In 2015 Gypsy and her then-boyfriend Nicholas Godejohn orchestrated their deliberate homicide of Gypsy’s mom, Dee Dee Blanchard. On the evening 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, figuring out 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 all the things,” 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 will need to have been as a result of he was standing over her, not due to any noise,” Gypsy recalled. “She was startled.”

Though 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 demise. You’ll die now,’” however she would not recall listening to that.

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

She then detailed listening to what she guesses will need to 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 making an attempt to give attention to my respiratory,” she wrote. “There weren’t ideas going via my head in any respect. It was like I used to be locked inside a cloud, with the out-of-reach Earth spinning beneath me.”

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

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

In accordance with arrest information, Dee Dee was stabbed 17 occasions 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 approach 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 dwelling 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 legal motion.

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

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

Reflecting again on the alleged remedy she endured, Blanchard advised Folks forward of her launch that she knew she did not want a feeding tube or wheelchair, however was actually confused about all the things else. She additionally mentioned her mother would “get actually, actually upset with me and begin manipulating me” every 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 he or she’s introduced her being pregnant with a earlier fiancé she reconnected with, Ken Urker. Their child is due in January.