Teamsters boss James R. Hoffa disappeared in 1975 after meeting Mafia bosses at a Detroit restaurant
Over the years, a number of theories have surfaced that Jimmy Hoffa, long believed to have been killed by the Mafia, might be buried – and even sparked jokes about the disappearance in the 2003 film Bruce Almighty.
A field owned by mob boss Jack Tocco north of Detroit
FBI agents search a field outside Detroit for the suspected remains of former Teamsters union president Jimmy Hoffa on June 17, 2013 in Oakland Township, Michigan
In 2013, a man who, according to the FBI, was a former senior member of the Detroit organized crime family told WNBC that Hoffa was buried in a Michigan field about 20 miles north of the restaurant he was last seen in.
Anthony Zerilli told the outlet he found out about Hoffa’s death in prison after being convicted of involvement in illegal operations in Las Vegas casinos.
Zerilli said Hoffa was buried in a shallow grave on the property of Detroit mob chief Jack Tocco because the mob planned to move the body later but never did.
The FBI began investigating the property on June 17, 2013, based on information from Zerilli.
The FBI told NBC News at the time that it had used 40 agents to conduct the search, but had not found any human remains after three days of digging.
A suburban driveway back home that was once owned by a bookie for mob captain Anthony Giacalone
In 2012, police took samples from the ground under a Detroit suburban driveway that once belonged to a bookmaker for mob captain Anthony Giacolone after a tipster said he was having a corpse buried there around the time of Hoffa’s disappearance witnessed.
However, the samples were tested by Michigan State University anthropologists who found no evidence of human remains, the Detroit Free Press reported at the time.
“We never thought it was Jimmy Hoffa,” said James Berlin, police chief of Roseville.
“But after the time and effort that you have invested, you have the hope that something is there, but we are of course glad that it is not, because that (would) mean that all these years there was a poor soul there had been.”
Under the field in the former New York Giants Stadium
In 1989, a self-described freelance killer told Playboy magazine that Hoffa was shot and dismembered in a Mafia house and buried near the end zone at the old Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, when it was under construction.
Donald ‘Tony the Greek’ Frankos, who was a federally protected witness in the New York trial of alleged organized crime chief John Gotti, detailed the method by which Hoffa is to be killed.
Frankos claims he told the FBI in 1986 that Hoffa was killed by suspected Irish mob boss Jimmy Coonan in a house near the Mount Clemens suburb of Detroit.
An official with the New Jersey State Commission of Inquiry described Frankos’ story as “possible but … unlikely”.
Hoffa’s body was never found on the site – even after the stadium was finally demolished in 2010. However, other bodies were discovered during the construction of the former Giants Stadium, the New York Daily News reported.
Retired FBI agent Jim Kossler told the point of sale how contractors would call prosecutors every time they dug up a body “but eventually decided it was too disruptive to work.”
In a steel drum at the New Jersey landfill
A 55-gallon drum of the type that was reportedly used to transport former Teamster boss Jimmy Hoffa’s body to New Jersey is in the 47-acre landfill in Jersey City, where the FBI received a search warrant to search for a Digging corpse
Hoffa is said to be buried underground in a steel drum at the landfill
Frank Cappola, son of late gangster Paul Cappola Sr., told Fox Nation in February that Hoffa was buried in a steel drum in a New Jersey landfill under the Pulaski Skyway.
The site once belonged to Cappola’s father but is now owned by the New Jersey Department of Transportation and is used by a local waste disposal company to store unused dumpsters.
Hoffa was murdered in Detroit and his body was returned to New Jersey, where Cappola’s father allegedly put him in a barrel and buried it in a place he believed the ground wouldn’t be disturbed, he said.
This place was right next to a place that the government investigated in the 1980s.
Fox Nation host Eric Shawn visited the site with a team of excavators but did not dig – instead, he used radar technology to prove the ground was disturbed while waiting for law enforcement intervention.
Another speculated location is 200 Outwater Lane in New Jersey – although Phillip Moscato Jr., whose father was gangster Phillip ‘Brother’ Moscato Sr., doesn’t reveal exactly where he believes Hoffa’s remains are
At a garbage disposal facility in Hamtramck, Michigan
The New York Daily News also reported that there was another theory that the body was cremated at a garbage disposal facility in Hamtramck, Michigan.
A Detroit gangster told GangsterReport.com, “Within half an hour of Jimmy Hoffa poking two in his head, he was ashes.”
“All the walking around looking for a body is ridiculous, there is nothing to be found. And he wasn’t the first either. Bozzi Vitale and Jimmy Q got rid of a number of bodies in exactly the same way, ”the mob insider said.
“Abracadabra, your body is suddenly gone, no evidence, nothing. It’s not that complicated. ‘
Another theory is that Hoffa was buried at the Hidden Dreams Horse Farm in Milford, Michigan. During the 2006 search for Hoffa, demolition workers were seen demolishing a horse stable for the FBI. The FBI reportedly received advice from Donovan Wells, who lived on the farm, that the Hoffa was buried on the farm.
