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In 1964, Jimmy Hoffa was convicted of attempted bribery of a grand juror and jailed for 15 years. On December 23, 1971, however, he was released when Republican President Richard Nixon commuted his sentence to time served on the condition he not participate in union activities for 10 years. Hoffa was planning to sue to invalidate that restriction in order to reassert his power over the Teamsters when he disappeared at 2:30 pm on July 30, 1975, from the parking lot of the Machus Red Fox Restaurant in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit. He had been due to meet two Mafia leaders, Anthony "Tony Jack" Giacalone from Detroit and Anthony "Tony Pro" Provenzano from Union City, New Jersey and New York City.
His fate is a mystery that continues to this day. Among the theories are:
Hoffa's assassination was allegedly ordered at Brutico's, an Italian restaurant in Old Forge, PA.
Former Mafioso Bill Bonanno claimed in his book, Bound by Honor, that Hoffa was shot and put in the trunk of a car that was then run through a car compactor.
Convicted mob hitman Donald Frankos, alias "Tony the Greek," has claimed that, while on furlough from prison (where he was incarcerated for a previous murder), he committed numerous hits, including that of Hoffa. Frankos claims that Hoffa was murdered in a house belonging to Detroit mobster Anthony Giacalone by a team consisting of Frankos and Westies gangster Jimmy Coonan, and that the body was subsequently buried in the foundations of Giants Stadium by another hitman, Joe "Mad Dog" Sullivan. Later proven by MythBusters that his body is not anywhere in the stadium that has been claimed by superstition. To paraphrase Adam Savage, they would have had to dig up the entire stadium to prove Hoffa was not there, and that would have been time consuming and expensive, so they only checked in places where he is commonly believed to have been buried.
Hoffa's body was buried in concrete in or near the Straits of Mackinac bridge.
Hoffa's body was buried in a residential area in Hamilton, New Jersey.
Hoffa's body was shipped across the border and resides at the Mondo Condo in Toronto, Canada.
None of these theories have been proven and his body has never been found. Hoffa was declared legally dead and a death certificate issued on 30 July, 1982, seven years after his disappearance. Rumors of sightings have persisted for years. His disappearance has since entered the public lexicon, where people would often state someone would "sooner find Jimmy Hoffa" than something else that was difficult to locate.
According to recent publications and expert testimony (Charles Brandt), it is believed that Jimmy Hoffa's body was cremated with the assistance of a Mafia-owned funeral home at a cemetery located near the Detroit home in which Hoffa was killed.
DNA evidence examined in 2001 placed Hoffa in the car of longtime Teamster associate Charles O'Brien, despite O'Brien's claims Hoffa had never been in his car. Police interviews later that year failed to produce any indictments.
In July 2003, after the convicted killer Richard Powell told authorities that a briefcase containing a syringe used to subdue Hoffa was buried at a house in Hampton Township, Michigan, another backyard was examined and excavated. Again, nothing was found

Dear Dad,

You can plant your garden now, sorry I couldn't do more to help.

Love,
Your Son

Heard a funny, funny incident once regarding Hoffa.

Back in the days before the kind of talk radio we have now, there was a host here in Houston who had a reputation for being pretty harsh with callers. His name was Alvin Van Black. I heard this phone call while driving between clients one afternoon.

A few months after Hoffa vanished, a woman called Alvin telling him that she KNEW where Hoffa could be found. This drew a series of questions and insults from the host, belittling the woman. She maintained her stance. She must have been some body's grandmother. She sounded so nice, and knowledgeable, though a little naive.

Finally, the host had had enough. He said, "OK, Where is he?"

"Well...he's working in a maternity hospital in the northeast. He's in charge of labor."

I nearly ran off the road. I couldn't see through the tears. She sucked all the oxygen out of the air!

Alvin Van Black was silent.

I heard he was shot in the back of the head, and then run through a wood chipper and the mush was then spread along the banks of a river or something like that.

I heard that aliens abducted him, and he's now sitting on a Martian beach, eating discontinued Ben and Jerry's ice cream flavours with Amelia Earhart while watching Elvis perform.

I don't care at all about Hoffa. I can't believe how much publicity ths continues to get.

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The guy was a crook and a thug. He gets attention in the same way Al Capone does. Anyone who think of Hoffa as a hero to the workling class is ...welll, under educated.

Still, he was a powerful leader of the then largest union in the country. His murder merits attention. Not to mention the fact that American's love a good mystery.

I don't know where he is buried but I have a feeling concrete is involved.

quote Originally posted by Toddster: I don't know where he is buried but I have a feeling concrete is involved.

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From what I understand he went to grab a bite to eat then took a nap afterwards..

I heard that he was on his way to get a tomato, olive oil, and parmesan sandwich when he accidentally slipped into a wormhole. Or something.

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The only thing for sure about Hoffa is that he will continue to cost us taypayer $$ from the grave (or wherever he is.) That latest "dig up the farm" search cost us $80K, I think. I wish they would leave it alone and spend that money on more important things (or not spend it at all.)