Gypsy Rose Blanchard Was Released From Prison After Persuading Her Boyfriend To Murder Her Abusive Mother.

Gypsy Rose Blanchard, the Missouri lady who convinced an internet boyfriend to kill her mother after forcing her to pretend for years that she had leukaemia, muscular dystrophy, and other serious ailments, was freed on parole on Thursday.

Blanchard was freed from the Chillicothe Correctional Center early that day, according to Karen Pojmann, a spokesperson for the Missouri Department of Corrections. Pojmann stated that Blanchard was granted release after serving 85% of her initial sentence.

Blanchard’s case garnered national media interest as it was revealed that her mother, Claudine “Dee Dee” Blanchard, who was murdered in 2015, had effectively kept her daughter prisoner, forcing her to use a wheelchair and a feeding tube.

Gypsy Blanchard, now 32, came proven to be healthy, not developmentally retarded, as her friends had long assumed. According to her trial counsel, Michael Stanfield, her mother had Munchausen syndrome by proxy, a psychological ailment in which parents or caregivers seek sympathy through exaggerated or made-up illnesses in their children.

Gypsy Rose Blanchard Was Released From Prison After Persuading Her Boyfriend To Murder Her Abusive Mother.

“People were constantly telling Dee Dee what a wonderful mother she was, and Dee Dee was getting all of this attention,” she recalled.

Through the hoax, the mother and daughter met Miranda Lambert and got philanthropic donations, a trip to Disney World, and even a home in Springfield from Habitat for Humanity.

According to Stanfield, Gypsy Blanchard’s mother deceived doctors by claiming her daughter’s medical records were destroyed in Hurricane Katrina. If they pressed her too hard, she hired a replacement doctor, shaving the girl’s head to back up her account. Gypsy Blanchard had her salivary glands removed, which was one of the unneeded treatments she received. Her mother persuaded doctors that it was essential by causing drooling with a topical anaesthetic.

Gypsy Blanchard, who had little education or contact with anyone other than her mother, was similarly misled, according to Stanfield.

Gypsy Rose Blanchard Was Released From Prison After Persuading Her Boyfriend To Murder Her Abusive Mother.

“The doctors appear to validate everything you’ve been told. The outside world portrays your mother as a great, kind, and caring individual. “Can you think of anything else?” Stanfield explained.

But then the harassment grew more violent, according to Stanfield. Gypsy said that her mother abused her and bound her to a bed. Gipsy gradually realized that she wasn’t as unwell as her mother said.

“I wanted to be free of her hold on me,” Gypsy testified at the 2018 trial of her ex-boyfriend, Nicholas Godejohn of Big Bend, Wisconsin, who is receiving a life sentence for the murder. She said, “I talked him into it.”

Prosecutors had already cut her a bargain because of the torture she had undergone when she took the stand at his trial. She was sentenced to ten years in jail in return for pleading guilty to second-degree murder in 2016. Her initial charge of first-degree murder would have resulted in a life sentence.

“Nick was so in love and obsessed with her that he would do anything,” Godejohn’s trial attorney, Dewayne Perry, stated in court, claiming his client has autism and was duped.

On the other hand, prosecutors claimed that his motivation was lust and a desire to be with Gypsy Blanchard, whom he met through a Christian dating service.

Gypsy Blanchard, according to the probable cause statement, supplied the knife and hid in a toilet as Godejohn repeatedly stabbed her mother. The two eventually made their way to Wisconsin by bus, where they were apprehended.

Gypsy Rose Blanchard Was Released From Prison After Persuading Her Boyfriend To Murder Her Abusive Mother.

“Things aren’t always as they appear,” Greene County Sheriff Jim Arnott stated as the bizarre truths emerged.

Gypsy’s age was also a deception. Gypsy’s mother had lied about her age to make the deception easier to continue, and she got away with it because she was so small: she was only 4 feet, 11 inches (150 centimetres) tall.

Law enforcement was perplexed because the original court paperwork showed three different ages for her, the youngest of which was 19. She was 23 years old.

Prosecutor Dan Patterson of Greene County called it “one of the most extraordinary and unusual cases we have seen.”

Stanfield claimed that the first time he encountered Gypsy, she was out of breath as she walked 75 yards (69 meters) from the elevator to the room where he spoke with her. She was underweight and physically fragile, according to him.

Gypsy Rose Blanchard Was Released From Prison After Persuading Her Boyfriend To Murder Her Abusive Mother.

“I can honestly say I’ve rarely had a client who looks exceedingly better after doing a fairly long prison sentence,” Stanfield went on to remark. “In general, prison is not where you can become happy and healthy.” And I say that because, to me, that’s kind of testimony to the rest of the world of how horrible Gypsy’s situation was.”

Gypsy Blanchard later admitted that she didn’t understand how healthy she was until her arrest. However, it took time. She eventually married Ryan Scott Anderson, now 37, of Saint Charles, Louisiana, while still incarcerated.

The unusual case was the subject of three documentaries: “Mommy Dead and Dearest” on HBO in 2017, “The Act” on Hulu in 2019, and “The Prison Confession of Gypsy Rose Blanchard” on Lifetime in 2019. “Dr. Phil” McGraw, a daytime television psychologist, interviewed her behind bars. The novel “Darling Rose Gold” is based on the story, and Blanchard’s version, “Released: Conversations on the Eve of Freedom,” will be published next month.

Amid the media frenzy, prison officer Pojmann stated that no in-person coverage of her release was permitted “in the interest of protecting safety, security, and privacy.”

SOURCE – (AP)