Gypsy Rose Blanchard: Free

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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🗓️ 6 January 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

More than two years shy of her 10-year sentence, Gypsy Rose Blanchard is free.

Blanchard was convicted of second-degree murder after she admitted to having her boyfriend, Nicholas Godejohn, kill her mother, Dee Dee Blanchard. Now she is out from behind bars at the Chillicothe Correctional Center.

Dee Dee Blanchard is believed to have suffered from Munchausen by proxy — which caused forcing her daughter to use a wheelchair and subjecting her to unnecessary medical treatments, all to foster attention to Dee Dee herself. Before the murder, Gypsy Rose Blanchard’s mother allegedly isolated her and tied her to a bed to stop her from escaping.

Gypsy Rose Blanchard is now married and picked up from prison by her husband. Her book, “Released: Conversations on the Eve of Freedom," is expected to come out on January 9.

Joining Nancy Grace today:

Joe Scott Morgan – Professor of Forensics: Jacksonville State University, Author, “Blood Beneath My Feet,” and Host: “Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan;” Twitter: @JoScottForensic
Dr. Daniel Bober – Forensic Psychiatrist, Chief of Psychiatry Memorial Regional Healthcare Systems, Assistant Clinical Professor at Yale University School of Medicine; Instagram at drdanielbober
Kathleen Murphy – North Carolina Family Attorney; Twitter: @RalDivorceLaw
John Lemley - CrimeStories Investigative Reporter

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0:00.0	Crime stories with Nancy Grace.
0:07.0	In the last days, Gypsy Rose Blanchard is released from prison eight years after she convinces her ex to murder her munch housing by proxy mom.
0:29.2	Her teacher husband whisked her away in a Cadillac sedan straight to a budget hotel.
0:37.0	I'm Nancy Grace. This is Crime Stories. Thanks for being with us here at Crime Stories and at Series
0:44.2	XM 111. Now, Gypsy Rose Blanchard has been a conundrum, a mystery, for so long. a
0:55.0	conundrum, a mystery for so long. True, she orchestrated the murder of her mother in cold blood.
1:11.5	However, and I think I can count on one hand how many times I have had a however in a statement like that.
1:14.0	Gypsy Rose Blanchard spent her entire childhood
1:20.0	being forced to pose as a wheelchair-bound invalid.
1:26.0	Her mother, convincing the world,
1:29.0	this little girl suffered from leukemia
1:32.0	and muscular dystrophy. When I say had to pose as an
1:39.1	invalid and being a wheelchair, that's not all. Her mother forced her to undergo multiple surgeries and
1:50.3	there was nothing wrong with her at all.
1:53.0	She wouldn't let her go to regular school.
1:55.0	She would not let her interact with other people.
2:00.0	She lost her teeth.
2:02.0	Her whole childhood was ruined. Her mother shaved her head,
2:10.0	pumped her full of drugs. It's just terrible.
2:16.4	In her mind, the only way she could get free from her mother is to convince her deeply in love internet boyfriend creep into their
2:28.7	Springfield Missouri home and stab 48-year-, Dede, dead.
2:35.0	She was jailed for 10 years for the matricide, that's murder of your mother, but got early parole
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