They then took off to Wisconsin (an eight-hour drive away) where they would plan their next move. Gypsy and Nicholas then had sex, stole $4000 in cash from Dee Dee and fled to a motel nearby. She hid in the bathroom while Nicholas stabbed Dee Dee in the back as she slept.
Gypsy let Nicholas in their home one evening in June 2015 and gave him duct tape, gloves and a knife to commit the murder. In a desperate bid to escape her mother’s tight grip, Gypsy and Nicholas made a plan to murder Dee Dee so they could elope and have children. Gypsy cottoned on to not being as sick as her mother tried to convince her she was and found freedom online, where she met Nicholas on a Christian dating site in 2012. It was revealed Dee Dee was the one suffering from a condition - Munchausen syndrome by proxy - a mental health problem in which a guardian makes up or causes an illness in a person under their care. Investigators found Gypsy in Wisconsin several days later with her boyfriend, Nicholas Godejohn, who she had met online in the years prior. Sounds evil, but it was her mother who was behind the fake illness. After the crime, she got up from her wheelchair and fled. It turns out Gypsy was at home when her mother was murdered. It was immediately thought she had been abducted. The case got a lot more sinister when police discovered Gypsy wasn’t at home, but her wheelchair and medication was left behind. The pair had a special home built for them, went on an all-expenses paid trip to Disney World, were given $3500 by country singer Miranda Lambert and also got to meet Elijah Wood from Lord of the Rings. People did what they could to make their lives happier. She had to be fed through a tube, had regular seizures and was constantly at hospital having different surgeries. Gypsy, played by Joey King in the series, garnered a lot of attention in the media and from charities, with her mother claiming she suffered from leukaemia, asthma, muscular dystrophy and several other conditions that meant she had the “mental capacity of a seven-year-old”. What was about to be uncovered would send shockwaves around the US and the world, with the riveting story to be dramatised in Hulu’s new crime miniseries The Act, available to stream on Foxtel tomorrow.Ĭlauddine, affectionately known as “Dee Dee”(played by Patricia Arquette), and Gypsy were the quintessential loving mum and daughter duo, from Missouri in the US. Her 19-year-old disabled daughter, Gypsy Rose, who was confined to a wheelchair most of her life and relied on her mother to survive, was not at the scene. Four years ago Clauddine Blanchard was found stabbed to death in her bed, only minutes after her neighbours saw her Facebook status read: “That bitch is dead!”
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