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Clyde Champion Barrow and his companion, Bonnie Parker, were shot to death by officers in an ambushnear Sailes, Bienville Parish, Louisiana, on May 23, 1934, after champion of the most colorful and spectacular piecehoodhunts the Nation had seen up to that time.Barrow was guess of numerous killings and was wanted for murder, robbery, and state charges ofkidnaping.The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), consequently called the Bureau of Investigation, became interested inBarrow and his paramour late in December, 1932, through a singular bit of evidence. A Ford automobile,which had been stolen in Pawhuska, Oklahoma, was found aband one(a)d near Jackson, Michigan inSeptember of that year. At Pawhuska, it was larn another Ford car had been abandoned there which hadbeen stolen in Illinois. A search of this car revealed it had been occupied by a man and a woman, indicatedby abandoned articles therein. In this car was found a prescription bottle, which led Special Agents to a drugst ore in Nacogdoches, Texas, where investigation disclosed the woman for whom the prescription had beenfilled was Clyde Barrows aunt.Further investigation revealed that the woman who obtained the prescription had been visited recently byClyde Barrow, Bonnie Parker, and Clydes brother, L. C. Barrow. It also was learned that these three weredriving a Ford car, identified as the one stolen in Illinois. It was further shown that L. C. Barrow had securedthe 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 a warrant against Clyde Barrowand Bonnie Parker, charging them with the interstate transportation, from Dallas to Oklahoma, of theautomobile stolen in Illinois. The FBI then started its hunt for this elusive pair.BACKGROUNDBonnie and Clyde met in Texas in January, 1930. At the time, Bonnie was 19 and married to an imprisonedmurderer Clyde was 21 and unmarried. Soon after, he was arrest ed for a burglary and sent to jail. Heescaped, using a gun Bonnie had smuggled to him, was recaptured, and was sent back to prison. Clydewas paroled in February, 1932, rejoined Bonnie, and resumed a life of crime.In addition to the automobile theft charge, Bonnie and Clyde were suspects in other crimes. At the time theywere killed in 1934, they were believed to have committed 13 murders and several robberies and burglaries.Barrow, for example, was suspected of murdering two police officers at Joplin, Missouri, and kidnaping aman and a woman in rural Louisiana.