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 1. Although Barrow and Parker claimed to be married, Parker remained

 legally married to her first husband, Roy Thornton. On the day she died, she still wore his wedding ring and bore a tattoo on her knee with intertwined hearts and their names, Bonnie and Roy.

2. Bonnie and Clyde were both short. Parker was only 4’11″ and Barrow 5’4″ at a time when average heights for women and men were about 5’3″ and 5’8″. (Our Clyde is 6'2")

3. Parker was an honor student and a poet, and life as one of America’s most wanted didn’t stifle those interests. Shortly before her death, Parker wrote a poem called “The Story of Bonnie and Clyde,” which was published in several newspapers and immortalized their tale.

4. Bonnie was only 24 at the time of her death. Clyde was 25. Clyde's Brother  Marvin "Buck" Barrow was 30. Buck's wife Blanche was only 22 at the time of the shoot out - but she survived, and lived to be 77 years old.

5. Henry and Cumie Barrow put off buying a gravestone for Buck. They were sure Clyde would follow him into death any day, and decided to wait for Clyde. Clyde liked the idea and suggested the epitaph to go over himself and his brother: "Gone But Not Forgotten."

6. Eight decades later, the morbidly curious can see Bonnie and Clyde’s bullet-ridden death car on display at Whiskey Pete’s Casino in Primm, Nevada, outside of Las Vegas

7. At the time of her death Bonnie weighed 90 lbs, Blanche Barrow weighed just 81 lbs at the time of her capture.

8. Blanche was Buck's third wife. Buck was Blanche's second husband. (they were married in 1931, just 2 years before his death.) He also had three children from his previous marriages.

9. The life insurance policies for both Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow were paid in full by American National of Galveston. Since then, the policy of pay-outs has changed to exclude pay-outs in cases of deaths caused by any criminal act by the insured,

10. Soon after the shootings a crowd soon gathered at the ambush spot. One woman cut off bloody locks of Parker's hair and pieces from her dress, which were subsequently sold as souvenirs.Ted Hinton found a man trying to cut off Barrow's trigger finger, One eager man had opened his pocket knife, and was reaching into the car to cut off Clyde's left ear. One man offered Barrow’s father over $30,000 for Barrow’s body, the equivalent of over $600,000 today