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Tonight, one of the most notorious
missing person cases of all time. A

union activist vanishes without a trace.

Forty -five years later, the search for
him continues.

He's really well known across the
country.

Where is his body?

Now, we uncover the top theories
surrounding his shocking disappearance.

Law enforcement suspects...

That guys use the incinerator to dispose
of bodies.

Is it possible the CIA took out all
three? Keep things quiet?

Can new evidence and the investigations
behind it finally bring us closer to the

truth?

I am the only person alive today that
knows where the remains of Jimmy Hoffa

Our investigative team is excited,
that's for sure.

They got high hopes they're going to
find him.

Where is Jimmy Hoffa?

Detroit, Michigan, 1975.

the center of both the U .S. auto
industry and of organized labor.

It's also the last known location of
renowned former Teamster president Jimmy

Hoffa. Jimmy Hoffa is a legend within
the labor movement.

He is a true champion of workers'
rights. He's known all over the country.

Hoffa's been involved with labor unions
since running his first strike as a

teenager.

By the age of 14, he had to go to work
to help support his family, loading and

unloading strawberries, working under
these terrible conditions.

And he finally kind of has enough, and
he organizes his fellow workers.

They decide they're going to stop
loading and unloading these strawberries

just let them sit out there and bake in
the hot sun.

Management's washing their strawberries,
kind of mold her on the dock. They

cave. I think this is where Hoffa really
sees the power of the people, the power

of organizing.

He was successful in his very first time
out at 14 years old, and people

noticed.

By 1957, he's risen to president of the
Teamsters, but his climb comes with

challenges.

A rival union appears in Detroit
competing for the same workers as the

Teamsters, and they gain so much ground
that eventually Hoffa turns to the mafia

for help.

Specifically, New York's powerful
Genovese crime family.

By forming this alliance with the mafia,
the Teamsters, they win their battle.

But it comes at a price.

The mafia guys that he forms an alliance
with... They're expecting access to the

Teamsters pension fund in return.

The Teamsters pension fund is like a
blank check for the mafia, their own

personal bank.

Hoffa has a 14 -year run with the
Teamsters, working hand -in -hand with

mafia the whole time, but that deal is
eventually his undoing.

Hoffa is indicted for a number of
charges related to mob involvement with

Teamsters.

Hoffa goes to prison and he's out of the
union, but the mob remains.

In December 1971, President Nixon
commutes Hoffa's sentence with one

stipulation. He can't manage any labor
organization until 1980.

By 1973, Hoffa's already plotting to
regain the presidency of the Teamsters.

There's just one stumbling block.

While in prison...

Hoffa has run afoul of the Genovese
family.

And on July 30, 1975, he waits in the
parking lot of the Marcus Red Box

restaurant, hoping to make amends.

He's there for a meeting with associates
of the Genovese crime family.

He wants to talk to them about returning
to run the Teamsters Union.

The mafia has control of the Teamsters
these days, and they really don't want

Jimmy Hoffa back in charge, but they
agree to the meeting.

Problem is, they're late.

Witnesses see Hoffa pacing and making
calls on a nearby payphone.

After nearly an hour of waiting, a red
sedan pulls up.

Hoffa gets in and is never heard from
again.

At 7 a .m. the next day, Hoffa's wife
calls her children to say their father

never came home.

And by 7 .20 a .m., Hoffa's assistant
finds his car unlocked in the restaurant

parking lot.

As soon as Jimmy Hoffa is reported
missing, the FBI gets involved.

They're going to investigate the case.

Agents start at Hoffa's office.

His office appointment book says...

TG, 2 p .m., Red Fox.

Red Fox obviously refers to the Moccas
Red Fox restaurant.

TG refers to Tony Giacalone, known as
Tony Jack.

Tony Giacalone is a high -ranking member
of the Detroit Mafia, and in many ways,

Giacalone is Hoffa's liaison to the
underworld. In order for Hoffa to once

become president, of the Teamsters. He
has to work things out with guys like

Tony Giacalone.

So they set up a sit -down, try to work
things out.

But when the FBI questions eyewitnesses,
they learn that Giacalone never showed

up.

So who's in the car that picks up Jimmy
Hoffa?

Not long before 3 o 'clock, there are
eyewitnesses who see a maroon car,

a Lincoln or Mercury, pull up.

It's unclear exactly who was in the car.

According to the eyewitnesses, he gets
in of his own accord, so there's no

struggle. It doesn't seem like it was a
kidnapping or an abduction.

This is the last time that anyone sees
Jimmy Hoffa, at least publicly.

They know who he was supposed to be
meeting with, and so they start

and wiretapping known mafia associates.

Starting with Tony Giacalone.

Investigators have no idea where Tony
Jack is, but they start digging and they

realize they do know where he was two
days prior.

They find out he was meeting with two
very suspicious people who might provide

clue as to Hoffa's whereabouts.

Their names, Raffaele Quasarano and
Peter Vitale.

Federal law enforcement are keeping guys
like Quasarano and Vitale under

surveillance. They're high -ranking
members of the Detroit Mafia. They're

involved in labor racketeering, drug
trafficking, gambling, loan sharking,

usual crimes associated with members of
the Mafia. They also have another

business that raises eyebrows.

They own a commercial incinerator in
their business, Central Sanitation.

Law enforcement suspects

that guys like Vitaly Quasaranov use the
incinerator to dispose of bodies.

Central Sanitation in Hamtramck,
Michigan, is just 20 miles from the

Fox restaurant.

It's close enough to give the FBI a
theory.

So the fact that they meet with Tony
Giacalone in the days leading up to...

The disappearance is very significant
and has led some theorists to speculate

that they were talking about preparing
the incinerator to dispose of Jimmy

specifically.

But why would the mafia order such a
brutal hit?

Could Hoffa's disappearance be tied to a
beef that started years earlier in

prison? While he's in there, he publicly
fights with a crime boss from the

Genovese.

Crime family named Anthony Provenzano.

Tony Pro, they call him.

Like many mobsters, Tony Pro's family is
collecting a union pension.

But when Tony goes to prison, his
benefits are cut off. Meanwhile, Jimmy

family is still getting his pension
benefits.

Tony Provenzano confronts Jimmy Hoffa,
says, why should you be entitled to

benefits and not...

My family, Jimmy Hoffa, snaps back.

It's because of people like you that I'm
in here in the first place.

The Genovese crime family controlled the
Teamsters, and they don't like Jimmy

Hoffa.

And they really don't want Hoffa back in
charge. They want him gone.

So the FBI believed he was killed, and
then his body transported to central

sanitation and incinerated.

The FBI hurries to prove their case, but
unfortunately, the Genovese crime

family seems to be one step ahead.

Within a few months of Hoffa's
disappearance, central sanitation

an arson.

A few months after that, the whole place
is torn down.

So any hope of recovering evidence
disappears.

And that's as far as the incinerator
theory can get.

But that doesn't stop speculation.

about other possibilities.

People still want to know, where did he
end up? Where did they put him?

Many experts believe Jimmy Hoffa is
killed by members of the mafia on July

1975.

The big questions are, who did it, and
where is his body?

Then in 1989, a former mob associate
says he knows the answer.

A hitman named Donald Frankos comes out
with a pretty explosive story in Playboy

magazine.

Frankos confirms the FBI's belief that
Hoffa was murdered in a fight with the

Genovese family over control of the
Teamsters.

And he also claims to know who pulled
the trigger.

According to Franco's, Jimmy Hoffa was
murdered by a gang known as the Westies

on the orders of Fat Tony Salerno.

According to the FBI, the Westies and
their founder, Jimmy Coonan, are

responsible for as many as 100 murders
from 1968 to 1986.

They're one of the main hit squads on
the mob's payroll.

They're involved in racketeering, and
they help the mob control a lot of the

major construction projects in New York
at the time, like Medicine Square Garden

and Javits Center.

Franco claims he's in tight with the
Westies. As a matter of fact, they

him to be the trigger man on Hoffa.

But he's in prison at the time, and he
can't do it.

But he says Jimmy Coonan himself told
him how it all went down.

Wind back to that red car.

As we know, a little before 3, Hoffa is
picked up by a red Mercury marquee at

the Machus Red Fox.

He thinks he's going to go meet with
Tony Jack, but when he's driven to the

meeting spot, it's Jimmy Coonan and the
Westies that are waiting.

So the Westies put two bullets in
Hoffa's head.

But rather than dump the body right
away, Frankos claims that they had

plan.

They don't just want to burn the body or
hide him away.

Franco says the West East store Hoffa's
remains for five months until they can

decide what to do.

They don't want to attract undue
attention, so it's not like they can

up or just leave his body laying in the
street.

But they do want to let other criminals
know, even if you're famous like Jimmy

Hoffa, we can always get you.

And in December of 1975, they finally
think they had the perfect play.

At the time, a new giant stadium is
under construction in East Rutherford,

Jersey, an area known as the
Meadowlands.

The Meadowlands were already a notorious
dumping ground for mob victims. In

fact, while they were constructing Giant
Stadium, the construction crew kept

running into a lot of dumped bodies.

Each time they found a body, they'd call
the prosecutor's office and say, hey,

we found another one. But then
construction would have to stop.

They'd have to wait for an
investigation, and it was slowing the

down. So after the fifth body, they just
stopped calling.

And that's why timing is perfect for the
mob.

Not only have they stopped looking for
bodies, but a big concrete pour is

scheduled. And guess who's in charge of
the concrete trucks?

the Genovese family.

Frankos says that Hoffa's body is
brought to New Jersey in an oil drum

before the concrete arrives for the
stadium's west end zone.

Frankos even claimed to know exactly
where they were going to put Hoffa.

In the end zone, section 107 in the
corner, right where they were scheduled

pour 30 tons of concrete.

Frankos describes it like a thick joke
amongst the mob. Whenever a touchdown is

scored, they toast and say, hey, Jimmy,
that one's for you.

While it wasn't common knowledge amongst
the public, at least until this

interview came out, it was well known
throughout the criminal underworld where

Jimmy Hoffa was.

They put him in the ground, and he's
right there on TV every Sunday.

And that's why you don't mess with the
mob.

But when Giant Stadium is demolished in
August 2010, the FBI doesn't bother to

conduct a dig.

Demolition crews only went down about
four feet, and word has it that Hoffa's

way deeper than that.

I guess the FBI didn't put enough trust
in Donald Franco to excavate down that

low.

Some suggest the theory simply doesn't
add up.

I don't understand why you would risk
putting a body in a vehicle and

transporting it cross -country,
especially a body with the notoriety of

Jimmy Hoffa. It just doesn't make sense.

Which leads to a very different idea on
what happened to Hoffa from someone who

knew him well.

There's no doubt in my mind I know where
Mr. Hoffa's body is, and it's not in

New Jersey.

Marvin Elkind was Hoffa's driver during
his first term as Teamster president.

The guy spent years with Hoffa,
literally sitting two feet in front of

may be closer to Hoffa than any other
person left alive today. So if he says

he's got a theory on where he ended up,
I'd listen to him.

Elkind first meets Hoffa in the late
1950s.

I worked at the Copacabana nightclub in
New York.

I was a busboy.

The mafia guys, Frankie Carbo, Blinky
Palermo, Tony Salerno,

and Tony Procrevenzano, they used to
come in a lot. I stole

bottles of booze from the bar and I
brought it to them. And they were very

tippers. I liked them a lot. They were
nice guys.

One day, a Genovese family bigwig offers
him a new opportunity.

I was busy working.

And Fat Tony called me and he said,
Friday's your last day here.

I said, why?

I'm trying so hard to do a good job.

He says, as of Monday, you've got a new
job.

You're going to be the driver for Jimmy
Hoffa.

Now, I didn't know Mr. Hoffa, but I knew
his reputation.

And when they said that, I got scared.

Mr. Hoffa was very tight with the mafia.

And the go -between was Fat Tony
Salerno.

First time I met Mr. Hoffa, I opened up
the door and I said, Good morning, Mr.

Hoffa.

She said, Are you Marvin?

I goes, Yes, sir.

She says, Very good start. Excellent.
Remember, it's Mr.

Hoffa or it's her.

Scared the hell out of me.

Hoffa conducts much of his business.

From the car.

And Elkind hears everything.

The guy is low on the food chain.

He's kind of an errand boy.

But he's sitting there in the front
seat, right in front of Jimmy Hoffa, day

and day out. You can only just imagine
the kind of things that he heard.

When Elkind starts working, Hoffa has
two rules.

One rule, I never want you to be late.

I don't want to be kept waiting.

The cardinal rule is what you hear in
this car stays in this car.

If anything that you hear in this car
gets out, you won't be around the next

morning. Do you understand me, Marvin?

I said, yes, I do, sir.

This is very good.

Today, Elkind is ready to break one of
those rules.

In the 47 years since his disappearance,
Jimmy Hoffa's whereabouts remain a

mystery.

Until his former driver, Marvin Elkin,
says he knows, and that everyone's been

looking in the wrong place.

There's no doubt in my mind I know where
Mr. Hoffa's body is.

After Hoffa's picked up by the red car,
what happens next?

According to Elkin, he shot to death at
a nearby house, stuffed into the trunk

of a car, and they've already decided
exactly where to put him.

Mr. Hoffa is buried in the concrete of
the Renaissance Center, which is in

downtown Detroit, right across the road
from the Omni Hotel.

The Renaissance Center is mid
-construction at the time Hoffa

Under the cover of night, in the trunk
of a car, they drove Mr. Hopper to the

Renaissance.

They put him in the planks and poured
the concrete on top of him.

The next day, practically every union
carpenter in Detroit is there just

building right on top of him, completely
oblivious.

I mean, what a place to put union hero
Jimmy Hopper. The mob really does have a

thick sense of humor sometimes.

And according to Elkin, it's that same
sense of humor that gives away the mob's

secret. In 75, we had a big convention
in Detroit, and the convention took

place at the Renaissance.

Tony Pro, while Mazzano was there.

Tony Pro, the Genovese boss who had a
prison feud with Hoffa.

He's walking past the construction site
where they're pouring concrete footings

every day.

turned to everybody and said, Guys, say
good morning to Mr. Jimmy Hoffa.

We looked at the fresh concrete, and we
all knew exactly what he meant.

All the top brass were laughing.

That was all the poop I needed.

Elkin says this all could have been
avoided if Hoffa had just listened to

Marvin's kept in touch with the Genovese
family, and he's heard.

that Hoffa's a target.

Marvin wants to have a sit -down with
Hoffa. He wants to warn him that certain

people aren't happy.

He knows they're going to take him out.

Shortly before he goes missing, Hoffa
meets with Elkin.

Mr. Hoffa didn't realize that he was not
the number one man anymore.

I said, Mr.

Hoffa, they don't want you to be
president.

There was no question if he ran, he
would get elected.

The mafia had to do something about it,
and that's why they had him killed.

I told Mr. Hoffa what the word was.

Mr. Hoffa told me, Marvin, my people
will never harm me.

Mr. Hoffa went missing, and immediately
the concrete was poured.

Nobody has ever seen him again.

Hoffa thought he was untouchable, that
he had an army of thousands of blue

-collar workers behind him.

But when the mob wants you out of the
way, not even an army can protect you

a few coppers with guns.

In 2016, another witness steps forward
to back up Elkin's story.

Former corrections officer Michael
Yarbrough claims to have actually

Hoffa's burial at the Renaissance
Center.

Yarbrough says that at 3 .20 p .m., half
an hour or so after Hoffa is picked up

at the Moccas Red Fox restaurant, he's
walking past the construction site and

hears a struggle.

He looks and he sees a cement truck.

A 1975 maroon Mercury Marquis and two
guys pushing Jimmy Hoffa into a huge

hole where a pillar is going to be
built.

Apparently, a third guy sees Yarbrough
snooping and runs up and says, hey, you

better keep moving or you're going to be
next.

So he runs out of there and he hides
until they're gone.

But once again, without a body, the
Renaissance theory remains impossible to

prove.

It's a major supporting pillar of one of
the most iconic and recognizable

buildings in Michigan.

They're never going to dig that thing
up.

On December 9th, 1982, after a seven
-year investigation,

Jimmy Hoffa is declared legally dead by
a Michigan judge.

But when the FBI publicly releases a
report called the Hoffex Memo, detailing

the leads they followed in the case, one
line jumps out.

No evidence has been developed to date
which would prove that James R. Hoffa is

either dead or alive.

After years of theories on his death, is
it possible that Hoffa is still alive?

Six months into the investigation, the
FBI produces this really important

document known as the Hoffax Memo.

It's a veritable who's who of mafia
names.

It reads like a Hollywood script with
every mobster you've ever heard of

involved.

Tony Pro, Tony Jack, Fat Tony, The
Irishman, every mobster you've

ever heard of, they're listed in the
Hoffax Memo.

And while the memo is full of names,
it's lacking in evidence.

Eventually the investigation leads to a
grand jury. They identify 95 people that

they want to testify before the jury,
but almost everyone takes the fifth.

This memo lists so many people and so
many theories, and in the end, after

story, it says we can't corroborate any
of this.

Maybe it's this, but we can't prove it.
Maybe it's that, we can't prove it. It

just goes around and around in circles.
It's like a smoke screen.

But why would the FBI try to hide the
truth about Hoffa's disappearance?

Why? Because he's actually a government
informant.

Around the time of his death, many
speculate Jimmy Hoffa's cooperating with

feds. Once again, it comes down to the
Teamsters.

the former source of all of Hoffa's
power.

He wants that power back, but Nixon's
banned him from union leadership as part

of the deal that gets him out of prison.

The government has taken Hoffa's ability
to lead, and if he wants it back, he's

going to have to make a deal with the
government.

Luckily, he's got a lot of bargaining
power.

Over the years, Hoffa has had a front
row seat to the inner working of the

mafia.

Jimmy Hoffa knows where the bodies are
buried.

He knows they're involved in Vegas, that
they're skimming money.

He knows that they have these sweetheart
pension deals and no -show jobs.

He would be an invaluable asset and
informant to the federal government.

Clearly, he's in a very dangerous
position, caught between the mob and the

government. And on July 30th, 1975, some
theorists believe Hoffa isn't killed.

He's rescued.

Let's go back to the Moccas Red Fox.

We know that Hoffa's mafia associates
stand him up. They're not showing up to

the meeting. He's upset.

But the fact that they're late just
might have saved his life.

What if the car that shows up is not
full of wise guys and mobsters, but it's

actually the Justice Department?

They've heard that there's a hit out on
Jimmy, and they swoop in to intercept

him before the monsters can get there.

If the FBI is trying to hide Jimmy
Hoffa, the question is, where?

One theory suggests that actually Hoffa
lives out his final days in Mexico or

somewhere.

on the beach and lives happily ever
after. I have a very difficult time

accepting that theory.

To me, the witness protection theory is
laughable for a lot of reasons. But the

main one is, how the hell do you hide
Jimmy Hoffa? I mean, look at him.

He's one of the most recognizable public
figures, political leaders, but also

Jimmy Hoffa loved the spotlight.

Does he strike you as someone who would
accept a deal with the federal

government to spend the rest of his life
in hiding?

He wanted to be on the front lines, plus
people would recognize him. This

doesn't hold up.

Which leads to an entirely different
theory involving another top -secret

government agent.

This theory starts the same as the last.

He gets picked up by the Fed because he
intends to cooperate with the

government.

Hopefully to get permission to lead the
Teamsters again. And as it turns out, in

1975, right when Hoffa is looking to
regain presidency of the union, there's

brand new Senate investigation ramping
up, and it gives him the perfect

opportunity.

And the perfect leverage.

The Senate is investigating the CIA.

And Hoffa knows about one of the
dirtiest deals the CIA ever did.

It's called Operation Mongoose.

Was Hoffa planning to testify against
the CIA to get back in control of the

Teamsters? And if so, could that have
gotten him killed?

Operation Mongoose was a collaboration
between the CIA and the

Italian mafia in America. It was an
assassination plot to eliminate...

Cuban dictator Fidel Castro.

The mafia had casinos. They had their
money in banks in Cuba.

And when Castro took power, he kicked
them all out, arrested some of them,

all their money.

The mafia wants Castro out of the way so
they can go back in and start up their

businesses again in the vice rackets.

The way the CIA looked at it was our
enemy's enemy is our friend.

A federal agent reaches out to mobster
Johnny Roselli and Sam Giancana, another

well -known mob personality out of
Chicago.

These guys agreed to do the hit. As we
know, it was never completed. But the

request was made, and the CIA will do
anything to keep that a secret.

And some think that includes getting rid
of Jimmy Hoffa.

Hoffa and Sam Giancana have been doing
business together in the back of Hoffa's

car for years.

He's heard all the stories. The question
is, is he so desperate to run the

Teamsters again that he would tell these
stories to the Senate Investigation

Committee? According to this theory's
supporters,

Hoffa and his mafia associates are all
planning to talk.

Gene Khanna, Rosselli, and Hoffa were
all subpoenaed to provide testimony in

front of the Senate hearing.

But none of them make it to Washington.

Sam Giancana was murdered in May.

Hoff was supposed to testify in August
of 75. He was murdered on July 30th,

1975. And then Johnny Rosselli was
supposed to testify in August of 1976.

And his body was found floating in
Biscayne Bay in a 50 -gallon drum.

Is it possible the CIA took out all
three to keep things quiet?

While we may never know the answer, One
thing is clear.

Any hope of finding Hoffa alive is now
gone.

Jimmy Hoffa would be 108 years old
today, so if we find any remnants of

it's going to be his bones. You're not
going to roll into a Burger King in

Kalamazoo, Michigan, and find him having
a whopper with Elvis and Jim Morrison.

That's not going to happen.

But one man thinks he knows exactly
where Hoffa's body is.

And it's not where anyone expects.

Within days of Jimmy Hoffa's
disappearance, multiple underworld

to know his whereabouts, including
Trenton State Penitentiary inmate Ralph

Picardo.

This incredible story starts August 4th,
1975.

That was only five days after Hoffa's
disappearance.

Picardo's doing 20 years for
manslaughter when his accountant shows

Andretta brothers, Stephen and Thomas.

These guys worked for the Genovese
family crime bot, Tony Pro, who everyone

agrees had problems with Jimmy Hoffa.

Stephen Andretta tells Picardo what
happened to Hoffa a few days before.

He said he knew the whole thing.

A few months later, Picardo decided he'd
turn state's evidence.

Now, Picardo might be just looking for a
lighter sentence, but he reveals the

whole story as told by Andretta.

It begins once again in the parking lot
of the Moccas Red Fox on July 30th.

Picardo tells the FBI a familiar story
in the beginning. He said Hoffa was

picked up in the restaurant parking lot.

In the car are Sally Buggs, Thomas
Andretta, and Vito Giacalone, that's

Tony's little brother.

Hoffa thought he was going to be meeting
with Tony Jack, so he wouldn't be too

concerned about these extra people in
the car.

And they take him to the so -called
meeting spot.

There, Sally Buggs shoots him twice in
the head.

Picardo says that... Genovese crime boss
Tony Pro ordered the hit and directed

the Andretta brothers to carry it out
all the way from back in Jersey City.

And according to Picardo, Tony Pro wants
Hoffa's body nearby as a reminder.

To understand what happens next, you've
got to understand the mob mentality.

You'd think in most cases you have a
body, you want to get rid of it as quick

and as fast as possible. But sometimes
these guys want to make a statement.

Tony Pro hates Hoffa. He would have
mounted his head on the wall of his den

he could have.

Wise guys don't let this kind of thing
go.

Tony Pro also has an easy means of
transportation and an ideal place to

body. The Genovese family controls a
trucking company called Gateway

Transportation.

According to Picardo's story, Hoffa's
body is stuffed into a 55 -gallon oil

and put onto a gateway transportation
truck.

Off he goes 600 miles to Jersey City.

In Jersey City, when Tony Pro has a body
he wants to get rid of, he's got a

favorite spot.

At the time of Hoffa's disappearance.

Genovese soldiers Phil Brother Moscato
and Paul Coppola own a 53 -acre weight

dump under the Pulaski Skyway.

Moscato, Capla, and Andretta brothers
have been involved in burying bodies at

this dump for many years.

The FBI has been investigating these
people and bodies in this dump for the

three years before Hoffa even
disappeared.

So when the FBI hears this from Ralph
Picardo, they pay attention.

Picardo would have no way of knowing
that this dump was already under

investigation, but the details, they all
line up.

The FBI asks Picardo for the location of
the burial site within the dump.

Whether or not Picardo knows, he won't
reveal the location.

The odds against finding the body in
this place are huge. It'd be like

the needle in the haystack.

Unfortunately, without a more specific
place to look, their search comes up

empty.

On December the 4th, 1975, the feds make
a last -ditch effort.

They put the Andretta brothers in front
of a grand jury, but they plead the

fifth.

After just five months, the Jersey Dump
Theory hits a roadblock for 41 years.

But in 2016, a deathbed confession
resurrects it.

47 years after he disappeared, could
Jimmy Hoffa's body finally be found in a

New Jersey dump?

The place is mob -owned, and they've got
a jailhouse informant named Ralph

Picardo who says that he's there.

But they search in 1975 and simply can't
find a body.

It's tough. I mean, they faced
incredible odds. It's a 53 -acre

not even a little clue about where to
look.

This place is landfill and a toxic waste
dump. It was too dangerous to dig in

many places.

Maybe that's why the mob likes to hide
bodies in this dump.

The FBI abandons the search in 1976.

But 40 years later, a shocking
revelation brings the Moscato dump back

attention of Hoffa theorists.

Cook Moscato Jr.

Because the son of the Moscato dump
owner comes forward and claims he knows

exactly where to live.

Moscato says his father, Phillip Sr.,
made a deathbed confession.

The day I met my father in the hospital,
it was the day before he went home on

hospice. He said, listen, there's some
things I've got to tell you.

And he proceeded to tell me the location
where Jimmy Hoff was buried.

He was brought there in a drum, on a
truck.

and put it in the ground.

That's what I was told.

Could an oil drum like this contain the
remains of Jimmy Hoffa? It lines up with

Ralph Picardo's story as well, that the
mob kills Hoffa in Detroit, puts him in

a drum, and trucks him down to Jersey
City to bury him in Moscato's dump.

To complete the job, Moscato dumps 12
more oil drums on top of Hoffa and fills

the whole thing in.

Moscato digs deeper into his father's
story.

I started trying to put the story
together in my head, like, how could

possible?

And over my research over the years,
putting this together, it all started to

make sense to me.

The full property of the dump doesn't
even exist anymore.

It's been divided and used for other
things. But there's a patch of land

under Pulaski Skyway.

It's kind of shaped like a baseball
diamond.

And that's where Philip tells us that
his father buried Jimmy Hoppa.

In 2020, a search firm conducts further
investigations at the site.

Investigators had just did a ground
-penetrating radar, I believe they call

It's a method of sending radar pulses
into the Earth.

It's a great way to see what's under the
surface before you dig.

Lo and behold, they find some metal. If
you take the data from that session, you

can make a 3D image of exactly what's
down there. And the first thing you see,

there's a large curved piece that looks
just like an oil drum.

And it's not just one, there are
multiple barrels.

And they're buried right on top of each
other, starting about four feet down.

Could this be the final resting place of
Jimmy Hoffa?

Moscato hopes to have an answer soon.

My belief from what I was told from my
dad is that I am the only person alive

today that knows where the remains of
Jimmy Hoffa is. We're getting close to

revealing that, and I'm hoping in the
near future we do reveal that and we can

maybe give the Hoffa family some
closure.

The Hoffa family needs to bring home
their dad, bring home their husband,

grandfather.

Bring him home to the people that he
belongs to, that he should have been

through all these years with.

If Philip is correct, the Jimmy Hoffa
mystery may be closer than ever to being

solved. The FBI has conducted a site
survey at the Moscato dump and may soon

begin a full -scale excavation.

And there's a chance that it could
finally put Jimmy Hoffa and all the many

theories on his disappearance to rest.

I'm Lawrence Fishburne. Thank you for
watching History's Greatest Mystery.