The Nation - News from April 1, 1985
A former mob hit man and bodyguard to James R. Hoffa told a newspaper that the one-time Teamsters president was slain, ground up, stuffed into a steel drum and dumped in the Florida Everglades. Charlie Allen, who now lives under another identity provided by a witness protection program, told the Richmond, Va., Times-Dispatch that Hoffa was shot with an electric stun gun and murdered after he disappeared from Detroit in late July of 1975.
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