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Today in True Crime

August 26, 1916: Virginia Hill

Today in True Crime

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Education, True Crime, History

4.42.4K Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2019

⏱️ 14 minutes

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On this day in 1916, Virginia Hill, mob queen, was born in Lipscomb, Alabama. Parcasters - For more stories like this one, check out our podcast covering organized crime figures throughout history, Kingpins! Search Kingpins on Spotify today! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Today is Monday, August 26th, 2019. On this day in 1916,

0:08.0

on this day in 1916, Virginia Hill was born on a horse farm in Lipscomb, Alabama.

0:16.1

As an adult, she would go on to become one of America's most infamous mob queens.

0:25.0

Queens.

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Someone's knocking at the door.

1:27.0

Welcome to Today in True Crime, a parcast original.

1:33.3

Every day, we flip back the calendar to this date years ago

1:37.5

and recount one event from True Crime history.

1:40.9

I'm Vanessa Richardson, and today we're going back to the birth of Virginia Hill

1:46.0

who eventually became one of the most towering figures in the National Criminal

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