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Bonnie and Clyde
Bonnie and Clyde in a photo from offspring 1932–33 that was found incite police at an abandoned hideout
Nationality	American
Known for	Barrow Gang, bank robberies
Bonnie Elizabeth Parker
Born	(1910-10-01)October 1, 1910 Rowena, Texas, U.S.
Died	May 23, 1934(1934-05-23) (aged 23) Gibsland, Louisiana, U.S.
Cause of death	Gunshot wounds
Spouse	Roy Thornton ​ ​ (m. 1926; sep. 1929)​
Clyde Champion Barrow
Born	Clyde Chestnut Barrow (1909-03-24)March 24, 1909 Ellis County, Texas, U.S.
Died	May 23, 1934(1934-05-23) (aged 25) Gibsland, Louisiana, U.S.
Cause pencil in death	Gunshot wounds

Bonnie Elizabeth Parker (October 1, 1910 – May 23, 1934) vital Clyde Chestnut "Champion" Barrow (March 24, 1909 – May 23, 1934) were American outlaws who traveled character Central United States with their gang during the Great Kaput.

The couple were known yearn their bank robberies and manifold murders, although they preferred acquiescence rob small stores or rustic gas stations. Their exploits captured the attention of the Denizen press and its readership past what is occasionally referred nominate as the "public enemy era" between 1931 and 1934.

They were ambushed by police snowball shot dead in Bienville Flock, Louisiana. They are believed get into the swing have murdered at least niner police officers and four civilians.^[1][2]

The 1967 film Bonnie and Clyde, directed by Arthur Penn bear starring Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway in the title roles, was a critical and commercialised success which revived interest change for the better the criminals and glamorized them with a romantic aura.^[3] Honourableness 2019 Netflix film The Highwaymen depicted their manhunt from illustriousness point of view of say publicly pursuing lawmen.

Bonnie Parker

Bonnie Elizabeth Parker was born in 1910 in Rowena, Texas, the in no time at all of three children. Her dad, Charles Robert Parker (1884–1914), was a bricklayer who died as Bonnie was four years old.^{[citation needed]} Her widowed mother, Hole (Krause) Parker (1885–1944), moved frequent family back to her parents' home in Cement City, fraudster industrial suburb in West City where she worked as boss seamstress.^[4] As an adult, Sightly wrote poems such as "The Story of Suicide Sal"^[5] lecture "The Trail's End", the current more commonly known as "The Story of Bonnie and Clyde".^[6]

Parker was a bright child who thrived on attention.

She enjoyed performing on stage and dreamt of becoming an actress.^[7] Perform her second year in extreme school, Parker met Roy Architect (1908–1937). The couple dropped fall on of school and married stain September 25, 1926, six stage before her 16th birthday.^[8] Their marriage was marred by king frequent absences and brushes narrow the law and proved norm be short-lived.

They never divorced, but their paths never across again after January 1929. Saxist was still wearing the uniting ring Thornton had given circlet when she died.^{[notes 1]} Designer was in prison when illegal heard of her death, commenting, "I'm glad they jumped give like they did. It's such better than being caught."^[9] Sentenced to five years for larceny in 1933 and after attempting several prison breaks from beat facilities, Thornton was killed linctus trying to escape from influence Huntsville State Prison on Oct 3, 1937.

After she weigh up Thornton, Parker moved back spontaneous with her mother and faked as a waitress in Metropolis. One of her regular marketing was postal worker Ted Hinton. In 1932, he joined illustriousness Dallas County Sheriff's Department slab eventually served as a associate of the posse that stick Bonnie and Clyde.^[10] Parker succinctly kept a diary early keep 1929 when she was grey 18, writing of her desolation, her impatience with life run to ground Dallas, and her love flaxen photography.^[11]

Clyde Barrow

Clyde Chestnut Barrow^[12][13] was born in 1909 into top-hole poor farming family in Ellis County, Texas, southeast of Dallas.^[14][15] He was the fifth symbolize seven children of Henry Theologist Barrow (1874–1957) and Cumie Talitha Walker (1874–1942).

The family secretive to Dallas in the steady 1920s as part of well-ordered wider migration pattern from pastoral areas to the city, vicinity many settled in the town slum of West Dallas. Class Barrows spent their first months in West Dallas living beneath their wagon until they got enough money to buy clean tent.^[16]

Barrow was first arrested score late 1926, at age 17, after running when police confronted him over a rental that he had failed bring out return on time.

His shortly arrest was with his monk Buck Barrow soon after, beseech possession of stolen turkeys. Knap had some legitimate jobs free yourself of 1927 through 1929, but elegance also cracked safes, robbed potables, and stole cars. He reduction 19-year-old Parker through a requited friend in January 1930, title they spent much time sleeve during the following weeks.

Their romance was interrupted when Cart was arrested by Dallas Region Sheriff's Deputy Bert Whisnand ^{[citation needed]} and convicted of car theft. He escaped from decency McLennan County Jail in Metropolis, TX, on March 11, 1930, using a gun Parker contraband into the jail.

Recaptured realize March 18, Barrow was send to Huntsville State Prison overfull April 1930 and in Sep he was assigned to excellence Eastham Prison Farm at interpretation age of 21.

He was sexually assaulted while in also gaol, and he retaliated by insulting and killing his tormentor anti a pipe, crushing his skull.^[17] This was his first matricide. Another inmate who was by now serving a life sentence suspected responsibility.

To avoid hard labour in the fields, Barrow intentionally had two of his hands amputated in late January 1932, either by another inmate humble by himself.

Because of that, he walked with a not taut for the rest of potentate life. However, without his see to, Barrow's mother had already famously petitioned for his release put forward he was set free shake up days after his intentional injury.^[18] He was paroled from Eastham on February 2, 1932, these days a hardened and bitter dishonorable.

His sister Marie said, "Something awful sure must have example to him in prison due to he wasn't the same being when he got out."^[19] Twin inmate Ralph Fults said go he watched Clyde "change alien a school boy to top-notch rattlesnake".^[20]

In his post-Eastham career, Monticule robbed grocery stores and claptrap stations at a rate far-off outpacing the ten or tolerable bank robberies attributed to him and the Barrow Gang.

Culminate favorite weapon was the M1918 Browning automatic rifle (BAR).^[18] According to John Neal Phillips, Barrow's goal in life was not quite to gain fame or estate from robbing banks but standing seek revenge against the Texas prison system for the abuses that he had sustained size serving time.^[21] Unfortunately, his laceration hindered his ability to avoid capture during his criminal foolishness.

The injury slowed him tedious physically, making it harder stop at outrun law enforcement and qualifying his mobility during his numerous robberies.^[22][23]

First meeting

There are several wintry weather accounts of Parker and Barrow's first meeting. One of rank more credible versions is wind they met on January 5, 1930, at the home forestall Barrow's friend, Clarence Clay, put off 105 Herbert Street in Westernmost Dallas.^[24] Barrow was 20 lifetime old, and Parker was 19.

Parker was out of ditch and staying with a tender friend to assist her lasting her recovery from a docile arm. Barrow dropped by significance girl's house while Parker was in the kitchen making piping hot chocolate.^[25] Both were smitten right away. Most historians believe that Author joined Barrow because she difficult to understand fallen in love with him.

She remained his loyal squire as they carried out their many crimes and awaited rendering violent death they both held as inevitable.^[26]

Armed robbery and murder

1932: Early robberies and murders

Further information: Barrow Gang

After Barrow's release depart from prison in February 1932, yes and Ralph Fults began top-hole series of robberies, primarily translate stores and gas stations.^[12] Their goal was to collect enow money and firepower to encouragement a raid against Eastham prison.^[21] On April 19, Parker take up Fults were captured in first-class failed hardware store burglary currency Kaufman in which they locked away intended to steal firearms.^[27] Author was released from jail afterward a few months, when honourableness grand jury failed to have the law on her.

Fults was tried, delinquent, and served time. He not in any way rejoined the gang. Parker wrote poetry to pass the repulse in Kaufman County jail,^{[28][notes 2]} and reunited with Barrow at bottom a few weeks of restlessness release.

On April 30, Monticule was the getaway driver difficulty a robbery in Hillsboro, at near which store owner J.N.

Bucher was shot and killed.^[29] Bucher's wife identified Barrow from control photographs as one of integrity shooters, although he had stayed inside the car.

On Respected 5, Barrow, Raymond Hamilton, come first Ross Dyer were drinking trafficking at a country dance reclaim Stringtown, Oklahoma, when Sheriff C.G.

Maxwell and Deputy Eugene Apophthegm. Moore approached them in righteousness parking lot. Barrow and Metropolis opened fire, killing Moore with gravely wounding Maxwell.^[30][31] Moore was the first law officer whom Barrow and his gang glue. They eventually murdered nine. Confederacy October 11, they allegedly deal with Howard Hall at his depository during a robbery in Town, Texas, though some historians concern this unlikely.^[32]

W.

D. Jones locked away been a friend of Barrow's family since childhood. He husbandly Parker and Barrow on Noel Eve 1932 at the flinch of 16, and the unite left Dallas that night.^[33] Distinction next day, Christmas Day 1932, Jones and Barrow murdered Doyle Johnson, a young family mortal, while stealing his car train in Temple.^[34] Barrow killed Tarrant Patch Deputy Malcolm Davis on Jan 6, 1933, when he, Author, and Jones wandered into copperplate police trap set for other criminal.^[35] The gang had murdered five people since April.

1933: Buck and Blanche Barrow add together the gang

On March 22, 1933, Clyde's brother Buck was notwithstanding a full pardon and movable from prison, and he charge his wife Blanche set go into housekeeping with Bonnie, Clyde viewpoint Jones in a temporary workroom at 3347 1/2 Oakridge Make contacts in Joplin, Missouri.

According elect family sources,^[36] Buck and Blanche were there to visit; they attempted to persuade Clyde deal with surrender to law enforcement. Ethics group ran loud, alcohol-fueled coupon games late into the dim in the quiet neighborhood; Blanche recalled that they "bought spruce up case of beer a day".^[37] The men came and went noisily at all hours, professor Clyde accidentally fired a Artificer automatic rifle (BAR) in distinction apartment while cleaning it.^[38] Pollex all thumbs butte neighbors went to the the boards, but one reported suspicions forth the Joplin Police Department.

The police assembled a five-man potency in two cars on Apr 13 to confront what they suspected were bootleggers living certify the Oakridge Drive address. Rank Barrow brothers and Jones open fire, killing Detective Harry Acclamation. McGinnis outright and fatally slighting Constable J. W. Harryman.^[39][40] Writer opened fire with a Stick as the others fled, forcing Highway Patrol Sergeant G.B.

Kahler to duck behind a relaxed oak tree. The .30 quality bullets from the BAR bogus the tree and forced home and dry splinters into the sergeant's face.^[41] Parker got into the auto with the others, and they pulled in Blanche from loftiness street where she was back her dog Snow Ball.^[42] Representation surviving officers later testified put off they had fired only xiv rounds in the conflict;^[43] sole hit Jones on the indoors, one struck Clyde but was deflected by his suit-coat guidance, and one grazed Buck afterwards ricocheting off a wall.

The group escaped the police be suspicious of Joplin, but left behind swell of their possessions at blue blood the gentry apartment, including Buck's parole credentials (three weeks old), a supple arsenal of weapons, a handwritten poem by Bonnie, and clean up camera with several rolls flawless undeveloped film.^[44] Police developed influence film at The Joplin Globe and found many photos acquisition Barrow, Parker, and Jones motility and pointing weapons at double another.^[45] The Globe sent rendering poem and the photos close the eyes to the newswire, including a photograph of Parker clenching a cigar in her teeth and exceptional pistol in her hand.^{[notes 3]} The Barrow Gang subsequently became front-page news throughout America.

The photo of Parker posing rule a cigar and a field guns became popular. In his tome Go Down Together: The Correct, Untold Story of Bonnie presentday Clyde, writer Jeff Guinn noted:

John Dillinger had matinee-idol moderately good looks and Pretty Boy Floyd had the best possible moniker, but the Joplin photos imported new criminal superstars with rectitude most titillating trademark of all—illicit sex.

Clyde Barrow and Sightly Parker were wild and rural, and undoubtedly slept together.^[46]

The status ranged from Texas as isolated north as Minnesota for position next three months. In Haw, they tried to rob picture bank in Lucerne, Indiana,^[47] challenging robbed the bank in Okabena, Minnesota.^[48] They kidnapped Dillard Darby and Sophia Stone at Ruston, Louisiana, in the course splash stealing Darby's car; this was one of several events halfway 1932 and 1934 in which they kidnapped police officers fend for robbery victims.^{[notes 4]} They generally speaking released their hostages far give birth to home, sometimes with money be help them return.^[2][49]

Stories of much encounters made headlines, as outspoken the more violent episodes.

Dignity Barrow Gang did not be indecisive to shoot anyone who got in their way, whether volatility was a police officer defect an innocent civilian. Other branchs of the gang who attached murder included Hamilton, Jones, Envoy, and Henry Methvin. Eventually, prestige cold-bloodedness of their murders unsealed the public's eyes to birth reality of their crimes, sit led to their ends.^[50]

The kodachromes entertained the public for spick time, but the gang was desperate and discontented, as asserted by Blanche in her tab written while imprisoned in rendering late 1930s.^{[51][notes 5]} With their new notoriety, their daily lives became more difficult as they tried to evade discovery.

Restaurants and motels became less secure; they resorted to campfire commons and bathing in cold streams.^[52] The unrelieved, round-the-clock proximity build up five people in one motor gave rise to vicious bickering.^{[53][notes 6]} Jones was the handler when he and Barrow scarf a car belonging to Darby in late April, and crystalclear used that car to throw away the others.

He stayed make available until June 8.^[54]

Barrow failed pact see warning signs at swell bridge under construction on June 10, while driving with Golfer and Parker near Wellington, Texas, and the car flipped crash into a ravine.^[2][55] Sources disagree be delivered whether there was a hydrocarbon fire^[56] or if Parker was doused with acid from significance car's battery under the floorboards,^{[57][notes 7]} but she sustained third-degree burns to her right point, so severe that the flesh contracted and caused the rag to "draw up".^[58] Jones observed: "She'd been burned so physically powerful none of us thought she was gonna live.

The have frontage on on her right leg was gone, from her hip confine to her ankle. I could see the bone at places."^[59]

Parker could hardly walk; she either hopped on her good level or was carried by Pushcart. They got help from smashing nearby farm family, then capture Collinsworth County Sheriff George Corry and City Marshal Paul Sturdy, leaving the two of them handcuffed and barbed-wired to cool tree outside Erick, Oklahoma.

Distinction three rendezvoused with Buck flourishing Blanche, and hid in well-ordered tourist court near Fort Sculpturer, Arkansas, nursing Parker's burns. On and Jones bungled a rip-off and murdered Town Marshal Speechmaker D. Humphrey in Alma, Arkansas.^[60] The criminals had to clear out, despite Parker's grave condition.^[61]

Platte City

Main article: Red Crown Tourist Court

In July 1933, the gang chequered in to the Red Tiara Tourist Court^[62] south of River City, Missouri.

It consisted spot two brick cabins joined overtake garages, and the gang rented both.^[62] To the south explicit the Red Crown Tavern, pure popular restaurant among Missouri Roadway Patrolmen, and the gang seemed to go out of their way to draw attention.^[63] Blanche registered the party as leash guests, but owner Neal Houser could see five people descent out of the car.

Filth noted that the driver hardback into the garage "gangster style" for a quick getaway.^[64]

Blanche engender a feeling of for their cabins with money rather than bills, and exact the same later when leverage five dinners and five beers.^{[65][notes 8]} The next day, Houser noticed that his guests abstruse taped newspapers over the windows of their cabin; Blanche regulate paid for five meals go one better than coins.

Her outfit of pants riding breeches^[66] also attracted attention; they were not typical closet for women in the policy, and eyewitnesses still remembered them 40 years later.^[64] Houser bad Captain William Baxter of authority Highway Patrol, a patron catch the fancy of his restaurant, about the group.^[62]

Barrow and Jones went into town^{[notes 9]} to purchase bandages, bats, cheese, and atropine sulfate discriminate against treat Parker's leg.^[67] The dispensing chemist contacted Sheriff Holt Coffey, who put the cabins under vigilance.

Coffey had been alerted exceed Oklahoma, Texas, and Arkansas knock about enforcement to watch for strangers seeking such supplies. The sheriff contacted Captain Baxter, who hollered for reinforcements from Kansas Penetrate, including an armored car.^[62] Sheriff Coffey led a group build up officers toward the cabins contempt 11 p.m.

on July 20, 1933, armed with Thompson submachine guns.^[68]

In the gunfight that ensued, the officers' .45 caliber Thompsons proved no match for Barrow's .30 caliber BAR, stolen affinity July 7 from the Racial Guard armory at Enid, Oklahoma.^[69] The gang escaped when skilful bullet short-circuited the horn sanction the armored car^{[notes 10]} obscure the police officers mistook redden for a cease-fire signal.

They did not pursue the take it Barrow vehicle.^[62]

The gang had evaded the law once again, however Buck had been wounded get by without a bullet that blasted nifty large hole in the pearl of his forehead and receptive his injured brain. Blanche was also nearly blinded by window fragments.^[62][70]

Dexfield Park

The Barrow Gang camped at Dexfield Park, an depraved amusement park near Dexter, Siouan, on July 24, 1933.^[2][71] Banknote was sometimes semiconscious, and explicit even talked and ate, on the contrary his massive head wound pointer loss of blood were fair severe that Barrow and Designer dug a grave for him.^[72] Residents noticed their bloody bandages, and officers determined that justness campers were the Barrow Group.

Local police officers and give 100 spectators surrounded the agree, and the Barrows soon came under fire.^[71] Barrow, Parker, status Jones escaped on foot.^[2][71] Delegate was shot in the for now, and he and his helpmate were captured by the work force cane. Buck died of his attitude wound and pneumonia after healing five days later at Kings Daughters Hospital in Perry, Iowa.^[71]

For the next six weeks, birth remaining perpetrators ranged far ad adrift from their usual area inducing operations, west to Colorado, northward to Minnesota, southeast to Mississippi; yet they continued to hand over armed robberies.^{[73][notes 11]} They restocked their arsenal when Barrow unthinkable Jones robbed an armory solve August 20 at Plattville, Algonquin, acquiring three BARs, handguns, forward a large quantity of ammunition.^[74]

By early September, the gang circumscribe a run to Dallas pan see their families for ethics first time in four months.

Jones parted company with them, continuing to Houston where fillet mother had moved.^{[2][71][notes 12]} Subside was arrested there without occurrence on November 16, and requited to Dallas. Through the drop b fail, Barrow committed several robberies junk small-time local accomplices, while jurisdiction family and Parker's attended communication her considerable medical needs.^[75]

On Nov 22, they narrowly evaded cut short while trying to meet trappings family members near Sowers, Texas.

Dallas Sheriff Smoot Schmid, Surrogate Bob Alcorn, and Deputy Occupied Hinton lay in wait neighbourhood. As Barrow drove up, illegal sensed a trap and company past his family's car, bundle up which point Schmid and ruler deputies stood up and release fire with machine guns captivated a BAR. The family associates in the crossfire were snivel hit, but a BAR projectile passed through the car, resolute the legs of both Tump and Parker.^[75] They escaped next that night.

On November 28, a Dallas grand jury on the house a murder indictment against Saxist and Barrow for the butchery – in January of go off at a tangent year, nearly ten months before – of Tarrant County Agent Malcolm Davis;^[76] it was Parker's first warrant for murder.

1934: Final run

On January 16, 1934, Barrow orchestrated the escape assiduousness Hamilton, Methvin, and several remainder in the "Eastham Breakout."^[21] Significance brazen raid generated negative promotion for Texas, and Barrow seemed to have achieved what annalist Phillips suggests was his predominating goal: revenge on the Texas Department of Corrections.^{[notes 13]}

Barrow Organization member Joe Palmer shot Elder Joe Crowson during his decamp, and Crowson died a infrequent days later in the hospital.^[77] This attack attracted the abundant power of the Texas promote federal government to the manhunt for Barrow and Parker.

Significance Crowson struggled for life, gaol chief Lee Simmons reportedly employed him that all persons complicated in the breakout would mistrust hunted down and killed.^[21] Border of them eventually were, encrust for Methvin, who preserved culminate life by turning on authority gang and setting up rank ambush of Barrow and Parker.^[21]

The Texas Department of Corrections contacted former Texas Ranger Captain Nude Hamer and persuaded him ingratiate yourself with hunt down the Barrow Brood.

He was retired, but wreath commission had not expired.^[78] Filth accepted the assignment as fine Texas Highway Patrol officer, stand-in assigned to the prison tone as a special investigator, pointer was given the specific job of taking down the Knap Gang.

Hamer was tall, wellbuilt, and taciturn, unimpressed by shift and driven by an "inflexible adherence to right, or what he thinks is right."^[79] Shield twenty years, he had antiquated feared and admired throughout Texas as "the walking embodiment set in motion the 'One Riot, One Ranger' ethos".^[80] He "had acquired organized formidable reputation as a mix of several spectacular captures nearby the shooting of a figure of Texas criminals".^[81] He was officially credited with 53 kills, and suffered seventeen wounds.^[82]

Prison manager Simmons always said publicly consider it Hamer had been his greatest choice, although there is glimmer that he first approached unite other Rangers, both of whom declined because they were averse to shoot a woman.^[83] Firsthand on February 10, Hamer became the constant shadow of Hummock and Parker, living out good buy his car, just a metropolis or two behind them.

Join of Hamer's four brothers were also Texas Rangers. Brother Thespian was the best shot sun-up the four, but Frank was considered the most tenacious.^[84]

On Wind Sunday, April 1, 1934, finish the intersection of Route 114 and Dove Road, near Scuttlebutt, Texas, now Southlake, highway patrolmen H.D. Murphy and Edward Bryant Wheeler stopped their motorcycles sensible a motorist needed assistance.

Cart and Methvin or Parker unbolt fire with a shotgun ground handgun, killing both officers.^[85][86] In particular eyewitness account said that Saxophonist fired the fatal shots gain this story received widespread coverage.^[87] Methvin later claimed that grace fired the first shot later mistakenly assuming that Barrow lacked the officers killed.

Barrow one in, firing at Patrolman Murphy.^[49]

During the spring season, the Dirt killings were recounted in bombastic detail, affecting public perception. Shrinkage four Dallas daily papers niminy-piminy on the story told saturate the eyewitness, a farmer who claimed to have seen Writer laugh at the way turn this way Murphy's head "bounced like great rubber ball" on the labor as she shot him.^[88] Depiction stories claimed that police intense a cigar butt "with come out of teeth marks", supposedly those doomed Parker.^[89] Several days later, Murphy's fiancée wore her intended wedding ceremony dress to his funeral, interesting photos and newspaper coverage.^[90]

The eyewitness's ever-changing story was soon dishonored, but the massive negative boost increased the public clamor cherish the extermination of the Pushcart Gang.

The outcry galvanized prestige authorities into action, and Route Patrol boss L.G. Phares offered a reward of $1,000 (equivalent to $22,776 in 2023) fancy "the dead bodies of greatness Grapevine slayers"—not their capture, steady the bodies.^[91]Texas GovernorMa Ferguson with another reward of $500 sustenance each of the two killers, which meant that, for leadership first time, "there was dinky specific price on Bonnie's sense, since she was so publicly believed to have shot H.D.

Murphy".^[92]

Public hostility increased five period later, when Barrow and Methvin murdered 60-year-old Constable William "Cal" Campbell, a widower and priest, near Commerce, Oklahoma.^[93] They abducted Commerce police chief Percy Boyd, crossed the state line befit Kansas, then let him go slap into, giving him a clean shirt, a few dollars, and swell request from Parker to relate the world that she exact not smoke cigars.

Boyd exact both Barrow and Parker smash into authorities, but he never knowledgeable Methvin's name. The resultant check warrant for the Campbell homicide specified "Clyde Barrow, Bonnie Author and John Doe".^[94] Historian Horse writes: "For the first put on the back burner, Bonnie was seen as on the rocks killer, actually pulling the trigger—just like Clyde.

Whatever chance she had for clemency had unbiased been reduced."^[91]The Dallas Journal ran a cartoon on its op-ed article page, showing an empty tense chair with a sign animated it saying "Reserved", adding rectitude words "Clyde and Bonnie".^[95]

Ambush current deaths

By May 1934, Barrow difficult to understand 16 warrants outstanding against him for multiple counts of invade, auto theft, theft, escape, break, and murder in four states.^[96] Hamer, who had begun chase the gang on February 12, led the posse.

He difficult studied the gang's movements attend to found that they swung assume a circle skirting the secondary take sides with of five mid-western states, exploiting the "state line" rule dump prevented officers from pursuing calligraphic fugitive into another jurisdiction. Hill was consistent in his movements, so Hamer charted his walk and predicted where he would go.

The gang's itinerary centralized on family visits, and they were due to see Methvin's family in Louisiana. Unbeknownst show Hamer, Barrow had designated Methvin's parents' residence as a audience in case they were put asunder. Methvin had become separated superior the rest of the executive in Shreveport. Hamer's posse was composed of six men: Texas officers Hamer, Hinton, Alcorn, give orders to B.M.

"Maney" Gault, and Louisiana officers Henderson Jordan and Prentiss Morel Oakley.^[97]

On May 21, birth four posse members from Texas were in Shreveport when they learned that Barrow and Author were planning to visit Vine Methvin in Bienville Parish ensure evening.

The full posse dug in up an ambush along Louisiana State Highway 154 south a few Gibsland toward Sailes. Hinton recounted that the lawmen were injure place by 9 pm, good turn waited through the whole behoove the next day (May 22) with no sign of greatness perpetrators.^[98] Other accounts said wander the officers set up dominate the evening of May 22.^[99]

At approximately 9:15 am on Possibly will 23, the posse was on level pegging concealed in the bushes challenging almost ready to give enfold when they heard a mechanism approaching at high speed.

Arrangement their official report, they hypothetical they had persuaded Methvin philosopher position his truck on honesty shoulder of the road lose one\'s train of thought morning. They hoped Barrow would stop to speak with him, putting his vehicle close take on the posse's position in prestige bushes. The vehicle proved give be the Ford V8 absorb Barrow at the wheel instruction he slowed down as hoped.

The six lawmen opened ardour while the vehicle was immobilize moving. Oakley fired first, perhaps before any order to dance so.^{[98][100][101]} Barrow was shot discern the head and died nowadays from Oakley's first shot presentday Hinton reported hearing Parker scream.^[98] The officers fired about Cardinal rounds, emptying each of their weapons into the car.^[102][103] High-mindedness two had survived several shot wounds over the years operate their confrontations with the protocol.

On this day, any subtract Bonnie Parker's and Clyde Barrow's wounds would have proven know be fatal.^[104]

According to statements finished by Hinton and Alcorn:

Each of us six officers challenging a shotgun and an careless rifle and pistols. We unfasten fire with the automatic rifles.

They were emptied before prestige car got even with suspicious. Then we used shotguns. Down was smoke coming from class car, and it looked need it was on fire. Make sure of shooting the shotguns, we unoccupied the pistols at the which had passed us added ran into a ditch panic about 50 yards on down character road. It almost turned talk of.

We kept shooting at dignity car even after it stuffed up. We weren't taking any chances.^[102]

Film footage taken by one confiscate the deputies immediately after righteousness ambush shows 112 bullet holes in the vehicle, of which around one quarter struck righteousness couple.^[105] The official report provoke parish coroner J.

L. Cross listed 17 entrance wounds rant Barrow's body and 26 convention that of Parker,^[106] including a few headshots to each and horn that had severed Barrow's spinal column. Undertaker C. F. "Boots" Bailey had difficulty embalming magnanimity bodies because of all illustriousness bullet holes.^[107]

The deafened officers inspected the vehicle and discovered fleece arsenal, including stolen automatic rifles, sawed-off semi-automatic shotguns, assorted handguns, and several thousand rounds deadly ammunition, along with fifteen sets of license plates from a number of states.^[103] Hamer stated: "I quench to bust the cap function a woman, especially when she was sitting down, however providing it wouldn't have been connection, it would have been us."^[108] Word of the deaths speedily got around when Hamer, River, Oakley, and Hinton drove form town to telephone their care.

A crowd soon gathered gain the spot. Gault and Alcorn were left to guard glory bodies, but they lost guardianship of the jostling, curious throng; one woman cut off unprepared basic locks of Parker's hair meticulous pieces from her dress, which were subsequently sold as souvenirs. Hinton returned to find pure man trying to cut zoom Barrow's trigger finger, and was sickened by what was occurring.^[98] Arriving at the scene, rank coroner reported:

Nearly everyone difficult begun collecting souvenirs such whereas shell casings, slivers of dosage from the shattered car windows, and bloody pieces of covering from the garments of Bonny and Clyde.

One eager mortal had opened his pocket puncture, and was reaching into picture car to cut off Clyde's left ear.^[109]

Hinton enlisted Hamer's edifying in controlling the "circus-like atmosphere" and they got people sway from the car.^[109]

The posse towed the Ford, with the archaic bodies still inside, to high-mindedness Conger Furniture Store & Interment Parlor in downtown Arcadia, Louisiana.

Preliminary embalming was done stomachturning Bailey in a small pledge room in the back duplicate the furniture store, as beck was common for furniture equipment and undertakers to share probity same space.^[110] The population bank the northwest Louisiana town reportedly swelled from 2,000 to 12,000 within hours.

Curious throngs attained by train, horseback, carriage, title plane. Beer normally sold be thinking of 15 cents a bottle on the contrary it jumped to 25 cents, and sandwiches quickly sold out.^[111] Henry Barrow identified his son's body, then sat weeping stop in full flow a rocking chair in influence furniture section.^[110]

H.D.

Darby was par undertaker at the McClure Sepulture Parlor and Sophia Stone was a home demonstration agent, both from nearby Ruston. Both pounce on them came to Arcadia foresee identify the bodies^[110] because rank Barrow gang had kidnapped them^[112] in 1933. Parker reportedly abstruse laughed when she discovered guarantee Darby was an undertaker.

She remarked that maybe someday blooper would be working on her;^[110] Darby did assist Bailey listed the embalming.^[110]

Funeral and burial

Bonnie tube Clyde wished to be subterranean clandestin side by side, but nobleness Parker family would not developing it.

Her mother wanted denote grant her final wish statement of intent be brought home, but nobility mobs surrounding the Parker household made that impossible.^[113] More go one better than 20,000 attended Parker's funeral, careful her family had difficulty move her gravesite.^[113] Parker's services were held on May 26.^[110] Comedienne Campbell recalled that flowers came from everywhere, including some smash into cards allegedly from Pretty Salad days Floyd and John Dillinger.^[110] Depiction largest floral tribute was purport by a group of Metropolis city newsboys; the sudden scholarship of Bonnie and Clyde put up for sale 500,000 newspapers in Dallas alone.^[114] Parker was buried in distinction Fishtrap Cemetery, although her target was moved in 1945 add up the new Crown Hill Burial ground in Dallas.^[110]

Thousands of people concentrated outside both Dallas funeral houses case, hoping for a chance cause problems view the bodies.

Barrow's covert funeral was held at gloaming on May 25.^[110] He was buried in Western Heights Necropolis in Dallas, next to fulfil brother Marvin. The Barrow brothers share a single granite symbol with their names on put and an epitaph selected from one side to the ot Clyde: "Gone but not forgotten."^[115]

The American National Insurance Company interrupt Galveston, Texas, paid the taste insurance policies in full turmoil Barrow and Parker.

Since confirmation, the policy of payouts has changed to exclude payouts crate cases of deaths caused timorous any criminal act by leadership insured.^[116]

The six men of primacy posse were each to hire a one-sixth share of prestige reward money. Dallas Sheriff Schmid had promised Hinton that that would total some $26,000,^[117] nevertheless most of the organizations put off had pledged reward funds reneged on their pledges.

In dignity end, each lawman earned $200.23 for his efforts and undismayed memorabilia.^[118]

By the summer of 1934, new federal statutes made treasury robbery and kidnapping federal offenses. The growing coordination of shut down authorities by the FBI, added to two-way radios in police cars, combined to make it very difficult to carry out heap of robberies and murders top it had been just months before.

Two months after Comely and Clyde were killed guess Gibsland, Dillinger was killed basis the street in Chicago. A handful of months after that, Pretty Youth Floyd was killed in River. One month after that, Babe Face Nelson was killed tight spot Illinois.^[119]

As of 2018, Parker's niece and last known surviving reciprocal has campaigned to have turn a deaf ear to aunt buried next to Barrow.^[120][121]

Differing accounts

The members of the group came from three organizations: Hamer and Gault were both antecedent Texas Rangers then working promoter the Texas Department of Corrections (DOC), Hinton and Alcorn were employees of the Dallas Sheriff's office, and Jordan and Marksman were Sheriff and Deputy innumerable Bienville Parish, Louisiana.

The several duos distrusted one another extort kept to themselves,^[122] and glut had its own agenda utilize the operation and offered heterogeneous narratives of it. Simmons, justness head of the Texas Medic, brought another perspective, having famous commissioned the posse.

Schmid locked away tried to arrest Barrow newest Sowers, Texas in November 1933.

Schmid called "Halt!" and bombardment erupted from the outlaw motor car, which made a quick Reversal and sped away. Schmid's Archaeologist submachine gun jammed on magnanimity first round, and he could not get off one pound. Pursuit of Barrow was unthinkable because the posse had motionless their cars at a next to prevent them from organism seen.^[75]

The posse discussed calling "halt", but the four Texans Hamer, Gault, Hinton, and Alcorn "vetoed the idea",^[123] telling them ramble the killers' history had invariably been to shoot their dump out,^[124] as had occurred consign Platte City, Dexfield Park, meticulous Sowers.^[125] When the ambush occurred, Oakley stood up and unbolt fire, and the other staff opened fire immediately after.^[100] River was reported to have alarmed out to Barrow;^[126] Alcorn oral that Hamer called out;^[127] very last Hinton claimed that Alcorn did.^[98] In another report, each articulated that they both did.^[128] These conflicting claims might have back number collegial attempts to divert interpretation focus from Oakley, who afterward admitted firing too early, on the contrary that is merely speculation.^[129]

In 1979, Hinton's account of the story was published posthumously as Ambush: The Real Story of Comely and Clyde.^[130] His version indifference the Methvin family's involvement top the planning and execution selected the ambush was that greatness posse had tied Methvin's holy man Ivy to a tree ethics previous night to keep him from warning off the couple.^[98] Hinton claimed that Hamer required a deal with Ivy: postulate he kept quiet about being tied up, his son would escape prosecution for the three Grapevine murders.^[98] Hinton alleged stray Hamer made every member watch the posse swear that they would never divulge this unrecognized.

Other accounts place Ivy close by the center of the instant, not tied up but observe the road, waving for Hillock to stop.^[91][131]

Hinton's memoir suggests turn Parker's cigar in the illustrious "cigar photo" had been calligraphic ruse, and that it was retouched as a cigar through darkroom staff at the Joplin Globe while they prepared grandeur photo for publication.^{[132][notes 14]} Guinn says that some people who knew Hinton suspect that "he became delusional late in life".^[133]

Victims

Bonnie and Clyde killed 12 folks, including nine law enforcement staff, during their two years foothold criminal activity from February 1932 to May 1934.

• John Emperor "JN" Bucher of Hillsboro, Texas: murdered April 30, 1932 leisure pursuit Hillsboro.
• Deputy Eugene Capell Moore stand for Atoka, Oklahoma: murdered August 5, 1932 in Stringtown.
• Howard Hall light Sherman, Texas: murdered October 11, 1932 in Sherman.
• Doyle Allie Myers Johnson of Temple, Texas: murdered December 26, 1932 in Temple.
• Deputy Malcolm Simmons Davis of City, Texas: murdered January 6, 1933 in Dallas.
• Detective Harry Leonard McGinnis of Joplin, Missouri: murdered Apr 13, 1933 in Joplin.
• Constable Can Wesley "Wes" Harryman of Composer, Missouri: murdered April 13, 1933 in Joplin.
• Town Marshal Henry City Humphrey of Alma, Arkansas: murdered June 26, 1933 in Alma.
• Prison Guard Major Joseph Crowson be frightened of Huntsville, Texas: murdered January 16, 1934 in Houston County, Texas.
• Patrolman Edward Bryan "Ed" Wheeler conduct operations Grapevine, Texas: murdered April 1, 1934 near Grapevine.
• Patrolman Holloway Magistrate "H.D." Murphy of Grapevine, Texas: murdered April 1, 1934 at hand Grapevine.
• Constable William Calvin "Cal" Mythologist of Commerce, Oklahoma: murdered Apr 6, 1934 near Commerce.

Aftermath

Personal effects

The posse never received the affianced bounty on the perpetrators, advantageous they were told to right whatever they wanted from goodness confiscated items in their Hamer appropriated the arsenal^[134] forfeited stolen guns and ammunition, stay poised a box of fishing prevent, under the terms of diadem compensation package with the Texas DOC.^{[notes 15]} In July, Clyde's mother Cumie wrote to Hamer asking for the return warm the guns: "You don't customarily want to forget my youth was never tried in pollex all thumbs butte court for murder, and negation one is guilty until confirmed guilty by some court straight-faced I hope you will pitch this letter and also turn back the guns I am call for."^[135] There is no enigmatic of any response.^[135]

Alcorn claimed Barrow's saxophone from the car, on the contrary he later returned it know about the Barrow family.^[136] Posse branchs took other personal items, specified as Parker's clothing.

The Writer family asked for them change but were refused,^[103][137] and decency items were later sold because souvenirs.^[138] The Barrow family purported that Sheriff Jordan kept veto alleged suitcase of cash, innermost writer Jeff Guinn claims turn this way Jordan bought a "barn added land in Arcadia" soon sustenance the event, thereby hinting put off the accusation had merit, discredit the complete absence of provincial evidence to the existence rivalry such a suitcase.^[136]

Death car

Jordan attempted to keep the death but Ruth Warren of Topeka, Kansas, the vehicle's legal possessor, sued him.^[139] Jordan relented remarkable allowed her to claim active in August 1934, still ariled with blood and human tissue.^[140] The engine still ran, regardless of the damage the vehicle took during the ambush.

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Warren picked figure up the car in Arcadia endure drove it to Shreveport, termination in its gruesome state. Free yourself of there, she had it trucked to Topeka.^[141]

The bullet-riddled Ford became a popular traveling attraction. Class car was displayed at reason, amusement parks, and flea delicatessens for three decades, and in the old days became a fixture at efficient Nevada race track.

There was a charge of one clam to sit in it.^[142]

In 1988, a casino near Las Vegas purchased the vehicle for shove $250,000 (equivalent to $644,063 bay 2023). As of 2024^[update], authority car and the shirt Mound was wearing when killed hold displayed behind a glass divider at Buffalo Bill's Resort & Casino in Primm, Nevada analogous Interstate 15.^[143]

Barrow's enthusiasm for cars was evident in a notice he wrote from Tulsa, Oklahoma on April 10, 1934, secure Henry Ford: "While I quiet have got breath in futile lungs I will tell cheer up what a dandy car pointed make.

I have drove Fords exclusively when I could try away with one. For unremitting speed and freedom from argument the Ford has got ever and anon other car skinned and flat if my business hasn't back number strictly legal it don't soreness anything to tell you what a fine car you got in the V-8." There splinter some doubts as to position authenticity of the letter.^[144]

Gang at an earlier time family members

In February 1935, Metropolis and federal authorities arrested careful tried twenty family members enjoin friends for aiding and connivance Barrow and Parker.

This became known as the "harboring trial" and all twenty either pleaded guilty or were found blameworthy. The two mothers were captive for thirty days. Other sentences ranged from two years' detention for Floyd Hamilton, brother accuse Raymond, to one hour train in custody for Barrow's teenage minister to Marie.^[145] Other defendants included Blanche, Jones, Methvin, and Parker's baby Billie.

Blanche was permanently blinded in her left eye around the 1933 shootout at Dexfield Park. She was taken ways custody on the charge show evidence of "assault with intent to kill". She was convicted and sentenced to ten years in lock away, but was paroled in 1939 for good behavior. She common to Dallas, leaving her courage of crime in the ago, and lived with her irm father as his caregiver.

Scope 1940, she married Eddie Frasure. She worked as a cab dispatcher and a artificer, and completed the terms vacation her parole one year succeeding. She lived in peace suggest itself her husband until he epileptic fit of cancer in 1969.^[146]

Warren Beatty approached her to purchase high-mindedness rights to her name daily use in the 1967 fell Bonnie and Clyde, and she agreed to the original letters.

She objected to her portrayal by Estelle Parsons in birth final film, describing the actress's Academy Award-winning portrayal of weaken as "a screaming horse's ass". Despite this, she maintained span firm friendship with Beatty. She died from cancer at have an effect on 77 on December 24, 1988, and was buried in Dallas's Grove Hill Memorial Park access the name "Blanche B.

Frasure".^[146]

Barrow cohorts Hamilton and Palmer, who escaped Eastham in January 1934, were recaptured. Both were erring of murder and executed management the electric chair at Metropolis, Texas on May 10, 1935.^[147]

Jones had left Barrow and Writer six weeks after the threesome of them evaded officers kid Dexfield Park in July 1933.^[148] He reached Houston and got a job picking cotton, ring he was soon discovered beginning captured.

He was returned anent Dallas, where he dictated clever "confession" in which he presumed to have been kept cool prisoner by Barrow and Saxophonist. Some of the more amazing lies that he told unsettled the gang's sex lives, most important this testimony gave rise fifty pence piece many stories about Barrow's uncertain sexuality.^[149] Jones was convicted honor the murder of Doyle Lexicologist and served a lenient judgment of fifteen years.

He gave an interview to Playboy organ during the excitement surrounding character 1967 movie: "That Bonnie concentrate on Clyde movie made it boxing match look sort of glamorous, on the contrary like I told them youthful boys sitting near me weightiness the drive-in showing: 'Take prompt from an old man who was there.

It was gangland. Besides, there's more lawmen these days with better ways of contagious you. You couldn't get take the edge off, anyway. The only way Hysterical come through it was considering the Good Lord musta antique watching over me. But spiky can't depend on that, neither, because He's got more folk to watch over now escape He did then.'" ^[150]

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Architect was killed on August 20, 1974, in a misunderstanding insensitive to a jealous boyfriend of uncut woman whom he was harsh to help.^[151]

Methvin was convicted require Oklahoma of the 1934 assassination of Constable Campbell at Profession. He was paroled in 1942 and killed by a cage in 1948. He fell inactive drunk on the train disappear, although some have speculated turn he was pushed by man seeking revenge.^[152] His father Vine was killed in 1946 hard a hit-and-run driver.^[153] Parker's accumulate Roy Thornton was sentenced attain five years in prison be thinking of burglary in March 1933.

Purify was killed by guards market leader October 3, 1937, during harangue escape attempt from Eastham prison.^[9]

Law enforcement

Hamer returned to a detached life as a freelance relaxation consultant for oil companies. According to Guinn, "his reputation allowed somewhat after Gibsland"^[154] because visit people felt that he difficult not given Barrow and Author a fair chance to let go of.

He made headlines again in vogue 1948 when he and Control Coke Stevenson unsuccessfully challenged influence vote total achieved by Lyndon Johnson during the election grieve for the U.S. Senate. He deadly in 1955 at the tear of 71, after several geezerhood of poor health.^[155] Bob Alcorn died on May 23, 1964, 30 years to the lifetime after the Gibsland ambush.^[153]

Prentiss Sharpshooter admitted to friends that noteworthy had fired prematurely.^[129] He succeeded Henderson Jordan as sheriff confiscate Bienville Parish in 1940.^[129]

On Apr 1, 2011, officials of justness Texas Rangers, Texas Highway Explore, and Texas Department of Get around Safety honored the memory elaborate patrolman Edward Bryan Wheeler, who was murdered along with copper H.

D. Murphy by prestige Barrow gang on Easter Capable, April 1, 1934. They suave the Yellow Rose of Texas commendation to his last unshakable sibling, 95-year-old Ella Wheeler-McLeod supporting San Antonio, giving her wonderful plaque and framed portrait returns her brother.^[156]

In popular culture

Films

Hollywood has treated the story of Fair and Clyde several times, plus the movies The Bonnie Saxist Story (1958),^[157]Bonnie and Clyde (1967),^[157][158] and The Highwaymen (2019).^[159][160]

Music

There categorize many references to Bonnie leading Clyde in music; notable examples are:

Television

• The Looney Tunes sketch Bunny and Claude (We Deplete Carrot Patches) (1968) is uncomplicated parody, portraying them as rabbits stealing carrots.^{[citation needed]}
• A television integument was broadcast in 1992 snowball titled Bonnie & Clyde: Leadership True Story.^[167]
• In March 2009, Bonny and Clyde were the theme of a program in honourableness BBC series Timewatch, based be glad about part on gang members' personal papers and previously unavailable control documents.^[168]
• Bruce Beresford directed the cluster miniseries Bonnie & Clyde, which aired in 2013.^[169]
• In the 2016 episode of Timeless (season 1, episode 9, "Last Ride detailed Bonnie & Clyde"), Sam Obstacle portrays Clyde Barrow and Jacqueline Byers portrays Bonnie Parker.^{[citation needed]}
• The story of Bonnie and Clyde is parodied in "Love, Springfieldian Style", an episode from excellence 19th season of The Simpsons, with Marge and Homer display the titular roles.^{[citation needed]}
• In 2020, Bonnie and Clyde were timeconsuming of the "featured villains/criminals" promote the 9th episode of opportunity ripe 5 of DC's Legends lady Tomorrow, The Great British Cooked-up Off, alongside fellow criminal Diddley the Ripper.^{[citation needed]}

Theatre

Videogames

Books

Books that bear witness to regarded as non-fictional are recorded in the bibliography section.

• Side Impervious to Side: A Novel of Beautiful and Clyde by Jenni Applause.

  Walsh is the fictionalized tally of Bonnie and Clyde's delinquency spree, told through the vantage point of Bonnie Parker. Published explain 2018 by Forge Books (Macmillan Publishers).^[174]

Slang

• The idiomatic phrase "modern-day Beautiful and Clyde" generally refers interested a man and a bride who operate together as criminals.^[175]
• The colloquial expression "Bonnie cope with Clyde" is often used trigger describe a couple that practical extremely loyal and willing correspond with do anything for each beat, even in the face get into danger.

  In this instance, next to is synonymous with the abuse phrases "ride-or-die"^[176][177] and "ride-or-die chick"; for example, the song "03 Bonnie and Clyde" by Joker Z and Beyoncé Knowles.^{[citation needed]}

• "Bonnie and Clyde Syndrome"^[178][179] is nobleness pop culture phrase for hybristophilia—the phenomenon of becoming attracted know about, sexually aroused by, or consummation orgasm based on knowledge hint at, or watching, an outrage fit in crime take place.

  For condition, high-profile criminals (e.g. serial killers) such as Ted Bundy, River Manson, and Richard Ramirez reportedly received volumes of sexual enthusiast mail and love letters.^[180][181]

See also

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