Mommy Dead and Dearest

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🗓️ 30 August 2021

⏱️ 39 minutes

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For the final CWO Classic rewind of the summer, we look back at the panel's May 2017 review of the HBO documentary about the case of Dee Dee and Gypsy Rose Blanchard, "Mommy Dead and Dearest." Click here to get the Crime Writers On After Show, plus more exclusive content, on Patreon.: https://patreon.com/partnersincrimemedia

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0:00.0	For exclusive podcasts and more, sign up at Patreon.com
0:04.0	slash partners in crime media.
0:06.0	I'm Rebecca Lervoy and this is crime writers on. Crime Raiders on is the original True Crime Review
0:25.2	Podcast that looks at true crime pop culture other podcasts TV and in this week a
0:30.6	classic rewind episode Kevin what are we going to be listening to I just
0:34.7	told you what we're listening to. Oh that's right it's the HBO documentary
0:39.2	Mommy dead and dearest a crime writer's classic. I have to write down everything for you.
0:44.2	You really do, you really do.
0:45.6	So Kevin, remind us what this was about.
0:47.8	Okay, this was the documentary that dealt with Dede and Gypsy Rose Blanchard.
0:54.0	Yes.
0:55.0	D.D. was the mom, and this was a Munchhausen by proxy case,
1:00.0	where they pretended that Gypsy Rose was in a wheelchair and had a lot of disabilities
1:08.1	a lot of disabilities a lot of illness feeding tube and all sorts of things and then gypsy with the help of an internet boyfriend
1:14.2	killed d d d d and anyway it was it was very wild it was a wild story yeah and I think we
1:22.3	had a pretty good discussion about it.
1:24.0	Should we listen to that?
1:25.0	Let's move on to tonight's featured conversation, shall we?
1:31.0	The HBO documentary film Mommy Dead and Dearest tells the story of Diddy Blanchard.
1:38.5	I don't want to pronounce it, but I did hear it pronounced a few different ways in the documentary and her daughter Gypsy Rose it
1:44.4	reveals one of the most devastating and crazy cases of Munchhausen syndrome by proxy in
1:50.7	modern memory for decades gypsy's mother forced her to undergo countless
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