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Agents were sent to the scene when a guy claimed to have buried the Teamster leader' body in a steel drum on his deathbed according to the New York Times.
A new F.B.I. inquiry centered on the site of an old landfill in Jersey City is looking into the disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa, a mystery that has captivated the American imagination for half a century on its way to national mythology. On his deathbed, a worker said that he buried the body underground in a steel drum.
According to the Detroit field office, which has led the investigation into Mr. Hoffa's disappearance in 1975, F.B.I. agents armed with a search warrant arrived in Jersey City on Oct. 25 and 26 to conduct a "site survey" on a plot of dirt and gravel the size of a Little League diamond below the Pulaski Skyway. The steel drum is reported to be buried roughly 15 feet below earth, beneath the shadow of countless millions of passing motorists.
"FBI officers from the Newark and Detroit field offices completed the survey, and the data is presently being examined," said spokesperson Special Agent Mara R. Schneider on Thursday. Mr. Hoffa was not mentioned by name in the formal declaration, and there was no schedule for any future excavation.
To be sure, the latest probe has a familiar ring to it, given it comes after a series of futile searches for Mr. Hoffa's corpse over the years. Officers using backhoes have searched different places in Michigan, including a farm, a road, and beneath a swimming pool, where Mr. Hoffa was last seen outside a restaurant.
Mr. Hoffa's bones were said to be buried beneath the old Giants Stadium in the Meadowlands, according to a famous urban legend in New Jersey. Mr. Hoffa's character was shot and killed by his buddy, Frank Sheeran, and his corpse was cremated in the 2019 film "The Irishman," which raises yet another account of what may have happened. Hoffa academics have long disregarded Mr. Sheeran's idea, which he advocated in a book before his death.
However, Dan Moldea, a writer who has written about the Teamster leader since before he disappeared and brought the discovery of the steel drum and its likely location to the F.B.I., said the New Jersey site is "100 percent" believable and that the new leads are highly significant.
The new finding is backed by records revealing that the F.B.I. received indications that Mr. Hoffa was buried in the Jersey City dump as early as 1975, shortly after his disappearance. The tips were written off when agents looked and found nothing.
