Relatives of the infamous couple Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow reportedly want them buried together 90 years after their deaths.
According to The New York Post, Parker’s niece, Rhea Leen Linder, 89, and Buddy Barrow Williams, one of Barrow’s nephews, now in his mid-70s, are in “a battle, thus far unsuccessfully,” to have Parker buried next to her lover in a vacant plot reserved for her next to him.
Parker is currently buried at Crown Hill Memorial Park in Dallas, Texas, next to her mother, Emma, who died in 1945. She was originally buried at Fishtrap Cemetery in Dallas, only a mile from Barrow’s gravesite at Western Heights until she was moved 11 years later. However, this was against the couple’s wishes.
“Bonnie and Clyde’s wish when they were on the run was to be buried together because they knew that one day they would be captured and killed together,” a source close to the couple’s relatives revealed.
The source added, “But Bonnie’s mother decided she didn’t want her daughter buried next to Clyde. It was her proclamation that ‘Clyde had her in life, he can’t have her in death,’ and mama won out.”
Historian Brad Dison, who interviewed Bonnie and Clyde’s descendants for his book about the couple’s demise, deemed “the trap” revealed to The Post, “Buddy and Rhea’s efforts are still ongoing.”
“They have not given up, but I think they’re skeptical that it will happen anytime soon. They want to honor Bonnie’s wishes that she be buried next to Clyde,” he continued.
In 1934, Bonnie and Clyde were gunned down by Texas and Louisiana state police in an ambush in Louisiana. Parker was 23 and Barrow was 25, via History.
The couple and their accomplices dubbed “the Barrow Gang” were responsible for the murders of 13 people, including nine police officers, and several robberies.