# Fresh tip triggers new Jimmy Hoffa body search **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 18, 2013, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fresh-tip-triggers-new-jimmy-hoffa-body-search/661282 "2013-06-18T16:25:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2013, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fresh-tip-triggers-new-jimmy-hoffa-body-search/661282/1 "2013-06-18T16:25:31Z")
I wonder if they’ll finally [find](http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/story/2013/06/18/hoffa-search-detroit-zerilli.html) him? > [@](#): > > “This has finally come to an end. It has been an arduous project to get to this point,” Chasnick said. “Hoffa’s body is somewhere in that field, no doubt about it.” ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2013, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fresh-tip-triggers-new-jimmy-hoffa-body-search/661282/2 "2013-06-18T16:30:45Z")
He’s always in the last place you look. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2013, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fresh-tip-triggers-new-jimmy-hoffa-body-search/661282/3 "2013-06-18T16:59:32Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > I wonder if they’ll finally [find](http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/story/2013/06/18/hoffa-search-detroit-zerilli.html) him? My money’s gonna be on “no.” Don’t they do this like every two years or so? ---
**Author:** ![RobDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f07891/32.png) [@RobDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RobDog)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2013, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fresh-tip-triggers-new-jimmy-hoffa-body-search/661282/4 "2013-06-18T17:05:31Z")
Well if they can find Richard III… ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2013, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fresh-tip-triggers-new-jimmy-hoffa-body-search/661282/5 "2013-06-18T17:10:11Z")
Shall we roll it Jimmy? Nah, leave it, yeah. ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2013, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fresh-tip-triggers-new-jimmy-hoffa-body-search/661282/6 "2013-06-18T17:20:56Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > He’s always in the last place you look. That’s because if you find him in the next to last place you look, that last place was really just a waste of time. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2013, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fresh-tip-triggers-new-jimmy-hoffa-body-search/661282/7 "2013-06-18T17:32:17Z")
I’ve always wanted to start a Christian denomination based on the belief that the Rapture has already happened, and Jimmy Hoffa was the only one taken. ---
**Author:** ![Dallas\_Jones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dallas_jones/32/3277_2.png) [@Dallas\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dallas_Jones)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2013, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fresh-tip-triggers-new-jimmy-hoffa-body-search/661282/8 "2013-06-18T17:40:08Z")
He was either cremated at a funeral home with mafia ties, or rendered into meat and bone meal at some meat rendering plant long ago. There is no body to be found. ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2013, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fresh-tip-triggers-new-jimmy-hoffa-body-search/661282/9 "2013-06-18T17:48:05Z")
The guy that gave them the new info seems like he’d know a thing or two about a thing or two when it comes to this sort of thing. If he says he was buried out there, there’s a pretty good chance he’s right. ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2013, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fresh-tip-triggers-new-jimmy-hoffa-body-search/661282/10 "2013-06-18T18:07:44Z")
> [@RTFirefly](#): > > I’ve always wanted to start a Christian denomination based on the belief that the Rapture has already happened, and Jimmy Hoffa was the only one taken. OK. That cracked me up. As long as the tithes are minimal, I’d join. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2013, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fresh-tip-triggers-new-jimmy-hoffa-body-search/661282/11 "2013-06-18T18:10:42Z")
> [@Yllaria](#): > > OK. That cracked me up. As long as the tithes are minimal, I’d join. It’s a barefoot group. You tithe your shoes. ---
**Author:** ![Diceman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Diceman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diceman)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2013, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fresh-tip-triggers-new-jimmy-hoffa-body-search/661282/12 "2013-06-18T18:13:20Z")
I just checked the Detroit News’ website, and they mention that a cadaver dog has “hit” on a location somewhat away from where they’ve been digging. I’m wondering about that. Assuming he’s there, surely the remains have decayed to a skeleton by now. Would there be anything for a dog to smell? ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2013, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fresh-tip-triggers-new-jimmy-hoffa-body-search/661282/13 "2013-06-18T18:35:21Z")
> [@Diceman](#): > > I just checked the Detroit News’ website, and they mention that a cadaver dog has “hit” on a location somewhat away from where they’ve been digging. I’m wondering about that. Assuming he’s there, surely the remains have decayed to a skeleton by now. Would there be anything for a dog to smell? Dogs track live people by smelling dead skin cells that we’re constantly shedding. So, I think it would be a pretty good bet that old bones would be detectable. ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2013, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fresh-tip-triggers-new-jimmy-hoffa-body-search/661282/14 "2013-06-18T18:58:49Z")
> [@Dallas\_Jones](#): > > He was either cremated at a funeral home with mafia ties, or rendered into meat and bone meal at some meat rendering plant long ago. There is no body to be found. Or planted under several thousand tons of building materials that nobody will get permission to demolish. I really doubt his body will ever be found. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2013, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fresh-tip-triggers-new-jimmy-hoffa-body-search/661282/15 "2013-06-18T19:13:15Z")
> [@Diceman](#): > > Assuming he’s there, surely the remains have decayed to a skeleton by now. Would there be anything for a dog to smell? Hoffa might not be the only dead body in that field. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![StGermain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stgermain/32/2868_2.png) [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2013, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fresh-tip-triggers-new-jimmy-hoffa-body-search/661282/16 "2013-06-18T19:16:00Z")
Who cares? I don’t understand why they keep after this. StG ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2013, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fresh-tip-triggers-new-jimmy-hoffa-body-search/661282/17 "2013-06-18T19:18:23Z")
> [@StGermain](#): > > Who cares? I don’t understand why they keep after this. > > StG Me either. What a colossal waste of time and money. ---
**Author:** ![handsomeharry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9c0ed/32.png) [@handsomeharry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handsomeharry)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2013, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fresh-tip-triggers-new-jimmy-hoffa-body-search/661282/18 "2013-06-18T19:22:22Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > It’s a barefoot group. You tithe your shoes. Would the cement be a freewill offering? ---
**Author:** ![handsomeharry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9c0ed/32.png) [@handsomeharry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handsomeharry)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2013, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fresh-tip-triggers-new-jimmy-hoffa-body-search/661282/19 "2013-06-18T19:23:33Z")
\*\* > [@Bob Ducca](#): > > The guy that gave them the new info seems like he’d know a thing or two about a thing or two when it comes to this sort of thing… But, let me guess…he’s broke, now, and before he dies he wants to come clean. Right?? ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2013, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fresh-tip-triggers-new-jimmy-hoffa-body-search/661282/20 "2013-06-18T19:30:20Z")
> [@handsomeharry](#): > > \*\* > > But, let me guess…he’s broke, now, and before he dies he wants to come clean. Right?? I don’t know about the broke part, but he’s 85 so the second part might be true. According to that article, a quote from the attorney for the tipster: > [@](#): > > He said his client wasn’t making any public comments but said Zerilli told him there used to be a barn in the field and that Hoffa’s body was buried beneath a concrete slab inside the barn. It should also be noted that Zerilli was in prison when Hoffa disappeared and he claims to have been told this information after his release. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fresh-tip-triggers-new-jimmy-hoffa-body-search/661282.md?page=2)