Bonnie and Clyde Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow are among some of the most well-known American criminals. The love-filled criminal careers of Bonnie and Clyde enthralled the country until their fatal end on May 23, 1934. Even though they only knew each other for four years, they seems very devoted to each other. But until their initial meeting, they each had their own family hardships to deal with. Born to a brick mason named Charles and Emma, a housewife, on October 1, 1910, Bonnie Parker was the middle child of her family. Besides participating in church activities, her family mostly kept to themselves. When Bonnie was five years old, her father passed away and her family felt the strain of his absence. The Parkers moved to Dallas, …show more content…
Bonnie followed so she could be close to Clyde and visit him during this time. On one of these visits, Clyde revealed to her that he and his cell mate, William Turner, were devising an escape plan. She was to retrieve a gun from Turner's parent's house and take it back to Clyde. Bonnie was somewhat reluctant to this plan because her only desire was for Clyde to be a law-abiding man but she agreed nonetheless, for the prospect of having Clyde free was greater than any risk. This was the first of many criminal acts for …show more content…
Yet again it was a botched robbery where all four had to separate to try to escape. Bonnie was captured and stayed in jail waiting for the grand jury to meet. Here she wrote her poem "Suicide Sal", that became 'famous' in later years. Though Bonnie was in jail, it did not stop Clyde from continuing his criminal ways. He worked alongside Raymond Hamilton and Frank Clause. The three men planned to rob a store, but ended up committing a far worse crime: murder. A nervous Hamilton pulled the trigger and killed the store owner in front of the owner's wife; this was the first murder that Clyde was directly involved with. Once Bonnie and Clyde were together they continued to add to their criminal list of burglary, robbery, murder, and kidnapping. Despite being two of the country's most wanted criminals, they would return home every so often to see their families. They were eventually joined by Clyde’s brother Buck and his wife Blanche. Police tried to ambush the gang in a shootout, but failed to capture the famous pair. They did however capture Blanche Barrow and injure her husband Buck. Still, their luck was running out because a year later, everything would turn around for them in the worst possible