The search for Jimmy Hoffa's body: 6 rumored burial grounds

Police in a Detroit suburb are digging around for the legendary Teamster chief's elusive remains... again

An FBI-led crew probes the ground in search of Jimmy Hoffa's body near a demolished barn on a horse farm in Milford Township, Mich., on May 24, 2006.
(Image credit: AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

Not for the first time, investigators are digging around to find the body of Teamsters chieftain Jimmy Hoffa, who mysteriously vanished in 1975. A forensics team is following a tip that Hoffa lies buried under a concrete driveway in suburban Detroit, some 30 miles east of the Bloomfield Township restaurant where he was last seen alive. He was declared legally dead in 1982, and the hunt for his remains includes many high-profile — and expensive — searches. Here's a look at the latest quest to find Hoffa's remains, and other rumored burial grounds for one of organized labor's most powerful bosses:

1. The Roseville backyard burial

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