FBI comes up empty in search for Hoffa

MILFORD TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) -- The FBI said Tuesday it found no trace of Jimmy Hoffa after digging up a suburban Detroit horse farm in one of the most intensive searches in decades for the former Teamsters boss.
The two-week search involved dozens of FBI agents, along with anthropologists, archaeologists, cadaver-sniffing dogs and a demolition crew that took apart a barn. The agency planned to continue the investigation into Hoffa's 1975 disappearance.
"There are still prosecutable defendants who are living, and they know who they are," said Judy Chilen, assistant agent in charge of the Detroit FBI.
The farm was once owned by a Hoffa associate and was said to be a mob meeting place before the union boss' disappearance.
Chilen said that she believes Hoffa had been buried on the farm and that she had no evidence his body had been moved. Fischetti added: "We really don't have any indication that it was or wasn't moved."
Hoffa vanished after he went to meet two organized crime figures. Investigators have long suspected he was killed by the mob to prevent him from reclaiming the presidency of the Teamsters after he got out of prison for corruption. But no trace of him has ever been found, and no one was ever charged.
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