15 Facts About Evelyn Frechette

Mary Evelyn "Billie" Frechette was an American woman known for her personal relationship with the bank robber John Dillinger in the early 1930s.

Evelyn Frechette 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.

Evelyn Frechette married and returned to the Menominee Indian Reservation, where she was born, for a quieter life in her later decades.

Mary Evelyn Frechette was born in Neopit, Wisconsin, on the Menominee Indian Reservation.

Evelyn Frechette described the background of her mother as "half French and half Indian", and that of her father as simply French.

Evelyn Frechette attended a mission school on the reservation, and then was sent to a government boarding school for Indians in South Dakota.

Evelyn Frechette met John Dillinger at a cabaret in November 1933.

Evelyn Frechette looked after me and bought me all kinds of jewelry and cars and pets, and we went places and saw things, and he gave me everything a girl wants.

Evelyn Frechette assumed more marital roles with Dillinger than an accomplice.

Evelyn Frechette once drove a getaway car after Dillinger was shot by the police.

Evelyn Frechette was arrested on April 9,1934, for allowing him to hide in her St Paul, Minnesota, apartment and for obstruction of justice.

Evelyn Frechette served two years at the Federal Correctional Farm in Milan, Michigan, for violating the Federal Harboring Law.

Evelyn Frechette traveled with the Dillinger family for five years after her release and his death.

Evelyn Frechette died of cancer on January 13,1969, at age 61 in Shawano, Wisconsin.

Evelyn Frechette is buried in Woodlawn Cemetery next to her third husband, Arthur Tic.