Hunt for Hoffa brings down the barn
Authorities search beneath stables for missing Teamsters leader
From Julian Cummings
CNN
Wednesday, May 24, 2006; Posted: 8:35 p.m. EDT (00:35 GMT)
Workers use a backhoe to tear down a horse barn for the FBI during the search for Jimmy Hoffa's body.
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Manage Alerts | What Is This? (CNN) -- The FBI has razed a large horse barn in Michigan in its search for former Teamsters union boss Jimmy Hoffa, who disappeared in 1975.
The barn, which at 140-feet long is one and a half times the length of a pro basketball court, was torn down quickly Wednesday, said Wendy Sitek, a demolition manager for Able Demolition.
Crews have to be careful removing the concrete flooring to expose the foundation of the 34-foot-wide structure, so the process may take until late Wednesday or early Thursday to complete, she said.
"You don't want to dig up Jimmy and break his bones," Sitek said. (Authorities dig for clues)
After workers have finished removing the concrete base from the structure, Able Demolition will leave and the FBI will search beneath the barn's foundation, the company said.
The government eventually will have to replace the barn, or any other structures it removes, and pay for any damage to the Hidden Dreams Farm in Milford Township, Michigan, about 30 miles northwest of Detroit.
The FBI paid Able $6,000 to tear down the barn, the company said.
The FBI has been searching for the remains of the former union boss since May 17, after receiving what an agent called "a fairly credible lead."
Numerous media, including the Detroit Free Press, reported the tip came from 75-year-old Donovan Wells, an ailing federal prisoner serving a 10-year sentence at Kentucky's Federal Medical Center for marijuana trafficking.
Wells, who lived on the farm on the 1970s, told the FBI that he saw two men use a backhoe to dig a hole where agents are now searching, according to the Free Press. Wells said he recalls the men putting what appeared to be a rolled-up carpet into the hole the day after Hoffa disappeared, the paper reported.
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