Bonnie Parker

Bonnie Parker, of Bonnie and Clyde fame, went on a two-year rampage with her lover across the States during the Great Depression, in a revolutionary tale of fatal attraction and violence that would forever resonate in the public consciousness.

Waitress Bonnie met Clyde Chestnut Barrow in 1929 and the chemistry was immediate. He was sentenced to jail soon after but escaped in 1930, using a gun Bonnie smuggled in to him. Between 1932 and 1934, the pair embarked on an increasingly reckless crime spree of robberies, kidnappings and murders across Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Louisiana and New Mexico.

Along with the fellow members of their Barrow Gang, they changed cars and jumped borders frequently to elude the "big, bad law" who were "out to get them." But however much they've been romanticised in the public imagination, there's no doubt that the actions of Bonnie and her cohort were brutal and desperate, as they stole money from a host of small grocery stores and petrol stations and trailed no less than 13 murders in their wake of destruction. They died in as grisly and dramatic a style as they lived; in a spray of 130 bullets during a police ambush on May 23, 1934.