S3 Ep247: Dee Dee Blanchard: Screaming for Gypsy (Part 5)

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🗓️ 1 November 2024

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A small, quiet town in Missouri. A devoted mother caring for her chronically ill daughter. A story of love, sacrifice, and survival. Or so it seemed. But behind closed doors, beneath the layers of sympathy and kindness, there was a dark secret waiting to be uncovered. For nearly two decades Dee Dee Blanchard told the world that her daughter, Gypsy Rose, was dying. Leukemia, muscular dystrophy, seizures, vision and hearing issues, the list of illnesses and medical concerns was endless. Gypsy, a seemingly happy little girl with a huge smile, was bound to a wheelchair, fed through a tube, and showered with the attention and support of everyone around her, but no one really knew the horrifying truth. It seemed that Gypsy was perfectly healthy. She could walk. She didn't need a wheelchair to get around, and it appeared that she was being kept a prisoner in her own body, in her own home, by her own mother. The story goes that years of abuse, manipulation, and lies built up until they all came crashing down in the most unthinkable way: Murder. On the night of June 14, 2015, Dee Dee Blanchard was found stabbed to death in her home, and the prime suspect? Dee-Dee's innocent, smiling, happy, and allegedly disabled daughter, along with the man that Gypsy had been having a very adult relationship with. But nothing about this case is as it appears to be. This is the story of Gypsy Rose and Dee Dee Blanchard.

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0:00.0	Hello, everybody. Welcome back to Crime Weekly. I'm Stephanie Harlow. And I'm Derek
0:16.5	Lavasser. So today we are jumping into part five of the Gypsy Rose and D.D. Blanchard case. We obviously
0:25.1	took a break last week because we had Dr. Michael Fabian on and we kind of took a break in the timeline,
0:32.5	but we're getting back into that timeline now. We're picking back up with the rest of the messages between Gypsy Rose Blanchard and Nicholas
0:40.0	Godaghan in the week leading up to her mother's murder. But before we get into that, because it's going to be
0:45.1	salacious. Oh, yeah. Do you have anything to say? Yes. And you know, you know I do. I think what we did
0:51.2	with the first part of this year is the first four parts is we answered the
0:54.4	question or gave our opinions on the question, do we believe Gypsy Rose was abused or not?
0:58.9	I mean, there's two big questions here.
1:01.1	Do we think that Gypsy Rose was abused?
1:02.6	Do we think that D.D. was an abuser?
1:05.3	And then also now we're transitioning to the second question, which I posed in episode one,
1:10.0	which is, what do we think about
1:11.5	the murder itself? Was Gypsy Rose responsible for this murder? Did she get enough time?
1:17.3	And also kind of like, did she seem, you know, next week, we're going to listen to some parts of
1:26.0	Gypsy's police interview and Nicholas Cote John's police interviews.
1:31.2	So when she's telling the police how she feels about what happened and the way things went
1:35.9	down and things like that, does it seem consistent with the way she's behaving with Nicholas
1:43.6	GoToJohn as she talks about the planning of her mother's
1:46.9	murder. Yeah, and we talked this week earlier about in Crime Weekly News. It kind of was the theme of
1:52.2	the episode, even though it wasn't intended to be that way, which is the crimes that are committed
1:56.6	in the sentencing that are handed out, are they appropriate? And it's interesting that later this
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