On this Day in History… May 23rd: Bonnie and Clyde - Prof. Boerner's Explorations Prof. Boerner's Explorations by Gerald Boerner Today’s historical event is offered more as a disincentive rather than as a model. Stories glamorizing the gangster groups that ran wild during 20s and 30s, like Bonnie and Clyde, abound. They make great stories for movies. They offer opportunities to compare their exploits with legendary characters like Robin Hood. But these gangsters were at best “bad people” and at worst sociopaths. During the Prohibition and Great Depression of the early 20th century, these opportunists made the best of the trade in illegal alcohol, prostitution, gambling, and bank robbery. In many cases, as with Bonnie and Clyde, this also included the murder of innocent people and attacks against the institutions of our city, state, and federal governments. Our examination of Bonnie and Clyde today is not intended to glamorize them, but to present the essential facts about their lives, behaviors, and misdeeds. The consequences of their actions resulted in their brutal murders by authorities; they did not get to abuse our court system to avoid or delay justice.

That is not to say that the people, police, state, or whomever should take the law into their own hands, but it does reflect upon the consequences of breaking the law. GLB “Americans accept that gangsters are running the government.” — Tim Robbins “I decided that if the police couldn’t catch the gangsters, I’d create a fellow who could.” — Chester Gould “The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.” — Stanley Kubrick “Westerns was why I got into the business. I grew up on a small farm in California and all I ever wanted to do was to play gangsters and cowboys in movies.” — Brion James “My strangest media moment a photo session they all had dressed up like 50 gangsters. That was pretty cool.

We have to get some more of those kind of photos sometimes.” — Kerry King “George Raft may or may not have gone both ways, but he was very sensitive to what they said about him, and it was one factor why he decided to play all those gangsters in the movies.” — Cesar Romero “And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. History has proven that.” — Lord Acton “We got into all the trouble you could ever imagine. We figured that if the Jones boys and all the gangsters ran Chicago, we had our own territory now. All the stores, all the crime, we were in charge of everything, my stepbrother and my brother.” — Quincy Jones Bonnie and Clyde Bonnie Parker (1910 – 1934) and Clyde Barrow (1909 – 1934) were well known outlaws, robbers and criminals who, with their gang, traveled the Central United States during the Great Depression. Their exploits captured the attention of the American public during what is sometimes referred to as the "public enemy era" between 1931 and 1934.

Though known today for his dozen-or-so bank robberies, Barrow in fact preferred to rob small stores or rural gas stations. The gang is believed to have killed at least nine police officers and committed several civilian murders. They were eventually ambushed and killed in Louisiana by law officers. Their reputation was cemented in American pop folklore by Arthur Penn’s 1967 film Bonnie and Clyde. Believed at the time to be a full participant in the gang’s crimes, Parker’s role has since been a source of controversy. While gang members W. D. Jones and Ralph Fults said they never saw her fire a gun and described her role as logistical, Jones also told investigators that she had fired a pistol at officers "two or three times" when he was deposed under arrest in 1933. By 1968, his recollection was that "during the five big gun battles I was with them, she never fired a gun. But I’ll say she was a hell of a loader." Youngest Barrow sister Marie made the same claim: "Bonnie never fired a shot.

She just followed my brother no matter where he went." Parker’s reputation as a cigar-smoking gun moll grew out of a gag snapshot found by police abandoned at a hideout, released to the press, and published in newspapers, magazines and newsreels nationwide; while she did chain-smoke Camel cigarettes, she was not a cigar smoker. Author Jeff Guinn, in his 2009 book Go Down Together: The True, Untold Story of Bonnie and Clyde, explains that it was these very photos that put the outlaws on the media map and launched their legend: "John Dillinger had matinee-idol good looks and Pretty Boy Floyd had the best possible nickname, but the Joplin photos introduced new criminal superstars with the most titillating trademark of all — illicit sex. Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker were young and unmarried. They undoubtedly slept together—after all, the girl smoked cigars…. Without Bonnie, the media outside Texas might have dismissed Clyde as a gun-toting punk, if it ever considered him at all.

With her sassy photographs, Bonnie supplied the sex-appeal, the oomph, that allowed the two of them to transcend the small-scale thefts and needless killings that actually comprised their criminal careers." 1932: Early jobs, early murders Instant Legend: Bonnie clowns with cigar and is branded forever as "cigar smoking gun moll" after cops find Joplin film After Barrow was released from prison in February 1932, he and Ralph Fults assembled a rotating core group of associates and began a series of small robberies, primarily of stores and gas stations; their goal was to collect enough money and firepower to launch a raid of liberation against Eastham prison. On April 19, Bonnie Parker and Fults were captured in a failed hardware store burglary in Kaufman, Texas, and subsequently jailed. On April 30, Barrow was the wheelman in a robbery in Hillsboro, Texas, during which the store’s owner, J. N. Bucher, was shot and killed. When shown mugshots, the victim’s wife identified Barrow as one of the shooters, even though he had stayed outside in the car; it was his first murder accusation.

Meanwhile, Parker remained in jail until June 17, writing poetry to while away the time. When the Kaufman County grand jury convened, it declined to indict her, and she was released. Within a few weeks, she reunited with Barrow. On August 5, while Parker was visiting her mother in Dallas, Barrow, Hamilton and Ross Dyer were drinking alcohol at a country dance in Stringtown, Oklahoma, an act then illegal under Prohibition. When Sheriff C.G. Maxwell and his deputy, Eugene C. Moore, approached them in the parking lot, Barrow and Hamilton opened fire, killing the deputy and gravely wounding the sheriff; it was the first killing of a lawman by Barrow and his gang, a total eventually amounting to nine officers killed. Another civilian was added to the list on October 11, when storekeeper Howard Hall was killed during a robbery of his store in Sherman, Texas. The take: twenty-eight dollars and some groceries. W. D.

Jones had been a friend of the Barrow family since childhood, and though he was only 16 years old on Christmas Eve 1932, he persuaded Barrow to let him join up with the pair and ride out of Dallas with them that night. The very next day, Jones was initiated into homicide when he and Barrow killed Doyle Johnson, a young family man, in the process of stealing his car in Temple, Texas. Less than two weeks later, on January 6, 1933, Barrow killed Tarrant County Deputy Sheriff Malcolm Davis when he, Parker and Jones wandered into a police trap set for another criminal. The total murdered by the gang since April was now five. Platte City and Dexfield Park Two-unit Red Crown Tourist Court, where outlaws’ conspicuous behavior drew the police, a gunfight, and a mortal head wound for Buck Barrow. On July 18, 1933, the gang checked into the Red Crown Tourist Court south of Platte City, Missouri (now within the city limits of Kansas City, Missouri across I-29 from Kansas City International Airport). The Red Crown Court was just two brick cabins joined by garages and the gang rented both.

To the south stood the Red Crown Tavern, a popular restaurant and a favorite watering hole for Missouri Highway Patrolmen. Once again, the gang seemed to go out of their way to draw attention to themselves: owner Neal Houser became interested in the group immediately when Blanche Barrow registered the party as three guests, and Houser, out his rear window, could see five people exiting their car—which the driver backed into the garage, "gangster style," for a quick getaway. Blanche paid the lodging tab with coins rather than paper money, and did the same thing again later when she purchased five dinners and five beers for, presumably, three guests. The next day, Houser noticed that his guests had taped newspapers over the windows of their cabin, and Blanche once again paid in silver for five meals. Even Blanche’s outfit—saucy, tight jodhpurs riding breeches—attracted undue attention: they were just not the kind of thing the upright women of Platte City would ever wear, and were the first thing mentioned by eyewitnesses reminiscing even forty years later. It was all too much for Houser, who brought the conspicuous group to the attention of his restaurant patron, Captain William Baxter of the Highway Patrol.

When Clyde and Jones went into town to purchase bandages, crackers, cheese, and atropine sulfate to treat Bonnie’s leg, the druggist contacted Sheriff Holt Coffey, who put the cabins under watch. Coffey had been alerted by Oklahoma, Texas, and Arkansas to be on the lookout for strangers seeking such supplies. The sheriff contacted Captain Baxter, who called for reinforcements from Kansas City including an armored car. At 11 p.m. that night, Sheriff Coffey led a group of officers armed with Thompson submachine guns toward the cabins. But in a pitched gunfight at considerable distances, the submachine guns proved no match for Clyde Barrow’s preferred Browning Automatic Rifles, stolen July 7 from the National Guard armory at Enid, Oklahoma. The Barrows laid down withering fire and made their escape when a bullet short-circuited the horn on the armored car and the lawmen mistook it for a cease-fire signal. They did not pursue the retreating Barrow automobile.

With husband Buck dying nearby, Blanche Barrow is captured by posse at Dexfield Park, IA Although the gang evaded law enforcement once again, Buck Barrow had sustained a horrific wound in the side of the head and Blanche Barrow was nearly blinded from glass fragments in both her eyes. Their prospects for holding out against the ensuing manhunt dwindled. Five days later, on July 24, the Barrow Gang was camped at Dexfield Park, an abandoned amusement park near Dexter, Iowa. So plainly mortal was Buck’s head wound that Clyde and Jones dug a grave for him. After their bloody bandages were noticed by local citizens, it was determined that the campers were the Barrow gang. Surrounded by local lawmen and approximately one hundred spectators, the Barrows once again found themselves under fire. Clyde Barrow, Parker, and W.D. Jones escaped on foot. Buck was shot again, in the back, and he and his wife were captured by the officers. Buck died five days later, at Kings Daughters Hospital in Perry, Iowa, of pneumonia after surgery.

For the next six weeks, the remaining trio ranged far afield of their usual area of operations—west to Colorado, north to Minnesota, southeast to Mississippi—keeping a low profile and pulling only small robberies for daily-bread money. They restocked their arsenal when Barrow and Jones burglarized an armory at Plattville, Illinois on August 20 and scored three BARs, handguns and lots of ammunition. By early September, they risked a run back in to Dallas to see their families for the first time in four months, and Jones parted company with them, continuing on to Houston, where his mother had moved. Through the autumn, Barrow executed a series of small-time robberies with a series of small-time local accomplices while his family, and Parker’s, attended to her considerable medical needs. On November 22, 1933, they again narrowly evaded arrest—but not bullets—while attempting to hook up with family members near Sowers, Texas. This time, it was their hometown Sheriff, Dallas’s Smoot Schmid and his squad, lying in wait nearby.

As Barrow drove up, he sensed a trap and drove right past his family’s car, at which point Schmid and his deputies stood up and opened fire with machine guns and a BAR. The family members in the crossfire were not hit, but not so the outlaws: a single BAR slug penetrated the car—and the legs of both Parker and Barrow. The couple made their getaway that night, but the attempted ambush would prove to be a dry run for deputies Ted Hinton and Bob Alcorn, who would get another shot at the pair six months hence in Louisiana. Bonnie Parker crossed an ominous personal threshold the following week when on November 28, a Dallas grand jury delivered a murder indictment on her and Barrow for the January 1933 killing of Tarrant County Deputy Malcolm Davis; it was the first murder warrant issued for Parker. Final Run On January 16, 1934, Barrow finally made his long-contemplated move against the Texas Department of Corrections as he orchestrated the escape of Raymond Hamilton, Henry Methvin and several others in the infamous "Eastham Breakout" of 1934.

The Texas prison system received national negative publicity from the brazen raid, and Barrow appeared to have achieved what Phillips describes as the burning passion in his life: exacting revenge on the Texas Department of Corrections. Former Texas Ranger Frank Hamer, the Barrow Gang’s relentless shadow after the embarrassing Eastham prison breakout. It was expensive revenge, though, for all concerned. During the jailbreak, escapee Joe Palmer shot prison officer Major Joe Crowson and this act would eventually bring the full power of the Texas and federal governments to bear on the manhunt for Barrow and Parker. As Crowson struggled for life, prison chief Lee Simmons reportedly promised him that all persons involved in the breakout would be hunted down and killed, and all were, except for Henry Methvin, whose life would eventually be exchanged for turning Barrow and Parker over to authorities. The Texas Department of Corrections then contacted former Texas Ranger Captain Frank A. Hamer, and persuaded him to accept an assignment to hunt down the Barrow Gang. Though retired, Hamer had retained his commission, which had not yet expired.

He accepted the assignment as a Texas Highway Patrol officer, secondarily assigned to the prison system as a special investigator, and given the specific task of hunting down Bonnie, Clyde and the Barrow Gang. Frank Hamer was that rara avis, a true legend in his own time. Tall, burly, cryptic and taciturn, unimpressed by authority, driven by an "inflexible adherence to right, or what he thinks is right," for twenty years Hamer had been feared and admired throughout the Lone Star State as "the walking embodiment of the ‘One Riot, One Ranger’ ethos." In accomplishing the aims of Texas law enforcement he "had acquired a formidable reputation as a result of several spectacular captures and the shooting of a number of Texas criminals." He was officially credited with fifty-three kills (and seventeen wounds to himself). Although prison boss Simmons always said publicly that Hamer had been his first choice for the Barrow hunt, there’s evidence he approached two other Rangers first, both of whom had been queasy about shooting a woman and declined; Hamer apparently had no such qualms.

Starting February 10, he became the constant shadow of Barrow and Parker, living out of his car, just a town or two behind the bandits. Three of Hamer’s brothers were also Texas Rangers, and while brother Harrison was the best shot of the four, Frank was considered the most tenacious. On April 1, 1934, Easter Sunday, Barrow and Henry Methvin killed two young highway patrolmen, H. D. Murphy and Edward Bryant Wheeler, at Grapevine, Texas (now called Southlake).[ A contemporary eyewitness account stated that Barrow and Parker fired the fatal shots and this story got widespread coverage in the press before it was discredited. Henry Methvin later admitted he fired the first shot, after assuming Barrow wanted the officers killed; he also admitted that Parker approached the dying officers intending to help them, not to administer the cold-blooded point-blank coup de grâce the discredited eyewitness had described. Having little choice once Methvin had shot Wheeler, Barrow then joined in, firing at Patrolman Murphy. Most likely, Parker was asleep in the back seat when Methvin started shooting and took no part in the assault.

Expensive pickup: Henry Methvin joins the gang after the Eastham breakout; he and his father, Ivy, ultimately prove its undoing. But in the spring of 1934, the reality of the Grapevine killings was far less important than the perception of them. All four Dallas daily papers seized on the story told by the eyewitness, a farmer, who claimed to have seen Parker throw her head back and laugh at the way Patrolman Murphy’s head "bounced like a rubber ball" on the ground as she pumped bullets into his prone body. The stories even claimed that police found a cigar butt "with tiny teeth marks" that could only be attributed to the diminutive Parker. Things got worse several days later when Murphy’s intended bride walked into his funeral wearing her wedding gown and sparked another round of photo-supported coverage in the papers. The eyewitness’s ever-changing story was soon discredited, but not in time for Barrow and Parker: the massive negative publicity, against Parker in particular, accelerated the public clamor for the extermination of the remaining elements of the Barrow Gang. It was more than just bad press, though—the outcry galvanized the authorities into taking more concrete legal actions. Highway Patrol boss L.G.

Phares immediately offered a $1,000 reward for "the dead bodies of the Grapevine slayers"—not their capture, just the bodies. Texas governor Ma Ferguson was as outraged as the voting public, and she added another $500 reward for each of the two alleged killers, which "meant for the first time there was a specific price on Bonnie’s head, since she was so widely believed to have shot H.D. Murphy." Public hostility only increased when, just five days later, Barrow and Methvin killed 60 year-old Constable William "Cal" Campbell, a widower single father, near Commerce, Oklahoma. They kidnapped Commerce police chief Percy Boyd, drove around with him, crossing the state line into Kansas, and then let him out with a clean shirt, a few dollars and a request from Parker to tell the world she didn’t smoke cigars.

The outlaws didn’t realize at their upbeat parting that Boyd would identify both Barrow and Parker to authorities—he never learned the name of the sullen youth who was with them—and when the resultant arrest warrant was issued for the Campbell murder, it specified "Clyde Barrow, Bonnie Parker and John Doe." Historian Knight writes: "For the first time, Bonnie was seen as a killer, actually pulling the trigger—just like Clyde. Whatever chance she had for clemency had just been reduced." Death Bonnie and Clyde were killed on May 23, 1934, on a desolate road in Bienville Parish, Louisiana. The couple appeared in daylight in an automobile and were shot by a posse of four Texas officers and two Louisiana officers. Gibsland posse. Top: Hinton, Oakley, Gault; seated: Alcorn, Jordan and Hamer. The posse was led by Hamer, who had begun tracking the pair on February 10, 1934. He studied the gang’s movements and found they swung in a circle skirting the edges of five midwest states, exploiting the "state line" rule that prevented officers from one jurisdiction from pursuing a fugitive into another.

Barrow was a master of that pre-FBI rule, but he was consistent in his movements, so an experienced manhunter like Hamer could chart his path and predict where he would go. The gang’s itinerary centered on family visits, and they were due to see Henry Methvin’s family in Louisiana, which explained Hamer’s meeting with them over the course of the hunt. Hamer obtained a quantity of civilian Browning Automatic Rifles (manufactured by Colt as the "Monitor") and 20 round magazines with armor piercing rounds. The trail ended here on a desolate road, deep in the piney Louisiana woods. On May 21, 1934, the four posse members from Texas were in Shreveport, Louisiana, when they learned that Barrow and Parker were to go to Bienville Parish that evening with Methvin. Barrow had designated the residence of Methvin’s parents as a rendezvous in case they were later separated and indeed Methvin did get separated from the pair in Shreveport. The full posse, consisting of Captain Hamer, Dallas County Sheriff’s Deputies Bob Alcorn and Ted Hinton (both of whom knew Barrow and Parker by sight), former Texas Ranger B.M.

"Manny" Gault, Bienville Parish Sheriff Henderson Jordan, and his deputy Prentiss Oakley, set up an ambush at the rendezvous point along Louisiana State Highway 154 south of Gibsland toward Sailes. Hinton’s account has the group in place by 9:00 p.m. on the 21st and waiting through the whole next day (May 22) with no sign of the outlaw couple, but other accounts have them setting up on the evening of the 22nd. At approximately 9:15 a.m. on May 23, the posse, concealed in the bushes and almost ready to concede defeat, heard Barrow’s stolen Ford V8 approaching at a high rate of speed. The posse’s official report had Barrow stopping to speak with Henry Methvin’s father, planted there with his truck that morning to distract him and force him into the lane closer to the posse. The lawmen then opened fire, killing Barrow and Parker while shooting a combined total of approximately 130 rounds. All accounts of the ambush, including his own, agree that Oakley fired first, and probably before any order was given to do so.

Barrow was killed instantly by Oakley’s initial head shot, but Parker had a moment to reflect; Hinton reported hearing her scream as she realized Barrow was dead before the shooting at her began in earnest. The officers emptied the specially ordered automatic rifles, as well as other rifles, shotguns and pistols at the car, and any one of many wounds would have been fatal to either of the fugitives. According to statements made by Ted Hinton and Bob Alcorn: "Each of us six officers had a shotgun and an automatic rifle and pistols. We opened fire with the automatic rifles. They were emptied before the car got even with us. Then we used shotguns … There was smoke coming from the car, and it looked like it was on fire. After shooting the shotguns, we emptied the pistols at the car, which had passed us and ran into a ditch about 50 yards on down the road. It almost turned over. We kept shooting at the car even after it stopped. We weren’t taking any chances." Other Events on this Day: In 1785… Benjamin Franklin writes in a letter that he has just invented bifocal glasses.

In 1788… South Carolina becomes the eighth state to ratify the Constitution. In 1903… Horatio Nelson Jackson and Sewell Crocker leave San Francisco on the first automobile trip across the United States; they arrive in New York City 63 days later. In 1911… The New York Public Library is dedicated. In 1934… Clyde Barrow (1909 - 1934) - Find A Grave Memorial Bienville Parish Louisiana, USA Outlaw. Even though he lived on the edge of the law as a youngster, Clyde Chestnut Barrow's first crime was not until an auto theft in 1926 at the age of 17. Clyde, one of several sons of a poor East Texas sharecropper, had little formal education, but had learned "street smarts" from teenage gangs in the Dallas, Texas area. At a slim 5'7" frame with a face of an innocent baby, he was attractive to women. He met his partner in crime and romantic interest, Bonnie Parker, in 1930 while he was on a short parole from jail. They became inseparable.

By slipping him a handgun, Bonnie helped him and two other men in a 1932 jailbreak. During the next two years, the couple traveled in a stolen 1932 Ford V8 Sedan from Texas through New Mexico and Oklahoma, to Missouri, Iowa, Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, and Indiana robbing every type of business from banks, hardware stores to gas stations. Along the way, they killed twelve people including nine law enforcement officers in three different states. Kidnapping a man and woman in Louisiana along with stealing another Ford getaway car and transporting it across state lines brought the Federal Bureau of Investigation into the picture. Clyde would just spray a burst of gunfire from his machine gun killing in cold blood without much conscience. During their tour, they were captured by law enforcement at least twice, but escaped each time and continued on the way with their criminal activities. Clyde had several aliases: Roy Bailey, Carl Beaty, J.A. Callahan, Jack Halle, Robert Thomas, Eldin Williams, Elvin Williams.

After being released from a Texas penitentiary, Clyde's older brother Buck and his wife Blanche ganged with the two in their crimes before Buck was killed and Blanche captured by law enforcement. It was on a farm at daybreak in Bienville Parish, Louisiana that couple met their deaths. Bonnie and Clyde were shot and killed in a trap by Texas Rangers and FBI agents in a furry of gunfire. A viewing of their bodies was held in Dallas before they were buried each separate cemeteries. The couple carried a Kodak box camera with them capturing many black and white photos of the them posing in front of a Ford automobile with machine guns in-hand. (bio by: Linda Davis) Great loves throughout history - San Antonio Express-News Great loves throughout history See which couples, both on-screen and in real life, up the romantic ante. By Andrea Waguespack Close Image 1 of 16 | Marilyn Monroe and Joe DiMaggio It doesn't get more American than this union: a blond bombshell actress and a beloved baseball player.

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We all know Marie Antoinette as the queen who got her head chopped off, but it didn't have to be that way. Count Ferson allegedly was instrumental in trying to rescue his former lover, her husband (the king) and their children from sure death. He even drove the getaway carriage, but the group was captured. The rest, as they say, is history. Pictured above is Jamie Dornan and Kirsten Dunst, who portrayed the couple in the 2006 film "Marie Antoinette." If you thought we were going to list her husband Louis XVI of France as Marie Antoinette's love match, then get ready for a history lesson. Marie Antoinette was known to have carried on with Count Ferson, a ... more Photo: Ho If you thought we were going to list her husband Louis XVI of... Photo-2505285.79091 - San Antonio Express-News Image 11 of 16 | Scarlett O'Hara and Rhett Butler This couple from 'Gone with the Wind' was just too passionate for their own good. They loved each other; they hated each other.

In the end, though, Rhett just didn't "give a damn" anymore. This couple from 'Gone with the Wind' was just too passionate for their own good. They loved each other; they hated each other. In the end, though, Rhett just didn't "give a damn" anymore. This couple from 'Gone with the Wind' was just too... Photo-4188445.79091 - San Antonio Express-News Image 12 of 16 | Sir Lancelot and Queen Guinevere Talk about a royal mess. The brave knight fell in love with King Arthur's wife, Guinevere. As legend goes, they tried to keep their love a secret, but alas, their affair came to light. Eventually, Guinevere was sentenced to be burned to death for the affair. In an attempt to save her, Lancelot killed several of King Arthur's guards. The move sort of worked: Guinevere ended up a nun, while Lancelot finished out his days as a hermit. Talk about a royal mess. The brave knight fell in love with King Arthur's wife, Guinevere.

As legend goes, they tried to keep their love a secret, but alas, their affair came to light. Eventually, Guinevere was ... more Photo: Time Life Pictures Talk about a royal mess. The brave knight fell in love with King... Photo-5822868.79091 - San Antonio Express-News Image 13 of 16 | Juan and Eva Peron Argentina's President Juan Peron and his wife Maria Eva Duarte de Peron, known as Evita, were that country's power couple. While he rose through the government ranks, she became beloved by the public / hated by the upper class for her work with the poor. Sadly, this union would be short-lived. Evita died of cancer in 1952 at the age of 33. India's Taj Mahal was built by the grief-striken Mughal... Photo-2065394.79091 - San Antonio Express-News Image 15 of 16 | Cleopatra and Mark Antony A love that has been depicted in both film and in the written word. She, the reigning queen of the ancient world. He, a Roman general.

Aside from the mushy love stuff, both had something to gain through the union in terms of political power . When Cleopatra and Mark Anthony were defeated in battle by Octavian, Mark Anthony did what was customary: he committed suicide by falling on his sword. Not long afterwards, Cleopatra also committed suicide, possibly with the help of a poisonous snake. A love that has been depicted in both film and in the written word. She, the reigning queen of the ancient world. He, a Roman general. Aside from the mushy love stuff, both had something to gain through the ... more Photo: Hulton Archive, Getty Images A love that has been depicted in both film and in the written word.... Photo-5494347.79091 - San Antonio Express-News Image 16 of 16 Outbrain AR 6 Item-38489.79091 - San Antonio Express-News Great loves throughout history Top 10 Partners in Crime - Listverse Top 10 Partners in Crime Jamie Frater November 1, 2007 While most criminals work alone, there have been a number of very high profile criminal couples through history.

This is a list of ten of the most infamous criminal duos. The list excludes killers who are children and high school killers. In no particular order, the top 10 partners in crime. 10 Menendez Brothers The Menendez brothers grew up in Princeton, New Jersey, and attended Princeton Day School. Lyle attended Princeton University but eventually dropped out because of the expensive cost. Erik attended Beverly Hills High School in Los Angeles. Lyle and Erik Menendez murdered their parents at their Beverly Hills home in 1989. After shooting their parents, the brothers drove off and dumped their shotguns on Mulholland Drive and bought tickets at a local movie theater to use as an alibi. When the brothers returned home, Lyle called 911 and cried, “Somebody killed my parents!” In the following months, the brothers led a life of luxury and lavish spending, adding to investigators’ suspicions that they were involved in their parents’ deaths. Prosecutors later alleged that the brothers spent about $1 million in their first six months as orphans. Both brothers were subsequently sentenced to life in prison.

[ Wikipedia ] Get inside the heads of history’s most depraved humans with Serial Killers: The Method and Madness of Monsters at Amazon.com! 9 Caril Fugate and Charles Starkweather Caril Fugate lived in Lincoln, Nebraska, and in 1956, she started dating Charles Starkweather (five years her senior). Caril is the youngest female in United States history to be tried for first-degree murder. The extent of Caril’s involvement in this couple’s crimes is uncertain; Starkweather was executed still accusing her, and Fugate refuses to talk about it to this day. Charles Starkweather was born with a mild birth defect, Genu varum, that caused his legs to be misshapen, and he also suffered from a mild speech impediment, which caused him to be teased, picked upon, and beaten up from an early age. Starkweather developed a severe inferiority complex and became self-loathing and nihilistic, believing that he was unable to do anything correctly, and that his own inherent failures would doom him to a life of poverty and misery. On January 21, 1958, Starkweather went to visit Caril at her dilapidated house.

Finding her not home, he argued with and shot to death Caril Ann’s mother and stepfather, as well as fatally clubbing Caril Ann’s two-year-old sister, Betty Jean. Charles and Caril drove to the Bennet, Nebr., farm home of August Meyer, 70, a Starkweather family friend, whom Charles shot in the head. Shortly thereafter, they got stuck in the mud and abandoned their car. When Robert Jensen and Carol King, two local teenagers, stopped to give them a ride, Charles forced them to drive back to an abandoned storm cellar, where both were shot and killed. The couple eventually took a road trip across the states killing a total of 11 people. Their story is the basis for the film Natural Born Killers. [ Wikipedia ] 8 Kray Brothers Ronald “Ronnie” Kray (24 October 1933 – 17 March 1995) and Reginald “Reggie” Kray (24 October 1933 – 1 October 2000) were identical twin brothers, and the foremost organized crime leaders dominating London’s East End during the 1950s and 1960s.

The twins first attended Wood Close School and then Daneford Street School. There they said to have shown none of their future criminal tendencies. A teacher said of them: “Salt of the earth, the twins; never the slightest trouble to anyone who knew how to handle them.” They bought a local run-down snooker club in Bethnal Green, this was where they starting several protection rackets. By the end of the 1950s, the Krays were involved in hijacking, armed robbery and arson, through which means they acquired a small empire of clubs and other properties. In the 1960s, they were widely seen as prosperous and charming celebrity nightclub owners and were part of the ‘swinging’ London scene. The criminal activities of the twins came to the attention of the police several times, but the Kray name had such a fearsome reputation for violence that witnesses were too scared to come forward to testify. When Inspector Leonard “Nipper” Read of Scotland Yard was promoted to the Murder Squad, his first assignment was to bring down the Kray twins. By the end of 1967 Read had built up a substantial body of evidence against the Krays.

Early on 9 May 1968, the Krays and a number of the senior members of their “firm” were arrested. Both were sentenced to life imprisonment, with a non-parole period of thirty years. [ Wikipedia ] 7 Leopold and Loeb Nathan Leopold had already completed college and was attending law school at the University of Chicago when he and Loeb committed their crime (aged 19). He spoke five languages and was an expert ornithologist. Leopold planned to transfer to Harvard Law School in September, after taking a trip to Europe. Richard Loeb was the youngest graduate in the history of the University of Michigan. He planned to enter the University of Chicago Law School after taking some post graduate courses. Both Leopold and Loeb lived in Kenwood, a wealthy neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago. Loeb’s father, Albert, began his career as a lawyer and became the Vice President of Sears and Roebuck. Besides owning an impressive mansion in Kenwood, two blocks away from the Leopold home, the Loeb family also had a summer estate in Charlevoix, Michigan.

Leopold, age 19 at the time of the murder, and Loeb, 18, believed themselves to be Nietzschean supermen who could commit a “perfect crime” (in this case a kidnapping and murder) without fear of being apprehended. On Wednesday, May 21, 1924, they put their plot in motion. The pair lured Franks, a neighbor and distant relative of Loeb’s, into a rented car. Either Loeb or Leopold first struck Franks with a chisel. Leopold or Loeb then stuffed a sock into Franks’ mouth. Franks died soon thereafter. Leopold and Loeb concealed the body and poured hydrochloric acid on it to make identification more difficult. They then returned to Hyde Park and burned Frank’s clothes. They then mailed a ransom note to the Franks. Before the ransom was paid, the body was found along with a pair of glasses linking the crime to Leopold and Loeb. They both confessed when their alibis broke down. Loeb was killed in jail, and Leopold completed his jail time and died in Puerto Rico in 1971, at the age of 66.

[ Wikipedia ] 6 Ottis Toole and Henry Lee Lucas Ottis Toole was a native of Shaunavon, Saskatchewan. His father left the family when Toole was young, and he claimed his mother was a religious fanatic, and that his sister dressed him in girl’s clothes. Toole also claimed his grandmother was a satanist who exposed him to various practices and rituals in his youth. Henry Lee Lucas was born in Blacksburg, Virginia. He described his mother, Viola Lucas, as a violent prostitute. His father, Anderson Lucas, was an alcoholic and former railroad employee who had lost his legs in a train accident, and who suffered from Viola’s wrath as often as his son. Lucas reports that Viola regularly beat him and his half-brother, often for no reason. Henry Lee Lucas was 15 the first time he killed in 1951, and the reason he murdered this teenage girl was to see what it was like to have sex with a human. In 1976, after years in prison, Lucas teamed up with arsonist and serial killer Ottis Toole, who enjoyed mutilating corpses.

Later Toole claimed to have been a cannibal, but Lucas said that he’d abstained from that behavior because he did not like the taste of barbecue sauce. They traveled together from one state to another, and their favorite prey were female hitchhikers. For a while, Toole’s orphaned nephew and niece, Frank and Becky Powell, came with them. Then it was just Lucas and Becky, 13. When she argued with Lucas one day and slapped him, he killed her with a knife. Then he raped the corpse, dismembered it, put the pieces into a pillowcase, and dumped them in a field. The victims of these two men ranged in age from young children to elderly women, killed in every conceivable way and disposed of by dumping, dismembering, and incinerating. How many murders they actually committed will probably never be known. [ Wikipedia ] 5 The Hillside Strangler Kenneth Bianchi’s biological mother was an alcoholic prostitute who gave him up for adoption at birth.

Bianchi was deeply troubled from a young age, described as “a compulsive liar” who “had risen from the cradle dissembling.” He often worried Frances (his adoptive mother) with his penchant for trance-like daydreams. While intelligent (with an I.Q. of 116), he was an underachiever who was quick to lose his temper. He was also diagnosed with petit mal seizures when he was five. After Nicholas’ death, Frances went out to her work while her son attended high school. Angelo Buono Buono was born in Rochester, New York. In the time leading up to the killings, Buono had already developed a long criminal history, ranging from failure to pay child support to assault and rape. When Buono was 41 he met Kenneth Bianchi in 1975. Buono persuaded his younger cousin to join him in prostituting the women and young girls they brought to bed, holding them as virtual prisoners.

The Hillside Strangler is the media epithet for two men, Kenneth Bianchi and Angelo Buono, cousins who were convicted of kidnapping, raping, torturing, and killing girls and women ranging in age from twelve to twenty-eight years old during a four-month period from late 1977 to early 1978 in the hills above Los Angeles, USA. The first victim of the Hillside Stranglers was a Hollywood prostitute, Yolanda Washington whose body was found near the Forest Lawn Cemetery on October 18. The corpse was cleaned and faint marks could be seen around the neck, wrists, and ankles where a rope had been. She had also been viciously raped. Between the two they murdered 10 (confirmed) victims. Bianchi is serving a life sentence in Washington. Buono died of a heart attack on September 21, 2002, in Calipatria State Prison where he was serving a life sentence. [ Wikipedia ] 4 Fred and Rosemary West Fred West was a prolific petty criminal as a teenager.

He moved from his parents’ rural home to live with an aunt until the Wests moved his family to Gloucester, where he took a job in an abattoir. He was fined for theft in Hereford in April 1961, and again in Newent in October. During this period West worked as an ice cream van driver. On November 4, 1965, he accidentally ran over and killed a four-year-old boy with his ice-cream van. Rosemary West and her husband were convicted of a serious sexual assault in January 1973. For this, the Wests were fined for indecent assault of Caroline Raine, who escaped and reported the couple to the police, although no prison sentence resulted from their subsequent conviction. She had a voracious sexual appetite and enjoyed extreme bondage and sadomasochistic sex. She was bisexual, and many of their victims were picked up for her and her husband’s sexual pleasure. West also worked as a prostitute. Two of her children were fathered by these clients, in April 1982 and July 1983. The crimes for which the Wests were convicted occurred mainly between April 1973 to August 1979.

Charmaine West, (daughter of Fred’s previous wife Rena), who was murdered in June 1971, was buried at the Wests’ previous home of 25 Midland Road, Gloucester. One of the bodies found at Cromwell Street was that of their eldest daughter, Heather, who was murdered in June 1987. The police consider it highly unlikely that the Wests just stopped their sexually-motivated murders in 1979, or simply stopped killing in 1987. No one will ever know for certain if this was the case, but the murders almost certainly would have stopped in August 1992, when Fred West was arrested after being accused of raping his 13-year-old daughter three times, and Rosemary West was arrested for child cruelty. That case against them collapsed in June 1993 when their daughter refused to testify in court. Although she did not confess, the evidence against Rosemary West, which was all circumstantial, was overwhelming. She was tried in October 1995, after her husband’s suicide.

The jury was unanimous: West was found guilty of ten murders on November 22, 1995, and the judge, Mr Justice Mantell, sentenced her to life imprisonment. [ Wikipedia ] 3 Bonnie and Clyde Bonnie Parker was born October 1, 1910, in Rowena, Texas. An honor roll student in high school where she excelled in creative writing, she won a County League contest in literary arts, for Cement City School, and even gave introductory speeches for local politicians. Described as intelligent and personable yet strong willed, she was an attractive young woman, small at 4 ft 11 in (150 cm) and weighing only 90 pounds (41 kg). Clyde Barrow was born on March 24, 1909 in Ellis County, Texas. Clyde was first arrested in late 1926, after running when police confronted him over a rental car he had failed to return on time. Despite holding down “square” jobs during the period 1927 through 1929, however, he also cracked safes, burgled stores, and stole cars.

Bonnie and Clyde were notorious outlaws, robbers and criminals who travelled the Central United States during the Great Depression. Their exploits were known nationwide. They captured the attention of the American press and its readership during what is sometimes referred to as the “public enemy era” between 1931 and 1935. Although this couple and their gang were notorious for their bank robberies, Clyde Barrow preferred to rob small stores or gas stations. Though the public at the time believed Bonnie to be a full partner in the gang, the role of Bonnie Parker in the Barrow Gang crimes has long been a source of controversy. Bonnie and Clyde were killed May 23, 1934, on a desolate road near their Bienville Parish, Louisiana hideout. They were shot by a posse of four Texas and two Louisiana officers. Questions about the way the ambush was conducted, and the failure to warn the duo of impending death, have been raised ever since that day. [ Wikipedia ] Discover more about what happens when love looks for darker thrills when you buy My Life with Bonnie and Clyde at Amazon.com!

2 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid Robert LeRoy Parker (Butch Cassidy) was born in Beaver, Utah to Maximillian Parker and Ann Campbell Gillies, English and Scottish Mormon immigrants, respectively, who came to the Utah Territory in the late 1850s. Parker left home during his early teens, and while working at a dairy farm, he fell in with Mike Cassidy (whose name he would eventually take in his honor), a horse thief and cattle rustler. Harry Alonzo Longabaugh (The Sundance Kid) was convicted in 1887 of horse theft and sentenced to 18 months in the Sundance, Wyoming, jail. Because of this jail time he was called the Sundance Kid. Longabaugh likely met Butch Cassidy sometime after Cassidy was released from prison around 1896. They formed the “Wild Bunch Gang.” Despite the Wild Bunch often being portrayed as mostly non-violent, in reality the gang was responsible for numerous killings during their robbery activities. On June 2, 1899, the gang robbed a Union Pacific overland flyer near Wilcox, Wyoming, a robbery that became famous and which resulted in a massive man hunt.

Many notable lawmen of the day took part in the hunt for the robbers, but they were not found. The Wild Bunch would usually split up following a robbery, heading in different directions, and later reunite at a set location, such as the Hole-in-the-Wall hideout, “Robbers Roost”, or Madame Fannie Porter’s brothel, in San Antonio, Texas. Parker and Longabaugh eventually fled to Argentina where they may have committed additional robberies. Neither of the two were ever caught, and their remains have never been found. [ Wikipedia ] 1 Myra Hindley and Ian Brady Myra Hindley was believed to have been beaten by her alcoholic father, Bob Hindley, a paratrooper in the RAF during World War II, who was also alleged to have been violent towards her mother Nellie. She could write creatively, was quite athletic, and was considered a responsible girl, ironically in demand as a babysitter. Ian Brady was adopted into a local family at a young age. His father has never been identified; his mother claimed that he was a journalist who died a few months before their son was born. He developed a fascination with Nazi Germany, Nazi pageantry and Nazi symbolism.

By the time he was a teenager, he had been brought before the juvenile courts for incidents of burglary and housebreaking. Brady was responsible for the murders of five children during the 1960s. In August 1987 he claimed to police that he had carried out another five killings and even said where he had buried the bodies, but the police were never able to prove whether these claims were true. The five murders that Brady admitted carrying out were committed with Hindley as his accomplice. These were the infamous Moors Murders, which are still some of the most reviled crimes in Britain decades after they happened, the judge at Brady and Hindley’s trials even saying they were the worst murders in the past century. As a result, Brady and Hindley became two of the most hated individuals in British criminal history. In evidence against them was a tape recording the couple made of the murder of one of their victims. [ Wikipedia ] Notable Omissions: Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, Robert Thomson and Jon Venables (pending another list) This article is licensed under the GFDL . It uses material from the Wikipedia articles cited above.

1000+ images about Bonnie & Clyde on Pinterest | The run, 16 year old and Newspaper Pinterest • The world’s catalogue of ideas Bonnie & Clyde Clyde Champion Barrow and his companion, Bonnie Parker, were shot to death by officers in an ambush near Sailes, Bienville Parish, Louisiana on May 23, 1934, after one of the most colorful and spectacular manhunts the nation had seen up to that time. Barrow was suspected of numerous killings and was wanted for murder, robbery, and state charges of kidnapping. 62 Pins710 Followers Bonnie and Clyde's Death Car - Weird Nevada Weird Nevada Bonnie and Clyde's Death Car Whiskey Pete's 31900 W Primm Boulevard, Primm , Nevada 89019 The Original and Authentic Bonnie and Clyde Death Car On May 23rd, 1934, in Bienville Parish, Louisiana a posse of two Louisiana officers combined with four Texas officers ambushed and gunned down Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow.

The infamous Bonnie and Clyde after a crime spree of over two years, several robberies, and multiple murders, were finally done in by Texas Ranger Frank Hamer, who predicted the gang's movements and was able to predict where they would go next. Bonnie and Clyde At 9:15 am the officers ambushed the couple, unloading their automatic rifles then moving onto their shotguns, and finally their pistols, emptying all their weapons into the car. In the end Clyde had seventeen different entrance wounds on his body, and Bonnie had twenty six. There were so many bullet holes that the undertaker had difficulty getting the bodies to contain the embalming fluid. The curious soon descended on the scene as a crowd began trying to take "collectibles" from the car and bodies. Locks of Bonnie's hair, pieces of both their clothes, shell casings, glass from the car's windows. Some enterprising souvenir searchers even tried to cut off Clyde's trigger finger and ear. Whiskey Pete's in Primm, Nevada The Ford V8, now horribly bullet riddled and blood splattered, was towed away into history.

It's original owner, Ruth Warren, who had had it stolen out of her driveway by the criminal couple, sold the car for $3,500. It occasionally appeared at carnivals, fairs, etc. and even at a Nevada race track where people could sit in it for a dollar. In 1952 it was sold for $14,500, and again in 1975 for $175,000, before finally being acquired in 1988 by Gary Primm for $250,000. Today, there have been no less than seven fake Bonnie and Clyde death cars put on display throughout America. The Washington DC National Museum of Crime and Punishment has one. Sorry, it's not the real one, but the one from the 1967 Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway movie. This movie car was formerly on display at the Bonnie and Clyde Ambush Museum in Gibland, Louisiana, before being sold to the National Museum of Crime and Punishment. There was another Bonnie and Clyde death car in Florida, at the no longer open Tragedy in US History Museum in St.

Augustine (which also had such artifacts as a leather jacket once worn by James Dean and Jayne Mansfield's death car!). Whiskey Pete's The casino is named after Whiskey Pete who was originally Pete MacIntyre, a gas station owner turned bootlegger who died in 1933. He had requested to be buried standing up in order to look over his land, but the story states that his drunk and exhausted friends gave up and he was buried at a sixty degree angle. But many years later, he was accidentally dug up while workers were constructing a bridge from Whiskey Pete's to Buffalo Bills, a casino and hotel on the opposite side of the interstate. His skeleton supposedly still had a cowboy hat on, with a bit of red hair coming out, and was clutching a bottle of whiskey. Pete's body was relocated and is supposedly now buried in one of the nearby caves. But his ghost still lurks around the hotel and casino. The most interesting thing the ghost of Whiskey Pete does is occasionally refill people's gas tanks. There have been reports of people coming to the hotel with tanks almost empty, staying the night, and finding their fuel tanks full in the morning.

His ghost also moves curtains, sheets, and glasses as well as turning on and off lights. He has been spotted by both casino patrons and employees. The REAL Bonnie and Clyde Death Car is on display in Primm, Nevada at Whiskey Pete's Hotel and Casino owned by Primm Valley Resorts. Bonnie and Clyde's Death Car is on display in the casino along with a multiple letters of authenticity for the car and Clyde's death shirt, also filled with bullet holes and faded blood splatter. A hand mirror, a belt, and a beaded necklace that belonged to the couple are also on display in the casino. They can be found directly on the right upon entering the casino through the main doors. The Real Bonnie and Clyde Car The Real Bonnie and Clyde Car The Real Bonnie and Clyde Car The Dutch Schultz / Al Capone Car Additionally a second car is on display alongside Bonnie and Clyde's. This one first belonged to gangster, Dutch Schultz born Arthur Flegenheimer. Dutch Schultz was assassinated in a bathroom on October 23rd, 1935 in Newark, New Jersey. The hit on Schultz was ordered by The Commission or the leaders of the American Mafia.

In 1935 it was led by Charles "Lucky" Luciano. It is said that Dutch Schultz left over seven million in cash and bonds buried in an air tight, waterproof safe at an undisclosed location in upstate New York. Treasure hunters still meet to try and find the missing treasure, but its location was taken to the grave by the Dutchman. Dutch Schultz had a special 1931 Lincoln made for him with lead filled doors and inch thick glass in order to make the car bullet proof. After Schultz was assassinated. the car passed into the hands of Al Capone and used by his mob. It was later seized by Chicago Police and sold in auction. Rumor has it, it also functioned as President Franklin D. Roosevelt's car after it was seized. The Dutch Schultz / Al Capone car is also riddled with bullet holes, but according to rumor, this was done by the owners of the casino who wanted to make the car look more like it had belonged to a couple of gangsters. He supposedly had the car taken outside and had several of his employees fire upon the car to give it the appearance it has now.

The Dutch Schultz / Al Capone Car The Dutch Schultz / Al Capone Car The Dutch Schultz / Al Capone Car Entrance to Whiskey Pete's

Question: Which gangster was killed, along with his partner, in a police ambush in Bienville Parish, Louisiana on May 23rd 1934?
Answer: Clyde Barrow