It's the organized-crime version of "Where's Waldo?" -- Where's Jimmy Hoffa?
Friday, Michigan police will follow yet-another tip and examine a suburban Detroit driveway to see if it solves the mystery regarding the 1975 disappearance of the legendary Teamsters union boss, the Detroit Free Press reports.
"We received information from an individual who saw something," Roseville Police Chief James Berlin told the Free Press, which is published by Gannett, USA TODAY's parent. "The information seemed credible, so we decided to follow up on it."
Last Friday, Berlin said, ground-scanning radar detected "an anomaly" under the driveway. Soil samples will be taken Friday and sent to a forensic anthropologist at Michigan State University.
The 62-year-old Hoffa vanished from the parking lot of the Machus Red Fox in nearby Bloomfield Township on July 30, 1975, and he was declared legally dead in 1982. He reportedly told associates he went to the restaurant to reconcile with two Mafia leaders, including one who was a Teamsters official in New Jersey.
The FBI believes that Hoffa was killed after getting into a car driven by his protege, Charles O'Brien, and that his body was shredded or incinerated.
Authorities have checked out hundreds of tips about Hoffa's possible whereabouts. In what was called "the Big Dig," police searched a farm in Milford, Mich., in 2006, and in 2009 dug up a Detroit lumber yard. Other sites have included a backyard swimming pool and other homes. Last year, a Canadian author claimed Hoffa was buried in the foundation of the Renaissance Center, the high-rise headquarters of General Motors in Detroit.
A popular urban myth puts Hoffa's remains under the former New York Giants' football stadium Known as "The Meadowlands" in East Rutherford, N.J., or in a slaughterhouse rendering plant.
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