One of America's most infamous couples: Bonnie and Clyde lived an exciting life of crime of the outlaws from the Gangster Era. The two collectively executed numerous murders (13), bold thefts and defied the authorities of their time. As a team they escaped from prison and were the prime suspects in various crimes. Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker are now the model of organized crime in the United States and the selling of illegal narcotics. In 1930, the couple met for the first time in Texas. At the time, Bonnie was only nineteen years old and married to an imprisoned murderer while Clyde was single and twenty-one years old. Shortly after their encounter, Clyde was arrested for a robbery and sent to jail. Only later did he escape with the help …show more content…
One of these prisoners was Raymond Hamilton, an earlier member of the Barrow Gang and who was serving sentences that totaled to more than two hundred years. The [now] armed escapees fled the scene shooting two guards with automatic pistols. As they ran, Barrow defended the group with bursts of bullets from his machine gun. Another member of these fugitives was Louisiana's Henry Methvin who was a Depression-era outlaw and criminal. The FBI played the major role in putting an end to Bonnie and Clyde's criminality. On April 13, 1934, the FBI obtained definite knowledge of the iniquitous couple's whereabouts in the remote southwest of Rushton, Louisiana. Special agents of the FBI learned of Clyde's connection with Henry Methvin and discovered that the home of the Methvins was nearby. The local law enforcement of Ruston along with the FBI worked together on forming a plan of action to apprehend the two. Information came that Bonnie, Clyde, and some of the Methvins were having a party on May 21, at Black Lake, Louisiana and were planning on returning to the area in two days. Early in the morning on May 23, 1934, local police officials along with a select few FBI agents concealed themselves in the bushes alongside the highway that they anticipated would be used by Bonnie and