The Truth About Bonnie and Clyde that Historians Kept Quiet

Chopped Toes

Hard labor is how many of the prisoners made their money or passed their time, but Barrow wanted no part of this work. He asked other inmates to chop his toes off so he could avoid the fields, and the prisoners obliged with his requests. Because of this, the killer would walk with a limp for the rest of his life, one of his most defining descriptions later in his criminal history...

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