there at the time.
The former leader of the powerful Teamsters union apparently disappeared after meeting a mafia boss.
Rumours have persisted that Hoffa was murdered by the mafia to prevent him regaining control of the union.
Investigators believe Hoffa, who led the Teamsters from 1957 to 1967, may have been the victim of an underground feud.
The FBI used cadaver dogs, archaeologists and heavy construction equipment at the farm after a search warrant was served.
It said the tip-off was the strongest lead it had ever received in the case.
Comeback bid
It was given by Donovan Wells, 75, who is serving a 10-year drug-trafficking sentence.
There are many rumours surrounding Hoffa's disappearance
Seeking to shorten his prison term, Wells told his lawyers he had seen men burying what appeared to be a body with a backhoe on the farm the day after Hoffa vanished.
Hoffa is reported to have fallen out with several organised crime figures after he was convicted of jury tampering and fraud in the 1960s.
After his release from prison in 1971, and shortly before his disappearance, Hoffa had been trying to regain control of the Teamsters.
On the day he disappeared, he was supposed to be meeting Anthony "Tony Jack" Giacalone, described by the FBI as a Mafia "capo", and another man, Anthony "Tony Pro" Provenzano. Both have since died.
Hoffa was last seen in the car park of the restaurant.
One notable rumour is that Hoffa's remains were buried in the foundations of the Giants football stadium near New York.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/5032000.stm |
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| didopixie1963 Grey Joined: 15 Aug 2006 Total posts: 15 Location: Texas USA Gender: Female |
| Posted: 30-08-2006 06:20 Post subject: |
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Cases don't get closed until they are solved. A case can become cold and remain cold.  |
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| ramonmercado Psycho Punk
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| Posted: 29-09-2012 22:40 Post subject: |
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The search goes on.
| Quote: | Teamster boss Jimmy Hoffa subject of new Detroit search
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-19753200
A radar scan found the soil under the driveway had been "disturbed" at some point
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Who are Teamsters?
Police are searching outside a home near Detroit, Michigan, for remains of a union boss whose disappearance 37 years ago has never been solved.
Jimmy Hoffa, of the Teamsters union, was last seen on 30 July 1975 outside a restaurant in a Detroit suburb, where he was due to meet a New Jersey union leader and local mafia boss.
Police said they had been informed a body was buried under the driveway.
But their tipster did not say if it was Hoffa's body that was interred there.
On Friday, the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality began drilling for soil samples in a suburban Detroit neighbourhood.
Officials will test the samples for evidence of human remains, and results are expected back as early as Monday.
Theories abound over what happened to Jimmy Hoffa
Police say they are looking for a body but have played down suggestions that Hoffa could be buried there, citing timeline discrepancies.
Despite many searches over the years, Hoffa's body has never been found.
Theories about his death include suggestions that his body was submerged in concrete at the Giants stadium in New Jersey, ground up and thrown into a swamp in Florida, or shredded at a fat-rendering plant owned by the Mob.
There have been numerous searches in recent years around Detroit: under a swimming pool in the garden of a house in 2003; under the floor of another home a year later; and at a horse farm in 2006.
Before the current search got under way, the environmental officials used a radar to scan the ground below the concrete surface of the driveway, and found it had been "disturbed" at some point, Roseville Police Chief James Berlin said.
At the scene on Thursday, Cindi Frank, whose father was a Teamsters driver, took pictures on her mobile phone.
She said Hoffa's disappearance had always interested her family and that if his body was found, "it will be a big deal... This has just been one of those unsolved mysteries". |
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| EnolaGaia Joined: 19 Jul 2004 Total posts: 1197 Location: USA Gender: Male |
| Posted: 03-10-2012 13:23 Post subject: |
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Tests come back negative in Mich. search for Hoffa
MIKE HOUSEHOLDER Associated Press
COREY WILLIAMS Associated Press
DETROIT (AP) -- Like many others that came before it, the latest search for former Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa has come up empty.
Tests on soil samples gathered last week from a backyard in suburban Detroit showed no traces that Hoffa -- or anyone else -- was buried there, Roseville police announced Tuesday.
"Our department just received the soil sample report from Michigan State University, after a battery of tests; the samples submitted for examination showed no signs of human decomposition," the police statement read. "As a result of these tests the Roseville Police Department will be concluding their investigation into the possible interment of a human body upon the property."
Thus ended the latest in a long string of tips and rumors about one of America's great mysteries.
Over the years, authorities have dug up a Michigan horse farm, looked under a swimming pool and pulled up floorboards in their quest for the former union leader.
Hoffa last was seen July 30, 1975, outside a restaurant in Oakland County, more than 30 miles to the west. The day he disappeared, Hoffa was supposed to meet with a New Jersey Teamsters boss and a Detroit mafia captain.
The latest search led police, reporters and curious onlookers to Patricia Szpunar's brick ranch-style home in Roseville. Police in the mostly working- and middle-class community north of Detroit recently received a tip from a man who claimed he saw someone buried there about 35 years ago and that the body possibly belonged to Hoffa.
"The police have left and the yellow tape has come down," Szpunar told The Associated Press on Tuesday afternoon. "I'm thrilled because it's over with. No more people staring at my house, driving by, walking by, pausing to stare. I can go on with my life."
The soil samples were removed Friday after officials drilled through the floor of a shed on Szpunar's property. Roseville police Chief James Berlin had said the ground would be excavated if decomposition were found in the samples.
A tipster recently came forward and a radar test revealed a shift in the soil, both of which prompted Friday's drilling. Berlin said the house may have been owned in the 1970s by a gambler with ties to organized crime.
Hoffa was an acquaintance of mobsters and adversary to federal officials. He spent time in prison for jury tampering. He was declared legally dead in 1982.
Previous tips led police to excavate soil in 2006 at a horse farm northwest of Detroit, rip up floorboards at a Detroit home in 2004 and search beneath a backyard pool a few hours north of the city in 2003. Other theories were that his remains were ground up and tossed into a Florida swamp, entombed beneath Giants Stadium in New Jersey or obliterated in a mob-owned fat-rendering plant.
Szpunar said she's just happy to have her shed back.
"My son can put the motorcycle back in there," she said.
Police had put a new, more secure lock on the shed. They gave Szpunar the key Tuesday.
SOURCE: http://www.wishtv.com/dpps/news/strange/tests-come-back-negative-in-mich-search-for-hoffa-nd12-jos_4695907
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| graylien Great Old One Location: Norwich - home of the Puppet Man! Age: 42 Gender: Male |
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| WhistlingJack Joined: 29 Oct 2003 Total posts: 4297 Location: The Sewers of The Strand Age: 9 Gender: Unknown |
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| Dessie32 wrote: | | He was wacked by the mob. Its not clear what particular family. But I think some 'made' guy confessed, not that long ago. |
Richard Kuklinski claimed to have offed him: Did Iceman accept mob contract on union boss? |
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| Spookdaddy Cuckoo Joined: 24 May 2006 Total posts: 3834 Location: Midwich Gender: Unknown |
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| WhistlingJack wrote: | | Dessie32 wrote: | | He was wacked by the mob. Its not clear what particular family. But I think some 'made' guy confessed, not that long ago. |
Richard Kuklinski claimed to have offed him: Did Iceman accept mob contract on union boss? |
Hmm, I'm not too sure about some of Kuklinski's claims. He was undoubtedly a bad bastard, but I suspect (and I'm pretty sure I'm not alone in suspecting) that he was also a fantasist. Some of his claims, especially (IIRC) those involving the later years of his career, are downright bizarre. |
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| EnolaGaia Joined: 19 Jul 2004 Total posts: 1197 Location: USA Gender: Male |
| Posted: 19-06-2013 17:47 Post subject: |
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FBI hunt for ex-Teamster boss Hoffa's remains ends
By COREY WILLIAMS | Associated Press
OAKLAND TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — The excavation of a rural field in suburban Detroit has failed to turn up the remains of former Teamsters union leader Jimmy Hoffa, the FBI announced Wednesday, adding another unsuccessful chapter to a nearly 40-year-old mystery.
Authorities stopped the dig after just a few hours on the third day.
"We did not uncover any evidence relevant to the investigation on James Hoffa," said Robert Foley, head of the FBI in Detroit.
"I am very confident of our result here after two-days-plus of diligent effort," he said. "As of this point, we'll be closing down the excavation operation."
Authorities have pursued multiple leads as to Hoffa's whereabouts since his disappearance in 1975. He was last seen outside an Oakland County restaurant where he was to meet with a New Jersey Teamsters boss and a Detroit Mafia captain.
The latest tip about Hoffa's remains came from reputed Mafia captain Tony Zerilli, who, through his lawyer, said Hoffa was buried beneath a concrete slab in a barn in Oakland Township, north of Detroit.
The barn is gone, but FBI agents on Monday starting poring over the field where it used to stand.
On Tuesday, authorities used a backhoe to dig and move dirt around in the section of land. Authorities also called in forensic anthropologists from Michigan State University and cadaver dogs from the Michigan State Police.
"Certainly, we're disappointed" in the results, Foley told reporters Wednesday.
He said about 40 agents were involved in an operation that covered about an acre. The FBI has not put a cost on the search, but Foley said it's more important to solve a case.
"With any investigation we consider cost-benefits analysis," he said. "The FBI and its partners are no corporations. We do not have a profit margin as a bottom line."
Detroit FBI spokesman Simon Shaykhet said Wednesday that there was no connection between the dig for Hoffa's remains and an excavation on Tuesday at the house in New York once occupied by gangster James Burke. Burke, a Lucchese crime family associate known as "Jimmy the Gent," was the inspiration for Robert De Niro's character in the 1990 Martin Scorsese movie "Goodfellas."
Hoffa's rise in the Teamsters, his 1964 conviction for jury tampering and his presumed murder are Detroit's link to a time when organized crime, public corruption and mob hits held the nation's attention. Over the years, authorities have received various tips, leading the FBI to possible burial sites near and far.
In 2003, a backyard swimming pool was dug up 90 miles northwest of Detroit. Seven years ago, a tip from an ailing federal inmate led to a two-week search and excavation at a horse farm in the same region. Last year, soil samples were taken from under the concrete floor of a backyard shed north of the city. And detectives even pulled up floorboards at a Detroit house in 2004.
No evidence of Hoffa was found.
Other theories have suggested he was entombed in concrete at Giants Stadium in New Jersey, ground up and thrown in a Florida swamp or obliterated in a mob-owned fat-rendering plant.
Zerilli, now 85, was in prison for organized crime when Hoffa disappeared. But he told New York TV station WNBC in January that he was informed about Hoffa's whereabouts after his release. His attorney, David Chasnick, said Zerilli is "intimately involved" with people who know where the body is buried.
Details are in a manuscript Zerilli is selling online.
SOURCE: http://news.yahoo.com/fbi-hunt-ex-teamster-boss-hoffas-remains-ends-145049888.html
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