Billie Frechette was an American theater actress and singer who was put behind bars for the crime of hiding her criminal lover inside her apartment. She served 2 years in prison for her crime. She died at the age of 61 on January 13, 1969, on Shawano, Wisconsin after battling cancer.

Early Life And Background

Born on September 15, 1907, in Neopit, Wisconsin as Mary Evelyn "Billie" Frechette, her father was a French man who died when she was 8, while her mother came from the Native American lineage.

Frechette spent the early days of her life at the Menominee Reservation where she also attended the local school until she was 13 years old. She relocated to a government boarding school located in Flandreau, South Dakota that catered for Native Americans of which she attended for 3 years before relocating again. After South Dakota, she moved in with her aunt in Milwaukee where she found employment as a nurse. After a few years, she moved to be near her sister in Chicago when she was 18.

Growing up, Frechette struggled to make ends meet hence she worked multiple jobs at a time such as waitressing and housekeeping. At the age of 25, she tied the knot with Welton Walter Spark on August 2, 1932. But their marriage was short-lived due to the fact that Spark was sentenced to serve 15 years at Leavenworth on the charge of robbing drugstores' postal substations.

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