2009-2012

 “I would never kill somebody. I would never physically go through with killing somebody. I can’t”
(Gypsy, 2018)

In 2009, Dee Dee and Gypsy spent an extended weekend at the Stills Water Resort in Branson, Missouri, a getaway courtesy of The University of Table Rock Lake Foundation. This charitable organisation, run by a retired, disabled army major and cancer survivor, devoted itself to giving children with cancer and other life-threatening illnesses the chance to ‘feel better,’ if only for a few days.
Researching this trip was a bittersweet task. Many of the truly ill children featured in the foundation’s records have since passed away, heartbreaking proof of why such holidays mattered so deeply.

At the time Dee Dee and Gypsy went, Gypsy did not have cancer, nor did she have a life-threatening illness. She was also not 13 years old, as recorded in the undated news piece, but 18.
​By any moral or legal measure, Gypsy had no right to claim a place on that vacation.

Did Dee Dee believe her daughter’s condition was severe enough to qualify? Given Gypsy’s genuine medical history, perhaps she did. That possibility, however, doesn’t excuse falsifying her age to secure a holiday intended for a sick child.
This was Dee Dee at her very worst, bending the truth too far. Yet even here, we believe her motivation was to give Gypsy something special, not herself.
And Gypsy? We hold her equally accountable.
There is no evidence that she ever believed she was younger than she truly was. If she had serious objections to the trip, she had many ways to refuse. Instead, the 18-year-old sat back, resting her ‘tired legs’ while the cameras rolled. She smiled. She gushed. And her eyes, as the news report noted, ‘shined.’

​The article notes that, “At that time, her mother only wanted FOX 4 to say that Gypsy Rose had ‘multiple medical challenges.’” (Fox4kc, Stephanie Graflage, June 16th, 2015).
Dee Dee was protective of the narrative, careful about how much was disclosed, perhaps, in her mind, shielding Gypsy from prying eyes.
​Yet, by this point, Gypsy was an adult who knew exactly how old she was. The choice to perpetuate the 14-year-old claim wasn’t one Dee Dee made alone.

Early interviews in which Gypsy spoke about Daniel (“Dan”) Glidewell were quietly brushed past, offered with the bare minimum of detail, as though they were of no real importance. In Gypsy’s version of events, any man – or ‘friend,’ as she liked to call them – who came before Nicholas Godejohn was irrelevant.
After all, she was supposedly a sweet, innocent virgin until she met ‘the love of her life’ in 2012, the murderous Victor, the 500-year-old vampire disguised as Nicholas Godejohn.
According to Daniel Thomas Glidewell, however, that claim doesn’t hold up. That threshold had been crossed long before Nicholas entered the picture.

For years, the prevailing belief was that Gypsy’s “Dan” was a man named Daniel Dewitt Glidewell, a notion allegedly encouraged by the Gypsy camp.
Daniel Dewitt Glidewell certainly looked the part of someone who could be mixed up in Dee Dee’s murder, there’s even video of him threatening to slit a man’s throat without charge. But the reality? Daniel Dewitt Glidewell had no connection to Gypsy Rose Blanchard whatsoever.
He can’t even be placed in Springfield, and no evidence exists that he ever met, spoke to, or was romantically linked to her.

It’s hard not to suspect the Gypsy camp found it useful to keep the real Dan Glidewell in the shadows, and what better way than to direct attention toward a violent man with the same surname and similar age?
For nearly a decade, that narrative stuck.

Interestingly, Daniel Dewitt Glidewell has never come forward to clear his name.
Perhaps he enjoyed the edge of notoriety.
Or perhaps… well, nice car, Dan. How’s that cryptocurrency portfolio these days?
And – purely hypothetically – where did the starting funds come from?

​The man on the above is NOT the Daniel Glidewell associated with Gypsy Rose Blanchard.

Up until August 2024, we, like almost everyone else following this case, assumed that Gypsy’s “Dan Glidewell” was Daniel Dewitt Glidewell.
He wasn’t.
Some people had been quietly trying to debunk that theory for a while, but the message wasn’t exactly breaking through.
One group in particular, NPG: Cornerstone Nation – supporters of Nicholas Godejohn – slipped an image of the real Dan into one of their videos back in March 2024.
Hidden, but not too hidden. (See image, right.)

Apparently, the real Dan was pitched to more than a few big-name creators who cover the case.
None of them took the bait.
Strange.
We began digging into Daniel Thomas Glidewell in August 2024. A little over a week later, we had hard photographic evidence linking him to Gypsy.
So how exactly does a years-long public misconception get dismantled in just over a week?
That is strange.

In Mommy Dead and Dearest (2017), Gypsy said: “The first time I ran away from home, I had met a ‘friend’ (aka Dan Glidewell). We both went to this sci-fi fantasy convention called VisionCon.”
She claimed she met him there and ‘ran away’ with him in 2011.
That was essentially all the detail we were given.
End of story. Move along.
But after the real Dan was finally outed, Gypsy attempted a sugar-coated retelling, casting herself as the helpless maiden whisked away from her ‘evil’ mother by a knight in shining armour.
We’ve yet to see a Disney prince who creates ‘naked images, including those involving a toothbrush.’
Stay tuned.

Between 2009 and 2013, Dee Dee and Gypsy regularly attended VisionCon, a Springfield-based gaming convention. David Blanchard, the family’s ‘friend’, worked security there.
Although billed as family-friendly, VisionCon had its fair share of adult material on display: knives, swords, BDSM gear, and the infamous ‘slave auction.’
Quite the atmosphere for a child-friendly weekend.

VisionCon 2009 ran from January 23–25 at the Clarion Hotel, and both Dee Dee and 17-year-old Gypsy were present. At some point during the event, Gypsy, who apparently Dee Dee rarely let out of her sight, managed to vanish.
Dee Dee eventually found her in a hotel room with a man, allegedly in a state of undress.
Photos from that year show Gypsy looking no older than 12.
Dee Dee’s reaction?
Predictably, she got her daughter out of there.
The man has never been publicly named, nor does he need to be.
Information sent to journalist M. J. Pack in 2015 suggested that the man was ‘punished’ by VisionCon staff, who believed Gypsy was a minor.
Gypsy has never acknowledged the incident.
And frankly, why would she?

From Dee Dee’s perspective, the bigger question was: what kind of man takes a sexual interest in someone who appears to be a wheelchair-bound, terminally ill child?
This incident likely marked the beginning of the slow breakdown of the “perfect” mother–daughter image.

We know for certain that Daniel Thomas Glidewell was at VisionCon 2009, there are photos. But there’s no concrete proof this was when he met Gypsy.
Some believe Dan was the man in the hotel room.
We don’t.
We believe it was someone entirely unrelated to the case.
When you know, you know.

There are only two tentative links between Dan and Dee Dee’s murder:
Nicholas Godejohn’s unguarded police-room comment: “I apologise to everyone. Everyone out here. Everyone except for Dan. Dan’s the only one I will not apologise to.”
And, Gypsy’s own statement: “I only know three numbers off-hand — my mum’s, Nick’s, and my friend Dan’s — but we’re not on good speaking terms.”
The first has a simple explanation we’ll cover later.
As for the second, Gypsy’s insistence that she wasn’t speaking to Dan all but confirmed that she was.

Before we wade into the murky waters of ‘Dan,’ we should first put to rest one of the Gypsy train’s longest-running fairy tales: that poor little Gypsy had no idea how old she really was.
We don’t buy it.
​Not for a second.
The popular version, spun through interviews and documentaries, goes like this: Dee Dee kept Gypsy blissfully ignorant of her true age, and everyone, including her own father Rod, just went along with it.
Take Rod’s own words in a 2016 BuzzFeed piece: he recalls calling his daughter on her 18th birthday, ready to make all the ‘welcome to adulthood’ jokes. But, he says, Dee Dee intercepted the call and told him Gypsy thought she was 14, so please don’t mention otherwise.
Rod claims he ‘heeded the instruction.’
And we’re just supposed to nod and move on?
No outrage? No alarm bells?
No follow-up call saying, ‘What the hell are you talking about, Dee Dee?‘
Rod repeated the same story in 2019’s The Killer Thorn of Gypsy Rose, this time calling it ‘mind blowing.’
Apparently, it wasn’t quite mind blowing enough to do anything about it.

The photos of Gypsy’s birthdays tell their own story. Cake. Candles. Celebration.
Yet they seem to dry up once she hit her teens.
The Gypsy-train explanation?
Dee Dee didn’t want her to know her age. Another possibility: the keepers of those photos want us to believe Gypsy didn’t know her age.

And then there’s October 26, 2009, the day this whole myth collapses.
An anonymous call to the Missouri Child Abuse Hotline alleged that Dee Dee was lying about Gypsy’s medical conditions, milking the system for funds, and, crucially, lying about her age.
A Greene County deputy and two social workers went to the house, met both Dee Dee and Gypsy, checked documents, and determined Gypsy was 18.
It’s all in the report.
Dee Dee even produced Gypsy’s birth certificate and ID.
This wasn’t whispered in another room.
This wasn’t a secret code exchanged over morse-tap.
This was official, in-the-home, face-to-face confirmation.
Yet Gypsy’s later ‘memoir’ claims she was in her bedroom during all this.
Sure.
And somehow, she still vividly describes Dee Dee’s nervousness and ‘visible shaking’ while talking to the officials, from the other side of the house.
By the end of that visit, Gypsy knew exactly how old she was.
If she didn’t know before, she absolutely knew after.

Dr. Phil’s version, that she ‘finally learned’ her real age and then ‘rebelled, doesn’t line up either. The alleged ‘rebellion’ had already set sail months earlier, when she was caught with a man in his hotel room.

Gypsy’s own timeline shifts depending on the interview: sometimes she says she found out in 2010, sometimes she says she wasn’t sure for 14 years.
In reality, the only thing she wasn’t sure of was which version of the story would play best.
Rod, again, tries to frame it as Dee Dee being terrified Gypsy would ‘just get up and walk out.’ But when given the opportunity at 18, with police and social workers literally in the room, Gypsy didn’t walk anywhere.
Why?
Our opinion: because she didn’t want to. Life inside the scam was too comfortable.

In 2010, Dee Dee and her ‘never went anywhere, wasn’t allowed to leave the house, have any friends or a social life’ daughter, Gypsy, returned to VisionCon for the second year running, this time accompanied by her cat.
Dressed in denim.
The cat.
Not Gypsy.
Such a tragically cloistered existence.
Even her pet managed a social calendar.

Looking back at VisionCon 2009, there’s the matter of the mysterious hotel room incident: a man accused of inappropriate conduct with a paraplegic minor. One can only imagine his possible protest: “But she’s 17—and she can walk!”
Whether he did or not is unknown, but surely Dee Dee must have confided in her friends David and Kimberly Blanchard, both working the event, about this supposed predator.
The imagined exchange writes itself: “Come on, Dee Dee, we both know she’s 17 and she can walk.”
Apparently, that conversation never happened, because by VisionCon 2010, Gypsy was being publicly celebrated.
She was awarded honorary membership in “Squad 66,” an official unit of the 70th Explorers Garrison (part of the 501st Legion), a Star Wars-themed charity group with close ties to VisionCon.

The official account read: “Squad 66 gained its first Honorary Squad member, Gypsy Rose Blancharde. There was not a dry eye in the crowd at the closing ceremonies as the little girl with such a big heart gave her momentous acceptance speech.” (70th Explorers, Jan 26, 2010).
The ‘little girl’ in question was approaching her 19th birthday.
Are we to believe no one at VisionCon knew her true age?
Including David Blanchard, soon to be the event’s president, Squad 66 member, 501st Legion member, and long-time friend of Dee Dee?
Suspension of disbelief has its limits.
If people knew, and let’s be honest, they knew, what exactly was Gypsy being rewarded for?

As far as records show, 2010 passed without major incident for Dee Dee at VisionCon. Gypsy, however, was filmed at the after-party in a pink wig, wheelchair dancing, shrieking ‘It’s my party wig!’ into the camera.
In her later book Conversations On The Eve Of Freedom, Gypsy claimed one of Dee Dee’s rules was, “Don’t seem overly happy or excited because sick people don’t have that kind of energy.”
That clip rather efficiently debunks that.

Credits to Beneficial-Reply-490 from r/GRBSnark

Dan Glidewell’s presence at the 2010 event hasn’t been confirmed, but the mother of his first child was there and knew who Gypsy was. That same year, Gypsy later claimed, she began sending nude photographs of herself to men aged 35–50 — offering sex.
This was a year before she met Dan Glidewell.

(A quick aside: On July 28, 2010, Dee Dee and Gypsy attended a Habitat For Humanity event, “Snakes Can Be Friends.” (See image.) Spot the snake).

By February 2011, Dee Dee and a now 19-year-old Gypsy were back at VisionCon. This time, Gypsy received a lifetime membership for herself and Dee Dee.
She could do no wrong, apparently.

Journalist M.J. Pack, who began covering Dee Dee’s murder almost immediately, gathered accounts from those in the VisionCon circle. One source said Gypsy had been “hitting on men in their 30s and 40s” but was rebuffed.
Court documents released in 2025 confirmed Gypsy’s own admission – made in a video she later sent to Nicholas Godejohn – that in 2010 and 2011 she sent topless photos to four men aged 35–50, offering sex. (Source:  Into The Weeds Podcast)
David Blanchard was born in 1973.
Dan Glidewell in 1974.
Just saying.

At VisionCon 2011, Gypsy says she met her ‘friend’ (Dan Glidewell), a then-36-year-old father of two, on probation for drug-related offences and without a home.
According to Gypsy: “I told him vaguely about what was going on at home. He told me, ‘You just pack your stuff and come live with me in Arkansas.’ And I said, ‘Okay.’” (Mommy Dead And Dearest, 2017).
Rod Blanchard recalls it less vaguely:
“She told him she was trying to get away from her mom and needed help.”

David Blanchard told police in 2015 that in 2011 Gypsy had arranged to meet a man at VisionCon who convinced her to steal from her mother’s purse and run away. So, Blanchard knew about that plan, but later claimed not to know Gypsy could walk. What was the escape plan – roll away at speed?

In 2018, Gypsy said: “I trusted him enough to run away from home. He didn’t have a place of his own, so he was staying with a friend.” (Gypsy’s Revenge, 2018)
One imagines the stolen money would have helped with his ‘no fixed address’ problem.

In a June 2025 TikTok Live, Kristy Blanchard admitted to knowing Gypsy preferred older men: “I’m thinking, well, she’s (Gypsy) 18, she likes older guys, you know, not thinking nothing of it because I didn’t know she was living how she was living. And people could say all they want that we knew. We didn’t have a freaking clue”. (Source: Morgan Allena ).
Thank you Kristy.
We will continue to say all we want.
You didn’t have a ‘freaking’ clue that anything was going on?
More likely, you didn’t care what was going on.
And we’ll go ahead and keep saying you did.

Gypsy always claimed she was ‘too afraid’ to reach out for help, but she did reach out, to men.
Photographs from VisionCon 2010’s ‘Masquerade’ (shown on the right) which we discovered on a now deleted VisionCon website, show Gypsy looking 12 at most, almost toothless.
Draw your own conclusions about what some men may have seen.

David and Kimberly Blanchard say they first met Dee Dee and Gypsy in 2009 at VisionCon. Yet, in 2006 Dee Dee and Gypsy lived in Aurora, just 30 miles from Springfield, and the 2008 VisionCon forum included a member named “Dee Dee,” registered since 2006. It may just be a coincidence that one of the members, a woman who had been a member since 2006, was called Dee Dee.
​It may not.
What is clear to us is, people are lying.
​We just need to figure out why.

“Round and round they went with their snakes, snakily…” — Aldous Huxley

In May 2010, Dee Dee and Gypsy jetted off to Walt Disney World, Florida, courtesy of the Make-A-Wish Foundation.
By that point, Gypsy was only weeks shy of her 19th birthday.

The eligibility criteria for Make-A-Wish in June that year were explicit: the child must be diagnosed with a critical illness, a progressive, degenerative, or malignant condition placing their life in jeopardy.
Gypsy’s chromosome disorder hadn’t been confirmed at the time; it was merely suspected.
The child had to be between 2½ and 18 years old and, importantly, could not have received a wish from another wish-granting organization.
When these boxes were ticked, the foundation would reach out to the child’s treating physician to verify medical eligibility.
Referrals could come from a doctor, a legal guardian, or the child themselves.
It remains unknown who referred Gypsy or which physician signed off on her “eligibility.” What is known is that Dee Dee and Gypsy had already taken a Disney trip in 2003, funded by the Children’s Wish Endowment in Slidell, Louisiana, an automatic disqualifier under Make-A-Wish rules.
Here’s where the slightest drip of sympathy for Dee Dee comes in, however misplaced it may seem. Given Dee Dee’s apparent belief in at least some of Gypsy’s medical conditions, perhaps she thought this trip was genuinely deserved. That doesn’t excuse the bending (or breaking) of the truth about age or medical history, but it might explain it.
Gypsy, on the other hand, was 19, fully aware of her real age and more than capable of speaking up or using the opportunity to reach out for help.
She didn’t.

In August 2010, Dee Dee allegedly found herself in a dispute with a pizza delivery driver, a disagreement that escalated to the point of a police report. According to the driver, she grabbed him by the back of the neck after he refused to accept an expired gift certificate as payment. The report was filed, but the driver ultimately chose not to pursue the matter further.
Perhaps it was a case of Dee Dee’s well-known stubborn streak meeting an unyielding corporate policy on coupons — not exactly the stuff of grand criminal intrigue.

​The first row of images below, taken from the 2010 Make-A-Wish website, features the charity’s “Recent Wishes.” Children battling life-threatening conditions, all with stories of their own. It’s hard not to notice the contrast — and harder still to ignore the fact that someone, somewhere, signed off on a wish for Gypsy, potentially at the expense of a child who genuinely met the criteria.
It’s children like those, you potentially stole wishes from Gyp.

M.J. Pack began an online blog about the case within days of Dee Dee’s body being discovered in June 2015.
Her original 2015 blog is no longer available, what you’ll find now is the 2020 “updated” version. Updated, in this case, meaning that a fair amount of interesting material from the original has been quietly deleted.

​Back in 2015, Ms. Pack publicly stated that she believed Gypsy and Nick were equally responsible for Dee Dee’s murder, and she wasn’t convinced by the Munchausen theory.
Fast forward to 2023, and the tone has … shifted.
In one X post, she wishes Gypsy “nothing but the best.”
In 2024, she congratulates her on the news of her pregnancy.
In another 2023 post, she even refers to herself as an “expert” on the case.
Expert?
​At what point did you jump ship, Ms. Pack?
Was it when the “Gypsy train” came roaring into town, reporters and cameras in tow?

In June 2025, NPG: Cornerstone Nation , a group who work closely with Nicholas Godejohn, published a video compiling verified testimony from multiple sources.
This included Gypsy’s sworn statements from November 1st, 2018, during Nick’s trial; Dan Glidewell’s sworn testimony from August 9th, 2022, at Nick’s evidentiary hearing; and comments Dan made off the record in 2021, prior to that hearing.
The video can be viewed in full here.
The material in this section is drawn directly from that release, which we believe to be factually accurate, combined with our own analysis.
All images are credited to NPG: Cornerstone Nation.
NPG: Cornerstone Nation refers to Gypsy as “The Shrew.”
An entirely fitting choice of moniker, in our view.
Disclaimer: We are in not affiliated with NPG: Cornerstone Nation.

When considering anything Gypsy says, it’s worth remembering she is a proven pathological liar.
It’s also worth noting that while Dan Glidewell claimed he wanted to “help Mr. Godejohn,” he also openly admitted he “didn’t want to do anything to make the ‘shrew’ (Gypsy) look bad.”
Don’t worry, Dan, she’s managing that just fine on her own.
As for Dan’s stated desire to help Nick, we take that with a pinch of salt.
He was subpoenaed to testify, as he himself makes clear in his 2022 testimony.
And for years, Dan was perfectly content to let an entirely innocent ‘Dan Glidewell’, a man who merely shared his name, take the public heat for being Gypsy’s boyfriend, along with all the baggage that came with it.

At Nick’s 2018 trial, Gypsy testified that she met Dan at VisionCon, adding that he became a Facebook friend and that she found him attractive, viewing him as a potential romantic partner.
Dan corroborated meeting her at VisionCon, recalling that they spoke while seated at a 501st Star Wars role-playing table. Dee Dee, he noted, was nowhere to be seen, hardly the hallmark of a watchful captor.
Dan, who admitted he’d had more than a few drinks, remembered Gypsy ‘flirting’ with him and said they spoke ‘about her mother.’
Why was that the conversation starter?

​Dan described the encounter as ‘just kind of a getting-to-know-you thing.’
​Or perhaps, in Gypsy’s case, a preliminary screening for a future assassin.

In testimony at Nick’s 2022 evidentiary hearing, Dan recounted that his initial meeting with Gypsy evolved into an online relationship, admitting there were ‘some feelings there.’ Those ‘developments’ included sexting, ‘video mutual masturbation,’ and explicit discussions of ‘being intimate with each other.’
According to Dan, these videos sometimes featured Gypsy using ‘instruments’ – one example being a motorized toothbrush, which she appeared to particularly enjoy. He made clear that he never requested the use of such items nor instructed her on how to use them – Gypsy, he said, was ‘doing what she wanted to do.’

Dan testified that Gypsy maintained multiple personas, even asking for his help in naming one, and described her as ‘submissive.’ 
He confirmed she sent him explicit images of her breasts and genitals, and would ‘dress up, put on costumes.’
In his own words: “If I’m being honest, I developed a taste for it (power-exchange role playing) from her.”
While Dan didn’t deny knowing what power-exchange role play was, he admitted he had ‘never had a front row seat’ to it before Gypsy. She, on the other hand, clearly had.
One wonders who provided Gypsy’s front row ticket.
This background makes Gypsy’s later narrative rather curious.
Following her 2015 arrest, she claimed Nicholas Godejohn, a man she met online in October 2012, introduced her to role play and BDSM. “At first I didn’t know what it was, so I looked it up,” she told interviewers in Mommy Dead and Dearest (2017). She described initial reluctance, followed by Nick “talking her into it.” Gypsy concluded, “I was taught that a woman’s role is to be submissive and the man is dominant, so I didn’t think it was that outlandish.”
An inexperienced novice, she was not.
An experienced practitioner of power-exchange role play, she most certainly was.

Gypsy also told Dan that Dee Dee forced her to use a wheelchair, that she could walk, and that her medical issues were the result of unnecessary treatments. Is that what they spoke about the first time their eyes met across a role-playing table? When Dan recalls, “we spoke there, spoke about her mother,” was the manipulation already in motion?

Fast-forward to March 2024, when Gypsy appeared on 60 Minutes Australia – for a generous fee – declaring, “I didn’t have any friends, I wasn’t allowed to. She controlled everything in my life… who I was allowed to hang around… how much exposure to the world I have, and that was so limited.”
Oh, really?
What about the time you charmed your way into an older man’s hotel room, Gyp?
Where was Dee Dee’s iron control then?
Or that afternoon you sat trading confidences with a half-drunk, testosterone-fueled stranger at VisionCon while Dee Dee was nowhere in sight?
Where was the ‘total control’ then?

All references to Dan’s 2021 pre-trial questioning, his verified 2022 testimony, and all images courtesy of NPG: Cornerstone Nation.

Gypsy has long framed the control and abuse she allegedly suffered at home as the catalyst for her “running away.” But the evidence,  and the dates, tell a different story. She didn’t ‘run away’ in the early hours of Friday, June 22, 2011. She went to see.
We’d previously quoted the date as April 21, 2011 – well before Gypsy revealed it herself – but hey, we weren’t far off.

Here’s the problem: on the night Gypsy insists she ‘ran away,’ Dan Glidewell was in a Springfield hospital bed, “beat up real bad” (source: NPG: Cornerstone Nation). He had been thrown off a balcony, suffering a broken back and a traumatic brain injury.
Does that sound like the perfect moment to invite someone to ‘run away’ with you?
More to the point, does it sound like ‘running’ was something Dan was even capable of?
And yet, in her 2024 tell-all (read: tell-some) ‘memoir’, Gypsy clings stubbornly to the ‘running away’ myth, even though it’s clear she simply went to see Dan.
Further, Adults don’t ‘run away from home’ – unless, of course, they’re trying to appear small, vulnerable, and child-like. Which Gypsy does. A lot.

Dan’s 2022 testimony contains nothing to back up her runaway story. Our conclusion, based on all available evidence, is simple: Gypsy didn’t run away. She went to see Dan.
Some have speculated that Dee Dee, aware of Gypsy’s connection with Dan, may have orchestrated his beating, or that the attack was directly linked to his relationship with Gypsy.
We’ve found no evidence to support the theory that the so-called ‘pizza-man-grabbing’ Dee Dee ordered the hit.

Dan admitted that he and Gypsy had discussed ‘becoming a couple’ and living together at his mother’s home in Arkansas. He was, however, on probation at the time and legally unable to leave Missouri.
Gypsy claims she didn’t know this before her ‘runaway’, as if anyone planning to flee with someone would just … forget to mention they can’t actually leave the state.

During his hospital stay, Dan says he “kept the lines of communication open” with Gypsy, driven by “pain and the need for someone familiar.”
Translation: he craved comfort.
Or perhaps, he craved the strong pain medication he likely knew Dee Dee kept stocked in her medicine cabinet.
And here’s a bigger question: how do you “miss” someone you’ve only met once, in passing, at a crowded science fiction convention, while they were glued to the side of their supposedly overprotective mother?
Unless, of course, that wasn’t the only time.
Which makes Dan’s plan to protect Gypsy’s image look like it’s coming apart at the seams.

Gypsy’s own sworn testimony at Nick’s 2018 trial doesn’t help her case:
Attorney: “Did you run away with a person or did you just run away generally?”
Gypsy: “I ran away with a person.”
Attorney: “Who was the person?”
Gypsy: “Dan (Glidewell).”
(Source: NPG: Cornerstone Nation)
Nope, Gyp.
Disney didn’t write this script.
Cravings did.
We believe Dan craved medication that night.
And Gypsy?
She craved Dan.
(Court testimony images courtesy of NPG: Cornerstone Nation)

According to Gypsy, it was Dan who summoned her to the hospital: “At around 2 o’clock in the morning … Dan texted mama’s phone … ‘I’m in the hospital,’ the text said. ‘… I’d like you to be with me.’” (Source: We can’t keep it up: That awful ‘memoir’, 2024, 🤢🤮).
But according to Dan in his 2022 testimony, he couldn’t even remember who contacted who, admitting, “I couldn’t … she (Gypsy) would have almost had to have contacted me because I don’t think I could dial my phone at that time.” (Source: NPG: Cornerstone Nation).
Dan also stated that at that point he couldn’t even read.
Yet somehow he was still game to “run away” with Florence Nightingale (aka Gypsy Rose Blanchard)?

In 2017, Gypsy told Mommy Dead and Dearest: “I stepped out, got a ride from a stranger, and went over to his (Dan Glidewell’s) place.”
By 2018, during Nick’s trial, that morphed into: “I left the house and I met up with one of my ‘friends’.”
Except she didn’t ‘run to Dan’s place’, she went straight to his hospital bed.

Gypsy’s version – “I got a ride from a stranger” – makes it sound like she might have hitchhiked.
The reality? She walked roughly three blocks from her home, seemingly unconcerned about being spotted by neighbors, and knocked on the door of a complete stranger. She asked if they’d drive her to the hospital to see her ‘sick boyfriend,’ and bizarrely, they agreed.
The ‘complete stranger’ delivered Gypsy to the hospital, and there, a battered Dan hobbled out with exactly what he didn’t need in that moment: Gypsy Rose Blanchard.
What did he need?
More pain medication.

And if Dan thought that was bad, little did he know an enraged Dee Dee Blanchard, whose daughter had just stolen opioids, cash, and disappeared in the middle of the night to visit a man twice her age, was already hot on her trail.
This wasn’t about ‘control’ in that moment; it was about Dee Dee catching her daughter red-handed in a very real, dangerous mess.
(It’s worth noting: people in Gypsy’s own community have said she was often seen walking without a wheelchair and without Dee Dee. Because Gypsy took a plea deal, none of this ever made it into a courtroom).

In 2017, Dr. Phil asked Gypsy, “Did your mother ever catch you walking?”
(Gypsy) “A couple times.”
(Dr. Phil) “What did she do?”
(Gypsy) “She got so upset with me. She would punish me so bad. Like, she started hitting me with a coat hanger and telling me all kinds of mean things.” (Mother Knows Best, 2017).
In the same interview, Gypsy claimed Nick was “the first person I ever told I could walk.”
Oh, Dr. Phil, you got played.
We all did.
Dan knew.
And so did plenty of other people.

Dan also testified that Gypsy arrived at the hospital with “a very large suitcase and a 3-ring binder of multiple forms of identification to prove she was over 18 years old.” (Source: Into The Weeds Podcast).
Gypsy has claimed she spent “about 2001 to 2015” unsure of her age, yet here she was, allegedly toting IDs.
In her 2024 ‘memoir,’ she paints a very different picture: “(I packed) A Lilo & Stitch movie, my baby bottle and change of nipples, a pair of stolen jeans, and stolen lingerie. As I stole Mama’s cash and oxy stash, I was scared as hell.”
Because nothing says ‘innocent child’ like lingerie, opioids, and stolen cash, all while meeting a man you’ve discussed having sex with.
So, who to believe — Dan or Gypsy?
We side with the wife of the man who drove Gypsy to the hospital. She remembers only a purse, not a suitcase, a purse that likely contained Dee Dee’s cash and stolen pain meds.
The driver’s wife also said Gypsy “kept clutching her purse like it was a dog or something.”

That hospital? *Mercy – Dee Dee and Gypsy’s second home. The same hospital where doctors Steele and Flasterstein had flagged Gypsy as a possible victim of Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy. And there was their ‘victim’, strolling in during the early hours, wigged up, cash and opioids in hand, on her way to a boyfriend in violation of parole.
Dr. Marc Feldman, care to update your definition of “victim”?
(*Dan suggests he was at a different hospital but he seems pretty unsure which hospital it actually was. In a likelihood it would have been one where Gypsy risked being recognised as a patient).

In 2018, Gypsy was asked: “Did you ever consider that in a public place, if you stood up out of your wheelchair and walked, Dee Dee’s fraud would be completely exposed?”
Gypsy’s reply: “I honestly didn’t think about that.”
(Interviewer) “It never crossed your mind?”
(Gypsy) “No.” (Gypsy’s Truth and Lies, 2018).
Of course it didn’t cross her mind.
She was far too focused on chasing men.

​In an email Gypsy sent to Melissa Moore from prison (seen below), Gypsy told her that Dan believed she was 15 when they met. That’s not a typo.
Dan, Dan, Dan.
This is the same woman you “didn’t want to make look bad.”
She threw Nick under the bus.
Trust she’ll do the same to you.
Is this the legacy you want left to your children?

Nicholas Godejohn, Gypsy’s co-defendant,  has said that Gypsy once told him she apologized to Dee Dee for sending topless photos to four men “when she was 15.” (Source: NPG: Cornerstone Nation).
But she wasn’t 15 in 2010.
She was 15 in 2006–2007.
Another Freudian slip, eh, Gyp?

 “Conquer a liar with truth.” (Gautama Buddha).​

(Extracts above) In December 2024, Gypsy’s “example of how not to write a memoir” (My Time to Stand’ and toss Dan under the bus while we’re at it) included yet another brand-new version of her 2011 ‘escape.’ This time, she claims she left Dee Dee a note before running away. Trouble is, in The Prison Confessions that note never existed.
She also claims in her memoir that it was Dee Dee who branded Dan a pedophile. Wrong. Gypsy herself labeled him a “pedtifile” – her spelling, not ours – in a message to neighbor Aleah Woodmansee).

And just like that, we’re back to multiple versions of the same night.

In Mommy Dead and Dearest (2017), Gypsy told us: “Within like 4 hours, my mum found me at his place … she was threatening to call the cops on him.”
In Gypsy’s Revenge (2018), the story shifted: “It was friends Dan was staying with who called my mom and my mom came to get me.”
By 2024’s The Prison Confessions, she has a whole new plot: Dee Dee wakes up at 4 a.m., finds Gypsy missing, magically finds Gypsy’s cell phone which just so happened to ‘fall out’ of her backpack before she left home – we’re not sure how Gypsy stayed in communication with Dan up until arriving at the hospital, but who cares about little scraps of relevant information like that –  reads Gypsy’s messages with Dan – mind you, not the ones she sent on her way to the hospital, because she didn’t have her phone – then somehow calls mutual convention friends in the middle of the night, one of whom promptly gives away her location.
Three conflicting stories.
One supposed event.

A tenant from the house Dan was staying in later told writer M.J. Pack (2015) that Dee Dee had shown up threatening legal action because Gypsy was ‘a minor’, but that Gypsy had ID proving otherwise.
In the 3-ring bonder she managed to stuff in her purse?
The tenant also reported Gypsy telling people Dee Dee was ‘controlling’ (not ‘abusive’), and witnessed a heated mother-daughter argument before they left.
Removing your daughter from the bed of a beaten-up, much older, married man with two or three kids (by different women), a drug-related criminal history, probation status, and near-homelessness … is not ‘controlling.’ 
That’s called ‘good parenting.’
Great work, Dee Dee.

What happened during those “four hours” with Dan?
Gypsy told Aleah: “Can I tell u a secret, back in 2011 I ran away… I met a pedtifile online… He made me sleep in his bed but when he got handy I freaked out.”
Apparently ‘freaked out’ didn’t mean ‘left,’ since she stayed until Dee Dee arrived.
Years later, she flipped it again: in Gypsy’s Revenge (2019) she claimed Dan ‘freaked out’ when Dee Dee told him she was 15.
Lordy.
Dan knew her real age.

In 2024, Gypsy finally admitted she wasn’t a virgin when she met Nicholas Godejohn – information the rest of us had pieced together long before she said it.
Dan, for his part, says he ‘can’t remember’ if they had sex.
Translation: yes, they did.
Dan knew Gypsy was legal.
Gypsy knew she was legal.
Dan’s friends knew she was legal.
​They also knew she could walk, something David and Kimberly Blanchard apparently didn’t ‘know’ until years later, despite the fact one of Dan’s housemates was close friends with someone who was close to David, who was the person who contacted Dee Dee to go get Gypsy.
The idea that David didn’t know in 2011 is laughable.

If Gypsy had wanted to stay with Dan, she could have. Dee Dee couldn’t have stopped her. The ‘too scared’ theory doesn’t hold water when this same girl was fine walking alone in the middle of the night and knocking on strangers’ doors for rides.
Dan was probably relieved when the storm named Gypsy left.

Gypsy loves to claim Dee Dee didn’t want her to find love.
In reality, Dee Dee was vetting her choices, and doing a far better job than Gypsy’s own taste level ever could.
Wanting to subsequently face off with Dan in a car park with a hammer in your pocket, which is an event Dee Dee allegedly invited Dan to attend, is unacceptable, but somewhat understandable.
​It’s what some father’s would do, which In Gypsy’s case was Rod, which in Gypsy’s case was always Dee Dee.

Dr. Marc Feldman, who diagnosed Dee Dee with Munchausen by Proxy despite never meeting her, once said Gypsy was essentially a hostage. 
“The control was total,” he declared.
No, Dr. Feldman.
Hostages run to safety.
Gypsy ran to Dan.
Ironically, Feldman once wrote a book called Munchausen by Internet.
We assumed it was about diagnosing strangers using online information.
Sadly, no.
Pity.

​And finally, in her ‘memoir,’ Gypsy claims she never saw Dan again after the ‘escape’ incident.
In reality, she kept in touch with him; right before Dee Dee’s murder, right before fleeing Missouri, right before her arrest, and even from prison.
As Gypsy once told Nicholas Godejohn: “The walls are closing in.”
You best believe they are, Gyp.
On you.

Gypsy has claimed that Dee Dee’s abuse wasn’t just medical, it was physical too, allegedly starting in 2011.“She’d hit me with the coat hanger, or her palm,” Gypsy recalled in Mommy Dead and Dearest (2017). “And I’d have to take so many slaps depending on… how severe it was I did.”
It’s curious, then, that ‘physically abusive’ Dee Dee apparently didn’t lash out in 2009 after catching her daughter alone in a hotel room with a much older man in what can only be described as a compromising situation.
No mention of coat hangers or slaps in that instance.
Even in 2010, when Dee Dee allegedly learned her daughter had sent topless photos to four men – all aged between 35 and 50 – and offered sex to them, there’s no record of any violent response.

Kristy, who described Dee Dee as ‘looking like Mother Teresa when she was a devil’ (Would You Kill My Mother For Me, 2022), says Gypsy told her, “Her mom would bring her in the bathroom and watch her as she slapped her in the face or hit her in the back.” Oddly enough, that’s not an allegation Gypsy herself has ever made.
It’s almost as if certain details … materialise on demand.

Dr. Marc Feldman, ever ready with a theory, asserted in Mommy Dead and Dearest (2017) that “the level of control Dee Dee had would have involved physical punishment as well.”
But here’s the problem: just because a woman is perfectly capable of defending herself – allegedly threatening a man with a hammer or manhandling a pizza delivery driver – doesn’t automatically mean she beats her own child.
Feldman also framed Dee Dee’s habit of holding Gypsy’s hand or putting an arm around her as “a way of asserting mastery … saying, ‘You’re not free. You are under my control at all times.’”

Gypsy has claimed Dee Dee used hand-holding as a silent signal to keep quiet in front of doctors.
Yet just as often in public footage, it’s Gypsy holding Dee Dee’s hand, suggesting this ‘mastery’ may have been a little more mutual than advertised.
A 2017 review of Munchausen by Proxy cases reported that 98% of abusers were women, and 96% were the victim’s mothers. Convenient statistics to slot Dee Dee neatly into the villain role.

​After Dee Dee removed Gypsy from Dan’s orbit, Gypsy later admitted, “Boy, was I in a lot of trouble” (Mother Knows Best, 2017). Trouble, perhaps, but the specifics of that ‘trouble remain conspicuously vague.
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Before diving into Gypsy’s shifting narratives about what ‘a lot of trouble’ actually meant, let’s pause and examine two pieces of evidence that rarely get discussed side by side.

​First, take a look at the 2015 crime scene photo of the ‘tinted’ window in Dee Dee’s bedroom, the very room where Gypsy claims she was held prisoner for two weeks beginning on Friday, April 22, 2011. Keep that image in mind; it will matter in the next section.
Second, consider the document sourced from The Good Wives’ Network. It’s a draft letter in which Dee Dee sought power of attorney over Gypsy, but only in the event that Gypsy became ‘incapacitated.’
The date: August 19, 2013.
The age of the signatory: 22 years old.
And yes, Gypsy’s own signature sits neatly at the bottom, indicating full knowledge and consent.
The wording leaves no ambiguity: power of attorney would not apply unless Gypsy was medically unable to make her own decisions.
More telling still, it states plainly that “Gypsy Rose will plan to sign consents for herself.”
So much for the idea that Dee Dee unilaterally orchestrated every surgery behind Gypsy’s back, here is a legal record of adult Gypsy not only agreeing to a limited guardianship but also expressly consenting to medical procedures on her own behalf.

Gypsy’s retelling of what happened after Dee Dee brought her home from Dan’s house is a story that changes depending on the year, and sometimes depending on the audience.

In 2017’s Mommy Dead and Dearest, she described it like this: Dee Dee “smashed my computer with a hammer, smashed my cell phone with a hammer, and said, ‘If you ever try to do that again, I’m going to smash your fingers with a hammer.’ She had taken this dog leash and clipped it to a pair of handcuffs, then clipped the handcuffs to the bed… it was like that for about two weeks. My mum had actually convinced a lawyer to draw up some papers saying I was incompetent, so I thought if I had tried to go to the police, they’d look at these papers and say, ‘she’s retarded.’”
A curious detail: Dee Dee had no dog. Yet apparently she kept a dog leash handy, along with a set of handcuffs.
Not exactly standard kitchen-drawer items for most households.
Yet, when police arrested Gypsy in 2015, they found a boxed set of steel handcuffs in a backpack Gypsy had packed herself.
The guardianship papers Gypsy refers to?
Those weren’t drawn up until 2013, and they were drafted, but never approved, with Gypsy’s full consent.

In a 2014 People interview, given a day before her prison release, Gypsy claimed, “She found me, brought me back and put in place paperwork saying I was incompetent and she had power of attorney over me.”
Again, the only POA attempt was in 2013, with Gypsy’s own signature at the bottom.

Later in 2017, the narrative shifted. The Mother Knows Best version kept the hammer, smashed computer, dog leash, and handcuffs — plus a new twist: Dee Dee installed a bell on the door to hear if Gypsy tried to escape.
The cell phone, the POA claim, and the threat not to talk to anyone disappeared.

By 2018, Gypsy’s Revenge introduced yet another variation. This time, Dee Dee tinted the windows, added more bells, starved her, hit her with a coat hanger, and hurled insults.
The hammer and smashed computer survived; the dog leash, handcuffs, and cell phone were gone. Guardianship claims were nowhere to be found.

In another 2018 ABC interview, the abuse was boiled down to chains, bells, and discouraging words.
At Nicholas Godejohn’s trial that same year, “hitting and punching” joined the list.

Fast forward to 2024’s Prison Confessions. Here, the dog leash and handcuffs returned, along with the cell phone. Now Dee Dee supposedly kept the leash connected to herself so she could feel if Gypsy moved, withheld food as punishment, and kept a knife by her bed for intimidation. Bells, tinted windows, verbal abuse, and the coat hanger vanished.

In January 2024 on The View, Gypsy added a new and rather dramatic detail she had ‘forgotten’ for eight years –  that Dee Dee forced her to urinate in a bucket or on herself while chained. 
In her 2024 memoir, the windows weren’t just tinted, they were covered with black bin bags.
What’s next?
Bars, an electric fence, a moat?

Finally, in a prison email seen below, sent to Melissa Moore, Gypsy claimed Dee Dee installed a reverse lock on her bedroom door so it could only be locked from the outside. Crime scene photos show every door in the house had the same standard doorknobs, with no sign of tampering. The only lock in progress was on the medicine cabinet — and that was mid-installation the night of the murder.

On February 19th, 2012, a Facebook post proudly displayed Gypsy being presented with a doll’s house, crafted by Missouri State University’s School of Construction students.In 2018, the narrative shifted to claim the doll’s house had been made “back in 2011 or so.”
What the post actually shows is a full-grown adult Gypsy receiving it, not, as the post title “Construction Club Playhouse Gift” suggests, a wide-eyed child.
The exact delivery date of that doll’s house is more than just trivia, it could easily dismantle Gypsy’s fabricated ‘chained to the bed’ timeline.
If she was allegedly shackled like a medieval prisoner, how exactly was she free to smile for a presentation photo in the living room?

​Even more telling: the snapshot of Dee Dee’s lounge at the time of delivery.
The windows? Neither tinted nor blacked out.
The room? Neat, organized, and entirely unrecognizable compared to the cluttered chaos seen in 2015 crime scene photos.
The scene screams one thing, Dee Dee was still likely in control, of her home, her life, and her supposedly helpless ‘child.’ 

(Excerpts below) Now, to Gypsy’s memoir of misinformation (‘My Time To Stand’). In it, Gypsy swears Dee Dee covered every window with black bin bags after a Child Protection Services visit on October 26th, 2009.
Yet here we are, sunlight streaming through those very windows in 2011/2012, during the doll’s house delivery.
So much for your blackout bunker, Gypsy.
And for the record, you were 18 years old when CPS visited.
You could’ve cooked your own damn food.
If Dee Dee was depressed, Gyp, you might not have to search much further than the girl in the mirror. 

And then came the voodoo curse.
Yes, you read that correctly, the voodoo curse.

According to Gypsy (“The Prison Confessions,” 2024), “Two weeks after I was chained” –  placing this around May 20th, 2011 – her mother put a hex on her.
The story goes like this: Dee Dee allegedly printed out photos of herself and Dan, then popped down to the local store to pick up a mason jar and a cow’s tongue. Where she may or may not have also received a $10 voucher for ‘Most Regular Customer of the Month.’ 
We’ve all got that store in town where you can buy a mason jar, a cow’s tongue … and some window tint, right?
With her mystical shopping list complete, Dee Dee ‘Alistair Crowley’ Blanchard supposedly added some of Gypsy’s menstrual blood  – from her diaper, no less – sealed the lot in the mason jar, buried it in the backyard, and declared: “You will never find love. You’ll never be happy.” (‘The Prison Confessions’ 2024).
Gypsy retells this with amusement, as did we when we first heard it.
You couldn’t make it up.
Well, unless you’re Gypsy, cornered and spinning a story.

Gypsy insists in 2024 that her mother ‘never wanted me to find love or be happy.’
Not quite.
Dee Dee just didn’t think Dan – a man once charged with meth possession while a child was on the premises – would provide either. And frankly, what mother would?

Kristy Blanchard offers her own 2024 assessment: “Gypsy probably doesn’t even remember hardly a time where she wasn’t under lock and key … Gypsy was Dee Dee’s daughter, but also her prisoner.” (‘The Prison Confessions‘ 2024).
Except Gypsy wasn’t.
She was seen out and about in the neighborhood.
That’s not ‘prison’.
That’s called ‘having rules.’ 

What Gypsy wanted was carte blanche to do whatever, whenever, with whomever she pleased.
In this case, Dan.
And Dee Dee, the woman who’d given her almost everything she ever asked for, finally drew the line.
Not on my watch, sunshine.

​(Below) In a prison email dated April 1st, 2023, Gypsy compiled a list of things she planned to do in her first year post-release  – things she thought could serve as ‘highlights’ for a potential season of ‘The Prison Confessions of Gypsy Rose Blanchard’.
One highlight?
‘Digging up hex jar.’ 
A hex jar that almost certainly doesn’t exist.
Which would entail a return to the scene of her crime.
Not a trigger for Gypsy apparently.
Job interviews also made the list, though not quite with the same mystical flair.
In another prison email from October 2nd, 2021, Gypsy claimed that in 2013 she’d tried to create a love spell to cancel out her mother’s curse, allegedly using a lock of Nicholas Godejohn’s hair.
Another easily debunked lie, Nick.

Gypsy would have us believe that just two weeks after her completely fabricated ‘chained to the bed’ ordeal, Dee Dee decided to step things up by purchasing a gun, apparently because the imaginary reign of terror she’d already inflicted, plus the knife Gypsy also swears was kept on her bedside table, just wasn’t intimidating enough.
According to Gypsy, the moment she saw the gun ‘scared the ever-living ‘f’’ out of her. She was certain Dee Dee was going to kill her, or at least do something worse than ‘hitting’ or ‘starving’ her.
And so, naturally, what does a month-shy-of-20, allegedly terrified-for-her-life Gypsy do?
Does she wait until Dee Dee’s knocked out cold on her sleep meds and head for the sheriff’s department?
Nope.
Does she go to a hospital and tell a doctor or nurse about the abuse?
Nope again.
No – ‘terrified’ Gypsy decides to do exactly the same thing that supposedly got her ‘chained to the bed’ in the first place: pack a bag and plan another not-really-running-away.

Somehow, Gypsy survives this constant fear of imminent death for over three weeks, because it’s not until June 13th, 2011 that Dee Dee supposedly comes home from target practice to find Gypsy mid-great escape attempt.
The confrontation, Gypsy says, escalates to her grabbing the gun and pulling the trigger ‘as many times as I could.’
Ten times, in fact.
This bombshell?
Not mentioned in 2015 when she was arrested.
Not in 2016 during Mommy Dead and Dearest.
Not in 2017 with Dr. Phil.
Not in 2018’s Gypsy’s Revenge.
Nope – this conveniently emerges in 2024, right on cue for her awful docuseries The Prison Confessions of Gypsy Rose Blanchard.
Luckily for Gypsy, she ‘later’ realizes it’s only a BB gun. Because apparently, despite being sheltered and ‘kept in the dark’ her whole life, she’s instantly qualified to differentiate a BB gun from a lethal firearm under extreme emotional stress.
Sure, Gypsy.
Let’s go with that.

Now, BB guns aren’t toys, they can break bones, cause severe wounds, even kill in rare cases.
By sheer miracle, Dee Dee escapes death or serious injury. And instead of pressing charges (which might have saved her life in the long run), she lets it slide.
And the fallout from shooting her mother ten times?
No leash. No cuffs. No beatings. No starvation. No hammer. No police. Not even a slap on the wrist.
Almost like … it never happened.

In 2017, Gypsy swears she ‘never’ hit back.
In 2018, she says she never fought back because she was ‘too afraid.’ 
By 2024, she’s wishing she’d stood up for herself more.
And now we’re supposed to believe: Bang. Bang. Bang. Bang. Bang. Bang. Bang. Bang. Bang. Bang.
Even the cover story is neat and tidy – Dee Dee (or Gypsy) posts on Facebook about a Walmart parking lot robbery.
The next day?
“Bullet out, feeling a lot better. I have the best little nurse Gyp.”
Children’s Mercy Hospital records match the pellet-gun robbery story, noting no medical treatment was even required.
Convenient.
But Gypsy’s framing is the same as always: even as the supposed victim of a shooting, Dee Dee is the villain, Gypsy the wounded survivor.
And still, after this, Gypsy doesn’t run.

​(Excerpts below) Later, Gypsy claims Dee Dee wanted to move them to Alaska because ‘life in Springfield was caving in.’ Translation: Dee Dee had found her nineteen-year-old ‘child’ professing undying love to a fifty-year-old man online. That’s yet another ‘predator’ Dee Dee was trying to protect her from.
And just when you think we’ve hit peak retroactive storytelling, Gypsy’s December 2024 memoir adds another flourish: she now says she also threatened Dee Dee with a decorative Chinese dagger.
Because why settle for one invented weapon when you can have two?

A quick aside.
While Gypsy was supposedly enduring her near-waterboarding ordeal in Missouri, Rod – who never runs out of excuses for why he failed as a father to her -somehow managed to find time to enjoy life with the family he did stick around for in Cut-Off, Louisiana.
His wife Kristy, his daughter Mia, and Dylan.

​Dylan, for the record, clearly takes after his mother.
His father?
Not so much.
Just an observation.
And a fair one, considering Rod had precious little time for the two biological children he outright rejected.

Aleah Woodmansee, a year younger than Gypsy, lived just behind her home in Springfield.
Aleah’s mother, Amy Pinegar, was friendly with Dee Dee, and their houses literally backed onto each other.
Aleah says she’d sometimes hang out with Gypsy, but only with Dee Dee hovering nearby.

In late 2011, Aleah claims Gypsy suddenly contacted her from a secret profile.
The topic?
Not “Help, I’m chained to a bed and starving.”
Not “I just tried to kill my mom, I’m hopping the fence to your place, call 911.”
No, she wanted dating advice.
Aleah says Dee Dee found the messages between them and responded by dragging Gypsy’s laptop into the yard and smashing it with a hammer.
Yes, a hammer.
The same laptop Gypsy says had already been hammer-smashed months earlier after the ‘Dan incident.’
So … was this the encore?
Except … in an earlier interview, Aleah gave a totally different story: Dee Dee confronted her about the chats, accused her of ‘corrupting a child,’ and simply took Gypsy’s phone and computer away for a while.
No hammer, no yard, no public destruction.
One person, two very different versions.
So – confused? 
Or lying?
We’ll wait, Aleah.

Fast forward to November 2011, when a Facebook post from Gypsy about Rod’s past drug and alcohol issues (and general dad failings) caught the eye of ‘Stepmother of the Year’ Kristy Blanchard.
Kristy called Dee Dee, only to be met with an open invitation: “The hurricane is heading towards y’all. Please come here. We have plany room and would love for y’all to come here and be safe.”
Kristy’s reply?
“Thanks. I think we will be fine.”
Translation: I’d rather face a hurricane than share Rod with Dee Dee and Gypsy.
It’s an interesting exchange.
Dee Dee, friendly and naive.
Kristy, guarded and only there looking out for her children.

Now, about that ‘diaper service.’
In December 2024, Gypsy claimed Dee Dee made her wear diapers during her period.
We don’t buy this.
Gypsy’s medical records make it pretty clear that Gypsy likely wore them because of incontinence.
And even knowing Gypsy was defecating into nappies, Kristy – who insists she cared – still never visited her.

On 20th December 2011, Dee Dee and Gypsy attended ‘Brazil Night’ at Hope Lodge in Kansas city (A facility run by the American Cancer Society). 
Rather than use the opportunity to reach out to one of the workers for help to escape her so called life of physical, medical and mental abuse, Gypsy instead hopped into her wheelchair and joined in with the festivities, smiling for the camera and sitting down at a table to tuck into a hearty plate of food.
With people affected by cancer.
Gypsy was 20 years old.

And into this explosive mix of raging hormones, simmering tensions, secrets stacked on lies, BB guns tucked away like trophies, Chinese daggers hidden but ready, and even the hum of motorised toothbrushes carrying more than one meaning — walked Nicholas Godejohn.
He wasn’t a con artist, a schemer, or a career criminal.
He was a man desperately looking for love.
But he had stepped onto the wrong stage at the wrong time, a set already primed for blood, where every prop was loaded, and the player had rehearsed her part.
Nicholas thought he was answering the call of romance.
He couldn’t have known he was walking straight into a trap dressed up as a fairytale.
And once inside, the door didn’t just close — it locked.