Cop tracks Hoffa clues. New book argues he was cremated

[bijou]

The men who killed former Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa had his body cremated at a Detroit cemetery, a local author says in a new book.


"It's the most logical explanation," Jeffry Hansen says in "Digging for the Truth: The Final Resting Place of Jimmy Hoffa," which goes on sale this week on Amazon.com.

Hansen, 36, a suburban Detroit cop who spent three years researching his book, contends Hoffa was incinerated at a crematorium at Evergreen Cemetery on Woodward between 7 Mile and 8 Mile on July 30, 1975 -- the day he disappeared.

Hansen's book is another in a long line of still-unproven theories on the still-missing Hoffa.

The Detroit FBI office declined to comment. But several people directly or indirectly involved in the investigation cast doubt on Hansen's claims....

http://www.freep.com/article/20090914/NEWS06/909140312/1320/Cop-tracks-Hoffa-clues

Perhaps this time the theory will prove correct. Unlikely though after all these years.

[franksolich]

Man, it seems this has been going on about as long as the Judge Crater thing did.

[franksolich]

For those who never had the pleasure of growing up reading decades-old magazines and newspapers:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Force_Crater

It was a scandal during Franklin Roosevelt's term as governor of New York, and joked about for at least 30 years more.  I doubt anyone remembers the hapless Judge Crater any more, other than myself.

[bijou]

For those who never had the pleasure of growing up reading decades-old magazines and newspapers:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Force_Crater

It was a scandal during Franklin Roosevelt's term as governor of New York, and joked about for at least 30 years more.  I doubt anyone remembers the hapless Judge Crater any more, other than myself.

  Looks like Judge Crater may have spent his later years sunning himself in a tropical hideaway living off the contents of his safe deposit box.