Blanche Barrow, who was a member of Bonnie and Clyde’s gang, at the moment she was captured in August, 1933. Blanche was the only member of the gang to survive their exploits, dying in 1988. She weighed only 81 pounds when she was captured.
When Blanche Barrow was captured in 1933, she was just 22 years old and weighed only 81 pounds. Her frail state was due to weeks of running, hiding, and surviving shootouts alongside Bonnie and Clyde. Despite her small size, Blanche endured one of the gang’s most famous gun battles at Dexfield Park in Iowa. During that fight, her husband, Buck Barrow, was fatally wounded, and Blanche herself was blinded in one eye from flying glass.
Here’s the remarkable part: Blanche was the only member of the Barrow Gang to live long enough to tell the story. While Bonnie and Clyde met their infamous end in a hail of bullets in 1934, Blanche went on to serve six years in prison, then lived quietly until her death in 1988.
Fun fact: In the 1967 film Bonnie and Clyde, Blanche was portrayed as a hysterical, comedic character, something she deeply resented. In reality, Blanche was tough, resilient, and later published her own memoir to set the record straight. Her firsthand accounts remain one of the most reliable sources about what life was truly like inside the gang.
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