The Story Of Bonnie And Clyde

Bonnie Parker was born on the first day of October in 1910, in Rowena, Texas. Bonnie was an excellent student and the second of three children. An avid fan of Romance and Confession magazines, she wasn't the typical stereotype of a killer, much less a serial murderer. Standing at four foot ten inches, she married Roy Thornton. She got a tattoo on the inside of her thigh of two hearts with their names intertwined. But a year later they split up. She then went to visit a friend in West Dallas, were she came to meet Clyde Barrow.

Clyde Barrow was born in Telico, Texas, on March 21, 1909. Clyde was the youngest of eight children and little over a year older than his future spouse. Clyde never made it past the eighth grade. Clyde stood lower than average height at five foot six and three quarters of an inch. His father was a share cropper and hers was a bricklayer. His father soon opens a grocery store, and he quits school to sell stolen turkeys with his brother Buck.

Bonnie soon learns of Clyde's criminal endeavors as the law comes looking for him and he is sent him to Denton, Texas for charges of stolen merchandise. They law didn't have enough proof and transferred him to Waco Texas where he confessed to several car thefts. He was sentenced two years on each count, but then he was allowed to serve them concurrently.

Bonnie still visited him daily, and on one of these trips she smuggled in a colt to Clyde and his cell mate. That night they escaped, although freedom was short lived. They were captured in Ohio and Clyde was sentenced to 14 years. He was pardoned in 1932, after the intervention of his mother. He soon returned to Bonnie and they left in none other than a stolen car. He kept himself busy with Robberies, and Bonnie was soon drawn into the plots.

In Wellington, Texas, their stolen Ford plunged off a bridge and Bonnie was pinned underneath. Some local farmers saved her as the machine caught fire. Although her leg would never be the same, it leg soon became deformed, and needed medical attention. As they were trying to reach her parents, the sheriff got wind of it and created an ambush, riddling their stolen car with bullets and hitting both Bonnie and Clyde in their legs.