Jimmy Hoffa Search Resumes In Michigan

Jimmy Hoffa, the late labor leader and teamster, disappeared almost 38 years ago after allegedly meeting with two organized crime leaders. A search for his remains continues in a suburb of Michigan on Tuesday, following up on a lead from mobster Tony Zerilli, reported WJBK Fox 2.

The search is underway in a lot in Northern Oakland Township that’s roughly 20 miles from the site of the restaurant where Hoffa was last spotted in 1975. Hoffa had said that he was going to the Machus Red Fox Restaurant in Bloomfield, Mich., to meet with a Teamster Boss and a member of the Detroit Mafia.

Hoffa was legally declared dead in 1982. However, it wasn’t until 2004 that law enforcement got a solid lead about the whereabouts of his body from a former mob hitman. The hitman and onetime close friend to Hoffa, Frank Sheeran, admitted to having killed him at a house in Detroit in 1975. Detective work found blood evidence at the house that corroborated Sheeran’s story.

Though Sheeran, at the time of his confession, claimed that Hoffa’s body was cremated, Zerilli claimed earlier this year that the former Teamster had been buried. He further stated that it had been their intention to move his body from the Northern Oakland Township lot, but the plan fell by the wayside. “Once he was buried here, he was buried and they let it go,” he said.

The current search for Hoffa’s remains is far from being the first. In 2003, police were tipped off to a backyard pool two hours north of Detroit; in 2004, to a Detroit home; in 2006, to a horse farm; and this past September, they took soil samples from a backyard in a suburban neighborhood.

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