FBI to probe alleged Hoffa-tied confession

Salt Lake City Sun Sunday 14th March, 2004

The FBI will look into an alleged confession by an ex-Teamsters official who claimed he helped get rid of the body of Teamsters leader Jimmy Hoffa.

The document could turn out to be another false lead in the mystery surrounding Hoffa's disappearance July 30, 1975.

It's definitely a forgery -- it's not his signature, Dolores Miller, a daughter of Francis Frank Sheeran, told the Detroit Free Press. Her father was a Pennsylvania Teamsters official who died Dec. 14. The 83-year-old's three-page alleged confession says he took Hoffa's body to a trash incinerator, where it was burned.

Miller says the document was made up, and she claims the forgery was the work of the author of a forthcoming biography on her father, John Zeitts. Miller is cooperating with the writer of a competing Sheeran biography, Charles Brandt.

Zeitts told the Free Press the confession is genuine.