Editing Bonnie and Clyde (section)

== Aftermath ==
The posse never received the promised [[Bounty (reward)|bounty]] on the perpetrators, so they were told to take whatever they wanted from the confiscated items in their car. Hamer appropriated the arsenal<ref>Phillips, ''Running'', p.  207</ref> of stolen guns and ammunition, plus a box of fishing tackle, under the terms of his compensation package with the Texas DOC.<ref group=notes>Hamer was interested in the Barrow hunt assignment, but the pay was only a third of what he made working for oil companies. To sweeten the deal, Texas Department of Corrections boss Lee Simmons granted him title to all the guns that the posse would recover from the slain murderers. Almost all the guns, which the gang had stolen from armories, were the property of the National Guard. There was a thriving market for "celebrity" guns, even in 1934 (Guinn, p. 343).</ref> In July, Clyde's mother Cumie wrote to Hamer asking for the return of the guns: "You don't never want to forget my boy was never tried in no court for murder, and no one is guilty until proven guilty by some court so I hope you will answer this letter and also return the guns I am asking for."<ref name=tre224>Treherne, p.  224</ref> There is no record of any response.<ref name=tre224 />

Alcorn claimed Barrow's [[saxophone]] from the car, but he later returned it to the Barrow family.<ref name="Guinn, p 343">Guinn, p. 343</ref> Posse members also took other personal items, such as Parker's clothing. The Parker family asked for them back but were refused,<ref name="posse" /><ref>[http://texashideout.tripod.com/emlet.jpg ''Emma Parker letter''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180804050023/http://texashideout.tripod.com/emlet.jpg |date=August 4, 2018 }}. TexasHideout. Retrieved May 26, 2008.</ref> and the items were later sold as souvenirs.<ref>Steele, p ?; Phillips, pp. 209–11.</ref> The Barrow family claimed that Sheriff Jordan kept an alleged suitcase of cash, and writer Jeff Guinn claims that Jordan bought a "barn and land in Arcadia" soon after the event, thereby hinting that the accusation had merit, despite the complete absence of any evidence to the existence of such a suitcase.<ref name="Guinn, p 343" /> Jordan did attempt to keep the death car for his own, but Ruth Warren of [[Topeka, Kansas]] sued him because she was the owner of the car when Barrow stole it on April 29;<ref>Ramsey, p. 234</ref> Jordan returned it to her in August 1934, still covered with blood and human tissue.<ref>Knight and Davis, p. 197.</ref><ref group=notes>The engine still ran, despite the battering which it took in the ambush. After Jordan conceded ownership of the vehicle, Mrs Warren arrived in Arcadia to claim it and then drove it to Shreveport, still in its gruesome state. From there, she had it trucked back to Topeka. (Ramsey, p. 272) The car was most recently on display in Terrible's Gold Ranch Casino in [[Verdi, Nevada]].</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/2894|title=Bonnie and Clyde's Death Car, Primm, Nevada|website=RoadsideAmerica.com|access-date=March 31, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190331025222/https://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/2894|archive-date=March 31, 2019|url-status=live}}</ref>
[[File:HenryMethvinMugshot1931.jpg|thumb|Henry Methvin escaped prosecution for the two Grapevine, Texas, murders because of his father's cooperation with the posse. But he was prosecuted for other crimes in Oklahoma, where he was convicted and served eight years.]]

[[File:BlancheBarrowMug1933.jpg|thumb|Blanche never carried a gun; she was convicted of [[attempted murder]] and served six years.]]

In February 1935, Dallas and federal authorities arrested and tried twenty family members and friends for [[aiding and abetting]] Barrow and Parker. This became known as the "harboring trial" and all twenty either pleaded guilty or were found guilty. The two mothers were jailed for thirty days; other sentences ranged from two years' imprisonment (for Floyd Hamilton, brother of Raymond) to one hour in custody (for Barrow's teenage sister Marie).<ref>Guinn, pp. 354–55</ref> Other defendants included Blanche, Jones, Methvin, and Parker's sister Billie.

Blanche was permanently blinded in her left eye during the 1933 shootout at Dexfield Park. She was taken into custody on the charge of "[[attempted murder|assault with intent to kill]]". She was convicted and sentenced to ten years in prison, but was paroled in 1939 for good behavior. She returned to Dallas, leaving her life of crime in the past, and lived with her invalid father as his caregiver. In 1940, she married Eddie Frasure, worked as a taxi cab dispatcher and a beautician, and completed the terms of her parole one year later. She lived in peace with her husband until he died of cancer in 1969. [[Warren Beatty]] approached her to purchase the rights to her name for use in the 1967 film ''[[Bonnie and Clyde (film)|Bonnie and Clyde]]'', and she agreed to the original script. However, she objected to her characterization by [[Estelle Parsons]] in the final film, describing the actress's Academy Award-winning portrayal of her as "a screaming horse's ass". Despite this, she maintained a firm friendship with Beatty. She died from cancer at age 77 on December 24, 1988, and was buried in Dallas's Grove Hill Memorial Park under the name "Blanche B. Frasure".<ref>Barrow and Phillips, p. 249 n</ref>
[[File:WDJonesMug1973.jpg|thumb|upright|right|Jones served six years in prison, convicted of one murder, indicted for another, and suspected of an additional two committed as a juvenile.]]

Barrow cohorts Hamilton and Palmer, who escaped Eastham in January 1934, were recaptured. Both were convicted of murder and executed in the electric chair at [[Huntsville, Texas]] on May 10, 1935.<ref>Knight and Davis, p. 188</ref> Jones had left Barrow and Parker, six weeks after the three of them evaded officers at Dexfield Park in July 1933.<ref>Ramsey, p. 196</ref> He reached Houston and got a job picking cotton, where he was soon discovered and captured. He was returned to Dallas, where he dictated a "confession" in which he claimed to have been kept a prisoner by Barrow and Parker. Some of the more lurid lies that he told concerned the gang's sex lives, and this testimony gave rise to many stories about Barrow's ambiguous sexuality.<ref>Toland, John (1963). ''The Dillinger Days''. New York: Random House. {{ISBN|0-306-80626-6}} (1995 Da Capo ed.), p. 83</ref> Jones was convicted of the murder of Doyle Johnson and served a lenient sentence of fifteen years. He gave an interview to ''[[Playboy]]'' magazine during the excitement surrounding the 1967 movie, saying that in reality it had not been glamorous.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cinetropic.com/janeloisemorris/commentary/bonn&clyde/wdjones.html |title=Riding with Bonnie and Clyde by W.D. Jones |publisher=Cinetropic.com |date=May 23, 1934 |access-date=June 12, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160309154647/http://www.cinetropic.com/janeloisemorris/commentary/bonn%26clyde/wdjones.html |archive-date=March 9, 2016 |url-status=live }}</ref> He was killed on August 4, 1974 in a misunderstanding by the jealous boyfriend of a woman whom he was trying to help.<ref>Knight and Davis, p. 189</ref>

Methvin was convicted in Oklahoma of the 1934 murder of Constable Campbell at Commerce. He was paroled in 1942 and killed by a train in 1948. He fell asleep drunk on the train tracks, although some have speculated that he was pushed by someone seeking revenge.<ref>Knight and Davis, p. 190</ref> His father Ivy was killed in 1946 by a [[hit-and-run]] driver.<ref name="Guinn, p 358">Guinn, p. 358</ref> Parker's husband Roy Thornton was sentenced to five years in prison for burglary in March 1933. He was killed by guards on October 3, 1937 during an escape attempt from Eastham prison.<ref name="roy">[http://texashideout.tripod.com/bonroy.html "Bonnie & Roy."] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070621122306/http://texashideout.tripod.com/bonroy.html |date=June 21, 2007 }} [http://texashideout.tripod.com/bc.htm Bonnie and Clyde's Texas Hideout.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100221181414/http://texashideout.tripod.com/bc.htm |date=February 21, 2010 }} Retrieved May 24, 2008.</ref>

Prentiss Oakley admitted to friends that he had fired prematurely.<ref name="Guinn, p 357" /> He succeeded Henderson Jordan as sheriff of Bienville Parish in 1940.<ref name="Guinn, p 357" />

[[File:BonnieParkerStory-poster.jpg|thumb|upright|right|1958: Parker was portrayed in the media as a dominant tough girl who ran a gang of several subservient men, such as in ''[[The Bonnie Parker Story]]'']]
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Hamer returned to a quiet life as a freelance security consultant for oil companies. According to Guinn, "his reputation suffered somewhat after Gibsland"<ref>Guinn, p. 356</ref> because many people felt that he had not given Barrow and Parker a fair chance to surrender. He made headlines again in 1948 when he and Governor [[Coke Stevenson]] unsuccessfully challenged the vote total achieved by [[Lyndon Johnson]] during the election for the [[United States Senate|U.S. Senate]]. He died in 1955 at the age of 71, after several years of poor health.<ref>Knight and Davis, p. 191</ref> Bob Alcorn died on May 23, 1964, 30 years to the day after the Gibsland ambush.<ref name="Guinn, p 358" />

The bullet-riddled Ford became a popular traveling attraction. The car was displayed at fairs, amusement parks, and flea markets for three decades, and once became a fixture at a Nevada race track. There was a charge of one dollar to sit in it. The Ford was sold between casinos after being displayed in a [[Las Vegas]] car museum in the 1980s; it was shown in Iowa, Missouri, and Nevada. Since 2011, the Ford has been on display at [[Whiskey Pete's]], a hotel and casino in [[Primm, Nevada]], near the border between California and Nevada, alongside [[Interstate 15]]. <ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.thevintagenews.com/2017/05/23/bonnie-and-clydes-bullet-riddled-death-car-is-on-display-at-whiskey-petes-casino-in-primm-nevada/ |title=Bonnie and Clyde's bullet riddled "death car" is on display at Whiskey Pete's Casino in Primm, Nevada |access-date=July 10, 2020 |url-status=dead |archive-date=June 22, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200622193207/https://www.thevintagenews.com/2017/05/23/bonnie-and-clydes-bullet-riddled-death-car-is-on-display-at-whiskey-petes-casino-in-primm-nevada/ }}</ref>

Texas Rangers, [[Texas Highway Patrol|troopers]], and [[Texas Department of Public Safety|DPS (Department of Public Safety)]]{{clarify|date=May 2019}} staff honored patrolman Edward Bryan Wheeler on April 1, 2011, the 77th anniversary of the Grapevine murders, when the Barrow gang murdered Wheeler on Easter Sunday. They presented the Yellow Rose of Texas commendation to his last surviving sibling, 95-year-old Ella Wheeler-McLeod of [[San Antonio]], giving her a plaque and framed portrait of her brother.<ref>Davis, Vincent T. "Texas honors officer killed by Bonnie and Clyde, sister given commendation 77 years later", ''Houston Chronicle'', April 2, 2011</ref>