Since I'm doing a girl's hall of fame -- I thought it might be a cool idea not just to give profiles of girl heroes, but also girl villains.

So here you go:  Bonnie Parker's one of the most famous female baddies in history.

Bonnie Parker was born in Rowena, Texas in 1910.  An honor student and award-winning creative writer, she had blond curls, an angel face, long legs, and was a spiffy dresser in her crocheted berets and long black skirts.  At an early age, it looked like she was destined to become a lady novelist or a well-behaved wife and mother.  She even married a man named Robert Thorton before her sixteenth birthday . . . but he turned out to have a criminal streak, and was later imprisoned for burglary, and shot dead while trying to escape. It turns out, Bonnie had a taste for bad boys.  They didn’t come worse, either, than old Clyde Barrow, a handsome, dark-haired lad; the story is that when they first met, they crushed on each other hard, though I’ve also heard it told that Clyde was gay.  Together with Clyde’s brother, Buck Barrow, the three outlaws conducted a crime spree through Texas, Oklahoma, and Arkansas.  They dashed about, robbing banks and stores, and killing clerks and even police officers before screeching off in their Model T Fords.  Though Bonnie was to suffer terribly because of her chosen life path – at one point being severely injured in a car accident, which left her legs scarred with burns – she saw herself as a melancholy, even romantic figure: She wrote poems about being in the Barrow Gang, in odes like “Suicide Sal,” where she seemed to be talking about her own feelings about Clyde:

I couldn't help loving him madly,

For him even I would die.           

And die she did.  Stupid girl!  Bonnie and Clyde were hunted down by four Texas police officers, who ambushed them while they were driving on a road in Bienville Parish, Louisiana.  Reports say that they were shot around 50 times, and that the officers continued plugging away even after their car flipped over.  In their Ford were automatic weapons, ammunition, semi-automatics, and a bunch of different license plates to hide their identity.             

Bonnie wound up getting buried in Dallas, where people still put flowers on her grave.  She was a bad girl, but a glamorous one – so glam, in fact, that she was played by the super beautiful Faye Dunaway in the 1967 flick Bonnie and Clyde, which I recommend you Netflix immediately!