Jimmy Hoffa: Deathbed confession sparks long-missing US union boss body hunt

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Source: BBC News

FBI agents have searched a plot of land in the US state of New Jersey after a deathbed confession renewed hope of solving union boss Jimmy Hoffa's disappearance 50 years ago.

For decades, Hoffa was one of America's most powerful labour organisers.

But in 1975 he suddenly disappeared, and his body has never been recovered.

Investigators recently received a tip that a former worker on a landfill site in Jersey City had said that his father told him he had buried Hoffa's body.



Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/jimmy-hoffa-search-body-long-114541207.html

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

1. Why do I visualise a whispered deathbed confession followed by a

stifled giggle.

[jaxexpat]

26. "......and then we burned the sled."

[TNNurse]

2. So a body in a landfill for 46 years???

What do they hope to find??

[ShazzieB]

27. Evidently inside a steel drum, according to posts downthread.

That means whatever is in there is at least all contained in one place. Of course, we don't know what condition the body was in when it was placed in the drum, but the fact it was contained in that manner could make a big difference when it comes to preservation, identification, etc.

[left-of-center2012]

3. "his story - told in the 2019 film the Irishman"

Great movie and great music soundtrack.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDisKgcnAC4RzABg2KfIOtQ1dpYAnIDhu

[keithbvadu2]

16. Frank finally confessed.

[honest.abe]

23. Yes indeed a great movie.

Fabulous cast. Some of my all time favorite actors.

[Wicked Blue]

4. When I was a reporter in NJ many years ago, there were rumors

that Hoffa was in either the Edison Landfill or the Kin-Buc Landfill, both in Middlesex County.

[regnaD kciN]

6. There was also the rumor that he had been buried...

…under the field in the old Giants Stadium in the Meadowlands.

About two decades ago, when the software company I was working for was doing a pro football game, there was some consideration given to inserting an “Easter egg” whereby, if you played a game at that stadium on the night of Halloween, at precisely midnight, the ghost of Hoffa would emerge from one of the end zones and float away.

[Marcuse]

12. Giants Stadium, in the Coffin Corner.

[SeattleVet]

18. Chris Rush had a slightly different take on it...

Hoffa was run through a baloney machine in New Jersey.

"Hey, this slice has 5 O'Clock shadow!"
"Well, it does hold the mustard better."

[CaliforniaPeggy]

5. The article states that he was buried in a steel drum.

Even after 50 years, there might be enough DNA left to make an identification.

[Wicked Blue]

19. Disposing of things in 55-gallon steel drums is a way of life

in parts of NJ, and has been for decades. I too had heard that he was put in a steel drum.

[Sneederbunk]

7. It's Jersey, so they are definitely going to find some bodies.

[getagrip_already]

11. and a lot of steel barrels.... n/t

[twodogsbarking]

24. There are observation decks to look for relatives

floating by.

[mn9driver]

8. I've lost track of how many places have been dug up

By the FBI looking for Hoffa's body. I won’t hold my breath on this one.

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

9. One of the best movie quotes:

Mr. Rate: Whoever took that shot's probably dead now. That's how conspiracy works. Them boys on the grassy knoll, they were dead within three hours. Buried in the damn desert. Unmarked graves out past Terlingua.

Nick Memphis: And you know this for a fact?

Mr. Rate: Still got the shovel!

[twodogsbarking]

10. He had many enemies.

[heckles65]

13. I wouldn't give a nickel for a deathbed confession

[LudwigPastorius]

14. Does it matter where his body is at this point?

He's dead. The goombahs who did it are probably dead.

His kids are 80 and 73. They'd obviously like to know, but they've probably already made their peace with his death.

[Wicked Blue]

20. Can I gently correct something, please?

The word goombah is insulting to Italian-Americans. It has been used on them for decades, although less commonly in recent times.

It is derived from the Italian word compare, pronounced "coom-baray". Compare is used by men and means close male friend, old buddy, and/or godparent to a man's children. A couple of old guys sitting and drinking wine together might repeat the word over and over to express their pleasure about their friendship. I'm not Italian, but I have witnessed this among people I know.

[LudwigPastorius]

25. OK, how about "organized criminals"?

[BidenRocks]

15. Still looking for

Judge Crater.
Eventually, we forget.

[IbogaProject]

17. When I was a kid the story was ground up and in the everglades

When I was a kid in the late 70s early 80s the story was ground up and in the everglades, obviously not any actual information but that was the story in South Jersey.

[Wicked Blue]

21. There is also a rumor he was ground up, mixed with asphalt

and used in re-paving part of the NJ Turnpike.

[llashram]

22. hoffa is in hell

whether as hamburger the hounds of hell feed on 24/7 or his bones. Damn this obsession with hoffa.

[LiberalFighter]

28. I don't give a hoot where he is buried.

At this point it is a waste of resources that is of no concern or interest to most people.

[d_b]

29. I don't buy it anymore..

..that Hoffa was disposed back East.

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[Hassin Bin Sober]

30. Why would they drive from Michigan to New Jersey...

… with a dead body?

Seems like a local hole with lime would make more sense