OAKLAND TOWNSHIP, Michigan - FBI agents will resume searching an overgrown field in suburban Detroit on Tuesday for former Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa, who disappeared nearly 38 years ago and is thought to have been murdered by members of organized crime.
A backhoe was driven onto the property, not far from where Hoffa was last seen alive, on Monday and video recorded from a helicopter by Detroit television station WDIV showed FBI agents digging for the union leader's remains.
By nightfall, there was no indication any remains had been found and the search was halted for the day.
An Oakland County sheriff's deputy said digging would resume at 10 a.m. on Tuesday in Oakland Township about 20 miles north of the Machus Red Fox restaurant in Bloomfield Township, where Hoffa was last seen.
The search for Jimmy Hoffa, who was 62 when he disappeared in 1975, has spawned many theories and leads over the years as to his final resting place that ranged from the Everglades in Florida to a horse farm in Michigan, but he has never been found.
His disappearance has provided fodder for rumors, books, and movies, including 1992's "Hoffa," starring Jack Nicholson.
Law enforcement officials decided to comb the lot after reputed mobster Anthony Zerilli, 85, told the FBI Hoffa was buried there. When Hoffa disappeared, the property was owned by a man Zerilli said was Zerilli's first cousin. Zerilli is the son of former Detroit mob boss Joseph Zerilli.
Zerilli's attorney, David Chasnick, told reporters the FBI spoke with his client over the past seven or eight months and the agency believes "100 percent" Hoffa is buried there. Anthony Zerilli was in prison when the union leader went missing.
"This was a guy who was intimately involved with some of the players who would be well informed as to where the body would be placed," Chasnick said.
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