On Easter Sunday, April 1, 1934 at the intersection of Route 114 and Dove Road, near Grapevine, Texas, now Southlake, highway patrolmen H.D. Murphy and Edward Bryant Wheeler stopped their motorcycles thinking a motorist needed assistance. Barrow and Methvin or Parker opened fire with a shotgun and handgun, killing both officers. [83] [84] An eyewitness account said that Parker fired the fatal shots and this story received widespread coverage. [85] Methvin later claimed that he fired the first shot after mistakenly assuming that Barrow wanted the officers killed. Barrow joined in, firing at Patrolman Murphy. [47] Public opinion turned against the couple after the Grapevine murders and resultant negative publicity It is no surprise that Clyde swore he’d never go to prison again, which changed the game. With the option of surrender eliminated from consideration, Clyde became a very dangerous man to try to apprehend. You’ve read the story of Jesse James-Of how he lived and died; If you’re still in need of something to read, here’s the story of Bonnie and Clyde...Some day they’ll go down together; And they’ll bury them side by side. To a few it’ll be grief-To the law a relief- But its death for Bonnie and Clyde.” The members of the posse came from three organizations: Hamer and Gault were both former Texas Rangers then working for the Texas Department of Corrections (DOC), Hinton and Alcorn were employees of the Dallas Sheriff's office, and Jordan and Oakley were Sheriff and Deputy of Bienville Parish, Louisiana. The three duos distrusted one another and kept to themselves, [120] and each had its own agenda in the operation and offered differing narratives of it. Simmons, the head of the Texas DOC, brought another perspective, having effectively commissioned the posse. W.D. Jones committed two murders in his first two weeks with Barrow at age 16. The cut-down shotgun is one of his "whippit" guns. Bonnie with a shotgun reaches for a pistol in Clyde's waistband.

If you want to really meet THE Bonnie Parker and THE Clyde Barrow, then the only way you are going to do it properly is to read this book. I have always been interested in Bonnie and Clyde and I love True Crime books so when I seen this I really wanted to read it. Knight, James R. and Jonathan Davis (2003). Bonnie and Clyde: A Twenty-First-Century Update. Waco, Texas: Eakin Press. ISBN 1-57168-794-7. p. 100

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Knight and Davis had a different version, but once they split up, Jones never saw Barrow and Parker again. Knight and Davis, pp. 114–15 Ramsey, Winston G., ed. On The Trail of Bonnie and Clyde. (London: After The Battle Books, 2003). ISBN 1-870067-51-7. Blanche paid for their cabins with coins rather than bills, and did the same later when buying five dinners and five beers. [63] [notes 8] The next day, Houser noticed that his guests had taped newspapers over the windows of their cabin; Blanche again paid for five meals with coins. Her outfit of jodhpur riding breeches [64] also attracted attention; they were not typical attire for women in the area, and eyewitnesses still remembered them forty years later. [62] Houser told Captain William Baxter of the Highway Patrol, a patron of his restaurant, about the group. [60] Blanche’s writing carries itself. It’s an unpublished first draft, but she has such great content to work with, that it’s really hard to mess up. If you’ve seen the movie, push Blanche’s character out of your head. The real Blanche was cute, petite, and when push came to shove she could hold her own. The most surprising thing about this book is that when Guinn is finished giving us “the true, untold story,” we are still left with one hell of an epic and unforgettable ride.

Phillips writes that Barrow had been so focused on this for so long that, after the Eastham raid, "life for Clyde Barrow became anticlimactic…only death remained, and he knew it". Phillips, Running, p. 217. Hobbs, Thomas (October 16, 2018). "From Ted Bundy to Jeffrey Dahmer, What It's Like to be Part of a Serial Killer Fandom". NewStatesman . Retrieved September 12, 2020. Published in 2009, Go Down Together was Guinn’s first book. Since that time, he has become one of the best chroniclers of historical true crime, producing excellent volumes on Charles Manson and Jim Jones.Winner of Best New Musical at the WhatsOnStage Awards 2023, the West End cult-sensation is set to hold-up Leicester following two hell-raising seasons in London’s West End. There's lots more in this book. The various people who traveled with them, the men on their trail. It's too much to condense down to a few sentences.