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Searching For Hoffa: Investigators Find Suspicious Concrete Slab
http://detroit.cbslocal.com ^ | June 18, 2013 6:34 AM | Staff

Posted on 06/18/2013 10:17:57 AM PDT by Red Badger

OAKLAND TWP. (WWJ) - Federal agents searching for the body of former Teamsters chief Jimmy Hoffa believe they are about to crack one of America’s biggest unsolved mysteries.

CBS News has confirmed a suspicious concrete slab was retrieved by investigators from the Oakland Township field where they have been digging for any sign of Hoffa. It’s too soon, however, to know whether the slab is anything more than part of an old foundation for a barn.

The dig — the latest in what’s been nearly a 40-year search — is reportedly the result of extensive FBI interviews with former mobster Tony Zerilli.

Zerilli, now 85, was convicted of organized crime as a reputed mafia captain. He was in prison on July, 30 1975 — when Hoffa disappeared from a Bloomfield Township restaurant — but says he was informed about Hoffa’s whereabouts after his release.

Zerilli, who was second in command with the Detroit mafia, said he was told by a mafia enforcer that Hoffa was abducted, killed, and brought to the Buhl Road site. The original plan, according to the mobster, was to bury Hoffa there temporarily, then later move his body near a hunting lodge in northern Michigan.

Instead of focusing their attention Up North, investigators on Monday zeroed in on the property in northern Oakland County — which was once owned by Betty Speezie’s aunt.

“It’s all gone now, but there was a house, a milk house, a barn and a garage,” Speezie told WWJ’s Kathryn Larson.

“It was pretty dilapidated looking, it wasn’t well cared for,” said Ruth Lowe, Speezie’s neighbor.

Both women say they’re stunned by Hoffa once again making all the headlines. Lowe said she never thought the search would take place in her neighborhood.

“I never gave it a thought, no. It’s hard to believe it, that he might be there,” she said.

But Speezie said she believes the hype, and for good reason – her aunt sold the property to the Tocco’s, another mobster family.

“After my aunt sold it then, she didn’t know anything about the mob, I mean, they were just people who had the money, it was for sale, and she sold it to them,” she said.

And there’s one place in particular Speezie thinks investigators should focus on.

“The barn. They could have gone right around to the back, backed right up there and it was dirt, inside the barn, it was dirt on this side,” she said. “Nobody would have known a thing, it would be very secretive.”

The search, which is expected to last about a week, will resume Tuesday morning.....


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; US: Michigan
KEYWORDS: detroit; fbi; history; hoffa; jimmyhoffa; mafia; michigan; mob; obama; sourcetitlenoturl; teamsters; tonyzerilli; uaw
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To: Red Badger

I think I heard this on Fox but I am not sure who said it.


21 posted on 06/18/2013 10:30:43 AM PDT by Ditter
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To: Izzy Dunne

They know when their funds run out..............


22 posted on 06/18/2013 10:30:55 AM PDT by Red Badger (Want to be surprised? Google your own name......Want to have fun? Google your friend's names........)
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To: basil

Prevous owner’s family stated that barn had a dirt floor. I would consider a slab of concrete buried under several inches of dirt to be suspicious. A body, encased in concrete, would never liquefy ans ooze to the surface.


23 posted on 06/18/2013 10:31:13 AM PDT by pat1969 (Where is the compromise between right and wrong?)
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To: Red Badger

Calling Jerry-all-doe! Calling Jerry-all-doe!


24 posted on 06/18/2013 10:31:19 AM PDT by Road Warrior ‘04 (Molon Labe! (Oathkeeper))
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To: apillar

More than I made in that entire time................


25 posted on 06/18/2013 10:31:24 AM PDT by Red Badger (Want to be surprised? Google your own name......Want to have fun? Google your friend's names........)
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To: Red Badger
Publicity and overtime. The site is guarded 24/7.

A body?? Bull....they're looking for the money...millions...

26 posted on 06/18/2013 10:31:37 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: apillar

What does, at this point, it matter?


27 posted on 06/18/2013 10:31:44 AM PDT by Paladin2 (;-))
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To: Red Badger

And we have the first silly story of the summer.

‘Tis the season.


28 posted on 06/18/2013 10:32:58 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: Ditter

Shemp.....er, Shep?....................


29 posted on 06/18/2013 10:33:03 AM PDT by Red Badger (Want to be surprised? Google your own name......Want to have fun? Google your friend's names........)
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To: Red Badger
The burial would have been real secretive???....

Sure...just back up a cement truck and listen to the wrrrrrrrrrr.

30 posted on 06/18/2013 10:33:20 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Red Badger
He was stuffed into a 55 gallon drum, filled with cement and dropped into the Atlantic Ocean in the Bahamas Trench...

That was the original plan. But the drum was going to be to heavy to get it out on the dock and into the boat. Besides it would look suspicious. Instead, he was carried to a fishing boat in a commercial sized tackle box.

(Dear Big Brother, NSA, et al: This is only a parody. I did not really have anything to do with Hoffa's death.)

31 posted on 06/18/2013 10:33:54 AM PDT by Tenacious 1 (If the government told us to expect rain, I'd schedule an outdoor wedding.)
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To: Red Badger

Hmm, I thought he was shot in the head and hauled away to a dogfood factory for processing. He is now part of dried dog poo all over the country.


32 posted on 06/18/2013 10:34:03 AM PDT by MHGinTN (Being deceived can be cured.)
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To: Paladin2

What difference, at the point, does it make?


33 posted on 06/18/2013 10:34:11 AM PDT by Paladin2 (;-))
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To: MHGinTN

IIRC, the brand name was ‘Tony’ ...


34 posted on 06/18/2013 10:34:51 AM PDT by MHGinTN (Being deceived can be cured.)
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To: Sacajaweau

No cement truck necessary. If you pour the dry cement from bags into the hole, it will absorb moisture from the ground and harden over time..................


35 posted on 06/18/2013 10:34:58 AM PDT by Red Badger (Want to be surprised? Google your own name......Want to have fun? Google your friend's names........)
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To: basil
A concrete slab looks suspicious

When it says....

Here lies Hoffa

He gotta bad cougha

Saved us the time of doing him offa.

36 posted on 06/18/2013 10:36:15 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: apillar

The last hunt was $250,000.


37 posted on 06/18/2013 10:36:50 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Red Badger

Maybethe same group can find the GOP’s spine when they’re done with Hoffa.


38 posted on 06/18/2013 10:37:44 AM PDT by SCHROLL
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To: Tenacious 1
"When the feds finish, someone should go plant a garden in the freshly tilled soil."

We think a like. I was thinking how beneficial this would be to reseed my lawn. ;-)

39 posted on 06/18/2013 10:38:10 AM PDT by Average Al ( Our founder fathers never knew we could fail due to a Techtatorship.)
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To: Average Al
We think a like. I was thinking how beneficial this would be to reseed my lawn.

My tomatoes, peppers and cucumbers are growing nicely these days. But I would have loved to have a dozen feds with shovels digging around in my garden about 2 months ago. Next year I'm thinking about giving an anonymous tip about where Hoffa might be buried.

40 posted on 06/18/2013 10:44:37 AM PDT by Tenacious 1 (If the government told us to expect rain, I'd schedule an outdoor wedding.)
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