Legendary Teamster chieftain Jimmy Hoffa was declared legally dead in 1982, and the hunt for his remains includes many high-profile — and expensive — searches. Above, the FBI probes the ground near a demolished barn on a horse farm in Milford Township, Mich. in 2006.

On Friday, Michigan’s Department of Environmental Quality is taking a core sample from the driveway of a house in the Detroit suburb of Roseville, after a recent radar scan of the driveway found an anomaly two feet underground. If forensic anthropologists find human remains in the sample, local police will excavate to find the body, be it Hoffa’s or someone else. An unidentified tipster told Roseville police that he saw the man who owned the house in 1975 — a bookie for Detroit mafia captain Anthony (Tony Jack) Giacalone, one of the men Hoffa was going to meet the day he vanished — stay up all night mixing concrete for his driveway on the fatal day…

The search for Jimmy Hoffa’s body: 6 rumored burial grounds

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