Title: Jimmy Hoffa's Disappearance: 7 Theories About What Happened To The Union Leader
Headings: Jimmy Hoffa’s Disappearance: What’s True, What’s Not, And Why We Can’t Let It Go
Jimmy Hoffa’s Disappearance: What’s True, What’s Not, And Why We Can’t Let It Go
Jimmy Hoffa may be the most famous disappeared man in America, and these theories suggest he suffered one of history's most gruesome deaths.
Who Was Jimmy Hoffa?
Theories About Jimmy Hoffa’s Disappearance
Jimmy Hoffa ‘Goes Deep’ At Giants Stadium

Content: Jimmy Hoffa ‘Goes Deep’ At Giants Stadium
Wikimedia Commons The old Giants Stadium in the Meadowlands of East Rutherford, New Jersey. Arguably the most well-known and enduring theories about Jimmy Hoffa’s disappearance is that he was shot, dismembered, frozen, and then buried in the cement foundation of Giants Stadium, then-located in East Rutherford, New Jersey. The story first entered the public consciousness in 1989 when Donald Frankos gave an interview to Playboy Magazine where he claimed that Hoffa was killed by a New York Irish mafia boss by the name of Jimmy Coonan and buried at the home field of the New York Giants and New York Jets football teams. According to Frankos, after Coonan shot Hoffa with a silenced .22-caliber pistol in a house in Mt. Clemens, Michigan, he and New York Mafia hitman John Sullivan cut up Hoffa’s body with a power saw and meat cleaver, bagged up the body parts, and stored them in a freezer for months. Later, the bags were driven to the open construction site of Giant Stadium — which opened the following year — and the bags were mixed into the concrete foundation under what became section 107. This section was located near the end zone of the stadium’s football field. A stadium map marking the spot Hoffa was buried was printed along with the story under the headline “Hoffa Goes Deep.” According to Frankos, Coonan and an accomplice told him how the murder went down after the fact, and Frankos claimed that he told the F.B.I. about it in 1986. Though the F.B.I. took the allegations seriously in 1989, Frankos — who was in federal witness protection ahead of his testimony against New York crime boss John Gotti — didn’t have much to back up the claim. Investigators connected to the Hoffa case also disputed that Frankos told any of this to the F.B.I. in 1986.