- Bonnie Parker (October 1, 1910 – May 23, 1934) and Clyde Barrow (March 24, 1909 – May 23, 1934)
- Barrow preferred to rob small stores or rural gas station
- The gang is believed to have killed at least nine police officers and committed several civilian murders
- The couple themselves were eventually ambushed and killed in Louisiana by law officers
- Their reputation was cemented in American pop folklore by Arthur Penn's 1967 film Bonnie and Clyde
- Even though she was physically present at a hundred or more felonies during her two years as Barrow's companion, she was not the machine gun-wielding cartoon killer portrayed in the newspapers, newsreels, and, particularly, the pulpy detective magazines of the day. Gang member W. D. Jones was unsure whether he had ever seen her fire at officers
- Parker's reputation as a cigar-smoking gun moll grew out of a playful snapshot found abandoned by police at a hideout, released to the press
- While she did chain-smoke Camel cigarettes, she was not a cigar smoke.
- Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker were young and unmarried
BONNIE
- Born in Rowena, TX
- Second of 3 children
- Farther died when she was four
- Parker won top prizes in spelling, writing and public speaking
- She married her classmate Roy Thornton in 1926 but in 1929 they never saw each other again.
- Thornton and Parker never officially divorced
- Born in Ellis County, TX
- From a poor farming family
- While in prison he was sexually assaulted repeatedly for over a year by a dominant inmate. Clyde eventually killed the man with a pipe.
- He was parolled and started smaller jobs like banks and gas stations
- Favored the weapon M1918 Browning Automatic Rifle
- He devoted his live to revenge against the texas prison system for the abuse he went through
On her grave:
"As the flowers are all made sweeter by the sunshine and the dew,
So this old world is made brighter by the lives of folks like you"
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