James Riddle Hoffa isn't in New Jersey. The mob wouldn't bother -- or risk -- driving his corpse halfway across the country. His bones are buried on a farm about ten miles north of my house.
That's what an informant told the FBI recently, and they're convinced enough to convince a judge to let them go poking around a Milford Township, Michigan farm with heavy equipment, according to a story first published in the Detroit News. Hoffa was last seen in 1975 in a restaurant in Bloomfield Township called the Manchus Red Fox, which was converted to an upscale Italian restaurant about five years ago. Oh, the irony....
If they find him, then I'll have lost a standing bet that I never could've won in the first place, for I've always thought that Lake Huron or Lake Erie or Lake St. Clair would've been the most obvious choices for a makeshift grave.
For more on the enduring mystery of Hoffa's disappearance, see a good summary by Court TV's Crime Library.
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