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Search for Hoffa's body proves fruitless
Robert Foley, the special agent in charge of the FBI's Detroit division, addresses the media in Oakland Township, Michigan, where he announced that the FBI was ending its search for the remains of Jimmy Hoffa.
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Where's Jimmy Hoffa? Everywhere And Nowhere
If it's him, it's going to be a letdown. For the better part of 40 years, the disappearance of former Teamsters President James Hoffa has been a source of fascination on par with Bigfoot, the Loch Ness Monster and the aliens in Roswell, N.M. If the FBI finds and identifies his body, as agents are currently trying to do just outside Detroit, it will ... (more)
FBI widens hunt for Jimmy Hoffa's body near Detroit
FBI, state and local authorities search for Jimmy Hoffa's body in a field in Oakland Township, Michigan, Monday, June 17, 2013.
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FBI digs up field near Detroit in search for Jimmy Hoffa's body
The latest search for former Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa, who disappeared in 1975 in what law enforcement officials believe might have been an organized crime hit, brought investigators on Monday to an overgrown vacant field in suburban Detroit.