RonJonSurfer Posted December 12, 2006 Report Share Posted December 12, 2006 FBI director: Hoffa case will be solved By KRISTIN LONGLEY, Associated Press Writer DETROIT - FBI Director Robert Mueller said Tuesday the decades-old disappearance of Teamsters leader Jimmy Hoffa will eventually be solved. Mueller spoke during a question-and-answer session with reporters at the FBI's Detroit office, months after an expensive search at a southeastern Michigan horse farm turned up nothing. "We have a long, long memory," Mueller said. "We will continue to follow any lead that comes to our attention." Hoffa was last seen alive on July 30, 1975. Over the years, theories have suggested Hoffa was buried at Giants Stadium in New Jersey or dumped in a Florida swamp. The day he disappeared, Hoffa was scheduled to meet a New Jersey Teamsters boss and a Detroit mafia captain, both of whom are now dead, at a restaurant about 20 miles from the Hidden Dreams horse farm that the FBI searched in May. The two-week excavation at the farm, about 30 miles northwest of Detroit, involved up to 20 agents, 24-hour guards, archaeologists, anthropologists, a demolition crew and cadaver-sniffing dogs, but it yielded nothing more than a water line, a beer can and other trash. FBI spokeswoman Dawn Clenney said the search cost less than the $250,000 the agency had budgeted for it. Mueller would not comment on whether the FBI has any new leads in Hoffa's disappearance, but said the agency will always be working on the case. "As you can see from the undertakings last summer, we are very willing to follow up on any leads where we believe there is some basis," Mueller said. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lexxi Marie Posted December 12, 2006 Report Share Posted December 12, 2006 I read about their investigation of the farm, and it was said by people who then used to live near the farm that mob-men always used to have their meetings there and whatnot, and that a few days after Hoffa "dissapeared" that there was one last hooray at the barn, somehow involving a "digging machine", and then they stopped coming after. However when they investigated the farm (isn't this article a few weeks old? :s) I heard they found nothing of use :s The case itself has always fascinated me, and Hoffa too. I'm a bit of a 19th century history buff heh. I won't get into my personal Hoffa theory though haha. Let's just say my grandmother is a Kennedy fan and we don't get on about it so well LOL. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RonJonSurfer Posted December 12, 2006 Author Report Share Posted December 12, 2006 Few 18 year olds care about Hoffa...or even know who he was? I think Jim may still be under the 50 yard line at Giants Stadium. Lucky stiff, how did he get season tickets? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lexxi Marie Posted December 12, 2006 Report Share Posted December 12, 2006 I'm cultured haha. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Posted December 13, 2006 Report Share Posted December 13, 2006 Few 18 year olds care about Hoffa...or even know who he was? I think Jim may still be under the 50 yard line at Giants Stadium. Lucky stiff, how did he get season tickets? " The Mythbusters " took that one on with ground penetrating sonar etc. and came up with nada . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RonJonSurfer Posted December 13, 2006 Author Report Share Posted December 13, 2006 This is Jersey, you don't think any freakin' sonar is gonna penetrate that swamp soil do ya? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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