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The (presumed) murder of Jimmy Hoffa is one of the more notable unsolved mysteries in American history, and there are plenty of theories concerning the ultimate fate of the former boss of the Teamsters Union. Now, we may have a new lead courtesy of some amateur detectives who claim his body was buried under the stadium that was once home to the Milwaukee Brewers.
If you haven’t seen The Irishman or are simply unfamiliar with Hoffa, you should know he became an incredibly powerful labor power broker in the late 1950s with the help of the organized crime operations (specifically the Italian mob) that benefitted from his influence.
His empire crumbled in the 1960s after he was convicted of jury tampering and fraud in two separate trials and was sentenced to a grand total of 13 years in prison. He was ultimately freed after Richard Nixon commuted his sentence in 1971, and while the terms of his release prohibited him from working for a labor union in any capacity, he hatched a plan to return to the throne he’d been forced to vacate.
However, his ambitions didn’t align with the mafia’s vision, and it’s believed a member of the Genovese crime family ordered his kidnapping and subsequent killing in the summer of 1975.
While Hoffa was officially declared dead in 1982, his body has never been found.
Law enforcement officials have dug up a driveway in Detroit and scoured a landfill in New Jersey while pursuing leads concerning the location of his remains. There are also plenty of people who believe he was buried under the stadium the New York Giants once called home, but a group of sleuths now claim a former MLB venue may have been his final resting place.
According to Fox News, a collective of amateur investigators known as the “Case Breakers” say they’ve compiled evidence that suggests Hoffa’s body rests under the site that was once home to Milwaukee County Stadium, which the Brewers called home between 1970 and 2000.
The group says a police sergeant who may have had information about Hoffa’s whereabouts scrawled some details on a playing card on his deathbed that asserted he was “secretly buried in 1995 under this old stadium’s 3rd base” after being exhumed from another unknown location.
That spot is now home to a Little League complex constructed in the shadow of American Family Field. They used “ground-penetrating radar” to scan the location before discovering an “unexpected clay layer” that obscured what may lay underneath, although a cadaver dog “pointed, wagged, barked and nosed her way into 4 ‘hits’” when dispatched to the same site.
The Case Breakers say they’ve brought this information to the attention of the FBI, and there’s a chance the field could be excavated in the near future in the hopes of finally getting to the bottom of the cold case.