Bonny and Clyde: the Grapevine Killings

On this day, an Easter Sunday, near Grapevine in Texas, highway patrolmen H.D. Murphy and Edward Bryant Wheeler stopped their motorcycles thinking a motorist needed assistance and were shot dead by the infamous outlaws Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow. An eyewitness, later discredited, said that Bonnie fired the fatal shots and laughed at the way Murphy’s head “bounced like a rubber ball” on the ground as she shot him. The massive negative publicity that this report created, increased the public clamour for the extermination of the Barrow Gang. The outcry galvanised the authorities into action, and a significant reward was offered for “the dead bodies of the Grapevine slayers” — not their capture, just the bodies. The following month, Bonnie and Clyde were ambushed by police and shot dead in Bienville Parish, Louisiana.

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