A decades-long search for the body of union boss Jimmy Hoffa recently shifted to a former junkyard in New Jersey that is now crossed by a highway.
“The FBI has received permission to survey the site under the Pulaski Skyway,” said Mara Schneider, a spokeswoman for the agency’s Detroit branch. “The survey was completed at the end of October, and the FBI offices in Newark and Detroit are now analyzing the information gathered.”
Schneider did not say whether anything was found or taken from the surveyed site, citing the fact that the official request for an authorization for the survey was classified by the court, and therefore no additional information will be provided yet.
Hoffa was last seen 45 years ago, in July 1975, when he was scheduled to meet in a suburban Detroit restaurant with local mafia cleaner Anthony Giacalone and New Jersey mobster Anthony Provenzano. The current investigation was based on the testimony of a certain Frank Coppola, who was a teenager in the 1970s and worked with his father, Paul Coppola, in a junkyard in New Jersey. Frank claimed that his dying father told him in 2008 how Hoffa’s body was taken to a landfill, stuffed into a steel barrel and covered with trash. Frank himself died in 2020, but managed to sign a document describing the story told by his father.
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