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| Jon Benet Norton G.O.O.F.B.A.H.G.S. GTA3 Criminal Activity Specialist | posted on 09-08-2001 @ 8:27 PM |    | |||
| Psychopath Registered: Dec. 00  | I'm surprised no one posted this. Could be that maybe none of you care, but I kinda found it intersting. September 8, 2001 -- A strand of Jimmy Hoffa's hair was found in a car that his foster son was driving the day the legendary Teamsters boss vanished 26 years ago, sources said yesterday. FBI scientists made the bombshell breakthrough by using new technology to match the DNA in the strand to the DNA in hair taken from Hoffa's brush, the sources said. The hair strand was found in a 1975 Mercury Marquis Brougham that was driven by Charles "Chuckie" O'Brien - whom Hoffa took in as a child - on July 30, 1975, the day the powerful union leader disappeared. FBI technicians discovered the strand - along with specks of skin and blood - when they took apart the car's back seats eight days after Hoffa vanished. Specially trained sniffing dogs found Hoffa's scent in the car. Investigators and Hoffa family members have said that O'Brien was one of the few people who could have persuaded Hoffa to get into a car that afternoon. "This is startling news," Hoffa's son, James, said in New York while campaigning to hold onto the Teamsters' presidency. He said he confronted O'Brien after his father vanished and "he ran out of the room and I haven't seen him since. I haven't talked to him in 26 years and I don't intend to talk to him." Hoffa's daughter, Barbara Ann Crancer, who is now a St. Louis federal judge, said that O'Brien "was driving the car on the day my father disappeared. If my dad's hair was in the car." O'Brien, 66, who was drummed out of the Teamsters in 1990 for having mob connections, has repeatedly denied Hoffa was in the car. He did so again yesterday. "There's nothing to it. This is something that happened 26 years ago and there was nothing to it then and there's nothing to it now," he said. Hoffa, who ran the Teamsters from 1957 until 1971, disappeared from the parking lot of the Machus Red Fox restaurant in Bloomfield Township, a Detroit suburb, and is presumed dead. He was 62. His car was found the next day. The Detroit News, which first reported the DNA link, said the feds have met regularly in the past 11 months to discuss the case and decided to conduct the DNA tests in November. The feds hope to decide whether to prosecute someone no later than December 2003, the paper said. Hoffa had gone to the restaurant for a meeting with reputed Detroit mobster Anthony Giacalone and New Jersey Teamsters boss Anthony Provenzano. They never showed. O'Brien said he was using a car owned by Giacalone's son, Joe, because his own car had been repossessed. He said he was delivering a box of frozen fish to a Teamster official when Hoffa vanished. Additional reporting by Dan Kadison  Click here to check out my band "The saddest thing in life is wasted talent" -Machiavelli- This message was edited by Jon Benet Norton on 9-8-01 @ 11:36 PM | ||||
| IkeaBoy P.L.F. Portugese Liberation Front- Liberating Status' everywhere from the Tyranny of Portugal I will die a traitor's death | posted on 09-08-2001 @ 9:16 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Veteran Registered: Sep. 00 | I was going to but the Teamsters said they'd kick my ass.
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| Kid Afrika | posted on 09-08-2001 @ 9:19 PM | | |||
| Hanger-On Registered: Jan. 70 | Hmmmm, and here I thought you didn't post it because you knew that no one would give a shit. oh well...
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| WhackBagKid TALK TO ME, GOMEZ. HE WHO IS #1. | posted on 09-08-2001 @ 11:13 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Sep. 00 | ok good, i thought this was going to be another topic about remote controlled fans or something like that Webmaster of the Undergound Unofficial I Hate adolescentmasturbator Message Board | ||||
| fbdlingfrg wow, my name looks odd without 5 lines of type below it in bold and purple and red G.O.O.F.B.A.H.G.S. Red Wings Captain Cecil JBA~Remove the Pick & Click NOW! | posted on 09-08-2001 @ 11:21 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Oct. 00 | quote:i was thinking the EXACT same thing...instead, they found hoffa's hair.whoopidie!go dig up giants stadioum and get the corpse  i may be a little catholic boy, but i'm still HLJC 4 LIFE! | ||||
| Jon Benet Norton G.O.O.F.B.A.H.G.S. GTA3 Criminal Activity Specialist | posted on 09-08-2001 @ 11:38 PM | | |||
| Psychopath Registered: Dec. 00 | Well so much for trying to post something worth talking about. Nevermind then. Click here to check out my band "The saddest thing in life is wasted talent" -Machiavelli- | ||||
King Shit *board owner* | posted on 09-08-2001 @ 11:47 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Veteran Registered: Feb. 01 | Actually it's pretty interesting, I read about it this morning on Yahoo. The fact however that Hoffa's hair is in the car is not evidence that his foster son was involved in the disappearance.  Is my train in vain, has my soul gone to waste Am I just a victim of, a victim of my lost faith | ||||
| Jon Benet Norton G.O.O.F.B.A.H.G.S. GTA3 Criminal Activity Specialist | posted on 09-08-2001 @ 11:52 PM | | |||
| Psychopath Registered: Dec. 00 | This is very true, all in all though I'd really like to see this case get solved. There were like 3 stories about it in the Post today. I kinda do think that the stepson had something to do with it. That he was influenced by his mob connects to do in Hoffa. Click here to check out my band "The saddest thing in life is wasted talent" -Machiavelli- | ||||
| danked Dankarella! | posted on 09-08-2001 @ 11:55 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Aug. 00 | screw DNA technology... did you know you could get cell phones out of vending machines now? Zen and the Art of Message Board Posting | ||||
| Kid Afrika | posted on 09-09-2001 @ 12:06 AM | | |||
| Hanger-On Registered: Jan. 70 | quote: Ya know, you're right. It is an interesting topic... [triumph the insult comic dog]FOR ME TO POOP ON!!!11[/triumph the insult comic dog]
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| Shelle Bink True star of the celebrity softball game: the redhead in section 101. | posted on 09-09-2001 @ 12:07 AM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Jul. 01 | unless you're involved with the mafia, this shouldn't really matter at all. WOWing Gets You Things... Listen To The PennyRoyals Being Bad Never Felt So Good | ||||
| katya_ann That's Miss Jesus Cooze to you! | posted on 09-09-2001 @ 4:13 AM | | |||
| Psychopath Registered: Apr. 01 | quote: SONNOFFABITCH! HE BEAT ME TO IT!!! LMAO, good work, Danked... Just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand..."If God exists and he reads this message board, we are all going to hell." - The Sleeper | ||||
| geedagreek | posted on 09-09-2001 @ 4:17 AM | | |||
| Psychopath Registered: Sep. 00 | join hoffa....get in the coffin..... j/k...listen, Hoffa's dead, let him rest in the meadowlands or wherever... hey, baby, you ever get your asshole licked by a greek guy with an overcoat??? | ||||
| red rocket Secret Sex Chat | posted on 09-09-2001 @ 3:12 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Aug. 01 | He's somewhere eating Noodle's with ketchup - Ray Liotta Adopted by crx girl. I am under her special tutelage. | ||||
| Is Don on the phone? | posted on 09-09-2001 @ 5:34 PM | | |||
| Psychopath Registered: Jan. 01 | Maybe they could put the hair in a museum somewhere. This way, when a Turkish radio personality and his girlfriend visit, he can tool on Americans (in Turkish, of course). "Jimmy Hoffa will always be a cornerstone of the Giant's organization." Chevy Chase, SNL Weekend Update  AIM:isdononthephone | ||||
The sky is blue | posted on 09-09-2001 @ 5:47 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Veteran Registered: Oct. 00 | quote: Now this is a prime example of when a '[name here] comment?' line would not work.  I'm still saved.... I am starting my very own group to combat the evil of this board. IM me at fezoanda if you are interested. The only requirement is that you be me. | ||||
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