She brought up the idea of killing her mother, and Godejohn traveled to Missouri to carry it out, though his defense argued he shouldn’t be convicted of first-degree murder because he was on the autism spectrum and had a low IQ. Gypsy and Godejohn met through an online dating site and had a long-distance relationship as boyfriend-girlfriend that eventually resulted in murder. Even prosecutors acknowledged that her mother should have been put on trial for abuse.

Her father and his new wife stepped forward after the murder to support her in interviews. In one instance, she said Dee Dee chained her to a bed after a failed attempt to run away. Gypsy’s mother subjected her to life-long physical and emotional abuse. Experts have attributed this to a mental illness known as Munchausen syndrome by proxy. Her mom kept her as a virtual prisoner in their home, forcing her to feign a slew of medical conditions so they could garner sympathy and cheat people out of their money, she said. She said she recruited Nicholas Godejohn to kill Dee Dee.

It happened after the unidentified love interest watched the compelling HBO documentary, Mommy Dead and Dearest.īlanchard pleaded guilty in her mother’s murder in 2016, and is now serving a 10-year sentence. The couple came to know each other a year and a half ago as pen pals, Micelli said. “You can hear excitement in her voice.” She declined to share the fiancé’s name, citing a request from Gypsy. “They are very happy,” Fancy Micelli told PEOPLE. Gypsy Rose Blanchard, the Missouri woman who pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in the death of her mother Dee Dee Blanchard, is engaged to be married, a family friend said.

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