Thornton was in prison when he heard of her death, commenting, "I'm glad they jumped out like they did. Parker was still wearing the wedding ring Thornton had given her when she died. They never divorced, but their paths never crossed again after January 1929. Their marriage was marred by his frequent absences and brushes with the law and proved to be short lived. The couple dropped out of school and married on September 25, 1926, six days before her 16th birthday. In her second year in high school, Parker met Roy Thornton (1908–1937). As an adult, Bonnie wrote poems such as "The Story of Suicide Sal" and "The Trail's End", the latter more commonly known as "The Story of Bonnie and Clyde". Her widowed mother, Emma (Krause) Parker (1885–1944), moved her family back to her parents' home in Cement City, an industrial suburb in West Dallas where she worked as a seamstress. Her father, Charles Robert Parker (1884–1914), was a bricklayer who died when Bonnie was four years old. The 2019 Netflix film The Highwaymen depicted their manhunt from the point of view of the pursuing lawmen but received mixed reviews.īonnie Elizabeth Parker was born in 1910 in Rowena, Texas, the second of three children. The 1967 film Bonnie and Clyde, directed by Arthur Penn and starring Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway in the title roles, revived interest in the criminals and glamorized them with a romantic aura. They are believed to have murdered at least nine police officers and four civilians. They were ambushed by police and shot to death in Bienville Parish, Louisiana. Their exploits captured the attention of the American press and its readership during what is occasionally referred to as the " public enemy era" between 19. The couple were known for their bank robberies, although they preferred to rob small stores or rural funeral homes.
Bonnie and Clyde in a photo from around 1932–33 that was found by police at an abandoned hideoutīonnie Elizabeth Parker (October 1, 1910 – May 23, 1934) and Clyde Chestnut (Champion) Barrow (March 24, 1909 – May 23, 1934) were an American criminal couple who traveled the Central United States with their gang during the Great Depression.
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