You can support this podcast at patreon.com slash partners and crime media.

HBO documentary films presents Mommy Dead Enderest, a true crime story in the age of social media

where child abuse, mental illness and forbidden love converge.

This mystery tells the story of Dee Dee Blanchard and her wheelchair-bound daughter Gypsy Rose,

a mother and daughter who were beloved members of their community,

and thought to be living a fairy tale life.

But as it turns out, it was actually a living nightmare.

Get a first hand look at this bizarre case and one of psychology's most controversial conditions,

Munchausen by proxy syndrome in Mommy Dead Enderest,

premiering Monday, May 15th at 10pm on HBO.

I'm Rebecca LaVoy and this is Crime Riders on.

The podcast about a podcast and also about journalism, pop culture, true crime.

And this week, the slightly too close to reality show called the Handmaid's Tale on

Hulu, plus we'll talk about a bunch of other stuff and we're going to do that with my true crime,

co-author and real life husband and my favorite host of these are their stories, the law

and order podcast Kevin Flynn. Hello Kevin. You did that great without a script, Rebecca.

Hey, it's better than copying and pasting.

I forget everybody should know Rebecca forgot to write a script so she said,

I'm going to wing it and I said this is going to be a disaster but you got through it okay.

I did. I am the below Riley of this podcast.

Let's see if you can remember everybody else on the panel.

And also joining us is, yeah you forgot.

...