Bonnie And Clyde Crime

As we all know the tale of Bonnie and Clyde is a twisted story composed of passion and devastation. This true story just did not ring true to some during that time because it was completely unheard of for women to be a part of such crimes that were committed by the dynamic duo. When the majority of people think of Bonnie and Clyde, they automatically think of cold hearted killers who robbed banks because that is what we have been taught. Although they did commit brutal crimes, most of their crimes focused around petty small business robberies. In the beginning, most people looked the other way when it came to the couple but little did they know that the young couple would become two of the most notorious outlaws of all time (Guinn).

Bonnie did not start her life has a heathen child. Bonnie Parker was intelligent, stunning, and full of life with the hopes of becoming a famous actress in the future. She had always loved to be in the center of attention. When Bonnie was sixteen, she married her high school sweetheart Roy Thornton. Roy was a bad man who beat Bonnie constantly and he was eventually incarcerated, but Bonnie did not file for divorce even though the marriage was over and she did not love him anymore. Although she was technically with Roy and she was in love with Clyde, she wore her wedding ring until the day she died (McGasko).
Both convicts were born into families that came from no money whatsoever.

Clyde had always had a craving for crime and began his criminal record as a young boy. His first crimes did not amount to much but he would steal from the local homes with his brother Buck and as we all know, his level of brutality within his crimes only increased. His first run in with the law was due to him not bringing a rental car back at the right time. I guess you could describe Bonnie and Clyde’s first meeting as “love at first sight.” They knew that they were meant to be together and that they were meant for some bigger purpose in the world (The Decades

Collection).
Bonnie was the type of woman that always wanted to be the center of everyone's attention, even at a young age.

To me, Bonnie was always selfish and thought of herself more than she thought about Clyde. Within time, Bonnie got the attention and headlines that she had always dreamed of. When the papers first started to write articles about the crimes of Bonnie and Clyde, they left Bonnie out of the story because they figured she was being held hostage and forced to commit the crimes by Clyde. It would soon become known that Bonnie stood by Clyde’s side with every bad thing that they went to do and most of the time the person at fault and the one holding the gun was Bonnie Parker (McGasko).

The couple obviously thought that they would never be stopped but in time they realized that death was inescapable. One of the famous poems of Bonnie Parker foreshadows their death. She writes, “Some day they'll go down together; And they'll bury them side by side; To few it'll be grief, To the law a relief, But it's death for Bonnie and Clyde.” Bonnie wrote this poem in the few short weeks leading up to their death and you can see that at that time the couple knew that they did not have much longer to live and they were giving up hope

(Herrell).
On Wednesday, May 23, 1934 the lives of the star crossed lovers would be shattered forever. The couple was making their way to meet one of their convict buddies dads only to be ambushed by the law on a Louisiana back road. On that fateful day they were trapped on the road by Texas Ranger Frank Hamer and his men when the law let loose bullets on them. Before it was over with, the car was filled with over 150 bullets. Some call it an overkill, some call it justice (History.com).
At the end of the book, Go Down Together: The True, Untold Story of Bonnie and Clyde by Jeff Guinn the author sums up the entire story by ending it with the four simple words that Clyde Barrow requested to have engraved into his tombstone: “Gone but not Forgotten.” According to Jeff Guinn, those words would ring “true in ways he never could have imagined.” (Guinn).