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Topic: 8 Famous Criminals
Episode 1 (Bonnie and Clyde)
Highlight: Bonnie and Clyde were an American criminal couple. They are believed to have murdered at least nine police officer and four civilians.
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Episode 1 (Bonnie and Clyde)
Highlight: Bonnie and Clyde were an American criminal couple. They are believed to have murdered at least nine police officer and four civilians.
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#8FamousCriminals
Bonnie and Clyde were an infamous American robbery team responsible for a 21-month crime spree from 1932 to 1934. They robbed gas stations, restaurants, and small-town banks, chiefly operating in Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Missouri.
Clyde had been a criminal long before he met Parker in January 1930. After 20 months in prison in 1930–32, he teamed up with Bonnie, and the two began a crime spree that lasted 21 months.
Bonnie and Clyde met in Texas in 1930, when she was 19 and he was 21. Soon after their meeting, Clyde was arrested for robbery.
Though he initially escaped jail with the help of a gun provided by Bonnie, he was rearrested and returned to prison, where he remained until being released on bail in 1932.
In December 1932 the FBI learned of an abandoned automobile in Michigan that had been stolen in Oklahoma. A search in Oklahoma of a second stolen car linked both automobiles to Barrow and Parker through a prescription bottle that had been filled for Barrow’s aunt.
Further investigation led the FBI to issue a warrant against the couple for interstate transportation of the second stolen automobile on May 20, 1933. During that year Barrow and Parker engaged in several shootouts with police.
In November 1933 police in Dallas, Texas, attempted to capture them near Grand Prairie, but they escaped. In January 1934 in Waldo, Texas, they helped engineer the escape of five prisoners, during which two guards were killed.
On April 1, 1934, Barrow and Parker murdered two police officers in Grapevine, Texas, and five days later they killed a police constable in Miami, Oklahoma, and kidnapped a police chief.
They were eventually betrayed by a friend, and police officers from Texas and Louisiana ambushed the couple along a highway between the towns of Gibsland and Sailes in Bienville Parish, Louisiana, on May 23, 1934.
After they attempted to flee the roadblock, police opened fire, killing them.
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