Bonnie and Clyde’s reckless love affair and bloody crime through the American Depression-era southwest made them virtual folk heroes — 20th-century Romeo and Juliet, with a passion for killing.
Now, 90 years after their fatal ambush by a lawman in Louisiana, two of their brothers are pushing for Bonnie Parker to finally reunite with Clyde Barrow in an empty plot reserved for her by his side.
Bonnie, who was 23 when she died on May 23, 1934, was originally buried in Dallas’ Fishtrap Cemetery, just a mile from 25-year-old Clyde’s grave in Western Heights.
But 11 years later, he was moved to Crown Hill Memorial Park, to be buried next to his mother, Emma, who died in 1945.
But that’s not what Bonnie and Clyde want.
“Bonnie and Clyde’s desire when they were on the run was to be buried together because they knew that one day they would be caught and killed together,” a source close to the two surviving descendants of the robbers told The Post.
Bonnie Parker, who with lover Clyde Barrow captured the attention and hatred of the American public in the depths of the Great Depression, died 90 years ago — but her wish to be forever with her partner in crime was ignored. Universal History Archive/Universal Image Group via Getty Images The Oscar-winning “Bonnie and Clyde” cemented the duo’s place in the cultural canon, with Faye Dunaway playing Bonnie and Warren Beatty her lover, Clyde. Continuing interest in their stories includes people visiting their graves. Everett Collection / Everett Collection
“But Bonnie’s mother decided she didn’t want her daughter buried next to Clyde. It was his declaration that, ‘Clyde has him in life, he can’t have him in death,’ and mama won.”
The source confirmed that the crime’s two brothers, Rhea Leen Linder, Bonnie’s niece, who turned 89 in October, and Buddy Barrow Williams, Clyde’s nephew who is in his mid-70s are waging a “battle, so far unsuccessful.” to bring Bonnie back together with Clyde.
Williams last year published a memoir, “Growing Up Barrow.”
Bonnie was buried first in a cemetery a mile from her lover, and then in 1945 moved to be buried next to her mother. Initial attempts to move him from there failed due to his mother’s wish to be buried with him. ZUMAPRESS.com Clyde was buried with his brother, but the grave was in a poorly maintained cemetery. People visited both and left half-drunk bottles of Corona beer (top right), bullets and marijuana joints as tributes. ZUMAPRESS.com
Historian Brad Dison, who has interviewed Linder and Barrow and is writing a book about Bonnie and Clyde’s deadly ambush and the sheriff who led the posse, told The Post, “Buddy and Rhea’s efforts are still ongoing.
“They’re not giving up, but I think they’re skeptical that it’s going to happen anytime soon. They wanted to honor Bonnie’s wish that she be buried next to Clyde.”
A Crown Hill cemetery official, DeWayne Hughes, confirmed to The Post that Bonnie is still buried there.
Clyde was seized in Dallas before being full. a bloody fight begins. He and Bonnie met in 1930, after this was taken, their mutual obsession turned into interstate murder. Universal History Archive/Universal Image Collection via Getty Images
A few years ago, Hughes had a conversation with Linder, and a lawyer, about having Bonnie reinstated next to Clyde in Western Heights.
But Hughes doesn’t seem to accept Linder’s claim that she is Bonnie’s closest living relative, and also obeys Bonnie’s mother’s wishes that her daughter not be buried next to Clyde.
And members of a group seeking to restore Western Heights recently claimed that Crown Hill did not want Bonnie moved “for fear of losing the tourism her grave brings.”
The couple’s posthumous glamor owes much to a meticulously shot photograph of the two of them found on undeveloped film they left at the hideout in Joplin, Missouri, from which they had fled in 1933. AFP/Getty Images
Tourists in Dallas continue to visit both cemeteries. A visit by local officials last spring found Clyde’s grave a virtual shrine, filled with empty liquor bottles, marijuana joints, bullets, and flowers left by tourists.
Linder was originally named Bonnie Ray Parker when she was born, five months after the death of her famous aunt, to Bonnie’s older brother, Hubert “Buster” Parker, but changed her birth name to Rhea.
Rhea Linder never argued that Bonnie and Clyde were anything other than “criminals.”
Emma Parker (left, with her daughter Billy Mace) insisted that her daughter Bonnie be taken away from Clyde at death, then she was buried with him, which led to Bonnie’s remains being reburied in their current plot in 1945. Bettmann Archive Clyde’s mother, Cumie Barrow (two left) was tried in 1935 after his death, along with his daughters-in-law Audrey (left) and Fay (two right) and a fourth woman, Mary O’Dare. All were convicted of harboring criminals. RELATED NEWSPAPERS
In an interview he once gave to the historian Dison he asserted, “There is no way they can be forgiven or glorified… but they are human.
“To be buried together is their wish. They went down together. They know what the end will be.”
Once described as “America’s most ruthless outlaws” and “murderous villains”, their exploits inspired numerous books, songs and films, with stars Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway playing the desperate characters in the 1967 Academy Award-winning film, “Bonnie and Clyde.”
This 1932 photo of Bonnie and Clyde became an important part of their lore, although the shooting was only partially uncovered by chance, when they left undeveloped film in a former hideout. Bettmann Archive Dunaway and Beatty painstakingly recreated the shoot, albeit with more Hollywood glamor than the original. The film ensured that the criminal had a permanent place in pop culture.
The film glamorized the violent couple and put them on the pop culture map forever.
Both had poor families and little education when they met in January 1930. Bonnie was 19, Clyde 20.
Bonnie was married at the age of 15, to another criminal and met Clyde while her husband was in prison. They quickly become obsessed with each other.
J. Edgar Hoover was the FBI’s predecessor director, the Bureau of Investigation, when he put his name on this detailed “wanted” poster warning that officers should use “extreme caution” if they saw the couple. Getty Images The posse that ambushes Bonnie and Clyde after tracking them to Gibsland, Louisiana, takes extreme caution to mean extraordinary strength. The couple’s Ford V8 is full of bullets; they die instantly. Bettmann Archive After the ambush, with 167 bullet holes recorded as having been found in the car, the owner paraded the bloodied corpses of Bonnie and Clyde. A few days later the two were buried separately in Dallas, Texas. RELATED NEWSPAPERS
When her new lover is imprisoned, she smuggles him a gun to help him escape. He was arrested again but by then they were in love and exchanged passionate letters.
He lovingly called her “little wife”; she was under five feet tall and weighed all of 100 pounds but they never married.
Once out on parole, Clyde and Bonnie embarked on a crime spree, with their gang’s first murder of a storekeeper in April 1932 followed by a series of murders, including nine law enforcement officers and at least four civilians, as they robbed a bank, shop. and charging stations.
In April 1934, going coast to coast, they and their gang killed two patrolmen in Grapevine, Texas, then a few days later shot dead a constable and kidnapped a police chief in Miami, Oklahoma.
There was one common marker for Bonnie and Clyde: The place ended their two-year killing spree that claimed the lives of nine law enforcement officers on top of at least four civilians. Universal Archives/Universal Image Collection via Getty Images
In May, Frank Hamer, a former Texas Ranger, tracked them to Gibsland, Louisiana where they were ambushed before dawn by a horse hiding on the side of the highway and opened fire as the couple’s Ford V8 getaway car approached. They were killed immediately.
Despite the already widespread glorification of the pair, lawyers paraded their corpses and declared them “a pair of human rats with no better qualities than any rats.”
But back in Dallas, thousands turned out for their funerals — and separate funerals that could be canceled 90 years later.
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