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with you. >> do you have a strange inheritance story you would like to it share with us. we would love tom:k$c hear it. go to ourfqj) website strange inheritance.com. >> a texas familìu inheritspdl a house full of millions. >> they had a love affair. >> and speaking ofo wha4 r this gun? >> it is a sawed off shotgun that was done by the barogang. >> like bonnie and clyde. >> they are ledge ends. those images of young outlaws shooting up the highways of america. and years of fortune. and the place is packed. and there is intense interest in the bony and clyde story. it was a mind blowing to watch
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it. >> i am jamie colby and heading in waco, texas. meet a man who inherited h a massive>a1i collection of artifacts and weapons. and from the days of the almoand all the way to the legendary and bloody crime spree of the 1930s. >> my father died in march 2003 and left us a vast eclectic collection. wewm with the items. >> it is a strange inheritance. >> hi, ea9hí rl. >> great to meet you. >> glad you are here. ea rl tells me he had a business successful to bank roll his real
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passion. arct facts. >> it is a lot of stuff in here. >> this is a nice autographed letter signed by sam houston in 1840. rt you c'9bs÷ so how nice his signature+kbñ was. in the process. the family's home becomes a shrine to the texas history. the alamo. and the battles and stuff going$ úx back to thet%8m spanish conquestions ta dor. >> this iswszc a helmet and i don't know how they wore it without y#,eliner. can you imagine carting that all day? >> it would be a bad head day. >> there is more stuff. >> more than this? >> we h:1>q several .9bxyrooms. >> there are weapons everywhere. >> this is what i am talking about. >> you promised guns and you have a lot of guns. what is this gun? >> this is a t "(sawed off shotgun carried by the barogang.
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>> like bony and clyde? bz >> you want to hold a w#y!% of history. >> q ówoah it is heavy. >> the barogang accidentally left the weapon on the side of the road changing the] a get away car. >> you love the story. >> it still holds up today. >> you have to wonder why they killed a lot of people. >> fascination with americaa and the gangsteres. 1930 bonnie parker an unemployment waitress meets clyde barow in dallas. on÷ charges. >> they aren"d=w mythical who did nothing but caused trouble and pain. a young boyand girl who went against the system. and by all accounts it was love at first sight. the only thingy(=x that separated
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them was police arrested and hauled them off to jail. >> clyde makes a run for it. it is recopyrightured and beaten by the guards. >> in p!>ñ19tlo, é -- 1932. they went on a rampage and robbing banks and6z)j killing people. clyde is consumed by one idea. revenge against the guards whoimkñ beat him in eastendoh prison . >> i wouldk damn cars. ú$thxh]@ and it is humiliating. and called on a entire texas>@2ñ ranger. and put collide,u and bonnie on the sight.
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and shoot f they reveal the duo. 9u2 ñ placement. and theyf$-6 set up an ambush. áf and appearing#cz+tfco. 2ñms overb and that is a fusel age. said beforeebgñ he could return8 >> it was the' the officers take the weapons and other personal items. >> they7ñb found up withn)cxq of thez.ñ weaponry. in the ujççcar. ba÷ it isut an avid collector.
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>> andeiw bonnieiá]f =]g,](sv"e. robert adds the:jwñ shotgunk÷=9÷ to the barogang. and the pocket watch and bonnie's make up e and it ish not enough. :&dv robert eyesecigz two more objects. it was clyde's w0 they wrote a note that bonnie was squatting on the gun. >> they take patience and quicky]4ñ thinking. and those two guns will ends]t,ñ in the strange
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b. .ef5ñ barowas a few#>nñ days late in returning a úoñ;aj@gilyrental car. -4k÷ and his photoof clyde barowas part$sy&"3 of a huge cashpy@tç÷ memorabilia.xcau÷ bo÷k@hb2r/d! 80 years in a hail6hlu÷ú -vigq'ñ of gunfire. by far the most valuable area/ the matched from the car by a bounty hunter. >> they took2íq?+a÷ them asñáz +g$%÷souvenirs. and okay jamie, let meñp show you
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a little arct fact. >> jim wilet whow#c runs the museum= explains that."hsi bonnie's pistol to u:rleel who ordered the ambush. >> that5)r#gf bonnie parker had in her lab. x >> really? ey0 >> how did you get it? >> they70k loaned it tou >> andb1n9 this i pxgunu was in her lap.orxx and probably pu heavier than you think it is. $b !h- from bonnie's lap to ]1jamie's hands. it is[7> heavy and beautiful. and give a shiefer to hold one of the bonnie parker weapons. >> you better put it#7b-yback. dzly i would like to take it home. >> and starting to see whyv4 collectors want tox texas history like this. >> you look back at the people
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who are" a americaa@ñ of america. %j7ç even though history is q>dñcbad,4 history ishr,7ñ history. ea rl's father robertt2tp learned that frank's auction off two spectacula pieces of4 $fx bonnie and clyde memorabilia. çuzñ had taped!1d >> whenxtk the opportunity came up of history holding a gun that he> and the friends andm53y"h competitor filled the halls. >> and my dad got to to converse with somebody and the gun game up for auction and he was not in5
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>> robert's golden opportunity is pñ slipping away&@3 mary ann and looks&z-2 aroundp9 the hammer is.f about to go down and she takes matters in her own hand. >> my momj6qñ knowing my dad wanted vfuu them. she was the one who purchased the two guns. and she didv&:ñ the bidding because he80"u(j not8rwr where to be found. >> absolutely. and he was very haqcyz÷ she did that. >> what would she pay? >> under 40000q"afor the two ún/sguns. >> and ea rl's dad collectsóéi=b texas history and in5v9?÷? 7p y7z2003. bethe set bybgé health problems. f rñ he decided thatíthat was it. ñ9gñ and likeizñnñ,87, most of us who controlled life. he controlled his death. it was a traum at s'watic event for
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the family. >> it falls on himnpú(ñ to decide%.+ what to do with the enormous collection and worth a texas sizedú'msb> your dad6p@y leave a will. >> yes, everything went to a p6átrust. >> did you have specific instructions on what to do.t÷ >> don't collection. my mom didn't have the passio7v/ my dad g2odid. and i love2v÷ it and didn't have the passion he %kjydid. >>åeafz rl decides to selloff some of hs dad's stuff. and started with a omm almodocuments and he begans to work with an auction company who dealt with1h ea rl's father but never seen the collejz29ìc% when he stepped in th r÷ davis home for the first timetéé his6"dilaw dropped. >> i/fh was there tl$ñ pick up the
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almodocuments. we know how much bob davis loved these understand how much bob davis collected. >> or the variety. >> there is bonnie parker's gun. i am like what? >> my eyes lit up. that is next onñ= inheritance inheritance. >> so clyde +q the y lmilitary. he hadxd3cdt tacked insigneia of which branch. and aleve is proven to work better on pain than tylenol arthritis. so why am i still thinking about this? how are ya? good. aleve. proven better on pain. every truck can tow a boat. every truck can climb a hill. every truck can haul a trailer. but not everyone can say
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he tried to $5 5w navy but they foundy any more guns? all: tkammunition? >> after his (yk(father's death intñ ng 2003. he ponders what to do÷[nh÷ with theeñmrp strange inherrance'y everything fromñpyf83ñ alamo artifacts. hesybí settles on a letter from thef8f(:h @&hc% alamo garrison. bobbinw livingston walks in and looks at something else. >> this isám#gtx#lzsrq parkuh$tb ufyk pistol. theocmañ bountyz2á7e u- hunterz" who hunted ct down bony and clyde. we had to get this collection. " >>d rampage ind the small town(!,y of
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confession. >>e if we tell them thatt &úenrj gun, they can seize it and melt it down picking up the found, and calls the atf . jamie: he makes call, and sets >> livingston÷ decides to make the call andv's>> w >> we÷fñy showed him[ the letter saying that he had taken the gun from parkera%l:(pr(t&háhp &hc, had a good case to not be destroyed because of the historical significant. jamie: the fate of earl davis a "strange inheritance" han73% of americans try... ...to cook healthy meals. yet up to 90% fall short in getting key nutr ients from food alone. let's do more... ...add one a day 50+. complete with key nutrients we may need. plus it supports physical energy with b vitamins. one a day 50+ [ hoof beats ] i wish... please, please, please, please, please. [ male announcer ] the wish we wish above all...is health. so we quit selling cigarettes in our cvs pharmacies. expanded minuteclinic
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inheritance," 2 guns found on bodies of "bonnie and clyde." almost immediately the plan hit a snag. >> bonnie's gun the serial number was scratched off. that being the case, does not hold too well with the atf . >> they await word from federal authorities. will they allow the sale to go through, or seize the gun? >> they decides that this was a historic artifact that needed to be saved they reissueed a serial number and stashed in on the gun,. jamie: 5 months later the bonnie and clyde collection, are center piece of the gangsters outlaws and law pheup auction. men auction. >> my wife and i went to new hampshire efficient the live auction, we had some anticipation.
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>> we had media from russia, japan, all over europe. these two young people on the roads of america somehow resonate with the world. it was incredible. >> i was nervous. jamie: what is happening to your heart as you watch it unfold? and what was bidding? >> place is packed. people on telephone bidding internet bids, it is getting up to 7,000 80,000, 100,000. jamie: at $140,000, the bidding seems to stall. >> your heart is thinking that bidding is going to stop. but all of a sudden, two main bidders on phone started to bid again. jamie: $1 theft $200, 2 phone bidders battle it out. >> hammered $2 62,000, it was amazing. >> a record price for a bonnie
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and clyde gun. >> a mind blower to watch what we thought would not go for what it did did. >> a lot of cheers but then we had to sell the next gun, clyde barrow's colt .45. >> top bids over the phone. >> up to 160,000. jamie: passed 180,000. >> a found bidder -- phone biller hammered it for for 240,000. >> the same bidder who bought bonnie's gun in 1986, earl earl davis a mother paid less than 40,000 for the gun. they sell more more than a-million. >> to watch them in a 25 year period increase 1 hus% that was % thousand% that -- 1000% that was
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exciting. jamie: do you know who bought the guns? >> i don't the person was anonymous, i know a tequila individual -- texas individual but i do not know. >> bobby cannot reveal the buyer's name but he shares reason why the buyer valued those weapons. his family had crossed paths with bonnie's. >> after bonnie parker passed away my mother took pity on the parker family, and would naturally just bring them food and help them out through this tough time, i said why did the buy the clyde barrel, he said, i thought they should stay together. jamie: the sale of the bonnie and clyde gun,ing ised to earl his father's collect is worth every bit of 4 million he has been told. he plans to gradually sell-off most of it, so robert davis a 50
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year love affair with texas memorabilia has paid off. >> we may get a good monetary award, it is like a piece of my dad. they are not there that were there, maybe a tear comes to my eye, you know, good old dad, i am wonderinging what he is thinking. jamie: he described his father robert proud to own map that mexican general santa ana used at 1835 in battle of zacatecas but in 1960s the was slow, and robert was forced to sell it, every time he looked at bare spot he wished he had it back, it took a few years and a lot of dollars but he restored that map on his wall. i am jamie colby, thank you for watching and remember you can't
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