there was a 2021 tip that led investigators to search under a landfill/bridge in Jersey again, still nothing confirmed. case is technically still open which is wild after 50 years.
one popular theory says he's buried under Giants Stadium in NJ from when it was being built, FBI actually went and dug there in 2004, found absolutely nothing.
sameer.k they actually dug for this?? like with real shovels?
joshua.t yeah in 2004, FBI tip said he was buried under the field during construction. found nothing
wild_wonder imagine being a Giants fan and knowing your stadium was built on a literal murder rumor lol
night_owl42 honestly this case has more dead-end digs than actual leads at this point
the most well-known version (from the movie "The Irishman") is that a mob guy named Frank Sheeran killed him, but historians argue a lot about how accurate that account actually is.
psychic tips and false leads on this case are honestly a genre of their own at this point, FBI has chased down some wild ones over the decades
his son James P. Hoffa ended up leading the Teamsters union himself for decades after, kind of wild continuity there
adding to the Giants Stadium theory above, that rumor got so big it was basically pop culture canon for a while, even though the dig found nothing
there's also a theory he got put through a car crusher at a New Jersey junkyard, dark but it's one of the more "plausible mob logistics" theories out there
at some point I think we have to accept this is just permanently unsolved, too much time has passed and too many people involved have since died too
there's a 2022 theory from a retired detective pointing to a spot under a driveway in Michigan, they did some digging, still nothing conclusive though
the teamsters union guy vanished in 1975, everyone assumes the mob got him but his body has literally never been found despite the FBI digging up half of New Jersey looking for it over the decades (they even checked under Giants Stadium once lol, nothing there).
rajesh_kumar appreciate the detailed answer!