Gypsy Rose Blanchard explains Munchhausen mom's murder & the odd disappearance of Courtney Roland

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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🗓️ 10 January 2018

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Gypsy Rose Blanchard is talking again about her involvement in her mom's murder. Dee Dee Blanchard, 48, suffered from Munchhausen syndrome by proxy, a mentalcondition marked by a caregiver making up illnesses in a child to win attention. Speaking from prison where she is serving a 10-year-sentence, Gypsy Rose describes how her mom chained her to a bed and what it was like hearing her die. Nancy Grace discusses the case with psychologist Dr. Chloe Carmichael, forensics expert Joseph Scott Morgan, and reporter John Lemley, RadarOnline.com reporter Alexis Tereszcuk joins Nancy to discuss the odd disappearance of Courtney Roland. The Texas journalist was found disoriented, unaware of a search for her.

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0:00.0	Cribe Stories with Nancy Grace on SiriusXM Triumph Channel 132.
0:12.6	She had a very sweet personality, very convincing.
0:17.0	She would call it Southern Charm, and she would use her Southern Charm to get them to be friendly
0:26.0	and get on their good side.
0:28.6	Did you hate your mother at that point?
0:30.6	I didn't hate her.
0:32.6	You wanted her dead?
0:33.6	Yes, but it was not because I hated her.
0:36.6	It was because I went to escape.
0:40.6	Everything went quiet.
0:43.6	A young girl describes listening as her mother is stabbed to death.
0:49.6	By a boyfriend, she meets on a Christian dating website.
0:54.6	But that is just really the beginning of the story.
0:58.6	I'm Nancy Grace. This is Cribe Stories.
1:01.6	Thank you for being with us.
1:03.6	How do we get to the point where a young girl is describing how she meets this boyfriend on a Christian dating website?
1:12.6	And she listens as, quote, everything went quiet as her mother, after calling out her name,
1:21.6	Gypsy, that's the daughter's name.
1:23.6	Repeatedly, everything goes quiet and she just waits in the next room as her mother is stabbed dead.
1:30.6	Again, that's just the beginning of the story.
1:34.6	This is what we know.
1:36.6	A syndrome called Munchhausen by Proxy comes into play.
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