CRIME HISTORY - Jimmy Hoffa disappears
By: Scott McCabe
Examiner Staff Writer
July 30, 2009
On this day, July 30, in 1975, Jimmy Hoffa disappeared from a restaurant parking lot in suburban Detroit. He has not been seen or heard from since.
Hoffa, 62, had been the powerful and controversial head of the Teamsters union despite spending the last four years of his term in prison for jury tampering and attempted bribery. His 15-year sentence was commuted by President Richard Nixon in 1971, with the agreement that he step down from the union.
In 1975, while trying to regain power in the Teamsters, he disappeared from the parking lot of the Machus Red Fox Restaurant in Bloomfield Township, Mich.
Hoffa was due to meet two high-ranking Mafia leaders that day. It has been reported that the FBI believed Hoffa was killed based on DNA evidence later found in the back of an abandoned car. Hoffa was declared legally dead in 1982.
Hoffa's son James P. Hoffa, is the current president of the Teamsters. His wedding reception was held at the Machus Red Fox.
-- Scott McCabe
