False Alarm
05-18-2006, 02:20 PM
i knew it.
http://www.wxyz.com/wxyz/nw_local_news/article/0,2132,WXYZ_15924_4706139,00.html
Tip Leads FBI to Dig for Hoffa in Milford Twp.
By Cheryl Chodun
Web produced by Seth Myers
May 17, 2006
A group of FBI investigators is searching 4 areas within a sprawling Milford Township horse farm in connection with the 1975 disappearance of Teamsters leader Jimmy Hoffa.
Investigators from the FBI and Bloomfield Township police have cordoned off pieces of the rural farm property where the bones of the long-missing union official may lie.
A tip led the investigative team to the working horse farm just off 15 Mile (East Maple Road). The location is just a bit north and west of Wixom. It is north of I-96 between, Wixom and Brighton.
From Chopper 7, the group of law enforcement officials could be seen digging a ditch, by hand, on the property at 5 p.m. Wednesday. While the area of that ditch was small, sources tell 7 Action News that 3 additional areas will be searched.
Just before 6 p.m., a neighbor told 7 Action News that FBI officials had been at the farm property for more than 6 hours.
When Deb Koskovich moved next door to the horse farm 22 years ago, she recalls a neighbor jokingly asking whether she had heard that Hoffa was buried on the property.
Wednesday’s investigation was a surprise to Koskovich and her husband. "I got home from work about noon today and I saw these guys out here and I had no idea what was going on," she said Wednesday evening. "My husband went outside and asked when he got home from work and they just said they were executing a search warrant," Koskovich explained.
The horse farm property occupies approximately 80 acres of land. Even as digging went on Wednesday, people were taking riding lessons.
Hoffa was last seen at the Mauchas Red Fox restaurant, located at Telegraph and 15 Mile, in Bloomfield Township in July 1975.
Speculation regarding his whereabouts – or his body’s whereabouts – certainly comes and goes.
Recently, a mob hitman named Richard "The Iceman" Kuklinski wrote a book claiming that Hoffa’s body was compacted in a car that became scrap metal in New Jersey.
Kuklinski died in prison earlier this year. His book, The Ice Man: Confessions of a Mafia Contract Killer, is set to be published in July.
In 2004, investigators searched a Detroit home when another mobster claimed Hoffa was killed in that residence. Investigators ruled blood found in the house was not Hoffa’s.
http://www.wxyz.com/wxyz/nw_local_news/article/0,2132,WXYZ_15924_4706139,00.html
Tip Leads FBI to Dig for Hoffa in Milford Twp.
By Cheryl Chodun
Web produced by Seth Myers
May 17, 2006
A group of FBI investigators is searching 4 areas within a sprawling Milford Township horse farm in connection with the 1975 disappearance of Teamsters leader Jimmy Hoffa.
Investigators from the FBI and Bloomfield Township police have cordoned off pieces of the rural farm property where the bones of the long-missing union official may lie.
A tip led the investigative team to the working horse farm just off 15 Mile (East Maple Road). The location is just a bit north and west of Wixom. It is north of I-96 between, Wixom and Brighton.
From Chopper 7, the group of law enforcement officials could be seen digging a ditch, by hand, on the property at 5 p.m. Wednesday. While the area of that ditch was small, sources tell 7 Action News that 3 additional areas will be searched.
Just before 6 p.m., a neighbor told 7 Action News that FBI officials had been at the farm property for more than 6 hours.
When Deb Koskovich moved next door to the horse farm 22 years ago, she recalls a neighbor jokingly asking whether she had heard that Hoffa was buried on the property.
Wednesday’s investigation was a surprise to Koskovich and her husband. "I got home from work about noon today and I saw these guys out here and I had no idea what was going on," she said Wednesday evening. "My husband went outside and asked when he got home from work and they just said they were executing a search warrant," Koskovich explained.
The horse farm property occupies approximately 80 acres of land. Even as digging went on Wednesday, people were taking riding lessons.
Hoffa was last seen at the Mauchas Red Fox restaurant, located at Telegraph and 15 Mile, in Bloomfield Township in July 1975.
Speculation regarding his whereabouts – or his body’s whereabouts – certainly comes and goes.
Recently, a mob hitman named Richard "The Iceman" Kuklinski wrote a book claiming that Hoffa’s body was compacted in a car that became scrap metal in New Jersey.
Kuklinski died in prison earlier this year. His book, The Ice Man: Confessions of a Mafia Contract Killer, is set to be published in July.
In 2004, investigators searched a Detroit home when another mobster claimed Hoffa was killed in that residence. Investigators ruled blood found in the house was not Hoffa’s.