Crime, and more specifically murder, have always been a regrettably consistent element of the human experience.

A couple of quotes I think are relevant as it relates to the story today.

The deviant and the conformist are creatures of the same culture, inventions of the same imagination.

And we are all capable of becoming something monstrous.

Today we take a look at the story of Gypsy Rose Blanchard and her mother, Dede.

Gypsy's mother falsely claimed that her daughter was suffering from different illnesses throughout her life,

until Gypsy, controlling a puppet on a string, orchestrated the murder of

D.D. Blanchard in 2015.

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it. I do it every now and then, and I did it early on in the life of 10-minute murder, and I think

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The way you hear me talk, especially during this part of the podcast, is how I normally am.

Fortunately or unfortunately.

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