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Billie Frechette | |
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Born | September 15, 1907 |
Died | January 13, 1969 (aged 61) Shawano, Wisconsin, U.S. |
Spouses | Welton Sparks
(m. 1925; div. 1933)
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Criminal charge | Harboring a criminal |
Penalty | 2 years in prison without parole |
Mary Evelyn "Billie" Frechette (September 15, 1907 – January 13, 1969) was an American woman known for her personal relationship with the bank robber John Dillinger in the early 1930s.
Frechette is known to have been involved with Dillinger for about six months, until her arrest and imprisonment in 1934. She finished two years in prison in 1936, then toured the United States with Dillinger's family for five years with their "Crime Doesn't Pay" show. She married and returned to the Menominee Indian Reservation, where she was born, for a quieter life in her later decades.