Daily Mail, By Kamal Sultan; November 1, 2023
After a three-year hunt in five states, a group of retired law enforcement and forensic investigators believe they have located the secret burial site of union boss Jimmy Hoffa in Wisconsin.
The labor leader was 62 when he vanished after a meeting on the outskirts of Detroit in July, 1975. For decades, local, state and federal officials spent thousands of hours and millions of taxpayer dollars chasing Hoffa tips — leaving the embarrassed FBI with seven empty holes. The ghost was officially declared dead in 1982.
The Case Breakers (CB), a non-profit organization, claims a dying police sergeant’s scribbled instructions on an ace of spades card led them to a spot near the former Milwaukee County Stadium, now known as American Family Field. The volunteer group believes his resting place is below the old arena’s third-base line.
Jim Zimmerman, a former police officer credited with securing that playing card, has been a CB for 13 years. ‘Independent sources have convinced the sleuths that Hoffa’s remains are now close to a little league field on the grounds of old Milwaukee County Stadium,’ a press release read.
There are said to be three credible witnesses in different states who were told Hoffa’s body was moved from an unknown location, then ‘buried in 1995 at MCS‘ – six years before its demolition.
The alleged site is now a short distance outside the fence of a children’s little league field, built in 2001. After studying the playing card’s directions, old aerial photos and satellite imagery, the CB traveled there in 2020 – unannounced and between game dates – with a specialist schooled in ‘ground-penetrating radar.’
But after rolling over the ‘disturbed’ location three times, the GPR expert was not able to see below five feet because of an ‘unexpected clay layer.’ The energized geophysicist, however, strongly believed this remote location was ‘hurriedly excavated and backfilled‘ — like a mobster might do.
In 2022, CB founder Thomas J. Colbert told Fox News Digital that a top cadaver dog was quietly brought to that same spot. Retired officer Carren Corcoran claimed her dog Moxy found four positive ‘hits’, possibly involving human remains.
According to Colbert’s press release, ‘Carren has over 200 cases of finding either the dead or the missing. ‘The gal is phenomenal. She brought in her dog, and where does the K9 go? Right to the GPR spot, three years earlier. That’s when we got excited.’
Colbert added that his 40-member team of lawmen and women were told they’d be working with the FBI to dig at the site. This after doing a ‘verbal walk through‘ with CB member Jim Christy, a senior federal investigator for 42 years.
Hoffa, born in Indiana, had lived in the Detroit area since he was a boy and had a cottage on Lake Orion.
On July 30, 1975, he told his wife Josephine he would be home at 4 pm to cook steaks for dinner, and headed out for a meeting at the Red Fox restaurant, 20 miles away, in Bloomfield Township. He called Josephine several hours later, angry that he had been stood up. He was never seen again; his green Pontiac Grand Ville was found in the parking lot of the restaurant the following day.
Hoffa was an immensely-powerful union leader whose ties to the mob alarmed Bobby Kennedy, the president’s brother and attorney general at the time. Hoffa was, as James Neff wrote in his 2015 book Vendetta, the ‘permanent president of the biggest, baddest and most powerful labor union in American history.’
The union boss was convicted of bribery, conspiracy and jury tampering. He was in prison from 1967-71. On his release, he tried to return to his powerful union position and resume his mafia ties, in particular his connections to Anthony Provenzano, a capo in the Genovese crime family. Provenzano was the head of a teamsters’ association in Union City, New Jersey.
But the mafia leader was unimpressed by Hoffa’s bid to return to his previous ways, and relations between the two men soured. Provenzano was supposed to be meeting Hoffa at the restaurant in July 1975 to work out differences. Hoffa’s disappearance was widely believed to be on Provenzano’s orders.
FYI from TJC (2024): The CB offered to turn over this Milwaukee CSI to the city, county, state and federal agencies, but all of them now have refused to engage. Meanwhile, on behalf of the extended Hoffa family, the team is seeking a lawyer to help gain access to the private property for an exhumation.
