much more at link abovePolice will be taking soil core samples at a home in Roseville on Friday in search of the remains of missing Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa, whose 1975 disappearance sparked one of the 20th centurys biggest mysteries.
We received information from an individual who saw something, Roseville Police Chief James Berlin told the Free Press. The information seemed credible, so we decided to follow up on it.
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We do not know if this is Jimmy, Berlin said.
The tipster told police Hoffas body may have been buried under the driveway of the home in the 18700 block of Florida, a residential neighborhood northwest of 12 Mile and Gratiot.
Berlin said the informant thought it was Jimmy because the same time this happened was the same time Jimmy disappeared, Berlin said.
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I agree. The persons who kidnapped him would have had, I think, access to blast furnaces and car crushers and the like.I highly doubt he was "buried" anywhere, but they can knock themselves out if they like.
Detroit Roseville Police are investigating a tip that missing Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa is buried under a residential driveway in Roseville.
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Keith Corbett investigated Hoffa tips between 1990 and 2004.
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"We viewed most of them with a jaundiced eye, to put it kindly, as I would view this one," Corbett said Wednesday.
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"I would want some indication that they were in a position to know," Corbett said. "Whose house in Roseville was it? Was it a (La Cosa Nostra) guy or an associate? What kind of neighborhood was it at the time? Was it residential? It's unlikely somebody would take a chance burying a guy at that time. If it was in the middle of nowhere 37 years ago, that might make it more reasonable."
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After Roseville police received the most recent tip, the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality used ground penetrating radar on a 12-foot-by-12-foot patch beneath the driveway, said agency spokesman Brad Wurfel.
It found "that the earth had been disturbed at some point in time," Berlin said.
The environmental quality department on Friday will take soil samples that will be sent to a forensic anthropologist at Michigan State University to "have it tested for human decomposition," Berlin said.
Results are not expected until next week.
We received information from an individual who saw something, Roseville Police Chief James Berlin told the Free Press. The information seemed credible, so we decided to follow up on it.