Jimmy Hoffa Disappearance

Jimmy Hoffa's disappearance is one of the most enduring organized crime mysteries, with a 50-year FBI investigation costing over $20 million and yielding no body. On July 30, 1975, the Teamsters President went to a Detroit restaurant to meet two Mafia figures and vanished. Excavations at multiple sites, including under Giants Stadium in New Jersey, found nothing, and the leading theory is that the Mafia killed him to prevent his reclaiming the presidency, which would have threatened their control. The phrase "buried next to Hoffa" entered American slang as shorthand for a body that will never be found. He was declared legally dead in 1982, but over 500 interviews with mobsters have failed to pinpoint his remains.