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03-14-2004, 11:43 AM
DETROIT - (KRT) - The FBI plans to investigate the purported deathbed confession of a former Pennsylvania Teamsters official that says he helped dispose of the body of Teamster boss Jimmy Hoffa.
The confession, said to have been written by Francis (Frank) Sheeran before he died Dec. 14 at age 83 in a nursing home near Philadelphia, says he flew to Pontiac, Mich., in a small plane on the day Hoffa disappeared, picked up Hoffa's body from the killers and drove it to a Hamtramck, Mich., trash incinerator where it was burned.
But the three-page document may turn out to be another false lead, like so many the FBI has tracked down since Hoffa vanished July 30, 1975. He was on his way to a reconciliation meeting with Anthony (Tony Pro) Provenzano, a New Jersey Teamsters boss, and Anthony (Tony Jack) Giacalone, a Detroit Mafia captain.
"It's definitely a forgery - it's not his signature," Sheeran's daughter, Dolores Miller, of West Chester, Pa., said this week.
story (http://www.aberdeennews.com/mld/aberdeennews/news/nation/8174089.htm)
The confession, said to have been written by Francis (Frank) Sheeran before he died Dec. 14 at age 83 in a nursing home near Philadelphia, says he flew to Pontiac, Mich., in a small plane on the day Hoffa disappeared, picked up Hoffa's body from the killers and drove it to a Hamtramck, Mich., trash incinerator where it was burned.
But the three-page document may turn out to be another false lead, like so many the FBI has tracked down since Hoffa vanished July 30, 1975. He was on his way to a reconciliation meeting with Anthony (Tony Pro) Provenzano, a New Jersey Teamsters boss, and Anthony (Tony Jack) Giacalone, a Detroit Mafia captain.
"It's definitely a forgery - it's not his signature," Sheeran's daughter, Dolores Miller, of West Chester, Pa., said this week.
story (http://www.aberdeennews.com/mld/aberdeennews/news/nation/8174089.htm)