Where is Jimmy Hoffa?

Jimmy Hoffa was buried under the Renaissance Center

Question: Where is Jimmy Hoffa?
Position1 of 3›: Jimmy Hoffa was buried
Argument‹2 of 3›: Jimmy Hoffa was buried under the Renaissance Center

Many believe that Jimmy Hoffa was buried under the foundations of the Renaissance Center in Detroit, as foundations were being poured the day after his disappearance.

The argument

According to Marvin Elkind, Jimmy Hoffa’s former personal driver, Hoffa was killed and buried under the Renaissance Center, which was under construction at the time. Elkind, who carried on connections to organized crime even after Hoffa’s death, told journalist Adrian Humphreys that one day as he was walking with Mafia leader Anthony Giacalone, Giacalone gestured towards the Renaissance Center and said “say good morning to Jimmy Hoffa, boys”. This theory is corroborated by a now retired corrections officer, Michael Yarbrough, who said that he stumbled across Hoffa being murdered at the renaissance center construction site on the day of Hoffa’s disappearance.

Premises

[P1]According to Hoffa's former driver Marvin Elkind, Hoffa was killed and buried under Detroit's Renaissance Center while it was under construction, a claim Elkind tied to Mafia leader Anthony Giacalone reportedly gesturing at the site and saying "say good morning to Jimmy Hoffa, boys." [P2] The account is corroborated by retired corrections officer Michael Yarbrough, who said he stumbled upon Hoffa being murdered at the Renaissance Center construction site on the day of the disappearance. [C] On these accounts Jimmy Hoffa was buried under the Renaissance Center — that is, Jimmy Hoffa was buried.

Counter-arguments

Although the Renaissance Center theory is plausible, many expert's do not agree with this theory. The main reason for their dissent is simply because other theories are more compelling. The only Mafia link to this theory is Marvin "the Weasel" Elkind who had no authority in the Mafia and therefore would not have been privy to information on Jimmy Hoffa. Other theories posited come from people with larger authority in the Mafia and therefore seem more reliable.

Rejecting the premises

[Rejecting P1] Both halves of the claim rest on unverified recollection: a remark attributed to Giacalone is hearsay of a boast rather than evidence of a burial, and Elkind's position on the fringe of organised crime makes him an unlikely recipient of the knowledge the story requires him to have had. [Rejecting P2] Yarbrough's account is uncorroborated testimony offered long after the fact and has never been matched by physical evidence at the site, so the two sources reinforce one another only in telling a similar story — which leaves this theory where it started, as one of several competing burial claims with nothing to separate it from the rest.