Alan Greenblatt,NPR
whether it's him, it's going to be a letdown. For the better section of 40 years, or the disappearance of former Teamsters President James Hoffa has been a source of fascination on par with Bigfoot,the Loch Ness Monster and the aliens in Roswell, N.
M. whether the FBI finds and identifies his body, or as agents are currently trying to carry out just outside Detroit,it will end the mystery and ruin the suspense, says Bob Thompson, and a pop culture professor at Syracuse University. "whether it turns out it is Jimmy Hoffa,the story loses all its punch," Thompson says. "Closure is the death knell (the solemn sound of a bell, often indicating a death) to these kinds of things."
Source: realclearhistory.com