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This video is a biography about Jimmy Hoffa's life, paying special attention to his family. Some of his friends and his family are seen in the biography talking about their interactions with him, his intelligence, and his family priorities.

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This video is an interview between a news anchor at Fox News and a former mobster Michael Franzese. They speak about his past life in the mob, how he got out and his new religious life. They bring up the Sopranos and start talking about that, and they even managed to squeeze int the simple question "do you know where his body is." In this situation that small aspect of the video is used as click bait.

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Ex-Mafia boss: Hoffa's body won't be found

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Former mobster Michael Franzese is subject of new film 'God the Father'

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This video goes through a quick summary of Hoffa's life, his attachments to the mafia, and his possible connection to JFK's assassination. This video does a decent job of educating you on the topic and making sure you know that there has been no definite evidence towards or against any theories of his disappearance.

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The International Brotherhood Of Teamsters Jimmy Hoffa

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The Mysterious Disappearance Of Jimmy Hoffa

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On the 30th July 1975, President of The International Brotherhood Of Teamsters Jimmy Hoffa mysteriously vanished. Could his extensive links to the mob have had something to do with the mystery? Don't forget to Subscribe for more Conspiracies! - http://bit.ly/1dmVsvF A massive thank you to our super fans who have supported us on our Patreon page.

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This article states that Frank Sheeran confessed to killing his friend Jimmy Hoffa before he died, having it written into his memoir. While this is a compelling story and the blood stains they found apparently line up with the story told by Sheeran there is nothing linking back to any testing to prove it was Hoffa's blood. There are no mentions of where to go to verify the information spouted in this article, and it seems as if it's simply to promote the creation of the movie based on his book that will start filling in 2017.

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Labor union leader Jimmy Hoffa mysteriously disappeared on July 30, 1975

Frank Sheeran was looking for absolution before his death in 2003

He told former lawyer Charles Brandt how he killed his close friend Hoffa in a detailed account chronicled in the book, I Heard You Paint Houses

Sheeran said he tried to subtly hint to Hoffa that something was amiss by taking his usual place in the passenger seat of the car

They drove to empty house for supposed mafia meeting, but Sheeran said he shot Hoffa in the back of the head from point blank range

FOX anchor Eric Shawn helped launch 2004 investigation of the house where Sheeran claimed the murder took place

Blood traces matched Sheeran's account of where Hoffa's head hit the floor before he was dragged and stuffed in body bag in kitchen

Mafia killer Frank Sheeran said he tried to alert union activist Jimmy Hoffa that something was wrong before he fired two shots into the back of his dear friend's head.

Hoffa's legendary disappearance 41 years ago has remained an unsolved mystery, but for FOX News anchor Eric Shawn, who played a significant role in launching a 2004 investigation, the evidence is clear.

Following Sheeran's instructions to the Michigan home where he said he killed Hoffa, Shawn, along with fellow Fox News producer Ed Barnes hired a forensics team to dig up the floor boards.

What they found were decades-old blood patterns that matched Sheeran's own account, which he finally disclosed in an attempt to seek absolution before his death in 2003 at the age of 83.

Hoffa was a working-class icon who turned the International Brotherhood of Teamsters labor union into a nationwide movement before falling from grace and going to jail for racketeering.

He was pardoned by President Richard Nixon and was making his comeback when he was summoned to a meeting with two mafia dons on July 30, 1975.

His abandoned car was found outside the Detroit restaurant and no trace of him has been found since.

Countless theories have prevailed over the years, but Charlie Brandt, Sheeran's former lawyer-turned-writer has had the privilege of telling Sheeran's story.

In the book, I Hear You Paint Houses: Frank 'The Irishman' Sheeran And Closing The Case On Jimmy Hoffa, Brandt recounted the fateful car ride before Hoffa's death.

Sheeran, along with two others, picked Hoffa up at a restaurant, saying they were headed to a mob meeting.

In the book, Sheeran said he purposefully took Hoffa's usual place in the passenger seat as a subtle warning to his friend that things were amiss.

According to Shawn, the FBI found a single hair that matched Hoffa and corroborated Sheeran's account.

But Hoffa failed to take notice, and Sheeran knew he was stuck between a rock and a hard place given the orders from mob bosses to kill his dear friend.

When they arrived at the empty house, Sheeran said he lingered behind Hoffa and shot him twice in the head from point blank range.

Brandt explained: 'Hoffa was Sheeran's friend but you didn't defy orders. If he hadn't killed him he'd have been shot himself. He said the mafia was upset because Hoffa hadn't shown enough gratitude over Dallas.

'I realized he was talking about the assassination of President Kennedy in 1963. It was always rumoured that the killer, Lee Harvey Oswald, wasn't working alone and that the mob was behind it.

'So I asked Sheeran and his face turned to stone, he raised his right hand at me and just brushed me off, saying "I'm not going anywhere near Dallas".

'I was sure he had something to do with it and kept asking. It was a classic mob hit - Oswald thought he would get away, but Jack Ruby then killed him.

'Eventually Sheeran admitted to taking three rifles to Baltimore - he understood these had then gone to Dallas. I didn't get anything more juicy than that...'

Hoffa's son James P Hoffa also told Shawn that his father would have been wary of getting into a car with the other suspects listed by the FBI - but he would have trusted Sheeran.

Brandt said Sheeran gave him the directions to the house where he said he killed Hoffa, and a forensic team sprayed luminol on the floors in 2004 to detect traces of blood..

Nearly three decades after Hoffa disappeared, the test revealed blood on the main entrance, foyer, and hallway leading to the rear kitchen.

The blood patterns matched Sheran's account of where Hoffa's head would have hit the floor before he was dragged to the kitchen and wrapped in a body bag, Shawn claimed.

According to Sheeran, Hoffa was later cremated at a funeral home with mob connections.

Sheeran's daughter Dolores Miller said: 'He was among the top suspects and the FBI put him in prison time and again, hoping he'd crack. But he never did.

'Then towards the end of his life he told me he wanted absolution. I remember saying he had to be truly sorry for the things he'd done in the past, that if he had his time again he wouldn't do the things he'd done.

'He said he was sorry and I drove him to the church to confess. He seemed much happier after that.'

In the final five years of his life, Sheeran poured his heart out to writer Charles Brandt. He died in 2003, six weeks after reading the finished manuscript, and did not tell family what he'd done.

'We never discussed it before he died and Charles didn't tell me the truth until the book came out,' Miller said.

Brandt's book will be adapted to the silver screen, starring Robert De Niro as Sheeran in a collaboration with Martin Scorsese.

The film has been in the works for several years, but filming is reportedly due to begin in January 2017 after the rights were purchased at this year's Cannes Film Festival in May.

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How Frank Sheeran killed Jimmy Hoffa: Shocking claims 41 years later

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Labor union leader Jimmy Hoffa mysteriously disappeared on July 30, 1975 Frank Sheeran was looking for absolution before his death in 2003 He told former lawyer Charles Brandt how he killed his close friend Hoffa in a detailed account chronicled in the book, I Heard You Paint Houses Sheeran said

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In this article the 40 year old mystery is brought back to the public eye.  New tips are brought to life every once in a while but as his daughter says, all the suspects are dead now.  No one believes it will be solved, and I agree.  Key evidence is long gone and this case will never close.

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Forty years ago today, former Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa called his wife, Josephine, from a pay phone in Bloomfield Township to say he had been stood up at an afternoon meeting with two mobsters.

And then he vanished.

Hoffa was never seen in public again, and his disappearance has become one of the most enduring mysteries of the 20th Century, earning a place in popular culture through references in movies, music, books, even video games. As recently as 2013, a credible tip was enough to prompt an FBI dig. But as the Hoffa mystery officially enters middle age, the hopes of ever charging anyone with the crime have faded.

"They're all dead," said Hoffa's daughter, Barbara Crancer, a retired judge in St. Louis. "Most of the people that were suspects are gone. I guess it won't be solved. It would be a comfort to find his body, but I don't think we will."
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Crancer said she doesn't plan to mark the anniversary because she thinks of her father every day.

"It's a sad time for us," she said. "If you ever have anyone in your family who is taken away from you by force, you know what a gap it leaves in your heart. You miss them so much."

Most investigators also are convinced no one will ever be charged with Hoffa's death.

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Investigators dig through the foundation of what use to be a barn in Oakland Township as they search for the remains of Jimmy Hoffa in June 2013. (Photo: Eric Seals, Detroit Free Press)

"Almost everybody who is involved has gone to meet their maker," said Keith Corbett, a longtime prosecutor who spent 25 years with the Organized Crime Strike Force of the U.S. Attorney's Office in Detroit. "The list of people who have reliable information is really short. You could probably count them on one hand with a couple fingers left over. I think it's extremely unlikely that there will be any new developments in the case."

"I think it's extremely unlikely that there will be any new developments in the case."
Keith Corbett, Prosecutor
The closest investigators ever came to recovering a corpse was a single strand of hair, three inches long, found in a car that may have driven Hoffa to his death. DNA testing, which didn't exist until 10 years after he disappeared, eventually confirmed it was Hoffa's.

But the Mafia members and their associates suspected of arranging the hit on Hoffa have mostly died, some violently, others as old men in their beds. Detroit's current U.S. attorney, Barbara McQuade, declined to comment on the case, other than to say: "The case is inactive, but not closed."

So what really happened that Wednesday afternoon in 1975?

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Front page of the August 1, 1975 Detroit Free Press after Jimmy Hoffa went missing on July 30,1975. (Photo: Detroit Free Press)

Everyone has a theory.

The main one presented to a grand jury was that the Mafia killed Hoffa to prevent him from disclosing mob infiltration of the Teamsters, including its tapping into the union's pension fund to finance its rackets.

Hoffa had resigned the Teamsters presidency after going to prison on charges of jury tampering, conspiracy and fraud. In 1965, a federal jury in Chattanooga, Tenn., convicted Hoffa of conspiring to accept illegal payments from a trucking company and later of trying to funnel a $10,000 bribe to the son of one of the jurors.

But after President Richard Nixon commuted his sentence, Hoffa was out of prison and angling to return to power.

By that time, the mob had formed a relationship with Hoffa's successor, Frank Fitzsimmons, and didn't want Hoffa's return to jeopardize it.

Federal investigators spelled out much of the theory in a January 1976 summary known as the Hoffex Memo. The list of suspects reads like a script from a mob movie complete with nicknames:

■ Anthony (Tony Jack) Giacalone, a Detroit Mafia captain with whom Hoffa was scheduled to meet the day he disappeared.

■ Vito (Billy Jack) Giacalone, Anthony's brother and also a Mafia captain.

■ Anthony (Tony Pro) Provenzano, a New Jersey mobster and Teamster official with whom Hoffa thought he was meeting.

■ Salvatore (Sally Bugs) Briguglio, a Provenzano henchman suspected by investigators of being the trigger man in Hoffa"s killing.

■ Gabriel Briguglio, Salvatore's brother.

Hoffa's family told investigators that Hoffa had scheduled a 2 p.m. meeting July 30, 1975, with Anthony Giacalone and Provenzano at the Machus Red Fox restaurant on Telegraph Road just south of Maple Road in Bloomfield Township, in a building that now houses Andiamo Italia West.

"The only thing we know for certain are the notes that he left of who he was meeting, when he was meeting them," Crancer said. "He left it in writing. He left the time and the initials of the people. Then if he went and kept that meeting, which I'm sure he did, then those had to be the people responsible. That's the only thing I can say. They made the appointment."

Giacalone was said to be arranging a reconciliation meeting between Hoffa and Provenzano. The two became friends while serving time together in a federal penitentiary in Pennsylvania in the 1960s, but later fell out and came to loathe one another.

But the meeting at the Machus never happened, and investigators doubt if even Hoffa thought it would take place there. The upscale restaurant required a coat and tie at the time, and Hoffa wore a casual shirt and slacks that afternoon.

Giacalone, whom investigators describe as a grim-faced recluse, was at the Southfield Athletic Club, glad-handing acquaintances and even strangers. Corbett said investigators interpreted the moves as an effort to establish an iron-clad alibi at precisely the time of the hit on Hoffa.

Provenzano wasn't even in Michigan on the day Hoffa went missing. Investigators later confirmed that he spent the afternoon playing cards with his brother, Salvatore (Sammy Pro) Provenzano, at a union hall in New Jersey.

Hoffa's wife told investigators that her husband called her about 2:15 p.m. saying no one showed for the meeting.

Hoffa's fame made his face well known, and five witnesses later told federal investigators they recognized him in the parking lot of the Red Fox that afternoon, appearing as if he were waiting for someone.

Other witnesses said Hoffa was seen leaving in a burgundy-colored Mercury Marquis with three other men, including a driver who appeared to be Charles (Chuckie) O'Brien, a Hoffa protégé who was considered to be a stepson to Hoffa.

A police crime dog found traces of Hoffa's scent in the rear passenger seat, and investigators recovered a single strand of hair in it. Years later, DNA testing would match the hair to Hoffa.

No body was ever found despite countless searches.

Corbett theorizes that Hoffa was killed near the restaurant and the body was run through a cardboard shredding machine at Central Sanitation Services, a mob-owned garbage disposal service in Hamtramck that was destroyed in an arson fire about six months after Hoffa's disappearance.

A second theory places Hoffa's death at a Milford Township horse farm owned by Rolland McMaster, a Teamsters enforcer. Dan Moldea, author of the "The Hoffa Wars," has spent decades chronicling Hoffa and the Teamsters, including an interview with Salvatore Briguglio shortly before he was murdered.

"The best evidence ... is that Hoffa was driven to McMaster's farm where he was murdered by Sally Bugs Briguglio," Moldea wrote for a piece at ganglandnews.com, a website that chronicles the Mafia.

Hoffa's body was "then stuffed into a 55-gallon drum, and shipped via a Gateway Transportation truck to his final resting place," at a mob-owned landfill on the Hackensack River in New Jersey, Moldea wrote. Gateway was a trucking company whose president served as a trustee of the Teamster pension fund.

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Recent searches for Jimmy Hoffa's body all failed (Photo: John Wisely and Martha Thierry, Detroit Free Press)

O'Brien is still alive but could not be reached for comment. Both Giacalones are dead, as is Anthony Provenzano.

Salvatore Briguglio was shot dead outside a restaurant in New York's Little Italy neighborhood in March 1978. The whereabouts of his brother, Gabriel, are not known.

A parade of witnesses to the grand jury in Detroit in the months after Hoffa disappeared failed to produce enough evidence for an indictment. Over the years, investigators weighed thousands of tips, most of them bad, but some worth looking into.

Kirt Bowden joined the Bloomfield Township Police Department as a rookie officer in 1977 and retired as chief 36 years later.

Bowden said most of investigation was done by the feds, but at different times he'd review the file, and in May 2004 when a plausible tip came in that Hoffa was killed at a home in northwest Detroit, Bowden accompanied investigators to the scene, which turned out to be yet another dead end.
Contact John Wisely: 313-222-6825 or jwisely@freepress.com. Retired Detroit Free Press staff writer David Ashenfelter contributed to this report.
"You don't pass up a Hoffa tip," Bowden said.

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40 years later, Jimmy Hoffa mystery endures

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Forty years ago today, former Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa called his wife, Josephine, from a pay phone in Bloomfield Township to say he had been stood up at an afternoon meeting with two mobsters. And then he vanished.

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What really happened to Jimmy Hoffa? This website goes into brief detail about Hoffa's ability to avoid any prosecution for the many crimes he committed. Some of the theories about his disappearance and what happened that fateful day are mentioned but it's very casual. Simply looking at this website brings up ideas of unprofessional opinions and a lack of research. With a brightly coloured font and an unappealing format this website doesn't make you want to stay long.

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JIMMY HOFFA -- WHAT HAPPENED TO THE FAMOUS LABOR LEADER?

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One of the most famous American figures to inexplicably disappear was Jimmy Hoffa, the famed president of the Teamsters Union from 1957 until he went to prison in 1967. There was no question that Hoffa had a lot of enemies in his day and perhaps none so powerful as Robert F.