Thursday, June 20, 2013

Jimmy Hoffa: Four Flint-area connections to America's most elusive corpse


Blake Thorne | bthorne1@mlive.comBy Blake Thorne | bthorne1@mlive.com 
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on June 20, 2013 at 6:00 PM, updated June 20, 2013 at 6:26 PM
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GENESEE COUNTY, MI -- Another year,another unsuccessful dig for the body of Jimmy Hoffa.

This time, an Oakland Township farm field was the target of the FBI's decades-old search for the famous Teamsters leader.

It was at least the fourth search in the Detroit area since 2004.

Although investigators have never searched in Genesee County, the area -- with its strong history of organized labor -- has had more than a few connections to Hoffa.

Let's take a look.

He's under a red barn

In 2009, Montrose man Ted L. Stall said he knew for a fact that Hoffa was buried under a red barn at U.S. 23 and Clyde Road in Livingston County's Hartland Township.

Stall said a former Teamsters official told him all about Hoffa's execution and burials. 

He told The Flint Journal that Hoffa was moved to the site after initially being buried at a Milford Township farm. Three years prior before Stall said that, the FBI notoriously searched the farm.

Stall told The Journal he has firsthand knowledge of the alleged Hartland Township reburial but refused to say if he was there.

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