Tipster tells FBI: Jimmy Hoffa was hit with shovel, buried alive
Source: Detroit Free Press
The attorney for the tipster who led the FBI to a field in Oakland Township today said the former mobster is relieved and hopeful an end is near in the mystery of Jimmy Hoffas disappearance.
Anthony J. Zerilli, who recently published a manuscript being sold online at HoffaFound.com, told FBI agents that mobsters buried Hoffa alive in the Buell Road property in Oakland Township in 1975 after kidnapping the Teamsters president from a Bloomfield Township restaurant.
Zerillis lawyer, David Chasnick of Novi, said Zerilli has been waiting at least eight months for the FBI to follow up on his tip. Zerilli was in jail when Hoffa disappeared, but was the son of a mafia boss at the time.
Peace, Chasnick cited as the reason Zerilli came forward. Wanting to get it off his chest, and get peace for the family. His age hes 85 years old, hes getting older.
I think the people who are written about in the manuscript are deceased.
Read more: http://www.freep.com/article/20130617/NEWS03/306180010/jimmy-hoffa-dig-search-body-FBI-oakland-township-field-tipster
mn9driver
(4,429 posts)Probably.
madokie
(51,076 posts)I'd bet that Hoffa was given a brand new pair of concrete shoes and buried at sea, way out at sea.
but I'm not a bettin' man
ForeignandDomestic
(190 posts)So that scene from Casino was based on true events?
eissa
(4,238 posts)Would always look away when that part came on. What a horrible way to die. Hope the body is found and the Hoffa family can finally get some peace.
Botany
(70,639 posts)... be honest who can you trust?
PennsylvaniaMatt
(966 posts)Iliyah
(25,111 posts)And Greenwald has the scoop and per Snowden, give details piece by piece.
If true what a horrible way to die.
SkyDaddy7
(6,045 posts)Thanks!!
rurallib
(62,478 posts)we could fix the bridge he's buried under.
azurnoir
(45,850 posts)'Nicky Santoro' in Casino, maybe that's where......... naw couldn't be
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Hassin Bin Sober
(26,356 posts)I used to work with a Spilotro cousin and, coincidentally, a nephew of "The Hook" (the guy who ordered the hit).
The Spilotros were friends with the actor Robert Conrad (and my boss, btw).
azurnoir
(45,850 posts)Faygo Kid
(21,478 posts)I remember the whole Mafia gang back in the '70s, including Giacalone and the rest. Burying Hoffa alive sounds like something they would do. Also used to eat at the Machus Red Fox (overpriced).
This could very well be true.
GreenStormCloud
(12,072 posts)It is in the book, Contract Killer: The Explosive Story of the Mafia's Most Notorious Hitman Donald "Tony the Greek" Frankos
He cut up the body with a chainsaw and put the parts in the cement for Giants Stadium. Franko turned states evidence and went to prision with a more lenient sentence. However, to protect him from the other prisioners (John Gotti offered $300K for his head.) he was isolated.
Another claim: Frank "The Irishman" Sheerhan was a Teamster official, Hoffa condifante, and Mafia hitman. Near the end of his life, as he was dying of cancer, he confessed to his longtime lawyer Charles Brandt that it was he who gunned down Hoffa at this house in Detroit. http://www.8newsnow.com/story/5689300/the-hoffa-files-the-missing-body-of-jimmy-hoffa
MADem
(135,425 posts)I wonder if they went back and looked for blood, which can survive for decades between floorboards ....
And a chainsaw--aaggh! Why not just do the deed in the back of the meat market, like in the Sopranos!
I don't know why, but this is such a simple story, with a simple murder weapon...sometimes the simplest stories are also the truest.
We will see if they find anything after all these years...
Myrina
(12,296 posts).... how many people admitted to killing him, close to a dozen?
Historic NY
(37,460 posts)Hey if the NSA was spying on eveyone they'd have solved this a brazillion yrs ago.
silvershadow
(10,336 posts)putting this out there?
MADem
(135,425 posts)Perhaps he fears "the loss of heaven and the pain of hell" or something on those lines. He's trying to get his scoresheet correct before he shuffles off...
sofa king
(10,857 posts)... He's trying to leave behind a legitimate chunk of change for his loved ones after a lifetime of ill-gotten gain, by hyping an online book designed to instantly capture sales before the disclosure proves (once again) to be fraudulent.
If this is the David Chasnick cited in the article, one of his stated areas of expertise is bankruptcy. The ownership of the book itself may be designed to evade future bankruptcy proceedings, but I'm just spitballing, now.
I'm not saying your speculation is less true than mine own, by the way. But there's a timer on my guess and it should be proven true or false, or indeterminate, in a comparatively short amount of time.
MADem
(135,425 posts)you say, we'll know soon enough.
I wish they'd find the guy...it would put to bed a number of rumors, and give his family some peace.
sofa king
(10,857 posts)CNN did an actual, "no wait! he's over there!" thing yesterday. As they were running the "investigators give up" crawl, they had a new, live, and I presume eventually unsubstantiated report that Hoffa's remains had been found in his home... which probably helped sales of someone else's e-book.
I swear that television news is so useless now that one becomes a better informed citizen by refusing to watch it.
Edit: I guess the Hoffa lost-meter has returned back to "indeterminate." But he'll be back.
MADem
(135,425 posts)JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,379 posts)He was not the nicest guy, but a lot of Teamsters owe a debt to his organization skills and negotiation tactics.
- this from just a bozo who was once IBT.
silvershadow
(10,336 posts)and guidance of the Teamsters. I got them in to the NLRB hearing, but lost my case, I believe narrowly. Talk about bizarre times. I truly felt like I had fallen into the rabbit hole. I couldn't have done it without the Teamsters, for what it is worth.
SkyDaddy7
(6,045 posts)One of the big reasons the public has turned on Unions is due to their close ties to the mob...Hoffa was the worst! IMHO.
MrScorpio
(73,631 posts)bucolic_frolic
(43,476 posts)Just asking.
roamer65
(36,748 posts)I'd sorta miss the legend that has built up around it. Sorta like the legend of DB Cooper at this point.
I've heard he was killed and thrown into a slaughterhouse meat grinder...lol.
Cooley Hurd
(26,877 posts)...if they find Judge Crater, it'll be a trifecta!
Kennah
(14,352 posts)Myrina
(12,296 posts).... I'm not real inclined to believe his 'recollection' of the incident as a whole.