Like so much else in the long Hoffa investigation saga, the current interest in the New Jersey landfill appears to be based at bottom on old mendacious leaks to the press accepted as true, and a “confession” decades later modeled on these earlier untruths. I was not surprised because I knew that much of the justification for the search rested on mistakes. I was not surprised when the FBI reported earlier this month that its latest dig for Hoffa - at a former landfill under the Pulaski Skyway in Jersey City, New Jersey - turned up nothing.
It has also led to a lot of feckless digging in locations around the country in search of Hoffa’s remains. The unexplained vanishing of the iconic labor leader has over the decades stimulated the imaginations of dozens of people who have confessed to the crime or claimed to know what happened to Hoffa’s body.
But there is not a speck of real evidence about how it did so, or what happened to Hoffa’s body. There are lots of good reasons to think the mob murdered Hoffa. Very soon after that call, Hoffa vanished. And he was last heard from, on a call from a nearby pay phone, around 3:30 p.m. He was last seen in the parking lot of the Machus Red Fox, a restaurant in the Detroit suburbs, at around 2:45 p.m. Jimmy Hoffa disappeared 47 years ago tomorrow.
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