The TV cameras have been packed. The gawkers have gone home. Calm has returned to Roseville.
But video from the Deadline Detroit Drone Cam remains.
The Drone Cam, operated by Harry Arnold of Detroit-based iTv, went on a reconnaissance mission above Roseville Friday. Click on the video to see the results.
The Free Press reported that a ground sample taken Friday from a driveway in Roseville showed no evidence of a body -- or for that matter, James Hoffa.
The Police Chief James Berlin told the Freep that four-inch core sample pulled out from six feet under a concrete slab was a combination of clay and mud. He said analysis of the sample should be done by Monday.
Roseville police were acting on a tip that Hoffa might be buried in Roseville. The FBI was skeptical. So were some former agents. So was much of the western world.
At the time of Jimmy Hoffa's disappareance in 1975, deceased Detroit area mobster Bernard (Bernie The Hammer) Marchesani lived in the same neighborhood where Roseville police dug Friday, according to a story by Scott M. Burnstein in the Oakland Press.
Based on a tip from a dying man, police will excavate a driveway in front of a residence on the 8700 block of Florida Street located in Roseville near the intersection of 12 Mile Road at Gratiot, in search of Hoffa’s remains.
A convicted racketeer and reputed hit man, Marchesani, who was known in the local underworld by that ominous nickname lived within walking distance of the Florida home on a street called Florence.
