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New Lead in Hoffa Case

The FBI has torn down a Detroit-area barn acting on new information from a 75-year-old inmate on the 1975 disappearance of former Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa.

The 30-by-100 foot barn on a horse farm in Milford Township, Mich., came down Wednesday based on information from Donovan Wells. He is a prisoner at a federal medical facility in Kentucky whose former lawyer said was too scared for his own life to tell the FBI everything he knew in 1976.
Read entire article at Washington Times