A Cold Case Group Claims Jimmy Hoffa Was Buried Under a Stadium After All
Keystone. Getty Images.The whereabouts of the body of Teamster president Jimmy Hoffa has been one of the great urban legends for over a generation now. And the speculation had a renaissance of sorts when his murder was a subplot buried in the 10-hour running time of The Irishman. A very anticlimactic one, if I can criticize Martin Scorcese without condemning myself to eternal torment in some film buff demon realm where they do nothing but show Hubie Halloween on constant loop forever.
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The prevailing myth was that Hoffa's body was dumped into the cement when the foundation was poured for Giants Stadium in the Meadlowlands. It's easy to see how those dots would be connected. He turned up missing in 1975. The stadium opened in 1976. At the risk of impugning anyone's integrity, a Venn Diagram of the groups Hoffa was associated with and the groups that get stuff done in northern New Jersey would have a rather sizable overlap. So based on those rumors Mythbusters went in there with ground-penetrating radar, and found no sign of a body in the concrete. Furthermore, when the place fell to the wrecking ball in 2010, again people looked and found nothing.
And there have been no solid leads since and the trail has remained cold. Until now. Because that trail might have just been heated up like black vinyl car seats thanks to some sleuths who never gave up looking:
Source - A nonprofit group of cold case crime investigators believes it has located a site in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where former Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa is buried.
The Case Breakers said a “dying police sergeant’s scribbled instructions on an ace of spades” playing card helped lead their years-long investigation to the old site of Milwaukee County Stadium in Wisconsin, according to a Wednesday press release.
The alleged burial site is next to the current Milwaukee Brewers stadium, American Family Field, where they believe Hoffa’s body lies in a spot under where the demolished stadium’s third-base line previously stood.
Jim Zimmerman, a 13-year member of Case Breakers and a former police officer, is credited with locating the ace of spades playing card which they say was written by a dying police sergeant believed to be involved with Hoffa’s kidnapping. …
Three credible witnesses are said to have claimed that six years before the demolition of Milwaukee County Stadium, Hoffa’s body was moved from another location and “secretly buried in 1995 under this old stadium’s 3rd base.”
The alleged burial site now sits just outside the fence of a Little League stadium, Helfaer Field, that was built in 2002 in the middle of the parking lot that replaced the old stadium. …
Case Breakers founder Thomas J. Colbert told Fox News Digital that the team brought one of the “top” cadaver dog experts to the site, retired cop Carren Corcoran, and her dog gave a positive signal several times. …
The dog, named Moxy, “pointed, wagged, barked and nosed her way into 4 ‘hits’ at the stadium’s old 3rd-base location,” the press release states.
An elite squad of mystery-loving investigators, including plucky, resourceful women and their intrepid dog, following clues that lead them to crack a case that has baffled the authorities? This isn't The Case Breakers. It's the Scooby Gang.
Believe me, I don't want to be the one that doubts them. Or to be standing there when they rip the mask off the old Milwaukee County Stadium greenskeeper and find out he's an old mob hitman who would've gotten away with it if it weren't for those meddling Case Breakers. But I can't help but wonder why, if you're trying to get rid of an old rotted corpse in the mid-90s, you'd drag it all the way out to 3rd base at a Major League ballpark. Which presumably had a full time security staff and every square foot of the place under constant CCTV surveillance. Does Wisconsin not have woods, ponds, swamps, landfills, places in the middle of nowhere?
But who am I to argue? Moxy seems to know what she's doing. So we might as well trust her nose as opposed to me stupidly trying to apply common sense to the situation.
Besides, how can you not love the idea? The late '90s Brewers playing 81 games with the world's most mysterious missing person buried in their infield. Jeff Cirillo taking his spot at 3rd, mere feet away from the remains of the man who might've been involved in the assassinations of the Kennedys. Phil Garner, unwittingly stepping over a shallow grave as he comes out to take the ball from Ben McDonald hand it to Mike Fetters to get the last three outs. John Jaha stomping on the bag as he's trotting around third after going deep yet again, while Bernie Brewer hits the slide:
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So yes, please let the Scoobies be right and that they find the body under that Little League field. It would be the most exciting thing to happen to that franchise since Harvey's Wallbangers lost to the Cardinals in seven games 40 years ago.