"Butch Cassidy Robert Leroy Parker (April 13, 1866 – November 7, 1908), better known as Butch Cassidy, was a notorious American train robber and bank robber, and the leader of a gang of criminal outlaws known as the ""Wild Bunch"" in the American Old West. After participating in criminal activity in the United States for more than a decade at the end of the 19th century, the pressures of being pursued by law enforcement, notably by the Pinkerton detective agency, forced Parker to flee the country with an accomplice, Harry Alonzo Longabaugh, known as the ""Sundance Kid"", and Longabaugh's girlfriend"
"Etta Place. The trio traveled first to Argentina and then to Bolivia, where Parker and Longabaugh were supposedly killed in a shootout with police in November 1908; the exact circumstances of their fate continue to be disputed. Parker's life and death have been extensively dramatized in film, television, and literature, and he remains one of the most well-known icons of the ""Wild West"" mythos in modern times. Robert Leroy Parker was born on April 13, 1866, in Beaver, Utah, the first of 13 children of British immigrants Maximillian Parker and Ann Campbell Gillies. The Parker and Gillies families had converted"
"a copy of the Wyoming Territorial Prison mugshot of William T. Wilcox, a previously unknown associate of Butch Cassidy. Observing the similarities between the two men, he revised his previous theory and concluded that Phillips was in fact Wilcox, and not Butch Cassidy. Butch Cassidy Robert Leroy Parker (April 13, 1866 – November 7, 1908), better known as Butch Cassidy, was a notorious American train robber and bank robber, and the leader of a gang of criminal outlaws known as the ""Wild Bunch"" in the American Old West. After participating in criminal activity in the United States for more than"
"2016 with five others by journalist/writer Ace Atkins. Parker's ""Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch"" series has been continued by actor and screenwriter Robert Knott. with three novels published through 2016. The ""Sunny Randall"" series received a 7th installment titled ""Blood Feud"" on November 27th, 2018. Written by long time friend of Parker, sports journalist, and bestselling author, Mike Lupica. ""Surrogate""' (1991)"" A short story published in the crime anthology ""New Crimes 3"" Robert B. Parker Robert Brown Parker (September 17, 1932 – January 18, 2010) was an American writer of fiction, primarily of the mystery/detective genre. His most famous works"
"Robert Parker (singer) Robert Parker (born October 14, 1932) is an American R&B singer and musician, best known for his 1966 hit, ""Barefootin'"". Parker was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States, and started his career as a saxophonist, playing with Professor Longhair on his hit ""Mardi Gras In New Orleans"" in 1949. Over the next decade, he played with most of New Orleans' musicians, including Fats Domino, Irma Thomas, and Huey ""Piano"" Smith. By 1958, he had started recording solo, having a local hit with the instrumental ""All Night Long"". In 1965 he signed for Nola Records, and had"
"several other murders. The gang was best known for two of its members, Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow, an unmarried couple. Clyde Barrow was the leader. Other members included: Barrow Gang The Barrow Gang was an American gang active between 1932 and 1934. They were well known outlaws, robbers, and criminals who as a gang traveled the Central United States during the Great Depression. Their exploits were known all over the nation. They captured the attention of the American press and its readership during what is sometimes referred to as the ""public enemy era."" Though the gang was notorious for"
"The Bonnie Parker Story The Bonnie Parker Story is a 1958 crime film directed by William Witney. It is loosely based on the life of Bonnie Parker, a well-known outlaw of the 1930s. The film stars Dorothy Provine as Parker; Parker's actual historical partner, Clyde Barrow, is renamed Guy Darrow for the film's story, and played by Jack Hogan.The film was released by American International Pictures as a double feature with ""Machine Gun Kelly"". Diner waitress Bonnie Parker is just as tired of her job in 1932 Texas as she is of customers like Guy Darrow, who try too hard"
"""Hunter Black"", by Justin Peniston, William Orr, and Jacob Bascle, features a title character inspired by the notion of putting Parker into a fantasy setting. Like ""The Hunter"", from which his name was drawn, ""Hunter Black"" starts off looking for payback against betrayers, but it soon diverges into a story of monsters, magic, and mayhem. Parker (Stark novels character) Parker is a fictional character created by American novelist Donald E. Westlake (1933-2008). A criminal anti-hero, Parker is the main protagonist of 24 of the 28 novels Westlake wrote under the pseudonym Richard Stark. A ruthless career criminal, Parker has almost"
"Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid is a 1969 American Western film directed by George Roy Hill and written by William Goldman (who won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for the film). Based loosely on fact, the film tells the story of Wild West outlaws Robert LeRoy Parker, known as Butch Cassidy (Paul Newman), and his partner Harry Longabaugh, the ""Sundance Kid"" (Robert Redford), who are on the run from a crack US posse after a string of train robberies. The pair and Sundance's lover, Etta Place (Katharine Ross), flee to Bolivia"
"a 14-year-old girl from Tustin, California. At the time of the murders he was stationed at the El Toro, California, Marine Air Station. In 1978 and 1979 Parker raped and murdered five Orange County, California, women. He also attacked a sixth woman who was pregnant; she survived but her child was stillborn. The women were murdered by bludgeoning them with a 2x4 piece of lumber, a hammer, or a mallet. For this reason he was nicknamed the ""Bedroom Basher."" Kevin Lee Green, the husband of the woman who survived the attack, was wrongfully convicted of murder and spent 16 years"
"Patsy Conroy Patrick Conway (c. 1846– ?), commonly known by his alias Patsy or Patsy Conroy, was an American burglar and river pirate. He was the founder and leader of the Patsy Conroy Gang, a gang of river pirates active on the New York waterfront in the old Fourth Ward and Corlears' Hook districts during the post-American Civil War era. Fellow members of his gang, Denny Brady and Larry Griffin, later assumed control but he participated in their raiding towns in Westchester County. He and Larry Griffin were eventually convicted of robbing the home of Robert Emmet in White Plains"
"such as ""Xero"", and used ""Xero"" as a venue for a harsh announcement that he was leaving the science fiction field. Several of Westlake's novels have been made into motion pictures: 1967's ""Point Blank"" (based on ""The Hunter"") with Lee Marvin as Parker (changed to Walker); """" (based on ""The Score"") with Michel Constantin as Parker (changed to Georges), also in 1967; 1968's ""The Split"" (from the book ""The Seventh"") with Jim Brown as Parker (changed to McClain); ""The Hot Rock"" in 1972 with Robert Redford; ""Cops and Robbers"" in 1973; """"The Outfit"""" with Robert Duvall as Parker (changed to"
"John Richard Parker, brother of Cynthia Ann Parker, both taken hostage in Texas by the Comanche, in the 1969 episode ""The Understanding"" of the syndicated television series ""Death Valley Days"", which was hosted by Robert Taylor. In the story line, Parker contracts the plague, is left for dead by his fellow Comanche warriors, and is rescued by his future Mexican wife, Yolanda (Emily Banks). He played the outlaw turned temporary sheriff Hendry Brown in the 1969 episode ""The Restless Man"". In that story line, Brown takes the job of sheriff to tame a lawless town, begins to court a young"
"Parker (Stark novels character) Parker is a fictional character created by American novelist Donald E. Westlake (1933-2008). A criminal anti-hero, Parker is the main protagonist of 24 of the 28 novels Westlake wrote under the pseudonym Richard Stark. A ruthless career criminal, Parker has almost no traditional redeeming qualities, aside from efficiency and professionalism. Parker is callous, meticulous, and perfectly willing to commit murder if he deems it necessary. He does, however, live by one ethical principle: he will not double-cross another professional criminal with whom he is working, unless they try to double-cross ""him"". Should that happen, Parker will"
"Patrick Kearney Patrick Wayne Kearney (born September 24, 1939) is an American serial killer who preyed on young men in California from 1965 to 1977. He is sometimes referred to as ""The Freeway Killer"", a nickname he shares with two other separate serial killers, William Bonin and Randy Kraft. Kearney may be among the most prolific serial killers in U.S. history, claiming possibly as many as 43 victims according to law enforcement. Kearney was the oldest of three sons and was raised in a reasonably stable family. His early life was not without some trauma, however; as a thin and"
"Robert B. Parker Robert Brown Parker (September 17, 1932 – January 18, 2010) was an American writer of fiction, primarily of the mystery/detective genre. His most famous works were the 40 novels written about the private detective Spenser. ABC television network developed the television series """" based on the character in the mid-1980s; a series of TV movies based on the character were also produced. His works incorporate encyclopedic knowledge of the Boston metropolitan area. The Spenser novels have been cited by critics and bestselling authors such as Robert Crais, Harlan Coben, and Dennis Lehane as not only influencing their"
"salesman for the ""Gazetteer and Guide"", an African-American interest magazine. Details on his later activities and death are unknown. James Benjamin Parker James Benjamin Parker (July 31, 1857 – ?) was an American most noted for attempting to stop Leon Czolgosz from assassinating President William McKinley. Born in Atlanta, Georgia in 1857 to enslaved parents, Parker worked a variety of jobs including as a newspaper salesman for the ""Southern Recorder"" and as a constable. He later moved to Chicago, Illinois, where he was employed as a waiter, before returning to Atlanta. This was followed by additional moves to Saratoga, New"
"mentions in the classic TV series Dragnet, Perry Mason, Columbo, and in the films, Blue Thunder and Inherent Vice. William H. Parker (police officer) William Henry Parker III (June 21, 1905 – July 16, 1966) was the police chief of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) and has been called ""Los Angeles' greatest and most controversial chief of police"". He was the longest-serving police chief at 39 years on the force. The former headquarters of the LAPD, the Parker Center, was named after him. Parker was born in Lead, South Dakota, and raised in Deadwood. His grandfather William H. Parker"
"Rube Burrow Reuben Houston Burrow (December 11, 1855 – October 9, 1890), better known as Rube Burrow, was a nationally infamous train-robber and outlaw in the Southern and Southwestern United States. During the final years of the American frontier, he became one of the most hunted in the Old West since Jesse James. From 1886 to 1890, he and his gang robbed express trains in Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, the Indian Territory and Texas while pursued by hundreds of lawmen throughout the southern half of the United States, including the Pinkerton National Detective Agency. Born in Lamar County, Alabama on December"
"Leroy Parker (Michael Margotta), in the syndicated series, ""Death Valley Days"", hosted by Robert Taylor not long before Taylor's own death. Young Parker leaves home in search of riotous living, first in Salt Lake City. He takes the name Butch Cassidy from an older rustler acquaintance, Mike Cassidy. Into the 1970s, Conway appeared on Jack Webb's ""Adam-12"" police drama and twice as Dr. Jay L. Milton in two episodes of ABC's ""The Mod Squad"". He guest starred three times on CBS's ""Mannix"" starring Mike Connors and four times on the same network's """" with Peter Graves. In 1972, he guest"
"Bobby Parker (guitarist) Robert Lee ""Bobby"" Parker (August 31, 1937 – October 31, 2013) was an American blues-rock guitarist, singer, and songwriter. He is best known for his 1961 song ""Watch Your Step"", a single for the V-Tone record label which reached the ""Billboard"" Hot 100; the song was performed by, and influenced, the Beatles among others. Born in Lafayette, Louisiana, but raised in Los Angeles, California, Parker first aspired to a career in entertainment at a young age. By the 1950s, Parker had started working on electric guitar with several blues and R&B bands of the time, with his"
"James Benjamin Parker James Benjamin Parker (July 31, 1857 – ?) was an American most noted for attempting to stop Leon Czolgosz from assassinating President William McKinley. Born in Atlanta, Georgia in 1857 to enslaved parents, Parker worked a variety of jobs including as a newspaper salesman for the ""Southern Recorder"" and as a constable. He later moved to Chicago, Illinois, where he was employed as a waiter, before returning to Atlanta. This was followed by additional moves to Saratoga, New York, to New York, New York, and, finally, to Buffalo, New York where he took a job with a"
"until 2021, to serve the remainder of his original sentence. David Parker Ray David Parker Ray (November 6, 1939 – May 28, 2002), also known as the Toy-Box Killer, was a suspected American serial killer, and known torturer of women. Though no bodies were found, he was accused by his accomplices of killing several people and suspected by police to have murdered as many as 60 people from Arizona and New Mexico, while living in Elephant Butte, New Mexico, approximately 7 miles north of Truth or Consequences. He soundproofed a truck trailer that he called his ""toy box"", and equipped"
"John Parker as a symbol of their motto, ""Twice the Citizen"". Though no image of Parker exists, the 'only official logo of the United States Army Reserve"" is referred to as ""The John Parker"". John Parker (captain) John Parker (July 13, 1729 – September 17, 1775) was an American colonial farmer, mechanic, soldier, and colonial militia officer who commanded the Lexington, Patriot, colonial militia at the Battle of Lexington on April 19, 1775. John Parker was born in Lexington, Massachusetts to Josiah Parker and Anna Stone. He was a descendant of Deacon Thomas Parker, founder of Reading, Massachusetts. John Parker"
"Robert Hansen Robert Christian Hansen (February 15, 1939 – August 21, 2014), known in the media as the ""Butcher Baker"", was an American serial killer. Between 1971 and 1983, Hansen abducted, raped, and murdered at least 17 women in and around Anchorage, Alaska, hunting them down in the wilderness with a Ruger Mini-14 and a knife. He was arrested and convicted in 1983 and was sentenced to 461 years and a life sentence without the possibility of parole. Robert Hansen was born in Estherville, Iowa, in 1939. He was the son of a Danish immigrant and followed in his father's"
"Leonard Patrick Leonard ""Lenny"" Patrick (October 6, 1913 – March 1, 2006) was an American mobster, a member of the Chicago Outfit involved in bookmaking and extortion and later a government informant. Emigrating with his family from England. Patrick grew up in the Jewish neighborhood of Lincoln Park, in Chicago's Near North Side and during Prohibition, eventually becoming an associate and later partner of Greek-American loanshark and extortionist Gus Alex. Patrick was imprisoned on June 28, 1933, for robbing a bank in Culver, Indiana, as well as his participation in six suspected gangland slayings. Patrick was paroled on March 11,"
"Gerald Parker Gerald Parker (born around 1955) is a serial killer who raped and murdered five Orange County, California women. A sixth victim who was pregnant at the time of the attack survived, but her child was delivered stillborn. The crimes took place in 1978 and 1979, but Parker was not identified as the killer until 1996. Parker confessed to the murders, and was sentenced to death on January 21, 1999. The public record of Parker's offenses began with a term in Juvenile Hall in the 1960s for glue-sniffing. Parker received a six-year prison term for the 1980 rape of"
"from Judge Parker around with him, along with a letter signed by Ledbetter acknowledging that Ledbetter had shot him. After his release Reed became an evangelist, preaching the rewards of living a respectable, law-abiding life. He also toured the country with a series of Wild West shows. His memoirs, ""The Life of Texas Jack"", were published in 1936, and 35,000 copies of several published pamphlets and dime novels describing his life as an outlaw were sold before his death at home in Tulsa, Oklahoma, at the age of 87. He was buried in St. Paul, Arkansas. Nathaniel Reed (outlaw) Nathaniel"
"Robert Nixon (serial killer) Robert Nixon (ca. 1919-June 16, 1939) was an American serial killer, born in the small town of Tallulah, Louisiana around 1919, who confessed to five murders and multiple assaults, including the Los Angeles ""brick bat murders"" of 1937. Depicted with racist imagery in the mainstream press after his arrest, he was given the nickname the ""Brick Moron"" as he killed his victims with bricks and was depicted as dimwitted. Convicted of murder, he was executed in Chicago in 1939. Nixon served, in part, as the basis of the character of Bigger Thomas in Richard Wright's 1940"
"Murder of Marion Parker Marion Parker (October 11, 1915 – December 17, 1927) was the 12-year-old daughter of Perry Parker, a prominent banker in Los Angeles, California. She had a twin sister named Marjorie. On December 15, 1927, Marion was abducted from her school and later killed by William Edward Hickman (February 1, 1908 – October 19, 1928), who called himself ""The Fox"". Her murder has since become the subject of folk songs. The ""Los Angeles Times"" referred to this as ""the most horrible crime of the 1920s"". Songs and some reports about Marion misspell her name as ""Marian"". William"
"Robert Ford (outlaw) Robert Newton Ford (January 31, 1862 – June 8, 1892) was an American outlaw best known for killing his gang leader Jesse James in April 1882, to collect a reward and a promised amnesty for past crimes. For about a year, Ford and his older brother Charles performed paid re-enactments of the killing at publicity events. Later he drifted around the West, operating saloons and dance halls. Ford was shot to death at the age of 30 in Creede, Colorado, by Edward Capehart O'Kelley, who attacked him in Ford's temporary tent saloon. Ford was first buried in"
"Theodore Roe Teddy Roe (August 26, 1898 - August 4, 1952) was an African-American mob boss who built an illegal gambling empire in South Side, Chicago during the 1940s and 1950s. Roe earned the nickname ""Robinhood"" because of his philanthropy among the neighborhood poor. After refusing to pay ""street tax"" to the Chicago Outfit, Roe fatally shot a made man who had been ordered to assassinate him. In retaliation, Roe was murdered by an Outfit crew commanded by Sam Giancana on August 4, 1952. Theodore L. Roe was born in Galliano, Louisiana to an African American sharecropper, and raised in"
"and the Montparnasse Tower in France, and the Sydney Opera House in Australia. Robert has been arrested at the top of many of the major buildings he has climbed. He was born in France in 1962 as Robert Alain Phillipe, and is popularly known as ""the French Spider-Man"" and the “Human Spider”. In the 1980s, Dan Goodwin, aka SpiderDan, aka Skyscraperman, in advocacy for high-rise firefighting and rescue, scaled many of the world's tallest buildings and structures including the Sears Tower, the John Hancock Center, the North Tower of the World Trade Center, the Parque Central Complex in Caracas, Venezuela,"