Contract killing: Frank 'The Irishman' Sheeran (right) with union boss - and future victim - Jimmy Hoffa
Posted on 07/30/2016 2:28:35 PM PDT by Kaslin
It all started, and ended, on this day 41 years ago.
It was a hot July afternoon, nearly 92 degrees, when Teamsters president and labor icon Jimmy Hoffa is said to have opened the rear door of a maroon 1975 Mercury in the parking lot of the Machus Red Fox restaurant in Bloomfield Hills, Mich. and climbed in.
He was never seen again.
The FBI has expended countless resources in the ensuing decades in the hopes of finally solving this enduring American mystery with no success.
But I believe, based on my 2004 investigation, that Frank Sheeran did it.
"Suspects Outside of Michigan: Francis Joseph "Frank" Sheeran, age 43, president local 326, Wilmington, Delaware. Resides in Philadelphia and is known associate of Russel Bufalino, La Cosa Nostra Chief, Eastern Pennsylvania," reads the 1976 HOFFEX memo, the compilation of everything investigators knew about Hoffa's disappearance that was prepared for a high level, secret conference at FBI headquarters six months after he vanished.
Sheeran, known as "The Irishman," told me that he drove with Hoffa to a nearby house where he shot him twice in the back of the head. Our investigation subsequently yielded the corroboration, the suspected blood evidence on the hardwood floor and down the hallway of that house, that supports Frank's story.
No one who has ever boasted about knowing what really happened to Jimmy Hoffa has had their claims tested, scrutinized, and then corroborated by independently discovered evidence ... except Frank.
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Gee, FBI doesn’t have a clue.
It’s ok, he didn’t INTEND to kill him...
I read the book, “I Heard You Paint Houses.” Very credible for a low-grade criminal. Scorcese is making a movie about it.
What horrible prose. Why wouldn't you just say "91 degrees"? Or "over 90 degrees"?
You have to have intention in order to prosecute. The Hillary standard.
Explains why they have never found the body....
The Russians should give us the body.
Really? Cool. Thanks for the info.
Several years ago I worked for an International School in Hong Kong that was in a historic building that was used by the Japanese in WW2 as “Police Headquarters” cum detention and torture center. The building had also been associated with the head of one of the “Tongs” from the 1920’s through the early 1980’s. There were rumors that there were several bodies buried in the court yard. I had to have some concrete poured to strengthen a floor in the back of my library. Before they put the linoleum down I took a chop stick and scratched “RIP J. Hoffa 14/2/14 - 15/8/75” I figured in 25 to 30 years when the linoleum was removed someone would see it.
I think I saw a docu on that very house and there was no such evidence found...........
I had never heard this story - I think I’ll get that book.
The movies always make it seem like he died shortly after being ####ed by “Fitz” in the pardon deal that kept him from running for Teamster Head until 1980.
3 or 4 years is a long time. He was let out in ‘72 and killed in ‘75, I assume.
I’m suprised the Mafia let him shoot off at the mouth for that long.
Well, that 92 is a WORLD of DIFFERENCE from 91 :)
Contract killing: Frank 'The Irishman' Sheeran (right) with union boss - and future victim - Jimmy Hoffa
Oh for heavens sake *rme* What difference does it make?
Yea, today’s cars just aren’t built to carry bodies anymore.
Marko
I found him credible. He might have exaggerated how much poon he was getting, but as for the Hoffa story, and interesting and easy read if you like Mafia/true crime stuff.
and=an sorry
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