The Truth About Bonnie and Clyde that Historians Kept Quiet

Final Shots Fired

Barrow and Methvin killed highway patrolmen on Easter Sunday of 1934. It was long believed that both Bonnie and Clyde fired the final shots that killed them, but Methvin later admitted that it was him who started shooting. Parker had actually hoped to help the patrolmen, and Clyde was often unhappy with needless killing but went along with it. Bonnie was asleep in the backseat when it all happened...

Public Opinion

After this murder, everyone in Texas wanted Bonnie and Clyde to pay for their wrongdoings. Bonnie had been seen as a lovestruck girl up to this point, but the popular story that she was the killer took hold, and everyone was rooting against the couple. They knew there was a target on their backs, but they never expected their closest friend to be the one to turn them in...

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Post originally appeared on Upbeat News.