1975 · State of Michigan

Jimmy Hoffa: The Man Who Disappeared into Thin Air

He was head of the strongest labor union in the US, having both friends and foes in the highest ranks.

Jimmy Hoffa was truly an extraordinary person.

He was president of the International Alliance of Teamsters and headed unions that handled logistics (truck transport, driving, and supplies) in the whole of the United States.
At the time of peak popularity, he led more than 2 million members.

Politicians respected him, while presidents were afraid of him.

It was also known for a fact that he was involved in business with the Mafia, and that each party made money from such collaboration.

However, he also had some enemies.
For instance, at the time Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy believed that Hoffa was totally corrupt and was after him for many years with the aim of putting him in jail.
Finally, in 1964 Kennedy managed to arrest Hoffa for jury tampering and fraud, sentencing him to 13 years of imprisonment in federal prison.

Moreover, in 1971 the sentence of Hoffa was commuted by President Richard Nixon with the condition that Hoffa would not interfere in union politics until 1980.

As expected of such a person, Jimmy had every intention of not giving up.
He was already planning the ways to come back to power.
Hoffa made enemies in the Mafia, and those who did not want him to regain power started fearing what was going to happen if he succeeds.

The situation became quite serious.

On July 30, 1975, Jimmy drove to the Marcus Red Fox restaurant in the city of Bloomfield Hills in the State of Michigan.
He came to meet two men who were a member of the Mafia and a representative of the Detroit unions.
Jimmy arrived at 2:30 pm and was seen waiting in the parking lot. It was evident that he was upset because the meeting had been delayed.
Hoffa also called his wife complaining that the other man hadn’t appeared yet.
That was the last time when Jimmy Hoffa was seen alive.

And from then on, he has disappeared forever.

It became one of the most costly investigations that the FBI ever performed.
For several decades, he owned a horse farm in the state of Michigan.
The concrete under the first base area in the stadium of New Jersey Giants was destroyed with a sledgehammer.
One house was demolished in Detroit.
With information received from one of the deadliest members of the Mafia, they excavated the backyard of a suburban Michigan house.
Special tools like ground-penetrating radar were used.
Soil samples were taken.
They have found nothing.
There were no bones,
No teeth were found; no pieces of clothes.

Several witnesses testified that they knew that Jimmy was murdered and his body was buried in a very peculiar way.
One version is that he was burned.
Another version says that his body was buried in a landfill in New Jersey.
Former Mafia hitman offered some detailed information about the murder, which he retracted later on.

Finally, in 1982, Jimmy Hoffa was legally pronounced dead.
Having spent almost 50 years on finding Hoffa’s body and charging someone with his murder, FBI failed to do so.
Thus, today his case remains unsolved.