 The story told on "American Maniacs" about Mickey killing a cop  after asking him for directions is taken almost verbatim from a  story made up by J. Edgar Hoover (qv) in the 1930s about bank  robbers Clyde Barrow (qv) and Bonnie Parker (II) (qv) to try to  quash the publics growing favorable opinion of the pair. According  to Hoover, Barrow approached an Oklahoma City officer, asked for  directions and then blew his head off with a shotgun. The story fell  apart, though, when questions were raised as to how, if the officer  was alone when he was killed, Hoover could possibly have determined  that it was Barrow who killed him, as there were no witnesses to the  "murder."