![]() ![]() Today, in the wake of the 45th anniversary of Hoffa’s kidnapping and murder, our reporting syncs perfectly. But our respect for each other and passionate love of the endeavor have made us a determined tandem (determined to get to the bottom of the case that Dan proudly and rightly refers to as his “white whale”). Our views have differed on a small number of things in pockets of the case. When I was a young reporter entering the hallowed halls of “Hoffaology” in the 2000s, Dan took me under his wing. My source provided information that directly tied to Dan Moldea’s theory and reporting. The two scenarios fit together instantly. Just weeks later, I was approached by a source with deep connections in organized crime in southeast Michigan and was told that Hoffa was murdered at the residence of Leonard “Little Lenny” Schultz, a Jewish racketeer and old-time Purple Gang affiliate with whom Hoffa had been friendly for decades. ![]() ![]() In October 2019, Dan Moldea, the world’s preeminent expert on the case, traced Hoffa’s remains to the site of a former mobbed-up trash dump in Jersey City, New Jersey. The two locations might be the final pieces of the puzzle that finally solve one of the most speculated-upon murder mysteries in American history. In the fall of 2019, as a mentor of mine out East closed in on where Jimmy Hoffa’s body is very possibly buried, I was at ground zero for the storied Hoffa case in Detroit, running down a tip pointing to where he was killed. Lenny Schultz's house in the small Detroit suburb of Franklin Village allegedly was where labor leader Jimmy Hoffa was killed on July 30, 1975. ![]()
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