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Murder of Dee Dee Blanchard.(A stupid mother)
On June 14, 2015, sheriff's deputies in Greene County, Missouri, United States, found the body of Clauddine "Dee Dee" Blanchard , born May 3, 1967, in Chackbay, Louisiana) facedown in the bedroom of her house just
outside Springfield,lying on the bed in a pool of blood from stab wounds inflicted several days earlier. There was no sign of her daughter, Gypsy Rose, who, according to Blanchard, suffered from chronic conditions
including leukemia, asthma, and muscular dystrophy, and had the "mental capacity of a 7-year-old due to brain damage" she had suffered as a result of her premature birth.
Murder of Dee Dee Blanchard.
After reading troubling Facebook posts earlier in the evening, concerned neighbors notified the police, reporting that Dee Dee might have fallen victim to foul play and that Gypsy Rose,
whose wheelchair and medications were still in the house, might have been abducted.
The following day, police found Gypsy Rose in Wisconsin, where she had traveled with her boyfriend, Nicholas Godejohn, whom she had met online.
When investigators announced that she was actually an adult, and was not suffering from any of the physical and mental health issues which her mother claimed she had,
public outrage over the possible abduction of a severely disabled girl gave way to shock and some sympathy for Gypsy Rose.
Further investigations found that some of the doctors who had examined Gypsy Rose had found no evidence of the claimed disorders.
One physician suspected that Dee Dee suffered from Munchausen syndrome by proxy, a mental disorder that causes a parent or other caretaker to exaggerate, fabricate,
or induce illness in a person under their care to obtain sympathy or attention.
Dee Dee had slightly changed her name after her family, who suspected she had poisoned her stepmother, confronted her about how she treated Gypsy Rose.
Nonetheless, many people accepted her situation as true, and the two benefited from the efforts of charities such as Children's Mercy Hospital, Habitat for Humanity, Ronald McDonald House, and the Make-A-Wish Foundation.
Dee Dee had been making her daughter pass herself off as younger and pretend to be disabled and chronically ill,
subjecting her to unnecessary surgery and medication, and controlling her through physical and psychological abuse. Dr. Marc Feldman,
an international expert on factitious disorders, stated that this was the first case he had experienced in which an abused child killed an abusive parent.
Gypsy Rose pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and is serving a 10-year sentence; after a brief trial in November 2018 Godejohn was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
Dee Dee's background.
Early life and marriage of Dee Dee Blanchard.
Dee Dee Blanchard was born Clauddine Pitre in Chackbay, Louisiana, near the Gulf Coast in 1967, and grew up with her family in nearby Golden Meadow.
Blanchard was one of five children of Claude Anthony Pitre, Sr. and Emma Lois Gisclair.
Relatives recalled that she had a habit of stealing from her family, which they speculated was a form of retaliation when "things didn't go her way".
At some point early in her adult life, she worked as a nurse's aide.
The family expressed suspicion that in 1997 she might have killed her own mother by denying her food.
When she was 24, she became pregnant by Rod Blanchard, then 17.
They named their daughter Gypsy Rose because Clauddine liked the name Gypsy and Rod was a fan of Guns N' Roses.
Shortly before Gypsy Rose's birth in July 1991, the couple separated when Rod realized he "got married for the wrong reasons". He resisted Clauddine's efforts to get him to return, and she took her newborn daughter to live with her family.
Childhood of Gypsy.
According to Rod, who remained involved with his daughter at this point, by the time Gypsy was three months old, her mother was convinced that the infant suffered from sleep apnea and began taking her to the hospital where repeated overnight stays with a sleep monitor and other tests found no sign of the condition.
Clauddine subsequently became convinced that Gypsy had a wide range of health issues, which she attributed to an unspecified chromosomal disorder.
At some point, her mother claimed that Gypsy had muscular dystrophy, and made her use a walker.
Gypsy stated that when she was 7 or 8, she was riding on her grandfather's motorcycle when they were involved in a minor accident. She suffered an abrasion to her knee. Her mother stated that doctors had given her a wheelchair which she would need to use.
Gypsy often went with her parents to Special Olympics events. In 2001, when Dee Dee claimed Gypsy was 8 (she was actually 10),
she was named the honorary queen of the Krewe of Mid-City, a child-oriented parade held during Mardi Gras in New Orleans.
Gypsy seems to have stopped going to school after second grade,[1] possibly even as...
outside Springfield,lying on the bed in a pool of blood from stab wounds inflicted several days earlier. There was no sign of her daughter, Gypsy Rose, who, according to Blanchard, suffered from chronic conditions
including leukemia, asthma, and muscular dystrophy, and had the "mental capacity of a 7-year-old due to brain damage" she had suffered as a result of her premature birth.
Murder of Dee Dee Blanchard.
After reading troubling Facebook posts earlier in the evening, concerned neighbors notified the police, reporting that Dee Dee might have fallen victim to foul play and that Gypsy Rose,
whose wheelchair and medications were still in the house, might have been abducted.
The following day, police found Gypsy Rose in Wisconsin, where she had traveled with her boyfriend, Nicholas Godejohn, whom she had met online.
When investigators announced that she was actually an adult, and was not suffering from any of the physical and mental health issues which her mother claimed she had,
public outrage over the possible abduction of a severely disabled girl gave way to shock and some sympathy for Gypsy Rose.
Further investigations found that some of the doctors who had examined Gypsy Rose had found no evidence of the claimed disorders.
One physician suspected that Dee Dee suffered from Munchausen syndrome by proxy, a mental disorder that causes a parent or other caretaker to exaggerate, fabricate,
or induce illness in a person under their care to obtain sympathy or attention.
Dee Dee had slightly changed her name after her family, who suspected she had poisoned her stepmother, confronted her about how she treated Gypsy Rose.
Nonetheless, many people accepted her situation as true, and the two benefited from the efforts of charities such as Children's Mercy Hospital, Habitat for Humanity, Ronald McDonald House, and the Make-A-Wish Foundation.
Dee Dee had been making her daughter pass herself off as younger and pretend to be disabled and chronically ill,
subjecting her to unnecessary surgery and medication, and controlling her through physical and psychological abuse. Dr. Marc Feldman,
an international expert on factitious disorders, stated that this was the first case he had experienced in which an abused child killed an abusive parent.
Gypsy Rose pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and is serving a 10-year sentence; after a brief trial in November 2018 Godejohn was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
Dee Dee's background.
Early life and marriage of Dee Dee Blanchard.
Dee Dee Blanchard was born Clauddine Pitre in Chackbay, Louisiana, near the Gulf Coast in 1967, and grew up with her family in nearby Golden Meadow.
Blanchard was one of five children of Claude Anthony Pitre, Sr. and Emma Lois Gisclair.
Relatives recalled that she had a habit of stealing from her family, which they speculated was a form of retaliation when "things didn't go her way".
At some point early in her adult life, she worked as a nurse's aide.
The family expressed suspicion that in 1997 she might have killed her own mother by denying her food.
When she was 24, she became pregnant by Rod Blanchard, then 17.
They named their daughter Gypsy Rose because Clauddine liked the name Gypsy and Rod was a fan of Guns N' Roses.
Shortly before Gypsy Rose's birth in July 1991, the couple separated when Rod realized he "got married for the wrong reasons". He resisted Clauddine's efforts to get him to return, and she took her newborn daughter to live with her family.
Childhood of Gypsy.
According to Rod, who remained involved with his daughter at this point, by the time Gypsy was three months old, her mother was convinced that the infant suffered from sleep apnea and began taking her to the hospital where repeated overnight stays with a sleep monitor and other tests found no sign of the condition.
Clauddine subsequently became convinced that Gypsy had a wide range of health issues, which she attributed to an unspecified chromosomal disorder.
At some point, her mother claimed that Gypsy had muscular dystrophy, and made her use a walker.
Gypsy stated that when she was 7 or 8, she was riding on her grandfather's motorcycle when they were involved in a minor accident. She suffered an abrasion to her knee. Her mother stated that doctors had given her a wheelchair which she would need to use.
Gypsy often went with her parents to Special Olympics events. In 2001, when Dee Dee claimed Gypsy was 8 (she was actually 10),
she was named the honorary queen of the Krewe of Mid-City, a child-oriented parade held during Mardi Gras in New Orleans.
Gypsy seems to have stopped going to school after second grade,[1] possibly even as...
