In 2015 Gypsy and her then-boyfriend Nicholas Godejohn orchestrated their deliberate homicide of Gypsy’s mom, Dee Dee Blanchard. On the night time of June 10, 2015, Gypsy let Godejohn into the house after Dee Dee had gone to sleep.

In her ebook, Gypsy wrote that she took three Vicodin and went into the lavatory after letting Godejohn in, realizing he was going to homicide her mom as a part of their elopement plans.

“I went to the lavatory, sat on the ground and coated my ears. Besides I heard. I heard every part,” she wrote within the ebook.

“Nick entered the room soundlessly as a result of there was no bed room door, so when she lastly awoke it should have been as a result of he was standing over her, not due to any noise,” Gypsy recalled. “She was startled.”

Regardless that she was within the lavatory, Gypsy wrote that she remembered “listening to her as if her voice was muffled.” She believes she heard her mom ask, “Who’re you?”

In her memoir, Gypsy wrote that Godejohn has “claimed he mentioned one thing like, ‘I’m dying. You’ll die now,’” however she does not recall listening to that.

“I simply heard the screaming,” she wrote. “After which I lay within the fetal place with my arms pressed arduous over my ears. However I may nonetheless hear issues.”

She then detailed listening to what she guesses should have been a “pause” within the stabbing of her mom. “After which it gave the impression of she might have had a pool of blood in her mouth as a result of I heard her say with a gargle, ‘Gypsy. Gypsy.’”

Gypsy wrote that she didn’t reply or go to her mom. “I simply stayed very, very nonetheless. I used to be attempting to deal with my respiratory,” she wrote. “There weren’t ideas going by means of my head in any respect. It was like I used to be locked inside a cloud, with the out-of-reach Earth spinning under me.”

“Nothing was actual. I used to be a simulation, as I targeted on taking my subsequent breath, and the following. After which I heard one sharp, ‘Assist me!’” Gypsy wrote of that night time.

She then wrote that after her mom was useless, Godejohn had her clear him off earlier than he then raped her earlier than they fled the scene of the homicide.

In keeping with arrest data, Dee Dee was stabbed 17 instances within the again whereas she was sleeping. It additionally particulars that after having intercourse in Gypsy’s room, the couple stole greater than $4,400 from the home and made their option to a motel outdoors Springfrield, Missouri, the place the homicide occurred, to plan their subsequent transfer.

Each Gypsy and Godejohn have been finally arrested at his house in Wisconsin and charged with the homicide of Dee Dee Blanchard. Gypsy pleaded responsible to second-degree homicide and was sentenced to 10 years. Godejohn was discovered responsible of first-degree homicide and sentenced to life with out parole, plus 25 years for armed felony motion.

Gypsy was 22 years outdated when her mom was murdered, although most mates and neighbors believed her to be a lot youthful. In addition they believed she was affected by all kinds of significant sicknesses, as a result of that is what Dee Dee had been presenting Gypsy’s complete life.

In keeping with Gypsy, her mom pressured her to make use of a wheelchair and feeding tubes and claimed the kid had quite a few sicknesses and issues, together with muscular dystrophy — with different medical doctors calling BS on these diagnoses and claiming Gypsy as an alternative suffered from Munchausen syndrome by proxy, now referred to as Factitious dysfunction imposed on one other.

Reflecting again on the alleged remedy she endured, Blanchard informed Folks forward of her launch that she knew she did not want a feeding tube or wheelchair, however was actually confused about every part else. She additionally mentioned her mother would “get actually, actually upset with me and begin manipulating me” each time she questioned the scenario.

Gypsy was paroled from jail on December 28, 2023 after serving eight years of her 10-year sentence. She performed many interviews about her expertise and was the topic of a docuseries about her and then-husband Ryan Anderson known as Gypsy-Rose: Life After Lock Up.

Since then, Gypsy and Anderson have gotten divorced and she or he’s introduced her being pregnant with a earlier fiancé she reconnected with, Ken Urker. Their child is due in January.