Who Is Gypsy Rose Blanchard? The Story Of Dee Dee Blanchard’s Homicide

Gypsy Rose Blanchard, the abuse sufferer who spent seven years incarcerated for her function within the homicide of her mom, Clauddine “Dee Dee” Blanchard, turned a free girl on Thursday, leaving jail on parole. 

Her launch comes three years early after she was sentenced to 10 years in jail for her second-degree homicide conviction. Throughout her 2016 trial, Gypsy, now 32, pleaded responsible to conspiring along with her boyfriend Nicholas Godejohn to homicide Dee Dee after which escape to Wisconsin collectively. Attorneys for Gypsy acknowledged her function in Dee Dee’s dying however revealed that the now 32-year-old, who spent most of her childhood wheelchair-bound, suffered years of emotional and bodily abuse from her mom — who specialists believed was affected by Munchausen syndrome by proxy — creating a posh authorized state of affairs. 

Why Did Gypsy Rose Blanchard go to jail?

In response to authorized testimony, Gypsy was raised by Dee Dee to consider she was bodily disabled and mentally in poor health. Underneath Dee Dee’s course, she was pressured to endure years of pointless surgical procedures and medical intervention, together with having her head shaved, being certain to a wheelchair, and being fed by a feeding tube. Her mom claimed she had quite a lot of illnesses, like childhood leukemia, muscular dystrophy, and epilepsy. Courtroom testimony from medical specialists steered that Dee Dee was affected by Munchausen-by-proxy, a psychological dysfunction the place caretakers can induce or lie about sicknesses in others. Even when Gypsy was sufficiently old to grasp her mom’s beliefs weren’t true, she was pressured to lie about her age and proceed to make use of a wheelchair. She stated in later interviews that she was additionally subjected to bodily abuse, all whereas Dee Dee collected fraudulent donations from assist societies like Habitat for Humanity, Ronald McDonald Home, and the Make-A-Want Basis. 

Along with the bodily and psychological abuse, Gypsy has revealed in a number of interviews that she was saved secluded from her friends and most shut contact with others. She was not allowed to go to highschool, however she taught herself to learn and started to discover on-line in secret. Along with a number of Fb accounts, Gypsy additionally made accounts on Christian relationship web sites. It was there she met Godejohn, whom she started a relationship with 4 days after first chatting with him. 

In an interview within the HBO Documentary Mommy Dearest, Gypsy detailed that her burgeoning relationship with Godejohn rapidly turned sexual in nature, together with explorations of BDSM, sexual video calls, and sending nude pictures. “I’m embracing my function and duitys [sp],” she wrote in a Fb standing replace on the time. “I stay and breath to serve my Grasp.” She additionally typically posed in numerous characters, named Kitty the little woman, and Ruby the evil vixen — girlfriends meant to enrich Godejohn’s alleged a number of private dysfunction. 

The 2 additionally spoke about Gypsy’s relationship along with her mom, and the younger girl’s need to flee her controlling family. The 2 fantasized a couple of plan to kill Dee Dee and run away, which they known as “Plan B,” in accordance with Gypsy. The plan was thought-about hypothetical however rapidly turned actual when Gypsy turned “determined” to go away. 

What occurred the evening of Dee Dee Blanchard’s homicide?

Within the documentary, Gypsy detailed the tense evening the homicide occurred. “I acted like the whole lot was effective,” she stated. She and Dee Dee painted one another’s nails. She put her mother to mattress. She left the door open for Godejohn to sneak into the house. After which she claims she listened within the different room whereas Godejohn stabbed her mom to dying 17 occasions. Godejohn and Gypsy ran away that evening, however not earlier than posting on her mom’s Fb account, “That Bitch is Lifeless!” Neighbors and acquaintances of Dee Dee’s, involved by the submit, contacted police, who ultimately got here to the house and located Dee Dee’s physique. A neighbor who Gypsy had confided in about her relationship with Godejohn informed police, who tracked the couple to his house in Wisconsin. On June 15, 2015, Godejohn and Gypsy have been arrested and extradited to Missouri, the place they each confessed to the homicide. (Godejohn is presently serving a life sentence for the homicide, and isn’t eligible for parole.)

Since Dee Dee’s homicide, Blanchard has been the topic of intense media scrutiny, principally due to the detailed and brutal circumstances surrounding Dee Dee’s homicide. A number of reveals have been made concerning the case, together with the 2017 HBO Documentary Mommy Lifeless and Dearest, the Discovery collection Gypsy’s Revenge, the Emmy award-winning drama The Act, and the latest Lifetime Documentary Sequence The Jail Confessions of Gypsy Rose Blanchard, which can premiere on Jan. 5. 

In an unique interview with Individuals main as much as her launch, Gypsy informed the information web site she feels regret concerning the dying of her mom. “If I had one other probability to redo the whole lot, I don’t know if I’d return to after I was a baby and inform my aunts and uncles that I’m not sick and mommy makes me sick,” Gypsy stated, “or, if I’d journey again to only the purpose of that dialog with Nick and inform him, ‘You recognize what, I’m going to go inform the police the whole lot.’ I sort of battle with that. No person will ever hear me say I’m glad she’s useless or I’m pleased with what I did. I remorse it each single day.”

“She didn’t deserve that,” Gypsy Rose added. “She was a sick girl and sadly I wasn’t educated sufficient to see that. She deserved to be the place I’m, sitting in jail doing time for legal habits.”