# Jimmy Hoffa **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [March 19, 2000, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmy-hoffa/8860 "2000-03-19T23:56:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![GoNJDevils](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f6c823/32.png) [@GoNJDevils](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GoNJDevils)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2000, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmy-hoffa/8860/1 "2000-03-19T23:56:00Z")
What started the rumor that Jimmy Hoffa was buried in Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey? ---
**Author:** ![manhattan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manhattan/32/7_2.png) [@manhattan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manhattan)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2000, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmy-hoffa/8860/2 "2000-03-20T00:06:00Z")
This is actually a very good question. Unfortunately I have to, uh, recuse myself from this discussion. Anyone else care to take a crack at it? **manhattan** Who knows a guy who knows a guy who knows a guy… ---
**Author:** ![mangeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@mangeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mangeorge)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2000, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmy-hoffa/8860/3 "2000-03-20T01:37:00Z")
Dead? Who told you that Jimmy Hoffa is dead? I happen to know he’s alive and well. Peace, mangeorge (Warning: Do **not** reply to this reply.) * * * I only know two things; I know what I need to know And I know what I want to know Mangeorge, 2000 ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2000, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmy-hoffa/8860/4 "2000-03-20T01:51:00Z")
There’s no reason to believe that Hoffa is actually part of Giants Stadium. But what IS almost certain is that he was killed by the Mob. What the Mob did with the remains is anyone’s guess, but wise guys have long joked that he’s “sleeping with the fishes,” part of an off-ramp, or buried somewhere in New Jersey. So, if you were a joke writer, what funnier place is there in New Jersey that you could imagine Hoffa being buried? ---
**Author:** ![SingleDad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9e8a1a/32.png) [@SingleDad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SingleDad)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2000, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmy-hoffa/8860/5 "2000-03-20T02:01:00Z")
Q: What did they find under Tammy Fae’s makeup? A: Jimmy Hoffa! * * * “Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away”. - Phillip K. Dick ---
**Author:** ![Ursa\_Major](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/a88e57/32.png) [@Ursa\_Major](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ursa_Major)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2000, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmy-hoffa/8860/6 "2000-03-20T02:02:00Z")
You have to ask yourself why his killers would drag him all the way from Detroit (where he disappeared) to New Jersey. The Medowlands story probably started as a joke among Teamsters or wise guys before being picked up by some gullible fool who thought that those types of guys must know the truth. ---
**Author:** ![Rich\_G7subs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85e7bf/32.png) [@Rich\_G7subs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rich_G7subs)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2000, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmy-hoffa/8860/7 "2000-03-20T03:34:00Z")
I just read in Nov 1999 Boating magazine that it is believed that Jimmy Hoffas corpse is in a section of the Ausable River near Michigans Big Square Lake. His body was supposedly wrapped in a green plastic tarp,rolled in chicken wire and weighted with concrete filled #10 tin can anchors. This was supposedly reported by Ricky Powell,a jailed killer that alleged he was there. Can you believe that boating Magazine is offering a 10,000$ reward if his body is found using their data from the article? * * * Rich “G7SUBS” ---
**Author:** ![Doug\_Bowe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/df788c/32.png) [@Doug\_Bowe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doug_Bowe)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2000, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmy-hoffa/8860/8 "2000-03-20T04:53:00Z")
Other wiseguys have claimed that Hoffa’s body was cut up. How much of his body would you need to find to get the reward? ---
**Author:** ![G.B.H.Hornswoggler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c67d28/32.png) [@G.B.H.Hornswoggler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G.B.H.Hornswoggler)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2000, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmy-hoffa/8860/9 "2000-03-20T17:22:00Z")
Well, it’s almost certain that there _are_ a bunch of dead guys in the concrete under Giants Stadium, so the fact that Hoffa could be one of them was a natural progression. Why is it almost certain? It was a major construction project in Jersey, what more do you need? * * * …but when you get blue, and you’ve lost all your dreams, there’s nothing like a campfire and a can of beans! ---
**Author:** ![Milossarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Milossarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Milossarian)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2000, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmy-hoffa/8860/10 "2000-03-21T06:19:00Z")
I’m with Ursa and Rich – it makes far more sense that Hoffa was cut up and buried around metro Detroit. Perhaps pieces disposed of in vats of acid, that sort of thing. [digression] One of my best friends’ uncles by marriage is James Hoffa Jr., the Teamsters President and Jimmy’s son. I sat next to him at her wedding. It was kind of strange. [/digression] * * * “Nothing is so firmly believed as what is least known” - Michel Gyquem de Montaigne ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2000, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmy-hoffa/8860/11 "2000-03-21T06:37:00Z")
Speaking of dead bodies and Giant’s staduim… did they ever find out what happend to the kid who was thrown from the roof during a Dead show? I think his name was Adam Katz or something like that. Beware the Yellowjackets! * * * Once in a while you can get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right…