FBI gets search warrant to excavate site in search for remains of Jimmy Hoffa

Teamsters Union president Jimmy Hoffa (AP)

The decades-long odyssey to find the remains of former Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa apparently has turned to a former US landfill that sits below an elevated road.

The FBI obtained a search warrant to “conduct a site survey underneath the Pulaski Skyway”, said Mara Schneider, a spokeswoman for the Detroit field office.