To date, the late Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa is supposed to have been disposed of in a Hamtramck incinerator, buried under a Giants Stadium endzone or in the foundation of the Renaissance Center, or dumped on a farm in Milford. Unless, his disappearance was a ruse and he lived the remainder of his life on a Greek cruise ship.
But the latest hypothesis supposes the labor leader's remains are under a driveway in Roseville. You know what they say, better to be dead in Roseville than alive in Fraser.
Ok, no one says that. I just made it up. It's hard not to be glib about yet another search for Hoffa, who disappeared from the Machus Red Fox parking lot on July 30, 1975 and would turn 100 next February.
Roseville police are planning to take soil samples from a Roseville property where, the Free Press reports, Hoffa is alleged to be according to a "credible" witness.
What are the odds they actually find him? Slim? None? Who is to know.
You know what would make for a more interesting investigation? Hoffa's presidential pardon.
Did he know that Nixon's conditional pardon would require him to stay away from the Teamsters until 1980 when he accepted it or did, as Hoffa alleged, Attorney General John Mitchell inserted that condition after Hoffa was released from prison at the behest of Teamsters President Frank Fitzsimmons.
The dispute over Hoffa's pardon is what set in motion the series of events that led to the fateful afternoon in the Red Fox parking lot. At long last, that would be a mystery worth solving. -- JTW
