Hoffa case: Soil tests show no evidence of human remains - CNN [ournewsa.blogspot.com]

Hoffa case: Soil tests show no evidence of human remains - CNN [ournewsa.blogspot.com]

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Nearly 40 years after his disappearance, former Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa, pictured circa 1955, remains among America's most famous missing persons. Authorities have been searching for the once powerful union boss since he vanished in 1975. The mystery continues, as authorities in Michigan, acting on a tip, failed to find any human remains after digging up a driveway in Michig an on Friday, September 28.

Hoffa slumps in a chair at the Teamsters union office. He was one of the most powerful union leaders in America until being forced out of the organized labor movement. He went to prison in 1967 for jury tampering and fraud before being pardoned four years later.

Hoffa appears at the Teamsters union convention in 1957, the year he first became union president.

Hoffa, center, stands with other officials at the Teamsters convention, where he made a successful bid for control of the union in 1957.

Hoffa testifies at a Senate Rackets Committee hearing in 1958.

Hoffa on the phone at an airport in 1959.

An office for Teamsters union local chapters that Hoffa set up.

Hoffa eats with union leader Joseph Curran, left, in 1959.

Hoffa holds a Teamsters rally at Madison Square Garden in New York in 1960.

Hoffa leads supporters at a Teamsters convention in 1959.

The Teamsters boss appears on the cover of Life magazine on May 18, 1959. The headline reads, "A National Threat: Hoffa's Teamsters; Part 1: Sources of a Union's Uncurbed Power."

Hoffa, pictured circa 1960, was a powerful labor leader at a time when unions wielded a great deal of sway over elections and were notoriously tied to organized crime.

From left, "Meet the Press" moderator Ned Brooks, Lawrence K. Spivak and Hoffa appear at an NBC studio.

Hoffa and his son, James Phillip, enter a federal courtroom in July 1964. His son is the current president of the Teamsters.

Hoffa, second row, center, leaves court after being found guilty of jury tampering in 1964.

Hoffa at the Pittsburgh airport in 1971 on his way back to federal prison after being let out to visit his ailing wife. He was released from prison later that year on the condition he not resume union activity before 1980.

Hoffa poses for a picture on July 24, 1975, less than a week before his disappearance. He was 62 at the time.

A Bloomfield Township, Michigan, police officer stands beside Hoffa's car after the former labor leader's disappearance in July 1975. Hoffa was last seen at a restaurant in suburban Detroit on July 30, 1975.

Police sweep a field in Waterford Township, Michigan, in search of Hoffa's body in July 1975.

Demolition workers in 2006 tear down a horse barn for the FBI in a search for Hoffa's remains in Milford, Michigan. The FBI had received a tip that Hoffa was buried on the farm.

Police are set to take soil core samples at this Roseville, Michigan, house in the hunt for Hoffa. Police call a tip about a body being buried there around the same time as Hoffa's disappearance credible. The tipster did not claim it was Hoffa's body, authorities say.

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• Test results were negative for human remains
• The two soil samples were taken from a Michigan home last week
• A tipster said he saw a body buried there a day after Jimmy Hoffa went missing
• The union leader's disappearance 35 years ago captured the public's imagination

(CNN) -- He's still missing.

The seemingly never-ending search for the remains of missing Teamster boss Jimmy Hoffa hit another dead end Tuesday when soil results taken from the grounds of a home in Michigan showed no evidence that human remains were buried on the property.

Two soil samples were taken from a home in the suburban Detroit community of Roseville last week after a tipster claimed he saw a body buried in the yard a day after Hoffa disappeared in 1975.

The samples were taken from beneath a storage shed and sent to a lab at Michigan State University for tests to determine the presence of human remains.

"The samples submitted for examination showed no signs of human decomposition," a statement from Roseville Police Chief James Berlin said Tuesday.

It is the latest act in the on-again, off-again search for Hoffa, whose disappearance 35 years ago captured the public imagination.

Police: Hoffa a wound that won't go away

New hunt for Hoffa's remains

Hoffa, then 62, was last seen on July 30, 1975, outside the Detroit-area Machus Red Fox restaurant. He was there ostensibly to meet with reputed Detroit Mafia street enforcer Anthony Giacalone and Genovese crime family figure Anthony Provenzano, who was also a chief of a Teamsters local in New Jersey. Giacalone died in 1982; Provenzano died in 1988 in prison.

The tipster, a former gambler, once did business with a man tied to Giacalone, said Dan Moldea, author of "The Hoffa Wars." Moldea said he first spoke to the tipster in March and then sent him to police.