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Bonnie and Clyde: 13 little known facts about the most romanticized criminals
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Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow.
The most famous and romanticized criminals in the history of America 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 lawlessness.
Their life was like a fascinating western, where women smoke cigars and brandish rifles, and men rob banks and steal luxury cars.
However, for Bonnie and Clyde, the film called life turned out to be very short.
In our review, there are 13 little known facts about this bloodthirsty couple.
1. Bonnie wore an engagement ring until her death
Bonnie Parker with her first husband Roy Thornton.
Six days before she turned 16, Bonnie married a classmate Roy Thornton.
The marriage broke up a few months later, and Bonnie never saw her husband again after he was jailed for robbery in 1929.
Soon after, Bonnie met Clyde, and although they fell in love with each other, Bonnie never actually divorced Thornton.
On the day Bonnie and Clyde were killed in 1934, she was still wearing Thornton's wedding ring and had a tattoo on the inside of her right thigh - two hearts connected with the words "Bonnie" and "Roy" .
2. Bonnie and Clyde were short
Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow, 1933.
Bonnie's height was only 150 cm, and Clyde's was 162 cm, at a time when the average height for women and men was 160 cm and 172 cm, respectively.
3. Bonnie was an exemplary student and wrote poetry
One of Bonnie's diaries with poems.
During her school years, Bonnie was distinguished by her imagination and creative abilities.
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
The famous photo with a cigar and a revolver.
In her most famous photo, Bonnie Parker holds a revolver with one foot on the bumper of a car, and a cigar is clenched 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 at the secret apartment of the gang during a police raid.
In one of the photos, Bonnie is aiming a rifle at the chest of a smiling Clyde, and in another, Clyde is kissing Bonnie in an exaggerated manner peculiar to movie stars.
These photos, as well as Bonnie's poems found in the apartment, greatly influenced the fame of Bonnie and Clyde.
Newspapers all over the country reprinted the photo with a cigar.
In fact, Bonnie smoked cigarettes, as did Clyde (their favorite brand was Camel).
Bonnie also liked whiskey, and Clyde hardly drank alcohol.
5. Clyde was not taken to the Navy
Clyde Barrow holds a rifle and a shotgun, 1933.
As a young man, Clyde tried to enlist in the US Navy, but was rejected because he suffered a serious illness (possibly malaria or yellow fever) as a child.
It was a heavy blow for Clyde, who had already managed to get a tattoo of "USN" (U.S. Navy) on his left arm.
6. First arrest for non return of a rental car
Clyde Barrow in 1926, at the age of 16.
The notorious criminal was first arrested in 1926 for car theft after an unsuccessful attempt to return the car he rented in Dallas to go to his girlfriend.
The car rental agency dropped the charges, but the incident remained in the case filed against Clyde.
Just three weeks later, he was arrested again, along with his older brother Marvin "Buck" Barrow, for having stolen turkeys in the back of their truck.
7. Banks are not their specialty
Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow, 1933.
Although they are often portrayed as Depression era Robin Hoods who stole from rich and powerful financial institutions, Bonnie and Clyde were much more likely to rob gas stations and grocery stores.
Many times, their production was only $ 5 or $ 10.
8. Clyde cut off two of his fingers
Young Clyde Barrow.
While serving a 14 year sentence in Texas for robbery and car theft in January 1932, Clyde decided that he had had enough of hard labor on a prison farm.
In order to be transferred to a less severe facility, Clyde cut off his left thumb and part of the second toe with an axe.
The self mutilation, which always left him limping afterwards, ultimately proved unnecessary, as Clyde was released on parole after six days.
9. Bonnie and Clyde are caring children
Bonnie and Clyde are on the run.
Whatever happened, Bonnie and Clyde did not lose touch with their families and regularly visited their relatives.
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 able to prepare an ambush and kill them.
10. Bonnie was lame
Bonnie Parker, 1933.
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 detour of the bridge, which is under repair.
Ford V 8 broke through the barrier at a speed of 112 km / h and fell into a dry riverbed.
The acid poured out of the broken car battery and severely burned Bonnie's right leg, eating the flesh to the 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
Bonnie and Clyde after the shooting.
On May 23, 1934, a six man ambush led by former Texas Rangers captain Frank Hamer shot Bonnie and Clyde in their car, firing a total of more than 130 bullets (110 hit the bandits).
The acrid smell of gunpowder still hung in the air, as onlookers rushed to the holed car, trying to grab something for themselves.
One man tried to cut off Clyde's ear with a pocket knife , and another tried to tear off his finger.
Before the police intervened, one of the onlookers managed to cut off strands of Bonnie's hair and wrap them around her blood soaked dress.
12. A car car riddled with bullets can be seen in the casino
Bonnie and Clyde's death car.
After the ambush of Bonnie and Clyde, the riddled Ford V 8 sedan (which was stolen) was returned to its former owner, Ruth Warren from Topeka, Kansas.
Warren sold the car to Charles Stanley, who hitched the "death car" in tow and drove it around the country, showing it as a tourist attraction.
Today, this car can be found in the lobby of the 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 their death, the couple was separated.
Although they once stated that they wanted to be buried next to each other, 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 tombstone it is written: "Gone, but not forgotten."
Gone, but not forgotten.
The grave of Bonnie Parker, on which it is written: "As all flowers become more fragrant from sunlight and dew, so this old world becomes brighter from the lives of people like you"
The grave of Bonnie Parker.
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