JERSEY CITY, N.J. (PIX11) -- What happened to Jimmy Hoffa?
It is one of the enduring unsolved mysteries in American history.
93-year-old New Jersey attorney, Chris Franzblau, says a witness has recently come forward and told him exactly where Hoffa's body was dumped. Franzblau was an attorney for the Teamsters when Jimmy Hoffa was President of the Union.
He tells PIX11 News that a man named Jeff saw men in two cars pull up on the property where his father was excavating for a new building near the Pulaski Skyway.
According to Franzblau, Jeff said, "I saw from where I was, the body taken out of the trunk of one of those cars. I saw them put it in the excavation. One was a black Cadillac, with Michigan plates."
Hoffa vanished in 1975 in Michigan after going to meet up with reputed Genovese crime family mobster, Anthony "Tony Pro" Provenzano. Hoffa reportedly called his wife that night to say no one had shown up for the meeting. He was never heard from again.
The FBI previously searched an area near the Pulaski Skyway and found nothing. Franzblau says the area that Jeff pointed out is different from where the FBI searched, and added it "has a point, and he's buried right in that point." The area is at the end of Broadway in Jersey City near the Hackensack River, next to the Pulaski Skyway.
When Franzblau was asked, "Why does he feel he can tell you now?", Franzblau replied, "everybody's dead now. That's the only reason."
Franzblau is still a practicing attorney in New Jersey. He details the interaction with Jeff and his lifetime of defending the mob and others in his newly released book "The Last Mob Lawyer: True Stories from the Man Who Defended Some of the Biggest Names in Organized Crime".
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