Ex-Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa vanished on July 30, 1975, on the eve of testifying to the congressional Church Committee (named after the late Sen. Frank Church) “about Mafia involvement in U.S.-backed plots to assassinate Cuban President Fidel Castro before his death,” as the U.K. tabloid Daily Mail describes it.
What happened to Hoffa is an enduring mystery. It’s universally assumed he was whacked. Now, the son of a dead mobster has come forward and says his dad stuffed Hoffa’s body head first into a steel drum which was buried on property his dad owned at the time. The son of another dead mobster vouches for the story.
That site is now owned by the New Jersey Department of Transportation, and ground radar indicates there are steel drums buried there. But because it’s on state property, it’s up to state authorities or law enforcement to decide whether to dig up whatever’s there. It might be nothing but barrels filled with toxic waste.
Some people think Jimmy Hoffa was toxic waste. Certainly, whoever wasted him thought so.
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Photo: Is this dumpster Jimmy Hoffa’s headstone?