Episode 183: Dee Dee Blanchard

The First Degree

Alexis Linkletter and Jac Vanek

True Crime, Society & Culture, News

4.5 • 10K Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2022

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

A woman and her disabled daughter relocate to Missouri after losing everything in Hurricane Katrina. They become local celebrities after residents hear what the mother and daughter have been through. For years, the community rallies around them, gathering donations, organizing fundraisers, and more. Then one day, out of nowhere, the mother is found murdered and her disabled daughter is nowhere to be found. A frantic search for the girl begins, and when she’s found, authorities realize everything people have come to know about this mother and daughter duo is a complete lie. In episode 183, Jac, Alexis, and Billy example what led Gypsy Blanchard to murder her mother Dee Dee.

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0:00.0	First degree.
0:02.0	First degree.
0:04.0	First degree.
0:06.0	First degree.
0:08.0	First degree.
0:10.0	Get on the grid.
0:12.0	Get on the grid.
0:14.0	You think they're supposed to happen in movies, not real life.
0:18.0	We were just like, what type of sickle would just take a child and steal her, like, oh, someone in a wheelchair, like,
0:28.0	crime stick fantasy, do you get out of this?
0:32.0	Welcome to the first degree of the True Crime Podcast.
0:36.0	You might end up on my name is Jack Viennick. I'm sitting here at the Lexus Link Letter and Billy Jensen.
0:40.0	Alexis is wearing some first degree merch that has been discontinued.
0:46.0	Our Stranger Things parody.
0:48.0	We might have to bring it back. This is like my favorite sweatshirt.
0:50.0	I wear it like once a week.
0:52.0	It's pretty good if I do say so myself, you know.
0:56.0	Because no one really knows what they're looking at. It's just a cool sweatshirt.
0:58.0	That's right. I know.
1:00.0	I'm working on some first degree merch.
1:02.0	It's just been a slow roll.
1:04.0	We'll get some out for everybody.
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