Bonnie and Clyde: Lovers, Outlaws, Morons

Hello everybody welcome back to another episode of The Casual criminalist as always I'm your host Simon welcome why me say one of my writers today David thank you David written me an episode Bonnie and Clyde L as Outlaws morons never read it before that's the format of the show we're going to explore it together dear listener dear viewer if you're watching on YouTube let's jump in shall we and speaking of listening if you want to rate the show on Spotify that'd be greatly appreciated I see we got thousand tens of thousands of ratings which is amazing thank you all it was the morning of the 1st of April 1934 Easter Sunday when the Barrow gang rolled into Dallas Texas Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker wanted to visit their families but the cops were surveiling their home they were hoping that the Barrow gang would arrive at some point for a visit so they could fill the Outlaws full of bullets a classic policing in the past it's like what are we hoping for civil arrests no no no no no we're just going to pop them full of lead instead the bar gang drove on for another 25 miles toward the small town of Grapevine there they were in a Ford V8 it was stolen of course four people were in the car Clyde Barrow Bonnie Parker Henry methvin and Joe Palmer they stopped on Dove road just outside of Grapevine surrounded by Farmers fields and roughly 100 met from Highway 114 Clyde told Joe Palmer to get out walk over to the highway and to hit Chik back to Dallas Palmer would not be recognized by the cops so it'd be able to pass a message onto the Parker and Barrow families that Bonnie and Cly were outside of Grapevine and they were waiting to meet them at a rendevu point on Dove Road for a little holiday reunion Palmer departed immediately traffic on Highway 114 was sparse on Easter Sunday and it would probably take a long time for him to thumb his way back to Dallas and so Bonnie Clyde and Henry methin waited Bonnie Parker got out of the car and began playing with a rabbit that should bought and name Sunny Boy it was an Easter present for a wait like a real rabbit just on the RO what you got got a rabbit just play okay it was an Easter present for her mother Emma at the time don't give people pets as gifts that's crazy you're not giving someone a gift you're giving someone an obligation at the time Bonnie was 23 years old a tiny wave of a woman only 4' 11 and rail thin at 90 or 40 kilos she was stylishly dressed and had strawberry blonde hair she smiled and laughed easily but she walked with a newly acquired limp eventually Bonnie got bored of playing with the rabbit and fished out a bottle of whiskey she go as Henry methan a sullen and paranoid escaped convict into drinking with her they took Swig straight out of the bottle as Bonnie talked aimlessly and quickly got faced conversely Henry methin was a mean drunk and the booze only serve to make him more Sullen what is going on he just chilling by the side of the road playing with a rabbit while you know on a drive 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super drunk the dude with white hair what the his name it doesn't matter anyway the dude with white hair leaves and he's clearly drunk and you're just like oh how's he going to go of course he going to drive it's the 1960s and he walks out the house and it's there's like a bang and D draver just shouts to him that's my car yours is the other one then that guy's just going to drive home and he doesn't even know what car is his oh the past he needed to be able to drive quickly and shoot straight Clyde was the then 24 years old he had thick brown hair and was dressed in an ill-fitting suit definitely less stylish than Bonnie but he made an effort Clyde was 5'6 125b or 56 kilos who both these people are really small 56 kilos he was still quite young and not physically imposing at all no 5'6 and 56 kilos there's nothing physically imposing about him yet his time inside the Texas prison system had turned him into an embittered angry and ruthless killer well holy okay he blundered into death a man nearly twice his size he'd also proven himself to be quite the capable gunman yeah there's no making up for psycho like you can be short and thin and you can be fighting someone but if you're an absolute psycho you can still win that fight he was dauntless under fear even when vastly outnumbered even with well-armed veteran policemen as his adversaries with a weapon in his hands there was no denying that he was a force to be reckoned with which is why the cops had given up trying to capture him and just wanted him dead Clyde half listened to Bonnie natam while she got progressively pissed meanwhile he kept constant vigil of the traffic on highway4 looking for cops but as the hours wore on Clyde decided that there wasn't going to be any danger so he laid down in the back seat of the Ford and had a nap Bonnie polished off the bottle of whiskey and began chewing on slices of lemon beel to cover the smell of liquor on her breath she didn't want her mother to know that she had been drinking yo bunny you polish off a bottle of whiskey people are going to know and it's not just coming out of your breath it's like it sweats out of your body like you can eat all the which is always like surprised like I don't work in an office but I feel like if I worked in a large enough office you'd know if someone was an alcoholic because you'd be like it's not like the smell of whiskey it's the smell of like that sweed alcohol like you know when you're like on the on the underground or something and like someone's clearly had a bit of a rough night and they're just going home while you're going to work or whatever and you're just like oh rough night was it cuz you can smell the on them she stretched out languidly on the front seat and got some sleep in order to sober up Henry methin was left standing watch he had only busted out of prison a few months earlier there's no way in h he was going to sleep he viewed every car that passed down the highway as a Potential Threat meanwhile at approximately 1:30 p.m. Joe Palmer arrived back in Dallas he made his way to the house of Henry Barrow Clyde's father he was the only one at home Clyde's mother was out at church and his siblings were out at other people's houses sleeping off hangovers wait so f he's just getting super faced in the morning just drinking a bottle of whiskey in the morning okay then Palmer told Henry Barrow about the Rond Vu poins on Dove Road then Palmer headed over to the house of Emma Parker Bonnie's mother and told her the same I hate drinking in the day like when I was a kid me and my mates would sometimes go to this it was a it was a nightclub in London except it was in the day it was called The Church there's enough people listening to this I'm sure some PE some people are listening have been to the church it was in an old church in fact it wasn't it used to be in an old church but then they got kicked out of the old church and they went to an old theater so it was in an old theater it was basically a club that just ran from like 9:00 in the morning to 1:00 in the afternoon and I have no idea why we thought this was a good idea I probably just tagged Along on someone else's thinking it's a good idea you just get drunk in the morning then you'd have to go home and it'd be like lunchtime and you'd be like oh no and no doubt like one of the group will get super face and he'd be like oh God he's lying down on the train just on the floor on the way home and you're like oh no no Jim no then Palmer headed over to the house of Emma Parker Bonnie's mother and told her the same the police patrols watching the Parker and bar residents saw Joe palmer but did not attempt to detain him Bonnie and Clyde had messages contacting their parents all the time and intercepting them accomplished little or nothing the Barrow gang were seen as Folk Heroes among the poor of Dallas Texas along with many depression stricken families in the rest of the country the Barrow gang enjoyed fierce y from their Messengers they never gave up a thing back in Grapevine at approximately 3:30 p.m. three Texas Highway Patrol officers on motorcycle struck out along Highway 114 they were senior police officer Polly Ivy and Junior officers Edward wheeler and Holloway Murphy it was Murphy's first day on the job he was 24 years old cruising down the 114 a Wheeler spotted the Ford V8 100 m off the highway on Dove Road wheeler turned off the next intersection and waved at Murphy to follow him senior officer Ry drove drove on oblivious not noticing the junior officers were no longer behind him in 1934 the officers didn't not have radios on their bikes officer wheeler suspected that the Ford V8 may have broken down and decided to pull over to see if the driver needed assistance wheeler was only 2 years older than Murphy but he had some experience on Highway Patrol and so he had wanted to show Murphy a routine stop and check Ivy wasn't needed they catch him up later the two Patrol officers pulled up to the car on Dove Road and Wheeler dismounted while Murphy watched from his saddle wheeler left his shotgun on his bike Murphy's shotgun meanwhile wasn't even loaded Clyde sat up in the back seat and serously gripped his own shotgun which lay next to him it whispered to Henry methin let's take them this seems like a mistake you've just at the side of the road someone eventually like Highway Patrol or someone is going to stop and be like you're right and then they'll be like oh my God it's that Clyde guy get him why wouldn't you just pull off on a on a smaller Side Road or something or like Fu your car in a bush a drunken Henry methin didn't need any further encouragement and immediately raised a Browning automatic rifle a hideously powerful World War One fully automatic machine gun that shit's legal is that legal back in that just having a machine gun methvin began firing he hit Edwood wheeler with several armor piercing bullets shredding through his torso and killing him instantly the Panic stricken rookie Holloway Murphy gra scrabbled in his pocket to grab some shotgun shells and load his weapon before he could do Clyde Barrow leveled his own shotgun at him and shot Murphy Square in the chest the shotgun Bast sent Murphy flying off the seat of his motorbike two witnesses in a car Mr and Mrs giggle screeched to a halt on the intersection on Highway 114 and watched in horror as Henry methin walked over to Murphy as the young man lay wounded on the ground methin fired another shot into Murphy in an attempt to kill him but Murphy still did not die Mr and Mrs giggle what are you doing if I saw this I'll be like drive on drive on drive on find somewhere to call the police he's like what are you going to do he it's a shootout a third foot witness William schifer who owned the Farm off of Dove Road claimed that as he sat on his porch he saw Bonnie Parker cigar clenched between her teeth holding a rabbit in one hand and a pistol in the other limp over towards Murphy raised the pistol and shoot him several times in the Torso that so that in his convulsions Murphy's head bounced off the ground quote like it was a rubber ball meanwhile a few miles down Highway 114 senior officer Paul iy realized his two Junior colleagues were no longer behind him he doubled back and saw their two motorbikes on Dove Road and Surly thereafter spotted the bodies of the two officers on the ground the Ford V8 was nowhere to be seen Ivy pulled up dismounted and examined the corpse of Officer wheeler and the unconscious blood soaked body of Officer Murphy officer Murphy survives this is like wasn't this like the 1940s and he's been shot multiple times how on Earth is he surviving this the 24y Old Murphy was rushed hospital where he pronounced dead upon arrival okay never mind he's not surviving it because yeah of course he's not it's the par and he got shot many times after talking to the wit wites everything soon became clear the news was blasted across the United States Bonnie and Clyde had struck again for some reason in my head Bonnie and Clyde were bank robbers not murderers cuz they're like are they like semi- romanticized for some reason although I know that can be for murderers as well which is weird but um yeah I guess I don't know that much about this meet Bonnie Parker Bonnie Elizabeth Parker was born October the 1st 1910 in the unincorp operated rural community of Rena Texas her Father Charles Parker was a brick gler her mother Emma Parker was a housewife and a Baptist churchgoing country socialite whose days were filled with gossip bake sales box socials charity drives visit to neighbors and hosting modest little dinner parties Bonnie had a brother two years older than her named Hubert a nicknamed Buster and a sister 3 years younger named Billy Jean due to Bonnie's strawberry blonde Cs and outgoing nature she was considered an adorable little cherub as a child and was a favorite in the children's choir at church for her part the young Bonnie loved being the center of attention she always enjoyed special treatment in 1913 Bonnie learned to swear from an uncle and addressed her father with some foul language if her Brother Hubert had done that he would have been beaten black and blue but Charles could have never bring himself to lay a hand on his darling little angel yeah and I mean I don't want to ever say that like hitting your kids is okay or like liter beating your kids black and blue obviously not but like it's it's hard it's like would I hit a man if necessary yes would I hit a woman if necessary no even if it was NE never would I hit a woman well only if it was necessary no it feels different it feels different hitting like a woman or a girl like you know everything changed in December 1914 when Charles Parker dropped dead of an unspecified illness Bonnie was just four years old Emma Parker was now a single mother with no means of supporting her children in Rowena so she picked up sticks and moved back to her parents place in Cement City then an impoverished all industrial town on the outskirts of Dallas Emma's grandfather Frank was a m worker who didn't make enough to support his daughter and three grandchildren so was forced to take a job as a seamstress in a clothing Factory she earned sweat shop rages roughly $9.50 a week bruh or $37 a week in modern money which adds up to a little under $166,000 per year in today's currency I mean that's bad but is that like sweat shop level I get the feeling in a sweat shop it's like you it's like I don't know isn't it like they get paid like a dollar a day or something horrific while Emma was at the factory her children were effectively raised by their grandmother Mary but Buster and Billy Jean were well behaved Bonnie was apparently a little as my father used to call such kids a cutie from hell it's a nice way of putting things at age five Bonnie enjoyed setting small fires around the house and once raided her grandfather's wine collection drinking until she passed out oh Bonnie setting little fire that's that's an in I mean also I'm a bit of a pyromaniac like I love burning things but I I don't set fires set fires is like you're hoping that it's going to burn down I'd more like me and my mates would go out into the into the forest would build a fire and then we'd throw like doodan cans in there and watch them explode from behind trees because bang but kind of that sort of Pyromania it's probably not what Pyromania is just loved burning whenever I camping with my mates we're like should we build a fire uh should we build it as absolutely big as possible and usually everyone's like yeah when Bonnie entered school she continued to misbehave stealing bullying and frequently resorting to physical violence with other girls and sometimes even boys who angered her she was nevertheless popular and pretty and became one of the Mean Girls of C City boys were trying to quote unquote date her before any of them had even hit puberty Bonnie was thus the frequent recipient of small gifts from the little boys of her school they'd Ed their precious pocket money to buy her candy and chewing gum as Bonnie entered her teenage years in the 1920s she dreamed of being a famous singer on Broadway or a Hollywood actress she adopted the flapper style as soon as she could scrape together the money for the clothing and hairo she wore heavy makeup all of which was quite scandalous in Texas at the time at age 15 she even shelled out a premium to have a photo shoot so that she could use the Glamour Shots to Kickstart a modeling career Bonnie also dreamed becoming a famous poet and filled volumes with witty of somewhat superficial and shallow rhyming verses none of these dreams eventuated not least because she lived in cement city rather than Los Angeles or New York where she could be discovered so Bonnie turned her attentions to at least marrying well to find a man who was going places and could support a shall we say aspirational lifestyle that's when at age 15 she met Roy Thornton a tall charismatic good-look 17-year-old bad boy who always seemed to have money in short Roy Thornton was a total Chad however little did Bonnie know he paid for their dates with stolen cash Bonnie was so infatuated that she got a tattoo of her and Roy's names in love heart salaciously placed on the inside of her upper right thigh oh my God I feel like that would be salacious today this is like the 1940s 1930s oh 1920s I'm sorry Bonnie and Roy had only known each other a few months when they dropped out of school and got married on the 26th of September 1926 6 days before Bonnie's 16th birthday wow the past that was allowed okay they moved into a house near a grandparent in her mother's Place unbeknownst to Bonnie Roy Thornton supported them with the proceeds of thefts and general thuggery the 16-year-old Bonnie was eager to have a baby but for unknown reasons was physically incapable of having children Bonnie missed her mother terribly and on a daily basis either went over to visit Emma or begged her mother to spend the night at her and Roy's eventually Roy and Bonnie just wound up moving in with Bonnie's mother sister and grandparents it saved money and it gave Bonnie what she wanted I don't know if I'll be happy with that it's like oh but I spent so oh they very young though aren't they it'd be just weird to move in with your parents like when you're older and married and stuff I just be like oh no no I love my parents but I wouldn't want to live with them after a year of this in late 1927 the now 18-year-old Roy grew weary of Bonnie and her family she completely checked out of the marriage he started drinking heavily sometimes disappearing for weeks at a time when he returns Bonnie and Roy would argue and Roy would start in on beating her Bonnie was heartbroken and suspected Roy was cheating on her during his disappearance Bonnie distracted herself by going to the movies with friends and like her spouse regularly getting as drunk as a Hobo's fart in January 1928 when Roy was off on another Bender 17-year-old Bonnie began dating other men but according to her diary her heart wasn't in it and she was still fixated on her darling Roy her darling Roy who doesn't seem to be into this marriage at all how did David describe it completely checked out and drinks heavily goes away for weeks at a time why he sounds like a douchebag at the end of January Bonnie got a job waight job waitressing at a cafe several miles away from Dallas her salary was approximately $4 a week or $72 in modern money horrendously low but being good-looking and always flirtatious she made a killing in tips from her more simp likee customers I love applying this like modern day language Chad simp like um to to historical stuff it's fun her expenditure on clothing far exceeded her income despite the fact that she paid no rent and had no children of her own to support thus historians are fairly certain that Bonnie was also working as a hooker in Dallas her inability to get pregnant certainly reduced some of the risks of that profession though the substantial risk of getting the clap or being smacked around by a customer was always a danger Roy Thornton returned to Cement City a year later in January 1929 after being gone for over a year it's like honey I'm home it's like where the You' been Rob uh Roy by that point Bonnie was over him and probably told Roy to sling his hook he did so a few later he got arrested for robbery and was sentenced to 5 years in prison Bonnie never saw him again but she did not bother to F for divorce and continued to wear his wedding ring stating quote I would be wrong to kick a man while he's down really he seemed to be pretty into kicking you while he was up even as the years went by Bonnie never bothered to divorce him so she technically remained Mrs B Bonnie Thornton rather than Bonnie Parker until her dying day in Spring 1929 Bonnie got a job waitressing Marcos a well-to-do restaurant in Dallas that catered to lawyers judges bankers and the like the flirt continued the tips got even bigger if Bonnie was working as a prostitute at the time as she likely was her income must have increased by Leaps and Bounds one of the less welltoo customers at Marcos was a postal worker Ted Hinton who grew infatuated with Bonnie and attended the restaurant religiously despite the large expense simply for the pleasure of chatting to her Ted Hinton will factor into our story later again Ted Hinton sing Heart meanwhile Bonnie came close to getting fired from maros several times because she kept giving food away to poor people less flatteringly there's evidence these poor people are actually just her friends trying to score a free meal then due to the Wall Street Crash in the Autumn of 1929 Marcos was forced to shut its doors and a 19-year-old Bonnie found herself out of work all the other waitressing jobs dried up Bonnie could only find odd jobs as a babysitter or a cleaning maid in Cement City and she no longer had an excuse to discreetly go off to Dallas to have sex for money she certainly couldn't risk her churchgoing mother finding out by brazenly going off to hook anyway sex work in Cement City wasn't an option because most people in town knew her and so Bonnie was broke and depressed also her dreams of Fame and Fortune appeared to be going nowhere fast for a change of scenery Bonnie moved in with a female friend in Cement City her friend had broken her arm and Bonnie acted as a makeshift nurse meanwhile Bonnie's brother Buster got married to a woman named Edith Clay on January the 50th 1930 the newly EDS threw a party at the house of Buster's brother-in-law Clarence clay Bonnie attended and was introduced to a young man who was a friend of clarence's he wasn't as tall as Roy Thornton nor as good-looking and he would certainly not qualify today is a typical Chad but there was something assertive and confidence about him he seemed cool and collected the leader of all his friends always in control and better still he had an air of danger of mystery Menace he drove an expensive car that was probably stolen Bonnie was immediately smitten Bonnie likes those bad boys and so began history's most classic case of hilia otherwise known for obvious reasons as Bonnie and Clyde syndrome and speaking of paraphilias and animalistic sexual attractions Simon please plug my book okay David you got it some might say our book David cuz my name is on the cover as well it's not our book I just I just I just wrote the forward but it was nice of David to offer this it's like look it's a real book it's in bookstores and everything uh it's called sex Tu binas of procreation and Recreation has a different name elsewhere this is the Australian version I think it's called a complete history of sex or something elsewhere it's not in the notes but I'm sure there'll be a link below or I'm sure you can easily find it cuz it's written by David Baker uh it's a fantastic book obviously I wrote the forward so I read it the whole thing and uh well on Sim you read the whole thing a book you are writing the forward for well done it's a fantastic book I think you should buy it and so does David and it's quite new but I'm sure all the reviews are brilliant so enjoy it pick it up that's all thanks David well thank me I guess I don't know is there even a quote from me on the front sick sure to Enlighten and entertain and challenge your understanding of human sexuality boom makes me even sound like an expert on human sexuality which I'm not I mean I read the book so maybe meet Clyde Barrow Clyde Chestnut Barrow was born on March the 24th 1910 and not as Wikipedia says 1909 oh Wikipedia no on a farm southeast of Dallas his father Henry Barrow had met his BR his mother Kumi Walker in 19 90 while they were both teenagers and Henry was working at a sawmill to save up enough money to start a farm both came from religious and hardworking Texas families though kum's family were religious to the extreme they married on December the 5th 1891 Henry rented a few acres and began to farm cotton the couple had four children between 1894 and 1905 two sons two daughters Elvin Arty a girl Ivan and Nell I like the name Arty I think I mentioned previously I like the name art neither of my kids are called Arty or art but now I'm like maybe we should have called one of them artti it's a nice name Klein Barrow was followed 5 years later in 1910 oen cumi was 36 more two more siblings came after him a boy named LC that was his full name it's just LC like it it looks like initials but that was the full name they chose for him interesting I always I sign my emails off S and I don't know why I just like I think at some point I was like I'm just not going to type out my full name after sending every email so I just type S like obviously first emails I'll be more formal but then after that I just signed off as s and some people email me back be like hey s and I'm like hey it's not my name but I signed off my email so I I I understand where that came from uh Elsie was born in 1933 when Kumi was 39 and a girl named Maria in 1918 when Kumi was 44 wow in the this is 100 years ago 44 I mean nowadays yeah of course like IVF and all of that stuff but that's old back in in the day an impressive run in the days before invitro or fertility treatments yes growing up Clyde's nickname was Bud a lot of his siblings had nicknames his brother Ivan was called buck and his brother LC drew the short store tce becoming being nicknamed flop oh God Henry bar did that mean what it was in it's like that's like a failure Henry Barrow struggled to turn a profit with his farming and it seemed impossible that it'd ever be able to save up enough money to stop renting land and buy a farm of his own and he had seven children to support though the eldest ones were soon old enough to help out on the farm they were a dirt poor farming P family by any metric food was a luxury hunger was common they slept on pallets on the floor of a three- room Shack they did not have running water or electricity Kumi insisted that all her children get an education so that they could Ascend to better things they all did at least six years at school Kumi was also the harsh disciplinarian of the family and employed corporal punishment frequently Henry Barrow on the other hand did not like to beat his children and he left the task to his wife the children apparently did not resent Kumi for this and all of them retained an ostensibly close and loving relationship with their mother for Life as a child Clyde Barrow was intelligent and did well at school but it bored him he cut class semi-regularly he occasionally enjoyed stealing roosters just for the fun of it like stealing roosters that it does sound kind of fun cuz like if you go into like a chicken pen and there's a rooster in there that mother going to like he's he's going to be sneaky catching him is going to be hard kind of want to go stealing roosters now Clyde did have however enjoy attending church much to kum's Great Delight Clyde displayed a dominant personality bossing around his siblings the younger ones Elsie and Marie followed his orders without question but Clyde also wielded unfaltering authority over his older brother Ivan and his older sister Nell despite there being seven and five years older than him respectively wow okay this guy is authoritarian the exceptions were Clyde's eldest siblings Elvin and artti who were already teenagers when Clyde was born and departed the far before Clyde began stringing sentences together the rest however marched to Clyde's tune have to say like my youngest son who's two does sometimes too he can barely speak he could string like three or four words together and he still manages to boss around my my daughter he's 2 years older than him the rest however marched to Clyde's tune speaking of which Clyde also turned out to be a talented guitar player and dancer and to keep the family entertained on quiet evenings in The Farmhouse also as a young boy in Texas developed a fondness for guns target practice and he became an incredibly good shot Clyde did not however enjoy hunting and only did it out of necessity when the family required additional food yeah I I really like shooting like I'd go shooting all the time as a kid like I had a little air rifle at home and basically like we lived in the middle of nowhere I'll just be out like for like nine weeks or some holidays every day I'll be out in the garden for at least now just shooting stuff in the garden going through like hundreds of little pellets and then we had a shooting range at school and when I was older enough enough I'd go there shooting like every day after school got quite good at shooting enjoy shooting never been hunting don't really have any desire to go out and shoot animals that seems a bit mean I just like I like the building the skill of shooting at targets Clyde's relationship with his family was healthy but his relationship with people in The Wider Community was a little more complicated when it came to conflict with other young boys Clyde tried to avoid fights he tried to talk his way out however when violence became inevitable Clyde was a Savage fighter yeah this is this is so far so good I mean he doesn't like killing animals he likes shooting and it's like yeah this is the right way to do things if you're in a disagreement with someone use words and if words fail use Force he'd also make sure to use any weapon that came to hand sticks rocks bottles whatever and he would not relent when his opponent gave up and cried for Mercy again it's kind of like what's that thing always destroy your enemies absolutely yes Glide would keep beating them until he had sustained Ser until they had sustained Serious injury occasionally Clyde lost a fight when he did he bore a grudge and did wait until he had an opportunity to attack and get his revenge forgiveness was not in his nature gu's a bit of a badass when the first world war ended in 1918 it signaled the start of a global recession that hit Texas Farmers particularly heart European agricultural Goods being absent for the past four years flooded back into the market and eroded Henry barrows already Mega profits he took up a part-time job as brick glair to mak's meet that wasn't enough by 19 22 the Barrow Farm had to be abandoned Henry's brick claying left him with limited time to cultivate the cotton crops and his eldest children had already migrated to the city and he still had 12-year-old Clyde 9-year-old LC and four-year-old Marie left to support thus Henry and Kumi gave up farming loaded their wagon and migrated to Dallas the Barrow settled in a squalled shanty town on the city's Western Edge the place was known as The Devil's Back Porch because the poor from the camp would head over the river and steal things from the more prosperous citizens of Dallas when the Barrow family first arrived at the camp they didn't even have a tent and so they had to sleep under their wagon Henry Barrow didn't resort to thevery like some others but instead he supported his family by going out every day to find scrap metal which he sold at local foundaries for an extremely limited reward as such in order not to starve to death the barrows were reliant on the Salvation Army who came by The Shanty Town Distributing food gradually by scrimping and saving literally every penny the barrows were able to afford a tent followed by the wooden planks hammer and nails bar used to bought a Shack in the middle of the camp wow this is 100 years ago people are living in Shacks in America it's like the richest country in although like people still live in tents and stuff there's like tent cities and stuff it's like America's weird it's like the richest country in the world with there's so many poor people Kumi spent her time looking after Elsie and Marie meanwhile they frequently sent Clyde out to stay with his Uncle Frank Henry Barrow's brother on his more prosperous Farm in corsak in Texas there the 12-year-old Clyde I played with his cousins attended school and helped out on his uncle Frank's farm and it spared Clyde the criminal Temptations swirling around the Devil's Back Porch when Clyde returns he found the roguish nature of the porch quite entertaining and got along with most of the people there as a rued the thieves and miscreant in the Devil's Back Porch didn't steal from each other since they had so little to steal and focus their criminal activities across the river one time when Clyde was visiting he came down with either malaria or yellow fever a common occurrence in the porch his father and younger sister got sick at the same time and they all kep to be hospitalized according to Marie Clyde Charmed the nurses and he became their favorite patient the bar family stay in the Devil's Back Porch stretched on for years with the situation giving no sign of changing Clyde spent most of his time at uncle Frank's Farm in coracana but in 1925 when Clyde was 15 he decided that he would move to Dallas permanently to seek his fortune his sleeping Arrangements alternated between his parents place in the porch and staying with his sister Nell and her new husband Leon a factory worker and part-time musician Clyde quickly pred to Dallas Lads Clarence clay and Clyde Jones being a school guitarist Clyde wanted to become a professional musician he also took saxophone lessons from Leon and soon became fairly proficient yeah Clyde seems like one of these guys he's very confident he's very charismatic he's like yeah I'll just go to a new city and make friends with people and just live with them to have that level of Charisma and social skills pretty impressive Kum made Clyde promis to continue attending school and so Clyde undertook a rather patchy attendance at Sydney lania high but this only lasted the year in 1926 at the age of 16 Clyde dropped out and got a factory drob at the brown cracker and candy company for $7 a week or $120 a week in modern money this wage was not enough for Clyde since he wanted to purchase some Swanky clothes to attract girls so he switched up to a 60-hour work week at the Proctor and Gamble Factory that earned him $18 a week or $312 a week in present day currency which was better but still nowhere near a living wage then Clyde sought another pay Bump by working as a glazier at the United Glass Company and soon after he attempted to enlist in the US Navy Clyde even got the letters usn tattooed on his arm but he was rejected so Clyde returned to earning a pittance at the Glass Factory however at that point Clyde started supplementing his income with Petty crimes here we go initially Clyde took to stealing chickens from people's backyard something that was still common in Dallas in 1926 you could sell a chicken for a dollar or two or failing that you'd be able to dispose of the evidence with a tasty meal how much was he making a week $18 and you could sell a chicken for a dollar so it just have to a dollar so it'd have to steal like three chickens a day to do better than what he was making at the company that's that's crime does pay doesn't it eventually Clyde got caught and arrested but he wasn't charged since chicken theft was extremely common and there weren't enough jail cells in Dallas to hold everybody who did it meanwhile Clyde hooked up with a girl named Elena B Williams apparently she was a real knockout Clyde tattooed her initials on his arm and spent a lot of his income buying her gifts but like with most teenage relationships Clyde and El Elena eventually fought Ellena went to stay with relatives in the town of brus for a few days to get away from him Clyde rented a car to drive out to BR stor her back however he attempted to save a couple of bucks on the rental fee by neglecting to mention that he was taking the car out of town Clyde didn't return the car on time yeah I've definitely done that it's like so uh where are you where are you driving oh just just locally definitely not taking it across any country lines definitely wouldn't do that and I know there are GPS trackers on them so I guess it's you're only get into trouble if you like happen to have a crash in another country and then they're like yeah you're going to owe us the whole value of the car for that one cuz the insurance didn't cover this country yeah car renter don't rent cars to me Kumi told them that Clyde was in broers so the local sheriff was sent round to where Clyde was staying Clyde HIIT in the Attic while the sheriff grabbed the rental car and left Clyde probably would have avoided legal trouble if it simply appeared spoken to the sheriff and paid the extra rental fees instead on December the 3rd 1926 Clyde hitchhiked back to Dallas where he was arrested the car theft the rental company ultimately didn't press charges since they got the car back but now Clyde had a clear criminal record yeah this is the problem right if you get a criminal record then I don't know it's been a very very long time since I've applied for a job but there's always the box like do you have a criminal record and I bet check in that box right you're not getting that job and then that kind ofs up your life because then you're going to have to go and do crimes to to to do stuff or I suppose you could start your own business like I run my own business no I don't have a criminal record fortunately if unless you count like speeding tickets parking tickets I have many driving offenses but like all minor ones nothing serious I haven't like run over any pedestrians yet criminal records that's that's that's trouble shortly thereafter Clyde convinced Elena to alope with him they left town again but it soon became clear that Clyde had used the elopement as an excuse to convince Elena to have sex with him she got angry and dumped him in late December 1926 less than three few weeks since his last arrest Clyde was picked up by the cops with his older brother Ivan as they attempted to load a truck full of stolen Christmas turkeys Ivan such a strange thing to steal Ivan took full responsibility for the crime saying Clyde knew nothing and he spent a week in jail Clyde meanwhile had been arrested twice in a month and this put him fly firmly on the radar of Dallas police after that the police frequently picked him up for questioning onto suspicion of committing a robbery in the local area whenever a robbery occurred Clyde was treated as one of the so-call Usual Suspects their suspicion was not without justification in 1927 Clyde began stealing cars H hot one file off the serial number on the engine then drive it across state lines to sell it in Oklahoma each theft could net him $100 to $200 depending on the car's value in other words each car theft ear in $1,735 in modern money that's not a bad gig meanwhile I mean it's a bad gig cuz you're going to end up in prison like you're crossing state lines I don't know much about American law but in the movies say oh you cross state lines that's aad bad time meanwhile CLA Clyde kept the pretense of legitimate employment working at the Bama Pie Factory and soon after switching to the a enk paint shop but the early wage was Tiny compared to what Clyde could earn from car theft so he eventually quit and became a full-time Thief yeah but you're not doing the job for the money you're doing the job so you have something to like cover your actions on February the 22nd 1928 Clyde was hauled in for questioning for a car theft in Fort Worth not far from Dallas but had to be released because the cops couldn't find enough evidence that he had committed the crime the common narrative that has sprung up about Clyde Barrow's criminal Evolution at this time is in a nutshell that if he had him men so poor and if police hadn't started started harassing him after the rental car and the turkeys he wouldn't have tered a full-time criminal career I'm not show so sure it seems like he's pretty mercenary he's like oh yeah look stealing cars pays more than my job so I quit my job I think he's morally flexible enough to be a criminal sees the rewards and so pursues that it doesn't matter if he'd got caught for stealing turkeys he was going to pursue it anyway I'm not sure that justification holds water yes David and I same page Barrow wanted more money for fancy clothes and to impress women not for survival and I'm pretty sure getting fingered for petty theft doesn't justify robbing even more innocent people but the much romanticized Bonnie and Clyde story requires a hero and in order to do that one needs to rationalize away a lot of their ill Deeds the problem is that it would only get far far worse yeah okay so there is I thought there was romanticization around Bonnie and Clyde but I digress when Clyde Barrow wasn't stealing cars he continued to be a ladies man hooking up with three girls named Anne Grace and Gladis each of whom had their initials added as tattoos on his arms it's weird bro you like marking that notch on your bedstead on your arm in with tattoos women in the future going to be like who are all these people's initials oh nobody That's My Credo I'll regret gladus was particularly mercenary in her approach to Clyde burning through the loot from his car thefts and even making him pay for a fancy resort vacation in Mexico Clyde sent his sister Maria a postcard while he was down there with a message drunk as hell having fun with Gladis gladus dumped Kyle immediately after the holiday having gotten what she wanted and being ready to move on to the next sucker with cash in his pocket Clyde was more annoyed than he was heartbroken in August 1928 Clyde started breaking and entering with a man named Frank clouse robbing homes and businesses when nobody was there Clyde soon learns how to crack safes he also brought in his brother Ivan to join the gang of burglars the criminal activities went undetected by police for over a year until in September of 1929 they were arrested Under Suspicion for planning to rob a safe at a lumber company they were quickly released for lack of evidence yeah suspicion for planning it's like that's not the strongest thing why not get him for one of the act the crimes that he's actually committed but he was rearrested the next day Under Suspicion of some recent and burglaries in the towns of Lufkin and Hillsboro there we go that's more sensible get him get him for the crimes he's actually done again due to limited evidence he was released without charge okay never mind I take it all back when the Wall Street Crash started at the end of September it barely affected the Barrow Clan since Henry Barrow was a self-employed scrap collector Ivan and Clyde were career criminals and none of them kept their money in Banks instead when tragedy Struck it was of different sort on the night of November the 29th 1929 Clyde has brother Ivan and another delinquent named Sydney Moore were riding in a stolen Buick ready to run it out of town when they spied a much more expensive Ford they climbed in hotwired it and drove off soon after spotting an upscale Dallas house that appeared to have nobody home they broke in but only managed to Come Away with a few pieces of jewelry and some petty cash it was now 1:00 a.m. on the 30th they drove from Dallas to the town of Denton looking for another score they broke into a car garage tried to crack a safe that was inside and failed so they picked up the safe and lugged it out to the Bo they were about to leave when two cops in a patrol car spotted them Clyde slapped on the gas pedal and took off with the cops in Hot Pursuit yeah yeah yeah running from the cops is going like boys why is there a safe in the back could you open that up for us and be like no can't open it up don't even know what's in it we stole the safe Clyde took a turn too fast and crashed the car and so he Ivan and Sydney were forced to take off on foot that's when the cops started shooting Ivan was hit in both legs and went down Sydney got to his knees and surrendered Clyde kept running and hid in the co craw space of a nearby house he had shed back to Dallas meanwhile the stolen Ford contained the safe and and The Jewels the latter were traced back to the house they burglarized and the Ford to its actual owner the police had spotted the gang taking the safe from the garage so well no mystery there but in an ironic twist it had only contains $30 or about $540 in modern money Ivan Barrow and Sydney Moore were charged with multiple counts of breaking and entering in leny their trial was on December the 17th and the jury took only a few minutes of deliberation before finding them guilty Ivan and Sydney got four years in prison but they didn't squeal on Clyde who spent the rest of December hiding at his parents' house in the Devil's Back Porch afraid that the police might still pick him up in connection with the robberies that night or in connection with the dozens of other robberies he had committed in Dallas and the surrounding townships wow this guy's got good friends they're just like keep silent don't tell them about Clyde don't get a deal H I'd be worried it was only in the new year when Clyde ventured out again and bumped to his into his friend Clarence clay who invited him to a house party at his place on the 5th of January 1930 and it was there that Clyde met Bonnie Parker prison as an aphrodesiac according to what Bonnie and Clyde later told their families their attraction was barely instant Bonnie found Clyde confident masterful and a bit dangerous which he is all of these things Clyde thought Bonnie was hot un like the fact that she was shorter than him previously had stood on road curbs to had a few extra inches of height when being photographed with his various girlfriends height was a sore spot with him what they had in common were their delusions of grandeur both had grown up poor both felt entitled to a life of fancy clothes fast cars and constant partying what connected them was their determination to achieve such a life Bonnie stayed beside Clyde for the rest of the evening laughing and talking the next day Clyde paid a visit to where Bonnie was staring with her friend with the broken arm he found her making hot chocolate on the stove it was probably then that they made love for the first time soon after Bonnie moved back in with her mother grandmother and sister her brother Buster had married Edith clay and moved out and Bonnie's grandfather Frank had died meanwhile Bonnie's sister Billy Jean had married she and her husband were living in the Parker household along with their newborn baby Bonnie eagerly introduced Clyde to her family her mother Hemma formed a favorable initial impression of him and she was startled by how much Bonnie seemed to worship the ground that Clyde walked on they continued to see each other practically every day for the next few weeks yeah again Clyde it seems like of course the mum likes him because he's like super good at this stuff then in early February 1930 Clyde came over to the Parker household to tell Bonnie that he'd be leaving town for a bit although Clyde had not yet confided in Bonnie about his criminal activities he was going out of town to commit another series of robberies Bonnie told Clyde that she'd miss him terribly and invited him to spend the night because the house was crowded with Bonnie's family this didn't mean sex Clyde slept on the couch Bonnie just wanted to see as much of Clyde as possible before he left town oh that's sweet the next morning the Dallas police showed up at the front door of the Parker household they knocked Clyde answered and immediately they slapped him in CS and arrested him for multiple counts of grand larsy and Grand Theft Auto in the towns of Denton and wakeo Texas oh no the favorable impression of the mother is just left in cuffs Bonnie tried to cry scream and pound the wall with her fists begging the police not to arrest him Clyde told her everything was going to be all right but Bonnie had flown into full-on hysterics when the police left Bonnie collapsed on the floor sobbing uncontrollably her mother tried to console her Bonnie replied by vowing that she'd go stand by Clyde and wait for him no matter what as for finding out that Clyde was a car thief and a burglar this heightened rather than diminished Bonnie's attraction to him is this hibristofilia is this what we mentioned earlier like attraction to criminals oh Bonnie you've got that Bonnie had always thirsted to live a life of Glamour and being shacked up with a dashing Rogue had a glamour all of its own dashing Rogue didn't we say that Clyde wasn't like super handsome he's just like super Charming so dashing like L it's just like it's really about framing it isn't it because like oh he's she's she's with a dashing row who's got a few years in prison it's like n she just married a guy who stole cars or is like with a guy who stole cars and that's it in fact as we now know Bonnie would get sexually aroused by Clyde's criminal Behavior this is the essence of hilia well there we go thank you David I've briefly discussed hilia in the video on Veronica Compton and the Hillside Strangler along with covering his in my two billion year history of Sex book this would have been an even better place to plug the book David which you can pick up wherever you get your books but briefly hrista is a fairly common paraphilia because it has a strong evolutionary origin it's a reproductive strategy that prevailed in early Homo sapiens and indeed in our ancestors millions of year before Homo sapiens even existed so imagine this you live in a Paleolithic Forest 200,000 years ago it's something I'm going to struggle to imagine but okay the murder rate among human hunter gatherers at the time was estimated an estimate was estimated 10% the 10% of deaths a murder good Lord no cops no forensics no judges no juries the only form of security as one on his own family in the threat of a blood Feud breaking out if anyone harms you social cooperation with the tribe and selecting a mate who does the same as one way to protect yourself and your children that is the most common strategy among humans another is to hook up with Predators sociopaths and ruthless criminal types who take what they want when they want and who are vicious enough to defend themselves in a harsh Paleolithic World hooking up with such a person is a valid reproductive strategy provided the dark Triad didn't to turn his AG turn his aggression on you or your Offspring instead if his ruthlessness protects and provides for you and your Offspring your evolutionary reproductive Gambit pays off as such the strong instinctual attraction to such people prevails to this very day it's why people like Ted Bundy Charles Manson and even Jeffrey Dharma despite being gay got hundreds of love letters and even marriage proposals from adoring hopars while they were in prison well Jeffrey Dharma could have got them from men couldn't he can men not be hrista I know it's mostly associated with women but isn't that mostly because men go to prison hell Ted Bundy even married and impregnate a woman while he was locked up he did Ted Bundy had a kid while he was locked up for being Ted Bundy why did he Ted Bundy should not have that thing you um conjugal visits he should not have that and serial killers are just the more extreme examples plenty of bikers drug dealers and Mafia thugs have wives girlfriends or quote unquote gangster malls who are more attracted to them for their criminal activities not less it's the attraction to the bad boy RIT large fetishized exaggerated and turned absolutely pathological and it's why the more Bonnie learned about Clyde and the worse his crimes got the more she loved him most women would run a mile but not the case with a brist far Bonnie regularly visited Clyde in Dallas County Jail and in between visits she wrote him a series of extremely long love letters the end of one such letter is revealing I'm So Lonesome For You dearest don't you wish we could be together sugar I never knew I really cared for you until you got in jail while Clyde was in prison awaiting transfer to Denton Bonnie took a trip over to the Devil's Back Porch in west Dallas to meet his family Clyde's little sister Marie then 12 years old formed an immediate friendship with Bonnie Clyde's mother Kumi on the other hand was decidedly unimpressed she thought the Bonnie was a makeup clad little Harlot and gold digger digging for what gold he's in prison for stealing not the sort of godly woman she envisioned for her son at all but if Kumi let slip her animosity towards Bonnie the latter didn't notice she thought Clyde's family including Kumi were perfectly lovely Clyde was transported to the town of Denton where he stood before the grand jury for the robberies that he committed there with Ivan and Sydney Moore on the night of November the 29th multiple robberies you're going to go to prison for a long ass time but also he's not because we know he gets out and because that's the story but there wasn't enough evidence to indict him next Clyde was transported to Waco where the grand jury had enough evidence to indict him for multiple counts of Grand Theft Auto and possession of stolen goods which isn't quite robbery so that's going to have a lighter sentence right both Bonnie and Kumi traveled to Waco to support Clyde at his trial realizing he was facing a long prison sentence on March the 5th 1930 Clyde entered a plea of guilty as a result he was given the relatively lenient sentence of 2 years in prison well that that is pretty lenient for multiple Grand Theft Auto Clyde returned to Dallas after the sentencing meanwhile Bonnie stayed on in Waco determined to be there until the moment Clyde was finally transferred to Huntsville prison But Clyde had no intention of going to Huntsville on the morning of March the 11th when Bonnie visited him the jail in Waco Clyde instructed her to get a gun and smuggle it to him when she visited again that evening oh my dude you just got two years in prison just take the two years if you attempt to break out of prison they're going to throw you in there for a much longer time Clyde would then use the gun to take a hostage or shoot his way out bro of prison you're going to get yourself killed Bonnie abade thinking it was terribly romantic she got a gun and used a belt to strap it to her torso underneath her dress the guards searched her purse when she returned that evening but they didn't Frisk her when Bonnie was sat across from Clyde she reached under her dress and quickly slipped Clyde the gun she then left quickly afterward as Clyde had instructed holy she just smuggled a gun into prison Clyde enlisted two other inmates in his jailbreak plan William Turner and Emory abany at 7:30 that evening Turner complained to a guard that he was sick he asked for a glass of milk to settle his stomach the guard complied when the guard entered Turner's cell to hand him the milk Turner pulled the gun on him grabbed his keys locked him in the cell and then went to free Clyde and abony the two of them hurried toward the front of the jail pointing the gun at the desk sergeant there they told him to keep quiet for 5 minutes or they'd come back and shoot him then the trio walked out of the door onto the street but then neglected to take the Sergeant's own gun he immediately got up ran out the door and opened fire at this point abony had the smuggled gun he shot back someone in the area heard the gunfire and called the cops police swarmed the scene minutes later but Clyde and his compatriots had already made their M their escape they had broken into a parked car Clyde had quickly hotwired it and they driven off just before the cops arrived they drove to the north side of wo jumped out of the car and swapped it for another they sped out of wo stealing a new car in every town they passed through and then they got the hell out of Texas pretty smart to be honest like switching the cars up so often by March the 17th 1930 they' made it as far north as Ohio where in the small Country Village of Middletown they robbed a dry cleaners in a railway Depo for $60 or $1,100 in modern money they fled Middletown well after Nightfall and got lost on the Country Roads so they stopped and decided to get some sleep the next day still lost they stupidly drove back into Middletown where the police were waiting for them oh no he's getting arrested already I know like jailbreaks don't typically last for very long but this is very quick when a patrol car gave chase the trio abandoned the vehicle and tried to flee on foot Turner and abony were arrested within the hour Clyde hit in the cruel space of a nearby house again he emerged several hours later and stole another car the cop spotted him Clyde sped away and almost got out of Middle Town when he made the mistake of turning into a dead end Street he surrendered Clyde Turner and abony were transported back to in Janes on March the 21st in punishment for his Escape 10 years were added to Clyde sentence yeah dude you just got you should have taken those two years you got away with a lot that two years was a great deal and then you you sp spent one day out of jail in an escape and now you have to spend 12 years in prison instead of two that sucks meanwhile Bonnie had spent a week in Waco after the jailbreak hoping that Clyde would somehow send for her hearing nothing from him she hit CH back to Cement City on March the 18th after hearing of Clyde's capture Bonnie did not go back to Waco to assist him in a second escape attempt but not because her affections had cooled Clyde was now being kept in a maximum security cell at the jail yeah no surprise he smuggled a gun into jail instead Bonnie got another waitressing job in Dallas and decided to wait on events she was eager for the next opportunity to communicate with Clyde and suitably heartbroken that they had been parted she finally made her way down to Waco again on April the 19th just before Clyde was due to be trans erred out to Huntsville she couldn't bear not seeing him it should be noted at this point Bonnie had known Clyde for a whopping four months three of which had spent in prison yeah she's got theophilia strong for Clyde the mutilation of the Soul Clyde was shipped from wakeo to Huntsville prison on April the 21st 1930 during the intake procedure he lied and said he was 18 instead of 20 in the hopes that he would get an easier time he also lied that his middle name was ch ion instead of chestnut hence the weird entry on Wikipedia lastly he lied that he and Bonnie were married because inmates could only write letters to spouses and immediate family members this the past TR you can just be like how old are you ah 18 it's like nowadays they'd be like well we looked it up and that's not true they don't even need to look it up they don't even need to have you write it down they know cuz there's all the data is wrong incorrect Clyde was not immediately assigned to a work detail instead he sat in his C occasionally being shipped shipped out to Houston and Waco where further charges were deliberated upon by two grand juries they were ultimately dropped without going to trial then in September 1930 Clyde found out that had' been assigned to work in the cotton fields at Eastern Prison Farm not far from Huntsville this was the worst assignment anybody could get it was backbreaking Labor in the hot sun while being beaten on a whim by sadistic guards usually it was reserved for the most hardened killers and repeat offenders but Clyde's escape attempt had won him a spot on the list on September the 18th Clyde was put inside a prison van Shackled by the hands feet and n and taken out to East the prison farm was divided into two camps totaling 500 prisoners watched 24/7 by 60 armed guards or roughly one guard for every eight convicts the guards were mounted on horses and were able to catch up with any convict who tried to escape Clyde was forced to run up to 2 miles each day to start work in the cotton fields and then run 2 miles back the convicts were not allowed to walk they worked 10-hour days with one day off per week except during Harvest months where they worked seven days per week without rest bite the food given to the convicts consist bread made from the same grain that fed livestock the occasional plate of potatoes or spoonful of peas a very rare bit of boiled meat and bacon which very often had turn rancid in its tin container boiled meat is just like that's just the grimmest way to cook meat it's like how to make meat worse boil it Clyde did not fare well at East he was not built for such hard labor the malnutrition didn't help and he didn't have the good sense to avoid provoking the guards he was frequently beaten and it got so bad that fellow inmates began to speculate whether Clyde would even survive his 12E Cent sence worsening the situation was an inmate named ed Crowder a convicted Bootlegger and Smuggler of alcohol during prohibition he was 6 feet tall and weighed over 200b that's 182 cm and 91 kilos Ed Crowder regularly beat and forcibly sodomized Clyde Barrow after these assaults some of the other inmates would join Crowder in mocking Clyde saying that the smaller man probably enjoyed it Clyde had to endure being sexually assaulted by Crowder for an entire year while all of this was going on Bonnie's affection for Clyde had faded she was simply bored of waiting for him despite Bonnie and Clyde's relationship being treated as a story of True Love Today it appears that Bonnie's love was quite opportunistic she stopped writing Clyde at the end of December 1930 and began dating other men as a result of these stresses Clyde's mind was contorted Beyond repair by his time at East he transformed from a hoodlum into a hardened criminal he was becoming increasingly bitter and ruthless he began to fantasize about returning to East after his sentence with an armed posy he wanted to murder all the guards and free the prison not that all prisoners were his friends in 1930 Clyde deliberately dropped a tree was chopping on another inmate who was an Informer for the guards severely wounding him as for Ed Crowder on October the 29th 1931 Clyde got his hand on a lead pipe and ambushed Crowder in the showers bludging him until in the head until Crowder's skull was cracked open in several places and brain matter had been strewn across the floor oh my god dude you're now going to be in prison forever except we know you're not so how's that happen another inmate Aubrey scall was serving a life sentence and who also hated Crowder claimed responsibility so that Clyde didn't get a life sentence or the chair as it turned out scy was able to convince a grand jury that had acted in self-defense Crowder's reputation as a violent bastard preceded him yeah seems like Crowder deserved to go he kind of deserved that beating with a pipe in January 1932 Clyde came to the conclusion that he would not survive another decade of hard labor in the cotton fields of Eastern prison farm on January the 27th Clyde used an axe to cut off H the big toe and half of the second toe on his left foot or possibly Clyde may have had this amputation done for him by another inmate it's unclear either way this act got him out of the cotton fields of East and sent to the prison hospital back in Huntsville once Clyde had recovered he would be reassigned indoor work at Huntsville because the mutilation of his foot ensured that Clyde would never walk properly again I mean it's a big sacrifice to make but I think after a while I'd be like got to make those big sacrifices don't want to be ey in those Cotton Fields it's really hot take it off I don't like getting beaten by the guards all day but it turns out that Clyde shouldn't have done this oh because if 6 days later on February the 2nd 1932 Kumi Barrow successfully petitioned Ross Sterling the governor of Texas to parole her son on the grounds that Clydes was a first-time offender that he hadn't physically harmed anyone in his crimes and he was young and foolish when he committed them wow Kumi came around I thought she didn't like him the bit about being a first-time offender was technically true Clyde had only been convicted in a court of law once and nobody knew that Clyde had murdered Ed Crowder as for his age indeed at the time of his parole Clyde was not yet 22 thus Clyde was released he returned home to Dallas malut malnutrition and on crutches a thoroughly changed man he vowed that he would never go back to prison ever again but this didn't mean that Clyde intended to turn over a new leaf and go straight it meant that he would never allow himself to be taken alive never piss off a crowd of Texans while Clyde was in prison his eldest siblings Elvin aie and Nell helped their father purchase a couple of plots of land on Eagle Ford Road in West Dallas Henry Barrow literally picked up his Shack from The Devil's Back Porch putting on a large wooden pallet and carted it over to one of the plots he struck a deal with an oil company then converted the shack into a gas station two pumps were installed out front Eagle for road was a main Thorofare but actual sales of his gasoline did not earn much money Henry supplemented his income by selling water from a well that had dug on the property charging to use the gas station's telephone and most importantly selling home brewed beer and moonshine to an exhaustible supply of customers literally just drivers Henry added an extra room to the shack to use as an office and for storage added another room for a kitchen and converted the front room into space to be used for the actual store this left a bedroom where Henry and Kumi slept and another room that functions as a living room during the day and sleeping quarters for their youngest kids Elsie and Marie at night they were now teenagers 19 and 14 respectively Clyde's other sibling Ivan was also in Huntsville doing a four-year stretch of his own for the Denton robberies of November 1929 when Clyde got out in February 1932 he joined LC and Maria in their living room/ bedroom only a day or two after Clyde got out of prison he hobbled over on his crutches to the Parker residence he found Bonnie there in the sitting room with a then boyfriend whose name has been lost to history when Bonnie saw Clyde she yelled darling and ran to him threw her arms around him and began kissing him passionately then boyfriend's like what the's going on this effectively ended Bonnie's relationship with the other bloke we don't know if the guy put up much of a fuss on his way out of the door Savage for Clyde's part he didn't show any resentment for Bonnie cutting off Communications and dating other dudes while he was on the inside their relationship simply reignited where they' left off Bonnie wanted to constantly be in Clyde's company so she spent much of her time staying at the Barrow gas station much to kum's displeasure the Great Depression was still in full swing in 1932 so Clyde struggled to find a job when he did find some low paying menial work he didn't keep it long Clyde alleged that this was because of police harassment apparently the cops fell into their old habit of picking him up as a usual suspect which put his employers off a bit well Clyde that's because you are the usual suspect because you're a criminal who does lots of crimes it's unclear whether this is actually true or if Clyde was just using it as an excuse it is Illuminating that Clyde stint on the job market Les lasted less than a month it's hard to say that he really made much of an effort then in March 1932 Clyde left Texas and went to Framingham Massachusetts to work on a construction crew the idea was for Bonnie to join him there once he was settled but but that scheme lasted a whopping two weeks before Clyde returned home the popular narrative in the hero worship version of Clyde's story is that he wanted to go straight but was forced to a life of crime by the police and an unjust Society in reality the buger barely even tried I mean to be fair though he does have a criminal record which is going to make it super hard for him to get a regular ass job no sooner had Clyde returned from Massachusetts that he teamed up with a fellow convict from eastom named Ralph folz and a local Dallas scumbag named Ray Hamilton to launch a series of Smash and grab robberies across the us at the time Bonnie remained at her mother's place with the intention of joining her beloved Clyde later this was the embryo of what would later be called the Barrow gang because Clyde was always the gang's deciding voice and ring leader but at the time the boys dubbed it the Lake Dallas gang their first Target was only a few blocks down the road from where Clyde's parents lived The Sims oil refinery they hit the place on March the 25th 1932 Clyde hadn't even been out of prison 2 months armed with pistols they broke into the place at night tied up for employees who were still there and cracked open the safe G was inside the gang fled the scene empty-handed over the next few days the gang mugged a few people in Dallas at gunpoint in order to gain some travel money then they stole a car and drove 1400 km that's 870 Mi North to the small town of Okabena in M Minnesota there they staked out a bank but called it off because the ice and snow on the roads would make the car skid during the getaway from there they drove 640 km 400 Mi South to Lawrence Kansas where they cased another bank this time the prospect looked good after 3 days of scouting they sprang into action at 8:45 in the morning the bank manager arrived and was immediately held up by Clyde and fults brandishing shotguns they forced him into the bank and got him to open the vault Clyde handled the manager while folz did crowd control ambushing and subduing four employees as they arrived for work after Clyde grabbed the loot they locked the manager and the employees in the vault and took off with Ray Hamilton at the wheel then they got the hell out of Lawrence before the cops could be alerted and 460 km or 290 Mi to St Louis Illinois their take from the gansas bank job was $33,000 or $740,000 in modern money holy that's not bad is it especially when you consider what was he making like $8 a week or something terrible from East St Louis they drove to the town of Dupo Illinois where they spent thousands of dollars buying a bunch of 45 caliber handguns a dozen Thompson machine guns a dozen bullet bulletproof vests and thousands of rounds of ammunition from a local fence reinvesting those profits it was at this point that Ray Hamilton got cold feet took his share of the Kansas money and went off to hide in Michigan Clyde said that he hoped Hamilton quote choked on a w of cash in early April Clyde and fultz headed back to Texas armed to the teeth with the Dallas cops now looking for them for the failed all Refinery Heist a couple of weeks earlier Clyde visited his family and then spent a few hours with Bonnie they spent their time outside because Emma Parker refused to let Clyde now a wanted criminal into her house after seeing Bonnie Clyde and fults drive to Denton where they met five local hoodlums Johnny Russell Jack Hammet Ralph F alsup Ted Rogers and a guy known only to history is red that night the men planned a raid on Eastern Prison Farm Clyde wanted a little revenge for i' been tormented during his time there he also wanted to free AUB scall who had taken the RP for the murder of Ed Crowder there was just one hitch though the fence in Dupo Illinois had cheated them many of the guns were faulty and didn't even fire they planned to Rob two banks at once in Denton on April the 11th to get some more cash to replace the faulty guns but someone tipped off the police and Texas Rangers waiting outside the banks on the day of questions that the robberies had to be abandoned who's betraying them it's a small little group uh-oh someone's going to get kills the gang had a rat yes they did David But Clyde wasn't sure whom meanwhile he traveled with fals and red to Amarillo to recruit some more men for the Eastern raid they arrived on April the 13th but couldn't find the associates they were supposed to meet they began to drive back to Dallas but their car broke down in the small town of Electra while they were prowling around the town looking for a car to steal they were confronted by the local sheriff and a civilian had quickly deputized the sheriff tried to haul them down to the station of questioning but immediately ran away while Clyde whipped out a 45 revolver pointed it at the sheriff and told the men to drop their weapons as Clyde was disarming them an innocent bystander AF McCormick came driving up the road fultz aimed a gun at him then Clyde and fultz forced the sheriff and Deputy into McCormick's car and they drove off with the three hostages Clyde never saw red again and later concluded that he was the son of a who' ratted them out in Denton Clyde and fultz drove 8 miles south of Electra apologized the hostages for the inconvenience and let them go once they were out of sight Clyde and fultz cut across a farmer's field and traveled North toward Oak ler in order to confuse any pursuers they had nearly crossed state lines when mcc's car ran out of gas Clyde and fultz waited by the side of the road until they saw a passing post or track and promptly hijacked it at gunpoint they took the delivery man hostage and drove the car towards the Oklahoma border They Came Upon a police checkpoint manned by two officers and Clyde rammed through the train barrier that they had set up while the officers fired upon the vehicle outside the town of Fletcher Oklahoma Clyde released the hostage the postal worker asked for his mailbag which was given to him the poster worker then requested Clyde burn the mail truck when he abandoned it since it meant that the US Postal Service would be forced to buy the postal worker a new one Clyde thought that this was hilarious and promised to do so Clyde and fultz torched the mail truck a day later stole another car and drove back to Dallas such a thoughtful criminal looking out for the little man on April the 17th Bonnie Parker traveled to Eastern prison farm and told the prison guards that she was Aubry sc's cousin there for a visit the guards permitted Bonnie entry to the prison barracks and she promptly told her pleasantly surprised Aubry scall that her lover Clyde Barrow intended to raid East and bust him out after leaving the prison farm Bonnie rejoined Clyde and fultz on the night of the 18th and they all traveled to the town of Tyler where they stole a couple of large fast cars for use in the Eastern raid Bonnie Clyde and fultz each in different cars erased their vehicles as they went and the newly stolen ones reached up to 90 mph was pretty impressive for back in the day on the way back and now being midnight on April the 19th the Convoy passed through the town of culman and decided to break into a local hardware store and steal its collection of guns they were spotted by a night Watchman who fired upon them Clyde fired Back the Night Watchman ran for help realizing they only had a few minutes before the entire town of corfman sheriff and civilians alike descended upon them with guns drawn Bonny Clyde and fultz tore out of Coffman in their vehicles along with a dirt road which cut through some Farmers Fields it looked as if they were going to get away when it began to rain the dirt road turned to mud and their cars got stuck The Outlaws were forced to abandon them and take off on foot they ran for the better part of an hour worried that pursuers from corfman might come after them eventually soaking wet and with mud coating their legs they came across a small farmhouse and begged for a ride into the nearest town which turned out to be Kemp the farmer replied that he didn't have a car but generously offered to loan them his two mules Clyde and Bonnie mounted one fultz mounted the other they reached the outskirts of Kemp at dawn there they stole a car from a driveway of the local doctor Unfortunately they were only a mile out of Kemp before the car ran out of gas worried that their pursuers from corfman might catch up with them and now worried that the people of Kemp would immediately identify them as car thieves Bonnie Clyde and folz hid in some bushes at 7: a.m. a literal mob of people from calman C and nearby mbank showed up and began combing through the countryside Looking For the Outlaws Bonnie Clyde and and fultz stayed in the bushes for a whole 10 hours at 5:00 p.m. they attempted to run across the street to a local store and steal a car that was parked there it was no good they were immediately spotted by the town's folk the M quickly gathered and chased the Outlaws towards Cedar Creek firing shots at them all the while fols was hit in the arm when they reached the creek bed Clyde abandoned folz and Bonnie who were captured by the mob Clyde Got Away snark back into cemp stole another car and drove hell for leather until he reached Dallas meanwhile Bonnie and fultz were arrested dragged back to camp and thrown in a Cell the local doctor whose car was stolen refused to treat FS for his gunshot wound Savage doc didn't you take an oath rivers of whiskey and a hail of bullets Clyde got back to Dallas on April the 20th in the morning and immediately sent Elsie and his sister-in-law blanch wife of Ivan Barry who is still languishing in prison to cemp to find out where Bonnie and faults were being held turn out they had been transferred to the jail in kulman then Clyde drove to Denton and met up with Ted Rogers and Johnny Russell on the night of the 20th they broke into a hardware store in the town of Selena coming away with some rifles and shotguns and robbing $16 from innocent bystanders including the town mayor who they held at gunpoint on April the 21st Clyde Rogers and Russell tested the guns at Lake Dallas a local farmer heard the gunfire and called the sheriff when the sheriff are right isn't this like in Texas it's like I heard gunfire down in their parts and it's like it's Texas like when I think of Texas I imagine in large hats and guns isn't this like super common never doubt the Texas Ranger when the sheriff arrived backed by several deputies Clyde Rogers and Russell were forced to abandon the newly stolen guns in order to escape things only got worse they arranged to meet Jack Hammet and fuzz alup at Lake Dallas and the latter two arrived just in time to get arrested by the law meanwhile falz was identified by the sheriff of Electra as the man who had taken him hostage and he was later identified by the postal worker he was shipped from culman to witchar Falls to stand Tri for kidnapping Bonnie remains locked up in culman awaiting trial for attempted robbery Bonnie claims she'd been kidnapped rather than being an active participant in the robbery she languished in the calman jail for two months Clyde did not attempt to break her out Bonnie passed the time in jail by writing poems eventually Gathering them into a collection called poetry from life's other side yeah it's like prison sounds pretty bad I don't want to go to prison but it's also like yeah I definitely write some I've got like I'd love to write a book let David writes look David's David smart and writes but like if I was in prison I'd be like going to learn how to do that going to write got nothing else to do might as well do that and chill and hopefully not be forced to like pick cotton one of the poems in the collection is called the prostitutes convention which actively named real life prostitutes who were working in Dallas at the time and an addition naming the street corners on which they operated Bonnie's most notable poem from this collection was with a slightly modified title thanks to YouTube censorship the story of self- deltion s it was about a girl who was brought into a life of crime by her lover wound up in jail and spend the next 5 years waiting for her lover to break her out however her lover had simply hooked up with another girl and gone straight s was released from prison and shot and killed by an unknown asent 2 Days Later the perm includes the lon's quote now if he had returned to me some time though he hadn't Penny to give I'd forget all this hell he has caused me and love him as long as I live it's not bad it's not bad on April the 28th 1932 Clyde Rogers although I know nothing about poetry I saw that movie Peterson about the dude who's a bus driver and a poet and I was like what is this is he supposed to be bad at poetry because it seems really bad and then I think I was talking to my dad afterwards and he was like oh yeah I saw the Peterson movie as well and I'm like you did did you like it he's like loved it beautiful poetry and then I realized oh I'm just not into poetry cuz my dad's like way more cultural than I am and he was like yeah it's actually based on the The Poetry by this famous poet who was like Consulting on the movie or whatever and I was like oh God okay I just don't understand this this is like you know when you look at the who's theing painter um with the Jackson Pollock where he's just like splattering stuff on a service and you're like okay I just don't understand it on April the 28th 1932 Clyde Rogers and Russell pretended to be customers and scouted out a combined jewelry and General Store in the town of Hillsboro to the south of Dallas owned by a man named John Napoleon buer Clyde had actually met bucher's wife madora years earlier while the gang cased The Joint she laid eyes on Clyde but didn't give a sign that she recognized him nevertheless the gang thought it best if Clyde acted as the getaway driver on this one since they didn't want madora to pick him out of a photo lineup later at 10 p.m. on April the 30th Clyde sat outside in the car while Rogers and Russell and ENT the store and held JN and madora buer at gunpoint they marched John into the back and got him to open the safe inside there was a gun which JN recklessly tried to turn upon the robbers oh John just don't do it it's like if you're getting mugged don't say no just give them youring watch Rogers and Russell shot him down he later died of his wounds meanwhile the gang made a clean getaway the take from the robbery was $40 in cash or $900 in today's modern money and some jewelry collectively worth $1,500 or $34,000 in modern money okay I was like wait they did all this for 900 bucks $34,000 is a lot more despite their precautions madora bua immediately picked Kyle out of a photo lineup and of course she did the idiots had all been seen together in the store a couple of days ago when they were casing The Joint yes I was like wait I I thought I must have misread something there because I'm like wait he's recognized by her while he's in the store while they're casing it out with his mates and then his mates come back and Rob it of course she's going to be like well you guys were in here with him who I know so like what he's so so stupid that was enough of the Texas authorities and Clyde Barrow became wanted for murder wait who did he murder oh no wait sorry I totally missed that they shot him I was like wait who got murdered and then I was like oh wait the guy who turned the gun the guy said just don't just give them your watch oh God so slow sometimes the Texas governor announced a $250 reward for his capture $5,600 in modern money the actual murderers Roger and Russell were not identified by madora bua because she hadn't known them previously they took their share of the loot and went their separate ways never to rejoin the gang smart plan although we know who they were in their name so I guess they got caught up too later on May the 11th Ralph Foltz was sentenced to 10 years for the attempted robbery and the kidnappings he too never rejoined the gang on June the 17th Bonnie went before the grand jury and spun the lie that she had been kidnapped by faults the grand jury brought her St bought her story and she was released Bonnie returned home to her mother Emma she lied to her mother saying that she was done with Clyde Barrow but she started passing messages on to Clyde via the Barrow family immediately upon her return meanwhile sometime in June Clyde renewed his partnership with Ray Hamilton the guy who had taken his share and split after the Kansas Bank job two months previously he had not quot unquote choked on a w of cash and Clyde's anger at him had faded since then in mid July clein and Hamilton procur to hide out in the town of witchar Falls 225 km or 140 Mi Northwest of Dallas to use as a base of operations for future crimes Bonnie packed up her things and joined them at Hideout lying to her mother saying that she had found a draw was a waitress up there and so another spasm of what robberies have begun in Late July cly and Hamilton hit a train station in Grand Prairie claiming coming away with a whopping $12 or $270 in modern money on August the 1 Clyde Hamilton and a new recruited getaway driver Ross Dyer hit the noof packing company in Dallas they held three employees at gunpoint and came away with a take of $440 or $9,900 in modern money Bonnie waited for Kumi at the bar's Place listening to the radio for any news reports of the robbery amid their Mutual anxiety for Clyde's safety Kumi started to warm to Bonnie a little bit Clyde swung by and picked up Bonnie late that afternoon and took her out to an abandoned Farmhouse near Grand Prairie where the gang partied for the next 4 days until the fth then cly took Bonnie back to the Barrow's place from where she made her way home to her mother Bonnie told Emma that she was just visiting with the night she had not come clean about being with Clyde meanwhile also on August the 5th Clyde Hamilton and Dyer drove 275 km 170 Mi north crossing state lines and arriving in Stringtown Oklahoma at 9:00 p.m. there they spied a community dance in progress attended by 900 people most of them faced on Moonshine Whiskey oh we still in prohibition right Clyde Hamilton and drer SW fled into the crowd began drinking heavily and hitting on the young women there this pissed off the local men sensing danger the local sheriff Charlie Maxwell decided to remove the three Outsiders from the situation probably a smart move his plan was simple he'd arrest them for drinking despite the fact that almost everybody at the dance was drinking it was still technically illegal at this point D was off mingling somewhere in the crowd meanwhile Sheriff Maxwell and his Deputy Eugene Moore approached Clyde and Hamilton who were slamming back moonshine in their car and told them they were under arrest CDE and Hamilton IM medely pulled out their guns and opened fire there's a bit of a running theme here isn't it they seem to do a do a lot of big crimes for very little reward like they should have just been arrested and got let out for drinking and that should have been that they shouldn't Rob people for like $6 they should Rob people for more if you're going to commit robbery do it properly go and Rob something where there's a bigger reward than like $6 if you're going to have a shootout with the cops make sure they're not just arresting you for drinking why the massive overreaction it's to get you killed as it does Maxwell was hit six times and fell to the ground his sidearm was picked up by an angry civilian Harry Bryant who began firing at the gang Clyde put his vehicle into gear and tore out of there but hit a nearby drainage pipe and flipped the whole car over bro flipping a car over today is probably quite dangerous flipping a car over in the 1920s is going to be a real bad time the two men clambered out of the rag realizing that they'd have to shoot their way out well apparently they were fine okay D meanwhile faded Ed into the panicked crowd Clyde and Hamilton Unleashed another volley of gun gunfire and Deputy Eugene Moore was dead before he hit the ground whoa you just killed a cop who was going to arrest you for drinking this is a massive massively unnecessary escalation Harry Bryan made his cover unscathed Sheriff Maxwell was carried away by the crowd and actually recovered from his wounds dulling the pain with Moonshine Whiskey with the death of Eugene Moore the Barrow gang had just killed a cop in those days that meant guaranteed death sentence should they ever be caught on their way out of Springtown Clyde and Hamilton were pursued by authorities but they managed to give them the slip stealing a series of cars as they made their way successfully back to Dallas and August the 6th D had Slipped Away unnoticed and made his way to the town of mckin back in Texas where he was picked up by the cops he was taken in for questioning and immediately spilled the beans identifying Clyde and Hamilton as the Springtown shooters that sealed Clyde's fate from that point forward the law wanted him dead good help is hard to finds Clyde bar had only been out of prison 6 months and things were already getting ugly arriving back in Dallas in August the 6th 1932 Clyde sent Ray Hamilton to the Parker residence in a stolen Ford V8 to pick up Bonnie for her part Bonnie had kept up the lie to her mother she had dumped Kyle and was living in witchar Falls working as a waitress she climbed into Hamilton's car and wasn't to see her mother again for several months Bonnie and Howton arrived at the rendevu with Clyde and it was Bonnie herself who suggested they drive to New Mexico to visit her aunt Millie in order to escape the heat from the police Manhunt in Texas and Oklahoma Bonnie Clyde and Hamilton arrived in carsbad New Mexico on August the 13th Bonnie lied to her aunt Millie saying that she was driving across America on her honeymoon she introduced Clyde as her husband James White and Hamilton as their friend Jack Smith it's a bit weird it's like hi yeah yeah we're driving across uh America as our honeymoon and this is our mate Jack it's like what the's Jack doing here why is he on your honeymoon are you in some sort of weird um what's it called where they have multiple wives polygamy are you in some weird po polygamous marriage art Milly was initially very welcoming but quickly grew suspicious of Clyde and Hamilton when they unloaded a huge arsenal of guns and began a target practice session outside her house well well done laying low guys on the honeymoon huh with all these guns right when she was alone Millie discreetly phoned the police Deputy Sheriff Joe John's arrived the next day looked at the Ford V8 parked out front and suspected it was stolen he knocked on the front door Bonnie answered Deputy Johns requested to speak to the car's owner Bonnie said a husband was just getting dressed John's waited outside by the car Clyde and Hamilton slipped around the back of the house surprised the deputy and pointed a shotgun at him Deputy Johns tossed them his sidearm they forced the deputy into the car and the trio of Outlaws took off with their new hostage oh no that's a bad idea you took a cop hostage I mean you already killed a cop but this is you're really working towards the electric chair aren't you guys heading east again they they pulled into San Antonio Texas late that evening at one point Bonnie giggled playfully and asked Deputy John's quote how do you like being on the Run you've had a few hours of it we do it 365 days a year it's a weird thing to say at 5:00 a.m. on August 15th the gang drove 25 km or 15 miles outside of San Antonio and dump Deputy John's on the side of the road oh my God Deputy John's you made it out like I honestly they've killed a cop before so they've already going to get the death penalty so what have they got to lose nothing and this dude's seen their face and all of this stuff and knows where they are and knows the car they're driving I am amazed and that Deputy John survived and I imagine Deputy Johns is probably like holy you let me go okay thanks they drove onward to the town of Victoria where they stole a second Ford V8 with Bonnie and Clyde in one car and Hamilton in the other in the case one of them broke down on the journey they were spotted in Victoria stealing the second car the gang headed 100 km or 60 Mi Northeast of the town of Warton where two police officers had set up a roadblock Clyde managed to do a U-turn and head off in the opposite direction without a scratch Hamilton did the same but his car was hit with several bullets when the Warton cops open fire oh my God it's like he's doing a U-turn either he doesn't want to wait in traffic or he's our guy get him it's like ways tells him make a U-turn when possible despite this hiccup the trio got away without any further trouble on August the 16th newspapers across Texas Oklahoma and New Mexico announced the police were looking for Clyde Barrow and Ray Hamilton they also gave the physical description of a woman who was seen with them the cops knew who Bonnie Parker was a Millie had ratted her out but the newspapers had sharly declined to print Bonnie's name since they were not sure if she was being forced to accompany the bandits reading her description in the newspaper was how Emma Parker found out that her daughter wasn't in witch star falls after all surprise Bonnie meanwhile was tickled pink by the publicity and often flattering descriptions of her the trio spent the next two weeks hiding out in the abandoned farmhouse in Grand Prairie during this time they made one Excursion they drove to Fort Worth broke into the Armory of the state guard and stole half a dozen Browning automatic rifles Jesus how are you breaking into like the state guard's Armory aren't armories like super heavily guarded this was some serious Firepower that would overwhelm any law enforcement they were likely to meet in the future and note to Simon here's a clip of a fully automatic BR Browning on on fastfire ripping into a cinder block wall oh my Lord okay we'll show that clip assuming we don't get copyright claim for it it'll be a little clip of it playing now and from David's description I imagine it's absolutely brutal meanwhile Ray Hamilton had been getting cold feet again he told Bonnie and Clyde that he was going to head up to Michigan once more to lie low Clyde and Hamilton parted on much more amicable terms than they had the last time Bonnie and Clyde even drove Hamilton North all the way to Bay City in Michigan before parting ways from there Bonnie and Clyde spent some time driving randomly ACR the Midwest Clyde would occasionally rob a rural store or a gas station to keep with in spending money money with takes of $5 to $10 or about $120 to $125 in modern money they liked staying the night in motels which were s something of a novelty in 1932 when those weren't available they stayed as guests at farmhouses across the countryside at the time the old-fashioned country manners of providing a roof and a hot meal to W for era still prevailed and Clyde Barrow and his mysterious female traveling companion weren't yet well known outside of Texas Oklahoma and New Mexico I'm so glad we don't live in the past like if I lived out in the countryside and occasionally saw I'll be like oh do you mind if I stay with you and uh have dinner and I'd be like well I had plans I was going to watch the new season of For All Mankind and play with my kids but I guess instead I'm going to have to talk to a stranger the whole night and then have you stay in my house with all my valuables and my children and I have no idea who you are you're just a random wayf farer oh the past was the worst it was also pretty clear that the couple of love birds were on the run but Bonnie was charming and soon put her hosts at ease and anyway it was The Depression of and most rural Americans couldn't give a flying about what the government or the local law wanted in October Bonnie and Clyde headed south again spending a couple of weeks in Kansas they returned to Dallas to visit their families on Halloween because the cops might be watching the Barrow gas station the family had arranged a system of communications Clyde drove past the station and tossed an empty Coke bottle with a note inside with instructions for the time and place of the rendevu point then Bonnie and Clyde took a risk and swung by the Parker residents after looking to see if the place was being watched Bonnie nipped inside for only a few minutes visitation with her mother Bonnie updated an anxious emor on how she was doing and quickly left avoiding all discussion of the fact that she had lied and was once again running off with an outlaw after that the couple headed off to the Rond Vu point to meet up with a barrow Clan where Clyde found out that Texas newspapers were accusing him of robberies that he hadn't committed along with the murder of a butcher named Howard Hall in the town of Sherman and the murder of Sheriff John Mosley in the town of Tua alternatively according to Clyde's sister Nell Clyde was indifferent saying laconically well they've got to hanging on somebody you know yeah it's like dude they've already killed a cop they've killed like it doesn't matter but it does mean that whoever did kill these people is kind of getting away with it which isn't great whil still in Dallas Bonnie and Clyde recruited two new gang members to replace Ray Hamilton Frank Hardy and Hollis hail who thanks to the newspapers thought Clyde was a criminal mastermind and eagerly joins him for the prestige they headed up to carage Missouri together they tried to rob a bank only to be told upon forcing their way into the building that the bank had gone bust a few days earlier and that there was no money on the premises so the Barrow gang as it was now called shifted Focus towards the farmers and miners Bank in the tiny Missouri Town of aogo on November the 29th 1932 they sent in Bonnie to case the joints the next day November the 30th at 11:30 a.m. Clyde and Hardy entered the bank wielding Browning automatic rifles while hail acted as a getaway driver and Bonnie sat beside him in the car as kind and Hardy entered the bank the lone Bank clerk on duty grabbed a pistol that was right next to him and duck behind the leadline counter that was impervious to bullets dude if I'm the clerk in this thing I'll be like hello gentlemen should we just go straight to the save and not mess around cuz I'm not getting shot to protect someone else's money the clerk lifted the gun in the air without raising his head and started letting off blind shots in the general general direction of the robbers CET Le with a volley from the Browning riddling the bank with bullets the clerk's gun jammed party grabs what a little money you could see resting on the counter before the two robbers fled the take was $110 or $2,500 in modern money these two botch jobs in Missouri thoroughly disillusioned hail and Hardy about Clyde when they got back to Carthage they said they were going to buy more ammunition and never came back it's like ah we thought you guys were good you got this whole reputation it just turns out you're a bit at your whole crime thing Bonnie and Clyde were again in need of fresh recruits they headed back into Texas to the town of mikini where Ralph fultz had recently stood trial for car theft he was joined there by Ted Rogers one of the men who had gunned down John Napoleon buer in Hillsboro who had been picked up in mckin on an unrelated robbery charge they were both awaiting to be transferred to the prison in Huntsville on December the 19th Bonnie visited the jail pretending to be a relative of fultz and told him that Clyde was outside heavily armed ready to break him and Rogers out folz replied it was no good since the deputy didn't have the cell keys so Clyde needed to hit the place the next morning when the sheriff had returned well breaking people out of prison really this easy it's like no no no come back tomorrow then the guy with the keys will be here and it'll be an easy job Bonnie and Clyde showed up at the jail at 4: a.m. the next morning only to see the prison wagon counting falson Rogers back to Huntsville meanwhile on December the 6th 1932 Ray Hamilton was picked up by the cops in Michigan it was quickly connected to cly Barrow on December the 14th Hamilton was extradited to Dallas meora was driven up from Hillsboro and incorrectly identified Hamilton as one of her husband's Killers oddly enough Hamilton was not connected to the murder of Deputy ugene Moore in Oklahoma in which he had actually participated Oklahoma Authority simply didn't send anyone down to identify him but Hamilton might get the electric chair for the busher murder anyway and one death sentence was as permanent as another Clyde meanwhile began making plans to bust Hamilton out yeah I get it like the bad guy gets the chair but also there's another bad guy out there who is like they're like case closed we got our man and it's like yeah but you didn't Case Closed Bonnie and Clyde spent Christmas Eve back in Dallas where they exchanged gifts with their families at a nighttime Rendevous that same evening Bonnie and Clyde reced William Daniel Jones to join them on their cross country Crim spr it's very it's barely very easy to recruit like I feel like they're in a video game just going into the town and recruiting people it's like but you don't even you're robbing people for like $100 Jones was 16 years old Bonnie and Clyde were 22 at the time the trio traveled 210 km30 Mi South to the town of Temple in yet another stolen Ford V8 wow that really is their vehicle of choice isn't it it again feels like a video game it's that you know you're stealing your favorite car in Grand Theft Auto it was the make that Clyde preferred to steal because it could outrun cop cars on Christmas morning Clyde and Jones entered a grocery store in the town of Temple Jones was supposed to stick up the cashier but lost his nerve before drawing his gun they aborted the robbery and the clerk was none the wiser they head it back to the V8 Clyde called Jones a coward and Bonnie mocked him and openly laughed in his face Jones said that he wanted to go home don't want to go home he's 16 pooring kid Clyde snarled that if he didn't want to walk he better steal a car for himself he ordered Jones to steal a Ford Model A sitting nearby Jones broke into the car but failed to hotwire it Clyde stomped over and got into the Ford starting it successfully and shaming Jones still further Jones is a terrible criminal he's like I'm too nervous to stick up a convenience store I did how to hotwire a car I mean he sounds like a completely normal person because I have no idea I assume you can't Hotwire cars anymore right you can't just like in the movies they just rip the thing up and join two wires together I'm pretty sure like I don't think I have a car that starts with a key anymore all just start with buttons but they were spotted by the car's owner 27-year-old Doyle Johnson who came running up to the vehicle reached through the driver's side window and and started strangling Clyde with his bare hands Clyde raised his pistol and shot Johnson several times at Point Blank Range that's why you don't interfere if someone's stealing your car let them steal your car it's not worth getting shot over and then just file an insurance claim Christ if I if I saw someone stealing my car right now I'd be like have a nice day good luck going to get a new car then Clyde and Jones sped away Bonnie followed them in the V8 Johnson died of his wounds within minutes yes he's been shot multiple times at Point Blank Range punctuations of pure havoc on January the 1st 19 1933 Bonnie Clyde and Jones were back in Dallas Clyde paid a visit to Lillian McBride the sister of Ray Hamilton who was now locked up in Hillsboro awaiting tral for the busher murder Clyde handed Lillian a hacka and told her to travel down to Hillsboro and smuggle it to her brother during a visit Lillian promptly did so on the afternoon of January 6th the cops came by Lillian's house to ask her a few questions about her brother after they left Lillian also departed to go on the Pier Downtown Dallas with her friend Lucille Hilburn at 6 p.m. Bonny Clyde and Jones swung by Lillian's place to find out if she'd been if she'd smuggled in the hack or finding she wasn't at home they headed to the Parker residence Emma Parker was angry to discover that Bonnie had been drinking whiskey all day and was completely faced not again Bonnie you had things to do Bonnie you can't just get faced in the morning all the time the trio then paid visits to barrows and Jones's mother at 11:00 p.m. five cops went to Lilian McBride's Place suspecting that she might be harboring another criminal associate of Ray Hamilton named Odell Chamas lilian's door wasn't home the cops were let in by Lillian's sister Maggie they waited in the front room for Lillian and kept an eye out for shamas at midnight Bonnie Clyde and drones drove slowly past Lil McBride's house with their headlights turned off to see if she was home yet the cop spotted them Clyde drove around down the block and then stopped in front of the house suspecting something was up Clyde got out of the car with a shotgun he approached the front door at this point Maggie ran screaming out of the house and Clyde looked in the window and immediately saw three cops sitting in the front room he fired a shotgun through the window two cops standing vigil at the back of the house heard the gunfire and ran around the front Clyde blasted one of them Deputy Malcolm Davis at Point Blank Range killing him instantly the second cop dropped immediately to the ground and Clyde's neps blast missed him the three cops in the living room began shooting out the window at Clyde and in response drones hanging out the window of the V8 let loose on the front of the house with a volley from the Browning automatic rifle this gave Clyde an opportunity to run between houses and around the block the still partially shitfaced Bonnie yelled at Jones to stop firing she slammed her foot on the gas pedal and they tore off down the road they turned a corner and spotted Clyde who jumped in and took over driving and they sped away Ray hamton was caught trying to use the hacks or on the bars of his cell on January the 8th Clyde gave up on trying to bust him out meanwhile the shootout had been such an embarrassment to the Dallas Police that sheriff Smoot Schmid pumped more resources into bringing Clyde Barrow to Justice two men were appointed to track them down veteran officer Bob alorn who had numerous run-ins with the Barrow family over the years and Deputy Ted Hinton a former postal worker who had become infatuated with Bonnie Parker when she had waitressed at Bonnie's at Marco's restaurant in 1929 wait is the same dude is that the same dude who we were talking about earlier who became infatuated with her and went to the expensive restaurants I'm not going to go bad cuz it was like 100 Pages ago but I think it was right what are the odds Bonnie Clyde and Jones got the hell out of Dallas but in their haste Clyde spun out into a farmer's field where the v8's wheels sank into the mud they paid a nearby farmer $3 to pull the car out with a team of mules then the trio drove overnight across state lines on January the 26th 1933 outside of Springfield Missouri they were tailed by a 24-year- old highway patrolman named Thomas pcel who suspected the Ford V8 was stolen when pel approached the vehicle he was was held at gunpoint disarmed and told to get in Clyde didn't want to kill a cop in Missouri since he would ampop hostilities toward him in that state they drove until after midnight when they reply when they reached Joplin and dropped purcel off he asked for his gun back and Clyde refused bold move purcel can I have my gun back no get the out of here we're letting you go what more do you want Bonnie Clyde and Jones spent January through March 1933 doing Petty robberies of country stores in Oklahoma Missouri and and saw they stole a sequence of cars as per usual and began removing and swapping license plates on the vehicles their robberies that this time did not Merit any organized Pursuit and so Bonnie and Clyde relaxed and enjoyed some semblance of freedom I remember yeah like license plates a mate of mine when we're at University just came out to his car one morning and both of his license plates were missing and they weren't like they were just like regular ass license plates and he's like where are my license plates at why did someone steal my license plates and I can't remember what got him to do it but he found the police because apparently if you've had your license plates nicked the chances are that it's like a criminal organization who are going to put them on another car and then use that car for crimes and they'll just steal like random license plates from another vehicle about the same age because you can tell the age of cars from the license plates in the UK and yeah the police were like what it's good you told us because your plates might be used in a crime it's okay it was during this time by the side of a highway that Jones took the now famous picture of Bonnie and Clyde together along with Bon leaning on the car with a revolver in one hand and a cigar clenched between her teeth the trio often shared a single motel room Bonnie and cled would send out Jones on frequent errands giving the couple a chance to make love one thing that surprised Jones was that both Bonnie and Clyde prayed a lot they were still highed about Christians due to their upbringing orbe it with a somewhat unorthodox take on the Ten Commandments Bonnie called Clyde daddy Clyde called her honey and both of them address Jones as boy Jones is their h for his part Jones called Bonnie sis and Clyde buds buds like all right boy settle down go get me a newspaper on March the 23rd 1933 Ivan Barrow nicknamed buk was paroled from Huntsville prison despite the fact that it escaped from jail and spent several weeks on the lamb adding four extra years to his sentence before Kumi Barrow convinced Ivan to return to prison voluntarily his wife blanch was overjoyed to have him back on March the 24th they visited Branch's parents at their dairy farm in the rural community of Wilmer at midnight Bonnie Clyde and Jones showed up at The Farmhouse lanch noted that both Clyde and Jones carried shotguns inside the house and that Bonnie was utterly rat assed on Whiskey surprise Bonnie and Clyde convinced Ian and blanch to join them for a few weeks in an apartment that they'd rented Joplin missoury they assured Ivan and blanch they wouldn't be committing any crimes during that time it' be like a vacation for all of them blanch later claimed that she and her husband were reluctant to get involved with Bonnie and Clyde but quite frankly I smell at any rate blanch and I agreed to go blanch brought her dog snowball they stay for a week in two rented holiday cabins outside Joplin before finding a fashionable Suburban apartment on April the 1st that rented for $50 a month or $1,120 in modern money a bit bit a pomed big enough for all of them for like a grand in modern money it's pretty good where are we talking about Joplin was this in Arkansas Missour Missouri I don't know anything about Missouri I don't even know where Missouri is all five of them had grown up in the slums of Dallas so for them this was quite palatial living the neighborhood was So Posh there was a local night Watchman Bonnie and Clyde thought it was hilarious to hire him to patrol outside of their apartment as well they used a laundry delivery service that picked up dirty clothes and dropped off freshly laundered ones which is super nice I've done this a couple of times like when we got back from holiday or something and my wife and I have been like there's a lot of laundry to do isn't there and there's just a company you could call up and they come and collect it all and they bring it back to you like pressed and folded I was just like well that was easier wasn't it Bonnie and blanch went on frequent shopping spree on April the 7th Prohibition in the United States officially came to an end and the Gang celebrated by purchasing a case of beer and drinking it all in one night the following night they bought another and then another and another yeah I mean I have to say like if prohibition ended I'd go pretty hard on it for a while you'd be like yes yes gold beer let's go rather than moonshine or leftover whiskey or whatever the drink for years thereafter to get more money Clyde Jones and Ian robbed a few stores and houses in rural Missouri they also stole several more Browning automatic rifles from a local Armory of the National Guard the next day when Clyde was cleaning them one went off accidentally and one of the neighbors called the police the cops didn't go barging over there but they decided to keep an eye on the place on April the 12th the gang stole a roadster from a town in Oklahoma and drove it back to Missouri what's a roadster is that like a convertible car Tesla Roadster is what I get when I look it up I guess it's like a convertible car right like a roadster Bonnie thought this was too risky and she and Clyde argued the argument turned violent according to blanch quote cly Clyde knocked her across the bedroom a couple of times but she got up and went back for more they reconciled before Bonnie went to sleep oh Clyde just a bit of casual 1930s domestic abuse that night Clyde decided that they'd stayed in dropin for too long it was time to go the next day April 13th Clyde and Jones went out to Rob another store for traveling money while the rest of them all packed a 400 p.m. Clyde and Jones returned and moments later two cars containing five police officers pulled in behind them the dropin PD had decided to raid the place Clyde and Jones pulled into the apartment's garage and quickly lowered the garage door behind them Constable where's Harryman bravely but recklessly tried to dive under the door before it closed cly hit him with a shotgun blast to the neck Harryman bled out and died at the scene oh Harryman don't do that why would you do that you're going to go into an unfamiliar environment and they're just going to be waiting for you officer Harry mcginness fired a few shots through a glass window looking into the garage striking Jones once in the abdomen excellent before Clyde pummeled mcginness with a second blast of his shotgun hitting him in the face and damn near blasting his arm clean off his body mcginness died instantly a third Officer De graph dived and picked up MC Guinness's revolver and began dual wielding as he fired at the garage and ducked behind the side of the apartment building with a fourth officer grammar the fifth officer Carla ran across the street to find a phone to call for backup Dro in police cars did not come equipped with radios at the time meanwhile Ivan came running into the garage armed with a shotgun to help with a shootout Jones bleed heavily ran upstairs to tell the girls what that they needed to get out of there now abandoning most of their things and with Bonnie still in a night gown they ran down to the garage they intended to escape in one of the two stolen cars the Ford V8 sedan the gang darly opened the garage door and a bid to escape Ivan moved mcginn's corpse out of the way while Clyde and Jones the latter of whom was now soaked in his own blood pushed from the cop cars blocking the garage yeah dude um what's his face Jones you're mate you got shot in the gut in the 1930s and you're not going to be able to go to hospital it's game over then the two of the three surviving cops resumed fire Clyde was it in the chest with a bullet holy but it was slow caliber and came from across the street the bullet passed through one of his coat buttons so it merely lodged in the top layer of his flesh a GM incredible odds what are the odds meanwhile Ivan was grazed by another bullet that ricocheted off the garage wall it was then that Bonnie still clouded in her own iny came out of the garage with a Browning automatic rifle and sprayed bullets at officer Carla who was firing from across the Street he was forced to dive behind an oak tree when Bonnie's rapid machine gun fire sent Splinter's wood flying into his face Bonnie pivoted and Unleashed a final volley of her remaining bullets of the two officers hiding around the side of the building then Clyde and Ivan rallied and opened fire with their shotguns it was at this point the blanche's dog snowball ran terrified out of the garage into the street blanch called out desperately after him the dog ignored her and kept running down the road never to be seen again Ivan yank to thoroughly upset blanch into the sedon and the five of them piled in and tore out the driveway while under minimal fire from the surviving police officers two cops were dead carler had splinters in his face and he didn't think his guns bullets would pierce the car's exterior as it passed to graph fired four shots before running out of ammo and the final cop grma just stood there Shell Shocked without having fired a single bullet in the entire exchange the Barrow gang in light and shade the Ford V8 sedan hurtled out of Joplin at blinding speed once enough distance of had been put between them and the town Clyde pulled over Bonnie ripped open Clyde's shirt and prized the bullet lodged in his chest out with a hairpin and her fingers or infection time is the 1930s we got antibiotics yet I think so right at least there's that Clyde quickly staunched the bleeding and inspected Jones's bullet wound it was bad Jones was in agony and still bleeding and it was unclear with all the blood whether the bullet was still in him Carl took a thin tree branch wrapped it in a scrap of cloth torn from Bonnie's night gown and poked it into the Bullet Hole in Jones's abdomen when the branch poked right through the other side of Jones's body they discovered the exit wound at least the bullet wasn't still lodged in Jones's body they staunched his bleeding as much as they could drove down the road to a gas station and bought a packet of aspirin which they promptly entered into Jones's mouth here take this aspirin it'll make you feel much better you know I've been shot right there's a bullet that's gone through my body also I think it's just one of those Hollywood rumors I think if you are shot they it's like not super important to get the bullet out quickly because even like going in there with the tree branch and stuff I feel like that's going to cause more damage than a bullet because the bullet's probably like is it going to be super heated and stuff it's probably not going to cause like too much of an infection but like a weird stick wrapped in a nighty that's going to be like covered in bacteria that are now being poked into the deepest parts of his body with that Clyde kicked the V8 into gear and headed toward Texas he drove all night until they arrived at the town of Shamrock in the early hours of the morning where BL lunch doing her best to hide the blood splatter on her dress checked them into a motel the mail gang members had their wounds washed and dressed Jones was still in bad shape but didn't seem to be dying nothing vital was hit blanch again self-conscious about the blood stains on her dress walked to a grocery store and bought everyone some food see he seems to be fine nothing vital was hit it went through his body there's all sorts of important things here like your spleen and other stuff a few hours later CL got paranoid about a couple of cars parked outside the motel and the Gang piled into the sedan and drove towards Amarillo arriving on the outskirts at nightfall Ivan and Clyde headed into the City and robbed a store the next morning the gang used the money to buy some new clothes for they had left the shootout with just the clothing on their backs back in Joplin the police frowned blanch Barrow's person ID Ivan and blanche's marriage license and paperwork relating to Ivan's release from Huntsville carrying all of your documents with you are you the dling cops contacted Dallas B Alon and Ted Hinton came up and showed them photographs of Clyde Barrow and gave them a description of Bonnie Parker connecting the couple to the dropin shootout as well only 16-year-old William Jones remained unidentified police also found a large arsenal of weapons several suitcases of fancy clothes a large collection of jewelry Clyde's guitar a draft of Bonnie's per about self- deltion thank you YouTube s some cameras and several roles of undeveloped film it was the last of these things that completely transformed the situation for better and for For Worse okay well I'm very curious what's on those roles of film I mean I assume it's going to be them doing crime so I'm not sure how this is for better and For Worse what's going to be on there on April the 14th the film was developed a few of the photos were of Clyde and Jones striking to tremendously douchy gangster poses in front of a stolen car ah some things never change but then there were the photos of Bonnie Parker in C's arms or holding him at Mock gunpoint or posing scandalously with a gun and a cigar there were several Outlaws like Clyde in the Depression era but this was new a female Outlaw not just a gangster mall but a female Outlaw actively participating in the crimes Bonnie Parker was 22 years old reasonably attractive and very stylishly dressed then as now sex sells and the next day April the 15th the droping globe placed her on the front cover alongside Clyde they even mentioned Bonnie by name within days most newspapers across the United States had picked up on the story Bonnie and Clyde's photos soon were shown in newsreels they were featured in celebrity magazines they were featured in True Crime magazines they were featured everywhere updates on their crime spree were trumpeted on the radio interrupting scheduled programming within a month the story had gone International and despite the fact that they were gunning down police officers and bystanders and robbing smalltime businesses of their hard-earned money during an economic depression the public loved them Bonnie and Clyde were young they were stylish they were sexy or at least Bonnie was and they were fighting back against the rich and Powerful they weren't seen as murderers they were seen as Heroes they've murdered multiple police officers and I know people have like different opinions about police officers and stuff but murdering murdering anyone's not I murdering bad people but like murdering cops is like not okay Bonnie was bursting with joy at long last she was famous oh Bonnie you're not famous you're Infamous it's really different what's that great quote if I can't become famous infamy will do sounds like something something Bonnie would say who said that and all it took to make a little girl's dreams come true was a growing stack of corpses all of them people who didn't deserve to die on April the 27th in the town of rtin Louisiana are still wounded but recovering William Jones stole a Chevrolet parked in front of a house with the keys left in its ignition the car's owner and Undertaker named Dillard Derby saw this happen from the portra of the house as he was chatting with a home economics expert named Sophia Stone Darby and stone hopped into the latter's car and gave Chase they pursued Jones out of Rustin but lost him but Clyde racing up from behind Four Star to pull over pistol whipped him and took Stone and Darby hostage Jones and the Chevy had vanished so Clyde drove the hostages Bonnie Ivan and blanch into Arkansas the car was packed full a drunk Ivan was encouraging Clyde to just kill the hostages Bonnie meanwhile asked Darby what he did for a living he told her that he was an Undertaker Bonnie laughed and said maybe you work on me someday Clyde dumped the hostages outside the town of Waldo giving them an extra $5 to get home it's kind of nice is it $5 isn't that going to be like a lot of money like it's back back in the day normally David gives me the conversion but I don't know but it's a lot passing through the town of Hope Arkansas the Barrow grang was spotted by a patrol car which immediately gave chase by now the cops knew that Clyde preferred to drive Ford V8s and treated them as suspicious Ivan named a Browning automatic rifle out of the window at the cop car but held his fire Clyde managed to lose them without the necessity of a shootout there were no signs of Jones in the Chevy and the Gang worried that had either been picked up by the cops or his wound had taken a turn for the worst at any rate the gang decided Jones was most likely to head back to Dallas now that they had been separated so Clyde started driving there too at the very least they could visit their families they spent a lot of time visiting their families for like Outlaws who don't really seem to care if they live or die Clyde and the Gang pulled into the driveway of the Barrow gas station taking the risk that the cops weren't watching the place Clyde spoke to his family for 5 minutes and told them that when Jones showed up to tell him to Lilo in Dallas the gang would be back to collect him with that the Barrow gang rode out of Dallas again for the next several days they rolled through Oklahoma Kansas Missouri Iowa Minnesota Wisconsin Illinois Indiana robbing County stores and gas stations whenever they needed money on the night of May the 11th 1933 Clyde and Ivan broke into a bank in lucern Indiana hoping to Ambush the staff the next morning and force them to open the vault the next morning came and one of the tellers grabbed a rifle that was concealed under the front counter a far fire errupted no one was hit tellers back in the day were they was it like I feel like it's the past so the bank manager would be like yo if someone comes in trying to rob the Place here's a gun you better use it or you're getting fired I remember when I worked in a store they were like yo if anyone comes in and tries to rob don't even press the alarm there was like this alarm button under the till that you could press and they're like don't press it until they've left give them whatever they want and then press the button don't be a hero we don't want to have to pay for your funeral or whatever the but fearing the cops might arrive Clyde and Ivan fled the bank empty-handed with Bonnie acting as the getaway driver the gun fter had attracted the attention of the town's folk A man jumped on the hood of the car as the gang tried to escape what are you doing get off the car you idiot Bonnie grabbed a pistol and shot at him the man wisely chose to jump off on the way out of town random towns folks started shooting at the Ford the gang shot bag it's like the wild west over here two bystanders were wounded on the night of May the 18th the gang tried again with Clyde and Ivan breaking into another bank in okaba in Minnesota this time Clyde took the precaution of sweeping the bank for hidden guns the next morning they ambushed the staff and came away with a take of $1,600 or 38 Grand in today's modern money yes that's a take Bonnie again acted as the getaway driver and again random towns folk shoted the gang as they sped out of town God Bless America yeah it's some W they're just like hey just like Grand Theft Auto Jesus on May the 22nd the bar gang was back in Texas Clyde sent blanch into Dallas to arrange jonu with the Barrow and Parker Clans P wound up having a picnic oh lovely Clyde asked about Jones he was told that the boy was back in town but nobody from the Barrow of Parker glans had seen him without looking for him the gang packed up and headed east when they crossed into Louisiana Ivan stall a second car so that he could ride separately with blanch being crammed in one car was testing everybody's nerves with Clyde and Ivan at one point getting into a fist fight the Barrow gang reached Florida on June the 1st for a vacation of sorts laying low spending time at the beach and spending their ocaba money yeah they got 38 Grand they're going to have a pretty awesome vacation Elsewhere on June the 2nd Ray Hamilton was given 99 years in prison for the murder of John Napoleon buer which he didn't commit he was sent to Eastern Prison Farm yeah but he did kill someone else right and we were just complaining that old napolian buer is his actual killer going to be out on the loose after a few days of sunshine in Florida Bonnie and Clyde headed back to Dallas on June the8th and finally picked up William Jones the guy who someh miraculously survived a bullet going through body in the 1930s and then having a stick with a nighty wrapped around it poked all inside his body William Jones you Survivor meanwhile blanch and Ivan had gone to Oklahoma to meet up with blanche's father andw rendevu with the other three gang members in Oklahoma on the night of the 10th Bonnie Clyde and Jones relaxed in the small town of Wellington Texas on June the 9th Bonnie did a lot of drinking surprise then just outside Wellington while heading out to oomer on on the evening of the 10th Clyde was driving too fast and smashed through a construction barricade losing control of the car and crashed into a riverbed no one was killed but the Ford's car battery had been smashed open sending a jet of acid all over Bonnie's right leg oh Jesus the damage was instant and severe William Jones later said that the hide on her right leg was gone from her hip down to an an to her ankle I could see bone places oh my God is caraty acid that acidic canel it just burned to her bone wound two bystanders Jack Pritchard and his son-in-law saw the crash and took the trio to their nearby Farmhouse Bonnie and Clyde were concussed Clyde had a broken nose Jones had a few Burns in him the priter family put baking soda on Bonnie's leg wounds which neutralized the acid and prevented any further damage that's smart I'm like that sounds super unpleasant but that I didn't even know baking soda neutralized acid so that's good to know when Pritchard said they needed to get to a doctor cly refused fear that it would tip off the authorities replying if she dies she will just have to die as Bonnie lay in agony Clyde went to the wrecked Ford and retrieved their arsenal of guns this caused some alarm in the Pritchard family one of them snu off to Wellington to inform County Sheriff George Cory and police chief Paul Hardy that there were some suspicious types at their Farmhouse yeah there's a woman she's got a bony leg and they've got loads of guns and they don't want to go to the doctor Cory and Hardy headed up there alone in an unmarked Chevrolet thinking that they were just a few delinquents with a couple of firearms they were greeted at The Farmhouse by Clyde armed with a Browning Auto automatic rifle and Jones with a shotgun Bonnie got of her sick bed and grabbed the two officers sidearms Jones quipped you boys are just in time we want to borrow your car crime always pays in gold or lead Bonnie Clyde and Jones took off in the Chevrolet with their two new hostages Clyde and Jones sat in the front seat with Jones turning around and holding the hostages at gunpoint Bonnie still in very rough shape from the acid dousing yeah like oh no I was expecting her to be better by now no her leg was acid it off to the Bone and then they basically just threw some baking soda and we're like yeah job's a goodard she'll be fine her leg is missing she was actually laying down in the back seat across Cori and Hardy's laps the car traveled into Oaker arriving at the Rond V point at 1:00 a.m. on the 11th blanch and Ivan were already there waiting asleep in their car the gang tied Cory and Hardy to a couple of trees by the side of the road and took off Bonnie was in desperate need of medical attention again yes she's missing half her leg she couldn't sleep because of the pain periodically passing out from exhaustion only to awaken again moaning in agony but the gang couldn't rush her to her doctor's since word would eventually circulate about Bonnie's injury and doctors in the area would be on the lookout for a woman with a Burn's leg Yeah I remember I I broke some ribs in my back or like whatever the back ribs are called or like I don't know what it was like these things you know the the the ribs in the back like by the spine are they ribs the ribs go all the way around right and I'd wake up in the night and just be like oh oh God why I'm not comparing that to like having my leg burned off with acid but I do understand they're just waking up in agony and just being like oh why am I awake but the gang couldn't rush her to the doctor since we evidentally circulate about Bonnie's injury and doctors in the area would be on the lookout for a woman with a burned leg Clyde drove to Oklahoma and Kansas before turning around and heading Southeast every day they stopped at a drugstore for salv and bandages for Bonnie's leg oning the 15 the Gan reached Fort Smith Arkansas and rented two holiday cabins Clyde lied to a local doctor the Bonn had been injured when a stove exploded the doctor flatly told him that Bonnie needed to go to a hospital but Clyde refused the doctor resignedly wrote a prescription for bitua painkillers while the leg tried to heal on its own when the doctor visited 2 days later he again urged Bonnie to be taken to the hospital Clyde refused yet again Bonnie spent the next few days in a drug induced Haze flying into angry withdrawals whenever the drugs wore off on June the 18th drove overnight to Dallas to fetch Bonnie's sister Billy Jean the idea was Billy Jean would be at least of some comfort to Bonnie while she lay in pain without proper medical attention on the way out of Dallas Clyde's car was spotted by Deputy Ted Hinton who gave Chase but was quickly outpaced by Clyde's newly stolen V8 Clyde and Billy Jean arrived back in Arkansas to find Bonnie's leg had slightly healed and scabs were forming Grim also they had to get a Doctor Who's just like yeah here's some bitu they're robbers why not just go into a pharmacy and be like yo give me the good on June the 23rd Clive sent Ivan and Jones out to do some robberies for spending money they targeted a grocery store in fville the take was $20 or 470 in today's money Ivan and Jones were pursued by Town Marshall Henry Humphrey and Deputy red sailers in their haste to escape Ivan and Jones crashed their getaway car they watched the two officers approach Humphrey was armed with a 38 revolver Sailors with an old seven shot Winchester rifle Ivan and Jones got out of the wreck Ivan had a shotgun Jones had a run automatic rifle Ivan blasted Humphrey into a ditch the man died of his wounds 3 Days Later drones sprayed bullets at saors who took cover behind his car the bullets pierced through it so Sailors made a run for it to a nearby Farmhouse Jones loaded another clip and fired again but he missed then Jones and Ivan ran toward sailor's bullet riddle car sailor spun around and fired off a few shots with his Winchester blowing the tips off two of Jones's fingers oh I mean yeah good Kim since the cops would soon be looking for SA car Ivan and Jones stopped a pair of Newly Weds on the road and hijacked their vehicle nevertheless they encountered a roadblock just outside of Fort Smith and were forced to abandon the car and sneak their way toward the cabin on foot they arrived at 10 p.m. the bar gang knew immediately they had to flee after some delay in trying and failing to steal a second car all six of them crammed into the only car they had left a small Ford Coupe and drove into the Ozark Mountains and everyone's going to be in the comments Simon it's Coupe it's Coupe it's not Coupe it's coup's where you keep chickens as Jeremy Clarkson once said it's a coupe they had to abandon most of their guns in order to fit into the vehicle on June the 6th the gang stole a doctor's medical bag from outside a hospital in Enid Oklahoma the bag contains morphine to keep Bonnie sedated during the bumpy car journey and sulfates to treat her Burns meanwhile Billy Jean had taken to cleaning and bandaging William Jones's mangled fingers developing a bit of a crush on him oh Bill you're missing fingers just do it for me the bding romance was short however when Clyde gave Billy Jean some money and put her on a train back to Dallas the remaining gang members stole a large vehicle that could more comfortably hold the five of them and they fled into Colorado spending the Fourth of July in the town of Pau on July the 7th they were back in Enid Oklahoma where they robbed another arsenal of the National Guard guys look after your guns better coming away with a dozen Browning automatic rifles a huge collection of pistols and revolvers and several crates of ammunition you're giving them the mil the Arsenal of a army what the hell National Guard get your sh together they spend the next three days deep in the countryside doing target practice they then moved on through Kansas and Iowa by mid July Bonnie's wounds were healed but the leg was permanently damaged its tendons and muscles had tightened up making it difficult to extend her leg and walk on it for any lengthly duration most of the time she hopped around or Clyde carried her including taking her on and off the toilets honestly Bonnie it's pretty much a miracle you survived you got burned to the bone with acid in the 1930s and didn't see a doctor it's a miracle that you didn't get an infection and die on July the 18th the Barrow gang robbed three gas stations in a single day in Fort Dodge Iowa for a take of $150 or $3,500 today that evening they reached Plat City Missouri where Clyde wanted to find a motel so Bonnie could spend the night lying in a bed they pulled into the parking lot at the Red Crown Tavern which had a couple of tourist cabins next to it they ultimately decided to relax there for two nights unfortunately the Barrow gang picked a bad spot the red Crown's owner Neil Hower was already suspicious of them blanch scandalously clad in tight fitting riding breaches said that they were a party of three but then proceeded to order meals and drinks for five theyd also backed their car into the garage which Hower speculated that criminals did for a fast getaway yeah that's help spies Park I was listening to I think it was a podcast with like a former spy or something like that and they were like and it was like what do you what do you did you take from like your everyday life into the Spy world into or spy world into your everyday life and they like always reverse into parking spots and it's like why so you can make a quick exit and it's like how how is that useful in real life but now I'm always back in my car into parking spaces in case I need to make a quick exit from nothing there's no reason the Red Crown tabn was a watering hole for the local law Oh no you're a gang and you're like let's go to this Pub and you walk inside and it's just cops and they all just turn and look at you like evening it's like just going to slowly back away and at noon on the 19th Hower related his suspicions to some highway patrolman who are having lunch there by 3 p.m. the local Laura determined that the strangers car was stolen and the physical descriptions matched those of the bar gang at 1:00 a.m. on the 20th of July a posy of 13 lawmen mustard at the red crowns have and equipped with tommy guns and thick metal bullet Shields they blocked Clyde's stolen V in the garage with an armored car I would feel like this is the end right how are they going to get out of this one but we're only like 3/4 of the way through the episode so it's a long episode it's a super long episode and Bonnie and Clyde die in a shootout right that's I'm not spoiling anything it's Bonnie and Clyde wait or do they drive a car off a cliff is that Bonnie and Clyde who drives a car off a cliff oh I don't know maybe there is a ium be like no spoilers it's Bonnie and Clyde realizing I don't actually know the ing to Bonnie and Clyde I know they die everyone knows they die they die right then two officers approach blanch and Ivan's cabin and hammered on the door Ivan began firing with a Browning automatic rifle through the cabin window and Clyde and Jones did the same from the cabin next door the shields deflected the bullets but nevertheless the cops were forced to pull back Sheriff HK coffee was struck in the neck by friendly far from behind but kept shooting drones exited the cabin through a door connecting the garage and started the car while Clyde came in and open the garage door Clyde fired on the armored car managing to pierce the plating and wounding the driver George Hy Hy panicked and backed the armor car away giving the VA to clear path for escape Bonnie Clyde and Jones immediately jumped into the V8 you've just escaped 13 armed police officers it's kind of impressive Ivan and blanch however needed to exit their own cabin through the front door and make it toward the others they ran directly into machine gun fire a bullet passed through Ivan's left temple and exited through his forehead shattering part of his skull and exposing his brain Ian collapsed surprise from the V8 Jones opens up with Browning to provide covering for blanch bullets whizzing around her picked up Ivan and dragged him toward the car Clyde helped put him in then Clyde sped off out of Red Crown parking lot the V8 being pelted by machine gun bullets the entire time one bullet struck the back passenger window sending glass shards flying into blanche's eyes blinding her Ivan was bleeding profusely but remained conscious he tried to comfor blanch saying his wound was wasn't that bad at 5:00 a.m. they stopped at a gas station just north of Kansas City Missouri to refuel but when the attendants saw the bullet riddled car and Ivan in the blood soaked back seat Clyde sped away they drove into Iowa it's going to be hard to why is your car covered in BL they drove into Iowa where they managed to get some gas and purchase bandages antiseptic fluid and aspirin without the station owner getting a good look at the car blanch bought a bear of sunglasses to hide her eyes her right ey regained some Vision yeah I was going to say it blinded her does that mean like you know like a flashbang will blind you but not permanently there's a big difference real big difference Clyde poured hydrogen peroxide directly into the hole in Ivan's skull in a stupid attempt to disinfect it and then bandaged his head up are you smoking crack for one and two how the f is Ivan still alive that night the gang set up camp at an abandoned amusement park outside the town of Dexter which was which was appropriately named dexfield Park Clyde and Jones dug a grave for Ivan but he was still alive on the morning of the 21st oh man it's like hey Clyde Clyde what are you up to out there oh just uh just digging a grave whose grave just yours just in case okay Bonnie and Clyde decided to risk going into Dexter for supplies while Jones remains behind G guarding blanch and Ivan Ivan's brain was starting to swell and blanch Had A Shard of glass jutting out of her left eye which Bonnie had failed to remove with a pair of tweezers Jones whines that he was done with the outlaw life and wanted to go home yeah Jones really you all right it gets a little tough huh blanch and Ivan who were drifting in and out of Consciousness told him to go since he was the only gang member that hadn't yet been identified but Jones didn't dare bring this up with Clyde and was too frighten just abandon the gang without Clyde say so Bonnie and Clyde came back with clothing medical supplies and food having aroused no suspicion in town the bar gang stayed in the abandoned amusement park for 3 Days doing a daily food run while Ivan clung to life Jesus Christ shot in the head and then had acid poured into his brain hole Jesus on the 23rd a local farman found some bloody bandages near their camp and went into Dexter to inform the local sheriff the sheriff in turn went out to dexfield to spy on the gang with a pair of pular he passed on their physical descriptions to the County Sheriff's Office who passed along those descriptions to the de moin Police Department of the National Guard they quickly came to the conclusion that this was the Barrow gang on the evening of July the 23rd Clyde resolved to bring Ivan home to Kumi and get banch back to Dallas at the same time because their current Ford V8 was conspicuously riddled with bullet holes Klein and Jones drove to the town of Perry and stole another one their plan was to drive back to Texas the next morning but that was the morning a variable Army composed of 12 lmen and 40 trigger happy towns folk planned to attack oh my that's that's 52 armed people good luck getting out of that one no matter how many Browning guns you have on July the 24th 1933 Dawn broke upon dexfield Park accompanied by the sound of gunfire Clyde and Jones returned fire on the 52 man militia with their brownings but were quickly overwhelmed Jones was hit in the face with shotgun pellets Clyde was shot in the left arm while a shotgun pellet slashed through the left side of his face the barag gang piled into the freshly stolen V8 Clyde tried to Ram the car through the approaching men but slammed right into a tree stump Clyde and Jones got out and provided covering fire for blanch Ian and Bonnie as they made their way to the old bullet riddled V8 some of the militia men opened fire on the second car completely totaling it the Barrow gang then ran away on foot with Clyde and Jones dropping the heavy brownings and returning far with pistols they barely made it a few yards when Ivan passed out from the strain of moving yeah he's got a hole in his brain Clyde and Jones dragged limping Bonnie down toward the river while blanch stayed with her husband Ian woke up told blanch to run and then opened fire with his pistol on the advancing militia he was shot several times in return and lapsed into unconsciousness blanch did not attempt a flee they were grabbed by a militia and taken to a hospital for treatment the admitting doctor asked Ivan where he was wanted by the law to which Ivan replied quote everywhere I've been do to be like so what seems to be the problem well I've got a hole in my brain Ivan went in for emergency surgery but it was no use and he died 5 days later having already clung to life for an exceptionally long time blanch was treated for her eye wounds regaining the sight in her right eye but ultimately her left eye remained blind yeah she had a piece of glass sticking out of it holy on July the 30th blanch was personally interrog ated by Jay Edgar Hoover as in later president Jay Edgar Hoover wow blanch games that Hoover threatened to gouge out her remaining good eye if she didn't tell him where Bonnie and Clyde were on September the 4th blanch ped guilty to attempting murder for a role in the shootout in Plat City although she never fired a shot and was sentenced to 10 years imprisonment have to say she got off quite lightly meanwhile back on June the 24th at dexfield Park Bonnie clein and Jones made it across the river and managed to shake their pursuers they headed to a nearby Farmhouse owned by the fella family Clyde held them at gunpoint and what the family didn't know is that the gun Clyde was pointing at them had already run out of bullets Clyde commandeered the Fell's car which had no gas in the tank so they filled it full of kerosene Clyde got the car 65 km or 40 Mi away to pulk City before crashing it into a telephone ball Clyde has an ability to crash cars isn't this like the fourth car he's crashed Bonnie Clyde and Jones then found another Ford V8 and drove it as far as Broken Bow Nebraska three out of the five gang members had gotten away by the Skin of Their Teeth one was dead another arrested the Dexter militia suffered no fatalities and only one minor injury kind of amazing they got away again how they keep getting away the bright lights of Eastern Prison Farm Bonnie Clyde and Jones headed into Colorado then did an arc into Minnesota then Illinois before eventually heading south again into Mississippi they kept in funds by the usual Rural and small town robberies on August the 20th they robbed National Guard Armory in Illinois they were now sufficiently equipped with brownings pistols and ammunition again National Guard again get your together it's the third time Jones finally plucked up the courage to tell Clyde he was done with being an outlaw Clyde did not get angry and even gave Jones advice on what he should say to the police if they ever arrest him quote say I forced you to do it it worked for Bonnie last year on September the 7th Bonnie and Clyde dropped off William Jones and Dallas Jones made tracks to Houston where his mother was now living meanwhile Bonnie and Clyde headed off to a rather Grim Rendevous with the Barrow and Parker Clans Ivan was dead distressing Henry and Kumi Barrow Bonnie's leg was permanently injured and disfigured angering her mother Emma Bonnie and Clyde asked for some basic supplies and then left they lived in abandoned farmhouses outside Dallas for the next few days while Clyde headed into the city in order to recruit new gang members when they should probably have been thinking about skipping the country Mexico was right fing there it's like yeah back in the day they seem to struggle to communicate across state lines if you go to Mexico it's just like margaritas for you forever due to Clyde celebrity only enhanced by the newspapers flattering accounts of the shootouts in Joplin Plat City and dexfield recruiting was still easy two thugs named Henry mendale and Doc Porter signed up right away Clyde was a living legend in their eyes not a desperate fugitive barely keeping one step ahead of the law the gang headed into Oklahoma with the intent of committing some lucrative robberies there only get chased by the police with Clyde and Potter getting away and mendale getting beat into a pulp by two old ladies with cro mallets when he tried to hijack their Cal and legends they beat the sh out of him with cro ballots massing Dale got 20 years for armed robbery when Porter and Clyde got back to Dallas they immediately dissolved their partnership Bonnie and Clyde yeah it wasn't working out very well Bonnie and Clyde lay low on the outskirts of Dallas for most of October and November meanwhile in Houston on November the 16th William Jones was identified as a member of the Barrow gang and picked up by by police he was transferred to Dallas County Jail where he was questioned by Ted Hinton and Bob alorn they bought Jones's story that Clyde had forced him to come along Jones cut a deal with the Dallas Police to plead guilty for the murder of Deputy Malcolm Davis at the McBride shootouts even though he had been killed by Clyde in exchange for not being extradited to Arkansas where punishments were harsher for the murder of town Marshall humph who had been killed by Ivan ultimately Jones was sentenced to 15 years in prison for the Davis murder again getting off pretty lightly I thought they would cook him for that one on November the 21st Kumi Barrow's 59th birthday the Barrow and Parker Clans met Bonnie and Clyde and through a party for her in the isolated rural community of sours just Northeast of Dallas Clyde felt bad that he had not bought his mother a present so he told everyone to come back to sour the following night for another party on November the 22nd the baron Parker families went to sers and waited for Bonnie and Clyde to arrive unfortunately either Billy Jee Parker or Marie Barrow's boyfriend Joe Francis had turned informance and Sheriff Smoot Schmid which is such a strange name his name's Smoot and he was surveiling the rendevu point with Ted Hil Hinton Bob Alor and Ed Caster they were armed to the teeth good idea boys Bonnie and Clyde approached in yet another stolen Ford V8 but sped past the rendevu point as a precaution Sher Schmid jumped to his feet and shouted Halt and then Alice cops began shooting at the V8 which was peppered with bullets wounding both Bonnie and Clyde in the legs but they managed to get away Bonnie and Clyde are a mess especially Bonnie's legs Bonnie's like it's always my leg Clyde why my legs Clyde Bonnie and Clyde drove into downtown Dallas where they staggered out of the V8 and hijacked a fresh car at gunpoint after transferring their possessions to the new vehicle they sped out of Dallas and headed to Oklahoma where they bribed a corrupt doctor to treat their leg wounds without informing the police while in Oklahoma they tried to hook up with a fellow gangster Pretty Boy Floyd but he wasn't home and his wife turned them away Floyd had nothing but contempt for Bonnie and Clyde stating that they were too Reckless with Gunplay around innocent bystanders good for you pretty boy Bonnie and Clyde returned to the outskirts of Dallas on November the 29th where they stayed in an abandoned Farmhouse again frequently heading into town to set up secret meetings with their families they stayed around Dallas for all of December they appeared to be completely broken by the disastrous events of the past few months then on January the 13th 1934 Floyd Hamilton Ray Hamilton's older brother got a message to clein about a plan to bust Ray out of Eastern Prison Farm the plan was actually entirely of raed concoction transmitted to Floyd by ex-convict James Mull who got out of eastn 3 days earlier Clyde was reluctant to partake in the raid but Bonnie talked him into it saying that with Ray Hamilton back in the fold they could hit another bank from this point forward Bonnie took an increasingly aggressive role in their criminal activities perhaps as a result of an now full-time guzzling of hard liquor at 2 a.m. on January the 14th Floyd and Mullen snuck out to East and concealed two 45 caliber pistols in a tire under a small bridge on Prison property on the 15th the guns were retrieved by Eastern prisoner Fred yon given to Joe Palmer who stashed them in his cell bro you got a gun into prison holy Bonnie Clyde and Mullen headed down to East that night shortly after Dawn on the 16th two teams of prisoners were clearing brush and stacking firewood in a forest near the road Joe Palmer walked up to one of the mounted prison guards major Kon and shot him in the stomach Ray Hamilton with the second 45 shot Olan Boseman in the hip then Hamilton and Palmer ran toward the road joined by Hilton BBY who had signed up to the Escape Plan and two random prisoners simply seasoned the opportunity Henry methvin and JB French didn't we have Henry methin earlier wasn't there a methin I felt like we had a methvin waiting at the road in a black Ford V8 surprise Clyde pressed down on the car horn to guide the escapes to the vehicle while Bonnie exited the car and laid down some suppression fire into the Treetops with a Browning automatic rifle to intimidate any other mounted guards from following the convicts too closely the V8 could only hold five passengers but there were eight men JB French continued running past the car on foot only to be recaptured a few days later later Hamilton and Palmer jumped into the car with Bonnie Clyde and Mullen with BBY and methin hanging on for dear life on the outside they drove to the small town of Rome and placed a call to the Barrow residents telling Elsie and Floyd to bring some civilian clothes they arrived the escapes changed out of their prison overalls and Mullen departed with Floyd and LC the escapees Hamilton Palmer BBY and methin remained with Bonnie and Clyde at a stroke the bar gang had been reconstituted the return of the Wild West prison guard Olen Boseman ultimately recovered from his gunshot wounds while major croen lingered in agony until he died on January the 27th 1934 before he passed Cen begged the general manager of Huntsville prison Lee Simmons to track down the man who shot him and send him to the electric chair it was Joe Palmer who had killed major croen but Lee Simmons's sights were set on Clyde Barrow as the roote of the problem Simmons was frustrated with the failure of law enforcement to capture Bonnie and Clyde he wanted them to be tracked relent ly across the country and killed on the spot when they were found put down like dogs just like what happened in the days of the Wild West yeah they have really brought back the wild west so I I'd be fine with that yeah a little bit of extra judicial killing why not they deserve it Simmons wanted Frontier Justice not City Justice yes Simmons yes thus he turned to Captain Frank heer a former Texas Ranger telling him quote I want you to put them on the spot and shoot everyone in sight gangster the reputation of the Texas Rangers is welld deserved for both good and Ill you do not with the Texas Rangers they arose in the 1830s out of a life and death struggle with the kamandi easily the most powerful ruthless and feared Native American tribe on the continent that's not an overstatement descending from the mountains of Wyoming in the early 1700s the commi terrorized settlers and other native tribes in Texas for 150 years as an Unstoppable force of mounted archers and spearmen they were tactically Superior to Spanish Mexican Texan and other native American forces until the introduction of the cult revolver in 1851 and the Winchester repeater my personal favorite in 1866 this gave the Rangers a Fighting Chance in mounted combat where single shot and muzzle loading weapons were too slow to keep Pace with commandry arrows and Spears out of that Crucible the Rangers went on to fight white Outlaws with a very much shoot first ARS questions later type of approach they were also fond of extra legal summary executions rather than taking prisoners these were the days of the Wild West when where Justice came Rough and Ready When the Mexican Revolution broke out in 1910 the Rangers employed similar brutality On the Border some of this involved tracking and killing Mexican Outlaws and revolutionaries who were robbing and murdering people in US Territory but the brutal border War often led to indiscriminate killing of innocent men of Mexican descent some of whom had lived in Texas as American citizens their entire lives the 1919 canala investigation destroyed the Rangers reputation and saw their numbers reduced from a th men to just 68 in 1930 this number was further reduced to 4 5 in 1932 most of the Rangers resigned or were fired this brutal relic of the Wild West it was argued had no place in a more civilized age this was a random aside I thoroughly enjoyed learning all about Texas Rangers but it is exactly that reputation for relentlessness and brutality that prompted Lee Simmons to hire Captain Frank Hammer born in 1884 and joining the Texas Rangers in 1906 Hammer was a legendary figure in the dying days of the Wild West standing at 6'2 and 1990 or 86 kilos ham was a veteran a 52 shooter house Slayer of 53 men a first class Marksman and an expert tracker oh my God I'd be terrified it's like we're putting hammer on it oh he's killed 52 people 53 people he had over a dozen bullets lodged in his torso surgically unremovable Jesus from 1906 to 1908 Hammer patrolled a th000 miles of the Mexican border famously tracking down several murderous Outlaws in Just 2 years one of his most legendary actions was putting down livestock rustler and multiple murderer Ed putam during a standoff at a bordell putam had come to cover the window and just slightly nudged the curtain and that was enough for Hammer to snipe him no scope with a Winchester repeater sending a bullet through his neck in 190 now this dude's a badass in 1908 Hammer became the Marshal of the outlaw infested town of Navasota which prior to his arrival had 50 murders a year in a population of just 3500 oh my God the past that's insane at just age 24 hammer crushed the The Outlaws in the town and restored order from 1911 to 1914 he shered in various count counties tracking down murderers and cattle rustlers until he rejoined the Texas Rangers in 1915 he was leader of Battalion in the Bandit Wars against Mexican strugglers and revolu Smugglers sorry and revolutionaries surviving several gun battles yeah he's got 12 bullets inside his body he definitely survived some gun battles Hammer once told his men we're here to enforce the law and the best way to do that is a 45 slug in the gut this gu's again badass in 19177 he married wealthy Widow Gladis Sims and in true Texas Star the nuls were accompanied by a gun battle with the extended family of glad as's first husband during which a hammer was wounded oh my God I thought that was a joke it's not during the 1919 investigation into misconduct by the Texas Rangers Hammer stalked and threatened violence against the chief investigator Joseph Canales if he didn't back off who steady on you could definitely call Hammer morally GR at best you could say that he was loyal to the Rangers to a fault in 1921 Hammer joined a Prohibition unit that was beset by a bloody ambush in El Paso during which prohibition agent Ernest Walker was killed thereafter Hammer became senior captain of the Texas Rangers among the 68 men who remained in service in 1922 Hammer went to war against the Texas clue clars Clan and rescued 15 black men from lynchings this guy is definitely morally gray it's like he's doing really good but then he's also like you investigate me you better back the go I kind of like this guy overall in 1928 Hammer exposed the murder of a hiring set up by the Texas Bankers Association oh my God the past it's like it's murder of just done by Bankers in 1930 during the Sherman riots he tried and pril to prevent the lynching of George Hughes when a mob of people attacked the courthouse where he was being held Hammer shot and wounded two in the angry mob but the crowd Set Fire to the courthouse and new Dynamite to blow up in the vault where Hughes was being concealed Hammer resigned from the Texas Rangers in 1932 ref refusing to serve under Governor Miram Mar Ferguson whose corrupt husband Jimmy par Ferguson had been impeached par got ma to run instead so he could rule from behind the scenes some Texas Rangers resigned with hammer and Mah fired the rest effectively ending them as a force and now two years later Lee Simmons had hired Frank Hammer to kill Bonnie and Clyde giving him the cumbersome but vaguely useful job title of special Escape investigator for the Texas prison system the wage wasn't great $2,160 or $49,000 per year in modern money and God forbid Hammer take a year to track down Bonnie and Clyde but Simmons threw in a sweetener hammer and whoever participated in the killing of Bonnie and Clyde would get the $26,000 reward put together by law organizations and private sources that's over 10 times his yearly salary assum we're talking about old dollars yes cuz it's $595,000 in today's money oh my God that is a proper Bounty furthermore Hammer would be why does he even need the salary just be like yell over the I'll go hunt those down dead or alive I want that 600 Grand furthermore Hammer would be allowed to take whatever personal effects from Bonnie and Cy pleased which had sell for a fortune due to their immense Fame in the high prices usually assigned to criminal memorabilia ultimately however it was in the money that include that induced Hammer Bonnie and Clyde were Outlaws they were killers and tracking down and executing Killers is just what Frank Hammer did thus Bonnie and Clyde's days were numbered as Hammer's fellow captain in the Texas Rangers Bill McDonald once said no man in the wrong can stand up against a fell that's in the right and keeps on coming no honor among Thieves on January the 23rd 1934 a mere week after the Eastern jailbreak Ray Hamilton and Hilton BBY entered the First National Bank in rembrand Iowa pointed a gun at the clerk and walked away with $3,800 or $87,000 in modern money CDE Barrow was the getaway driver with Henry methan beside him Joe Palmer was this got to be their biggest take yet right they had some pretty big ones I think 35 Grand was the biggest 87 in all in modern money it's a proper amount of money Clyde Barrow is the getaway driver with Henry methin beside him Joe Palmer was ill and curled up in the fetal position in the back seat Bonnie was back at the motel Clyde pissed off Ray Hamilton by splitting the take six ways when he thought it should have been four Hamilton owed James mullon a th000 bucks for helping him break out of Easton and six ways left him nowhere near clearing his debt this did not bode well for Ray Hamilton staying on with the gang Hilton byby meanwhile took his share of Loot and immediately left the gang lighting out for Amarillo where he was recaptured on January the 31st and returned to Eastern prison farm on January the 26th 1934 the Barrow gang robbed a bank in Pau Oklahoma Hamilton methin Obama were the trigger men and Clyde Barrow was again at the wheel their take why would Clyde be at the wheel Clyde seems to crash cars all the time their take was $1,500 or $34,000 today and from there the gang headed to San Antonio Texas to visit Palmer's sister Fay along the way Hamilton and Palmer quarreled Hamilton actually tried to shoot parba when the latter was asleep in the car but Clyde turned around slapped the gun out of Hamilton's hand and in doing so lost control of the car and ran into a ditch of course he did he's Clyde he barely knows how to drive apparently thereafter a tense trce Reigns leaving San Antonio the gang headed for Houston where Palmer met an attorney had bribed to track down a fellow named Wade McNab an ex-convict who a terrorized Palmer when they were both at East Palmer wanted to find McNab and kill him oh man dropped Palmer off in dropin Missouri on January the 30th and wished him good luck and happy Hunting making plans to meet up later good luck happy hunting people you're hunting people you're hunting a man on February the 1st the Barrow gang robbed the State Savings Bank in conam Iowa Clyde and Hamilton were the triggerman grabbing money from a cash STW and robbing a customer and getting shot at by one of the tellers on the way out the door the take was $300 or $7,000 today from there the gang drove South to benville Parish in Louisiana where they had visited Henry mein's family after a couple of days they headed north again into Missouri where on February the 12th they stole a car in Springfield only to get chased by the cops I like these guys are nuts if I was in this position you just like Rob like 87 Grand or whatever it was in today's money just do a couple more of those get in a stolen car go down to Mexico and just be like that's it I guess we have to stop our crimes or until you get bored or whatever because you you're going to get in trouble and you're all sorts up with the bullet holes and the Burns leg down to the bone it's not a good time maybe they find it a good time maybe they I think they just like it they get a kick out of it right it's not going to be about the money anymore Clyde shook the pursuit but then got lost in the Missouri Countryside they pulled over in Reed Spring and kidnapped bystander Joe gun and demanded that he guide them to Arkansas Gun noted the Bonnie was drunk cussed a lot and was armed with a Browning automatic rifle indeed she become quite skilled with the horrendously powerful machine gun and wielded it regularly she was soon to use it the gang hit a police roadblock outside Reed Spring and along with methin and hamilt and Bonnie showered the cop cars with bullets as Clyde sped past they did the same thing to a Cop Car by the roadside a few hours later finally the gang pulled into Berryville Arkansas and they gave Joe gun $10 and let him go this is such a strange thing why you're terrible criminals on February the 13th the gang dropped off Hamilton in Amarillo Texas making plans to meet up later while Bonnie Clyde and methin headed to Dallas to rendevu with the Parker and Barrow Clans that night they enjoyed a fairly happy time with their families Distributing the proceeds of their recent bank robberies the gang stayed in the Dallas area camping in the woods and in abandoned farmhouses on February the 18th Hamilton arrived in Dallas with an amarello prostitute named Mar Adare Mary was a pain in the ass and demanded they leave camp and go drinking in fancy clubs people like Hamilton what the man why did you bring Mary Clyde and Bonnie tried to explain why this wasn't possible especially not in Dallas but Ray Hamilton felt obligated to take Mary's side causing a great deal of friction in the group oh Hamilton you're thinking with your penis here Mary and Hamilton went off drinking on their own Bonnie and Clyde were uneasy they didn't trust Mary not to go running to the cops at the first opportunity but in order to keep Hamilton happy they bit their tongues not a good idea I get the feeling this could turn out badly on February the 20th the Barrow gang robbed the state guard fourth time State guard are youing me in rang of Texas taking away four brownings 13 cult 45s and several crates of ammunition what the on February the 27th the gang hit the RP Henry and Suns Bank in Dallas their takeaway was $4,175 or 96 Grand in modern money oh guys you got to go you must have like at least 200 grand in cash right now just just flee it's time to flee it's time to go to Lebanon notably on the way out the door Clyde returned $27 to Dallas laborer Oliver Worley who had just cashed his paycheck saying you work like hell for this did you we don't want your money just the banks the gang got into the getaway car and headed north out of Dallas Clyde told Hamilton to split the money four ways Clyde Bonnie methin and Hamilton Maria D didn't get a share of course she did it she's just annoying an annoying tag along Hamilton disagreed pointing out that Mary did as much as Bonnie during the robbery AKA nothing Clyde told him to shut up and split the money then caught Hamilton trying to stuff $600 from the take in his coat to give to Mary later well look Hamilton if you want to split some of your M your money with Mary go ahead but why should the others have to do that you brought her along and she turned out to be annoying Clyde stopped the vehicle forced Hamilton out of the car and demanded to give the money back Hamilton complied good idea Hamilton Clyde's a psycho it made for a very tense trip up to Tera hot Indiana once they arrived Hamilton and Mary witnessed Bonnie and Clyde having an argument seeing an opportunity Mary tried to convince Bonnie to dose Clyde with sleeping pills steal on his money and take off with her and Hamilton Bonnie immediately told Clyde who expelled Mary and Hamilton from the gang whoa I'm surp he I'm surprised didn't just kill you Mary Mary you're pretty dumb I don't like you Mary Mary and Hamilton stole a gar and slunk off to Texas with their tails between their legs honestly you should just be happy you're still alive in early March Bonnie Clyde and methin returned to Bienville Parish in Louisiana to visit meth's family again the methvins of bi Parish were a numerous bunch a whole gaggle of Aunts Uncles and cousins who dwelt in snake ridden forests and Gator infested marelin Henry meth's father Ivy was a chair Craftsman Freight hauler and probably Bootlegger who had fallen on Hard Times in the depression he was an alcoholic and generally disliked in the area his wife AA methin wasn't much better and had a reputation for leeching off of their neighbors their boy Henry had left home in 1930 at the age of 18 and been hitchhiking in Texas when he slashed a man's throat and stole his car oh it's the wild West the victim survived but Henry got done for assault with intent to murder and car theft resulting in a 10-year sentence at Eastern Prison Farm I'm not surpris I'm surprised he didn't get more he tried to murder someone slashing someone throat is not something you do to injure them Henry methin had always maintained that the victim had tried to sexually assault him and he was just defending himself well you would try to steal his car he sexually assaults you and then you try to kill him yeah right Ivy and AA methin believed their son and were trying to get Henry pardoned by Mar Ferguson the governor of Texas when Bonnie and Clyde busted him out completely ruining meth's chance of being paralled and going straight thus Ivy and AA methin felt absolutely no gratitude to Bonnie and Clyde for turning their son into a wanted fugitive what was more ambiguous was Henry meth's attitude toward Mort B and Clyde since the breakout in January methin had followed Clyde's orders to the letter and was always respectful to Bonnie in fact Clyde was starting to think of methin as a loyal henchman relying on him more and more yet in the week of the gang's second visit to benville Parish Henry methin approached his mother AA in secret he told her that running with Bonnie and Clyde was likely to get him killed sooner or later methin asked his mother to get word to law enforcement offering to set Bonnie CED up to be killed or captured the next time they visited benville Parish in exchange for Henry methin being pardoned for the attempted murder charge in 1930 it's a pretty solid negotiation right there the bar gang departed penville in mid-march and meth's father Ivy secretly arranged to meet pville Sheriff Henderson Jordan where Ivy told the sheriff about his son's offer Jordan replied that as a Louisiana Sheriff he couldn't promise a pardon on behalf of the State of Texas but he would talk to the relevant authorities 2 days later in shreport Sheriff Jordan met Frank Hammer representing the Texas prison system special agent leester Kindle representing Jay Edgar Hoover and Dallas deputy sheriff Bob alorn representing well Dallas to discuss meth's offer they were all in agreement the state of Texas would pardon Henry for attempted murder if he could give them Bonnie and Clyde thus Frank Hammer started making preparations for a good old Texas Ranger style bushwacking tell them I don't smoke cigars after leaving Bienville Bonny Clyde and methin headed back to Dallas where they sculpt around abandoned farmhouses for a couple of weeks meeting semi-regularly with The Parkers and the barrows then on March the 27th they left to link up with Joe Palmer again who had finally located the man he wanted to kill in the town of Gladewater Texas Clyde decided that he would assist in this murder why not nothing like a good murder right cly on March the 29th they jumped McNab while he was leaving a gambling Den cracked open his skull with a blunt instrument and shot him multiple times then they transported his body and dumped it on the Texas Louisiana B border the Barrow gang now comprised of Bonnie Clyde methin and Palmer headed back to Dallas on April the 1st 1934 to rendevu with The Parkers and the barrows for Easter Sunday Palmer was sent to fetch them Bonnie had bought her mother a rabbit she' named it sunny boy while waiting for the Barrow and Parker Clans on Dove Road just off Highway 114 near the town of Grapevine Bonnie Clyde and methin shot and killed Highway Patrol officers Edward wheeler and Holloway Murphy wheeler was killed instantly by a burst from mein's Browning automatic rifle Murphy a rookie first day on the job was incapacitated by Clyde with a shotgun witness accounts differ on whether methin put some more bullets in Murphy to finish him off or whether Bonnie did either way Murphy didn't die until he was transported to hospital half an hour later the witness who claimed he saw Bonnie deliver the attempted Cuda gr to Murphy a farmer named William schifer has been deemed an unreliable Witness by some historians since then indeed shifer story transmogrified in the decades after the killing casting doubt on his reliability and his in his initial statement of police in the media he claims that Bonnie had a cigar in her mouth when she shot Murphy this might have been embellishment since despite posing with a cigar in a famous photograph Bonnie didn't like them and preferred to smoke cigarettes but regardless of where the shers count is it all truthful the press and the public at the time sure believed it up until this point Bonnie and Clyde were regarded by many as Folk Heroes but the cold and callous Act of Bonnie shooting an already wounded man soured public opinion being a female bank robber was sexy but being a woman who Slaughters a helpless 24-year-old rookie who is already disarmed and dying not so much what made it a thousand times worse was the man Bonnie allegedly shot in Cold Blood was due to marry a woman Marie tulis on April the 13th 12 days after his murder tulis wore a wedding dress to officer Murphy's funeral and this was splashed across the newspaper souring the public against Bonnie still further good the American people had ceased to give about how stylish Bonnie's outfits were she was a vicious cop killer who deprived a Young Bride of her husbands good people finally seeing her for what she is a piece Additionally the gra Vine shooting on April the 1 complicated things for Frank Hammer the state of Texas was willing to Pardon Henry methin for an attempted murder back in 1930 but now methin had just G Gunn down a highway patrol officer and possibly shot a second one while he was bleeding on the ground oh methin you've done the impossible you've got a pardon for murder um was it murder yeah sorry attempted murder and you're just like you know what's better than attempted murder murder why why you got to Pardon dude it would not be so easy to get the state of Texas to overlook two cop killings in order to merely have a chance at ambushing and killing Bonnie and Clyde Hammer's response to the change in circumstances was to form a good old-fashioned posy he recruited 38-year-old former Texas Ranger Manny G who had worked with hammer back in the 1920s fighting the Texas KKK next Hammer recruited Dallas Deputy sheriffs Bob Alcorn and Ted Hinton who knew but Clyde Barrow and Bonny Park personally and could confirm their identities before the shooting started is he them yes over fire immediately after the murder of wheeler and Murphy the Barrow gang had raced down Highway 114 in their Ford V8 they spotted Clyde's siblings Elsie and Marie coming in the opposite direction to the Rend VI point at Grapevine Clyde flagged them down and told them to turn around and stopped their other family members from heading to the area then Clyde tore down the road away from Dallas not risking it to retrieve Joe Palmer who was traveling up with The Parkers Bonnie Clyde and methin kept going until they reached Oklahoma they were followed by hammer and his newly reformed posy 2 Days Later driving in two cars hammer and go in one alorn and Hinton in the other on April 4th 1934 the hammer crew ATT tracked Bonnie Clyde and methin to Durant Oklahoma the posy two cars were driving down Main Street when Ted Hinton in the lead car spotted Clyde's V8 driving in the opposite direction Clyde was driving slowly not aware that it had been recognized hin made the Judgment call not to swing around and give Chase since there was too much traffic on Main Street and Clyde would almost certainly get away nor did Hinson want to initiate a gun battle with a barrow C gang in such a crowded area so hend pulled over and watched Clyde's car disappear while he flagged down hammer and G to let them know what had happened the posy got back in their cars and headed in the direction that Clyde was traveling they tried to pick up his Trail Again by questioning gas station attendance and Cafe weight staff along the way but to no avail on April the 6th just after midnight the Barrow gang approached the outskirts of Commerce Oklahoma Clyde was tired from driving all day and so he pulled over and he Bonnie and methin all slept in the car together at 9: a.m. Commerce chief of police Percy boydd and Constable C Campbell got a report of a suspicious car parked on the state road Boyd and Campbell drove out to investigate in a marked police car oh no I mean yeah cuz they don't really know anything so they're just like yeah let's of course you'd go in a marked police car I get the feeling they're going to run into some uh substantial trouble Clyde was awake his turn on watch when he saw the cop car approach I don't understand like I've slept in my car and it's like you don't just park on the side of the road and be like okay this place looks great you find somewhere a little quiet you're like well let's just go down this little side street here like I have a um like an Overland car like I'm big into road trip so I bought like a a Toyota Land cruise and I kitted it out with all of this like cool equipment for going on like big road trips and I do big road trips with my mate and like if you're going to sleep in the car and camp in the car it's got like a rooftop tent on it that you pop up it's like you find somewhere like real quiet like you go down this little path you drive it off road a little bit you don't just park on the side of the highway be like this is good because you're going to get into trouble Clyde threw the car into reverse intent on spinning around and making his Escape unfortunately the rain of the previous evening had turned the road into mud and the car got stuck oh Clyde you're the worst driver ever mildly amused Boyd and Campbell got out of their vehicle and got approached the Ford V8 on foot then Constable Campbell saw someone in the car brandishing a gun so he pulled out his revolver and fired chief of police boy realizing the DI hadman cast followed suit Clyde methin emerged from the Ford with Browning automatic rifles oh my God dudes with your little revolvers you have bought knives to a gunfight Clyde took cover by the side of the Ford to shoot to the officers while methvin fullon charged at them zigzagging to avoid their shots methvin are you on meth you maniac Campbell took several bullets to the chest severing his aort killing him on the spot Boyd was grazed by a bullet to the to the left side of the head stunning him for long enough that methin was able to disarm him due to the hail of bullets it's unclear whether it was Clyde or methin who killed Constable Campbell in the eyes of the lore though it doesn't matter does it they're both uh that's both enough to get them in the chair several onlookers from the nearby Farm have been attracted by the sound of gunfire you know what I do when like I I don't know I've not heard gunfire like in this sort of situation you know what I do don't run towards it stay where I am or move in the opposite direction because it's gunfire Clyde brandished a Browning at them and ordered the onlookers along with Chief Boyd to push the forth V8 out of the mud it took them 40 minutes to get the car free Boyd was forced into the back I was uh just it just reminds me speaking of like Overland Adventures I went on a trip with a couple of mates of mine and we're like we're off-roading a little bit and I'm was like cool I'm just going to turn the car around cuz we gone the wrong way it car is pretty capable it's got like big mud tires on it um it's it's a properly capable off-road car and I'm just like yeah let's just turn it around here and immediately it just sinks into the ground and there's just a clay bog hidden underneath like grass and the car just starts sinking and sinking and sinking and you're like okay no worries we'll just use the witch to get it out the winch is like fully embedded in this clay bog so we're digging it for ages and eventually we managed to find cooler local 4x4 club and they come and winch us house and it's like oh thank you it's very lucky that you were close by Boyd was forced into the back seat and held at gunpoint and the Gang drove off in the direction of Kansas not 3 miles down the road their way was blocked by two farmers whose truck had also gotten stuck in the mud Clyde and methin got out to help them while Bonnie stayed in the car pointing a shotgun in Percy Boyd's face then she asked to look at Boyd's head wound expressing concern when Clyde and methin clear the farmer's truck from the road they took off again but after a few miles Bonnie asked CED to pull over by a stream there she washed Boyd's head wound and applied a bandage to it the gang drove the rest of the day pulling into a diner in Fort Scott Kansas at around 600 p.m. methin ran inside and brought them and bought them all food during the meal Bonnie asked Boyd if we are caught and killed while we while you are with us would you please make sure my rabbit gets delivered to my mother because Boyd's shirt was stained with his own blood Bal and Clyde gave him a new one along with a fresh tie got to think about those appearances while you've got a head wound methin gave Boyd his suit jacket to complete the Ensemble a few hours later Boyd was released in the canvas country Countryside unharmed wait didn't we say that he got shot in the head yeah he had a head wound he's hardly unharmed David I mean he didn't have further harm but a bullet grazed his head before the gang departed Boyd asked them what if anything they'd like to tell the media Bonnie replied tell them I don't smoke [Music] cigars the end of the line from Fort Scott Kansas CED double back to Tulsa Oklahoma where the gang laid low in a house owned by the newed brothers notorious Train Robbers that Cent had meted unknown point during the past few years there cly got words that Ray Hamilton had denounced him in a letter to the Dallas Morning News and denied that he had anything to do with the Great Vine murders of wheeler and Murphy Hamilton even provided proof that he had not been in New Orleans at the time on April the 10th Clyde wrote a letter of his own not to the papers but to Henry Ford telling him quote what a Dandy car you make Ford more hostile to Jews than to gangsters had his secretary WR a thank you note and sent it off to the general post office in Tulsa obviously Clyde never received it what are you doing Henry Ford don't reply to gangsters who are using your cars in crimes on April the 16th the barag gang hit the First National Bank in Stewart Iowa coming away with $1,500 or $335,000 in modern money then they put Henry methin on a train to Dallas to arrange another rendevu with the Parker and Parkers and barrows Bonnie and Clyde followed after him by car arriving in Dallas on the 18th at the rondu Bonnie finally managed to give sunny boy to her mother oh the rabbits yeah of course Bonny why up to what is wrong with you she said keep him away from the cops he's been in two gun battles and he'll land at Huntsville if the law finds out I don't think they let you have pets in jail Bonnie during the meeting Clyde declared that he and Bonnie would never flee to Mexico why you got to go to Mexico come on they wanted to keep visiting their families who were quote all we have left how about how about your families come and visit you so much for the Glamorous Outlaw life that the American public thought they led a waste of life yeah no these people are pieces of I agree Bonnie CLE and methin spent a few more days in Dallas visiting the park as and Barrow several more times before making a quick trip to Bienville Parish on April the 22nd they didn't stay more than a few hours but the visit allowed Ivy methin to tell his son Henry that he' cut a deal with the law if he could lure Bonnie and Clyde into a trap Henry methin would be given a pardon for his crimes it is not occur to Ivy that the recent cop killings in Great Vine and commerce may have scuppered that deal it's like dude you got a pardon and now you're committing more crimes that are not covered by the Parton you had a golden ticket out what the a pardon is not just like no prison or a deal it's like you have no criminal record it's it's very powerful but for all Henry methvin knew he finally had a way out of this whole mess from benville the gang went to dropin Missouri to pick up Joe Palmer on April the 29th they headed to toeka Kansas where they stole a new Ford V8 it was tinted Cordoba gray and would go on to have a rather interesting life of its own the writer said raising his eyebrows suggestively wait what is this foreshadowing David on May the 3rd the gang arrived in Everly Iowa where they robbed the farmers trust and Savings Bank for a take of $700 or $166,000 in modern money from there the Barrow gang traveled to Memphis Tennessee to have an impromptu vacation with the exception of Joe Palmer who headed north to Chicago because he wanted to attend the World's Fair he see what are you doing we're taking a break we're going on holiday where are you going I want to see the World's Fair it's like yeah I guess these people they do crimes and then they want to have a life fine this bit of Whimsy probably saved his life for now meanwhile back on April the 25th 1935 Ray Hamilton had been captured by the police after robbing a bank in Lewisville Texas he got cornered by a series of roadblocks and surrendered without a fight Hamilton was transported to Dallas County Jail on May the 3rd Clyde sent Hamilton a four-page letter from Memphis mocking him quote due to the fact that you offered no resistance my sympathy is lacking the most I can do is hope you miss the chair the purpose of this letter is to remind you of all the dirty deals you have pulled Clyde then went on to call Hamilton a snake with quote cat ideas for trying to shoot Joe Palmer while he was sleeping and call him yellow for not wanting to fight the cops on several occasions yeah yellow means like a coward right I know that from Back to the Future he told Hamilton that he was too stupid to understand he couldn't live like a king and hoped to remain outside of prison he also mocked Hamilton for Maria dare his quotee unquote PR itute sweetheart it was too stupid to know that you couldn't go drinking in town yeah Mar I dare she is a little bit of stupidity in today stupid in today's episode today's stupid I'm stupid the letter was signed you can never expect the least of sympathy or assistance for me so long Clyde Barrow elsewhere Frank Hammer had been enacting a rather devilish plan from February through April Hammer had discreetly tracked Bonnie and Clyde across the United States keeping his name out of the press in the hopes that he would catch up with a gang and surprise them however after losing them in Durant Oklahoma Hammer posy took a different approach to the problem for the rest of April they caught it widespread media attention as they stomped loudly through Oklahoma Texas Arkansas and Missouri supposedly looking for Bonnie and Clyde making a return to Louisiana more appealing meanwhile Hammer spoke over the telephone with Bienville Sheriff Henderson Jordan about what country back road Bonnie and Clyde could be safely executed at Hammer added that he wanted to use Ivy methin as bait Ivy bulked at this but was ultimately convinced by the argument that it was his only hope of getting a pardon for his cop killer son meanwhile Hammer swung by the National Guard Armory in Dallas and after a hell of a lot of red tape procured just two Browning automatic rifles on loan I'm surprised they had any guns left to be honest after they've been robbed like 70 times apparently it was easier to Rob them the brownings are added to Hammer's already significant Arsenal on May the 4th 1934 Bonnie Klein and methin rolled back into benville Parish Louisiana it seems that hammer Rus had worked because the barag gang made no secret they were there and flaunted themselves openly to the locals who were poor and generally viewed them as Heroes meanwhile I know it's a bit like past was a different time and it was the depression and all that but these people have killed many many innocent people meanwhile the benville sheriff never seemed to harass them on their visits benville Parish was a sleepy back quter and Bonnie and Clyde assumed that so long as they didn't commit any crimes in the area Sheriff Jordan was content to leave them alone alone they were sorely mistaken on May the 6th Bonnie and Clyde traveled to Dallas for another meeting with the Parker and Barrow Clans Henry methin stayed behind in bville that night Bonnie gave her mother Emma a poem that she had written called The End Of The Line it would later be printed in newspapers Across America gaining the title the story of Bonnie and Clyde the poem starts out by blaming the law for turning them to a life of crime and claiming that deep down shei and Clyde are actually good people Perman with the lines quote they don't think they're too smart or desperate they know the lore always wins they've been shot at before but do not ignore that death is the wages of sin someday they'll go down together and they'll bury them side by side to few it will be grief to the law a relief but it's death for Bonnie and CED it's not bad it's not bad like I don't know anything about poetry but it's not bad 16 seconds in bien enville the next day on the night of the 7th of May Clyde met up with his father Henry Barrow again Clyde showed Henry a suitcase full of cash along with some Deeds to some property Clyde had purchased that he wanted to sign over to his parents Henry remarked that he didn't have a pen on him Clyde said that that was fine they'd take care of it when he was next in town they'd never see each other again Bonnie and Clyde returned to bville Parish where they stayed for the next two weeks they spent time frequenting the local cafe buying candy bars at the gas station for local laborers going to picnics at Black Lake and attending dinners at the house of Henry mean's brother Terrell and his wife Emma during their stay Bonnie announced to the methin that she was pregnant with Clyde's child a surprising claim considering all Bonnie's relatives short thought that she was infertile historians are in Broad agreement that this was wishful thinking on Bonnie's part the autopsy makes no mention of it perhaps it was a fantasy born of the fact that Bonnie was constantly fixated on her imminent death in a shootout a baby gave her something to live for or perhaps the fantasy was the result of a surfit of spirits the methin clan observed that Bonnie was drunk pretty much every time they saw her hammer and his posy were waiting on advanced notice from IV methin of Bonnie and Clyde's arrival at a precise location so that they could set up an ambush the problem was Bonnie and Clyde kept their movements random seldom declaring their movements and arranging to meet beforehand Hammer also didn't want to launch an assault in town or while Bonnie and Clyde with members of the methan family too many people might be killed in the crossfire and no one not Ivy methin not even his son Henry knew where Bonnie and Clyde set up camp at night in order to sleep I don't know maybe just check the sides of the roads they seem pretty Blas about it meanwhile Henry methin was trying to figure out how to get separation from Bonnie and Clyde without arousing their suspicion in the end methin decided to tell Clyde that should they ever be separated while in benville he'd meet them back at his parents' Place Clyde trusted methin at this point as a loyal subordinate and took his word at face value and this deception proved pivotal on May the 20th Henry methin told his father Ivy that he Bonnie and Clyde would be heading into the city of sheveport Louisiana the following day Henry told Ivy that they try to get separated from Bonnie and Clyde in sheveport then the two would eventually come traveling up the enil's narrow Country Road to Ivy and aa's place in order to reunite with him on May the 21st the trio were in treport Henry methan went into a cafe to get some sandwiches and sodas while Bonnie and Clyde were waiting in the car outside they saw a police car roll past as a precautionary measure Clyde pulled away from the curb and drove around the block Henry methin seized the opportunity and bolted out of the cafe stole a car and rode hell for leather back to Bienville to let his father know that he had given Bonnie and Clyde the slip meanwhile Bonnie and Clyde spent the rest of the day in treport apparently unworried that when they returned to the Cafe Henry was gone they assumed he'd also seen the cop car and bolted Bonnie and Clyde returned to beanville Parish that evening and went to Black Lake to hang out with one of Henry's cousins Percy and showed him out of fire a Browning automatic rifle also on the evening of the 21st Ivy methan contacted sherff Jordan and said that Bonnie and Clyde would be swinging by his place the following day to pick up Henry here the entire plot ran into a pointless complication unbeknownst to Frank Hammer Sheriff Jordan had also been working with the feds under special agent Kindle Jordan had tried to contact the feds that evening but hadn't gotten through Jordan wanted another day to contact Kindle and let them know what was going on and so Jordan took it upon himself to tell Ivy that an ambush on the 22nd wouldn't work and Ivy would have to stall and get Bonnie and Clyde to come back to his place on the 23rd to pick up Henry Instead This pointless delay wrist Bonnie and Clyde getting spooked or else simply having their attentions called Elsewhere on the afternoon of May 22nd Bonnie and Clyde headed up to Ivy meth's Place via Highway 154 a narrow winding dirt road Road bordered by thick brush and hedro the perfect spot for an ambush when Bonnie and Clyde arrived at Ivy mein's House Ivy came out and told them Henry wasn't there but it be back the next morning Ivy advised them to swing by at 9:00 a.m. Bonnie and Clyde showed no sign of being suspicious they took off and we don't know where they spent the rest of the 22nd after they left Ivy methin got in his rickety old truck and drove into the nearby town of Arcadia where he informed Sheriff Jordan that Bonnie and Clyde would be returning to his place around 9:00 a.m. the following morning for people who like to keep their movements Ransom that sounds like exact sounds exactly like they just set a time to show up somewhere Jordan gave up tried to contact the feds and rang Frank Hammer who was staying with his posy at a hotel in treport Hammer G Alcon and Hinson got in the car and headed to Arcadia where they met up with Sheriff Jordan and his Deputy Apprentice Oakley they briefly discussed whether they should give Bonnie and clein a chance to surrender before they opened fire they decided it would be improper not to give them a chance to lay down their arms Hammer said that he would do the honors the men Al discussed how uneasy they were to fire on a woman but each of them even Ted Hinton who had once been infatuated with Bonnie oh yeah in the restaurants admitted that they could not discriminate by sex mely a second's hesitation might give Clyde an opportunity to speed away or cut one of them down then the men discussed how to get Clyde to slow down at the Ambush point they resolved to enlist Ivy methin and his truck Ivy would be at the Ambush site and pretend his truck had broken down Bonnie and Clyde would slow down to offer help it was then that the lman would spring their trap the six-man team composed osed of Texas Rangers hammer and G Dallas deputies Alcorn and Hinton and Bienville lman Jordan and Oakley arrived at the Ambush Point 2 a.m. on May the 23rd 1934 they left their cars further up the road and out of sight working by Moonlight the team brought their multiple guns into position at the Ambush point and started piling branches in front of their position to obscure their little Hunting Party from the road Dallas deputies alorn and Hinton bore the Browning automatic rifles hon also had a shotgun in reserve Sheriff Jordon went to Old School arming himself with a Winchester repeating rifle deuty Oakley and Texas Ranger Manny G both had Remington 35 caliber rifles and Frank Hammer had a heavy CT monitor machine rifle capable of piercing metal and a powerful Remington Model 11 shotgun capable of reducing human beings to pulp these dudes are heavily armed which honestly you need to be because so far it's been like people with revolvers facing off against these Browning automatic rifles which are devastating all of the officers carried handguns for use once they'd empty the rounds from all the heavy artillery Bob alorn was given a pair of binoculars and designed to the task of confirming it was Bonnie and Clyde in the car before the laurman started shooting with that the Lawman hunkered down for the night by the side of the road being eaten alive by mosquitoes and observing venomous snakes slithering nearby that sounds miserable at Dawn Ivy methin arrived with his truck the Lawman positioned the vehicle on the road removed the front tire and placed the truck on a Jack to suggest that Ivy had blown a wheel with the truck positions on the narrow road it would be impossible for client to pass it at high speed it'd have to at least slowed down to a crawl at the Ambush site the Lawman instructed Ivy that when they spotted Bonnie and Clyde making their way up the road he was to go out and stand by his truck and wave for them to stop Ivy complained loudly and at length that this would get him killed Sheriff Jordan growls if you don't shut your mouth Barrow and get a chance to kill you cuz I'll have done it for him at 9:15 a.m. the posy heard a car approaching it was a Ford V8 Cordoba gray alorn looked through his binoculars and confirmed it contained Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow Ivy methin took his position on the road as the V8 approached the Ambush position a logging truck appeared at the opposite direction the logging truck slowed and pulled over to the side of the road giving Clyde a path to move around Ivy meth's truck and continue along to mein's House of course Clyde had no intention of just leaving Ivy stranded on the road and he slowed down to a stop in order to lend a hand what followed occurred over the course of just 16 seconds Frank Hammer was about to stand up and tell Bonnie and Clyde to surrender when benville Deputy prce Oakley lost his nerve stood up aimed his Remington rifle at Clyde Barrow and fired the bullet entered through Clyde's left temple and exited through the right killing him instantly oh no his left foot fell off the brake pedal and the car began to Lurch slowly towards a ditch a few yards up on the road 2 seconds after the first shot had been fired Hammer G alorn Hinton and Jordan all stood up and unloaded on the car Ivy hit the dirt and laid flat the first thing they heard was Bonnie Parker scream a sound that all six lmen claimed H in them for years afterward would in reality they needed to poured bullets into the car Clyde was already dead Bonnie would likely have surrendered or at least would have been too upset to Clyde's sudden death to immediately grab a weapon but during those few critical seconds the Lawman could not be certain that Clyde was dead all they knew was that Clyde bar managed to shoot his way out of every single engagement with police with numerous officers being killed thus Bonnie Parker had to die yeah fair enough like that every time he'd been encountered it was like he'd have just loads of guns and it end up killing a bunch of cops and so fair play fair play a downpour of machine gun rifle and shotgun bullets hit the car in total about 130 rounds were fired as the car slowly drifted past once it had done so Frank Hammer left nothing to chance he hafted his powerful cult monitor rifle walked up to the car and fired an Arma piercing shot into Bonnie through the righte window and then walked around to the front of the car as it came to arrest in a ditch and fired three more shots into Bonnie through the through the front windshield Clyde Barrow had been shot 17 times including several shots to his head that fragmented his skull and shots that severed his spine or cord he's most definitely dead Bonnie Parker had been shot 26 times in her hand she clutched not a gun but a napkin WRA sandwich that she purchased that morning at a local cafe Deputy Ted Hinson summed up the shooting by saying quote when all was said and done there w't nothing but a bunch of wet Rags Arcadian hyenas in the immediate after after ma of the shooting Ivy methin got up started putting the wheel on his truck and grumbled about how he just wanted to go home three passengers in the logging truck approached the scene to look at what had happened Deputy Ted Hinton took out a 16mm movie camera and filmed the bullet riddled Ford V8 Gunsmoke was still in the air when he started filming you could view the footage online neither Bonnie nor Clyde had a gun in the front seat with them their Arsenal was in the back seat under some blankets you can make the argument that had Oakley not lost his nerve and Tammer had a chance to tell them to surrender maybe both Bonnie and Clyde would have been captured H I don't think so they always they'd always fight their way out of things this is unlikely though since Clyde had no intention of being taken alive he would likely have reached for a gun in the back seat or attempted to speed away and the Lawman would have opened up on the car anyway killing Bonnie in the process in short there really wasn't a realistic scenario where one or both of them got out alive it was an utterly stupid juvenile waste of life but as the kids say pars and you find out yes indeed the bossy then started dividing up Bonnie and Clyde's possessions as have been previously agreed with prison manager Lee Simmons Frank Hammer took Clyde's arsenal of guns in his fishing tackle box Bob Alcon took Clyde's saxophone Sheriff Jordan allegedly took a suitcase full of cash that was in the car without diving it up with the other Lawman and soon after bought a property in nearby Arcadia the past was like yeah you catch them Spoils of War boys the other lawmen each took a share of the clothing really Bonnie's makeup really road maps and a handful of True Crime magazines that were in the car guys why are you taking their junky just got a suitcase full of money Hammer Hinson Jordan Oakley drove to a gas station to use the phone and Report what had happened hammer called Lee Simmons and simply said well we got them then Hammer covered for oakle saying they died with guns in their hands meanwhile Bob alorn and Manny G had been left guarding the Ford and Bonnie and Clyde's corpses people in the area had heard the gunfire and came to have a look word spread like wildfire that Bonnie and Clyde were dead soon the Ambush site was flooded by dozens of people Manny and G and trouble controlling the crowd people tried to dig the bullet that had missed the car out of nearby tree trunks one man leaned into the car and tried to cut off one of Clyde's ears another tried to cut off his trigger finger another got a lock of Bonnie's Hair and tore scraps off her dress Jesus what was this this section was called hyenas now I know why Jesus guys a tow truck came and D dragged the car away with Bonnie and Clyde's body still inside covered with a sheet toward the town of Arcadia along the way the tow truck BR broke down in front of a primary school the kitties came bounding out and surrounded the car and one them tore the sheet off Bonnie and Clyde horrifying most of the other children with a gruesome sight Jesus Christ that's seriously unfortunate by the time the tow Tru pulled into Arcadia which usually had a population of 3,000 there were 16,000 people lining the roads to look at the Ford V8 and the corpses of Bonnie and Clyde it was slow going down Main Street toward the coroner's office and the Norman once again said they had trouble keeping people away from the car with multiple onlookers trying to climb inside the vehicle one of them was surprised that the vicious Clyde Barrow was 5'6 and 125 pound exclaiming he's nothing but an itty bitty little fart yeah oh I forgot he was so tiny the coroner in Arcadia did an autopsy on Bonnie and c I wonder why they died from bullets yes and Louisiana Undertaker Dillard Darby who' been taken hostage by the Barrow gang in 1933 assisted with the embalming at the time of his kidnapping Bonnie had joked that Darby might work in her someday and it turns out she was right so they really bother in bombing people like this I mean not I guess is anyone going to pay for their funer they got family right I guess you have to have like some dignity for the dead but I don't know just don't they normally like I don't I feel like people should just they should just be burned you know just cremate them and then just put the Ashes In A Box just throw them out just remember the pend Dees number one Henry Barrow Clyde's father and Buster Parker Bonnie's brother arrived in Arcadia late that evening to pick up the bodies they were going to be transported separately Emma Parker who had fainted upon hearing the news her daughter was dead insisted that Bonnie and Clyde could not be buried together she hated Clyde Barrow for the Fate that befell her daughter oh you she had as much she was in this she was into this it's not she was some unknowing accomplice she was super into this on May the 25th an estimated 16,000 people turned out for Clyde's funeral one man offered Henry Barrow $10,000 for his son's body or $230,000 in modern money on May the 26 20,000 people turned out for Bonnie Parker's funeral within two days the Dallas daily sold half a million copies of their newspaper detailing Bonnie and Clyde's deaths number two various federal state and county law organizations along with many banks and local businesses had offered a total of $26,000 for the killing or capture of Bonnie and Clyde split six ways this would have been $433 each or $100,000 in modern money most of these organizations didn't come through with what they offered in the end the hammer posi walked away with $200 each or $4,600 today that's not quite the 100 Grand they were promised was it Hammer so Bonnie and Clyde's arsenal of guns from undisclosed but presumably large profit ignoring the requests of the Barrow and park families to return the guns so they could use the money for themselves they stolen guns they should be returned to the Armory meanwhile Bob alorn felt guilty and gave over Clyde saxophone to the Barrow family it was later sold I would not feel guilty at all i' just be like I'm keeping that saxophone and it's uh I'm just going to sell it on eBay or whatever like 1930s eBay is the Cordoba gray Ford V8 sat in an impound lot in Arcadia Sheriff Jordan wanted to sell it the car had been stolen into Peak Kansas the car's owner Ruth Warren demanded to have it back Jordan told her she could have it for 15,000 bucks or $345,000 in modern money um how about it's hering car Ruth took him to court and won her car back she headed down to Arcadia and despite the fact that it had 130 bullet holes in it the engine still ran perfectly fine wow Henry Ford does make some Fine Cars Warren drove the car still filled with blood stains and various bits of human Grizzle oh Grim 51 Mi or 82 km does dri bought where she had it shipped up to Topeka one of the weird like um YouTube genres that I sometimes watch is people who restore cars like they'll go to a junkyard not to a junkyard but like a what's it called where the insurance companies dump the cars that they sell them for a little money and on some of them they have like biohazard warning signs like after a crash and it's like oh Grim because there's like blood in there and stuff from whatever car accident was going on not nice she rented it out to Charles Stanley the crime Doctor Who took it all around the country to attract people and listen to his anti- crime lectures the death car was later sold to a tour group and it was taken all over North America for the next few decades as a carnival attraction my dad saw it as a kid in Canada in the 1960s then the car was sold to a casino in Prim Nevada where it remains on display to this very day um Ruth Warren did very well to take them to court to get that car back because I bet she made a bundle out of this speaking of Charles Stanley the crime doctor he once put on a lecture in Austin Texas where Frank Hammer lived during the show FR hammer and Manny gold came on stage Hammer shouted the crowd I'm Frank hammer and then slapped the crime doctor across the face and told him never to do his show ever again Stanley did not comply holy number five for his cooperation with law enforcement Henry methin received a Texas governor's pardon for the attempted murder in Texas in 1930 and was not charged with the murder of wheeler and Murphy n Grapevine on April the 1st 1934 though he should have been of course he should have been what the but he was arrested and convicted on the murder of can conable C Campbell near Commerce Oklahoma on the 6th of April that year and sentenced to death ah they got him anyway didn't they at appeal where Hammer came and spoke on his behalf methvin sentence was commuted to life in prison but even then he was paralled after serving only eight years methvin you made out of the situation like a bandit who was your lawyer in 1948 he got drunk passed out on a railway track and got cut in half by a train me I think I'd rather be put in the electric chair number six as for the other Barrow gang members Joe Palmer was arrested on the 15th of June 1934 he was sent to eastm where he joined Ray Hamilton on July the 22nd they escaped Palmer was R captioned in August Hamilton the following April they were both sent to the electric chair on May the 10th 1935 whoa that's for escaping prison damn William Jones was paroled from his 15year sentence in 1939 he became a drunk and drug addict in later life in 1974 he picked up a woman at a bar took her home only to get shot and killed by her jealous boyfriend Ralph folz was pardoned from his sentence for kidnapping and armed robbery in 1935 only to wind up backing jail with a 50-year sentence for robbery again being paroled in 1944 people in the past got there was a lot of Pardons and a lot of very short jail sentences of very serious crimes just a comment there 50-year sentence right robbery in 1934 he was let out 9 years later of a 50-year sentence what changed in America because now it's like life without parole baby let's go he became a born again Chris worked a series of legitimate jobs became a public speaker about the evils of a life of crime and died in 1993 I take it back this guy made good Kumi Barrow and Emma Parker both got a month in prison for harboring fugitives Bonnie's sister Billy Jean got a year in prison arguing against her being a rat Clyde's sister Marie got an hour in jail okay bizarrely or not so bizarrely Clyde's dad Henry Barrow was never charged yeah cuz he was pretty helpful in the end right in the the the shooting number eight in the Autumn of 1934 ma Ferguson lost her bid for re-election as Texas governor shortly thereafter the Texas Rangers we reconstituted and remain an organization for elite law enforcement to this day in order to be a Texas Ranger you have to have at least 8 years experience in law enforcement many commendations and the waiting list to be selected for one of the few available positions is about a mile long Frank Hammer briefly rejoined the Texas Rangers to provide security during the 1948 election and his colleague Manny gri joined in 1937 and worked on the job for 10 years until his death 10 years later Hammer lived until 1955 when he died at the age of 71 old west bullets still inside him because you don't with the Texas Rangers number nine there have been two mainstream Hollywood depictions of Bonnie and Clyde there have been a couple of lowbudget Television miniseries that never really made it on the radar the 1967 film Bonnie and Clyde starring Warren Betty and Fay dunway is historically inaccurate to the extreme the motivation for the movie seems to be showing a rather attractive dway near nude as much as possible and and having her used various inanimate objects as symbolic penises to which she is giving fellatio spicy for the 1960s the film depicts Bonnie and Clyde meeting two years later than they did their Crim spree Bears little resemblance to reality at all Ivan and blanche's story is bastardized and they made Clyde Barrow impotent for some reason Frank Hammer is portrayed as an incompetent buffoon so much so that Hammer's family sued for defamation in 1971 and gotten out of court settlements the movie Finding Nemo is a more accurate depiction of the story of Bonnie and Clyde than the best I just saw Bonnie and uh Bonnie and CDE I just saw findy Nemo with my kids the other day I'd never seen it before or I mean I'd seen it when I was young I think because it was familiar but um yeah long time since I've been seen Finding Nemo unfortunately this is the primary way most of the public embi their knowledge of Bonnie and Clyde and it's all wrong horribly horribly wrong yeah I don't know why Bonnie and Clyde are romanticized cuz they seem like total pieces of the other mainstream Hollywood production is 2019 Highwaymen yes that far apart which barely shows Bonnie and Clyde and focuses on Frank Hammer played by Kevin Cosner hunting down and ambushing the Outlaws the role of Frank hammer and Manny gold played by Woody harlson in the killing of Bonnie and Clyde is made to look far more heroic than it actually was with a chase scene that never happens and Hammer in the film actually managing to say halt to Bonnie and Clyde before the laurman opened fire moreover Bonnie and Clyde are depicted as more villainous than they really were Bonnie Parker is depicted shooting a man in Cold Blood not once but twice when it's doubtful she even did it once Bonnie was a drunk and a narcissist she wasn't a cold blooded killer she was an idiot but Highwayman increases the villain aspect by taking McNab the man who Joe Palmer tracked down and killed for tormenting him in prison rewriting him as a little wimp who failed to escape East during the jailbreak who's re released to be a rat only to get his head bashed in with a baseball bat by Clyde so basically they take it seems they take the names Bonnie and Clyde who are outlaws and then make up an entirely different story around it bottom line no movie or television miniseries has ever really done the story Justice where the Bonnie Parker stomping out of a jopling garage in a nighty blasting away at three cops with a Browning automatic Netflix or Amazon I'm waiting for your phone call we'll shoot it like a tartino film it'll be great yeah it would be nice to see like an act actual somewhat historically because it's a fascinating story it should they should do it just more more realistically maybe there's a reason they don't maybe it's just none of the characters are likable enough number 11 final points final points in a very very long episode epod David large parts of this episode regarding Hammer would not have been possible without Josh at the YouTube channel Wild West Extravaganza I don't give History Channels are plugged very often but Wild West Extravaganza is worth it I listen to him when I'm hung over which if you're a writer you know is the king of compliments it is a 28k sub Channel which deserves far more love Josh is by far the best Wild West History Channel on YouTube that crass piece of would never admit it but his methods as a historian and Communicator of knowledge a top class and I'm one of the best trained historians in the world I know what I'm talking about all right go check out Wild West Extravaganza 28k Subs how did you even Discover it David I mean fantastic let's get him some more subs and thank you everybody for being here for this absolutely epic episode you want to know a secret I recorded this over three days because it was so long you might have noticed I don't different t-shirts but they're all kind of the same different coffee cups and such things it was a it was a it was a marathon thanks for being here if you uh enjoy the show if you enjoy these long ones uh please give it a rating on Spotify 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Length: 200min 4sec (12004 seconds)

Published: Tue Mar 19 2024