By Hellen Zaboulani
The decades long search for the body of Jimmy Hoffa’s body may soon be coming to a close.
As reported by the NY Post, Frank Cappola, the son of the late mafia associate Paul Cappola Sr., told Fox Nation’s streaming service’s series “Riddle, The Search for James R. Hoffa” that he knows where the body was stashed. The son said that his father had a lot of respect for Hoffa, and that was why he is coming forth with the information. “My father said, ‘I want this man to go home to his family. He needs to go back home,’” Frank Cappola said.
The son said his father, Paul Cappola Sr., along with other members of the mob had put Hoffa’s body into a barrel, and then dumped the container with Hoffa’s body into a 12-foot hole and added more than a dozen containers on top of it before covering them all with dirt, buried Hoffa. “So they put [Hoffa] in head-first, and then they pushed the cover on top of him. And then they buried him,’’ Frank said. As reported on the show’s part 3 of the ongoing investigation released on Jan. 29, the location of the grave is just under a section of the Pulaski Skyway connecting Jersey City to Newark.
Since then, Fox Nation issued a new report, saying that using radar experts it had indeed located what seems to be a bunch of underground steel drums at the state-owned spot where Frank Cappola referred to. Fox Nation’s streaming show, said it hired a company specializing in ground-penetration technology and found numerous objects at the spot resembling barrels piled on top of one another. Now, it is up to law enforcement agents to follow up on the leads, and confirm whether or not the case can finally be closed.
Hoffa’s disappearance in 1975 has long been a topic of controversy and the mob was suspected for his murder. His body was never found, however, and the story had no conclusive ending. Hoffa had been a labor union leader who served as the president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT) from 1957 until 1971. He became involved in organizes crime and in 1964 he was convicted of conspiracy, jury tampering, attempted bribery, as well as mail and wire fraud in two separate trials. He was imprisoned in 1967 and sentenced to 13 years. In 1971 he received commutation by President Richard Nixon. He disappeared in July 1975, was assumed and declared dead in 1982. The mystery and debates about Hoffa have become something of a legacy.
The spot that Frank Cappola named on the show, is just a few feet away from the Mafia associates’ former 87-acre landfill, which the FBI had searched extensively for Hoffa’s remains in 1975, finding nothing. The particular spot named, however, was never searched. The land is owned by the New Jersey Department of Transportation and is currently utilized as storage for empty dumpsters, “Fox Nation’’ said.
Frank Cappola, who suffered heart and lung issues, died after his interview, the show said. Frank had said that it was important to him to come forth with this information before he died.
