5: Mommy Dead and Dearest

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🗓️ 6 June 2017

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Late on the evening of June 14, 2015, deputy sheriffs in Greene County, Missouri, found the body of Dee Dee Blancharde laying facedown in a pool of blood from the stab wounds that had killed her several days earlier. There was no sign of her teenage daughter, Gypsy Rose, who, according to Blancharde, suffered from leukemia, asthma, muscular dystrophy, and several other chronic conditions, and had the mental capacity of a 7-year-old. In the days and weeks that followed, the police came to understand the crime and the treacherous web of lies, child abuse, mental illness, and forbidden love that set the stage for this horrendous and brutal murder.

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0:33.5	We're talking fast because we're drinking crystal light with caffeine. It's really good.
0:36.7	It actually is really good. She says other eyes, my dad, I'm like, it's really delicious.
0:40.1	Do you have any more? Is there more in your cell? I don't know. Great.
0:43.5	Today we're talking about mommy, dad and dearest, which is not mother-may-asleep with danger.
0:48.7	What you want it to be so bad. Listen, I will get into this on another episode, but I was
0:53.2	obsessed with Tory Spelling's book, Storytelling. I actually... Wait a second. Her name, the
1:00.0	name of her book is Storytelling. First of all, it was a huge bestseller. It's kind
1:03.9	of genius. Tory Spelling was the queen of the lifetime movies. It's a whole thing in
1:09.5	her book. She's one of the first TV actresses to get producer credit because she was in
1:13.8	so many of them. It's a good thing because her dad did not leave her a penny.
1:17.7	Really? Maybe like $200,000. Wow. Out of all of that sleazy, high-stual
1:22.4	sex money.
1:35.7	Gypsy was in a wheelchair. She had leukemia. She was having seizures and she had to be
1:40.5	too fit. And I gradually, that story fell apart.
1:45.0	Things were not always as they appeared. How do you kill your own mother?
1:52.5	This is a tragic event surrounded by mystery and public deception. People thought of it as
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