Bonnie Parker was born on October

Bonnie Parker was born on October 1, 1910 in Rowena, Texas, and is the youngest of three children. Following the death of his father when Bonnie was four, his mother moved the family to the house of his parents in Cement City, an industrial suburb of Dallas. Bonnie Parker is one of the best students in his high school, winning awards in spelling, writing and speaking. In adulthood, his taste for writing leads to writing poems such as The Story of Suicide Sal ("History of the Sal Suicide") and The Trail's End ("The End of the Trail" ), now known under the title of the Story of Bonnie and Clyde ("The Story of Bonnie and Clyde").
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In his second year of high school, Parker meets Roy Thornton. They drop out of school and get married Sept. 25, 1926, six days before the sixteenth anniversary of Parker. Their marriage marked by frequent absences Thornton and his problems with the law ends when imprisoned for armed bank robbery in January 1929. Although they have ever reviewed thereafter, they never divorced. Bonnie Parker still wears his wedding ring when she died in 1934.

In 1929, after the breakup of his marriage and before meeting Clyde Barrow in January 1930, Parker returned to live with his mother, and takes a job as a waitress in a cafe. One of his regular customers is Ted Hinton, a postal worker who will join the Dallas Sheriff's Department in 1932 and participate in the ambush in 1934. In the newspaper that Parker holds brief début 1929, she described her loneliness, her impatience with his life in Dallas, and his love of talking pictures.

Clyde Barrow was born March 24, 1909 at Tellico Texas (near Dallas) in a large family. He is the fifth in a family of six children. His parents were poor farmers who migrated in Dallas in early 1920, in a slum known as West Dallas. The family spends its first months in West Dallas to live in a trailer, until the father earns enough money to buy them a tent.

Clyde was first arrested late 1926, after escaping police after a confrontation about a car he rented and never returned. He was arrested again shortly afterwards, this time accompanied by his brother Marvin "Buck" Barrow, for stealing turkeys. During the next four years, despite a series of legitimate jobs, Barrow commits numerous armed attacks, fracture number of safes, body shops and steal cars. He was arrested in succession in 1928 and 1929. In April 1930, shortly after he met Bonnie, he was again arrested and imprisoned in Eastham Prison Farm. It escapes but is taken after one week. In prison, Barrow beat to death another prisoner having sexually assaulted repeatedly. This is his first murder.

After the liberation of Clyde in 1932, he steals a car with the help of Bonnie. They are pursued by the police. Bonnie manages to escape but Clyde, arrested, and must pass a few more months in prison. Upon his return, the duo leads a small group of criminals which includes reluctantly Buck's brother, Clyde and his wife Blanche. They are caught in a police assault while staying with Bonnie and Clyde in simple visitors. Personal photos and business have been abandoned in the flight, the police identify and treats them criminal group. Buck and Blanche are forced to flee, until the execution of Buck by police in Iowa in 1933 and the subsequent arrest of two White.

Bonnie and Clyde kill two young police officers in Grapevine, Texas on April 1, 1934 and another representative of the police five days later near Commerce in Oklahoma.

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