Bonnie and Clyde are famous American robbers during the Great Depression. Killed in 1934. FBI agents. Bonnie was 24 years old at the time of the murder, Clyde was 25 years old.
Bonnie was born into a poor family of a bricklayer and seamstress with three children. Clyde is in a family of poor farmers with seven children. Bonnie studied well, was a fashionista, wrote poetry. Clyde, apparently, did not shine with education.
Everything in their life happened extremely fast and concentrated.
Bonnie dropped out of school at 15. At 16 she got married. At 17 I got a job as a waitress. At 18, she broke up with her husband. At 22, I met with Clyde, and away we go ...
(in the photo Bonnie and her first husband, with whom, by the way, she never divorced)
At the age of 17, Clyde stole a car (rented it and did not return it), for which he was arrested. A little later he stole the turkeys and was arrested again. At the age of 18-20, he began to break into safes, rob shops and steal cars, for which he was imprisoned at the age of 21. There he was raped. Clyde killed the rapist. In the same place, Clyde lost two toes, which he chopped off in protest against the rules that reigned in this institution.
It is believed that it was in the prison that Clyde finally "matured". His sister Mary said, "Something terrible must have happened to him in prison, because he has never been the same." Ralph Fults, who was serving a sentence at the same time as Clyde, said that before his eyes he turned from a schoolboy into a rattlesnake. At 23, Clyde was released early, after which he met Bonnie, and away we go ...
They had only two years of life left, during which they had to become famous as frostbitten murderers and robbers, about whom many legends would later be added, films made, and their names would become household names.
Bonnie and Clyde are usually portrayed as romantic lovers who were devoted to each other to the end. But, there are also several other opinions.
According to some reports, it is believed that Clyde was a homosexual. Others claim that Bonnie and Clyde were lovers, but at the same time engaged in sexual relations with other gang members. For example, Roy Hamilton is known to be the lover of both.
(Photo: Raymond Hamilton)
And then Roy also brought a girlfriend to the gang, which is why relations within the team heated up to the limit.
(Hamilton's girlfriend, whom he, by his own admission, loved more than anyone else in the world, with the exception of his mother)
By the way, what is noteworthy - Raymond Hamilton was sentenced to 264 years in prison for being drunk and shot the sheriff and his assistants.
Based on such a "free" relationship and Clyde's uneasy orientation, some people believe that there was no unearthly love between Bonnie and Clyde by definition. Although there was no doubt that they really were very devoted to each other: Bonnie at one time pulled Clyde out of jail, giving him a weapon on a date, and Clyde later, when the police detained Bonnie, fought off her friend, cheekily attacking the police station ...
And Bonnie's mother, Emma Parker, said: “I immediately realized that there was something between them when Bonnie introduced him to me. I saw it in her eyes, in the way she held the sleeve of his jacket. "
It is believed that Bonnie has become the brain center of the gang and thanks to her, the crime has reached a new level.
Nevertheless, they explained their crimes, of course, not by their bloodthirstiness or passion for profit, but by their "difficult fate" and "struggle with the system."
For example, Bonnie's poems that she wrote in those two years:
“Now Bonnie and Clyde are a famous duet,
All the newspapers trumpet them.
There are no witnesses after their "work"
Only the stench of death remains.
But there are a lot of false words about them,
And they are not so cruel.
They hate snitches and liars
And the law is their mortal enemy "
Once the criminals kidnapped the sheriff, stripped them and, having tied them up, threw them on the sidelines with the words: “Tell your people that we are not a gang of murderers. Get in the position of people trying to get over this damn depression. "
“The country shuddered from cold murders,
And their cruelty is a grave sin,
But I knew Clyde in those days
When he was like everyone else.
He was a kind, simple Texas guy
There was nothing to blame him for,
But life dealt with him harshly
And pushed me to the devil's path. "
After meeting, Bonnie and Clyde immediately became close. They often went out of town and learned to shoot accurately. Perhaps, accurate shooting from all types of weapons has become the only science in which they have achieved perfection.
They also loved to be photographed with weapons: with a pistol or rifle in hand, they often posed in front of the lens. In general, they were photographed constantly. And in 1933, fleeing from the police, the criminals left some things at the site of their home - a series of photographs and Bonnie's poems about the hard fate of the highway robbers. The clues were left "by accident", but here's the interesting part. The photos were extremely poser: Bonnie and Clyde appeared in the form of daring thugs with huge guns, cigars, in fashionable outfits and against the background of a cool car.
Bonnie's poems were about love and the expectation of an imminent death under police bullets. After all this was published in the newspaper, the popularity of Bonnie and Clyde skyrocketed - they became the main characters in the gossip columns.
Once in Kansas, Bonnie first saw a poster "Wanted by the Police" with her picture. The fact that she and Clyde became "celebrities" shocked Bonnie so much that she immediately sent a dozen letters to major newspapers with pictures that she and Clyde took on their criminal path.
In general, they loved to PR. Actually, that's why they eventually became so famous.
“If a police officer is killed in Dallas
And the cops have no clue
The real killer will not be revealed
Bonnie and Clyde carry the answer.
If suddenly the couple decides to calm down
And he will rent an apartment for himself,
In a couple of days they will get tired of everyday life,
And again with a machine gun in hand.
And he once confessed to me bitterly:
"I will not see the century of freedom.
My life will end on a hellfire,
And reckoning is inevitable! "
The unreliable path is getting darker and more terrible,
All the more senseless is the struggle.
May we become rich someday
But never free!
They did not think that they were stronger than all,
After all, the law cannot be defeated!
And that death will be the payment for sin,
Both knew for sure. "
They began by robbing an arms depot in Texas in the spring of 1930. There they armed themselves to the teeth. After that, they began to rob eateries, shops, gas stations. By the way, it was not possible to earn much money from robbing banks in those days - the Great Depression raked out all the big money from the banks, and the gang sometimes got more by robbing a roadside shop.
The robbery scenario was usually as follows: Bonnie was driving a car, Clyde rushed in and took the proceeds, then on the move, firing back, jumped into the car. If someone tried to resist, he immediately received a bullet. However, they ruthlessly removed innocent bystanders as well. They were not just robbers, they were murderers, and on their account were both ordinary people like owners of small shops and gas stations, and police officers whom Clyde preferred to kill in order to avoid prison.
After the murder of the very first police officer who decided to check the documents of a suspicious couple from the car, there was nothing to lose: now they were probably facing a death sentence. Therefore, Bonnie and Clyde went all out and, without hesitation, fired at people in any situation, even when they were practically not threatened. On August 5, 1932, two police officers spotted Clyde at a village party. When they asked him to come, the bandit put both of them on the spot. A month later, breaking through police posts on the road, the gang shot twelve law enforcement officers.
Of course, they were constantly hunted by the police. However, for the time being, they were incredibly lucky. However, they had absolutely nothing to lose, so any attempts by the police to get this gang came across shooting.
However, the father of one of the gang members, in exchange for the pardon of his son, offered his help in catching the criminals. He gave the police the key to the house where Bonnie and Clyde were hiding. The house was surrounded by two tight rings of policemen, all entrances to it were blocked.
On the morning of May 23, 1934, a stolen Ford appeared on the road. The driver was wearing dark glasses, and a woman in a new red dress was sitting next to him. In the car were hidden two thousand cartridges, three rifles, twelve pistols, two pump-action guns and ... a saxophone. They were Bonnie and Clyde. Apparently, they still hoped to get away.
However, they failed. Not having time to make a single shot, they were shot by the police. They write that more than five hundred bullets pierced the bodies of the gangsters, and they were almost torn to pieces.
“May you suffer from heart pains,
And death will carry away the decrepit.
But with Bonnie and Clyde's misfortunes
Do not compare your little misfortunes!
The day will come and they will fall asleep
In uncooked loose earth.
And the country and the law will breathe a sigh of relief,
By sending them into oblivion. "
The mutilated bodies of the criminals were put on public display in the morgue, and those who wish for one dollar could look at them. There were quite a lot of curious people ... Photos of the killed bandits were published by all newspapers.
After death, they became natural symbols, a kind of moths, who lived her life in the fight against law and poverty. And even on Bonnie's grave they wrote:
"As flowers bloom under the rays of the sun and the freshness of dew, so the world becomes brighter thanks to people like you."
What kind of alternatively gifted person thought to write this on the murderer's grave - I can only guess. But, it is very revealing in the sense that crime can be romanticized. People even make tattoos with their images. So you can imagine their popularity.
By the way, several films have been made about Bonnie and Clyde. But I don't think you can see anything interesting there. At least, judging by this photo, it shows nothing more than embarrassing gangsters in love with each other.
Both of our heroes, whose names have become household names, are from Texas. Bonnie Elizabeth Parker was born in Rowena, and after the death of her father, she moved with her mother and sisters to Dallas. If I had not turned onto a curved path, I could have become a poetess. Even in prison, she wrote a small collection of poems.
Few people know that Bonnie was officially married - and not at all to Clyde! On September 25, 1926, at almost 16 years old, she married Roy Thornton and got a job as a waitress in a cafe. In early 1929, they separated, but did not divorce, and soon Thornton was imprisoned for robbery. Nevertheless, Bonnie continued to wear a wedding ring, and on her thigh she had a tattoo: two hearts with the names "Bonnie" and "Roy".
Clyde Chestnut Barrow was a little older, he was born on May 24, 1909 in the city of Teliko in a poor large family of a farmer. As a preschooler, he suffered from malaria.
From the age of 15, he, together with his older brother Marvin, began to trade in petty theft. But the first drive to the police was not at all for this: he rented a car and did not have time to return it in time. However, the charges were soon dropped.
A little later, he wanted to go to serve in the Navy, but was discharged for health reasons - due to an illness he suffered in childhood.
Acquaintance
The exact date of his acquaintance with Bonnie is unknown. Most likely, this happened in early 1930, when he came to the cafe where she worked. They quickly found a common language, and Clyde, who by that time was an experienced robber, turned the head of the miniature waitress (his height is only 162 cm, and Bonnie was 150 cm shorter). And not literally - he was gay, but stories of criminal acts that they could commit together to become rich and free.
Obviously, the criminal path promised a much more interesting life than offering visitors coffee and scrambled eggs!
They were united by a passion for weapons. Even during her short marriage, Bonnie loved to hold Roy's gun in her hands, and when he was in a good mood, he taught his wife to shoot. Bonnie later developed this skill together with Clyde: they even went into the field just to shoot.
Three months later, Clyde was arrested for robbery and spent almost two years in prison. And when he came out, Bonnie invited him to work together.
Continuous crime
Now Bonnie and Clyde are often portrayed as such robins as the Hoods of the Great Depression: they, they say, robbed only the rich. Nothing of the kind: they robbed everyone. The first raid was carried out on a warehouse with weapons in Texas, and then indiscriminately attacked and on shops at a gas station and on roadside motels and on banks. The revenue was small at times, but they seemed to enjoy the process itself. The number of their crimes, according to various estimates, ranges from 70 to over a hundred.
It will also not be possible to present them in the halo of holy robbers: both did not hesitate to kill those who get in the way. In order not to go to jail, Bonnie and Clyde fired back even from the police: after the murder of one of them, they had nothing to lose for trying to check documents. True, when they began to look for them all over the country, Bonnie took several photographs that they were fighters for justice, and sent them to various newspapers. But it did not help. In total, the couple killed about two dozen ordinary people and at least nine police officers.
In total, the couple killed about two dozen ordinary people and at least nine police officers.
By the time he met Bonnie, Clyde had a whole gang of robbers, but they often worked together. Sometimes they were joined by one of the older brothers Barrow, mutual acquaintances and one of Bonnie's many lovers - Reynold Hamilton. According to rumors, Clyde also liked him ...
Both hijackers periodically ended up in prison for robbery (if the police found out about the massacres, they would have been immediately executed). But usually they were able to quickly free themselves: either because of a lack of evidence, or because they helped each other out. It is impossible to imagine nowadays that they could transfer weapons to prison on a date, but in the 30s everything was possible, and Bonnie took advantage of it. Once Clyde was released altogether after a request from his mother!
Lame criminals
Interestingly, at the end of their short life, both began to limp.
When Clyde was sent to prison, he wanted to get sent to lighter jobs - and cut off one and a half toes on his left foot. True, he was soon released, but it was not possible to sew the severed back.
In 1933, Bonnie and Clyde had an accident - he lost control, and the car flew into a ditch. The acid from the battery badly burned Bonnie's leg, and for the last year of her life she had difficulty walking.
End of story
Their criminal journey ended two years after it began. And ruined a couple ... sentimentality. Despite the fact that both left their parental home quite early, they periodically visited their families (who, of course, suspected something, but did not know for sure). This gave the police the opportunity to track their routes.
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Bonnie and Clyde
Bonnie and Clyde
Their names have long become household names, and time has softened the incriminating details. The consciousness of the people, fueled by the film industry, has created a romantic myth about two outstanding personalities who challenge “unjust” authorities.
Bonnie Elizabeth Parker was born on October 1, 1910 in Texas. When her father dies, the family moves to Dallas, where they live in complete poverty. Bonnie was a very smart child, won a bunch of competitions at school, wrote essays and poetry. In addition to looking good, she was also blessed with imagination. At 16, she married Roy Thornton, but lived with him for a short time due to the fact that he went to prison. However, they did not divorce and Bonnie did not take off her wedding ring until her death.
Clyde "Champion" Chestnut Barrow was born March 24, 1909 (or 1910) in Ellis County, Texas, the fifth of eight children, his parents were poor farmers. At the age of 16, Clyde dropped out of school and took a job. At the same time, he did not stay anywhere for a long time. Clyde was fond of playing the saxophone, and also spent hours contemplating beautiful and rich cars. Clyde was first arrested at age 16. Then Clyde did not return the car he had rented on time. Maybe even then he started his career as a criminal. He sells goods on the black market, at the age of 19 it is already known for certain that Clyde is robbing shops. A second arrest soon followed - after Clyde, along with his brother Marvin, nicknamed Buck, committed theft of turkeys. He was subsequently arrested several times.
In 1928, Clyde ran away from home and conducted his first independent criminal operation. With a broken pistol, he rushed into the game room, disarmed the guards and seized the proceeds. The next time he tried to commit a night burglary and almost got caught. In the same year, after an unsuccessful raid on a dining car, Buck was convicted, and Clyde, pursued by the police, went to Texas. In late 1929 and early 1930, Clyde and Buck were wanted by the police in many cities.
One day in early 1930, Clyde went into one of the cafes, where a tiny red-haired girl - his future lover - was just a waitress. It was love at first sight. Clyde spent a long time telling the young lady about his "heroic" adventures. Bonnie was so fascinated by the exploits of her lover that for the first time in her life she went to a crime for the sake of her beloved: when Clyde was arrested for an armed raid, Bonnie, having gone on a date to the police station, was able to organize his escape by secretly handing over a gun.
Subsequently, he was arrested again, in 1932, but was released early. After leaving prison, Clyde, without thinking about the consequences, continued to commit petty thefts, but Bonnie developed a plan to rob a record store. Bonnie's friend Raymond Hamilton also joins the case. On April 27, 1932, during a store robbery, the owner tries to resist the criminals, for which he receives a bullet in the heart. From now on, Bonnie and Clyde's murders are accomplished with extraordinary ease. After this incident, the gang becomes more and more aggressive.
After that, Bonnie told the guys that it was enough to play with toys, it was time to get down to real business. And went car thefts, robberies of banks, gas stations and shops. But the work of the three did not last long. Hamilton was soon arrested and convicted.
Bonnie and Clyde gained popularity all over the world as bank robbers, but in fact, according to the information collected on them by the police, Clyde mainly preferred to rob small shops and gas stations, and Bonnie is known to everyone as the wife of her beloved husband. There is no credible evidence that she was actively involved in the Barrow gang. Her portrayal of the legendary bank robber is associated with cinema.
The woman's presence in tales of bank robbers was interesting in newspaper articles, and Bonnie and Clyde quickly became a trademark. How many robberies and murders they actually committed from 1930 to 1934 is not reliably determined - their number is probably much lower than what is attributed to them. Many crimes unsolved in those years were attributed to them. For four years, this couple did not leave the newspaper pages. In all this, Bonnie is attracted, first of all, by the romantic-heroic side of the matter. She realizes that she has chosen death. The monotony of the measured life of those around her is over forever. She will be famous in her own way. At least they will talk about her. " Once, when the police nearly seized the criminals, an unfinished poem "Dirty Murder" was found in their temporary refuge. Bonnie was the author.
Sooner or later, all luck comes to an end. The flexible structure of the newly created FBI allows federal agents to track criminals, as before, regardless of interstate lines. The criminals were forced to hide. It was then that Clyde's brother, Ivan Buck, who was released from prison in 1933, and his wife Blanche, join the gang.
The "work" methodology was the same. Bonnie sits in the car with the engine running, and the guys rush into the store, gas station or bank and loudly shout: "Robbery!" In most cases, the weapon does not even have to be used. Sometimes the police are nearby, but the gang's cars are always more powerful and reliable than police rattle cars.
During endless shootings and chases, Buck Barrow was killed, and Jones, unable to withstand the stress, deserted and surrendered to the police. Then in January 1934, Clyde launched a daring attack on the prison farm, where Hamilton was taken to work, and after a shootout with the guards, he and several other prisoners were freed. Among them was the shy peasant boy Henry Met-vin, who, along with Hamilton, joined the gang. Soon, however, after a quarrel over the division of the loot, Hamilton leaves his colleagues. In late February, Clyde kills two police officers, in April another. Thus, the total number of his victims approached one and a half dozen.
Meanwhile, the ring around Barrow's gang was compressed inexorably. Texas Sheriff Frank Hamer, who has neutralized 65 famous criminals during his career, was tasked with tracking down Bonnie and Clyde. Hamer analyzed each of their attacks, created maps and diagrams of their movements over the years, studied all the places of the raids and the paths they took. "I wanted to penetrate their devilish designs, he said, - and I did it." Several times during the first months of 1934, Hamer and his men followed the trail of the bandits, but the police were constantly unlucky - they were always late.
Both Bonnie and Clyde knew what they had doomed themselves to, but their thirst for a bright life led them exactly where it should have led - to the same colorful and tragic ending.
The police found a house where criminals were hiding from time to time. They needed a key to the door, which could be in the possession of the third member of the gang - Metvin. His father promised to help lure the gang into an ambush if Hamer spared his son. The sheriff, who was primarily interested in the capture of Bonnie and Clyde, went for it.
Henry Methvin agreed to act in concert with his father and quietly slipped out of the bandit den. Soon the police surrounded the shelter and blocked the road leading to it. This time, the police had every chance of overtaking the criminals. On May 23, 1934, in Louisiana, police from the two states of Louisiana and Texas, led by Frank Hamer, ambushed to catch the bandits. At 9 o'clock in the morning, Bonnie and Clyde's Ford appeared on the road. The car contained two thousand rounds of ammunition, three rifles, twelve pistols and two gas guns. The sheriff who jumped out of the car ordered the bandits to surrender. But this command acted as a challenge for the criminal couple. Clyde opened the car door and grabbed a shotgun. Bonnie drew her revolver. But this time they had nothing to hope for. The FBI in charge of this operation was ordered to take the criminals or kill them on the spot. 167 bullets pierced the car, Bonnie and Clyde were hit by more than fifty bullets ...
The front pages of American newspapers were full of reports of the death of daring criminals. Their mutilated bodies were put on public display in the morgue, and those who wished for one dollar could look at them.
Ten years later, Roy Hamilton was also sentenced to death. Before his death, he recalled: “They loved to kill people, to see how blood flows, and they enjoyed this sight. And they never missed the opportunity to enjoy the sight of someone else's death. These people did not know what pity and compassion are. "
About Bonnie and Clyde - these two in love with each other, criminals in danger and cruelty - they make films, they even devote poetry to them. And now their names are clearly connected by the phrase "the story of one love." What was she like, the real life of Bonnie and Clyde, that real life? Perhaps they can be called victims of the Great Depression, a lost generation. Time leaves its marks on everything. It left the stamp of myth on the lives of Bonnie and Clyde.
The story of Bonnie and Clyde, perhaps the most famous criminal couple, is reminiscent of the tale of Beauty and the Beast, only with a bad ending. But how did the relationship of these dangerous people actually develop?
Bonnie's unfortunate fate
Of course, it is very difficult to attribute the girl to the category of real seducers, but she was not devoid of charm. Even being a real monster inside.
Childhood
Miss Parker was born on October 1, 1910 in one of the dull and unremarkable townships of Texas, Rowena. The girl's mother did not work, her father had the profession of a bricklayer and somehow supported the family. The trouble came to the house of little Bonnie with the death of her father. How exactly he died is unknown. However, according to some information, one can understand that his life was interrupted by an accident at work.
A mother with three children did not linger in her hometown and moved to live in Syment City. Here the sad story began, which led to the death and grief of many people.
When did it all go wrong?
As before, the Parker family was very poor. The earnings from tailoring were barely enough for girls, especially when they reached school age. Despite this, Bonnie was almost an excellent student. She had an ability for theatrical art, loved to improvise. Her classmates noted the presence of restless fantasy, as they often listened to Bonnie's fictional stories.
While in high school (circa 1925), the girl met a certain Roy Thornton. He exuded danger, knew how to dance and dressed beautifully. Which, probably, turned the inexperienced quiet head.
They were married on September 25, 1926. Neither mother nor sisters were present at the wedding. Bonnie was left without family support, dropped out of school and soon went to work as a waitress at Marco's Cafe in Dallas. Her dreams of a happy marriage, prosperity, a beautiful life crumbled to ashes. The cruel and merciless reality crushed everything that the girl had fantasized about for so long.
Roy almost immediately stopped paying attention to his young wife, preferring other women to her. Soon he completely disappeared, and Bonnie after some time became unemployed. America was swallowed up by the Great Depression, and the cafe went bankrupt. However, Bonnie never officially divorced her husband and wore a wedding ring until her death.
Ugly life of a boy with high hopes
Bonnie's future accomplice Clyde Barrow was also born in Texas. His parents earned their living by farming, and the boy learned from early childhood to hard work in agriculture. However, Ellis County was considered not the most successful in terms of money, soon a large family went bankrupt and was forced to give land and a house to the bank.
In 1922, the Barrow couple with 7 children moved to West Dallas. My father got a job at a gas station. Clyde was placed in a school closest to his home. The boy studied frankly badly, conflicts with teachers became commonplace, and at sixteen he dropped out of school.
Broken dreams
Beautiful life beckoned Clyde with lacquered cars, expensive suits and fine food. But what could a young, albeit handsome, illiterate guy count on? .. The place of a loader or a tanker, and even if he is lucky.
At first, Clyde still wanted to live like everyone else and enrolled in the US Navy, but he was not taken. Childhood illness crossed the path to the military. Only the "USN" tattoo on the left hand remains.
How Bonnie and Clyde's story began
The first steps in the gangster field
Then Mr. Barrow chose a different path. Lighter and full of dangers. In 1926, he stole his first car. Everything turned out to be very simple: supposedly rent a car. Meanwhile, the police were unable to prove anything, the firm dropped the lawsuit, and Clyde was released. He soon joined one of the major Dallas gangs. "Little things" did not interest him anymore.
Oddly enough, Clyde's share of the raids did not suit either. Therefore, in 1928, he committed the first serious crime. He robbed the gaming hall on his own, although he did not even have a valid weapon with him. The gun Clyde had used to threaten the guards was broken. 
Start
The joint story of Bonnie and Clyde began in 1929. The true date of their acquaintance is unknown: some researchers, for example, date it even to 1932. Nevertheless, they immediately liked each other and did not part until their death.
In the same 1932, Bonnie first went to prison for attempting to rob a store. Only for three months, but the girl did not waste time there. In addition to letters to Clyde, she managed to write a collection of ten odes of poetry.
Clyde Barrow received his first imprisonment a little earlier - in 1929. Then Bonnie brought a gun to the date, thus helping him escape. Only after three weeks the guy was caught and planted for fourteen years. Clyde was not taken aback: in protest (or simply unwillingness to work), he cut off two of his toes. However, in vain: some time after the action of disobedience he was released.
Crimes
From that moment, the two-year epic of Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow began. Together, and sometimes three (together with Raymond Hamilton - Bonnie's former lover), they robbed everything that came across on the way. These were not always banks. Most of the couple smashed gas stations and grocery stores. Sometimes their earnings were only ten dollars. But the glory was ahead of them.
In many ways, Bonnie and Clyde became famous thanks to rumors and staged photos taken by the bandits themselves, in which Parker is standing near an expensive car with a cigar in hand. Or aiming a rifle at Clyde's chest. Although Bonnie never smoked cigars, preferring regular Camel cigarettes. Her accomplice smoked the same. 
Soon Hamilton was caught and sentenced to 264 years. At the same time, Bonnie learned how to use a weapon to replace the retired shooter. And quite aptly, according to the testimony of eyewitnesses.
On the night of June 10, 1933, Bonnie was wounded in the leg. Not from a stray bullet. The culprit was Clyde himself, who was driving at top speed and lost control. The girl's right leg was badly corroded by acid. Naturally, she did not go to the hospital, and remained permanently crippled. Barrow blamed himself and supported Bonnie as much as he could. During periods of severe pain, she walked leaning on Clyde.
When Buck Barrow and his friend William Jones came out of prison, the life of the gang began to play with new colors.
Fatal contradictions
Bonnie was in the car, the engine was running. She waited while the men did their dirty work. As soon as they got into the car, Parker's reckless woman jumped off. The police could only bite their elbows - no one could catch up with Bonnie.
The couple flew as if on wings. They forgot that luck can be fickle, and made ever more daring robberies. Soon the police managed to kill Buck, and Jones himself came to the hands of justice. Such a life was not for him. However, these events not only did not stop Bonnie and Clyde, but also spurred them even more.
Together they freed Hamilton from custody and again took up "work". Only they did not take into account that the former accomplice did not forget about the loot and soon demanded to return his share in full. Clyde, unwilling to share, drove Hamilton out of the gang.
The loner was quickly arrested. Under the threat of death, he told everything about how the story of Bonnie and Clyde began, including the smallest details. The make of the car, the approximate number of weapons, places and people with whom the couple was in contact. The ring around the elusive bandits narrowed.
The last adventure
Strange, but Clyde, having learned from the newspapers about his friend's case, wrote a detailed letter to the editor, and Bonnie gave their photo. It seemed that the young people had gone crazy, since they were actually giving the police a confession of their own sins.
On the night of May 23, 1934, Sheriff Frank Hammer, along with nine colleagues, ambushed the road. Unsuspecting Parker and Barrow were driving another stolen car and did not even have time to take out their weapons when they began to shoot.
Later, the police considered that about 168 bullets were fired into the criminals' car, more than half of them hit the bodies of Bonnie and Clyde. She was twenty-three, and he was twenty-five.
Eyewitnesses almost tore the corpses to pieces, some even managed to cut off strands of Bonnie's hair. 
Despite the girl's desire to be buried with Clyde, her mother acted differently. She could not, and did not want to, forgive the man who broke the fate of her daughter. Bonnie Parker's tombstone reads: "Just as flowers are more beautiful from the dew and in the sunshine, so this world, the old world, is brighter - by the rays of people like you."
The most famous and romanticized criminals in American history were perhaps Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow, a young couple from Texas. They became famous in the early 1930s, and their names during the Great Depression were synonymous with chic and mayhem. Their life was like a fascinating Western, where women smoke cigars and brandish rifles, and men rob banks and steal luxury cars. True, for Bonnie and Clyde, the film called life turned out to be very short-lived. In our review, 13 little-known facts about this bloodthirsty couple.
1. Bonnie wore a wedding ring until her death
Six days before she turned 16, Bonnie married Roy Thornton's classmate. The marriage fell apart a few months later, and Bonnie never saw her husband again after he was imprisoned for a robbery in 1929.Soon after, Bonnie met Clyde, and although they fell in love, Bonnie never really did not divorce Thornton. On the day Bonnie and Clyde were killed in 1934, she still wore Thornton's wedding ring and had a tattoo on the inside of her right thigh - two interconnected hearts with the words "Bonnie" and "Roy."
2. Bonnie and Clyde were short
Bonnie's height was only 150 cm, and Clyde was 162 cm, at a time when the average height for women and men was considered 160 cm and 172 cm, respectively.
3. Bonnie was an exemplary student and wrote poetry
During her school years, Bonnie was distinguished by her imagination and creativity. During her imprisonment in 1932, after a failed burglary attempt at a home appliance store, she wrote a collection of 10 odes, which she called Poetry from the Other Side of Life.
4. Bonnie never smoked cigars
In her most famous photograph, Bonnie Parker holds a revolver with one foot on the bumper of a car, a cigar clutched in her teeth. In fact, it's part of a collection of comic photos that Bonnie and Clyde took for their own entertainment. They were found in the gang's secret apartment during a police raid. In one photo, Bonnie is aiming a rifle at the chest of a smiling Clyde, and in another, Clyde kisses Bonnie in an exaggerated manner typical of movie stars. These photographs, as well as Bonnie's poems found in the apartment, greatly influenced Bonnie and Clyde's fame. Newspapers across the country reprinted the photograph with the cigar. In fact, Bonnie smoked cigarettes, as did Clyde (their favorite brand was Camel). Bonnie also loved whiskey, and Clyde hardly drank alcohol.
5. Clyde was not taken to the Navy
As a young man, Clyde tried to enlist in the US Navy, but he was turned down because he suffered a serious illness as a child (possibly malaria or yellow fever). It was a hard blow for Clyde, who had already tattooed "USN" (US Navy) on his left arm.
6. First arrest for non-return of the rented car
The notorious criminal was first arrested in 1926 for stealing a car after failing to return a car he rented in Dallas to visit his girlfriend. The car rental agency dropped the charges, but the incident remained in the Clyde case. Just three weeks later, he was again arrested along with his older brother, Marvin "Buck" Barrow, for having stolen turkeys in the back of their truck.
7. Banks are not their specialty
While they are often depicted as the Depression-era Robin Hoods who stole from wealthy and powerful financial institutions, Bonnie and Clyde were far more likely to rob gas stations and grocery stores. Many times their production was only $ 5 or $ 10.
8. Clyde chopped off two of his fingers
While serving a 14-year sentence in Texas for robbery and carjacking in January 1932, Clyde decided he had enough hard labor on a prison farm. To be transferred to a less harsh object, Clyde chopped off his left thumb and part of the second toe with an ax. Self-mutilation, which caused him to limp afterwards, was ultimately unnecessary as Clyde was released early six days later.
9. Bonnie and Clyde are caring children
Whatever happened, Bonnie and Clyde stayed in touch with their families and regularly visited their loved ones. This is what helped law enforcement officers to ambush and kill criminals.
In fact, it was precisely because they were predictable (and constantly visited their families) that Bonnie and Clyde were managed to set up an ambush and kill them.
10. Bonnie was lame
On the night of June 10, 1933, Clyde, with Bonnie in the passenger seat, was driving fast along a country road in North Texas. He did not notice the warning about the bypass of the bridge under repair. Ford V-8 broke through the barrier at a speed of 112 km / h and fell into a dry river bed. Acid spilled from a broken car battery and severely burned Bonnie's right leg, gnawing flesh to bone in some places. As a result, Bonnie suffered third degree burns and (like Clyde) limped for the rest of her life. It was so difficult for her to walk that she sometimes jumped on one leg or leaned on Clyde.
11. Souvenir hunters
On May 23, 1934, a six-man ambush led by former Texas Ranger captain Frank Hamer shot Bonnie and Clyde in their car, firing a total of over 130 bullets (110 hitting the bandits). The acrid smell of gunpowder still hung in the air, as onlookers rushed to the perforated car, trying to grab something for themselves. One person tried to cut off Clyde's ear with a pocket knife and another tried to rip off his finger. Before the police intervened, one of the onlookers managed to cut off locks of Bonnie's hair and wrap them in her blood-soaked dress.
12. An auto mile riddled with bullets can be seen in the casino
After an ambush on Bonnie and Clyde, the riddled Ford V-8 sedan (which had been stolen) was returned to its former owner, Ruth Warren of Topeka, Kansas. Warren sold the car to Charles Stanley, who put the death car in tow and drove it around the country, showing it as a landmark. Today, the car can be found in the lobby of Whiskey Pete`s Casino in Primma, Nevada.
13. Bonnie and Clyde are buried separately
Despite the fact that they were always close during their lives, after death the couple were separated. Although they once stated that they wanted to be buried nearby, Bonnie's mother, who did not approve of her relationship with Clyde, insisted that her daughter be buried in another Dallas cemetery. Clyde was buried next to his brother Marvin. On his gravestone is written: "Gone, but not forgotten."
Bonnie Parker's grave, which reads: "As all flowers become more fragrant from sunlight and dew, so this old world is made brighter by the lives of people like you."
There were also criminals in such a famous port city as Odessa. became not only a proverb, but also a movie hero.
