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>> do you know who bought them? >> he was anonymous. i don't know. >> bobby livingston can't reveal the buyer's name but he shares the surprisingly personal reason the mysterious buyer valued the two weapons so highly. seems his family had crossed paths with bonnie. >> my mother took pity on the packer family and would take them food. why did you buy the clyde barrow gun? >> he said i thought they should stay together. >> the sale of the bonnie and clyde guns suggest to earl that his father's collection is worth every bit of the $4 million he has been told. he plans to gradually sell off most of it, so his 50 year love
>> you look back at the history of people who were ruthless. even though hits may be bad, history is history. >> in 1986 earl's father robert earns that frank hamer's family is about to auction off two spec la tack layer pieces of bonnie and clyde memorabilia the most personal weapon a 45 that was in clyde's wasist band and a 38 tht bonnie had taped to her thigh. >> when the opportunity came up, holding a gun that he knew clyde probably used and had on his person. this was his top choice. >> robert and his wife mary ann drive to ouaustin for the sale. robert's friends and competitors fill the hall. >> my dad got up to conversion with someone, go get a drink and the guns came up for auction he
was police raised him and called him off to jail. >> bonnie sneaks a revolver into the jail and clyde makes the run for it he is captured jailed and beaten by the guards. he is released in 1932 a hardened criminal. he and bonnie go on a rampage robbing banks and killing a dozen people. all along he is consumed one idea revenge on the guards who beat him. >> let's raid this place and turn everybody lose and i would like to shoot every dam one of these guards. >> he leads the raid in 1934. five convicts are released from prison and one prison guard is killed. he is humiliated calls in a texas ranger named frank hamer. >> put clyde and bonnie p on the spot and shoot everyone in
sight. those are his own words. >> he developed an informant who wr released the duo's location. >> he sets up an ambush. he appears over a hill bonnie at his side. >> he opened up with a deafening fuselage. >> bonnie and clyde are dead without being able to shoot a single shot. >> the inevitable end bonnie parker and clyde barely who died as they lived the gun. >> to augment the eager pay they take the weapons and other personal items. >> frank hamer wound up with all of the weaponry that was recovered in the car. >> it is no surprise to easterly an avid collector like his father would covet his trophy
>> one of the people you can directly attribute to bonnie parker. >> two guns poufound on the bod of bonnie and clyde. it hits a snag. >> bonnie's gun the serial number had been scratched off. that being the case it doesn't hold too well with the atf. >> davis livingston anxiously await word from the fed al aut roarities will they allow the sale to go through or seize the gun. >> they decided it was a historic artifact that needs to be saved and went ahead and reissued a serial number and put it on the gun. five months later the collection including the 48 and clyde's 35 are the center piece of r and r, dang officers outlaws auction. >> my wife and i went to the live auction.
that was carried by the barrow. >> like barry like bonnie and clyde? >> it is heavy. unbelievable. >> the barrow gang accidentally left the weapon on the side of the road while changing a tire on their get away car. >> dad loved the whole bonnie and clyde story didn't he? >> loved the story. as we all do. it holds up now. >> fascination with americana and the gangsters. >> 1930 bonnie parker and unemployed waitress meets clyde in west barrow. clyde is a year older and on the run from burglary charges. >> they are these mythical characters who did not but cause trouble and pain. a young boy and girl who went against the system. by all accounts it was love at first sight. the only thing that separated
clyde tattoo on his arm? the navy. he tried to enlist but the navy found him medically unfit. >> after his father's death in 2003 earl davis ponders what to do with the strange inheritance a stockpile of texas memorabilia that includes everything from alamo art facts to guns owned by bonnie and clyde. what should he el sell first? earl celts on some letters from it legendary william b travis commander of the alamo garrison. the moment auction company exec bobby livingston steps into the davis home he locks on to something else. >> this is bonnie parker's pistol coming from frank humor the won tee hunter that hunted down bonnie and clyde. i knew it was a lifetime opportunity for our action
his first arrest? it was b he was a few days late in returning a rental card. >> clive was quite -- clyde was a dapper guy. >> this is clyde? >> this photo is part of the huge cash of memorabilia his father robert amassed over several decades. through shrewd purchases and trades he acquires the barrow dang's shot gun, clyde's watch and bonnie parker's makeup case. even 80 years after they died in a hail of gun fire almost anything associated with these notorious criminals is valuable. by far the most valuable are their guns. snatched from the death car of bounty countrihunter. >> they were able to take these things. >> i tracked one to the museum here. >> okay jamie.
-- drops. >> we know how much davis loved these things. we really didn't understand how much he collected. >> or the variety of what he collected. >> he looked he goes there's bonn bonnie parker's gun. i am like what? my eyes lit up. >> that is next on strange inheritance. >> clyde never served in the military. he tattooed his arm with the insignia of which prafrn? the army, navy or marines? is the answer when we return. ee. embarrassing wart? dr. scholl's freeze away wipes 'em out fast with as few as one treatment. freeze away! dr. scholl's. the #1 selling freeze brand. a dry mouth can be a common side effect. that's why there's biotene. it comes in oral rinse, spray or gel, so there's moisturizing relief for everyone.
the. >> bonnie and clyde -- >> robert adds that shot gun from the barrow gang to his houseful of as well as pocket watch and bonnie's makeup case. he adds two more objects to cap off his gangster collection. >> the gun 45 that was in clyde's wasist band another 38 taped to bonnie's leg. frank hamer wrote a note that bonnie was squatting on had gun. >> it takes patients, luck and quick thinking but those two weapons will end up in earl's strange inheritance. >> he obviously got what he p wanted. >> he always got what he wanted. >> this time he almost blows it. up next the white knuckle