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Sinisterhood

Episode 49: Gypsy Rose Blanchard

Sinisterhood

Audioboom Studios

True Crime, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.86K Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2019

⏱️ 110 minutes

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Summary

By all accounts Dee Dee Blanchard and her daughter Gypsy Rose were an unfortunate pair - a single mom, forced to care for her daughter and her many illnesses. As if that weren't bad enough, their home was destroyed in Hurricane Katrina. When Habitat For Humanity was gracious enough to build them a new home in Springfield, Missouri, neighbors welcomed the devoted and loving mother and the sweet young girl who always had a huge smile on her face despite her sickly condition. But things aren't always as they appear, and what neighbors didn't suspect was one of the worse cases of Munchausen syndrome by proxy was occurring right across the street. Even more shocking is how the horror would end. Dee Dee and Gypsy's story gripped the nation and can now be seen in the HBO documentary Mommy Dead and Dearest, the Hulu series_ The Act_, and continues to make headlines from the courtroom. Support Sinisterhood Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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By all accounts, they were an unfortunate pair, a single mom forced to care for her daughter

0:04.2

and her many illnesses.

0:05.9

As if that weren't bad enough, their home was destroyed in Hurricane Katrina.

0:09.9

For nearly a decade, the pair made a home in Springfield, Missouri, but what their

0:13.5

neighbors didn't suspect was one of the worst cases of Munchausen Syndrome by proxy

0:17.7

was occurring right across the street.

0:20.2

Then, a chance meeting online changed everything.

0:23.6

This week's episode is Gypsy Rose Blanchard.

0:31.0

Up and in the lights, your heart fills with dread, probably a murder or who wants you dead.

0:39.0

It could be a ghost, a demon or worse.

0:43.0

Perhaps you're the victim of a witch's curse.

0:46.0

It's hopeless, you're doomed, you'd call a priest if you could.

0:50.0

You'd rather just listen to who, sinister hood.

1:01.0

Have you ever suspected your neighbors of doing something really secretive like the

1:13.0

burbs style?

1:14.0

That is hilarious that you just asked me that question because I was driving out of my subdivision

1:20.7

and I was passing by a house that has a shed in the back with an air conditioner window

1:26.1

unit in it.

1:27.1

Oh, like Dexter.

1:30.1

I thought I heard a noise that I think was a screeching dog, but as I drove past, I

1:34.6

just thought, I have no idea what goes on.

1:37.1

In any of the, because we all have stockade fences, big wooden fences, we just don't know.

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