Asking this at r/AskHistory too.
I just watched "The Highwaymen" on Netflix and one scene showed adoring fans swarming the car of Bonnie and Clyde when they stopped to purchase medicine in a small town. Did this really happen? It seems strange that you would do that to wanted outlaws....if you were fans of them, wouldn't that give them away to law enforcement?
I assume that scene is probably true, as I haven’t done much research on it. I assume this however, as people swarmed them when they were brought back in, and then, they tried to cut off pieces of them as souvenirs. So it probably did happen, they were extremely famous as people basically thought they were Robin Hoods.