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From Susan Candiotti, CNN
updated 2:00 PM EDT, Fri September 28, 2012
... Two soil samples taken from beneath a storage shed outside a suburban Detroit home will nevertheless go to a lab at Michigan State University for testing. Officials are expected to announce by Monday night if they've found evidence bearing out a tipster's claim that he saw what appeared to be a body being buried at the site the day after the former Teamsters chief disappeared in 1975 ...
"It would be great if it was, because I would like to bring closure to his family and the tens of thousands of Teamsters that idolize this man, and just the southeast of Michigan," said Berlin, of the Roseville Police Department. "This is kind of like an open wound that won't go away. Every couple of years this happens, and all you guys come out here and we have to relive it."
Jimmy Hoffa search picks up at new site
Police broke through a concrete floor beneath a storage shed on the site, then drew two soil samples from the ground as deep as 6 feet down, Berlin said.
The results didn't turn up bones, body parts or other evidence, he said. He described the samples as merely "murky" ...
http://www.cnn.com/2012/09/28/us/michigan-jimmy-hoffa-search/
RagAss
(13,832 posts)struggle4progress
(118,317 posts)isn't the most impressive display of civic conscience I've ever encountered
etherealtruth
(22,165 posts)We here in Michigan have " Jimmy Hoffa body sitings"
Every couple of years some poor schmoe's back yard, drive way, pool ... is dug up.
On a more respectful note ... this must really be hard for the Hoffa family