What happened to the body?  Why was Jimmy killed?

When Jimmy got out of prison, he announced that he wanted his job as Teamster president back, telling Union members he was not guilty when they sent him to prison and he was not guilty now.  I will not be remembered as being controlled by the mob because I was not.  He went after the job even when the mob told him to backoff.

The mob was concerned that Jimmy might reveal the connection between Teamster loans to Las Vegas Casinos and the money being skimmed off the top from those casinos.  Hoffa had to go.

A few weeks before his death Jimmy came to Las Vegas to meet with his long time lawyer Morris Sheker and casino owner Moe Dalitz.  Both of whom had gotten Teamster loans of their own.  Jimmy agreed to sit down with his biggest nemesis Tony Provenzano to work out their differences.  They were suppose to meet at the Red Fox restaurant in suburban Detroit.  Hoffa insisted that his trusted friend Frank Sheerhan be there to back him up.  Sheerhan a mafia hitman took most ofhs orders from Russell Bufalino.

So the mob chose Sheerhan to do the hit.  Sheerhan states you don't say no or you will be dead.  It was a matter of carrying out the hit or be killed himself.

Sheerhan says he was one of three men to pick Hoffa up that day.  He told Hoffa the meeting had been moved to a house a short distance from the restaurant.  The house was on Beaverland street.  So Hoffa got into the back seat.  Arriving at the house Hoffa walked into the house with Sheerhan behind him.  Sheerhan put two bullets in the back of Jimmy's head.

Sheerhan says the wholethings wasover in an hour. No one started looking for him until 6pm that night and by then he was ashes.

Frank "the irishman" Sheerhan was a Teamster offical and Jimmy's friend, and a Mafia hitman.  Below is part of a confession that Mr. Sheerhan told to Charles Brandt. 

Mr Sheerhan said that it was he who gunned down Hoffa in a house in Detroit.

Charles Brandt:  How many shots were fired at Jimmy?

Frank Sheerhan: Two

Charles Brandt: You were the shooter?

Frank Sheerhan: That's right   

Charles Brandt: What happened to the body?

Frank Sheerhan: Took the body to an incinerator at a funeral parlor.  Friends of the Detroit connections.

Charles Brandt:  What happened to the blood at the house?

Frank Sheerhan:  There were "cleaners" there to take care of that.

According the Sheerhan two men were waiting inside of th house.  Tom and Steve Andretta, they were the "cleaners" They bagged Jimmys body and then he was taken to the funeral parlor.  They then cleaned up all the blood.  Steve Andretta died a few years ago, but Tommy now lives in Las Vegas in a quiet neighborhood.

It would have been very easy in 1975 to dispose of a body in this manner.  You put him in a box, the box is sealed and an hour after it is put in the ovens it is gone.  No trace of Hoffa is left to be discovered.

No one was ever convicted for Jimmy's murder, but the Department of Justice prosecuted more than 30 mob figures for other crimes uncovered during the Hoffa investigation.  Everyone link to the case did time for one crime or another including Frank Sheerhan and Las Vegan Tommy Andretta.