-- go to our web site. >> a texas family inherits a house full of history, millions. >> bob davis was a world class collector. >> and speaking of love affairs. >> what is this gun? >> a sawed off shotgun that was carried by the barrow gang. jamie: like bonnie and clyde barrow? >> they spawn a legend. >> those images of young outlaws shooting up the highways of america, somehow touches people. >> it may yield a fortune. >> the place is packed, people on the telephones are bidding, in is interest in the bonnie and clyde story. >> a mind blower to watch.

jamie: i am jamie colby, i am headed to waco, texas, i will meet a man who inherited a massive collection, of artifacts, documents and weapons he said held story of lone star state from the days of alamo to legendary, bloody crime sprees of 1920s and 30s. >> i am earl davis, my father robert died in march 2003, and left us a vast and electic collection, we were at odds what to do with these items. >> are you jamie? jamie: i am jamie. >> glad you are here. jamie: his father built a mom and pop printing business to a multimillion dollar operation, successful enough to bank roll

his real passion, texana artifacts. >> a lot of stuff in here. >> a nice autograph letter signed by sam houston in 1840, you can see how nice his signature was. jamie: beautiful. in the process, family's home becomes a shrine to texas history, alamo, the battle of zacatecas, and back to the battle of the spanish conquistador. >> that is a helmet, all lined, can you imagine wearing that all day long. jamie: if you are having a bad hair day, it would take care of it. >> no doubt. there is more stuff, let me show. >> more than this. >> w we have several rooms. jamie: there are weapons everywhere. >> this is what i was talking about. jamie: you have a lot of guns, this gun? >> a sawed off shotgun, carried by the borrow gang. jamie: barrow's like bonnie and

clyde. >> you want to hold a piece of history. jamie: it's heavy. >> earl explains that the barrow gang left the weapon on the side of the road by accident, while changing a tire on their getaway car. >> dad loved the "bonnie and clyde" story. >> as we all do. jamie: you have to wonder why , they killed a lot of people. >> fascination with americaa and gangsters. >> 1930, bonnie parker, an unemployed waitress meets clyde barrow in west dallas, she is 19, he is a year older on the run from buglary charges. charges. >> they are the mission call characters -- missio myth call characters who caused trouble and pain, a young boy and a y2k girl who went against the system, biolar it was love at ft sight, only thing that separated

them is police arrested him and took him on jail. jamie: bonnie speaks a revolver into the jail, and clyde is makes a run for it he is recaptured, and jailed and beaten by the guards, he and bonnie go on a rampage after he is released, they rob banks and kill dozens of people, and clyde is consumed by one idea, revenge against the guards that beat him at the prison. clyde leads raid in january. >> 5 convicts are released from prison, one prison guard is killed. jamie: state prison chief, lee sim ops is humiliated. he calls a retired tequila -- texas ranger, named frank hai haimer. >> i said put clyde and bono the

spot, shoot everyone in sight. jamie: haimeer develops an imfor informant who reveals their location, the posse sets up an ambush. clyde appears over a hill, bonnie at his side. the law men open up with a deafening fuselage. bonnie and clyde are dead, before they can return a single shot. in the death car, posse members uncover an arsenal. >> inevitable end, bonnie parker and clyde barrow who died as they liveed -- by the gun. jamie: the officers take the weapons and other personal items. >> frank haimer wound up with all of the weaponry that was recovered within that car. >> no surprise to earl that an avid collector like his father would covet these macabre

trophies. >> "bonnie and clyde," a 3-year-old kid knows who that is. jamie: they had the shotgun from the borrow gang to his house full of texana artifacts. >> gun 45, that was in clyde a waistband, a and a 38 tape to bonnie's leg, frank haimer wrote a note that bonnie was squating on this gun. jamie: it takes patience, luck, and quick things, but they will end up in earl's strang "strange inheritance." jamie: he got what he wanted. >> always. jamie: he almost blows it, up next, mrs. davis a white knuckle moment.

jamie: what would she pay? >> now our "strange inheritance" quiz question, what was clyde borrow first arrested for? stealing a case of beer? fails to return a rental car? or stabbing a high school classmate? answer in a moment.

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collide a first arrest? b, he was a few days late in returning a rental car. >> clyde was a dapper guy. jamie: no way. >> yes, this is clyde? >> yes. jamie: this photo of clyde barrow is part of the huge cache of tequila memorabilia that dave eusz a fathedavis' father amasse acquires the barrow gang shotgun, clyde's watch, and bonnie parker's make-up case, even 80 years after they died in a hail of gunfire, almost anything associated with them is valuable. by far the guns. >> they were able to take these things, souvenirs. >> i track one of the weapons here to texas prison museum in hundredsville. >> -- huntsville,. >> okay jamie, an artifact.

jamie: jim will it ewho runs the museum, explains that frank haimer g pistol to lee simmons who ordered the ambush. >> this is the pistol that bonnie parker had in her lap, when they killed bond kpe collide. jamie: how did you get it? >> the family of lee simmons loaned it to us. jamie: i would love to see it. >> sure. this gun, was in her lap. with a magazine over it. probably heavier than you think it is. jamie: from bonnie's lap to jamie's hands it is heavy and beautiful. >> it has been decade since her death but it gives me a shiver to hold one of the bonnie parker weapons. jamie: i better put it back. i would like to take it home, i remember starting to see why collectors would want to own pieces of texas history like this. >> you look at these people who

were ruthless, that is a piece of americana. history is history. jamie:? tha.jamie: in 1986, they learn t they are about to auction off pieces of the bonnie and clyde memorabilion, their personal weapons. a 45 that was in clyde's waistband, and a .38 that was taped to bonnie's thigh. >> the opportunity came up of history, holding a gun that he knew clyde probably used, and had on his person, his top joy. jamie: robert and his wife marianne drive to austin for the sale. other texas history befores fill the hall. >> my dad got up to converse with somebody, go get a drink, and the guns came up for auction. he was not in the crowd.

>> robert's golden opportunity is slipping away. marianne looks around, with no sign of her husband. the hammer is about to go down, she takes matters into her hands. >> my mom, knowing my dad wanted them, she was one that purchased two guns. jamie: she did the bidding because he was nowhere to be found. >> absolutely. he was very happy that she did that. jamie: what did she pay. >> under 40,000 for two guns. jamie: earl's dad keeps collecting texas history, but in 2003, beset by health problems and depression, he takes his own life at the age of 69. >> he decided that was it. and like most of us control life he controlled hi his death, it s a traumatic, vin for the family. jamie: early takes over his father's role as head of family

printing business, it falls on him to decide what to do with his dad's collection. it is worse a fortune. one estimate $4 million. >> did your dad leave a will. >> he did, we have a family trust,. jamie: did he give you specific instructs. >> this was do not disphapbts else bdismantlemyself collectiod not have the pathny dad did. jamie: earl decides time to sell off and some of his dad's stuff, he figures he starts with a few alamo documents, he works with new hampshire auction company, exec bobby living ston who dealt witearl's father but had never n his collection, when living ston comes to texas and steps into the davis home, fizz jaw drops. >> i there was to pick up the alamo documents we know how much

bob davis loved these, we really did not understand how much he collected. jamie: or the variety of what he collected. >> i looked, he said there is bonnie parker's gun, i said what? my eyes lit up. jamie: next on strange inheritance. >> another quiz question for you, clyde barrow never served in the military, he did tattoo his arm with the insignia of which branch? navy? army? army? or

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>> which military insignia did clyde barrow tattoo, the navy.

he tried to enlist, but he was found medically unfit. jamie: any more guns. >> after his father's death in 2003, earl davis ponders what to do with his "strange inheritance," a stock pile of texas memorabilia. that includes everything from am low artifacts to guns from bonnie parker and clyde barrow. what should he sell first? the auction company executive bobby livingston stepped into the home, and locks on to something else. >> bonnie parker's pistol from frank haimer, the bounty hunter, i knew this was a once in a lifetime opportunity for our auction house. we had to get this collection. jamie: bonni "bonnie and clyde"t am pageed -- rampage was 80

years ago, livingston knows that their story still strikes a koerdz. >> thkoeurd. strikes cord. >> this some pow touches people. jamie: he groups the "bonnie and clyde" guns with artifacts. >> the name of the auction, is gangsters, outlaws and law men. jamie: but there is a problem, it puts livingston's big event in jeopardy. >> the first gun that davis sent is bonnie parker .38, we look if for the serial number it has been scratched off, we can't sell the gun, it is felonious to have it in our office,. jamie: he faces a quandry, should we call the fbi, fess up and hope they make an exception. >> there is a big khapbgts this

chance, if we tell them we have this gun, they could seize it, melt it down, it is gone, one of the biggest challenges we faceed to hold this auction was picking up the found, and calls the atf . jamie: he makes call, and sets up a meeting at their boston office to present the case. >> we show the gun, we had leter from frank haimer, had a good case to not be destroyed because of the historical significant. jamie: the fate of earl davis a jamie: the fate of earl davis a "strange inheritance" han esurwhich means fewer costs, which saves money. their customer experience is virtually paperless, which saves paper, which saves money.

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sell-off part of his "strange 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, an stashed in on the gu. 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. >> 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

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 fo for 240,0. >> 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 mor more than a-milli. >> to watch them in a 25 year period, increase 1 hus% that was % thousand% that -- 1000% that was

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

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 am wonderining 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 take it with you. >> do you have a story you would like to share with us? we'd love to hear it. send me an e-mail or go to our web inheritance.com. >> breaking news tonight the eccentric real estate heir at the center of multiple murders and unsolved disappearance of his wife is now under arrest. elwell come to a special edition of "justice robert durst arrested. i am judge jeanine pirro. robert burst behind bars where he was arrested at a marriott hotel under an assumed name based on a warrant for murder in the first degree from the county of los angeles for the