Moldea said both firms found potential evidence that might confirm Frank’s story. Later, Moldea’s crew of civilian investigators and a separate team from Fox News hired companies using ground-penetrating radar (GPR) devices to check for anomalies deep inside the soil. Moldea, who has written about Hoffa since the mid-1970s, defends his scenario about how and where Hoffa’s body ended up in New Jersey.īefore Frank Cappola’s death in 2020, Moldea had him stand at the precise spot of the purported Hoffa grave and pose for a photo there. They’re doing it for the guys who came before them.” Author committed to landfill story “They were going to take this lead at the maximum priority level. The agency, Burnstein said, has spent “tens of millions if not $100 million” over the decades trying to solve the Hoffa whodunit. The Detroit-based agents have worked hard for many years for answers and genuinely want to find Hoffa’s remains. Nevertheless, Burnstein trusts that the FBI followed the parameters of the search warrant granted for the New Jersey site. “I want Dan to be right there is no one more on Dan’s side than me,” said Scott Burnstein, an author, Detroit organized crime expert and member of The Mob Museum’s Advisory Council.
and we just can’t find him,” Moldea wrote after the FBI’s announcement on July 21.Īnother Hoffa expert offered a different perspective. “Regardless of how this plays out, I still believe that Hoffa is or was buried at or near PJP in Jersey City after his 1975 murder in Detroit. Courtesy of Dan Moldea (Copyright © 2020 by Dan E. Moldea’s research indicated that Jimmy Hoffa’s remains are located in a barrel buried on land adjacent to the dump, but an FBI search in 2022 turned up nothing. Investigative journalist Dan Moldea poses at Brother Moscato’s Dump, aka the PJP Landfill, in Jersey City in 2020 amid a clutter of dumpsters. This spot is where Frank Cappola insisted that his father, Paul, the landfill’s Mob-connected co-owner, once showed him where he buried Hoffa in a metal drum shortly after the labor figure went missing. His question is whether the FBI examined the exact spot adjacent to the one-time PJP Landfill beneath the Pulaski Skyway overpass. Moldea remains convinced that Hoffa’s corpse is really there, and that the agency somehow missed it. It was the work of Dan Moldea, investigative journalist and Hoffa expert, that persuaded the FBI to again comb the New Jersey landfill. Other less-credible reports, including that Hoffa was stuffed in a barrel and dumped into the Florida everglades (via another Mob squealer) and that his body was melted into steel shipped to Japan, also are part of the Hoffa legend. Since 2000, subsequent explorations had agents digging at a former card casino in Gardena, California under a suburban swimming pool in Hampton, Michigan at a farm in Milford, Michigan a backyard in Roseville, Michigan the site of a demolished building at a football stadium in New Jersey (on the say-so of a Mob informant) and looking inside a home in Bloomfield, Michigan. In November of that year, the FBI, based on a mobster’s tip, looked around the same Jersey City dump site but found nothing. Thus, the agency concluded yet another attempt to locate Hoffa’s final resting place, a search that began after he vanished from where he was last seen, a restaurant parking lot in suburban Detroit on July 30, 1975. “While we do not anticipate any additional activity at the site, the FBI will continue to pursue any viable lead in our efforts to locate Mr. “Nothing of evidentiary value was discovered during that search,” Special Agent Mara Schneider, public affairs officer for the bureau’s Detroit field office, said in a prepared statement. The news came only days before the 47 th anniversary of Hoffa’s disappearance outside Detroit. The FBI announced in July that it did not find any sign of the body of former Teamsters Union leader James Hoffa after surveying and digging for weeks near a former New Jersey landfill.
CSU Archives/Everett Collection/Alamy Stock Photo Experts have dueling theories about who killed him and what happened to his body. Former Teamsters Union leader Jimmy Hoffa, pictured during a 1972 ABC television interview, disappeared three years later.
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