HOFFA SOLVED!
Case Closed on Jimmy Hoffa’s Murder
Charles Brandt has solved the Hoffa
mystery.
Professor Arthur Sloane, author of the biography, Hoffa
Sheeran’s confession…solves
the Hoffa mystery. Nothing about the
latest [DNA] finding speaks against the confession and
overwhelming weight of the evidence.
Michael
Baden MD, former NYC Chief Medical
Examiner, author, and Medical Examiner to the 1975 House Select Committee on
Assassinations
I
believe that Hoffa was lured into the car, which we seized. There had to be somebody, or perhaps more
than one person, in the car that he trusted.
He had to be killed quickly, which means fairly nearby, and that’s also
consistent with Sheeran’s confession . . . It may not have happened exactly
that way, but I think that’s the gist of it.
Stan Hunterton, Esq., former Assistant
United States Attorney for the Detroit Hoffa Strike Force and retired organized
crime prosecutor.
I've
always felt he was a person who could possibly have done it. Sheeran provided
some credible information in the book. And why would he say he did it if he
didn't? There was no reason for him to lie. Without the bones or an eyewitness,
Sheeran's account will stand as a good explanation of what happened.
Robert A. Garrity, retired
FBI Detroit Hoffa Strike Force Case Agent in charge and author of the 1/27/76 Hoffex Memo identifying Sheeran as a suspect in Hoffa’s
murder
Charles Brandt: Born and
raised in New York City, Brandt is a former junior high English teacher;
welfare investigator in East Harlem; homicide investigator, prosecutor and
Chief Deputy Attorney General of the State of Delaware. In private practice
since 1976, Brandt was elected president of the Delaware Trial Lawyers
Association and the Delaware Chapter of the American Board of Trial Advocates.
He has been named by his peers as one of the "Best Lawyers in
America" and one of the "Best Lawyers in Delaware." He is a
frequent speaker on cross-examination and interrogation techniques for
reluctant witnesses. Brandt is the author of a novel based on major crimes
he solved through interrogation, The Right to Remain Silent
(1988); and the true crime books: I Heard You Paint
Houses (2004); and Donnie Brasco – Unfinished Business (2007, with Joe Pistone, the real life Donnie
Brasco). Charles Brandt lives in Lewes, Delaware and Sun Valley,
Idaho with his wife, Nancy, and has three grown children and one grandchild.
"I heard you paint houses" are the first
words Jimmy Hoffa ever spoke to Frank "the Irishman" Sheeran. To
paint a house is to kill a man. The paint is the blood that spatters on the
walls and floors. In the course of nearly five years of recorded interviews,
long-time Hoffa suspect, Frank Sheeran - nearing the end of his life
and seeking redemption in the Catholicism of his Depression Era
youth - confessed to Charles Brandt that he handled more than twenty-five
hits for the powerful Mafia boss Russell Bufalino, and for his friend and Teamsters
mentor Jimmy Hoffa. Sheeran learned to kill in Europe during World War II,
where he waded ashore in three amphibious invasions and marched
from Sicily to Dachau, compiling an incredible 411 days of active combat in
General Patton's "killer division." After returning home he married,
had four daughters, became a truck driver, and met Mafia boss Russell
Bufalino by chance at a truck stop in 1955. At age 35 Frank Sheeran's life
changed forever. He began doing odd jobs for Bufalino to earn a few
bucks, getting deeper into the Mafia way of life. Sheeran soon was killing on
orders again. Eventually he would rise to a position of such prominence in the
Teamsters and the Bufalino family that in a RICO suit then-U.S.
Attorney Rudy Giuliani would name him as one of only two non-Italians on a list
of 26 top mob figures. When Bufalino ordered Sheeran to kill his friend and
mentor, Jimmy Hoffa, Sheeran followed the order, knowing that if he ever said
no to Russell Bufalino about anything he would have gone to Australia -
been killed himself. Sheeran's gripping, historically important, yet in
many ways, tragic confession includes new information on other
infamous murders, including that of Crazy Joey Gallo. Sheeran's life
story provides rare insight into the Depression, World War II, the
post-war era, the Teamsters and Jimmy Hoffa, the JFK assassination, corruption
in the White House, and the Mafia and one of its most powerful and
secretive bosses, Russell Bufalino. Charles Brandt has written a best-selling page-turner
that has already become a true crime classic.
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