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Virginia McGinnis

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KILLER FEELS NO GUILT

McGinnis died in prison of natural causes at age 74.

Sentenced to life imprisonment without possibility of parole.

Jury convicted McGinnis of first-degree murder with special circumstance of financial gain.

Accomplice and third husband Billie Joe McGinnis died of AIDS complications before trial began.

Arrested at home in Pittsburg, California for murder.

20-year-old female victim pushed off a 400-foot cliff at Big Sur, California; death initially ruled accidental.

McGinnis took out $35,000 life insurance policy on 20-year-old female victim.

Second husband Sylvester Rearden died under suspicious circumstances; McGinnis collected insurance.

Daughter Cynthia Elaine Coates, age 3, found hanging in a barn in Louisville, Kentucky; McGinnis collected insurance payout but was never prosecuted.

Pleaded guilty to check forgery and placed on two years probation.

Virginia Agnes Hoffman born in Ithaca, New York.

Virginia Agnes McGinnis was born in Ithaca, New York in January 1937. She was convicted of first-degree murder in March 1992 for the April 2, 1987 death of a 20-year-old woman whom she and her husband pushed off a cliff at Big Sur, California as part of an insurance fraud scheme. McGinnis was sentenced to life imprisonment without parole. She died in prison on June 25, 2011.

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Virginia Agnes McGinnis