Evelyn Frechette

Who was Evelyn Frechette?

Mary Evelyn "Billie" Frechette was an American Métis singer, waitress, convict, and lecturer 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 Did Not Pay" show. She married and returned to the Menominee Indian Reservation, where she was born, for a quieter life in her later decades.