Jimmy Hoffas family urges FBI to keep missing person case open and name names

The family of Jimmy Hoffa is asking that the FBI not close the missing person case and instead reveal all it knows about who killed the legendary labor leader as the 51st anniversary of the historic disappearance approaches in two weeks.“We, and likely many other Americans, would rather have the case solved, not shelved,” said Hoffa’s son, James, told Fox News Digital.“I’m shocked that the government would close such a prominent case.This case is of national interest to all, and all the efforts of the FBI should continue to go to solving it,” he continued.

“We want the case solved.The family wants to have accountability for this horrible crime.

We want the case solved so that the family can have closure.”In a letter obtained by Fox News Digital to FBI Director Kash Patel, James Hoffa writes that he and his sister, Barbara Crancer, would find closing the case “disturbing,” and urged Patel to let all the information the bureau has on his father’s disappearance be made public.“It is important to us, and the country, that the truth about my father’s disappearance [be] told and those involved in his disappearance, even if they are deceased, be exposed,” he said.“My sister Barbara and I urge the FBI to keep the case open and active, and to continue the investigation.”Jimmy Hoffa vanished July 30, 1975, on his way to what he thought was a meeting to help in his bid to regain the Teamsters union presidency.He was last seen in the parking lot of the Machus Red Fox restaurant in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, at about 2:30 p.m.

local time getting into a car that whisked him away.Jimmy Hoffa’s remains have never been recovered and no one has been charged in connection to his disappearance.In the documentary series, “Riddle, The Search for James R.Hoffa,” streaming on Fox Nation, one theory speculates Jimmy Hoffa was picked up at the restaurant by Detroit mob capo Vito “Billy Jack” Giaclone and mobster Anthony “Tony Pal” Pala...