Real-life 'Irishman' details Jimmy Hoffa's last hours alive -- Part 2 - Mystery Wire

officially the disappearance of teamsters leader jimmy hoffa back in 1975 has never been solved the FBI believes Hoffa was murdered by mobsters but who was the triggerman well tonight we hear from a man who says he's the one who pulled the trigger even though he and Hoffa were close friends the i-team's George Knapp here with an exclusive detail on that a David Paul a mafia hitman Frank Sheeran had a euphemism for murder whenever he killed someone he said they went to Australia meaning down under the ground the murder of Hoffa was likely related to what the mob was doing with millions of teamster dollars here in Las Vegas tonight Frank Sheeran speaks from the grave about how Jimmy Hoffa died when he emerged from prison in the 1970s former teamster President Jimmy Hoffa announced he wanted his job back even though he'd been warned by mafia associates to back off the mob was concerned that Hoffa might reveal the connection between teamster loans to Las Vegas casinos and the cash being skimmed from those casinos Hoffa had to go on the last day of his life hours before he was killed Hoffa placed a frantic call to Las Vegas this FBI telex shows he phoned the dunes hotel to speak to his lawyer Morris Schenker who'd bought into the domes with a teamster loan of his own just a few weeks earlier Hoffa had visited Las Vegas to meet with Schenker face-to-face and with casino owner modalys another recipient of teamster money Hoffa finally agreed to a sit-down with his mafia nemesis Tony Provenzano presumably to work out their differences they were to meet at the red fox restaurant in suburban Detroit Hoffa insisted that his trusted muscle Frank the Irishman Sheeran be there to back him up in mob slang Sheeran painted houses that is he killed people 25 to 30 hits in all most carried out at the orders of mafia kingpin Russell Bufalino if we got to talk about I'm gonna go I'm gonna whack this guy late in his life as he was dying of cancer Frank Sheeran finally told the story about hafez murder to his longtime lawyer Charles Brandt who's written a book I heard you paint houses during the last 31 years there have been others who've claimed knowledge of what happened to Hoffa Sheeran appears to be the real deal so they selected Sheeran for the head and Sheeran said to me you don't say no you you don't say no to Russell Bufalino about anything if I said no to Russell Jimi would have been just as dead and I'd have gone to Australia with him and so he was in a position where he had to do it or he'd have been killed it took years before Sheeran told his lawyer everything about the Hoffa hit Sheeran had already been mentioned as a possible suspect in a few Hoffa books he told Brant he wanted to tell the truth about that day gave me chills I'm looking at him and I go he killed offi and recorded interviews Sheeran slowly filled in the blanks he and Brent retraced the event starting at the restaurant Sheeran said he was one of three men who arrived in this car to pick up Hoffa who got into the backseat the meeting had been moved to a house they told Hoffa this house on Beaver land Street a short distance away Hoffa walked into the house with Sheeran behind him and Sheeran put two bullets into the back of hafez head [Music] the shooter there's plenty to corroborate Sheeran's story for one thing Hoffa was cautious he wouldn't have climbed into the car unless someone he knew was there someone like Sheeran from the beginning the FBI considered Sheeran a prime suspect agents have tried everything to get him to talk when they first searched the car police dogs detected hafez scent in the back seat just where Sheeran said Hoffa set agents also found a human hair but it wasn't until 25 years later that DNA testing confirmed it was hafez hair as a young prosecutors Las Vegas attorney Stan hunterton wrote and defended the motion that allowed the government to seize the car and preserve the evidence he thinks urines confession rings true I believe that Hoffa was lured into the car which we seized there had to be somebody and perhaps more than one person in the car that he trusted he had to be killed quickly which means fairly nearby and that's also consistent with Sharon's confession in 2003 days away from dying Sheeran gave Brandt the OK to go forward with the book Brandt believes the hit man was trying to reconcile for murdering his friend Jimmy Hoffa I ever do if Frank Sheeran killed Hoffa and it looks that way what happened to the body turns out the trail leads here to Las Vegas the answer tomorrow night at 11 o'clock Charles Brandt the author of the book about Sheeran is holding a book signing tomorrow night at 7:00 at the Reading Room at Mandalay Bay and we have some links on our website if you want more information that's Las Vegas nail com any other suspect who might fit that bill though no one's even close really there's one mob figure named Sal Bhrigu Leo who was high on the list of suspects for a while he was suspected also of cooperating with the FBI he was murdered on a New York sidewalk in 1978 and the man who pulled the trigger was Frank Sheeran kind of blows that giant stadium thing but what the heck yeah all right thanks George

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Length: 5min 35sec (335 seconds)

Published: Tue Dec 10 2019