Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow were the most notorious criminals in US history.
Inseparable till their gruesome De@ths, they committed Murd*rs, robbed banks, fired guns and much more.
Despite the Blood on their hands, they became first Celebrity Criminals.
Let's explore this Lovers turned Serial K!llers story.
1. Clyde chopped off two of his toes in prison.
- Clyde was repeatedly sexu@lly ass@ulted by other inmates in Prison. He severed his Toes with an ax in a desperate attempt to be transferred to another facility while serving a 14 year sentence for robbery and other charges.
- Clyde and one of his men opened fire and k!lled a deputy in cold blood and injured a Sheriff, after being paroled by his mother. Clyde had to spend the next two years on the run.
- After a year of being pursued by police, Clyde missed a warning sign of bridge construction during a chase. The car flipped and Bonnie was badly burned. She survived, but could barely walk for the remainder of her life
2. They fell in Love at First Sight.
- Bonnie and Clyde met in 1930 at a friend’s house and fell in love at first sight. Just after few weeks Clyde was arrested for several criminal charges, where Bonnie visited him frequently.
- She helped Clyde escape by smuggling him a gun but he was quickly recaptured and sentenced for 14 years, throughout which they sent each other love letters, referring to each other as “honey,” “darling,” and “little wife.”
- They were inseparable from the start. One member of their Barrow Gang described Bonnie to be incredibly devoted to Clyde and he clearly loved Bonnie, but they were also pretty notorious while fighting.
3. Bonnie d!ed wearing a wedding ring but it wasn’t Clyde’s.
- Before she met Clyde, she was married to her high school sweetheart, Roy Thornton. Bonnie was just 16 when she married Thornton and wore the wedding ring till her death.
- But due to his constant infidelity, the couple eventually separated but never divorced. Bonnie continued to wear her wedding ring and had a tattoo on the inside of her right thigh with two hearts labeled “Bonnie” and “Roy.”
- At the time of his wife's passing, Thornton was in prison for Murder. When he heard about the demise of Bonnie and Clyde, Thornton allegedly said he was glad they died together. He was killed in a prison escape attempt in 1937.
4. Clyde's first robbery was Chicken Theft.
- Clyde’s first crime was chicken theft. His second was failing to return a rental car on time, he had rented to visit an angry high school girlfriend for which he was arrested in 1926. Love and hunger made him a criminal.
- The rental car agency dropped the charges, but the incident remained on his arrest record. Just three weeks later, he and his brother Ivan "Buck" Barrow was arrested for a more ridiculous crime - possession of a truckload of stolen turkeys.
- The brothers moved onto more serious crimes: breaking into safes, robbing stores, and stealing cars.
5. The Gang’s Robberies often amounted to only few Dollars.
- Bonnie and Clyde are known as two of the most notorious bank robbers of all time, yet in reality, they didn’t actually get away with a lot of cash. Oftentimes, their loot amounted to only $5 or $10.
- In two years, they robbed no more than 15 banks and often took as little as $80. The Barrow Gang stole from grocery stores, gas stations, and paid for many of their daily activities with coins.
- During Depression Bankers and law enforcement officials, had no sympathy for poor people through no fault of their own. For them, Clyde and Bonnie’s criminal acts was a sense of revenge and satisfaction.
6. Bonnie Predicted Her and Clyde's De@th In A Poem.
- Bonnie wrote poems long before she met Clyde and continued while on the run, predicting her own death in “The End of the Line" - 'Some day they'll go down together'.
- She wrote numerous poems throughout her life, including while in jail in "Suicide Sal" story of a "jilted gangster gal" named Sal who takes her own life.
- Clyde was also an artist, a talented musician. he two actually wanted to perform together. However, things didn't work out that way because Clyde was already on the run and quickly roped Bonnie into his exploits.
