Video: Bonnie and Clyde: the most famous criminal couple
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
To live together a short but very eventful life and die in one day - this is what the heroes of romantic movies dream about. And the most famous in America a pair of robbers Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow (Bonnie Parker, Clyde Barrow) made this dream come true. Although there was really not so much romantic in this story. Films were made about them, where they acted as glamorous gangsters, but the criminal realities were worse than fiction.
The young lovers did not seem to understand the seriousness of their actions. From the outside, it seemed that desperate criminals were headlong into adventures and with incredible ease escaped the pursuit. The truth was slightly different from what was written about them in the newspapers. Bonnie and Clyde committed 13 murders (both police officers and innocent bystanders), several robberies of grocery stores, eateries and gas stations. They lived on the run, constantly stealing cars and hiding from the police, in constant fear of being caught.
Bonnie and Clyde met in 1930 with a mutual friend. The attraction was instant. A few weeks after they met, Clyde was sentenced to two years in prison for previous crimes. In March 1930, Clyde escaped from prison - Bonnie handed him a gun, a week later he was again detained and sent to serve a 14-year sentence.
Life in prison was unbearable. Expecting that if he was physically incapacitated, he would be transferred, Clyde asked another prisoner to chop off several of his toes with an ax (according to one version - in protest against the riots in the prison). When Clyde was released from prison on crutches in 1932, he vowed that he would rather die than ever return to this terrible place.
The easiest way not to go back to jail is to avoid repeating your old mistakes. But as soon as the leg healed, Clyde again began to rob shops. Now accompanied by Bonnie. During the first robbery, she stayed in the car, then participated on an equal basis with others, she was even called the brain center of the gang. Bonnie had a choice - to give up everything and start life from scratch, or stay with Clyde and spend the rest of the days on the run. She chose the latter.
This was during the Great Depression in the United States. One day, the criminals kidnapped a sheriff and left him tied to the side of the road with the words: “Tell your people that we are not a gang of murderers. Get in the position of people trying to survive this damn depression."
Over the next two years, Bonn and Clyde operated in five states: Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Louisiana and New Mexico. The police were constantly on their heels and raided several times. On May 23, 1934, their adventures came to an end - they were ambushed and killed. The police fired 130 bullets at them. She was 24 years old, he was 25. The riddled bodies of the criminals were put on public display in the morgue, and those who wish for one dollar could look at them. Photos of the killed bandits were published by all newspapers.
Their names are remembered a century later and used in the most unexpected contexts - for example, in advertising: When Clyde met Bonnie
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