BARTON — A 52-year-old woman from Barton on furlough for manslaughter charges connected to a 2009 crash that killed her husband, was arrested for domestic assault.
Police say Christine Billis was involved in a physical altercation on Main Street in Barton on Friday.
According to the report, Billis and the victim had been in a relationship for several months.
“After speaking with several witnesses it was determined a criminal offense had occurred,” trooper Abigail Drew wrote in a statement.
Billis was arrested and taken to Northern State Correctional Facility for revocation of her furlough.
Back in September of 2009, Billis was driving with her husband Charles in Charleston, when her car suddenly swerved into a tree.
She was treated for minor injuries, but her husband was badly injured and pronounced dead at the hospital.
Less than a year later, Billis registered with an online dating service and allegedly confessed to a man she was corresponding with that the car crash was deliberate.
She allegedly told the man that her husband was not wearing his seatbelt and that she had slammed the car deliberately into the tree.
The man wore a recording device at their first face-to-face meeting, and Billis repeated her confession.
The man took the tape to police who began their own investigation. Police say they obtained confirming confessions at subsequent meetings on police wires.
In June 2011, she was arrested for first-degree murder in the killing of her husband.
She was sentenced to serve 7-15 years behind bars.
Her minimum sentence to serve ended in June of last year.
