oh snap! they may find jimmy hoffa!

of course NPR pretty much brushed this story to the side (becasue it doesnt really matter at all....and i mean, AT ALL) but luckly we have CNN to devote way too much space to the story. im not going to lie....its kind of interesting. not what i would call news but interesting none the less.

CNN) -- The FBI is using everything it has to find the remains of Jimmy Hoffa after agents received what they say is "a fairly credible lead" on the former Teamsters boss' 1975 disappearance.

The arsenal includes forensic experts from the bureau's Washington laboratory and a team of scientists that includes anthropologists, archaeologists, engineers and architects who will accompany local police and cadaver dogs for the next two weeks.

The architects and engineers are needed because authorities may need to remove a 30-foot-by-100-foot horse barn during their search, said Daniel D. Roberts, special agent in charge of the FBI's field office in Detroit, Michigan. (Watch what authorities are willing to say about probe -- 3:00)

Authorities converged Wednesday on an 80-acre horse farm after receiving and confirming a tip that the former union boss may have been buried in Milford Township, about 30 miles west of Detroit.

"There have been a number of leads out in this area that have been covered previously in the last 30 years," said Roberts, who has held his post for the last two years. "This is the best lead I've seen come across in the Hoffa investigation."

As for further details, Roberts said the affidavit was sealed, and "unfortunately, I'm not going to be able to give you the answers that you want."

He added that the FBI would not hold another briefing for reporters until agents found something significant. He estimated that agents would be on the property for about two weeks.

The property owners, who have been cooperative, did not own the property when Hoffa disappeared, Roberts said.

The tip

An informant reported seeing a backhoe and other "suspicious activity" around the farm on the night Hoffa disappeared in 1975, a law enforcement official said Thursday.

That tip triggered Wednesday's search for Hoffa's remains at the farm.

The tipster said the backhoe was operating near a barn that organized crime members used for meetings, a law enforcement official familiar with the search said.

The informant said that the night after Hoffa disappeared, the mobsters never went back to that area of the farm,according to the official.

Police had received the information several years ago, but verified it only recently, said the official, who asked for anonymity because the investigation is ongoing.

"This is probably a fairly credible lead," Roberts told reporters Thursday.

The hunt

Aerial footage from the scene on Wednesday showed at least 15 people outside a barn, most of whom were digging a rectangular hole. (Watch the mystery of Hoffa's disappearance -- 2:04)

FBI agents were back at the site Thursday, and investigators were seen pushing metal rods into a field, creating a grid and marking areas where the rods might have struck something underneath the soil.

John and Deb Koskovich have lived on a neighboring property since 1985. When they saw the men digging next door Wednesday, John Koskovich asked them what they were doing. "They just said they were executing a search warrant," Deb Koskovich said.

John Koskovich said there have been reports over the years that Hoffa may be buried in the area, but "we just thought it was just another one of those crazy rumors."

Who did he meet at the Red Fox?

Hoffa was last seen at Machus Red Fox restaurant in Bloomfield Township. He was reportedly there to meet Detroit mob street enforcer Anthony Giacalone and New Jersey Teamsters official Anthony Provenzano. (Who is Jimmy Hoffa?)

Hoffa believed Giacalone had set up the meeting to help settle a feud between Hoffa and Provenzano, but Hoffa was the only one who showed up for the meeting, according to the FBI.

Giacalone and Provenzano later told the FBI that no meeting had been scheduled.

The FBI said Hoffa's disappearance could have been linked to the union boss' efforts to regain power in the Teamsters after he was released from prison.

After serving time for jury tampering and fraud at a federal penitentiary in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, Hoffa was pardoned by President Richard Nixon on December 23, 1971.

Nixon included in the pardon a condition that Hoffa "not engage in direct or indirect management of any labor organization" until at least March 1980.

Hoffa was 62 at the time of his disappearance.

In September 2001, the FBI found DNA that linked Hoffa to a car that agents suspected was used in his disappearance, but they couldn't prove it.

In May 2004, authorities in Oakland County, Michigan, removed floorboards from a Detroit home and found blood that they thought might be linked to Hoffa's disappearance. Milford Township is in Oakland County.

Authorities went to the Detroit home in 2004 after a biography of former Teamsters official Frank Sheehan stated that Sheehan shot Hoffa in the home, just beyond the front door.

Investigators ruled blood found in the house was not Hoffa's. The FBI has a sample of his DNA.

Sheehan, who was considered a confidant of Hoffa's, died in December 2003. Provenzano died in 1988 after being convicted in another murder case and Giacalone died of kidney failure in 2002 at age 82.

Hoffa's son, James P. Hoffa, is the current president of the Teamsters.

CNN's Kelli Arena, Kevin Bohn and David Mattingly contributed to this report.

Copyright 2006 CNN. All rights reserved.This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. Associated Press contributed to this report

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p.s.- i have a fairly credible lead.....in my pants.

p.p.s.- this what comes up when you google image "really fucking ugly guy"

thats a lie. i didnt google image "really fucking ugly guy" and jimmy hoffa did not come up. i just took the picture from the cnn story.

who cares he has been dead 30 years its just gonna be bones whats the point of finding him?

this is already on wikipedia.

people straight on their feet man...

Everyone knows you dont fuck with people from detroit.

Yeah, Eminem and Kid Rock are some scary lookin motherfuckers...hahaha

If they find him it would complete my life.........

no it wouldn't

who cares he has been dead 30 years its just gonna be bones whats the point of finding him?

exactly who gives a shit where he is. I dont know why people make a big deal about finding this guy. There are thousands of people missing that nobody ever finds. I just think people like saying Jimmy Hoffa because its a cool name. :D

he's also the biggest figure in the history of american unions and it's a story that everyone knows. i cant say i 'care' about it, but being from michigan and having grown up around all these areas mentioned it's somewhat amusing. and if we've learned anything over the last 6 years it's that if something is amusing to me, it's amusing to all of you, because...well, just because.

That was funny...Just because..

I think the babyboomers need to stop wasting so much time covering things that were important to them decades ago. They put all that talk into Deepthroat and watergate while China was threatening to use the atomic bomb on Taiwan, but did the news media cover it? Nope... they were all caught up in nostalgia. It's the same thign here. Seeking's got a point that Hoffa is a very important figure in modern american history, but finding his body will probably just be another 'Al Capone's Vault'. Maybe instead of revisiting a news story from 1975, they could ask a few questions about Dafur?

<< a little too sexy for the office >>

ORLY?

HOOFA!

I think the babyboomers need to stop wasting so much time covering things that were important to them decades ago.......Maybe instead of revisiting a news story from 1975' date=' they could ask a few questions about Dafur?[/quote']

while it would be nice thats probably not going to happen here. those of us who want real news read/listen to the BBC and NPR. the rest go for the patriotic "every thing is under control" (fox) or the watered down "here is entertainment report for the 4th time in 10 minutes" (cnn). the evening news is somewhere in between but when your primary objective is ratings and ad revenue you arent really, as a network, going to be chomping at the bit to serve america a big plate of shit during the dinner hour. i can see where they are coming from (which is why i ignore them) and they have obviously pegged their market (scared/apathetic americans).

 

 

p.s.-someone take that shit down above me (please). if want half nude teens flashing up on my screen at work ill check the myspace post.

Damn the porn...Damn it all to hell!!

Yeah' date=' Eminem and Kid Rock are some scary lookin motherfuckers...hahaha[/quote']

 

neither of those guys are from detroit

detroit smells like shit

neither of those guys are from detroit

u wanna tell me where they are from then?

kid rock is from romeo or something and eminem is from warren.

What the fuck is a Dafur?

Hey, did you guys hear that Britney is pregnant again?

finding jimmy hoffa is like knowing makros' real identity

they wont find jimmy hoffa that farm is no way near under my patio

any way to keep you interested in anything other than your liberties being stripped away.

god i love the media

What the fuck is a Dafur?

 

Hey, did you guys hear that Britney is pregnant again?

I really REALLY hope there's some ironic wit in that post.

Don't worry.

*phew*

It's nice to see that some people care about what's going on in the world. Personally, I think it's easy to say who cares...he never did anything for me....it's 30 years old, etc. but the truth is there is a lot in American history, and other history, that has been covered up or has remained mysterious, and sometimes it's important to find out who, what, why, where, & how, if for no other reason than to stop the big guys in govt. from screwing over us little guys. Kennedy was dead by the time a lot of poeple reading this were born, but wouldn't you want to look at the stuff the govt. has that was never declassified? I'll save you time, I shot him.

I remember being about 7 years old growing up less than a mile outside of Detroit and seeing Hoffa bumper stickers plastered on everything in site. Back then I didn't know 'Hoffa' was a person; I think I thought it was some sort of candy.

By the way: Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise, Katie Holmes and Brittney Spears are the most important thing in the world. Stop tying to deny them their rightful place in history, assholes.

that would be funny if they founda drawing of gw bush with horns on him

yay

What the fuck is a Dafur?

 

Hey, did you guys hear that Britney is pregnant again?

that sad part is, about 80% of the population wouldnt'd be sarcastic in saying that

He was already found in Bruce Almighty... Duh!