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| Richard Kuklinski |
Richard Kuklinski's "revelation" that he had killed Jimmy Hoffa elicited a big yawn from the former FBI agent who had headed the Hoffa investigation for many years and who had actually lived in the basement of Hoffa's home in the weeks after his disappearance.
"The problem with the Hoffa case," Joe Finneran told the Detroit News, "is so much information has leaked out over the years, it isn't that hard to concoct a story." Finneran was the FBI's head of organized crime investigations in Detroit until 2003.
The names of the likely suspects have appeared in newspaper articles and books almost from the day Hoffa disappeared. Putting Thomas Andretta and the Briguglio bothers at the scene of the crime is hardly insider information. Many imprisoned convicts have claimed to know the fate of Jimmy Hoffa, but these knowledgeable felons usually come forward only when they want something and hope to barter for it. Many empty holes have been dug around the country based on this kind of faulty information, most recently on a horse farm in Milford Township, Michigan, in May 2006.
Kuklinski could simply have read about the Hoffa disappearance in a book—he worked in the prison library at Trenton State Prison—or heard about it from other inmates, put his spin on it, and sold it as his own. I didn't buy it in 1992 because it just didn't make any sense, and his latest version in Carlo's book smells just as fishy.
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