Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow of Bonnie and Clyde notoriety were Texas born bank robbers, bandits, and murderers who were ambushed and killed by the police on a rural road in Bienville Parish, Louisiana on 23 May 1934. Six police officers, acting on information provided by a father of one Barrow Gang member, waited along the road for Bonnie and Clyde’s Ford to come along and when it did, they perforated the vehicle with all the ammunition they had, a total of 130 bullets. The coroner’s report stated that Bonnie received 26 bullet wounds and Clyde 17. Others claimed that they were shot more than 50 times each.

Bonnie and Clyde, during the Great Depression, roamed Texas, and its adjoining states, preying upon any establishment that had money on the premises, banks, gas stations, small stores, and for the ultimate in depravity, funeral homes. During prison breaks and robberies, they murdered at least nine police officers and four civilians.

Source: All That’s Interesting, FBI. Graphic: Bonnie and Clyde by the Barrow Gang, c. 1932, Library of Congress.