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- Tonight, one of the most notorious

missing person cases of all time,

a powerful union activist vanishes without a trace.

45 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

to 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 is.

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

They got high hopes they're gonna 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 kinda has enough

and he organizes his fellow workers.

They decide they're gonna stop loading and unloading

these strawberries and just let them sit out there

and bake in the hot sun.

Management's watching their strawberries kind of molder

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 the Mafia the whole time.

But that deal is eventually his undoing.

Hoffa is indicted for a number of charges

related to mob involvement with the 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 Machus Red Fox 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 7:00 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, 2:00 p.m., Red Fox."

"Red Fox" obviously refers to the Machus 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 again

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 3:00,

there are eyewitnesses who see a maroon car,

either a Lincoln or Mercury, pull up.

It's unclear exactly who was in the car.

According to the eye witnesses,

he gets in of his own accord.

So there's no struggle, 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 questioning 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 a 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,

the 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 Vitale and Quasarano

use the incinerator to dispose of bodies.

- Central Sanitation, in Hamtramck, Michigan,

is just 20 miles from the Machus Red 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 Hoffa 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 Hoffa's family

is still getting his pension benefits.

- Tony Provenzano confronts Jimmy Hoffa,

says, "Why should you be entitled to these benefits

and not my family?"

Jimmy Hoffa snaps backs,

"It's because of people like you

that I'm in here in the first place."

- The Genovese crime family control 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 believes 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 catches fire in an arson.

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 30, 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 Frankos, 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 Madison Square Garden

and Javits Center.

- Frankos claims he's in tight with the Westies.

As a matter of fact, they wanted him

to be the triggerman 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 3:00,

Hoffa is picked up by a red Mercury Marquis

at the Machus Red Fox.

He thinks he's gonna 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 another plan.

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

- Frankos says the Westies 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 string him 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 place.

- At the time, a new Giants Stadium

is under construction

in East Rutherford, New Jersey,

an area known as the Meadowlands.

- The Meadowlands were already a notorious dumping ground

for mob victims.

In fact, while they were constructing Giants 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 whole thing 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,

just before the concrete arrives

for the stadium's west end zone.

- Frankos even claimed to know

exactly where they were gonna put Hoffa:

in the end zone, Section 107 in the corner,

right where they were scheduled

to pour 30 tons of concrete.

Frankos describes it like a sick 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 Giants 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 Frankos

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 Teamsters president.

- The guy spent years with Hoffa,

literally sitting two feet in front of him.

He 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.

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 big tippers.

I liked them a lot. They were nice guys.

- One day, a Genovese family big wig

offers him a new opportunity.

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 gonna 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."

He said, "Are you Marvin?" I go, "Yes, sir."

He says, "Very good start. Excellent.

Remember, it's 'Mr. Hoffa' or 'Sir.'"

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 in and day out.

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

- When Elkind starts working, Hoffa has two rules.

- 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 Elkind says he knows,

and that everyone has been looking in the wrong place.

- There's no doubt in my mind

I know where Mr. Hoffa's body is.

- After Hoffa is picked up by the red car,

what happens next?

- According to Elkind,

he's shot to death at a nearby house,

stuffed into the trunk of a car,

and they've already decided exactly where to put him.

- The Renaissance Center is mid-construction

at the time Hoffa disappears.

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 Hoffa.

The mob really does have a sick sense of humor sometimes.

- And according to Elkind,

it's that same sense of humor

that gives away the mob's secret.

- 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.

- Tony Pro turned to everybody and said,

"Guys, say good morning to Mr. Jimmy Hoffa."

All the top brass were laughing.

That was all the proof I needed.

- Elkind says this all could have been avoided

if Hoffa had just listened to him.

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 gonna take him out.

- Shortly before he goes missing,

Hoffa meets with Elkind.

I told Mr. Hoffa what the word was.

Mr. Hoffa just 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

from a few capos with guns.

- In 2016,

another witness steps forward

to back up Elkind's story.

- Former corrections officer Michael Yarbrough

claims to have actually witnessed

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 Machus Red Fox restaurant,

he's walking past the construction site

and he 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 gonna be built.

Apparently, a third guy

sees Yarbrough snooping and runs up and says,

"Hey, you better keep moving or you're gonna 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 gonna dig that thing up.

- On December 9, 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 Hoffex 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 Hoffex 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 each 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 smokescreen.

- 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 the 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 gonna 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 workings 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 U.S. government.

- And on July 30, 1975,

some theorists believe Hoffa isn't killed.

He's rescued.

- Let's go back to the Machus 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 mobsters 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.

Just doesn't hold up.

- Which leads to an entirely different theory

involving another top secret government agency.

- This theory starts the same as the last.

He gets picked up by the feds 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 a 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,

stole 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 agree 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.

- Giancana, Roselli, and Hoffa were all subpoenaed

to provide testimony in front of this Senate hearing.

- But none of them make it to Washington.

- Sam Giancana was murdered in May.

Hoffa was supposed to testify in August of '75.

He was murdered on July 30, 1975.

And then Johnny Roselli 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 him,

it's gonna be his bones.

You're not gonna roll into a Burger King

in Kalamazoo, Michigan,

and find him having a Whopper with Elvis

and Jim Morrison.

That's-- That's not gonna 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 tipsters

claim 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 is doing 20 years for manslaughter

when his accountant showed up with the Andretta brothers,

Stephen and Thomas.

These guys worked for

the Genovese family crime boss 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 Machus 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 Bugs, Thomas Andretta,

and Vito Giacalone,

that's Tony's little brother.

- Hoffa thought he was gonna be meeting with Tony Jack,

so he wouldn't be too concerned about

these extra people in the car.

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

There, Sally Bugs 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 got to understand the mob mentality.

You'd think, in most cases,

you have a body, you wanna get rid of it

as quick and as fast as possible.

But sometimes, these guys wanna make a statement.

Tony Pro hates Hoffa.

He would have mounted his head on the wall of his den

if 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 hide a 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 drum

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 Cappola

own a 53-acre waste dump under the Pulaski Skyway.

- Moscato, Cappola, and the 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 past 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 a body in this place are huge.

It'd be like finding a needle in the haystack.

- Unfortunately, without a more specific place to look,

their search comes up empty.

- On December 4, 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,

a 53-acre property

with not even a little clue about where to look.

- This place is a 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 to the attention of Hoffa theorists.

- Phillip Moscato Jr.,

who's the son of the Moscato Dump owner

comes forward and claims he knows exactly where to look.

- 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. Some things I got to tell you."

And he proceeded to tell me

the location where Jimmy Hoffa's buried.

He was brought there in a drum on a truck

and put 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 this be possible?

And over my research of 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 right under Pulaski Skyway,

it's kind of shaped like a baseball diamond,

and that's where Phillip tells us

that his father buried Jimmy Hoffa.

- In 2020,

a search firm conducts further investigations

at the site.

- Investigators had just did a ground-penetrating radar,

I believe they call it.

- 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 is 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, their grandfather,

bring him home to the people that he belongs to,

that he should have been through all these years with.

- If Phillip 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 is a chance that it could finally put Jimmy Hoffa

and all the many theories on his disappearance to rest.

I'm Laurence Fishburne.

Thank you for watching "History's Greatest Mysteries."