- The FBI's search for union boss
Jimmy Hoffa 's body has led them to Jersey City, the NYT reported. - Agents searched a landfill after a worker made a deathbed confession that he buried Hoffa's remains in a steel drum.
FBI agents searched a New Jersey landfill for Jimmy Hoffa's body after a worker made a deathbed confession that he buried the Teamsters boss' body, the New York Times reported on Thursday.
The landfill employee told family that he buried Hoffa's body in a steel drum underground in the Jersey City landfill, the report said.
FBI agents arrived at the site with a search warrant in late October and searched the area for two days, according to the Times' report.
The FBI confirmed to Insider that it searched the property on October 25 and 26, but did not mention Hoffa by name or any specific details about the case.
Hoffa was last seen in July 1975 just outside of Detroit, Michigan, and was reported missing the next day. Seven years later he was "presumed dead," though his remains have never been found.
Though it's unclear how Hoffa died, law enforcement have questioned union leaders, mob bosses, and their associates.
Hoffa's mysterious disappearance — and the purported involvement of the mob — was portrayed in Martin Scorsese's Netflix hit "The Irishman" based on unsubstantiated claims by Frank Sheeran, a labor official who claimed he killed Hoffa.
Authorities have searched numerous times for Hoffa's body nationwide, including tearing up a swimming pool in Michigan in 2003.