Jimmy Hoffa bought the farm

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ETROIT (Reuters) - Using body-sniffing dogs and heavy equipment, the FBI on Thursday began digging around a Michigan horse farm, pursuing what it said was the best lead to surface in two years on the 1975 disappearance of labour leader Jimmy Hoffa.

A team of 40 to 50 people began searching the site in Milford Township, about 35 miles (56 km) west of Detroit, on Wednesday morning, said Daniel Roberts, head of the Detroit FBI office.

"You can see from the amount of FBI and police department personnel out here that this is probably a very credible lead," Roberts said at a news conference. He described it as "the best lead I've seen come across on the Hoffa investigation" in his two years in Detroit.

"We plan to be out here for a couple weeks at least to make sure we've covered everything adequately," he said.

The horse farm is about 20 miles (32 km) away from where the legendary Teamsters union boss went missing on July 30, 1975.

Hoffa was last seen outside a Detroit-area restaurant where he was to meet New Jersey Teamsters' boss Anthony "Tony" Provenzano, a member of the Genovese crime family, and a local Mafia captain, Anthony "Tony Jack" Giacalone. He had called his wife to say no one else had shown up for the meeting.

His disappearance just before he embarked on a campaign to get re-elected to his post as president of the Teamsters sparked a nationwide investigation into what has become one of the great crime mysteries in American history.

Hoffa was declared dead in 1982, and numerous books and movies about his life have pinned his disappearance on mobsters who murdered him and disposed of his body because they did not want him interfering with their close ties to the union.

Roberts said the FBI had sent in teams from Chicago and Washington to help with the search. He also said Detroit police are helping with cadaver-sniffing dogs.

He said that "one of the major areas" the agency wants to dig is covered by a horse barn that may have to be removed.

The FBI has also brought in archeology and anthropology professors and students from Michigan State University (MSU) to help with the search, Roberts said.

"The MSU folks are helping us with the ability to look at the earth, find out if it has been moved and replaced. And they have the tools and knowledge to be able to do that," he said.

Roberts said "nothing significant" had been recovered on Thursday.

(Additional reporting by Poornima Gupta)

Hmm, who wants to put money down Jimmy Hoffa will be found?
 
The mob is too smart to bury him at a Mafia hangout. That dude sleeps with the fishes.
 
Saint Boner said:
The mob is too smart to bury him at a Mafia hangout. That dude sleeps with the fishes.

...with concrete shoes...
 
CrackerjackHrt said:
you?

how could anyone get pissed at you?

Apparently I am RoryN and LT's alts because I disagree with him. *shrug*

He is on ignore now, so I do not have to worry.
 
Joaquin1975 said:
Apparently I am RoryN and LT's alts because I disagree with him. *shrug*

i thought i was LT's alt.

damn.

who am i, then?

this sudden discovery has thrown me into a state of anomie.
 
CrackerjackHrt said:
i thought i was LT's alt.

damn.

who am i, then?

this sudden discovery has thrown me into a state of anomie.

Yeah, back to Hoffa.
 
Joaquin1975 said:
Apparently I am RoryN and LT's alts because I disagree with him. *shrug*

He is on ignore now, so I do not have to worry.
now now settle down
 
Joaquin1975 said:
Hmm, who wants to put money down Jimmy Hoffa will be found?
Last I heard, Hoffa was in one of the concrete pillars holding up the Sears Tower in Chicago.. :)
 
garbage can said:
Last I heard, Hoffa was in one of the concrete pillars holding up the Sears Tower in Chicago.. :)

hahaha...
 
garbage can said:
Last I heard, Hoffa was in one of the concrete pillars holding up the Sears Tower in Chicago

He's been rumored to be part of a cement pillar in several states.

Serious multitasker.
 
Joaquin1975 said:
Yeah, back to Hoffa.

*shrugs

he's dead.

the people who killed him are dead.

the unions are practically dead.

what else is there to know?
 
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