Blanche Barrow

Blanche Barrow (born Bennie Iva Caldwell; January 1, 1911 – December 24, 1988) was the wife of Clyde Barrow's brother Buck Barrow who became her second husband after he was released from prison with a pardon. To her dismay he joined up with his brothers gang and she was present for the shootout which resulted in them becoming nationally notorious fugitives She spent four months with the Bonnie and Clyde gang. Never involved in actually using a gun, she was blinded in one eye during a getaway; in the same incident she rescued her husband under heavy police gunfire. She was caught along with her fatally wounded husband by a posse of local men in Iowa. She served six years in prison for assault with intent to commit murder of the Sheriff of Platte County, Missouri, but was treated sympathetically by him. After release, she remarried and lived quietly thereafter. Barrow was extensively consulted for the fictionalised Sixties film on the gang, but disliked her portrayal in it.