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This is where and who started the term we know and give to couples of crime or Partners in Crime, those criminals who are in love and caused havoc around them with their sprees, that term is "Bonnie & Clyde" but nothing these Criminal Couples can do would be enough to match with the original, This is Bonnie and Clyde from the Daily life Section in Story of America Cards.

(Who are Bonnie and Clyde?)

Bonnie Elizabeth Parker and Clyde Champion Barrow, were an American criminal couple who traveled the Central United States with their gang during the Great Depression. The couple was known for their bank robberies, although they preferred to rob small stores or rural funeral homes. Their exploits captured the attention of the American press and its readership during what is occasionally referred to as the "public enemy era" between 1931 and 1934, until the couple were ambushed and shot to death in Bienville Parish, Louisiana. They are believed to have murdered at least nine police officers and four civilians.

(Only Death Could End Their Crime Spree)

From 1932 to 1934 a pair of bank robbers named Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow managed to terrorize the entire region of southwest America, During their wild spree of robbing and killing, these two hoodlums shot their bloody way from state to state.

Incredibly, a legend grew up around the couple, depicting them as social protesters and underdogs, victims of poverty and hounded by the police. In actuality they were a pathetic pair, too ignorant and dislocated by the Great Depression to understand or control their violent behavior.

Clyde Barrow was born on a poor Texas farm on March 24th 1909, He was living in Dallas in 1930 when he met Bonnie Parker who was 18 months younger than him. It was an ill-fated match from the start, Clyde had just started his career in crime and was soon serving time for a car theft and burglary.

Bonnie smuggled a gun into his jail cell and he managed to break out, Captured a few days later, Barrow returned to jail and was serving 14 years when he was released in February 1932 on a general parole granted by the Texas governor (and he properly regretted that after!).

After trying a construction job in Massachusetts for a short time, he decided that the straight life was not for him and returned to his wild ways.

In March 1932, "Bonnie and Clyde" began their notorious criminal career, The "Barrow gang" which included Ray Hamilton of Dallas, killed two lawmen in Oklahoma, then robbed a bank in texas, escaping with $1,400.

After Hamilton was captured in Michigan while visiting his father, the couple motored leisurely around the midwest, staying at fancy hotels and buying expensive clothes, Their rich tastes soon required them to turn to bank robbing.

During the next 17 months they were joined by 16-year-old W.D Jones and then Clyde's brother Buck and his wife, Blanche.

Buck and Blanche were finally captured in Iowa, but Barrow, Parker and Jones returned safely to the Dallas area, where they spent the winter of 1934, Sleeping in stolen automobiles with Barrow often disguised as a woman, they remained free and even managed to help Hamilton and several others escape from prison at Huntsville.

Finally, on May 23rd 1934, a tip-off, possibly from the father of one of the men, Bonnie and Clyde had freed, enabled lawmen to ambushed the couple in their car on a road outside of Gibsland, Louisiana, Their bullet-riddled bodies were brought back to Dallas for burial, where the legend of "Bonnie & Clyde" had already begun.

(The Aftermath of the Spree)

With Personal effects, The posse never received the promised bounty on the perpetrators, so they were told to take whatever they wanted from the confiscated items in their car. Hamer appropriated the arsenal of stolen guns and ammunition, plus a box of fishing tackle, under the terms of his compensation package with the Texas DOC. In July, Clyde's mother Cumie wrote to Hamer asking for the return of the guns: saying "You don't ever want to forget my boy was never tried in no court for murder, and no one is guilty until proven guilty by some court so I hope you will answer this letter and also return the guns I am asking for." There is no record of any response.

The Death Car, which Jordan attempted to keep, but Ruth Warren of Topeka, Kansas, the vehicle's legal owner, sued him. Jordan relented and allowed her to claim it in August 1934, still covered with blood and human tissue. The engine still ran, despite the damage the vehicle took during the ambush. Warren picked up the car in Arcadia and drove it to Shreveport, still in its gruesome state. From there, she had it trucked to Topeka.

As for the Gang and Family members, In February 1935, Dallas and federal authorities arrested and tried twenty family members and friends for aiding and abetting Barrow and Parker. This became known as the "harboring trial" and all twenty either pleaded guilty or were found guilty. The two mothers were jailed for thirty days; other sentences ranged from two years' imprisonment (for Floyd Hamilton, brother of Raymond) to one hour in custody (for Barrow's teenage sister Marie). Other defendants included Blanche, Jones, Methvin, and Parker's sister Billie.

Blanche was permanently blinded in her left eye during the 1933 shootout at Dexfield Park. She was taken into custody on the charge of "assault with intent to kill". She was convicted and sentenced to ten years in prison, but was paroled in 1939 for good behavior. She returned to Dallas, leaving her life of crime in the past, and lived with her invalid father as his caregiver. In 1940, she married Eddie Frasure, worked as a taxi cab dispatcher and a beautician, and completed the terms of her parole one year later. She lived in peace with her husband until he died of cancer in 1969.

Barrow cohorts Hamilton and Palmer, who escaped Eastham in January 1934, were recaptured. Both were convicted of murder and executed in the electric chair at Huntsville, Texas on May 10, 1935.

Jones had left Barrow and Parker, six weeks after the three of them evaded officers at Dexfield Park in July 1933. He reached Houston and got a job picking cotton, where he was soon discovered and captured. He was returned to Dallas, where he dictated a "confession" in which he claimed to have been kept a prisoner by Barrow and Parker. Some of the more lurid lies that he told concerned the gang's sex lives, and this testimony gave rise to many stories about Barrow's ambiguous sexuality. Jones was convicted of the murder of Doyle Johnson and served a lenient sentence of fifteen years.

He gave an interview to Playboy magazine during the excitement surrounding the 1967 movie, saying that in reality it had not been glamorous.

He was killed on August 4, 1974, in a misunderstanding by the jealous boyfriend of a woman whom he was trying to help.

And for Law Enforcement, Hamer returned to a quiet life as a freelance security consultant for oil companies. According to Guinn, "his reputation suffered somewhat after Gibsland" because many people felt that he had not given Barrow and Parker a fair chance to surrender. He made headlines again in 1948 when he and Governor Coke Stevenson unsuccessfully challenged the vote total achieved by Lyndon Johnson during the election for the U.S. Senate. He died in 1955 at the age of 71, after several years of poor health. Bob Alcorn died on May 23, 1964, 30 years to the day after the Gibsland ambush.

Prentiss Oakley admitted to friends that he had fired prematurely. He succeeded Henderson Jordan as sheriff of Bienville Parish in 1940.

And Officials of the Texas Rangers, Texas Highway Patrol, and Texas Department of Public Safety honored the memory of patrolman Edward Bryan Wheeler on April 1, 2011, who was murdered along with officer H. D. Murphy by the Barrow gang on Easter Sunday, April 1, 1934. They presented the Yellow Rose of Texas commendation to his last surviving sibling, 95-year-old Ella Wheeler-McLeod of San Antonio, giving her a plaque and framed portrait of her brother.

(Ending)

And that's all about crime today, the partners in crime, Bonnie and Clyde, so next of what I'll be planning to make for history is that I'll be talking about another criminal who's nicknamed "Scarface" does that Capone ring a bell, and a natural disaster in 1888, a blizzard that buried New York in lots of snow, so if those peak your interest stay tooned and Al see ya later.

(Also just say I was supposed to post this one sunday, October 23rd 2022, but had to delay it because of my grandpa's passing which you have already knew when I announced it, but just wanted to bring it up again just in case).