In September 2012, dozens of residents looked on as police cordoned off the area around a shed just northeast of Detroit.

Low whispers about what — or whom — officers searched for grew to more excited chatter when the name Jimmy Hoffa started floating around the normally quiet street.

By that time, the name was sort of mythical in and around the city.

July 30 marked 50 years since the iron-fisted former Teamsters union boss disappeared from a restaurant about 10 miles north of the city. Presumed dead long before being legally declared deceased in 1982, Hoffa’s remains were not found beneath the concrete shed floor in Roseville in 2012.

Nor were they uncovered eight years earlier, below floorboards in a Detroit house. Neither were they found in 2013 at a horse farm miles northwest of th

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