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Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow

By Charles Montaldo, About.com Guide

Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow

Photo of Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow taken between 1932 and 1934

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Bonnie Parker was just shy of five feet tall, all of 90 pounds, a part-time waitress and amateur poet from a poor Dallas home who was bored with life and wanted something more. Clyde Barrow was a fast-talking, small-time thief from a similarly destitute Dallas family who hated poverty and wanted to make a name for himself. Together, they became the most notorious crime couple in American history.

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