9/6/2023 0 Comments True story about the act![]() The 8,000-word piece Dean wrote in 2016 for BuzzFeed about Gypsy’s life and Dee Dee’s death immediately went viral. Her then-boyfriend, Nicholas Godejohn, was sentenced to life in prison without parole. Gypsy is serving a 10-year prison sentence for second-degree murder. It turned out Gypsy wasn’t really sick, didn’t need her wheelchair and that this disturbing murder involved a case of Munchausen Syndrome by proxy, in which a caregiver fabricates illnesses in another person to attract sympathy and financial support, or for other reasons. It took a year of reporting to piece together what happened - specifically, why Dee Dee Blanchard’s sickly daughter, Gypsy Rose, whose medical care was Blanchard’s full-time job, would want her mother dead. Included were the mug shots of the woman’s daughter and her boyfriend, who had been arrested for the crime. ![]() ![]() Four years ago, journalist Michelle Dean saw a news report about a woman who had been murdered in Missouri. ![]()
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