10 Legendary Manhunts

There are many misconceptions concerning Bonnie and Clyde. For a start, the two didn't work alone – they were part of a larger group of ne'er-do-wells, the (Clyde) Barrows gang. However, only Bonnie and Clyde would become the focus of a manhunt that captured the imagination and overly romanced life on the run.

Only a month after their first meeting in 1930 Clyde was jailed for petty offences, but he escaped with the help of a gun Bonnie had smuggled in for him.

Between 1930 and 1934 Bonnie and Clyde would cut a slew of crimes across the American South, with most attempts to apprehend the pair (and members of their gang) ending badly for law enforcement.

Basically, over time a posse would get close to taking the pair, there would be a shootout, a cop would die and they would escape. Occasionally a member of their gang might be taken, but the Bonnie and Clyde themselves proved exceptionally elusive.

In Louisiana 1934 a posse lead by Frank Hamer, a Texas ranger who had studied and tracked the pair's activities for three months, laid an ambush for the couple. Hamer and his posse fired over 100 rounds into the couple's car, putting an end to their crime spree.

What brought the two together is hard to say, but their legacy of of murder and mayhem lives on.