Breaking News: FBI Searches Wooded Area for Hoffa

WXYZ TV Detroit ^ | 5/17/-06 | WXYZ TV Detroit

[Larry Lucido]

Breaking News: FBI Searches Wooded Area for Hoffa
By Cheryl Chodun
Web produced by Seth Myers
May 17, 2006

A group of FBI investigators is searching a wooded area in the vicinity of Milford and Wixom in connection with the 1975 disappearance of Teamsters’ leader Jimmy Hoffa.

Investigators have cordoned off a section of woods where the bones of the long-missing union official may lie.

Hoffa was last seen at the Mocas Red Fox restaurant in Bloomfield Township in July 1975.

Speculation regarding his whereabouts – or his body’s whereabouts – certainly comes and goes.

Recently, a mob hitman named Richard "The Iceman" Kuklinski wrote a book claiming that Hoffa’s body was compacted in a car that became scrap metal in New Jersey.

Kuklinski died in prison earlier this year. His book, The Ice Man: Confessions of a Mafia Contract Killer, is set to be published in July.

In 2004, investigators searched a Detroit home when another mobster claimed Hoffa was killed there. Investigators ruled blood found in the house was not Hoffa’s.

[maine-iac7]

Yaaawwwnnnn

[Richard Kimball]

[keat]

usually post it when Shep's name comes up!

Regarding that unfortunate verbal slip-up, could it be that Shep's been on the wrong end of a few too many of those?

[LibWhacker]

Saw something on the History Channel last year that said the mass graves around Rome still stink to high heaven after 2,000 years.

[Richard Kimball]

The bad thing is that Claudine was good looking enough to shoot you and make you feel guilty about ducking:

My favorite album cover is still:

That's not Claudine, but I thought it just needed to be posted.

[gopheraj]

ROTFLMAO!!!

[AmusedBystander]

more of our hard earned tax dollars going down the toilet!!! we've got thousands of Muslims roaming about the country plotting to blow the whole country to hell and the Feds got nothing better to do? gezzzzzzzzz who's runnin' the FBI these days? Larry, Moe & Curley?

What's wrong with trying to solve a murder? I'm glad law enforcement doesn't simply forget about the "cold cases" especially if they were my family member. Of course your tagline is self-evident.

[devane617]

Beat me to it...Just saw the story...

[Gorobei]

Thank you. That was precisely my reaction as well.

[Jackknife]

Funny as hell !! I had forgotten about that one ! Thanks.

[Hot Tabasco]

Elvis is standing behind a tree in that vicinity laughing.......

[Not A Snowbird]

Nah. He's alive and working at a Dennys in Fresno.

[Thebaddog]

Good catch, Archy. I was on 94 in Jackson when it came over the radio he went missing. Were you a Michigander at that time?

[Hot Tabasco]

How do you find bones that have been dead for 31 years? I assume dogs can't pick up the scent?

After 31 years they forget what they're smelling for.........

[archy]

gezzzzzzzzz who's runnin' the FBI these days? Larry, Moe & Curley?

Political appointees who have been approved by the chairman/men of the Senate Intelligence and Judiciary committees.

[steveo]

As a very healthy young lad the TJB LP cover was one of my favorites. My pop had another.. a cha-cha LP with women in plunging cocktail dresses on the cover.

[mystery-ak]

LOL...I've forgotten about that one...

[mystery-ak]

Shep was in the studio if IRC

[A CA Guy]

Makes no sense, the mob has so many foundations or better yet pet food companies to dispose of him in.
Why anything in the woods?

[lowbridge]

No body. Blood stains on the floor were Hoffa's though.... This investifgation was caused by a biography of Frank "The Irishman" Sheeran who claimed to be the killer.

And, IIRC, Hoffa's body was cremated.

No, I wasn't there. :-)