Riddle: The Podcast

Eric Shawn speaks to Jack Goldsmith, current Harvard law Professor and former Deputy Attorney General of the United States under President George W. Bush. Jack's stepfather Chuckie Obrien is one of only two suspects in the death of Jimmy Hoffa still alive. Chuckie Obrien has been suspected of driving the car that took Hoffa to his death. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]

Eric Shawn speaks with Geoff Schumacher, Author, Historian and Senior Director of content at the 'Mob Museum' in Las Vegas. He shares with us the knowledge of  the largest repository of the nation's history of organized crime. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]

Scott Bernstein, Mob Historian and Editor of 'Gangsterreport.com', was born and raised in a mob connected Detroit family. He is considered a top Mafia expert. Bernstein does not believe that Frank 'the Irishman' Sheeran killed Jimmy Hoffa, and he tells us why in this episode. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]

Phillip Moscato, Jr., his father, Phillip Moscato Sr., known as Brother Moscato, owned the dump in Jersey City, New Jersey where it was believed Hoffa's body was taken and buried after he was shot in Detroit. The FBI searched the dump but came up empty. The reason, says a new theory, the body was moved after one of the mafia hoodlums went to the FBI. Phil told me that in 2014, two weeks before his father died of liver cancer at the age of 79, he sat with his son on his hospital bed and told him mobster Sal 'Sally Bugs' Briguglio shot Hoffa and that Hoffa's body is buried in New Jersey. He says hew ill tall law enforcement in a sworn affidavit so they can commence a dig. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]

Dan Moldea has been on the Hoffa beat since 1974. He wrote the landmark book "The Hoffa Wars" in 1978, and is the most prominent Hoffa expert in the nation. We teamed up for the most recent Fox Nation investigation. Phillip Moscato, son of mobster Pillip Moscato Sr., who says his dad told him that mob hitman Sal Sally Bugs Birguglio shot Hoffa, the body brought back to New Jersey and buried. And, Frank Copola, son of Moscato Sr.'s business parnter who says his father buried Hoffa in the dump in Jersey City, New Jersey known as "Moscato's Dump" back in 1975. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]