The couple were known for their bank robberies and multiple murders, although they preferred to rob small stores or rural gas stations. Their exploits captured the attention of the American press and its readership during what is occasionally referred to as the " public enemy era " between and They were ambushed by police and shot dead in Bienville Parish, Louisiana.
They are believed to have murdered at least nine police officers and four civilians. The film Bonnie and Clyde , directed by Arthur Penn and starring Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway in the title roles, was a critical and commercial success which revived interest in the criminals and glamorized them with a romantic aura. Bonnie Elizabeth Parker was born in in Rowena, Texas , the second of three children.
Her father, Charles Robert Parker β , was a bricklayer who died when Bonnie was four years old. Parker was a bright child who thrived on attention. She enjoyed performing on stage and dreamt of becoming an actress. The couple dropped out of school and married on September 25, , six days before her 16th birthday. They never divorced, but their paths never crossed again after January Parker was still wearing the wedding ring Thornton had given her when she died.
It's much better than being caught. After she left Thornton, Parker moved back in with her mother and worked as a waitress in Dallas. One of her regular customers was postal worker Ted Hinton.
In , he joined the Dallas County Sheriff's Department and eventually served as a member of the posse that killed Bonnie and Clyde. Clyde Chestnut Barrow [ 12 ] [ 13 ] was born in into a poor farming family in Ellis County, Texas , southeast of Dallas. The family moved to Dallas in the early s as part of a wider migration pattern from rural areas to the city, where many settled in the urban slum of West Dallas.
