While it was most likely W.D. Jones' interview with police shortly after his capture that lead to rumors of Clyde being homosexual (as well as Bonnie supposedly being a nymphomaniac), in a November 1968 interview with Playboy Magazine, W.D. claims he does not know where those rumors started. In the interview, he is quoted as saying, "I've heard stories since, that Clyde was homosexual, or, as they say in the pen, a "punk," but they ain't true. Maybe it was Clyde's quiet, polite manner, and his slight build that fooled folks. He was only about five feet, six inches tall, and he weighed no more than 135 pounds. Me and him was about the same size, and we used to wear each other's clothes. Clyde had dark hair that was wavy. He never had a beard. Even when he didn't shave, all he had on his chin was fuzz. Another way that story might have got started was his wearing a wig sometimes when he and Bonnie had to drive through a town where they might be recognized. He wore the wig for a disguise and for no other reason. Clyde never walked right, either. He'd chopped off his big toe and part of the second toe on his left foot when he was in prison, because he couldn't keep up, with the pace the farm boss set, or the story could have come from sensation writers who believed anything dropped on them, and who blew it to proportions that suited their imagination. I knew a lot of convicts the years I was in prison, some of them years on Eastham Farm where Clyde had served his time, and none of them had a story on him being a punk. Matter of fact, nobody, not the police who asked me questions for hours and hours, or the reporters who got in to see me,ever mentioned it. The subject just never come up then. It's just here recently, more than thirty years since Clyde was killed, that I've heard the story. I was with him and Bonnie. I know. It just ain't true."

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