Top 10 Most Iconic Partners In Crime

the baddest, most savage duos in all of history

10. Thelma and Louise

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"Two friends named Thelma and Louise decide to take a two-day vacation in order to escape from their mundane and oppressive lives.

During their trip, the pair stop at a bar, where they indulge in a few drinks and some dancing. Thelma meets a seemingly charming man who proceeds to take advantage of Thelma’s inebriated state. Louise finds them and pulls a gun on the man, killing him. The two friends then proceed to make a run for Mexico to avoid prosecution." (Screenrant.com)

9. Jordan Belfort and Donnie Azoff

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"Living by the creed that a stockbroker only makes money for himself, Jordan Belfort recruits his neighbor Donnie Azoff and starts his own company, Stratton Oakmont, which is essentially a “pump and dump” scam, inflating the value of worthless penny stocks to unsuspecting investors.

Making an ungodly amount of money in a short time, Belfort, Azoff, and their employees live a rock star lifestyle fueled by cocaine, booze, and of course, cash. After increasingly shady dealings, Belfort and his firm come under the scrutiny of the FBI and other government agencies.

Belfort becomes increasingly paranoid as he tries desperately to hide his cash and, as his life quickly crumbles around him, viewers are treated to a series of follies that are hysterical, including a gut-busting scene involving Quaaludes, a tapped phone, and quite possibly the longest landline telephone cord in history." (Screenrant.com)

8. Cher and Dion

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"Shallow, rich and socially successful Cher is at the top of her Beverly Hills high school's pecking scale. Seeing herself as a matchmaker, Cher first coaxes two teachers into dating each other. Emboldened by her success, she decides to give hopelessly klutzy new student Tai a makeover. When Tai becomes more popular than she is, Cher realizes that her disapproving ex-stepbrother was right about how misguided she was -- and falls for him." (Wikipedia)

7. Leopold and Loeb

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"They didn't look like killers. Richard Loeb, an 18-year-old graduate student, was smart, handsome, charming and wealthy. His friend and lover, 19-year-old Nathan Leopold, was a brilliant law student, a published ornithologist, and the heir to a manufacturing fortune. But despite their pedigrees, the duo — who considered themselves Nietzschean "supermen" to whom laws did not apply — became obsessed with pulling off the perfect crime. They proved sloppy criminals, however. On May 21, 1924, the two men kidnapped and murdered Loeb's 14-year-old cousin, Bobby Franks. While dumping the body in a culvert near their Chicago homes, Leopold dropped his glasses. The perfect plot came undone; within 10 days, both had confessed to the heinous crime. Leopold admitted they had killed for the thrill of it. "A thirst for knowledge," the bookish Leopold said, referring to the experience of murder, "is highly commendable, no matter what extreme pain or injury it may inflict upon others." Not even the advocacy of super-lawyer Clarence Darrow could save them from conviction, though the pair was able to escape the death penalty. Loeb, the ringleader, was killed by a fellow prisoner in 1936; Leopold was paroled in 1958 and moved to Puerto Rico, where he ran a leprosy hospital." (TIME.com)

6. The Lonely Hearts Killers

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"While serving time for petty theft in the 40's, Raymond Fernandez learned about voodoo and the occult from a cellmate. Upon his release, Fernandez believed he could use voodoo to gain a mastery over women and began writing letters to dozens of wanted ads posted by lonely single women. His M.O.: woo his marks, gain their trust, then rob them and disappear — which worked until one victim, Martha Beck, showed up on his front doorstep with her two kids. Fernandez agreed to let her stay if she got rid of the kids, who were promptly abandoned at the Salvation Army.

The couple continued to scam women, but the jealous and unstable Beck couldn't handle sharing Fernandez and they eventually began killing their targets. After the murder of a young widow and her child, the two were arrested, signed a whopping 73-page confession and died in the electric chair at Sing Sing prison in 1951. The Lonely Hearts Killers are believed to have murdered as many as 20 people." (TIME.com)

5. Charles Bonnet and Nicole

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"Charles Bonnet, the latest in a long line of master art forgers, loans one of his best works, a faux Cellini Venus, to a Paris museum despite his daughter Nicole's objections. Later, Nicole surprises a tuxedo-clad burglar in her father's workshop. She can't call the police because her father's hobby might be discovered, so she ends up driving the man--Simon Dermott--back to his hotel. Dermott is actually an inspector who is gathering evidence against Bonnet, but his attraction to Nicole complicates the assignment. Nicole learns that the museum plans to conduct a test on the Venus for insurance purposes, which she knows will expose the statue as a fake. To save her father from jail, she asks Simon to steal it, unaware of his true identity. Simon, intrigued by the challenge and now smitten with Miss Bonnet, agrees to the proposal." (IMDB)

4. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

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"Butch Cassidy [is] the likable and clever leader of the Hole in the Wall Gang, and the Sundance Kid is his closest friend. The gang decides to rob a Union Pacific train on both the eastbound and westbound runs of its journey, thinking that the authorities would never suspect that the same train would be hit twice.

Unfortunately for the gang, a determined lawman is hired by the Union Pacific head to track down Butch and the Kid until they are both dead. Fleeing from pursuers, Butch and the Kid make their way to Bolivia, where they continue their criminal antics, successfully robbing a strong of banks.

Fearing that the law will catch up to them eventually, the two try their hand at the straight life but conclude that it isn’t for them. Turning back to a life of crime, the duo is optimistic about their future, even after the law catches up with them." (Screenrant.com)

3. Frank and Jesse James

Via TIME.com

"Two of the Wild West's most infamous outlaws, Jesse James and his older brother Frank cut their teeth as Confederate guerrillas in the Civil War. In September 1864, for instance, as part of a group of rebels led by Bloody Bill Anderson, they held up a train, looted it and killed 22 of the 23 unarmed Union soldiers on board, scalping several. After the war, reeling from the South's defeat, they roamed from Iowa to Alabama and Texas, robbing banks, holding up trains, and looting stagecoaches, shops, and unlucky passers-by. One of their biggest coups came in 1866, when they were among the outlaws to pull off the first known daylight bank robbery, killing a bystander and walking away with $58,000. Despite their violent crimes, in the turbulent postwar South the James brothers were widely considered patriots. Even today, romanticized in literature, they are viewed as popular legends." (TIME.com)

2. Bonnie and Clyde

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"Bonnie and Clyde, the good-looking outlaws very much in love, were ambushed by police officers outside Gibsland, Louisiana 75 years ago, on May 23, 1934. Trapped in their car, they went down in a hail of bullets and their 21-month-long crime spree of robbing gas stations, restaurants and local banks came to an end.

Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow kept their heists small but brutal — they had a tendency to kill anyone who got in their way. In January 1934 they orchestrated a prison escape in Texas that resulted in the deaths of two guards. Three months later, they murdered two police officers and a constable and kidnapped a police chief. The Texas Highway Patrol announced an official manhunt, and it was only a matter of time before the bandits were caught.

The couple never married, and Parker had no previous record before she met Barrow, an ex-con. Historians believe that she chose the life of crime because she was in love, and the handful of photographs of the two of them — she in his arms, he holding her up — seem to indicate that this was true. Their story seemed like something out of a movie and later, it was." (TIME.com)

1. Shayna Fields and Dugan Delp

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Shayna and Dugan, a pair of REALLY FUN outlaws from Hillsdale College, became life-long partners in crime beginning two years ago, at the Toledo Country Club. Dressed in stunningly formal attire, they went down in a hail of shots and so began their 215-month-long (and counting) spree of being fun, creating iconic (albeit obnoxious/annoying) catchphrases, and leaving a tequila-stained mess in their wake.

Shayna Fields and Dugan Delp kept their heists small but brutal — they had a tendency to out-party anyone who got in their way. In the Fall of 2016 they orchestrated a bender in Michigan that resulted in the deaths of many bystanders (and nearly themselves).

Delp had no previous record before he met Fields, an ex-con. Historians believe that he chose the life of crime because he was in love, and the handful of photographs of the two of them — her in his arms, he holding her up — seem to indicate that this was true. Now, as Shayna threatens to leave Dugan, he asks that she join him in one final heist, on Wednesday, May 10th.