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'Pow': The Murder Of Bonnie And Clyde

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Pow” “Pow” here comes Bonnie and Clyde running from the cops. Bonnie and Clyde are one of the most well known criminal couple in all history. They even have and oscar winning movie, and a Broadway musical.
Bonnie and Clyde’s almost two-year crime spree spanned over several states, with a gang responsible for the murder of several people that included law enforcement officials. Bonnie and Clyde were gangsters back in the Great Depression, they were know to rob local banks and small companies. Bonnie and clyde stole a ford automobile in Pawhuska, OH. Bonnie and Clyde named the “Death Car”. They killed 13 people including law officials, policemen, and anyone who got in there way. If the police arrested them someone from there gang would come a brake them out of jail. If someone was hiding something they want they would kidnap them …show more content…

Bonnie was a waitress at the restaurant she was 19 years old, and Clyde was 21. One of Clyde friends set them up, and they instantly fell in love. They spent almost every week together until there love was interrupted because Clyde was arrested for theft. Clyde was sent to prison on March 11, 1930. In prison Clyde wanted to escape so badly. By this time Bonnie and Clyde fell deeply in love, and this love would never be broken. At home it was the same story with Bonnie she cried to her mom every night about her soulmate and how much she missed him. Bonnie went to the prison armed, and she broke Clyde out. A weeks later they caught them. Clyde was charged with fourteen years of hard labor. Clyde was released from jail two weeks later. He and Bonnie were reunited, and their love grew stronger. After Clyde was released Bonnie and him went to Dallas, Texas and Clyde got a job at a window company, but he got fired because the police was telling the owner he was a horrible person. Clyde wanted revenge on the police, so he started a gang and started back at crime and this time the crime got

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