the field. buried unde) the barn on a cement slab, that s where our understanding is that the body should be. all right. so he says. but keep in mind that tips of a dubious nature from tipsters of shaky repute have triggered excavations for hoffa s missing body as far as new jersey. as far away as new jersey. today s operation is back in suburban detroit, oakland township to be specific. some 20 miles from the diner where hoffa was last seen alive. authority dan muldaya is going to help walk us through all this. he chronicled numerous crime investigations involving subjects ranging from bobby kennedy o.j. simpson and jimmy hoffa himself. tony zerali was boss of the detroit mafia from 1971 to 1974 when we went to jail. his elderly father became boss of the detroit mafia from 1974 to 1977. he was in place when jimmv hoffa disappeared in 1975. as the boss of the detroit mafia he would have had to check off on the hit. when joe zereli died in 1977 his new underboss, a guy nam
0 thank you, suzanne. i m don lemon in for brooke baldwin. a huge hour of news for you. we begin with a breaking story out of new jersey. it s unfolding rig$t now. a plane has just landed in newark after a passenger claimed to have poisoned everyone here s what we know right now. the united flight traveling from hong kong, newark was its original destination. we re told the passenger became% disruptive and the feds aren t sure whether the threat is real. but they re taking it seriously, of course. updates for you as we get them throughout the hours here on cnn. also happening right now, the fbi is digging today for the body of jimmy hoffa, again. union boss, convict, organized crime figure, hoffa vanished on a hot summer night in detroit 1975. $asn t been seen since. just a short time ago, a lawyer with ties to the case says this is it. for real. there used to be a barn in the field. buried unde) the barn on a cement slab, that s where our understanding is that the body should be.
mother barely alive. both were staying inside room 225, that s the same room where daryl and shirley jenkins, an elderly couple from washington state, were staying when they died on april 16th. it was really a shock to hear that that room had been occupied again after what had happened to daryl and shirley jenkins. reporter: boone police say preliminary autopsy information for the jenkins couple was inconclusive, their deaths remained a mystery until now. it was just within the past 24 hours that the toxicology reports had become available indicating that there was a lethal level of carbon monoxide, as a matter of fact, 60% in their blood level. reporter: authorities say elevated levels of carbon monoxide were found inside room 225 on saturday, investigators are still working to find out how the odorless gas got into the room. the room 225 is located above a maintenance room in the pool
right? two that we know of, a woman and a young child, the child is in the bed. reporter: after 11-year-old jeffrey lee williams and his 49-year-old mother, jeannie are found unresponsive inside a room here at this best western hotel in boone, north carolina. don t hang up, okay? i m not hanging up, ma am. this happened last month. please, come help us. reporter: when paramedics responded to the hotel saturday afternoon, jeffrey was dead, his mother barely alive. both were staying inside room 225, that s the same room where daryl and shirley jenkins, an elderly couple from washington state, were staying when they died on april 16th. it was really a shock to hear that that room had been occupied again after what had happened to daryl and shirley jenkins. reporter: boone police say preliminary autopsy information for the jenkins couple was inconclusive, their deaths remained a mystery until now. it was just within the past
225, that s the same room where darryl and shirley jenkins, and elderly couple from washington state, were staying when they died on april 16th. it was really a shock to hear that room had been occupied again after what had happened to darryl and shirley jenkins. reporter: police say preliminary autopsy information from the couple was inconclusive and their deaths remained a mystery until now. just in the past 24 hours the toxicology reports have become available indicating that there was a lethal level of carbon monoxide, as a matter of fact, 60%, in their blood level. reporter: authorities say elevated levels were found inside room 225 on saturday. investigators are still working to find out how the odorless gas got into the room. the room 225 is located above a maintenance room in the pool, which contains a heater, so, of course, we suspect that that