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| 0:14 | · | On July 30, 1975, former Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa stood outside the Machus Red Fox |
| 0:21 | · | Restaurant in Bloomfield Township, Michigan, impatiently scanning the parking lot. |
| 0:26 | · | The man who had made the Teamsters the most formidable labor union in the country was |
| 0:30 | · | already angry. |
| 0:32 | · | It was quarter after two in the afternoon, and the men he was supposed to be meeting |
| 0:35 | · | for lunch hadn't arrived yet. |
| 0:38 | · | Hoffa was a stickler for punctuality, and it was his understanding that they were to |
| 0:41 | · | meet at 2:00. |
| 0:43 | · | Wearing a dark blue short-sleeve shirt, blue pants, white socks, and black Gucci loafers, |
| 0:49 | · | Hoffa walked to a nearby payphone outside a hardware store and called his wife to tell |
| 0:53 | · | her that he'd apparently been stood up. |
| 0:55 | · | Josephine Hoffa had felt that her husband seemed uncharacteristically nervous when he |
| 0:59 | · | had left the house an hour earlier. |
| 1:02 | · | Before going to the restaurant, Hoffa had stopped at the offices of a limousine service |
| 1:05 | · | in Pontiac that was owned by a good friend. |
| 1:08 | · | An employee there also noticed that Hoffa seemed nervous. |
| 1:12 | · | Jimmy Hoffa was supposed to be meeting Detroit mobster Anthony "Tony Jack" Giacalone and |
| 1:17 | · | New Jersey labor leader Anthony "Tony Pro" Provenzano, who also happened to be a made |
| 1:23 | · | member of the Genovese crime family. |
| 1:26 | · | The reason for this meeting, Hoffa believed, was to discuss his intention to run for the |
| 1:30 | · | presidency of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters and regain the powerful position |
| 1:34 | · | he had lost after his 1964 convictions for jury tampering, conspiracy, and mail and wire |
| 1:40 | · | fraud. |
| 1:41 | · | But the Mafia, who had worked hand in hand with Hoffa in the past, wasn't so sure they |
| 1:46 | · | wanted him back in power. |
| 1:49 | · | President Richard Nixon had granted Hoffa clemency in 1971, just before Christmas, but |
| 1:54 | · | things had changed significantly in the nearly five years Hoffa had spent behind bars. |
| 1:59 | · | The mob found Hoffa's handpicked successor, Frank Fitzsimmons, more pliable than Hoffa, |
| 2:04 | · | and Fitzsimmons was well-liked by President Nixon. |
| 2:08 | · | The gangsters liked things the way they were. |
| 2:10 | · | They wanted Hoffa to stay retired. |
| 2:13 | · | Not long after Hoffa had called home on the payphone outside the hardware store, a maroon |
| 2:17 | · | 1975 Mercury Marquis Brougham pulled out of the restaurant parking lot and nearly hit |
| 2:22 | · | a truck. |
| 2:24 | · | The truck driver, who was making deliveries in the area, pulled up next to the car and |
| 2:28 | · | immediately recognized Jimmy Hoffa sitting in the backseat behind the car's driver. |
| 2:33 | · | The truck driver also noticed a long object covered with a gray blanket on the seat between |
| 2:38 | · | Hoffa and another passenger. |
| 2:40 | · | The truck driver thought it was a shotgun or a rifle. |
| 2:43 | · | He didn't get a good look at anyone else in the car. |
| 2:46 | · | The next day Hoffa's green 1974 Pontiac Grand Ville was found unlocked in the restaurant |
| 2:52 | · | parking lot. |
| 2:53 | · | Police opened the trunk but found nothing unusual. |
| 2:56 | · | Using the truck driver's description of the car Hoffa was last seen in, investigators |
| 3:00 | · | were able to trace the maroon Mercury to its owner, Joe Giacalone, the son of mobster Anthony |
| 3:06 | · | Giacalone. |
| 3:08 | · | Joe Giacalone claimed that he had lent the car to a friend that day, a teamster named |
| 3:12 | · | Charles "Chuckie" O'Brien, who was very close to the Hoffa family and had actually lived |
| 3:17 | · | with the Hoffas at one time. |
| 3:19 | · | The car was located, and O'Brien's fingerprints were found on a 7UP bottle and a piece of |
| 3:24 | · | paper recovered from the car. |
| 3:26 | · | Investigators felt that Jimmy Hoffa would have felt comfortable enough with O'Brien, |
| 3:30 | · | whom he considered a foster son, to get into the Mercury. |
| 3:33 | · | FBI agents checked on the whereabouts of the two men Hoffa was supposed to be meeting that |
| 3:37 | · | day. |
| 3:38 | · | "Tony Jack" Giacalone swore he was at the gym where he worked out every day, and witnesses |
| 3:43 | · | placed him at the Southfield Athletic Club at the time of Hoffa's disappearance. |
| 3:47 | · | "Tony Pro" Provenzano was in New Jersey playing cards with friends. |
| 3:53 | · | Both Tonys said they knew nothing about a scheduled meeting with Hoffa. |
| 3:56 | · | Chuckie O'Brien claimed that he hadn't seen Hoffa on July 30 and gave a detailed account |
| 4:01 | · | of his whereabouts. |
| 4:02 | · | He told investigators that he had delivered a 40-pound frozen salmon to the home of a |
| 4:07 | · | Teamster International vice president and helped the man's wife cut the fish into steaks. |
| 4:11 | · | During the time that Jimmy Hoffa had been waiting at the restaurant, O'Brien said he |
| 4:15 | · | was at the Southfield Athletic Club with Anthony Giacalone. |
| 4:19 | · | O'Brien claimed he then took the Mercury to a car wash because fish blood had leaked onto |
| 4:23 | · | the backseat. |
| 4:25 | · | No one at the athletic club or the car wash could corroborate his story. |
| 4:29 | · | Specially trained German shepherds were flown in from Philadelphia eight days after Hoffa's |
| 4:33 | · | disappearance. |
| 4:34 | · | The dogs were given a pair of the labor leader's Bermuda shorts and a pair of his moccasins. |
| 4:39 | · | They picked up Hoffa's scent in the backseat and trunk of Joe Giacalone's maroon Mercury. |
| 4:44 | · | Twenty-six years later in March of 2001, a DNA match was made between a hair found in |
| 4:50 | · | the back of the car and a hair taken from Hoffa's hairbrush. |
| 4:54 | · | Many years have passed since the mysterious disappearance of James Riddle Hoffa, and the |
| 4:58 | · | case remains unsolved. |
| 5:00 | · | But this mystery is not a who-done-it. |
| 5:02 | · | The likely suspects are all known, and their motives are well documented. |
| 5:07 | · | The question is: Where? |
| 5:10 | · | What exactly did they do to Jimmy Hoffa, and where did they dispose of his body? |
| 5:15 | · | In 1959 Robert F. Kennedy, the brother of John F. Kennedy who would soon be elected |
| 5:20 | · | president of the United States, appeared on The Jack Paar Show, America's first late-night |
| 5:25 | · | television talk show. |
| 5:27 | · | At the time Bobby Kennedy was chief counsel of the Senate Labor Rackets Committee, better |
| 5:31 | · | known as the McClellan Committee. |
| 5:34 | · | Speaking to a national television audience, Kennedy had plenty to say about Jimmy Hoffa |
| 5:38 | · | and the Teamsters union, and the crusading young attorney was not afraid to name names. |
| 5:44 | · | Sitting across from an attentive Jack Paar, their images broadcast across America in grainy |
| 5:49 | · | black and white, Kennedy said, "All of our lives are too intricately interwoven with |
| 5:53 | · | this union to sit passively by and allow the Teamsters under Mr. Hoffa's leadership to |
| 5:58 | · | create such a superpower in this country—a power greater than the people and greater |
| 6:03 | · | than the Government... |
| 6:05 | · | Unless something is done, this country is not going to be controlled by the people but |
| 6:09 | · | is going to be controlled by Johnny Dio and Jimmy Hoffa and Tony 'Ducks' Corallo." |
| 6:15 | · | Except for Hoffa's, those names were probably unfamiliar to most Americans, but the directness |
| 6:20 | · | of Kennedy's accusation was courageous and remarkable. |
| 6:24 | · | What public official today would go on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno or The Late Show |
| 6:26 | · | with David Letterman and point the finger at gangsters, using their real names? |
| 6:30 | · | In the late 1950s, the McClellan Committee—named after its chairman, Senator John L. McClellan—was |
| 6:37 | · | set up to investigate the influence of organized crime in labor unions. |
| 6:41 | · | Though Robert Kennedy knew relatively little about organized labor when the committee began |
| 6:45 | · | its work, the young attorney from Massachusetts was a quick study and a tenacious public servant. |
| 6:51 | · | He made no bones about his desire to "get Hoffa." |
| 6:55 | · | Kennedy could not abide corruption on any level, and by all indications, the leadership |
| 7:00 | · | of the Teamsters union was rotten to the core. |
| 7:03 | · | Hoffa had always been a brawler and a bully who would use any means necessary to achieve |
| 7:08 | · | his goals for the Teamsters. |
| 7:10 | · | When he and Kennedy locked horns in the public arena, Hoffa, as was his way, insisted on |
| 7:15 | · | making it personal, ridiculing Kennedy and calling him a "boy." |
| 7:19 | · | When the two men first met at a Washington dinner party, Hoffa had actually challenged |
| 7:23 | · | Kennedy to an arm-wrestling contest and the next day publicly proclaimed victory. |
| 7:29 | · | On another occasion at a restaurant, Hoffa initiated a shoving match with Kennedy because |
| 7:33 | · | he felt that the young attorney had snubbed him. |
| 7:36 | · | Kennedy was everything Hoffa loathed—born into money, Ivy League-educated, refined and |
| 7:42 | · | good-looking—but in Hoffa's estimation Kennedy fell short because he didn't live up to Hoffa's |
| 7:47 | · | standards for manhood. |
| 7:49 | · | Hoffa believed that a real man should be able to handle himself with his fists, intimidating |
| 7:54 | · | his adversaries physically when words weren't enough. |
| 7:57 | · | He also believed in any means to an end. |
| 8:00 | · | According to Hoffa, the only thing that mattered was success, no matter how it was achieved, |
| 8:06 | · | and to Hoffa's way of thinking, dealing with gangsters was necessary for the success of |
| 8:10 | · | the Teamsters. |
| 8:12 | · | But in fact, dealing with Hoffa was more necessary for the success of the mob. |
| 8:16 | · | While the mob provided Hoffa with the kind of muscle he valued, Hoffa provided the mob |
| 8:21 | · | with money, lots of it. |
| 8:23 | · | The jackpot in question was the Central States Pension Fund. |
| 8:27 | · | The hardworking rank and file of the Teamsters entrusted the union with their retirement |
| 8:31 | · | savings with the promise that it would be invested soundly and yield the highest dividends |
| 8:35 | · | possible. |
| 8:36 | · | But under Hoffa, loans were made to such dubious individuals as Jewish gangster Morris "Moe" |
| 8:42 | · | Dalitz, one of the underworld's architects of Las Vegas. |
| 8:46 | · | Dalitz, who started as a member of the notorious Purple Gang in Detroit before moving his base |
| 8:51 | · | of operations to Cleveland, used money loaned from the Teamsters' pension fund to build |
| 8:56 | · | the grand Desert Inn and the Stardust Hotel in Vegas. |
| 9:00 | · | According to Ralph and Estelle James in their book, Hoffa and the Teamsters, Dalitz was |
| 9:04 | · | a member of Hoffa's inner circle. |
| 9:06 | · | In 1949 when the Teamsters threatened to strike against the Detroit Laundry Institute, Dalitz, |
| 9:12 | · | who was a part-owner in a laundry, got Hoffa to intervene behind the scenes and managed |
| 9:17 | · | to avert the strike. |
| 9:18 | · | The McClellan Committee uncovered evidence that the grateful laundry owners of Detroit |
| 9:23 | · | kicked back a substantial sum of money to Hoffa disguised as a loan. |
| 9:27 | · | Mobster Johnny Dio, who was cited by Robert Kennedy on television, was considered the |
| 9:32 | · | master of labor racketeering. |
| 9:34 | · | Born John Dioguardi, he wrote the book on how to profit from labor unions and was welcomed |
| 9:40 | · | by mob families across the country eager to learn from him. |
| 9:43 | · | Dio, who belonged to New York's Lucchese family, would open garment factories, then negotiate |
| 9:46 | · | "sweetheart deals" with the unions that granted him waivers from every major contractual obligation |
| 9:52 | · | contained in their labor agreements. |
| 9:54 | · | In this way Dio was able to use underpaid, nonunion immigrant labor in his factories, |
| 10:00 | · | allowing him to undercut his competitors. |
| 10:03 | · | In exchange for their cooperation, union officials were given generous kickbacks. |
| 10:07 | · | "It cannot be said," the McClellan Committee concluded, "using the widest possible latitude, |
| 10:13 | · | that John Dioguardi was ever interested in the lot of the working man." |
| 10:17 | · | One of Johnny Dio's partners in labor crime was Anthony "Tony Ducks" Corallo, who earned |
| 10:22 | · | his nickname not because he loved waterfowl but because he had an uncanny ability to duck |
| 10:27 | · | convictions in court. |
| 10:28 | · | Dio and Corallo, who would one day become boss of the Lucchese family, set up six "paper |
| 10:32 | · | locals" in New York with Jimmy Hoffa's blessing. |
| 10:35 | · | These locals had no members, only officials who were either made-members or associates |
| 10:40 | · | of the Mafia, and eventually, these men were able to take control of all airport trucking |
| 10:45 | · | in New York City. |
| 10:46 | · | According to the McClellan Committee, these mobsters used "their positions for purposes |
| 10:50 | · | of extortion, bribery, and shakedowns." |
| 10:54 | · | In exchange for this extraordinary license to steal, Hoffa expected the paper locals |
| 10:58 | · | to support him when it came time to vote in Teamster elections. |
| 11:02 | · | According to Stephen Fox in Blood and Power, the McClellan Committee uncovered "a pattern |
| 11:07 | · | of squandered and stolen union funds, sweetheart contracts, conflicts of interest among employers |
| 11:12 | · | and labor leaders, phony 'paper locals' and denial of democratic process to members, collusions |
| 11:18 | · | and coercion and violence always about to break out" in cities across the country, including |
| 11:23 | · | New York, Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, St. Louis, Pittsburgh, and Minneapolis. |
| 11:30 | · | Hoffa's associates in organized crime included "Angelo Meli, William Bufalino, and Pete Licavoli |
| 11:35 | · | of Detroit; Babe Triscaro of Cleveland; Paul Ricca and Joey Glimco of Chicago; and Johnny |
| 11:41 | · | Dio, Tony Ducks Corallo, and Vincent Squillante of New York. |
| 11:46 | · | " But as Fox points out, "Hoffa took cues—not orders—from gangsters." |
| 11:51 | · | And that's where his troubles began. |
| 11:54 | · | On Valentine's Day 1970, a small airplane towing a long banner flew low over Lewisburg |
| 11:59 | · | Federal Prison in central Pennsylvania. |
| 12:02 | · | The banner proclaimed, "Happy Birthday, Jimmy!" |
| 12:05 | · | It was Jimmy Hoffa's fifty-seventh birthday. |
| 12:08 | · | He had been incarcerated for almost five years. |
| 12:11 | · | Hoffa received lots of birthday cards from loyal rank and file members and Teamster officials |
| 12:16 | · | in addition to the usual stream of encouraging letters. |
| 12:19 | · | But the support that Hoffa was getting through the mail was deceptive. |
| 12:23 | · | Though he was still a hero to the workers he had represented, the corrupt Teamster leadership |
| 12:27 | · | was just as happy to have him on ice. |
| 12:30 | · | Hoffa's handpicked successor for the presidency of the union, Frank Fitzsimmons, was much |
| 12:34 | · | more to their liking. |
| 12:37 | · | Fitzsimmons didn't merely take cues from the gangsters; he practically gave them carte |
| 12:40 | · | blanche to do whatever they wanted with their union positions. |
| 12:44 | · | The even-tempered Fitzsimmons was also much easier to get along with than the pugnacious |
| 12:48 | · | Hoffa. |
| 12:49 | · | In addition, he was a friend of President Nixon and a frequent guest at the White House. |
| 12:55 | · | Fitzsimmons's air of respectability was the perfect cover for the corruption lurking beneath |
| 12:58 | · | the Teamsters. |
| 13:00 | · | Hoffa, on the other hand, was now a con, not the most desirable image for a frontman. |
| 13:06 | · | But Hoffa was undaunted. |
| 13:08 | · | He was determined to regain his seat of power even though the Landrum-Griffin Act stipulated |
| 13:13 | · | that a convicted felon could not hold office in a union until five years after his release. |
| 13:19 | · | Hoffa knew he would have to bide his time. |
| 13:22 | · | His plan was to finish his sentence and wait out the mandatory exclusionary period, then |
| 13:26 | · | mount his campaign against the lackluster Fitzsimmons who consistently disregarded Hoffa's |
| 13:31 | · | suggestions for the Teamsters in favor of the mob's wishes. |
| 13:35 | · | Hoffa was confident that he had the support of the rank and file, and he believed they |
| 13:39 | · | would sweep him back into the office, but while in prison he also tried to shore up |
| 13:44 | · | his mob alliances. |
| 13:46 | · | A high-ranking mobster with close ties to the Teamsters happened to be serving time |
| 13:50 | · | at Lewisburg on an extortion conviction, Hoffa's old friend Anthony "Tony Pro" Provenzano. |
| 13:57 | · | Provenzano was a capo in the Genovese crime family as well as an International Brotherhood |
| 14:02 | · | of Teamsters vice president, controlling the most corrupt local in the country, Local 560 |
| 14:07 | · | in Union City, New Jersey. |
| 14:10 | · | Provenzano's position with the union was a longstanding quid pro quo devised by Hoffa |
| 14:15 | · | himself who had been seeking to solidify his mob support. |
| 14:19 | · | Local 560 eventually became Tony Pro's personal piggy bank, allowing him easy access to union |
| 14:25 | · | funds for his own illegitimate purposes. |
| 14:28 | · | In prison, Hoffa and Provenzano were initially close allies. |
| 14:33 | · | Provenzano was a de facto power within Lewisburg, carrying his mob rank with him, and he provided |
| 14:38 | · | Hoffa with protection. |
| 14:40 | · | At one point, Provenzano was paralyzed with a painful stomach ailment, and it was Hoffa |
| 14:45 | · | who raised hell on his behalf, convincing prison officials to get Provenzano the medical |
| 14:49 | · | attention he required. |
| 14:51 | · | But over time their relationship deteriorated. |
| 14:55 | · | Provenzano wanted Hoffa's help in securing a loan from the Teamsters for a restaurant |
| 14:59 | · | he wanted to open, but Hoffa couldn't deliver for him. |
| 15:03 | · | Provenzano was upset over this, and later Hoffa was overheard telling Provenzano, "It's |
| 15:08 | · | because of people like you that I got into trouble in the first place." |
| 15:11 | · | (After they were both released from Lewisburg, a federal informant claimed to have witnessed |
| 15:16 | · | a violent confrontation between Provenzano and Hoffa at a chance meeting at an airport. |
| 15:21 | · | According to Lester Velie in Desperate Bargain: Why Jimmy Hoffa Had to Die, "Hoffa and Provenzano |
| 15:27 | · | went at it with their fists, and Hoffa broke a bottle over Provenzano's head." |
| 15:32 | · | Provenzano angrily threatened Hoffa's grandchildren, swearing "I'll tear your heart out!") |
| 15:37 | · | Hoffa opposed Provenzano's intention to return to his old position with Local 560 after his |
| 15:42 | · | five-year exclusionary period, and likewise, Provenzano opposed Hoffa's desire to recapture |
| 15:48 | · | the presidency of the Teamsters. |
| 15:50 | · | They became each other's problem, but Provenzano had a reputation for making his problems disappear. |
| 15:57 | · | In 1963 a prosecution witness in Provenzano's extortion trial was gunned down shortly before |
| 16:03 | · | he was scheduled to give testimony. |
| 16:06 | · | In 1972 a man involved in a counterfeiting operation with Provenzano simply disappeared. |
| 16:12 | · | In a case uncannily similar to the Hoffa disappearance, Anthony Castellito, the secretary-treasurer |
| 16:18 | · | of Provenzano's Local 560, was lured to a location in upstate New York where he was |
| 16:23 | · | met by a short, slight, and bespectacled loanshark named Salvatore "Sally Bugs" Briguglio who |
| 16:30 | · | allegedly murdered Castellito and transported the body back to New Jersey. |
| 16:35 | · | Castellito's remains were never found. |
| 16:37 | · | Conveniently Provenzano was in Florida at the time of Castellito's disappearance. |
| 16:42 | · | The setup was nearly identical to Hoffa's disappearance. |
| 16:46 | · | When Provenzano returned to the Garden State, he appointed Briguglio, who previously had |
| 16:50 | · | no official connection to the Teamsters, to the victim's former position as secretary-treasurer |
| 16:55 | · | of Local 560. |
| 16:57 | · | In 1985 the FBI released a memo summarizing the Hoffa case and cited Salvatore Briguglio |
| 17:04 | · | as a prime suspect along with Briguglio's brother Gabriel, the brothers Stephen and |
| 17:09 | · | Thomas Andretta, Chuckie O'Brien, "Tony Pro" Provenzano, "Tony Jack" Giacalone, and the |
| 17:15 | · | mob boss of western Pennsylvania, Russell Bufalino. |
| 17:19 | · | In January 1976 and February 1977 the government issued internal reports based on interviews |
| 17:25 | · | with an informer who claimed to know the whole story of what happened to Jimmy Hoffa. |
| 17:30 | · | The informer, Ralph Picardo, was serving a murder sentence at the time in Trenton State |
| 17:35 | · | Prison in New Jersey's capital. |
| 17:37 | · | Picardo had been a business agent for Local 84 in New Jersey and a driver for "Tony Pro" |
| 17:43 | · | Provenzano. |
| 17:44 | · | As reported in The Hoffa Wars by Dan E. Moldea, Picardo claimed that Hoffa had been invited |
| 17:50 | · | to the Machus Red Fox restaurant by Detroit mobster Anthony Giacalone for a "sit-down" |
| 17:55 | · | with Provenzano, so that the two men could iron out their differences. |
| 17:59 | · | Chuckie O'Brien, whose alibi included spending time carving a large fish that day, picked |
| 18:04 | · | up Hoffa at the restaurant and took him to a nearby house where O'Brien had been staying |
| 18:08 | · | with friends. |
| 18:10 | · | Teamster business agent Thomas Andretta, Salvatore Briguglio and his brother Gabriel were in |
| 18:15 | · | the house, waiting to ambush Hoffa. |
| 18:17 | · | A man named Frank Sheeran, who had been president of Local 326 in Delaware, was also in the |
| 18:23 | · | house. |
| 18:24 | · | Sheeran was a close associate of Pennsylvania mob boss Russell Bufalino and had driven Bufalino |
| 18:29 | · | to Detroit that day. |
| 18:31 | · | According to Picardo, the hit on Hoffa was ordered by Bufalino who gave the contract |
| 18:36 | · | to Provenzano. |
| 18:37 | · | Bufalino's cousin William, president of the Teamsters' jukebox local in Detroit, had had |
| 18:42 | · | a serious falling out with Hoffa in 1967. |
| 18:46 | · | Picardo did not say whether Russell Bufalino was actually present for Hoffa's execution, |
| 18:51 | · | but it is curious that on a day when others involved in the conspiracy made sure that |
| 18:55 | · | they were nowhere in the vicinity, Bufalino traveled from his base in Pittston, Pennsylvania, |
| 19:00 | · | to be in the same city. |
| 19:02 | · | Perhaps Bufalino wanted to make sure that the pesky Hoffa was taken care of once and |
| 19:06 | · | for all. |
| 19:08 | · | Or perhaps it was personal, and he wanted to witness the event himself. |
| 19:13 | · | Bufalino's exact whereabouts on July 30, 1975, are unknown, but there is little doubt that |
| 19:19 | · | Hoffa was murdered that day in that house. |
| 19:22 | · | Without a body or circumstantial evidence that will hold up in court, there will probably |
| 19:26 | · | never be a conviction in the slaying of Jimmy Hoffa. |
| 19:29 | · | But the conspirators did not get off scot-free. |
| 19:32 | · | Over the years the government made sure these men were prosecuted to the full extent of |
| 19:36 | · | the law on other charges. |
| 19:39 | · | Anthony "Tony Pro" Provenzano's pocket local, Local 560, eventually came under government |
| 19:44 | · | oversight, putting a major crimp in Provenzano's illegal operations. |
| 19:49 | · | In 1978 he was prosecuted and found guilty of the 1961 murder of Anthony Castellito. |
| 19:56 | · | Seventeen years after Castellito's body was allegedly put through a tree shredder, Tony |
| 20:00 | · | Pro was sent to prison where he died 10 years later at the age of 81. |
| 20:05 | · | Anthony "Tony Jack" Giacalone, who allegedly set up Hoffa, was tried and convicted on tax |
| 20:10 | · | evasion charges and spent 10 years in prison. |
| 20:13 | · | He was charged with racketeering violations in 1996 but died before the case could be |
| 20:19 | · | tried. |
| 20:20 | · | Despite numerous holes in Chuckie O'Brien's alibi, the man who allegedly drove Hoffa to |
| 20:24 | · | his execution was never charged with anything relating to Hoffa's disappearance. |
| 20:29 | · | He moved to Florida where he was given a job by Teamster President Frank Fitzsimmons, but |
| 20:34 | · | in 1990 O'Brien was banished from the union for his mob connections. |
| 20:38 | · | He served a short time in prison in the late '70s for accepting a free car from an auto |
| 20:43 | · | dealership and for lying on a loan application. |
| 20:46 | · | Plagued with ill-health, O'Brien has survived cancer and four heart bypass operations spent |
| 20:52 | · | most of his remaining days in Boca Raton, Florida. |
| 20:55 | · | He kept his version of the events, saying that the government, not the mob, killed Jimmy |
| 21:00 | · | Hoffa. |
| 21:01 | · | Chuckie O'Brien's died of a heart attack in February 2020, at the age of 86. |
| 21:06 | · | Tony Pro associate Salvatore Briguglio was murdered gangland-style on Mulberry Street |
| 21:12 | · | in New York's Little Italy. |
| 21:14 | · | Two gunmen pumped several shots into his chest and head. |
| 21:17 | · | At the time he had been talking with prosecutors and was about to make a deal in exchange for |
| 21:22 | · | his testimony against Provenzano in the Castellito murder case. |
| 21:26 | · | Authorities know who killed Jimmy Hoffa and they know why, but the question that remains |
| 21:31 | · | is where? |
| 21:33 | · | What did Hoffa's killers do with his body? |
| 21:35 | · | Theories—both credible and ridiculous—abound, and some incarcerated felons seem to amuse |
| 21:41 | · | themselves by cooking up scenarios for eager journalists salivating for the scoop of the |
| 21:46 | · | century. |
| 21:47 | · | Tons of earth have been moved in the search for Jimmy Hoffa's remains. |
| 21:51 | · | The following are just a few of the lads that didn't pan out: |
| 21:55 | · | According to Ralph Picardo, the convict who fingered the conspirators, Hoffa's body was |
| 21:59 | · | put in a 55-gallon steel drum and carted away in a Gateway Transportation truck. |
| 22:05 | · | Picardo said he didn't know where it was taken. |
| 22:08 | · | According to another jailbird, Hoffa's body was taken to New Jersey where it was mixed |
| 22:12 | · | into the concrete that was used to construct the New York Giant's football stadium in East |
| 22:16 | · | Rutherford, New Jersey. |
| 22:18 | · | Hoffa was said to have been buried in a 100-acre gravel pit in Highland, Michigan, which was |
| 22:23 | · | owned by his brother William. |
| 22:25 | · | Hoffa's body was encased in the foundation of a public works garage in Cadillac, Michigan. |
| 22:30 | · | His remains were buried at the bottom of a swimming pool behind a mansion in Bloomfield |
| 22:34 | · | Hills, Michigan. |
| 22:35 | · | The corpse was ground up and dumped in a Florida swamp. |
| 22:39 | · | Hoffa was crushed in an automobile compactor at Central Sanitation Services in Hamtramck, |
| 22:44 | · | Michigan. |
| 22:45 | · | His body was buried in a field in Waterford Township, Michigan. |
| 22:49 | · | It was weighted down and dumped in Michigan's Au Sable River. |
| 22:53 | · | Hoffa's remains were disintegrated at a fat-rendering plant. |
| 22:56 | · | He was buried under the helipad at the Sheraton Savannah Resort Hotel, which at the time of |
| 23:01 | · | his disappearance was owned by the Teamsters. |
| 23:04 | · | His body was put in a steel drum and buried on the grounds of Brother Moscato's garbage |
| 23:09 | · | dump, a toxic waste site in Jersey City, New Jersey. |
| 23:13 | · | Jimmy Hoffa was declared legally dead in 1982, but his case remains open. |
| 23:18 | · | Like a perpetual flame, a special agent at the FBI's Detroit field office is constantly |
| 23:23 | · | assigned to it. |
| 23:24 | · | The investigation has generated over 16,000 pages of documents gathered from interviews, |
| 23:30 | · | wiretaps, and surveillance, but despite |
| 23:45 | · | the government's best efforts to get to the bottom of Jimmy Hoffa's disappearance, what |
| 24:23 | · | the mob did with the body remains a question mark. |
