Bonnie and Clyde
Are you and your significant other still trying to decide on Halloween costumes? If so, you’ve pushed this very important decision off until the last possible moment.
Why not make a splash at that neighborhood Halloween event as Dallas’ most infamous outlaws – Bonnie and Clyde? Don a fedora and a fashionable beret for a bit of 1930s depression-era sophistication, and you are half way to a homicidal Halloween costume.
Bonnie and Clyde were Dallas’ most stylish criminals.
Born in Texas, they both moved to Dallas as children, attended school in the city, met in 1930 and as they say, the rest was history. Literally. Rocky history, the likes of America’s Most Wanted including a gun-smuggling Waco jail break, a killing spree spanning four years and several states, ending with a bloody ambush in Louisiana. True-life Halloween horror.
Bonnie and Clyde are buried in Dallas just like regular folks. Although they are likely spending all of eternity together in a climate hotter than Big D, they weren’t laid to rest in the same cemetery. Clyde was buried at Western Heights Cemetery near Stevens Park Golf Course. Bonnie’s grave can be found among overgrown hedges at Crown Hill Cemetery off Webb Chapel.
Before burial, Clyde’s body attracted hundreds of curious Dallasites. His remains were displayed in the Belo Mansion, which at the time housed the Sparkman Funeral Home.
Oddly, Bonnie’s grave marker reads, “As the flowers are all made sweeter by the sunshine and the dew, so this old world is made brighter by the lives of folks like you.” Now that’s eerie.
Bonnie Parker’s Grave Marker
Happy Halloween!
