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Teamster boss Jimmy Hoffa subject of new Detroit search | Teamster boss Jimmy Hoffa subject of new Detroit search |
(about 20 hours later) | |
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. | 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. | 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. | 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. | |
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. | 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. | 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. | 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. | 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". | 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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