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...many of them tried to be. Who'll Stop the Rain, which wanted to say something about the drug culture, opened in August and died in the marketplace within two months. Audiences also wisely avoided Sylvester Stallone's F.I.S.T., a tedious fictionalization of the life of Jimmy Hoffa, and were almost as wary of Paradise Alley, Stallone's futile attempt to re-create sweaty 1940s realism. Convoy, Ali MacGraw's comeback vehicle, did not get rolling, and Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, which had all the energy of a wilting lily, never managed...
...back seat beside Hoffa as O'Brien drove; a second sat in front. During the trip, the thug in back hit Hoffa over the head with some kind of blunt instrument, knocking him out. Traces of Hoffa's blood and hair were found in the back seat...
...Hoffa may have been strangled in the vehicle. There would have been more blood if he had been shot, evidence that his assailants did not want to leave behind. Or he may have been taken somewhere else and killed. Brill believes that Hoffa's body was later completely destroyed in a large trash shredder, compactor or incinerator-or some combination of all three-at Central Sanitation Services in nearby Hamtramck, Mich. The refuse-disposal company is owned by two Detroit crime figures, Raffael Quasarano and Peter Vitale...
Though the FBI knows what happened to Hoffa, it does not have a strong enough case to go to court. "We all know who did it," one unidentified Teamsters vice president told Brill. "It was Tony with those guys of his from New Jersey. It's common knowledge. But the cops need a corroborating witness, and it doesn't look like they're about to get one, does it?" The FBI, according to Brill, has been playing a persistent and patient game, trying to get evidence against the suspects on other charges in the hope that...
...Tony Pro that he hid under a bed for two days at the Teamsters' Las Vegas convention in 1976. Last March Salvatore Briguglio was shot to death outside a restaurant in New York's Little Italy to keep him from talking to the FBI about the Hoffa case. Agents promptly tried to convince the other suspects that they had a better chance to survive as protected Government witnesses than on the loose in the streets. So far, none have been willing to testify in court about Jimmy Hoffa's last ride...