When The Mob Turns on its Own Hitman - June 20 2026

Morning Cup of Murder

Society & Culture, History, Documentary, True Crime

4.6 • 782 Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2026

⏱️ 16 minutes

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June 20th: Benjamin Siegel Dies (1947) Having connections with the underworld can place a target on your back. Even if you're the one who's usually holding the weapon. On June 20th 1947 a notorious hitman became a victim. Showing that, with one wrong move, even the hunter can become the prey. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bugsy_Siegel, https://themobmuseum.org/blog/killed-benjamin-bugsy-siegel/, https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/lasvegas-siegel/, https://themobmuseum.org/blog/seventy-five-years-later-debate-over-bugsy-siegel-murder-still-rages/, https://www.biography.com/crime/bugsy-siegel, https://www.lapl.org/collections-resources/blogs/lapl/quiet-evening-quick-death-demise-bugsy-siegel, https://people.com/celebrity/bugsy-siegels-1947-murder-has-it-finally-been-solved/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:53.5	There were two more murders, 15 miles away.
0:56.0	When police arrives, they found the telephones and electricity lines.
0:59.2	We have a weird homicide.
1:01.8	A scene described by one investigator as reminiscent of a weird...
1:06.1	Morning.
1:06.3	A cop of murder.
1:08.2	Having connections with the underworld can place a target on your back. even if you're the one who's usually holding the weapon.
1:16.0	On June 20th, 1947, a notorious hitman became a victim, showing that with one wrong move, even the hunter can become the prey.
1:27.3	So, if you like your coffee hot, but your bones chilled, sit back and start your day with a morning cup of murder.
1:36.9	Benjamin Siegelbaum was born on February 28, 1906 in Brooklyn, New York,
1:42.2	as one of five children to a poor Ashkenazi Jewish family, who
1:46.9	immigrated to the U.S., resenting the poverty he was surrounded by and vowing to do better for
1:53.1	himself when he was just a boy, Benjamin quit school and joined a gang on the Lower East Side.
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