“She called out my name about three or four times.”
“At that point, I wanted to go help her so bad, but I was so afraid to get up. It’s like my body wouldn’t move. Then everything just went quiet.”
These are the words of 26-year-old Gypsy Rose Blanchard, a woman who was subjected to invasive medical procedures for years, for illnesses she never had. Her mother, Dee Dee Blanchard, had forced her to pretend to be sick since she was a child in the hopes of reaping the benefits. It’s a bizarre case of Munchausen by proxy that ended in a brutal murder.
In June of 2015, Nicholas Godejohn (a man Gypsy met on the internet, late at night after Dee Dee was asleep) stabbed Dee Dee to death at her Springfield home, while Gyspy waited in the next room.
Gypsy had asked Nicholas to kill her mother.
She is now serving a 10-year prison sentence for second degree murder.
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In an interview from prison with 20/20 on Friday, Gypsy recalled, “[Nicholas and I] called it Plan B … I was getting desperate”.
“I texted him when my mother went to sleep, I let him in the door. There were gloves … plastic gloves by the door. I put them there. He came in and he was wearing a hoodie and dark clothing and a scary T-shirt on that had evil clowns on it.”
Gypsy said her friend told her to cover her ears, but she could still hear her mother screaming.
“I heard her scream once, and there was more screaming but not like the kind in a horror film,” she said.
“Just like a startled scream, and she asked who was it that was in the bedroom.”
Gypsy said she and Nicholas had sex in her bedroom after the murder.
When asked about the days after the murder, Gypsy said she hid in a hotel for a few days, and she felt a rollercoaster of emotions.
“It would come in times of happiness, little spurts of happiness, but I would have breakdowns or I’d start crying, feeling remorse, guilt, and at the same time, also missing her at the same time, worry about what, what I’d just done,” she said.
Family and friends started to suspect something was wrong when Dee Dee’s Facebook status was updated to read “That Bitch is dead!” on June 14, 2015, around 5:30pm.