Detroit — The FBI found no evidence that Team Stars boss Jimmy Hoffa was missing while searching for land under the New Jersey Bridge, a spokesman said Thursday.
The Pulaski Skyway has become another dead end for decades of mystery that stretched from a horse farm in Michigan to the east coast. Where is the body of one of America’s most powerful worker leaders?
The 47-year-old riddle landed next to a former landfill under a jersey city bridge last year. The FBI conducted an investigation there in early June.
Mara Schneider, Detroit’s FBI spokeswoman, said:
“We are not currently anticipating additional activities in the field, but the FBI will continue to pursue viable leads in our efforts to find Mr. Hofa,” she said.
Schneider declined to comment further when asked for details of the excavation.
Authorities believe that Hofa disappeared in the suburbs of Detroit in 1975, meeting with a reputed gangster.
Journalist Dan Moldea, who wrote extensively about Hofa’s story, said he was personally briefed by the FBI at a video conference on Thursday.
He said the FBI and its contractors did not delve into the exact location he recommended.
“I’m not excited about the result …. My impression today was that they broke the bad news for me. Thanks for the hint, but this is over. That’s me. It’s an interpretation, “Moldea told The Associated Press.
“They dug a hole very deeply,” he said.
The FBI contacted Moldea last year after issuing a detailed report from Frank Capola, a teenager in the 1970s who worked at an old PJP landfill near the bridge.
According to Capola, his father, Paul Capola, who worked in the landfill, explained how Hofa’s body was placed in a steel drum in 1975 and buried in other barrels, bricks and soil.
According to Moldea, Paul Capola worried that police might be watching, digging a hole in a land in New Jersey about 100 yards from the landfill, and then moving an unmarked barrel there. rice field.
Frank Capola spoke Foxnation And before he died in 2020, Moldea signed a document proving the story of his deceased father.
According to Mr. Moldea, the FBI did not delve into the exact location he recommended because the radar did not show anything suspicious underground.
“I think they missed this one place,” he said. “I think the body is there. I can’t find it.”
Hofa was the president of the 2.1 million members of the Team Stars Union from 1957 to 1971, and maintained his title while in prison for trying to bribe a jury in a previous trial. .. He was released from prison in 1971, when President Richard Nixon shortened his sentence.It has long been speculated that 62-year-old Hofa was killed by an enemy as he planned to make a comeback for the Team Stars. He was declared legally dead in 1982.