CLYDE'S COURAGEOUS NUT

You've probably heard of Bonnie and Clyde, but have you heard of Bonnie and Roy? This month marks the 79th anniversary of the deaths of notorious crime duo Bonnie and Clyde on May 23, 1934. The young gangsters in love tore across the American Southwest during the Great Depression, leaving a trail of robberies and murders. Newspapers demonized Clyde Barrow and his “gun-woman” Bonnie Parker as “notorious desperado's” and “dangerous killers,” so the following six facts might surprise you. 1. Although Barrow and Parker claimed to be married, Parker remained legally married to her first husband, Roy Thornton. On the day she died, she still wore his wedding ring and bore a tattoo on her knee with intertwined hearts and their names, Bonnie and Roy. 2. Bonnie and Clyde were both short. Parker was only 4’11? and Barrow 5’4? at a time when average heights for women and men were about 5’3? and 5’8?. (Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty, who played Bonnie and Clyde in the famous 1967 film stood