I’m such a sucker for a good mystery and the one surrounding Teamsters’ president, Jimmy Hoffa is a good one if you’ve never heard of it. His disappearance is one of the biggest unsolved mysteries in American history and has inspired numerous conspiracy theories because to this day his body has NEVER been found! Isn’t that crazy? You would think in this day and age we could find anything, but even after all the speculation and years since his vanishing no one can locate his gravesite or body. However, it’s less of a whodunnit and more of a where the hell did they put this man’s body?!
To make this poster, I found a great template on 4themissing.net through my Word application. Then I researched all of Jimmy Hoffa’s actual characteristics. This actually yielded something interesting for me because I never knew how short he was. (This may be dark but the theory that he was stuffed into a oil drum sounds more plausible now that I know how little he was!) I included all of the real details about his disappearance from the Detroit restaurant under the circumstances section. Also, I put the link on the bottom to this hilarious site asking their users to “find Jimmy Hoffa”. Yes, people are still searching after all these years! Finally, I exported it as a JPEG so I could insert it into this post. As with all of my photos, you can expand it by clicking on the image.
I really hope that I live to see Jimmy Hoffa being found and this assignment allowed me to rediscover this famous mystery. That being said if his body were to be found in my lifetime, I might miss the joke. For example, a couple weeks ago, while at a storage unit with my mother to help a friend clean out their space, we passed by a storage unit that smelled awful. When asked what was likely inside, my mother responded: “Jimmy Hoffa’s body.” I guess the moral of this blog post is that, though Hoffa’s disappearance is tragic, it makes a pretty decent punchline. Or maybe the moral is don’t hang out with mobsters?
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