UPDATE: Hoffa Murder Deathbed Confession

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DETROIT, MI-May 30, 2004 ? The author of a new book about the death of Jimmy Hoffa says a Pennsylvania man who confessed to killing Hoffa expressed a deathbed desire to do over much of his life.

The new book, "I Heard You Paint Houses," says former Pennsylvania Teamster official Frank Sheeran confessed to shooting Hoffa in the back of the head in a Detroit house in 1975. Sheeran died last year at age 83 in a nursing home outside Philadelphia.

The author is former Delaware prosecutor Charles Brandt. He says when Sheeran told him he had to kill Hoffa because he had hit orders from crime boss Russell Bufalino.


i say less than ago frank Sheeran
knew what happen right here
at general discussion:tongue

 

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Investigators looking into the 1975 disappearance of Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa ripped up floor boards Friday in a Detroit house where traces of blood were uncovered by the Fox News Channel.

 

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ox News Breaks Jimmy Hoffa Mystery

The 29-year-old mystery surrounding the death of Jimmy Hoffa is coming unraveled, thanks to the Fox News Channel.

Probing the Hoffa case, a team of investigators recruited by FNC's Eric Shawn discovered traces of blood on the floorboards of a Detroit home where Hoffa had been taken for a rendezvous with mobsters in 1975.

Instead, Hoffa was shot to death by Frank "the Irishman" Sheeran, a trusted friend, reported Fox. Sheeran, who died last December, was a longtime suspect in the case.

"I believe Frank Sheeran picked up Jimmy Hoffa at the Andiamo Restaurant, which was the Macus Red Fox at the time," Shawn told ABC Radio Network's John Batchelor on Friday.

"They drove to the [Detroit] house and walked in. When Hoffa realized no one was in there he tried to leave, but he got shot in the head."

Shawn said Hoffa's body was later cremated.

Sheeran had told Fox News last year that he was Hoffa's killer, but he refused to make the confession on camera.

Sheeran's lawyer Charles Brandt told Fox that his client indeed had "pulled the trigger." Brandt details Sheeran's involvement in Hoffa's murder in a new book due out next month, "I Heard You Paint Houses."

After Shawn interviewed Detroit-area prosecutor David Gorcyca last week about the blood find, Gorcyca dispatched his own forensic team to rip up the floorboards in the house and run DNA tests.