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U.S. Department stice Federal Bureau of Investigstioo Wendinge. D.c. 2535 I.C. $26-31672 December 14, 1934 (Revised October, 1983) CLYDE CHAMPION BARROW BONNIE PARKER NATIONAL MOTOR VEHICLE THEFT ACT Clyde Champion Barrow and his companaon, Bonnie Parker, were shot to death by officers in ambush near Sailes, Bienville Parish, Louisiana, on May 23, l934, after one of the most colorful and spectacular manhunts the Nation had seen up to that time.. : Barrow was suspected of numerous killings and was wanted for murder, robbery, and on state charges of kidnaping. Sr The Federal Bureau of Investigation (in early l930's called the Bureau of Investigation) became interested in Barrow and his paramour late in December, 1932, through a singular bit of evidence. A Ford .... automobile was found abandoned near Jackson, Michigan, which had been stolen in Pawhuska, Oklahoma, in September of that year. At Pawhuska it was learned another Ford car had been abandoned there which had F been stolen in Illinois. A search of this car revealed it:had been occupied by a man and a woman, indicated by abandoned articles therein. In this car was found a prescription bottle, which : led Special Agents to a drug store in Nacogdoches, Texas, where investigation disclosed the woman for whom the prescription had been filled was Clyde Barrow's aunt. Further investigation revealed that the woman who obtained. the prescription had been visited recently by Clyde Barrow, Bonnie Parker, and Clyde's brother, L. C. Barrow. It also was learned. that these three were driving a Ford car, identified as the one Stolen in Illinois. It was further shown that L. C. Barrow had secured the empty prescription bottle from a son of the woman who had originally obtained it. On May 20, 1933, the United States Commissioner at Dallas,. Texas, Issued : warrant against Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker, charging them with the interstate transportation, from Dallas to Ckl . Butomobile stolen in Illinois. The Fbl then started its hunt for thi. elusive pair. BACKGROUND Bonnie and clyde met in Texas in January. l930.wit the time, Bonnie was 19 and married to an imprisoned murderer? Clyde was 2l and unmarried. Soon after, he was arrested for a brglaty and sent to jail. He escaped, nsing a gun Bonnie had smuggl d to him, was recaptured, and was sent back to prison. Clyde Was paroled in February. l932, rejoined Bonnie, and resumed a life of crine.