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Jimmy Hoffa search: FBI digs in Michigan field
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OAKLAND TOWNSHIP, Mich. -
Despite help from Michigan State forensic anthropologists and a
Michigan State Police K-9, the search for Jimmy Hoffa has so far turned
up nothing, investigators said Tuesday.
A source at the scene said digging has taken place on about a half-acre of the grassy, vacant field in Oakland Township. Agents broke for the night early Tuesday evening and were due to resume the search on Wednesday morning, officials said.
They unearthed two concrete slabs, about six feet by 12 feet each, according to the source, who is familiar with the search. They matched claims by Tony Zerilli, 85, the son of reputed former Detroit mob boss Joseph Zerilli, that Hoffa, 62, was buried there. Zerilli claims Hoffa was struck with a shovel and then buried alive on the property, with a slab of concrete placed over the body.
Core samples of the slabs, described as typical foundation concrete, and the dirt underneath did not yield any clues to Hoffa's disappearance, according to the source. But the search is expected to continue throughout the day Tuesday.
The Michigan State Police K-9 arrived on the dirt road just after 9:30 a.m., walking through the field with two handlers.
Also at the site are forensic anthropologists from Michigan State University, according to the source. So far, though, digging and excavating that began on Monday has turned up nothing.
A steady stream of gawkers has been trickling past the site, as satellite trucks and a helicopter overhead send news feeds throughout the Detroit area and to international outlets.
Hoffa was kidnapped on the afternoon of July 30, 1975, from the parking lot of what was then the Machus Red Fox restaurant in Bloomfield Township, Mich.
“It's my fondest hope that we can give . closure not just to the Hoffa family, but also to the community and stop tearing that scab off with every new lead and bring some conclusion,” Oakland County Sheriff Michael Bouchard said Monday. “It's long overdue.”
FBI Special Agent in Charge Robert Foley III of the Detroit office said the FBI was executing a search warrant in the grassy field.
The search for Hoffa, who was 62 when he disappeared in 1975, has spawned many theories about his final resting place, ranging from under an end zone in Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, to the General Motors Co headquarters in downtown Detroit and the Everglades in Florida.
In Michigan, law enforcement officials decided to comb the lot after Zerilli told the FBI that Hoffa was buried there. Zerilli's attorney, David Chasnick, told reporters the FBI spoke to his client over the past seven or eight months and the agency believes "100 percent" Hoffa is buried there.
"This was a guy who was intimately involved with some of the players who would be well informed as to where the body would be placed," Chasnick said.
According to a 21-page manuscript that Zerilli wrote and is selling online, Hoffa was dragged out of a car, bound and gagged, hit with a shovel and buried alive under a cement slab in a barn on the property.
FBI officials had no comment on Zerilli's assertions.
Hoffa, the father of current Teamsters President James Hoffa, led the union from 1957 to 1971 and was imprisoned for fraud and jury tampering in his final years. He was released in late 1971, when President Richard Nixon commuted his sentence.
Authorities have long thought Hoffa was ordered killed by organized crime figures to prevent him from regaining control of the Teamsters.
Investigators have checked thousands of leads over the years. In September 2012, police took a soil sample from behind a private home in Roseville, Michigan, after receiving a tip he might be buried there.
At the Oakland field on Tuesday, Terry Moore, 60, of nearby Shelby Township came to watch the activity. While he didn't expect Hoffa's remains to be found in the latest search, he wanted to see for himself.
"This is sort of history," he said.
Reuters contributed to this report.
A source at the scene said digging has taken place on about a half-acre of the grassy, vacant field in Oakland Township. Agents broke for the night early Tuesday evening and were due to resume the search on Wednesday morning, officials said.
They unearthed two concrete slabs, about six feet by 12 feet each, according to the source, who is familiar with the search. They matched claims by Tony Zerilli, 85, the son of reputed former Detroit mob boss Joseph Zerilli, that Hoffa, 62, was buried there. Zerilli claims Hoffa was struck with a shovel and then buried alive on the property, with a slab of concrete placed over the body.
Core samples of the slabs, described as typical foundation concrete, and the dirt underneath did not yield any clues to Hoffa's disappearance, according to the source. But the search is expected to continue throughout the day Tuesday.
The Michigan State Police K-9 arrived on the dirt road just after 9:30 a.m., walking through the field with two handlers.
Also at the site are forensic anthropologists from Michigan State University, according to the source. So far, though, digging and excavating that began on Monday has turned up nothing.
A steady stream of gawkers has been trickling past the site, as satellite trucks and a helicopter overhead send news feeds throughout the Detroit area and to international outlets.
Hoffa was kidnapped on the afternoon of July 30, 1975, from the parking lot of what was then the Machus Red Fox restaurant in Bloomfield Township, Mich.
“It's my fondest hope that we can give . closure not just to the Hoffa family, but also to the community and stop tearing that scab off with every new lead and bring some conclusion,” Oakland County Sheriff Michael Bouchard said Monday. “It's long overdue.”
FBI Special Agent in Charge Robert Foley III of the Detroit office said the FBI was executing a search warrant in the grassy field.
The search for Hoffa, who was 62 when he disappeared in 1975, has spawned many theories about his final resting place, ranging from under an end zone in Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, to the General Motors Co headquarters in downtown Detroit and the Everglades in Florida.
In Michigan, law enforcement officials decided to comb the lot after Zerilli told the FBI that Hoffa was buried there. Zerilli's attorney, David Chasnick, told reporters the FBI spoke to his client over the past seven or eight months and the agency believes "100 percent" Hoffa is buried there.
"This was a guy who was intimately involved with some of the players who would be well informed as to where the body would be placed," Chasnick said.
According to a 21-page manuscript that Zerilli wrote and is selling online, Hoffa was dragged out of a car, bound and gagged, hit with a shovel and buried alive under a cement slab in a barn on the property.
FBI officials had no comment on Zerilli's assertions.
Hoffa, the father of current Teamsters President James Hoffa, led the union from 1957 to 1971 and was imprisoned for fraud and jury tampering in his final years. He was released in late 1971, when President Richard Nixon commuted his sentence.
Authorities have long thought Hoffa was ordered killed by organized crime figures to prevent him from regaining control of the Teamsters.
Investigators have checked thousands of leads over the years. In September 2012, police took a soil sample from behind a private home in Roseville, Michigan, after receiving a tip he might be buried there.
At the Oakland field on Tuesday, Terry Moore, 60, of nearby Shelby Township came to watch the activity. While he didn't expect Hoffa's remains to be found in the latest search, he wanted to see for himself.
"This is sort of history," he said.
Reuters contributed to this report.
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