When a series of disturbing posts began to pop up on 48-year-old D.D. Blanchard's Facebook account on June 14, 2015,

friends and neighbors were immediately concerned. The messages said the D.D. had been killed.

And that the unknown poster claimed to have also sexually assaulted D.D.'s daughter, Gypsy Rose.

This would have been concerning to read about anyone, but it was especially concerning giving what people knew or thought they knew about D.D. and Gypsy Rose Blanchard.

To them, D.D. was the caring and compassionate mother of a very sick child, a 19-year-old daughter with the mental capabilities of a seven-year-old,

as D.D. had repeatedly claimed. Gypsy seemed to be the unfortunate victim of a terrible genetic lottery, ending up with multiple diagnoses of everything from asthma and allergies to chromosomal defects, muscular dystrophy, epilepsy and more.

She even had leukemia at one point, or so many were told. The Gypsy they thought they knew was a small girl with a bald head and a high voice,

who used an oxygen tube to help her breathe, and whom D.D. rolled around in a wheelchair because she said Gypsy couldn't walk.

It seemed like such a stroke of luck and good fortune when habitat for humanity had been able to build a house for D.D. and her severely disabled daughter Gypsy,

in Springfield, Missouri, after D.D. and Gypsy fled Louisiana following Hurricane Katrina.

But in the days that followed June 14th, people who learned that D.D. and Gypsy were not who they presented themselves to be.

Gypsy was not sick. She walked as fine. She wasn't mentally impaired. Her mother was the sick one.

Her mother had been taken to see specialists, pressuring them to give Gypsy the diagnoses she wanted, find other doctors when they wouldn't.

She'd been getting Gypsy treatments and medications that she didn't need since she was three months old.

Oftentimes medications had harmful side effects. Did things like make her teeth rot out.

And Gypsy wasn't 19 when she disappeared. She was 23. Her mother had lied to others and to her about her age.

Her mother had lied to her about damn her everything for her entire life. Her mother lied told her that the court had granted her some type of conservatorship of her and that she'd never be able to leave and live free.

Told her that if she talked to the police or anyone else and told him that D.D. was forcing her to continue to play along in their sick little game of making the world think Gypsy was actually sick.

No one would believe her. And when the authorities brought her mentally incompetent to sick unable to care for herself daughter back onto her, she'd be punished severely.

She told Gypsy she would never escape, but Gypsy would escape. She'd meet a young man who she was able to talk and to free her by murdering her mother.

After carrying on an online relationship with a troubled autistic young man named Nicholas go to John for almost three years.

Gypsy and Nicholas has to plan to run away together after they murdered D.D.

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