Gypsy Rose Blanchard, convicted of participating in the murder of her mother Clauddine “Dee Dee” Blanchard, is more present on social media after her release from prison at the end of last year.
Blanchard’s story has already inspired series and documentaries such as “The Act”, on Prime Video, “Mamãe Morta e Querida”, on HBO Max, “Gypsy: A Life of Lies”, on Apple TV+, and the film “Escape”.
Shortly after leaving prison, she published a photo with the caption “First photo of freedom” on her Instagram account.
She also shared moments from her New Year's Eve on social media. On December 31, she shared a video wishing her followers a happy New Year.
Gypsy talked about how excited she was to spend New Year's Eve with her family. “So we want to celebrate the new year together. It will be really amazing to have some family time after so long,” she said.
She explained that she was celebrating the start of 2024 with her father, Rod Blanchard, her stepmother Kristy, and her husband, Ryan Anderson.
Gypsy was released last Thursday (28), after seven years in prison. The information was confirmed by the Missouri Department of Corrections. Crime happened in 2015.
She was sentenced to 10 years in prison in 2016 when she pleaded guilty, but her sentence was shortened. At the time of the murder, she was just 23 years old.
Gypsy would have helped plan her mother's death, while Nicholas Godejohn, the young woman's boyfriend, was found guilty of stabbing Dee Dee Blanchard to death.
Nicholas Godejohn received a life sentence in 2019, according to information from the Springfield News-Leader website.
Understand the case
On June 14, 2015, Dee Dee's Facebook profile published an unusual message, which said: “That b*tch is dead”. This ended up drawing the attention of the neighborhood, who called the police.
The woman was found dead with 17 stab wounds and her daughter was still missing. Tracking the IP from where the publication was made, the police arrived at Gypsy.
She then confessed that the murder had been committed by her boyfriend on June 9th.
Gypsy claimed she killed her mother out of revenge. Dee Dee had Munchausen syndrome, a type of child abuse in one of the parents simulates illnesses in the child in exchange for the child's undivided attention.
She came to invent, and nurtured the invention for years, that her daughter had chronic diseases muscular dystrophy, leukemia, asthma, epilepsy and sleep apnea, and even forced the girl to use a wheelchair since childhood.
In an interview with People magazine, published on Wednesday (27), Gypsy Rose said she regrets the crime.
“She didn’t deserve this,” he said. “She was a sick woman and unfortunately I wasn't educated enough to see that. She deserved to be where I am, sitting in prison serving time for criminal behavior,” she added.
“If I had another chance to do it all over again, I don't know if I would go back to when I was a kid and tell my aunts and uncles that I'm not sick and that Mommy makes me sick,” Gypsy says now. “Or, if I went back to exactly the point of that conversation with Nick and told him, 'You know what, I'm going to tell the police everything,'” she added.
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*Published by Iasmin Paiva, with information from Nicoly Bastos
Source: CNN Brasil
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