Woman who planned to murder mum after years of abuse is freed from jail
Gypsy Rose Blanchard has been released from prison today, after spending nearly a decade behind bars after orchestrating her mother’s murder.
In 2015, the now 32-year-old helped plan her medically abusive mother’s murder with her online boyfriend Nicholas Godejohn.
Unlike boyfriend Godejohn, who will serve life in prison without the possibility of parole, Gypsy Rose is now being released and has plans already, TMZ has reported.
She plans to meet Taylor Swift at a Kansas City Chiefs game she will attend in three days with her now husband Ryan.
Blanchard also said that she intends to buy tickets for Swift’s October 2024 tour stop in New Orleans if she fails to meet the star.
Gypsy Rose is believed to have been a victim of Munchausen by proxy – a form of abuse in which the parent or guardian exaggerates or induces illness in a child for attention and sympathy.
Gypsy’s mum, Dee Dee, alleged that her daughter had leukemia, asthma, muscular dystrophy and an allergy to sugar, while complications during a premature birth left her with brain damage, resulting in her having the mental capacity of a seven-year-old.
She shaved her daughter’s head on a regular basis to make her look like she had undergone chemotherapy, and forced Gypsy Rose to use a wheelchair – despite her not actually needing one.
Gypsy Rose later claimed that while she knew she could walk and that she didn’t have the mental age of a child, she believed her mum when she said she had cancer.
Gypsy Rose was born in 1991, and while her mother told people she was a teenager with a much younger mental age, she was actually an adult.
As Gypsy Rose grew older, a number of doctors found that she tested negative for muscular dystrophy and that she could indeed walk. And in 2012, Gypsy Rose – then 21 – met Nicholas Godejohn on the internet.
The pair grew close, with Gypsy Rose later telling a neighbour that they were considering eloping. In 2013, Gypsy Rose organised for Nicholas to visit her home in Springfield, Missouri, when they began their sexual relationship. They also began planning Dee Dee’s murder.
She claims that she didn’t think Nicholas would carry out the act. However, he stabbed Dee Dee to death, before having sex with Gypsy Rose and fleeing to Wisconsin.
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