Share This Article These two famous bank robbers were killed on May 23, 1934. Ma Barker and Alvin Karpis “Dutch” Cretzer and Arnold Kyle “Pretty Boy” Floyd and John Dillinger Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow were ambushed and killed on a rural road in Bienville Parish, Louisiana, by four Texas and two Louisiana law officers.