Bonnie and Clyde they met, both were smitten immediately; most historians believe Parker joined Barrow because she was in love. She remained his loyal companion as they carried out their crime spree and awaited the violent deaths they viewed as inevitable. After Barrow was released from prison in February 1932, he and Ralph Fults assembled a rotating core group of associates. The two began a series of small robberies, primarily of stores and gas stations; their goal was to collect enough money and firepower to launch a liberation raid against Eastham prison. On April 19, Bonnie Parker and Fults were captured in a
Bonnie and Clyde that Barrow was accused of murder. While being held in jail until June 17, Parker wrote poetry to pass the time. When the Kaufman County grand jury convened, it declined to indict her and she was released. Within a few weeks, she reunited with Barrow. On August 5, while Parker was visiting her mother in Dallas, Barrow, Raymond Hamilton and Ross Dyer were drinking alcohol at a country dance in Stringtown, Oklahoma, when Sheriff C.G. Maxwell and his deputy, Eugene C. Moore, approached them in the parking lot. Barrow and Hamilton opened fire, killing the deputy and gravely wounding the