Bonnie And Clyde: A Brief Biography

Jesse James made a bank in Gallatin, Missouri as his first target. The man who had killed Bill Anderson, the leader of his old gang, ran this bank. On December 7, 1869, Jesse and Frank rode in during broad daylight, shot an unarmed employee, and left with some worthless paper. They made an escape through the midst of a posse sent to capture them. The brothers later declared that they would never be taken alive. The Gallatin robbery essentially set the pattern for more robberies to come. It was risky, it was daring, and it had a hidden agenda other than simple robbery. In this case it was the killing of the man who had hunted down Jesse's old leader. (Stiles 61)

Butch was released in 1896 and he continued the life of a criminal. It was at this point that he established the Wild Bunch- a group famed for their successful and longest stint in bank and train robberies. Upon forming the group, Butch made sure that the members are taught of how to conduct successful robberies based on the mistakes that he and his previous groups committed which led to death or imprisonment.

The crime begins when Molly's sister: Rita, was found shot in the head. Only days earlier, another Indain was shot, and was there was good evidence that he was shot by same murderer. Police and federal investigators were baffled by these crimes, and eventually

Desperados of the Ozarks by Larry Wood takes a stab at presenting the facts in an unbiased manner, if that truly is possible. Most of the facts presented occurred in the later part of the 1800’s going through the 1930’s with the Bonnie and Clyde era. It is hard to imagine that such criminal acts occurred by people on horseback or hopping trains, but they did. Eventually the automobile plays a big part, as we saw with Bonnie and Clyde.

In the summer of August, 1969, free love reigned and cries of protest against the Vietnam War could be heard throughout the streets of America. It seemed to most that this era, filled with the ideals of hippies and psychedelic media, would never end. However, the era seemed to come to an abrupt halt on the night of August 9th, when five innocent people were horribly slain, including pregnant actress Sharon Tate. These murders would be followed by another set, the following night. This time it would be Leno and Rosemary LaBianca, wealthy grocery chain owners. Though the murders were at first unsolved, Charles Manson and four women, who were a part of his cult-like “family,” were accused, in December of that year, and put on trial for

Alcatraz, The so thought inescapable prison was built when a crime wave hit the United States in the 1920s. No one had succeeded at escaping until the very famous prisoners at Alcatraz known as Frank Lee Morris and his friends, the two brothers. The reasons why they were famous at  Alcatraz is because of their criminal history, how they escaped, and the mystery of where they are now after the escape is still not solved.

During the late 1930′s, two cousins, Herman and Paul Petrillo, who both had a history of crime, were the leaders of a gang. This gang involved helping recently widowed women remarry, as well as set up a life insurance policy on their new husband. Paul had another cousin join the gang, named Morris Bolber (bottom left).

Cassidy was a well liked thief- who as it is believed never killed anyone. His first major robbery occurred in June of 1889. Three other cowboys and himself made off with twenty-thousand dollars from a bank in Telluride Colorado. In 1890 he bought himself a ranch in Dubois, Wyoming, and he continued to rustle cattle and horses. Despite being a thief Cassidy always kept his word. In fact, when the law caught up to him in 1894, and he was put in jail for two years; it was said that the night before he was to begin his jail sentence, he asked to be released. Cassidy promised that if they’d release him that night, he’d return to jail the next to receive his sentence. Nevertheless the authorities let him go, and he returned back the next morning.

The pair were killed instantly. Bonnie had sustained nearly fifty bullet wounds” (ic. gale group). On that day people gathered around to bear the sad news that the famous outlaws have finally gone down for good. On that day Bonnie was identified as to wearing the wedding ring Roy Thornton gave her when she first married him. The funeral service was even bigger as well because thousands gathered around to say their final goodbye to the couple causing a lot of trouble. Bonnie was envied by many because they were robbing during the great depression people thought they were living a rich and happy life. When in reality Bonnie and Clyde had it rough just as any other person for that known fact. For one, Bonnie had sustained life threatening burns to her right leg due to a speeding accident, in which caused her to limp for the rest of her life. But that did not stop her from continuing to do what they already started even if it meant that it would only slow them down. “If they try to act like citizens and rent them a nice little flat. About the third night, they’re invited to fight, by a sub-gun’s rat-tat-tat” ( The trail’s end Bonnie Parker). Bonnie knew that they could not go back a carefree life as the police was to deep on their trail. And that marks the ending of the famous outlaws but there is something that is questionable. While in jail W.D Jones wrote a memoir

Alcatraz island is a super max prison where people were sent if they were really bad. The worst prisoners that got sent to alcatraz was a prisoner named al capone. Alcatraz was America's premier maximum-security prison, the final stop for the nation's most incorrigible prisoners.

At the time they were killed in 1934, they were believed to have committed 13 murders and several robberies and burglaries. Barrow, for example, was suspected of murdering two police officers at Joplin, Missouri and kidnapping a man and a woman in rural Louisiana. He released them near

This paper is about the escapes from alcatraz. Alcatraz is located 1.25 miles off the shore of San Francisco. The address is Golden Gate National Recreation Area, San Francisco, CA 94133. The prison was established on June 1st 1934. It is no longer running as a prison. You can visit the prison with tours. “The Prison closed 1963”(Pruitt, http://www.alcatrazhistory.com/alcesc2.htm). The prison held prisoners from 1934 to 1963. John Anglin, Clarence Anglin, and Frank Morris were the three people who tried to escape from Alcatraz.

By the time they died in a bloody hail of gunfire on May 23, 1934, Bonnie and

I remember very well, John Lennon; however, Mark David Chapman takes some recall, how many can say, why he did what he did. I remember Ronald Regan very well, John Hinckley it’s just a name, but why he did what he did, that is what is remembered.

The twin brothers owned a nightclub and were associated with celebrities like Diana Dors, Frank Sinatra and Judy Garland. By the 1960s they became famous due to photographs by a fashion and portrait photographer and with interviews which could be seen on television. In 1968 they both were arrested and later sentenced to life imprisonment after they murdered George Cornwell from a rival gang and Jack 'The Hat' McVitie (Wikipedia Kray Twins, 2017).