VANISHED WITHOUT A TRACE.
NO BODY, NO CHARGES, NO ARREST.
THE MOST ICONIC UNSOLVED
MYSTERY IN AMERICAN HISTORY.
40 YEARS LATER THE CASE IS STILL
OPEN.
IT WAS REALLY THE PERFECT
CRIME.
THE DEFENDERS TAKE YOU INSIDE
THE JIMMY HOFFA INVESTIGATION.
JUST THE NAME JIMMY HOFFA,
ALMOST INTANTLY YOU HAVE A
THEORY AS TO WHAT HAPPENED TO
THE LEGENDARY TEAMSTER BOSS.
TOMORROW MARKS THE 40th
ANNIVERSARY FROM HIS
DISAPPEARANCE FROM A POPULAR
LOCAL RESTAURANT, BEFUDDLED THE
FBI FOR DECADES, HAS ALL OF
AMERICA DEBATING HIS
DISAPPEARANCE.
KIEVEN LOOKS BACK AT 4
DECADES OF LEADS, DIGS AND
MOSTLY DISAPPOINTMENTS FOR
INVESTIGATORS.
40 YEARS SINCE HE DISAPPEARED
FROM A BLOOMFIELD HILLS
RESTAURANT.
THERE HAVE BEEN THOUSANDS OF
TIPS, HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF
MAN HOURS, MILLIONS OF DOLLARS
SPENT TRYING TO CRACK THE CASE.
BUT CAN THE CASE EVER BE SOLVED?
THERE IS NO EVIDENCE JIM AHOFFA
WAS EVER KILLED.
OFFICIALLY, IT IS A MISSING
PERSON'S CASE.
TODAY, IT IS STILL OPEN, STILL
ACTIVE.
NEW TIPS COME IN EVERY MONTH OR
TWO AT THE DETROIT FBI FIELD
OFFICE.
IF YOU ASK MOST INVESTIGATORS,
TRUE CRIME EXPERTS, THEY WILL
SPECULATE HE WAS KILLED IN A
MAFIA HIT TO PREVENT HIM FROM
REGAINING DROLL OF THE
TEAMSTERS.
THEY DECIDED TO TAKE CARE OF
THE PROBLEM THE BEST WAY THEY
KNEW HOW, WHICH WAS EXECUTE HIM.
SCOTT BERNSTEIN, A TRUE CRIME
HISTORIAN, AN ESPERT ON THE HOW
FARA INVESTIGATION.
HE SAYS ON JULY 30, 1975, HOFFA
WANTED BACK INTO POWER WITH THE
TEAMSTERS.
HE WAS SUPPOSED TO MEET TWO
POWERFUL MAFIA MEMBERS THAT
COULD MAKE IT HAPPEN. ONE FROM
NEW JERSEY.
JIMMY WAS LURED INTO THE OPEN
ON JULY 30, 1975 BY THE PROMISE
OF A SIT DOWN WITH A NEW JERSEY
BASED MOBSTER AND TEAMSTER POWER
BROKER.
THE OTHER FROM DETROIT.
TONY, THE DETROIT MAFIA
STREET BOSS, REACHED OUT TO
HOFFA, SAID JIMMY, WE CAN GET
EVERYTHING SETTLED AT 2:00.
THEY NEVER WENT TO THE
RESTAURANT, THEY HAD AIR TIGHT
ALBIES.
HOFFA CALLED HIS WIFE SAYING
THEY WERE NO SHOWS.
THEN WITNESSES SAW HOFFA GET
INTO ANOTHER CAR.
HE'S SEEN IN THE PARKING LOT
OF THE RED FOX GETTING INTO A
BURGUNDY MURKY MARQUEE, DRIVEN,
OCCUPIED BY THREE MEN.
GETS IN THE CAR, THEY DRIVE ON
THE ROAD AND HE'S NEVER SEEN
AGAIN?
THE CAR BELIEVED TO BE ONE
DRIVEN BY HOFFA'S FRIEND, A
STRAND OF HIS HAIR WAS FOUND,
NOT ENOUGH PROOF TO BRICK
CHARGES.
STORIES FROM HIS BODY BEING
BURIED IN THE END ZONE OF GIANT
STADIUM TO THE BASE OF A CHURN,
TO A SALVAGE YARD HAVE BEEN TOLD
AND INVESTIGATED.
SAY THAT YOU KNOW WHERE JIMMY
HALFA IS BURIED OR WHERE HE WAS
KILLED, A COTTAGE INDUSTRY, CAN
BE AN EASY KICK AT YALE.
LOCAL POLICE AGENCIES, THE
FEDS HAVE BEEN MORE CAUTIOUS.
ONLY APPROVING SEARCHES WHEN
INFORMATION CAME FROM PEOPLE
THAT SHOULD HAVE KNOWN.
THERE WAS A HIGH PROFILE DIG
UNDER A BARN AT THE McMASTERS
FARM IN OAKLAND COUNTY.
THE FBI HAD A LOT OF FAITH IN
THIS THEORY, TALKED TO A NUMBER
OF AGENTS THAT TOLD ME THEY
REALLY BELIEVE THEY WERE GOING
TO UNEARTH HIS BODY.
McMASTERS WAS AN ALLEGED
HOFFA ENFORCER.
IN JANUARY, 2013, THE BEST TIP
FBI EVER GOT IN THE HOFFA CASE.
TONY SAT DOWN FOR AN INTERVIEW,
AN ALLEGED MOBSTER IN PRISON
WHEN HOFFA DISAPPEARED.
A HIGHER UP SAID HE WAS TOLD
HOFFA WAS BURIED IN OAKLAND
COUNTY, NOT FAR FROM WHERE HE
WAS TAKEN.
THEY WERE GOING TO BURY HIM
I UNDERSTAND THAT JUST FELL
THROUGH.
HE[INDISCERNIBLE] LET IT GO.
THE FEDS INTERVIEWED HIM,
THEN IN JUNE, THEY BEGAN A 3 DAY
DIG.
IN TERMS OF POWER AND SWAY,
IN THE AMERICAN MAFIA, THERE
WERE FEW THAT HAD AS MUCH AS
TONY.
IT, TOO, TURNED UP NOTHING.
HE PASSED AWAY THIS SPRING.
THE FACT THAT HE, HIMSELF,
WAS -- TELLS YOU WHAT A WELL
GUARDED SECRET THIS WAS, TODAY,
JIMMY HOFFA WOULD BE 102 YEARS
OLD.
MOST OF THE PEOPLE INVESTIGATED
FOR THE DISAPPEARANCE HAVE DIED.
INVESTIGATORS SAY THE SMALL
HANDFUL OF PEOPLE STILL ALIVE
WHO COULD POSSIBLY KNOW
SOMETHING OF VALUE ARE IN THEIR
MID TO LATE 70s.
THOSE CLOSE TO THE INVESTIGATION
[INDISCERNIBLE] SAYING IT'S
HIGHLY UNLIKELY ANYONE ALIVE WHO
KNOWS ANYTHING WILL EVER TALK.
STILL, THE FBI SAYS THIS IS AN
OPEN CASE, AND THEY WILL