Jimmy Hoffa Theory

The disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa is a mystery still to this day. Hoffa was the president of the Teamsters Union, as well as a labor organizer (“Jimmy Hoffa Biography”). He disappeared mysteriously on July 30, 1975 in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan (“James R. Hoffa | Biography - American Labour Leader”). There are many theories for Hoffa’s disappearance, such as the belief that he was murdered by a Teamsters enforcer (“Wisley”). To sum this up, many people are searching for even the slightest trace of Hoffa, and are having great difficulties finding any transformative evidence.

One popular theory is that Hoffa was a victim of the Mafia Hit. Many Teamster leaders partnered with members of the Mafia and Hoffa partnered with some mobsters himself (“Jimmy Hoffa Disappears”). It was rumored that the Mafia was going to directly attack the Teamsters. Of course, Hoffa was going to announce this to the public as well as the government (“Wisley”). To keep Hoffa from revealing their devious plan to basically everyone, the Mafia, according to the source of this theory, killed him (“Schmitz”). The police as well thought that Hoffa’s …show more content…
This particular Teamsters enforcer was Rolland McMaster, who also owned the Milford Township horse farm. In compliance with this theory, this is where the murder supposedly took place. Hoffa was kidnapped and driven to McMaster’s farm in which he was murdered by Salvator ‘Sally Bugs’ Brigugilo. Following this further, Hoffa’s body was put into a 55-gallon drum and shipped by way of Gateway Transportation to a mob-owned landfill in New Jersey. Gateway Transportation’s president was a trustee of the Teamster pension fund (“Wisley”). This theory could possibly be connected to the theory above, because Brigugilo was directly connected to Provanzeno. On the whole, I think this theory was way too in detail to be