On July 30, 1975, a hot summer’s day, Jimmy took his two-door dark green 1974 Pontiac Grandville for his last drive. Earlier in the day, Hoffa, while at his summer cottage, had received a phone call about a meeting to settle a dispute between him and Anthony “Tony Pro” Provenzano. Hoffa was set to meet Anthony “Tony Jack” Giacalone, a longtime friend, and Tony Pro at the Machus Red Fox restaurant in Bloomfield Township, Michigan at 2 p.m. (Smith and Roach). Hoffa left his lake house in Lake Orion, Michigan at 11 a.m. for the nineteen-mile ride to the restaurant. Jimmy stopped at Airport Service Lines to see Louis Linteau, but employees told Jimmy that he already left for lunch. He mentioned to the office employees that he was going …show more content…
to a meeting at Red Fox and wanted Louis to come with him (Hryb 116). Jimmy arrived early for his meeting and parked his car in the north end of the lot. He called his wife from a pay phone in the Maple Plaza Shopping Center, across the street from the Machus Red Fox restaurant, to let her know that he would be home by 4 p.m. as the “party” hadn’t shown up (Smith and Roach). Jimmy never arrived home to his wife that day. Hoffa’s car was found in the parking lot unlocked the following morning. There were no signs of a struggle and no clues leading to Jimmy’s whereabouts. The events after the phone call to his wife are not clear, but there were two witnesses that came forward at 5 p.m. on July 31, 1976. The two men told Lt. Curt Grennier that they had recognized Hoffa from his picture. Jimmy was dressed in sunglasses, dark blue slacks, and dark sports shirt. The men shook Hoffa’s hand and went on their way because it appeared Hoffa was waiting for someone (Smith and Roach). It was Jimmy’s son, James P Hoffa, that officially reported his father missing in Hoffa’s home on Square Lake to Lt. Grennier at 6 p.m. on July 31, 1976. “We are going to check out every lead,” Grennier said. “Some will be crank calls, but we have to check them out,” he said (qtd in Smith and Roach). According to Dan Moldea’s book, The Hoffa Wars, there were several main players in Hoffa’s death that arrived in Detroit the day Hoffa disappeared.
They were coming in for William Bufalino’s, a Teamsters attorney, daughter’s wedding. This was the perfect time for the hit on Jimmy because the only way Hoffa would meet Tony Pro was in Detroit. This would make Hoffa believe that Tony Pro was coming in for William’s daughter’s wedding. In fact, Tony Pro never had any intention of coming to Detroit. Tony Pro was in New Jersey playing cards with several people in a Teamsters hall (Burnstein). Frank Sheeran, a Delaware Teamster, drove Russell Bufalino, a mob boss, into Detroit the morning of Jimmy’s disappearance. Sheeran picked up three of Provenzano’s hit men, Thomas Andretta, Salvatore Briguglio, and Gabriel Briguglio, and took them to Chuckie O’Brien’s temporary residence waiting to ambush …show more content…
Hoffa. Chuckie O’Brien was with William Bufalino at the Local 299. Both men left the office by 11:30 a.m. Bufalino was making preparations for his daughter’s wedding that was taking place on August 1, 1976. Meanwhile, Chuckie started running errands. Chuckie was driving Anthony Giacalone’s son’s, Joe Giacalone, 1975 maroon Mercury to deliver a frozen salmon to Robert Holmes Sr., an international Teamsters vice president. The fish package ended up leaking blood into the seat, so Chuckie went to Jax Car Wash to ask the attendants to clean it up before it dried and started to stink (“Seizure of Car”). “No way. No way did anybody come out and ask us to get blood off the seat of a car.” said Joe Spitz, manager of the car wash (qtd in “Seizure of Car”). Even though the blood couldn’t be determined as Hoffa’s, a blood-coated strand of hair was found in the back seat that DNA test later proved was Hoffa’s. Detection dogs also recognized Hoffa’s scent in the truck and the backseat of the car (Burnstein). During the time Jimmy was waiting at the restaurant, Chuckie and Anthony Giacalone were creating an air tight alibi stating they were at Southfield Athletic Club at 2:15 near the restaurant with witnesses corroborating their claims (Moldea 272). Anthony Giacalone’s alibi stated he was at his attorney’s office in the Southfield Athletic Club from 2:30 to 4 (Moldea 272). Just a short drive for Chuckie O’Brien from the Southfield Athletic Club to the Machus Red Fox restaurant where Jimmy was still waiting. Chuckie was accompanied by Frank Sheeran and Salvatore Briguglio. Jimmy was coming back from calling his wife when the maroon Lincoln Mercury pulled into the lot. Chuckie startled Hoffa and that’s when he started yelling at him. He wanted to know why Chuckie was there and who had invited him. Jimmy then noticed Salvatore sitting in the back seat and demanded to know who he was. Salvatore told him that he was there for Tony Pro. Salvatore then told Jimmy that Russell Bufalino was at the house waiting. Hoffa knew that if Bufalino was going to be at the meeting that he would be safe. Sheeran explained that the men had been delayed and Bufalino changed plans and wanted the meeting at the house (Hryb 122-123). That’s when Hoffa entered the car with the men and turned onto Maple Road to never been seen again (Burnstein). The four-minute drive to the house O’Brien would be staying at would be Hoffa’s last. They pulled the car into the driveway where two other cars were parked, a black Ford and a brown Buick (Hryb 124). This gave Jimmy a sense of security knowing that people were in the house. As soon as Hoffa and Sheeran got out of the car, O’Brien and Salvatore left the residence. Chuckie had no idea that he just sent his foster-dad into a place where he would be killed. O’Brien was used as a pawn to get Hoffa to the house, but wasn’t let in on the details because he couldn’t be trusted with the information. Hoffa walked towards the house with Sheeran following close behind. Jimmy opened the door and Sheeran came in right behind him. Jimmy noticed that no one was coming out of the rooms to greet him and that’s when he knew exactly what was happening to him. Sheeran fired two bullets into the back of Jimmy’s skull. Frank left the residence in the black Ford and let the clean-up crew do their job. The two Italian men put Hoffa’s body in the back of the brown Buick (Hryb 124). The location of Jimmy’s body is what has baffled FBI agents and sent them searching for decades. One likely scenario is Hoffa’s body was taken in a 55-gallon barrel to the Gateway Steel Division in Detroit where he was disposed of.
Roland McMaster’s brother-in-law was a head executive there. An FBI informant, Crimaldi, told Kirdner, “Hoffa is now a goddamn hubcap. His body was crushed and smelted (qtd in Moldea 272-273).” Chuckie O’Brien made a similar comment in the months following Hoffa’s disappearance to several witnesses: “Hoffa is now just a fender, being driven around by someone (qtd in Moldea 273).” Another scenario was given to authorities by Ralph Piccardo who was an informant from the Genovese crime family. Little Ralphie told authorities that Hoffa’s body was taken out of Detroit in a steel drum and disposed of in two possible landfills. The two companies were Central Sanitation and Tri-County Santitation both of which were owned by the Detroit mob
(Burnstein). What actually happened to Hoffa’s body was he was taken to be cremated. The deceased Hoffa was taken on a thirty-minute drive from Carlo Licata’s residence to Bagnasco’s Funeral Home in St. Clair Shores. The owner, Salvatore Bagnasco, had ties to the Detroit mafia (Burnstein). This was a perfect place to quickly dispose of a body. There were several variances in the records for the cremations performed on July 30, 1975. To further solidify this scenario, Licata was found dead at his residence on July 30, 1981. It was ruled as a suicide, but Licata was threatening to take information about Hoffa’s death to the FBI. This was six years after Hoffa’s disappearance and was a message to everyone that they were not safe from harm if they chose to open their mouth in trying to out anyone in the mafia. Even though the FBI believes they know what happened to Jimmy Hoffa during his last day walking on this earth, none of the suspects are talking about what happened. During a grand jury in 1975, nine suspects were called for testimony to see if charges could be filed. The suspects were Anthony “Tony Pro” Provenzano, Stephen Andretta, Thomas Andretta, Frank Sheeran, Anthony “Tony Jack” Giacalone, Chuckie O’Brien, Salvatore Briguglio, Gabriel Briguglio, and Russell Bufalino. All of the suspects were represented by William Bufalino (Moldea 125). Like true Mafia fashion, all men pleaded the Fifth. Due to the age of this case, all suspects have passed and taken their secrets to the grave. Jimmy Hoffa’s disappearance will always be seen as one of America’s greatest mysteries.
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