86 year old detective tells what happened to Jimmy Hoffa!

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  • čas přidán 16. 04. 2024
  • 26 year veteran #NYPD police detective Frank Pergola tells of what happened to Jimmy Hoffa per his contacts over a career in #organizedcrime #mafia #hoffa #mafia #americanmafia #netflix #theirishman

Komentáře • 765

  • @BigElCat
    @BigElCat Před měsícem +390

    Let's take a moment of silence for the all the people who have disappeared, and nobody ever even heard their names.

    • @ladybug4207
      @ladybug4207 Před měsícem +26

      🙏

    • @TheSharron
      @TheSharron Před měsícem +20

      Amen 🙏🏼

    • @daydreambeliever6603
      @daydreambeliever6603 Před měsícem +8

      They sleep with the fishes❤

    • @ZemaiorPittman-lz7os
      @ZemaiorPittman-lz7os Před měsícem

      m.czcams.com/video/ansj8YpCYqU/video.html&pp=ygURZnJhbmsgbml0dGkgdXNoZXI%3D

    • @loquat44-40
      @loquat44-40 Před měsícem +14

      What all of the people that were forced to bend themselves to the will of gangsters or get hurt.

  • @uprebel5150
    @uprebel5150 Před 16 dny +50

    I went to elementary school with Hoffa's grandson. I actually met Jimmy Hoffa at his grandson's birthday party. The day that Hoffa disappeared the family took their grandson out of school on the same day via limo and I never saw him again.

    • @dwade6322
      @dwade6322 Před 7 dny +7

      Took him out before or after Hoffa dissapeared?

    • @r.williamcomm7693
      @r.williamcomm7693 Před 6 dny +1

      Makes sense. Your classmate’s father was most likely James Hoffa, Jr, who is president of the Teamsters today. His daughter didn’t have a son. The only other possibility was Charles O’Brien’s son.
      When Hoffa disappeared the family was interviewed & sometimes gave names. Charles O’Brien was Hoffa’s driver that day & as his ADOPTED SON, some in the family thought he had information or even sold out Hoffa.
      There was a media frenzy covering the case & mobsters were being named which is a good way to end up next to Hoffa.

    • @TheCartmaninc
      @TheCartmaninc Před 6 dny +1

      so what

    • @r.williamcomm7693
      @r.williamcomm7693 Před 5 dny

      @@TheCartmaninc Really? You don’t think that’s a cool story? Like a brush with history in the biggest disappearance of the 1970s & still part of the media landscape today? Your envy is showing. Is there a green face emoji? Usually ppl who don’t appreciate history don’t watch videos about history. Lighten up Francis.

    • @alexandranitana295
      @alexandranitana295 Před 5 dny

      @@TheCartmanincyou would

  • @dizzy6277
    @dizzy6277 Před měsícem +243

    It's obvious Hoffa's killer is not still alive.... He doesn't have a youtube channel.

    • @Weshopwizard
      @Weshopwizard Před měsícem +15

      Maybe I like to keep a low profile. Ooh. Forget I said anything.

    • @luke_skywanker7643
      @luke_skywanker7643 Před měsícem +10

      Man, you WIN the internet with that one!🤣🤣

    • @bcatblues725
      @bcatblues725 Před měsícem +3

      😂😂😂😂👍

    • @ZemaiorPittman-lz7os
      @ZemaiorPittman-lz7os Před měsícem +4

      Frank Nitti Usher of Detroit killed Jimmy Hoffa. He got burned at Chester Campbell funeral parlor. Frank Nitti Usher was Tony Jack's driver.

    • @ZemaiorPittman-lz7os
      @ZemaiorPittman-lz7os Před měsícem

      The blacks killed hoffa. Why Italians don't know who did it. The guy just died recently during covid. You guys look it up and figure it out

  • @Mr_D555
    @Mr_D555 Před měsícem +38

    I think the cremated body story is closest to the truth.

    • @balancedactguy
      @balancedactguy Před 17 dny +2

      Agreed. The actual rumor is that he as strangled then taken to a foundry and was i incinerated in a Smelting Pot and his ashes were mixed in with molten steel. The joke afterward was he was now part of an engine block!

    • @baobo67
      @baobo67 Před 10 dny

      @@balancedactguy Part of an Engine block? I heard apartment block.

    • @balancedactguy
      @balancedactguy Před 10 dny

      @@baobo67 Actually Engine Apartment Block of Ice.

    • @JohnnyDanger36963
      @JohnnyDanger36963 Před 9 dny +1

      @@balancedactguy it was a 426 hemi hoffa!!

    • @balancedactguy
      @balancedactguy Před 9 dny +1

      @@JohnnyDanger36963 Witha Hoffa Holley 4-Barrels Carb!

  • @larrymervine998
    @larrymervine998 Před měsícem +281

    The part that just doesn’t make sense is using a shotgun. Too noisy in a residential neighborhood and makes too much of a splatter mess. For that reason I say the story is off

    • @aaiello5787
      @aaiello5787 Před měsícem +40

      You beat me to it. I agree 100 percent too sloppy.

    • @Mike1614b
      @Mike1614b Před měsícem +25

      and too much blood evidence. but back then all they could do was get the blood type, no DNA

    • @baronvonnembles
      @baronvonnembles Před měsícem +19

      Yes, exactly. Shotgun makes too much mess and someone else could have gotten dinged by accident.

    • @thebeasters
      @thebeasters Před měsícem +20

      Way too messy

    • @fubey8x
      @fubey8x Před měsícem +29

      Ah yes the armchair know it all, you forget how most people don't give a fuck about what's going on in the world or neighborhood unless it has to do with them or they actually see it and even then don't give a fuck

  • @luke_skywanker7643
    @luke_skywanker7643 Před měsícem +100

    I always had the "feeling" that Jimmy went through a 'funeral home' business and probably got cremated.

  • @WendyKS93
    @WendyKS93 Před měsícem +34

    I've followed this case for many years and I have trouble believing that a shotgun was used and not a handgun. However, I do believe that he was in fact cremated or incinerated because that way there would never be any possibility of his body ever being found. It just makes the most sense to me. I have wondered if maybe the FBI knows the real truth but has chosen not to ever reveal it. JMO.

    • @myronhelton4441
      @myronhelton4441 Před měsícem

      Never knew he was so important, they find drug dealers in their homes in my town not living in their beds & the nextdoor neighbors arent scared at all & dont even consider it important

    • @MichaelTheophilus906
      @MichaelTheophilus906 Před 9 dny

      The FBI knows a lot of stuff. Hoover had a file on every politician and other gangsters.

  • @engleharddinglefester4285
    @engleharddinglefester4285 Před měsícem +80

    Blew they guy's head off in a house? Why make such a mess?

    • @user-ug6ti3op3x
      @user-ug6ti3op3x Před měsícem +4

      Who knows ? And after some 45 years does it make any difference ? The detective here , his last ditch effort to be a legend of secrets giving him self insured fame .

    • @Bobbaloomis
      @Bobbaloomis Před měsícem +4

      So he won’t have a head in the afterlife

    • @Tyronshoelaces
      @Tyronshoelaces Před měsícem +1

      😂😂😂​@@Bobbaloomis

    • @justlooking4771
      @justlooking4771 Před měsícem +2

      It was an abandoned house.

    • @Bobbaloomis
      @Bobbaloomis Před měsícem

      @@Tyronshoelaces laugh all you want, that’s how these old guys think

  • @thomaswalsh5097
    @thomaswalsh5097 Před měsícem +86

    He’s gone and there is nothing we can do about it, and that’s that……

  • @BigLisaFan
    @BigLisaFan Před měsícem +180

    My mother who was elderly at the time, had to have one of those dreaded “ladie’s exams”.
    She came home and said “Guess what the doctor found?” My brother piped up, “Jimmy Hoffa?”
    We howled like anything, my mother wasn’t impressed and my fiancée from the UK didn’t get the joke as she had no idea who Jimmy Hoffa was.

    • @presspound7358
      @presspound7358 Před měsícem +12

      Great little story. Real. 👍😂

    • @dizzy6277
      @dizzy6277 Před měsícem +1

      I thought that Jimmy Hoffa was found inside Tony Soprano by a doctor?... I was really constipated a while ago and I wondered if Jimmy was stuck in my rectum. But now i'm not so sure. I can see the value of a second opinion. It's clear Jimmy gets lodged inside some peculiar orifices. Maybe we should start a teamsters union for those whose health has been affected by Jimmy's intrusions.... And Jimmy can run the union if he ever pops out.

    • @bcatblues725
      @bcatblues725 Před měsícem +6

      😂

    • @alanratay4583
      @alanratay4583 Před měsícem +7

      That’s absolutely hilarious. I literally laughed out loud. Not playing. ✌️😎

    • @ritaking8827
      @ritaking8827 Před měsícem +6

      Ahhhh great story!

  • @larryharbison2466
    @larryharbison2466 Před měsícem +120

    No one will EVER know the truth abour Hoffa. Period.

    • @davidrice3337
      @davidrice3337 Před měsícem +5

      I know the truth - he was killed and dispatched in a large body of water - not too hard to figure out

    • @petegregory517
      @petegregory517 Před měsícem +15

      Soon as I heard "detective" all I could think was "cop, trained liar."

    • @markevan1
      @markevan1 Před měsícem +11

      @@petegregory517 With that, it's not hard to guess how you operate.

    • @mottthehoople693
      @mottthehoople693 Před 27 dny +7

      @@petegregory517 dumb comment...I see detective?? I see a smarter than average copper

    • @petegregory517
      @petegregory517 Před 27 dny

      @@mottthehoople693 Yeah, people love the taste of polish.

  • @djquinn11
    @djquinn11 Před měsícem +92

    They cremated his body right after they killed him is the story around Detroit

    • @captainamerica6525
      @captainamerica6525 Před měsícem +10

      Which makes sense. They shot Hoffa and transported the body to a Detroit cemetary and cremated it. Done in hours, not days.

    • @1991ROLEX
      @1991ROLEX Před měsícem +7

      Heard this story from my late uncle, a Federal LEO (not FBI). Yep, what most people thought then.

    • @warmonger1362
      @warmonger1362 Před 21 dnem +4

      @@captainamerica6525 Or the other possible scenario is that they poured some cement and built him into the base of the Renaissance center building which they were building at the time and is now the General Motors building. Most of the cement and construction companies were all Italian owned.

    • @BBAKER22
      @BBAKER22 Před 20 dny +1

      Lol...And you believe it? Lol..WTF?

    • @warmonger1362
      @warmonger1362 Před 20 dny +2

      @@BBAKER22 Most logical stories out there, I suppose you think they drove him all the way to New Jersey to kill him and bury him in the end zone in Giants stadium.

  • @TheBaseCase
    @TheBaseCase Před měsícem +11

    Tony Giacalone knew. Uncle Lou confirms there is no way Hoffa wasn’t burned up within an hour of his murder. He played golf with Tony, apparently.

  • @tpstrato2270
    @tpstrato2270 Před 13 dny +10

    the older I get the more I regret of all the people Ive lost over the years but maybe being a trail guide wasnt such a great Idea after all

  • @hermosafish
    @hermosafish Před měsícem +62

    I lived a mile from Bagnasco's Funeral Home. The people who didn't even know each other told me the same story. When I told the nephew of a couple of captains he just laughed and said "Yeah, that's Sam "Bags".

    • @mattfischer9769
      @mattfischer9769 Před 8 dny

      Yeah fbi reports says same thing as i heard you paint houses...ba

    • @mattfischer9769
      @mattfischer9769 Před 8 dny +1

      Bagnascos funeral

    • @mattfischer9769
      @mattfischer9769 Před dnem +1

      Can you tell the story again

    • @hermosafish
      @hermosafish Před dnem

      @@mattfischer9769 Three people who didn't know each other told me Hoffa was cremated at Bagnasco's.

  • @MrScottr1958
    @MrScottr1958 Před měsícem +102

    Geraldo says he's buried in Al Capones vault.

    • @RWildekrav66
      @RWildekrav66 Před měsícem +16

      And Geraldo still couldn’t find him . Good old Jerry Rivers ! Can’t find shit .

    • @andsoitbegins464
      @andsoitbegins464 Před měsícem +2

      😂😂😂

    • @dan-vv8gs
      @dan-vv8gs Před měsícem +4

      Jimmy Hoffa was drinking a bottle of coke too.😊

    • @PJM454
      @PJM454 Před měsícem

      Jerkaldo is the biggest idiot ever to open his trap.

    • @DonVideoGuy007
      @DonVideoGuy007 Před 28 dny

      @MrScotttr1958 - He's a fully shaped wing nut... nobody should believe anything that he says about Jimmy Hoffa.

  • @louscannon7493
    @louscannon7493 Před měsícem +42

    Hoffa walks through the door and they hit blew his head off with a shotgun? c'mon...

    • @timfleming3083
      @timfleming3083 Před měsícem +1

      Too much brain, and body matter all over the walls, etc.i.e. evidence.

    • @elmerkilred159
      @elmerkilred159 Před měsícem +9

      Exactly. Why would you use a shotgun? That would be a big mess to clean up. We're talking hours of work if not days. Walls of older homes were not put together with sheet rock, so you have big holes to patch, sand, patch again, sand and paint... that's a few more days. The cremation part sounds nice, but why would you involve more people to cremate the body? It's complicated, and most mobsters I know are lazy cheap bastards. That's a lot of toting a body around, and a few trash cans full of bloody rags, clothing, and you have two witnesses including whoever is on your shooting crew and clean up crew, and someone at the mortuary who would automatically know it was Jimmy Hoffa by the next day when it was discovered he was missing.

    • @Snruisy
      @Snruisy Před měsícem +5

      @@elmerkilred159 I agree with you 100%! That's not how it happened. This guy is full of lies, I think it is intentional to throw people off! But for me, and I kind of guess for you too, it is clear as daylight what actually happened!

    • @IanHotson
      @IanHotson Před měsícem +2

      Good story, but I might think check the Republic landfill at Carleton Michigan

    • @acousticshadow4032
      @acousticshadow4032 Před měsícem +7

      Indeed, the shotgun part ain't very likely.

  • @autobug2
    @autobug2 Před 23 dny +8

    "HIS VERSION" of what happened to Hoffa. There's a zillion of them. (eye roll)

  • @williamevans2176
    @williamevans2176 Před měsícem +11

    Doesn't matter who killed him or where the body went, ultimately the order of the hit came from the teamster leaders who didn't want him gaining control of the union again. The loss of Hoffa was the beginning of the downfall of the Teamsters Union. When Hoffa was the head of the union, there was no such thing as a non union trucking company. The leadership of the union after Hoffa only cared about themselves and allowed non union companies, even union companies forming non union companies. No matter what people think of Hoffa, he took care of the working members.

    • @ronblack7870
      @ronblack7870 Před měsícem

      boo who

    • @JohnDavies-cn3ro
      @JohnDavies-cn3ro Před 27 dny

      "Took care of' has more than one meaning...... and someone certainly took care of Jimmy Hoffa.

  • @kellyharper8072
    @kellyharper8072 Před měsícem +12

    With how many enemies he had, it could have been multiple people.

    • @7thsealord888
      @7thsealord888 Před měsícem +1

      "Please form an orderly queue ..." :)

  • @JohnMcMahon.
    @JohnMcMahon. Před měsícem +16

    New sub from Belfast, Ireland. 👍 Would love to hear more about the stuff you worked on over your career.

  • @crsantin
    @crsantin Před měsícem +32

    Literally the plot of The Irishman 😂

    • @queenslander954
      @queenslander954 Před měsícem +4

      Yea mate , he must have watched it & got inspired. .. 😂

    • @user-gm7oo7rd2p
      @user-gm7oo7rd2p Před měsícem

      @@queenslander954the story has been recounted before the book was even written. Only part that’s different is Sally Buggs apparently shot Jimmy Hoffa and then jumped his body somewhere, Frank Sheeran was just bait

    • @howard5992
      @howard5992 Před měsícem +2

      @@queenslander954 he actually said he watched it

    • @jobebrian
      @jobebrian Před 20 dny +2

      No wonder he says he didn’t like it!

  • @spaceranger3728
    @spaceranger3728 Před měsícem +18

    When you ride with outlaws, you die like an outlaw.

  • @cmarch2277
    @cmarch2277 Před měsícem +38

    My great grandfather was a big shot in a union from the 40s thru the late 60s. Mob union. He swore he knew the truth and claims Hoffa's body was dumped into a bridge pier during the concrete pour. He refused to tell anyone in the family which bridge, but swore to it until his own dying day. Obviously, no one can prove or disprove it, but it's interesting to think about. 🤷‍♂️

    • @patriot6350
      @patriot6350 Před měsícem +15

      Here to hoping it wasn't a Baltimore harbor bridge support..😂😂😮

    • @ltkreg
      @ltkreg Před měsícem +3

      @@patriot6350 I thought the same thing 🤣

    • @ronblack7870
      @ronblack7870 Před měsícem +2

      unless he saw it happen he didn't know. someone may have told him that i'm not saying he lied.

    • @lukkyluciano
      @lukkyluciano Před měsícem +4

      very common story. Ive heard he was poured into a slab in ________(add concrete plant) and Hoffa is holding up _________(insert bridge or structure that was completed shortly after his death) .
      You can fill in the blanks with any two depending on where you are and hearing the story from.
      "Hoffa was poured into a slab in Youngstown OH and is now part of the GE building in Detroit)
      Hoffa was poured into a slab in New Jersey and is now part of Foxboro Stadium
      Hoffa was poured into a slab in Detroit and now Jimmy is holding up the Wisconsin-Dubuque bridge"
      Old tale

    • @danielpozarek7462
      @danielpozarek7462 Před 27 dny +2

      Too many people and witnesses involved in something like this. Cremation would only involve one person other than the hit team. There are several crematories in the Detroit area, so very likely that at least one had mob connections. Think of the money that could be made by making bodies disappear?

  • @InterestedAmerican
    @InterestedAmerican Před měsícem +19

    This account of Hoffa's murder mirrors the story told by Frank Sheran in, I Heard You Paint Houses. There are some slight differences, but the meat and postatoes of what the detective said in this video is extremely close to what the Irishman said in his deathbed confession.

    • @cameronjones8641
      @cameronjones8641 Před měsícem +4

      Which, for many people in the mafia, were all lies. I don't claim to know but I'm skeptical of the Irish man's portrayal of events.

    • @InterestedAmerican
      @InterestedAmerican Před měsícem +7

      @@cameronjones8641 Skepticism is a good thing. Two Stories that have come about independantly that closely resemble each other means to me it is likely the events took place as stated. Who the triggerman was is all that's left to be proved. Frank Sheeran confessed to it, and Hoffa's family believe he was there when their father was taken. That should count for something.

    • @crusader7991
      @crusader7991 Před 16 dny

      @@InterestedAmerican Sheeran had a history of making things up. Maybe he heard the story and inserted himself into it.

    • @InterestedAmerican
      @InterestedAmerican Před 16 dny

      @@crusader7991 I didn't know you knew him.

  • @jayneneewing2369
    @jayneneewing2369 Před měsícem +39

    Sir, what you said is so much more realistic than other theories I’ve heard over the years. I have always said, from the beginning, that no one will ever find Hoffa. When I saw people dig sites I always thought, “What a bunch of idiots.” Thanks. Cremated him! Why of course they did!!!

  • @HotRodMolina
    @HotRodMolina Před měsícem +2

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  • @Meatbalzz
    @Meatbalzz Před měsícem +6

    Why a shotgun? Very messy in someone’s house. Lots to clean…

  • @daves2822
    @daves2822 Před 15 dny +3

    The mafia guys who talked, the car crushing makes the most sense, according to Sam Gravano

  • @kidseldomseen
    @kidseldomseen Před měsícem +8

    Hoffa never left Detroit,there’s no body.🔥

    • @bobettemorgan453
      @bobettemorgan453 Před měsícem +3

      Damn Straight ! He's in the footings in the Ren Cen.. That's the "tea" in Construction Trades. Cross check Superintendent Reports compared with Missing Reports. After all, whose going to dig up the RenCen..???

    • @kidseldomseen
      @kidseldomseen Před měsícem +2

      @@bobettemorgan453 hoffa turned to ashes soon after they carried his body out of the house on beaverland st.

    • @user-mr3ct1dm9p
      @user-mr3ct1dm9p Před měsícem +4

      ​@@bobettemorgan453I had heard the exact same thing. A guy that I used to work with, that was working all kinds of crazy hours,pouring the caisson footings at the Ren Cen-- he said that one day they were all told that they were only to work 8 hours and go home. He said when he got home, him and his wife were eating dinner, and the Hoffa story was all over TV.

    • @tommytomtom5531
      @tommytomtom5531 Před 10 dny

      @@user-mr3ct1dm9p He and his wife.

  • @joebobgrizzler9963
    @joebobgrizzler9963 Před měsícem +41

    Billy Jack used a garrote. He and Briguglio put Hoffa's body in the trunk of Jr.'s Merc. Later... they went to the incinerator, sandwiched him inbetween some cardboard and put him in. That's why the dogs sniffed and hit on the car later on. There wasnt even a drop of blood. The Feds took the car.
    The Detroit Partnership is/was the only family that could ever keep quiet. Once they finished a job... it was NEVER mentioned again. Not even amongst themselves. We all know what happened to "Sally Bugs".
    Chuckie sat behind the wheel of the Merc at the Schultz residence the entire time. He didn't actually "see" anything... so he couldn't actually "say" anything; and, he knew what would happen if he ever did. He "suspected" what had taken place, put two and two together, but had to lie to save his own skin. Little Lenny was with Tony that afternoon. His house was empty but Hoffa was duped into thinking the meet was there and he walked right into it.
    Vito wasn't a "Made Man" at the time, but he got made later as a result. He took it to the grave, along with a few others.
    That's my take on it.

    • @cd3949
      @cd3949 Před měsícem +2

      Sounds like you watched Goodfellas one too many times.

    • @joebobgrizzler9963
      @joebobgrizzler9963 Před měsícem +2

      @@cd3949 - Over at your mom's house...

    • @cd3949
      @cd3949 Před měsícem +1

      @@joebobgrizzler9963 What a zinger. 🙄

    • @rickbodi5944
      @rickbodi5944 Před dnem

      Your's is a much more believable rendition than the agents version. I heard one version similar to yours also. 👍✌️

  • @whiskeytango5867
    @whiskeytango5867 Před 13 dny +2

    a million cops and wiseguys have thought that they knew the real story but the real story died with Tony Jack.

  • @larrymondello8475
    @larrymondello8475 Před měsícem +1

    Thank you

  • @anthonyhoffmann543
    @anthonyhoffmann543 Před 19 dny +5

    My aunt and uncle were federal marshals and the rumor they heard was Hoffa was strangled with a garotte and then his body was put into an industrial incinerator.

  • @xavierjames8085
    @xavierjames8085 Před měsícem +9

    Where’s the full interview ?

  • @frez777
    @frez777 Před 21 dnem +1

    simple and straightforward

  • @jmadrak
    @jmadrak Před měsícem +5

    Frank made at least one misstatement of fact - Genovese hitman Red Hot's name was Enrico Gentile, not Galante.

  • @GordiansKnotHere
    @GordiansKnotHere Před měsícem +39

    Hey Frank,
    I grew up around that guys that were directly involved with this in North Bergen - Union City NJ. A very close family member worked at Local 560 and we were close to a top guy who was a West Sider (The Westies). One day All of the we had to leave our home in Guttenberg quickly and we ended moving around to different places in the Catskills in the 70's. Respectively- I overheard what happened to Mr. Hoffa a little differently. In a funny turn of events the West Sider who was living with us was hiding out because of another well known incident. He ended up saving me and my mothers life from a really (REALLY) bad time after all of this and we were able to flee... It's sad that all of that was over Egos and Greed... I find myself disgusted by all of the movies and stories that are written about these horrible people. Not much is mentioned about the kids who were affected by it all. People have no idea the level of depravity these sc*mbags are capable of. Mr. Hoffa will not be found and no one will really know the facts because of all of the "buffers" that were placed in this situation. Thanks.

    • @fubey8x
      @fubey8x Před měsícem +9

      oh ya have to believe a youtube commenter, I heard what happened to hoffa but proceeds to tell us his life story, ok bud

    • @joeterp5615
      @joeterp5615 Před měsícem +9

      I agree with your sense of disgust. I’ve never liked how these guys are glorified in movies. Imagine if we made movies about the KKK that presented them sympathetically (well there was one… but it was a silent movie made in 1915).

    • @user-rr1zt5go4q
      @user-rr1zt5go4q Před měsícem +7

      Many thanks for reminding us that these 'organized criminals' are indeed scumbags. I watched all the Godfather movies and the Scorsese movies, but never again. Jimmy Hoffa should've left the union and walked away, but all these guys have an ego which gets in the way. Very glad that you and your mom were able to escape with your lives all that time ago. All the best !

    • @gino423
      @gino423 Před 22 dny +1

      560 guy here..PIE Trucking late 70's to late 80's Knew the players ....

    • @gino423
      @gino423 Před 22 dny +1

      A lot of relatives worked on my job ....PIE trucking

  • @philanastasijr
    @philanastasijr Před měsícem +5

    I would love to see what Dan Moldea has to say about that.

  • @Unknown17
    @Unknown17 Před 14 dny +2

    He says he "didn't like" the film, The Irishman, then goes on to relate what he says is the truth, which almost exactly parallels the movie, which was based on the book. Fat Tony allowed to bump him off...blah blah, restaurant...blah blah meeting at private house...bang, bang...blah blah crematorium. Only now some guy named "Red Hot" actually pulled the trigger. Pergola just seeking publicity/glory.

  • @Robert-zk2sb
    @Robert-zk2sb Před 21 dnem +2

    That sounds like a real story that rings a bell concerning Hoffa's disappearance! I could believe this more than him being buried someplace especially after the case of the 3 Civil rights workers down south. How they were found and charges were brought against the perpetrators.

  • @willholmes7032
    @willholmes7032 Před 21 dnem +3

    A professional hit man using a shot gun in a residential neighbor on a known public figure? He was more likely strangled to cut down any noise.

  • @merryhunt9153
    @merryhunt9153 Před 22 dny +2

    Like other people posting here, I have my doubts about an experienced criminal using a shotgun inside a private house. Making noise and leaving lots of blood-spatter evidence. Also, transporting the body to a crematorium leaves blood evidence. And somebody at the crematorium was bound to notice a body with no head.

  • @baronvonnembles
    @baronvonnembles Před měsícem +5

    But the story he relates is almost exactly the same as the one in The Irishman. The actual triggerman may be different but the set up is the same.

  • @carlaharris9645
    @carlaharris9645 Před měsícem +3

    I always believed there was NO body. A smart killer would cremated. End of story.

  • @BeNice611
    @BeNice611 Před 20 dny +3

    I remember seeing a horse farm being dug up in Michigan.

  • @johnzeszut3170
    @johnzeszut3170 Před měsícem +5

    Jimmy is in the Yellow Pages - under "Cement".

  • @ricosuave8123
    @ricosuave8123 Před měsícem +4

    That sounds very reasonable. Better than some of the other theories.

  • @vicmastro1
    @vicmastro1 Před měsícem +18

    I drove past Machus Red Fox twice on the day he disappeared, and often wondered if I hadn't been in the proximity of a car driving him away. As a 76 year resident of the Detroit area, I've heard several accounts from people closely familiar with that culture, who I know personally. There is one story that I've always found the most credible, and Mr. Pergola has just repeated it.

    • @danielhagan921
      @danielhagan921 Před 5 dny

      I've heard that story too. I think that story, and Mr.s Pergola's, the most believable of so many out there.

  • @randomname3715
    @randomname3715 Před 16 dny +1

    If he actually knew, Hoffa would have been recovered. If he knew and didn't say anything he should be in jail.

  • @perryyoung8810
    @perryyoung8810 Před 21 dnem +5

    why would they take the ashes to lake sinclair from just washing them down a drain

    • @ScubaSteveCanada
      @ScubaSteveCanada Před 11 dny

      Lake St. Clair is just north of Detroit but yeah, that aspect doesn't make sense and the potential to be caught.

    • @Banzai51
      @Banzai51 Před 9 dny

      @@ScubaSteveCanada After cremation? No, that is a lot less likely to be caught or look suspicious.

  • @williamwells1862
    @williamwells1862 Před měsícem +3

    Yup. U R right sort of. His body is well covered up.

  • @oldcop18
    @oldcop18 Před 7 dny +1

    The house where Hoffa was shotgunned had to be one hell-of-a mess. Wonder who cleaned all that up.

    • @danielhagan921
      @danielhagan921 Před 5 dny

      Very much doubt a shotgun was involved. I think the guy's story otherwise believable.That house was investigated and found to have new foyer flooring. Blood was found under it, but old, and not of a quality to lend itself to DNA testing.

  • @mistervacation23
    @mistervacation23 Před měsícem +4

    I don't know where he's buried but I think Tony Giacalone has something to do with it

  • @leslieking6259
    @leslieking6259 Před měsícem +6

    Very plausible except for the shotgun. Too messy. Probably shot with a handgun. Cremation seems very likely. Cremains dumped into the lake. Hence, Jimmy sleeps with the fishes.

  • @kathydavenport4422
    @kathydavenport4422 Před 3 dny

    I like this guy. I would love to hear more of his stories. Thank you.

  • @paulmatthews7323
    @paulmatthews7323 Před 22 dny +1

    Mad shit ! I love facts ! I love truth! Nice work Gentlemen
    Keep it coming 👣🇦🇺🌍⚖️✝️

  • @surfshack2
    @surfshack2 Před měsícem +2

    That makes sense. It’s not personal it’s just business.
    Franzese said he knows where Hoffa went. He said he sleeps with the fishes. 😆

  • @patrickjenkins6383
    @patrickjenkins6383 Před 26 dny +2

    From someplace I don't recall, I was convinced that due to foul play, Mr. Hoffa wound up...."sleeping with the fishes." 🧐

  • @knoname7778
    @knoname7778 Před 9 hodinami

    Wow , Detective Pergola on CZcams. Dude is a legend in law enforcement

  • @garyanthony4854
    @garyanthony4854 Před 18 dny

    Thanks.

  • @draco4540
    @draco4540 Před měsícem +3

    getting cremated does make sense. there would be no way in hell that his body would be found. ashes don't have dna any more.

    • @outinthesticks1035
      @outinthesticks1035 Před 5 dny

      They didn't do DNA at all back then , could have got rid of something half a dozen ways , cremation, dog food factory, swamp in Jersey, car crusher , acid vat , lots more ways
      Cremation makes sense now

  • @rumbleinthebumble8180
    @rumbleinthebumble8180 Před dnem +1

    Sawed-off at point blank range... that's an Incredible Mess...

  • @OneLastHitB4IGo
    @OneLastHitB4IGo Před měsícem +3

    The biggest question today is, does anybody really give a sh*t what happened to Hoffa?

  • @SpaceLord2025
    @SpaceLord2025 Před 25 dny +2

    i will accept that!!! makes perfect sence!!! ty sir now we know!!!

  • @bcatblues725
    @bcatblues725 Před měsícem

    New subscriber. 👍

  • @SeanCle
    @SeanCle Před 17 dny +1

    Wasn’t that basically The Irishman Story ?? Especially at the end

  • @jimbosvidbits6166
    @jimbosvidbits6166 Před 16 dny +1

    Nobody would probably be prosecuted for Hoffa ever

  • @u.s.militia7682
    @u.s.militia7682 Před měsícem +2

    Ever notice the endless line of those who know what happened to Hoffa? 😂

  • @danielhagan921
    @danielhagan921 Před 5 dny +1

    This gentleman's account of what happened to Jimmy Hoffa is as good as any that I've heard. Jimmy wanted to be president again, but the mob already had a new easy dupe; they already had stability for cheap loans. And no need for a shotgun, or anything near that loud. Small handgun with silencer or simply a 22 caliber gun would do the job without anyone hearing it outside that home. Michael Franzese, son of Colombo crime family underboss, Sonny Franzese, said that Jimmy Hoffa's body went to a place that's "very deep". Cremation .....sure; they are known to own and control such businesses.And why would anyone in the mob do anything as nutty as bring Hoffa's body back from MI to the NY or NJ area? That would not fly with the Commission.

  • @Spook2431NYC
    @Spook2431NYC Před měsícem +11

    Det Frank Pergola Absolute Legend 💙💙🇺🇲

    • @notintohandles
      @notintohandles Před měsícem

      Your English is fine! The Google translation sucks!

    • @doriangray2020
      @doriangray2020 Před měsícem

      He is a babbling old man trying to stay relevant. Story doesn’t make sense…a shotgun is too loud (residential area) and too messy.

  • @UncleBill81
    @UncleBill81 Před měsícem +15

    Best theory out there, plus this guy is credible

  • @ParaousiaComingnow
    @ParaousiaComingnow Před měsícem +4

    Yeah, a 26 year veteran Detective from the NYPD going back to Serpico in the 60's, any NYPD detective's testimony is highly suspect.

  • @lousekoya1803
    @lousekoya1803 Před měsícem +8

    New sub here from Quebec !

  • @notintohandles
    @notintohandles Před měsícem +3

    Sounds more likely than any of the other scenarios.

  • @Stormbringer505
    @Stormbringer505 Před měsícem +1

    Definitely possible. This guy probably knows for sure.

  • @forestwoods5499
    @forestwoods5499 Před měsícem +1

    Most of these details are described in the book, “I heard you paint houses”. Which is an autobiography of the Irishman that joined the mob after trying to kill some of them.

  • @martdod
    @martdod Před měsícem +7

    Wouldn’t anyone report a shotgun blast in the middle of the afternoon in a residential neighborhood? In the seventies housewives would be home.

    • @michaelplanchunas3693
      @michaelplanchunas3693 Před 27 dny +1

      Not if she's running the vacuum cleaner, yelling at the kids, doing laundry, dishes, TV, radio or stereo blasting, napping or lawn mowers outside. Shotgun sound would only last about .3 tenths of a second. And if it's muffled inside the house, especially a brick building you're not going to hear much outside.

  • @daydreambeliever6603
    @daydreambeliever6603 Před měsícem +4

    Somebody’s house was full of blood and brains. I hope the mob had some really good clean up people that wouldn’t talk.😮

  • @MMC-jp1gl
    @MMC-jp1gl Před měsícem

    To this day I reference Jimmy Hoffa in a variety of scenarios. Good to know how it finally happened. May God have mercy on his soul and the souls of all those who have disappeared. God bless~

  • @donaldthomson9411
    @donaldthomson9411 Před měsícem +19

    The Irishman was a terrible film . Very likely Anthony Provenzano had Hoffa killed and to some extent who actually carried out his orders is a bit irrelevant as he was ultimately responsible. Shocking as it is , its difficult to feel much sympathy for Hoffa, as he seems to have used the mob throughout his career for his own ends. For instance he allowed Teamster’s union funds to be used by the mob to build casinos in Las Vegas etc

    • @InterestedAmerican
      @InterestedAmerican Před měsícem +4

      The movie was not like it was said in the book that movie is based on. I Heard You Paint Houses, to me is the definitive book on the topic and a must read if you are into the subject of Jimmy Hoffa's disappearance. The book account is so close to this detective's account. In the book Frank Sheran takes responsibility as the shooter and the guy this detective mentions as the shooter was the guy that got the house they killed Hoffa in.

    • @TJS82
      @TJS82 Před měsícem +3

      @@InterestedAmerican I read the book LONG before the movie was even made, much less when I saw it, and thought the book was better. In fact, it didn`t even need to be made into a movie, as far as I`m concerned, because Hollywood likes to embellish true stories and 9 times out of 10, I think the real-life person(s) is more interesting, anyway!

    • @InterestedAmerican
      @InterestedAmerican Před měsícem +1

      @@TJS82 I completely agree. The movie was a let down compared to the book.

    • @TJS82
      @TJS82 Před měsícem +4

      @@InterestedAmerican As I said, knowing Hollywood`s reputation, my expectations were realistic, at best, so, I wasn`t necessarily surprised.

    • @bcatblues725
      @bcatblues725 Před měsícem +5

      I was embarrassed for Robert De Niro when he was kicking that man in the street. It looked so ridiculous.

  • @Qwerty-he7ib
    @Qwerty-he7ib Před měsícem +2

    Спасибо за интересный выпуск

  • @AndyMurdzek
    @AndyMurdzek Před 6 dny

    I heard in the 1990s that Hoffa wasn’t dead. He was appearing on TV regularly. He was discovered when they scrubbed off Tammy Faye Bakker’s makeup.

  • @DoucheDouchington
    @DoucheDouchington Před měsícem +4

    Yeah I know he never left Detroit area. I dunno about the cremation, but that could be. For that matter they could of crushed him on a car, or whatever.
    But all the people claiming they killed him in Detroit and then put him in a trunk and drove back to new york or new jersey, c'mon... why,?

    • @warmonger1362
      @warmonger1362 Před 19 dny

      Because the New Jersey mob couldn't stand to think that the biggest mob hit in history took place in Detroit, so they've tried to twist any way they can to take the credit.

  • @judypasqualone3819
    @judypasqualone3819 Před měsícem

    I watched The Irishman and trying to recall the story….I do know it was about Jimmy Hoffa and I recall a scene where I think he walks in a house and is immediately blown away….is the correct recollection?

  • @fastfred321
    @fastfred321 Před 26 dny +2

    My dad was working for his uncle in Detroit at a “recreation center” that was really a gambling hall for numbers and sports. Hoffa used to come in there all the time. Also, Tony Giacolone came in there all the time as well. “Tony Jack” as they used to call him came to my grandparents home for dinner back in the day. He was one of the people to meet Hoffa at the restaurant and the last to be seen with him! Tony did indeed personally give the details to my uncle about the demise of Hoffa.

  • @Test-vl1ib
    @Test-vl1ib Před 5 dny

    I heard that Hoffa actually lived in Porto Portugal until his death from heart disease in 1997.

  • @Blueknight1960
    @Blueknight1960 Před měsícem

    Dam' it, criminals killing criminals? The horror!

  • @Snitchesgetstichess
    @Snitchesgetstichess Před měsícem +5

    Spaghetti and Salami took hoffa 😅😅😅 this guys FOS

  • @garymeadows5280
    @garymeadows5280 Před měsícem +6

    Beaverland street in northwest Detroit, and in the Warrendale neighborhood, which was closeby, there were several funeral homes along Warren Avenue. Beaverland ran north to south from 8 Mile to Warren in the south. The restaurant was the Machus Red Fox at Telegraph and Maple. Jimmy was probably dust before dinner time that same day. I am from Detroit and know that Warrendale area well. He never had the meeting that he went to the restaurant for.

    • @user-vl8qw8hp1g
      @user-vl8qw8hp1g Před měsícem +1

      Oh, he had the meeting. It just wasn't the kind of "meeting" he thought it would be. IMHO

    • @garymeadows5280
      @garymeadows5280 Před měsícem +1

      This information came from a now deceased Teamster, and Goodfellow from New Jersey who was Hoffa's friend and bodyguard, and who was also an associate of Tony Provenzano, Tony Pro. Tony Jack Giacalone was a no show, and the car used belonged to a nephew of someone involved in Jimmy's hit. Even the house they took him too belonged to a relative of someone involved. There was even a cleaning crew on hand to get rid of evidence and clean the house afterwards. At that, and still now the neighbor hood was quiet, and only a mile or less east of Telegraph so it was an easy, quick drive. And hoffa was shot once he walked in the house. And a long Warren were several funeral homes. Quick, convenient, and jimmy was probably dust in the wind before Cronkite came on with the nightly news during dinner time.

    • @JohnnyDanger36963
      @JohnnyDanger36963 Před 22 dny

      ​@@garymeadows5280did they use a union staffed crematorium?

    • @warmonger1362
      @warmonger1362 Před 19 dny

      @@garymeadows5280 They did find blood under the floorboards twenty years later when the house was empty, but it was too degraded to get any DNA.

  • @troy7124
    @troy7124 Před měsícem +3

    All these years and nobody bothers to mention his Safe House in Lansing Michigan or the lime pits that are relatively close to said house

  • @daleolson3506
    @daleolson3506 Před měsícem +1

    Turn your phone

  • @chrisruthford4492
    @chrisruthford4492 Před měsícem +2

    My grandfather was a Deputy US Marshal, he was involved in witness protection for informants. He actually did protection for a guy who testified against Hoffa, kind of ironic. Most of what he did, he never talked about because he couldn't.

  • @CCW34437
    @CCW34437 Před měsícem +1

    That’s the same story that the Irishman film tells….. more or less

  • @marydavidson3308
    @marydavidson3308 Před 21 dnem +1

    What happened to his drivers?

  • @imjinrat2325
    @imjinrat2325 Před 20 dny +1

    Why should we believe him? The real story is Hoffa in managing a Cinnabon in Omaha.

  • @kurtvanluven9351
    @kurtvanluven9351 Před měsícem

    My hitman is Red Hot, yours ain't doodly squat!

  • @alexdaman.
    @alexdaman. Před měsícem

    I can’t believe this still garners any interest. He was disappeared, end of story. The who why & how is insignificant.

  • @Westyrulz
    @Westyrulz Před 5 dny

    Its common knowledge that Hoffa moved to Alice Springs Australia with Union Funds. He changed his name to Jimmy Webster.

  • @deeheart9988
    @deeheart9988 Před 24 dny +1

    I always thought he was killed in Michigan.