![]() ![]() In it, she recounts her time with Dillinger, painting a picture of a good man gone wrong, and the lonely girl who fell in love with him. ![]() Hounded by offers of money for her story, Frechette put her memories to paper in a multi-part article for the Chicago Herald and Examiner in August 1934. After the shooting public fascination with Dillinger only intensified, with much of the attention focused on his former girlfriend, Evelyn “Billie” Frechette, who at the time was serving a sentence on a federal work farm for having harbored and abetted a wanted fugitive. Following a second highly publicized prison escape, the hunt for Dillinger became one of the most exhaustive in United States history, culminating in his death at the hands of federal agents outside a movie theater in Chicago. Edgar Hoover, Dillinger became a media sensation during the 1930s, as he and his gang robbed dozens of banks throughout the Midwest, repeatedly evading capture. ![]() John Dillinger was the most notorious outlaw of the Great Depression. ![]()
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