Posted on 02/14/2005 9:02:49 PM PST by TexKat
DETROIT - Blood found on the floor of a Detroit home is not that of Jimmy Hoffa, investigators said Monday, ruling out what had looked like one of the most promising recent leads in the disappearance of the Teamsters boss 30 years ago.
Authorities had ripped up floorboards last May at a house where Delaware Teamsters official Frank Sheeran said he shot Hoffa to death.
Police in the Detroit suburb of Bloomfield Township received a report from the FBI crime lab Monday concluding that human blood from a male was on the floorboards but that the blood was not Hoffa's.
Oakland County Prosecutor David Gorcyca said that it was not known whose blood it was, but that the DNA would be entered into a national database.
"It really would be nice to put some closure on this case," Gorcyca said.
Police Chief Jeffrey Werner said investigators and prosecutors were skeptical of the lead from the beginning but were obligated to pursue it after Fox News Channel claimed that its own investigation had turned up blood on the floor.
"I feel like we're exactly where we were the day before we got the tip," Werner said.
Hoffa was last seen on July 30, 1975, at a restaurant in Bloomfield Township. Sheeran died in 2003, and his claim was detailed in a book titled "I Heard You Paint Houses," published months later by biographer Charles Brandt.
Brandt said Sheeran's version of events is corroborated in other ways. He said forensic experts hired by Fox News found "a pattern of blood, indications of blood, exactly matching what Frank Sheeran said he had done to Jimmy Hoffa."
He said the blood tested by the FBI must have been from another incident. But Werner said the FBI tested the exact spots that Fox's experts had pinpointed.
Blood not Hoffa's ping.
What?
I missed this story along the way.
Wow! It would have been nice to know for sure.
I thought Jimmy was at the bottom of Lake Michigan somewhere? Or part of I-696.
I think alot of people thought this was going to be the lead that explained it all.
Oh well, the mystery continues.
Then why do they even report these things to begin with. It's a big waste of time to have to come back and eat their implications.
I grew up in a wise guy neighborhood. A lot of my classmates have had numbers on them in the 30+ years since graduation. I try to keep up with them.
Geraldo's on the case......
and apparently all made up
Who did Frank Sheeran shoot? And who did he think he was shooting?
I thought Hoffa was opening for Elvis. It's my understanding he does a mean version of "Suspicious Minds."
He was dumped in the Jersey swamp. He was turned into dog food. He was dumped under a soon-to-be concrete highway structure.
I think it's chic to claim to be the one who whacked Hoffa. I think "The Bull" also claimed to have been the trigger man. Hoffa reportedly left for the restaurant, telling some member of his family that he was going "to meet with Tony Pro" (Anthony Provenzano). Beyond that, I don't know if any of the conflicting legends do anything but diverge. (':
Nor do I care. Hoffa was a mafiosi, who complained to mob bosses about JFK's hounding of him, and in an interview sometime after Nov 22 1963, he said, "Bobby Kennedy's just a lawyer now."
That is becoming very common with the media. I don't know if Fox News has come out with the revelation that the blood is not Hoffa's yet.
Every one wants to be the first to report.
That brings to mind the reporting of the New York mall shooting on yesterday. Fox News Breaking News: eyewitness, it was a black man, it was a redneck, it was 2 men, it was 3 men, and on and on.
He's in some concrete in Meadowlands Stadium.
I know. You'd think it would be facts first, before anything else. Fox is starting to get as bad as everyone else.
I don't think I believe this article yet. It takes longer than 1 day to do a DNA test on the blood. How can they be saying it's someone elses so soon? And why would someone else's blood be on the floor in the exact spot that the guy who says he blew away Hoffa, says he blew away Hoffa? Something fishy here. I wait to be further informed, and Fox has said nothing about this yet.
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