Search For Body Of Jimmy Hoffa Under Pulaski Skyway In Hudson County Continues

JERSEY CITY, NJ — A search in a Jersey City landfill last month for the remains of Jimmy Hoffa, the former Teamsters union leader who's rumored to have been killed by the mob in 1975, turned up nothing, the FBI said Thursday. But another lead suggests his body could still be buried nearby.

Hoffa was a powerful leader of the Teamsters when he was rumored to have been killed after heading to meet with mobsters at a Detroit restaurant in 1975.

According to various accounts, in 2008, a dying Frank Cappola, who had worked at the former PJP Landfill in Jersey City in 1975, told son Paul that he had been given Hoffa's remains to bury there. At the time, Frank, whose family owned the landfill, believed the property was under surveillance, so he soon moved the remains just off the property.

The FBI searched that area both late last year and then again last month.

On Thursday, the FBI said that they found nothing of interest either last October or this past June.

“Nothing of evidentiary value was discovered during that search,” said Detroit Field Office spokesperson and Special Agent Mara R. Schneider, according to the New York Times on Thursday. “While we do not currently anticipate any additional activity at the site, the F.B.I. will continue to pursue any viable lead in our efforts to locate Mr. Hoffa.”

However, there may be a stone unturned in the area, the Times said.

According to the Times, the information about the Jersey City site first came out in 2019, after Paul Cappola gave the information to journalist Dan Moldea. Last week, Moldea told the Times that "a recent ground-penetrating-radar investigation by a private company found disturbances and apparent objects below the surface of the soil that were near where the F.B.I. searched, but not the same spots" and that the FBI has this data too.

Upon learning the news last week, Jersey City Mayor Steven Fulop Tweeted that he was glad Jersey City won't be associated with the union leader's body, as the government has been "working to change the narrative" in the area:

The mystery of what happened to Hoffa has intrigued observers for decades. Theories have said he is buried under an endzone in Giants Stadium or near a Detroit highway. At least seven spots have been searched.

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