Jimmy Hoffa's Remains Found in Michigan? FBI Get Out Their Shovels

Jimmy Hoffa body location found in Detroit? The FBI thinks so. Police are trying to heal a wound that won't go away - the disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa’s body. The FBI have renewed the search for Jimmy Hoffa after they received new information from an alleged mobster, according to published reports.

The FBI has spent months investigating Tony Zerelli’s claims that the Jimmy Hoffa's remains are buried in the Detroit area. The FBI plans to dig up a field to solve an almost forty year mystery: What happened to Jimmy Hoffa, and what is the location of Jimmy Hoffa’s body.

Jimmy Hoffa was 62 when he disappeared. He was last seen outside a Detroit-area restaurant on July 30, 1975. FBI agents executed a search warrant for a field in Oakland Township, Mich., north of Detroit, on information provided by alleged mobster Tony Zerilli.

Zerilli told News NBC 4 that Hoffa was buried in a Michigan field earlier this year. He said the body was buried 20 miles north of where Hoffa was last seen in 1975. According to sources speaking to The Detroit Free Press, the FBI looked into Zerilli’s claims for months before they went to court seeking authorization to excavate the field and look for evidence of a shallow grave.

After almost forty years, the disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa still fascinates the public. Hoffa was a union organizer with the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. He was union's General President from 1958 and 1971. Hoffa had ties to organized crime from his early Teamsters days. In 1964, Hoffa was convicted of jury tampering, attempted bribery and fraud and sentenced to 13 years. He went to prison in 1967 and was pardoned by President Richard Nixon.

by Tony Sokol