“I truly do worship her (Gypsy) to the point there is nothing I would not do for her”
(Nicholas Godejohn, 2015)
On April 6th, 2012, a police report documented the discovery of thirty-three pieces of mail belonging to Dee Dee Blanchard, along with a single photograph, discarded in a ditch a little over two miles from her home. The photograph was of a female. At the time, the significance of the find was unclear, though, as is often the case, what seems inconsequential in the moment can later assume unexpected importance. (Police record courtesy of Into The Weeds Podcast).
Dee Dee’s autopsy later confirmed she had, at some point, been diagnosed with endometrial cancer, which likely explains her hysterectomy. On June 24th, 2012, at the age of 45, she was baptised at her local church, Vineyard. The timing suggests one of two scenarios: either a sincere religious awakening or a sobering encounter with her own mortality.
Two days later, on June 26th, Dee Dee and Gypsy visited Hope Lodge in Kansas City, where Dee Dee had her head shaved and donated her hair to benefit adults and children with cancer.
While Dee Dee and Gypsy were regular attendees at VisionCon in 2009, 2010, 2011, and 2013, there is no photographic evidence of their participation in 2012, suggesting they may have missed that year’s event.
The exact timing of Dee Dee’s diagnosis remains unknown, as do the details of her treatment, if any. However, the sequence of events indicates it may have occurred in late 2011 or early 2012.
Gypsy later told Nick that killing Dee Dee would be a ‘mercy killing’ because of the cancer.
Given Gypsy’s history of making questionable claims, including assuring Nick she was a virgo intacta, this statement must be viewed with caution.
It has also been suggested that Gypsy’s motive may have been less about sparing her mother from suffering and more about avoiding the responsibility of caring for a seriously ill parent. While speculative, it is a reminder that in this case, few explanations are free from complexity, or unsettling undertones.
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WARNING The content on this page contains descriptions of a sexual nature which some adults may find distressing. This material is not suitable for children and reader discretion is strongly advised.
Not long after the ‘not shooting Dee Dee’ incident, the allegedly ‘terrified’ Gypsy decided to shelve her fear, again, and began sneaking onto Dee Dee’s laptop while her mother slept. In Gypsy Rose Blanchard’s version of events, this was roughly the equivalent of poking a sleeping lion in the eye and hoping for the best.
Her own laptop had, of course, met an untimely demise, twice, at the hands of her mother, with a hammer.
Aka, it didn’t happen.
Kristy Blanchard recalled, “Smashed the laptop with the hammer, and when it was time to get a new one, she (Dee Dee) called Rod, you know, wanting a new laptop, and sent off the laptop and it was, ‘Look what mum got you.’” (Would You Kill My Mother For Me?, 2022).
Gypsy tells it differently: she insists she never had a laptop of her own, which is why she resorted to using Dee Dee’s. In this case, Kristy may want to take a seat, and stay seated.
(A quick aside: whatever became of the BB gun? Possibly buried in the backyard with the voodoo mason jar. But no one’s admitting anything.)
So here’s Gypsy, armed with Dee Dee’s laptop and another golden opportunity to escape the ‘Butcher of Springfield.’ Naturally, she uses it not to contact authorities, friends, or literally anyone who could help her … but to trawl the internet for yet another boyfriend. For Gypsy, that amounted to the same thing as an escape.
For Nicholas Godejohn, it was the beginning of the end.
In 2018, Gypsy reflected on her choices, telling ABC News: “I beat myself up about that all the time, but I have to understand my mind frame back then. I was always so afraid of her. Afraid of the consequences after.”
An understandable sentiment- though apparently, those fears dissolved when the potential consequence was being caught, in the middle of the night, messaging strangers on the very laptop her ‘gun-toting’ mother guarded like a state secret.
By October 2012, Gypsy had uploaded her profile to a Christian dating website, describing herself as a “20-year-old, petite, 5’ tall, brown-eyed, brown-haired Catholic girl” looking for a long-term relationship and children.
Or, if you prefer plain English: she was looking for someone to remove Dee Dee from the picture.
Profession? “Artist/public speaker.”
Education level? “Some school.”
You reading this, Dr Phil?
Soon enough, she stumbled across 23-year-old Wisconsin resident Nicholas Godejohn: “average build, 6’ tall, brown hair, hazel eyes, non-smoking, non-drinking, unemployed at the moment, Catholic, looking for a marriage partner” and “Looking for that One and Only one for me! :)”
Bingo.
Nicholas Godejohn’s life was about to change in ways he couldn’t have imagined, and wouldn’t have wanted to.
At the time, Nick’s hobbies included playing video games, uploading music videos to YouTube, and, as he put it, ‘looking for love.’
When asked about life before meeting Gypsy, he said, “I actually was basically alone.” (Killer Couples, 2019).
In hindsight, he might have considered that a blessing.
Below are two videos Nicholas Godejohn uploaded to his YouTube gaming channel before he met Gypsy Rose Blanchard.
Nick’s old YouTube channel can be seen here
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Gypsy spots Nick’s profile, decides he’s ‘cute,’ and sends him a digital ‘wink.’
Nick returns the compliment, and the pair begin their first exchange.
Gypsy tells the lonely Wisconsinite, “:) im a little embarrassed this is my first time on a online dating site but i thought it might be nice to meet new people and maybe find love too. If i could id go out with you, you sound a lot like me lol.”
Nick replies with unfiltered sincerity: “i would be blessed to be able to be with a Beauty like yourself u definitely have the beauty inside i can actually feel how pure you are from inside.” (If only purity could be measured in capital letters.)
After four days of online conversation, they are officially in a ‘committed relationship,’ which Gypsy proudly announces via a newly minted joint Facebook account: Nicholas Bella Rose.
And into the centre of the storm stepped Nicholas Godejohn, blissfully unaware of the incoming weather.
Nick later described meeting Gypsy as, “I don’t know how to explain it… the way that we clicked… it made it seem like we somehow just knew we were right for each other.” (Police Interview, 2015).
In 2024, Gypsy reflected on her first impressions: “I thought Nick was this stable person that has his life together, and he’s going to take care of me and everything’s just going to be fine.” (The Prison Confessions, 2024).
It’s likely Nick was banking on those same qualities in her.
Despite our best efforts combing through the 2012 archives of Christiandatingforfree.com, neither Gypsy’s nor Nick’s profile has surfaced, perhaps lost to the digital void, or wisely erased.
Nick had only one brief relationship prior to meeting Gypsy.
She told him he was her first-ever boyfriend.
She also claimed she was a virgin.
Cough.
A FOIA release in March 2025 (courtesy of Into The Weeds Podcast) confirms that during her ‘exclusive’ relationship with Nick, Gypsy was still in contact with another man, Dan Glidewell.
Monogamy, it seems, was more of a suggestion.
In 2018, Gypsy recalled: “We (Nick and Gypsy) started to talk about our lives, and we liked each other from the very beginning. I did tell him that I was in a wheelchair from the get go, and he seemed accepting. He was like, it doesn’t matter to me, I love you all the same. It was just different to find someone that accepted me, even though I knew I could walk. I still thought it was nice of him to accept me as I am.” (Gypsy’s Revenge, 2018).
However, during her testimony at Nick’s 2018 trial, Gypsy gave a slightly different version.
When asked, “When did you tell Nick about the wheelchair?” she replied, “About a month after we met.”
A month, of course, being a rather generous interpretation of ‘from the get go.’
Around this time, Dee Dee apparently experienced a parental ‘eureka’ moment and began locking Gypsy’s laptop away at night.
This obstacle was short-lived. Gypsy, describing herself as ‘petrified’ but nevertheless an experienced kleptomaniac, admitted: “I stole a cell phone” (Gypsy’s Revenge, 2018), which she then connected to the home Wi-Fi.
Gypsy would later describe the early months with Nick as light-hearted, filled with conversations about hypothetical honeymoons, dream wedding locations, and places to travel – ‘normal stuff.’
But, she adds, “as it progressed, things got weird” (Mommy Dead and Dearest, 2017).
For Nick, certainly.
According to Gypsy, about a year into their relationship she revealed to Nick that she could walk. Nick’s response was that he wasn’t surprised, he had ‘psychic abilities.’ (Alternatively, he may have simply run a Google search and found the widely available photograph of Gypsy swimming with dolphins and stingrays at age 12.)
What Gypsy does not mention in any documentary or interview is that in a 2014 video – transcript available – she told Nick it was entirely her choice to fake the need for a wheelchair.
Her choice.
Hers.
Nick then allegedly made another disclosure: not only was he ‘psychic,’ but he also had multiple personality disorder.
While a clinical diagnosis of MPD is doubtful, Nick did describe to Gypsy an alter ego named ‘Victor’, a 500-year-old vampire representing the ‘violent part of himself.’
Gypsy’s reaction was understated: “I started to be a little bit more scared” (Gypsy’s Revenge, 2018).
Most people would have run for the hills.
Gypsy stayed, by her own account, because she was ‘desperate for affection.’
Or perhaps for an assassin.
The vampire motif was not entirely new to Gypsy’s orbit. Dan Glidewell, a man she had previously been in contact with, also had a fascination with vampires, so much so that in 2011 he named his son after a vampire character he had portrayed in a live-action role-playing game.
A 2015 crime scene photograph from Dee Dee’s house even shows a ‘Support Vampires’ rosette pinned to the kitchen fridge.
Whether the vampire theme in Gypsy and Nick’s relationship originated with him or her is uncertain.
What is certain is that there are no known images of Nicholas Godejohn dressed as anyone other than himself.
The same cannot be said of Dan Glidewell.
(Excerpts below) By 2024, in her memoir (My Time to Stand), Gypsy had aged ‘Victor’ considerably – he is presented as 3,000 years old.
In the same book, she also claimed Nick was the only adult who knew she could walk, this despite earlier in the very same text acknowledging that Dan knew as well.
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Gypsy was 21 years old when she stole the cell phone, apparently motivated less by fear of being beaten with a coat hanger and more by an overwhelming need to maintain contact with Nick.
This was neither her first nor her last shoplifting incident.
In February 2012, a Springfield News-Leader article reported that Dee Dee had been apprehended for shoplifting at a Hobby Lobby store in Springfield. The article, which described Gypsy as ‘paralysed from the waist down,’ detailed how craft supplies were found hidden in 20-year-old Gypsy’s wheelchair.
The scheme unravelled when a store manager spotted a black feather ‘poking out between Gypsy’s leg and the wheelchair.’
The mind boggles.
Dee Dee later claimed she would never have permitted a search of Gypsy’s wheelchair had she known it contained stolen goods, a statement that, for once, may have been entirely truthful.
A separate account, posted to Facebook in June 2015, alleged that years earlier, in 2006 or 2007, the same Hobby Lobby had witnessed a similar scene.
The poster claimed Dee Dee accused Gypsy of attempting to steal scrapbook paper by concealing it under her wheelchair.
At the time, Dee Dee and Gypsy were living in Aurora, but this would have been the closest Hobby Lobby to their home.
Dee Dee’s official criminal record contained only a single offence: passing a dud cheque in 1997.
That either suggests she was an exceptionally skilled shoplifter – worthy of the “Fagin” label – or that her daughter had a burgeoning kleptomania problem of her own.
According to police reports, Nick’s cousin, Ricky Godejohn, told investigators after the murder that Nick had confided in him about Gypsy’s habit of stealing lingerie from stores and sending Nick photographs of herself wearing it.
No fear of consequences, no apparent hesitation.
An entitled princess through and through.
A FOIA release in June 2025, courtesy of Myra.r71 added yet another layer: Gypsy, the oft-framed ‘helpless victim’ of Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy, had allegedly been selling medical supplies on eBay, including Dee Dee’s diabetes test strips and her own feeding tubes, using one of her secret email accounts.
One suspects this revelation may come as a shock to Dr Steele, Dr Flasterstein, and Dr Feldman.
(Excerpts below) In her 2024 memoir (My Time to Stand), Gypsy recounts the Hobby Lobby incident with a whimsical flourish, describing the stolen goods as “gluey, sticky, sparkly.” A contemporaneous news report, however, lists them rather more prosaically: two packages of stickers, a border, stamp pads, and two pieces of unfinished wood. None of which could reasonably be described as gluey, sticky, or sparkly. Moreover, Gypsy was 20 years old at the time, not the nine-year-old her memoir’s tone might lead readers to imagine, casting further doubt on her claim that her mother ‘made’ her steal them.
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Gypsy told Dr Phil in 2019, “He (Nick) had multiple personalities that were violent and scary. He said that he was a 500-year-old vampire named Victor.”
In her earlier 2017 interview, she went further, describing one of Nick’s other personalities – ‘The black one’ – who allegedly spoke in a “horrible, scary voice” about killing and raping her, even threatening, “I will kill you so bad that they will never find your body.”
And still, Gypsy stayed.
“I was in love with, or thought I was in love with, the good side of him,” she explained, though “Bingo!” might have been the more honest answer.
Rather than distance herself from a man who frightened her and repeatedly threatened her life, Gypsy says she instead created alter egos to match his. “I would have done just about anything to make him stay, to make him happy,” she told Gypsy’s Revenge in 2018.
According to her, it was Nick’s idea: “He talked to me one day and he was just like, ‘You know, I would like my other personalities to have a girlfriend.’”
So, she obliged, inventing five of them.
At Nick’s trial, the list emerged: Ruby, Candy, Kitty, Bella, and Demona.
Gypsy explained she created them to ‘fit’ Nick’s own personas.
Demona, she said, was ‘half werewolf, half human.’ Kitty was ‘a childlike girl.’ Ruby was her ‘evil side.’ Candy, in her own words, was ‘more of the slutty side of me.’
Bella got less explanation, perhaps because Bella’s most notable recorded activity was Gypsy, in character, sitting on the living room couch and licking a knife, two weeks before Dee Dee’s murder.
When Dr Phil quizzed her on the details, the pauses between answers suggested Gypsy hadn’t anticipated this particular pop quiz. Kitty matched Nick’s ‘little boy’ personality. Candy went with ‘that personality that’s more sexual.’ Ruby, she confirmed without hesitation, was for Victor, the 500-year-old vampire.
And still, the ‘lion’ slept, just off the living room where Bella would perform her knife-licking routine, and mere feet from the bathroom where Ruby would pose for videos, while Dee Dee apparently kept a knife and a gun close at hand.
This, we are told, was the point at which Gypsy was most ‘afraid’ of her mother.
In sworn testimony, Dan claimed he developed a taste for ‘power exchange role-playing’ from Gypsy, who sent nude photos, dressed in costumes, and cycled through her various fictitious names.
Gypsy claims BDSM ‘crept into’ her relationship with Nick, which she insists ‘weird and scary’ Nick introduced her to:
“(Nick) started talking about something called BDSM. And at first I didn’t know what it was, so I looked it up. And once I looked it up, I was like, ‘I don’t want to do this’. And then he kind of just talked me into it and was like, ‘It’ll be fine’, you know, ‘Try this with me’. And so, I agreed to it. 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. Then his ex had messaged me. She told me, you know, he’s a really bad guy. He thinks he’s a vampire and he’s into all this dominant/submissive stuff. And I was thinking, ‘It’s just an ex, you know, she’s badmouthing him. She doesn’t know anything, she’s jealous, blah, blah, blah’. She was right.” (Mommy Dead And Dearest, 2017)
One word.
Dan.
Dan testified at Nick’s 2022 evidentiary hearing that it was Gypsy, back in 2011, who introduced him to “power-exchange role-playing,” something he’d heard of but “hadn’t really had a front row seat” to until she came along. (Source: NPG: Cornerstone Nation).
And where might Gypsy have picked it up?
Wild guess: David Blanchard?
David Blanchard – Links to BDSM And The Murder Of Dee Dee Blanchard
In 2017, Gypsy reflected on Nick: “I really don’t know what’s wrong with him, but it’s not like I had a boyfriend before.” (Mommy Dead And Dearest, 2017)
A fair comment, if we accept that ‘“boyfriend’ excludes Dan, the older man in the hotel room, or the four men aged 30–35 to whom she sent topless photos in 2010 and 2011.
Gypsy told Dr Phil, “I was very, very naïve back then. I’d never, never had a boyfriend.” (Mother Knows Best, 2017)
True. Just a ‘friend’ she had sex with, and several other ‘friends’ she sent nude photos to.
For the record, there’s no evidence Nick had ever engaged in role-playing before meeting Gypsy.
Yet, judging from the photo evidence, her initial ‘fear’ (‘I started to be a little more scared’) and ‘hesitance’ (‘I don’t want to do this’) seemed to fade quickly.
Soon, she appears to have embraced the BDSM theme with the gusto of a true team player, though perhaps not quite in the spirit Nick’s ex had been warning her about.
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Let’s take a short breather from Gypsy Rose Blanchard’s gobbledygook and remind ourselves exactly who we’re dealing with.
Since her arrest in 2015 for her role in her mother’s murder, Gypsy has cast herself as the perennial victim.
Dee Dee? Abusive.
Nick? Manipulative.
Dan? Predatory.
According to Gypsy, the entire supporting cast of her life’s drama was out to get her.
Her well-rehearsed narrative has been consistent: Dee Dee smothered her, figuratively and literally, never left her alone, barred her from friends or freedom, and inflicted unnecessary medical procedures.
Nick supposedly terrified her, manipulated her, and introduced her to BDSM. I
In other words, Gypsy was always under someone else’s control.
And then came the FOIA requests.
Brace yourselves.
In late 2024 and early 2025, official court documents, released following a FOIA request by Into the Weeds Podcast pulled the curtain back on the real Gypsy Rose Blanchard.
Some of these records (provided to the right and below) speak for themselves.
You might need a moment to read them … and another to recover.
In 2018, Gypsy testified as a defence witness at Nicholas Godejohn’s trial. While under oath, she swore to the following:
Nick was her first boyfriend: Dan Glidewell doesn’t label himself as such, but Gypsy concedes he was a sexual partner.
Debunked ✓ (Lied under oath).
1.Nick introduced her to role play with alter egos: Gypsy herself admits she was “surfacing inside Gypsy” and role-playing with men as early as 2010–2011. Debunked ✓ (Lied under oath).
- Nick was always the ‘master,’ she was always the ‘slave’: See: My Baby Gypsy and Mistress Demona’s Random Video, where Gypsy announces she’s now the dominant, and Nick the slave. Debunked ✓ (Lied under oath).
- Nick scripted most of her videos: Out of 154 videos, only a fraction show evidence of Nick’s scripting. Debunked ✓ (Lied under oath).
- She only did certain acts because Nick told her to: In Demona to Sir Black One, Gypsy boasts she can overwhelm and even “rape him by force.” Debunked ✓ (Lied under oath).
- She engaged in rape fantasies reluctantly, just to indulge Nick: In reality, she’s seen on video enthusiastically engaging in solo sexual activity for nearly twelve minutes. Debunked ✓ (Lied under oath).
The legal term for all of this is ‘perjury.’
Dr. Theodore Wasserman, a pediatric neuropsychologist hired for Nick’s appeal, summarised their dynamic neatly: Gypsy held the stick, Gypsy dangled the carrot.
And yes—there’s more.
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Following their arrest, a forensic examination of both Gypsy and Nick’s phones revealed a number of videos, none of which align neatly with Gypsy’s claims of being an unwilling participant in her own life.
One standout example: a 15-minute video recorded on 26 May 2015, less than two weeks before Dee Dee’s death. In it, Gypsy, wearing a red wig and black jacket, introduces Nick to ‘Ruby,’ her ‘evil side,’ while addressing him as ‘Sir.’
The setting?
Dee Dee’s bathroom.
The proximity?
Mere feet from where Dee Dee was sleeping, in a room without a door.
For someone who says she had to ‘sneak’ onto Dee Dee’s laptop while her mother slept, Gypsy displayed remarkable confidence in recording a lengthy, revealing, and explicit performance in the middle of the night.
Wouldn’t a young woman supposedly living in fear of a hammer-wielding mother (who allegedly slept with a knife at her bedside) have been worried about being caught?
Apparently not.
The same could be asked about another video, bluntly titled Cum With Demona, in which Gypsy shouts explicit instructions at ‘Master’ Nick.
If Dee Dee was as omnipresent and terrifying as claimed, where exactly was she during this broadcast-level performance?
Equally telling is Ruby’s Introduction to Her Perfect Man, recorded about three weeks before the murder.
According to the Greene County Sheriff’s Office supplemental report, Gypsy boasts she likes to get into trouble, isn’t sorry when she’s caught, and that her ‘caring’ is broken.
She claims she fears only Nicholas’s ‘evil side,’ and that she would do anything with him, including murder, rape, and assault.
She even outlines scenarios for killing other women, promising ‘lots of gore and blood’ if a rival tried to be his girlfriend, and offering to commit joint murders.
Family members, she admits, would get a more restrained execution.
She states she’d allow Nicholas to rape her ‘anytime he wanted,’ but drew the line at physical assault, clarifying that ‘rough sex’ and ‘rape sex’ were acceptable.
The video also includes a guided tour through her other alter egos, Kitty, Candy, Bella, each with their own romantic tendencies. Ruby, however, was the mastermind: adept at stealing, planning crimes, and producing ‘very, very bad ideas’ like robbery, rape, vandalism, and vehicle theft.
Mischief and mayhem, she insists, should always be planned by her.
Again, where was Dee Dee?
And where, exactly, was Gypsy’s fear?
For someone who once claimed she knew ‘nothing’ about BDSM and ‘didn’t want to do this,’ Gypsy adapted at an astonishing pace. Rod Blanchard told the media in 2024, “Gypsy was scared shitless of her mom.”
The evidence suggests otherwise.
Ruby was not an alter ego.
Ruby was Gypsy Rose Blanchard.
The digital archive didn’t end there.
On 22 May 2015, Gypsy sent Nick a second video, filmed in Dee Dee’s empty bedroom.
She approaches her mother’s bed, points at the pillow, and makes repeated stabbing motions toward it.
This was not an abstract fantasy, it was an instructional video on how she wanted Dee Dee killed.
Around the same time, she also photographed Dee Dee sleeping in that same bed.
Fear?
Nowhere to be seen.
A third video, in which she appears as “Demona,” shows Gypsy threatening Nick: if he didn’t do as she wanted, she would “take Gypsy away from him.”
And she did.
Masterfully.
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Some readers may recall the pink Mandalorian suit Gypsy wore at VisionCon 2013 (pictured below).
The suit was crafted by a high-ranking member of Squad 66: The Temple Raiders, the same group that had awarded Gypsy an honorary membership back in 2009, and who also worked at VisionCon itself.
David Blanchard, Dee Dee’s ‘good friend,’ was not only a fellow Temple Raider but also the president of VisionCon in 2013.
He was close friends with the man who made the suit.
According to the suit’s maker, he believed Gypsy was 15 years old in October 2012 when he agreed to the commission. In reality, Gypsy was 21.
David Blanchard, who, in his 2015 police interview, put on an Oscar-worthy performance of shock upon ‘learning’ Gypsy could walk, admitted he knew she had ‘run away’ with Dan in 2011.
It’s difficult to imagine the suit’s maker being unaware of that little escapade, given how quickly news travels in such tightly knit fandom circles.
This ‘we had no idea about Gypsy’s real age or mobility’ narrative is about as convincing as a Stormtrooper’s aim.
The Mandalorian suit was made well after ‘the man in the hotel room’ incident in 2009, and well after the Dan episode in 2011.
There was gossip within the VisionCon community about Gypsy flirting with older men, gossip that would not have been confined to the dealer’s room. The organisers would have heard it. They would have discussed it.
Which leaves two options: either the entire VisionCon leadership was astonishingly oblivious in an environment built on obsessive attention to detail, or they’re lying.
And if they are lying, one has to ask: what did they stand to gain, and what do they still stand to lose, by keeping the truth buried?
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On March 11th, 2013, at around 7:00 p.m., Nicholas Godejohn was arrested at his local McDonald’s for disorderly conduct and carrying a concealed weapon.
According to the incident report, “Officers responded around 7:18 p.m. to a report of a man viewing pornographic material on his laptop and touching himself inappropriately in view of customers and employees. Godejohn admitted to the behaviour and was found to be carrying a concealed knife (a small folding pen knife) without a permit. He was arrested and transported to the police station for processing.”
Nick told officers he had been there for nine hours, not because McDonald’s is renowned for its ambience, but because he was using the free Wi-Fi to perform a software update that “took several hours.”
He said he bought food at the start but refused to leave when the manager confronted him, because his update wasn’t done.
Nick also admitted he had watched pornographic videos and images during his visit.
We don’t know exactly what he was watching, but Gypsy’s BDSM videos and photos come to mind.
Contrary to the headline-friendly myth promoted since his 2015 arrest for Dee Dee’s murder, Nick wasn’t engaged in a nine-hour public marathon of fries-and-fap. The police report shows the McDonald’s was far from full, and customers alleged that ‘at one point’ he was ‘fondling himself.
Nick’s own account?
He was ‘scratching himself’ inside his trousers.
The media, however, didn’t let the truth spoil a good soundbite:
“Godejohn also has a criminal past. In 2013 he was arrested after investigators say he was watching pornography and fondling himself in a McDonald’s restaurant for 9 hours, police finding a large knife during the arrest.” – Mommy Dead And Dearest (2017)
“He was already a convict… convicted of disorderly conduct… caught fondling himself while eating French fries and watching porn on his laptop.” – Dr. Phil, The Killer Thorn Of Gypsy Rose (2019)
On November 11th, 2013, Nick pleaded no contest to disorderly conduct.
He was fined $210.80, payable in $25 monthly instalments starting December 15th.
The concealed weapon charge was dismissed.
(Excerpts below) In her 2024 memoir, Gypsy claims she had “no clue” about Nick’s McDonald’s arrest until after her own in 2015. But a supplemental police report by Stan Hancock (November 29th, 2017, cited in Into The Weeds Podcast) states that Nick had sent Gypsy a video in which he discussed the arrest freely. On June 20th, 2013, he also sent her two videos titled “Trial Video” (Source: My Time To Stand).
In her equally slapdash collaboration Conversations On The Eve Of Freedom, Gypsy ups the inaccuracy by stating Nick had a conviction for “indecent exposure.”
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From 26th to 29th June 2013, Dee Dee and Gypsy attended the Oley Conference in Hyannis, Massachusetts.
The Oley Foundation, for the uninitiated, is a nonprofit offering education, advocacy, and community for those reliant on tube feeding or IV nutrition.
Their trip was funded through donations raised via their Facebook page, Gypsy’s Trip, contributions from people who believed, with good reason, that Gypsy’s medical needs were genuine.
At the time of Dee Dee’s death in 2015, they were once again fundraising for a second Oley trip, this time to New York.
By June 2013, Gypsy was a month shy of her 22nd birthday.
She was sexually active.
She had a boyfriend offering her a home and a future.
She knew she could walk.
She had already admitted to trying to kill her mother.
Yet she wheeled herself into a conference for seriously ill children and entered three award categories, including ‘Child of the Year.’
She did not win, which, one suspects, did not sit well with her.
Gypsy would later claim she was physically and emotionally abused by Dee Dee and forced to say she couldn’t walk. These allegations have been repeated widely, but they do not explain why, as an adult, she never told doctors, friends, or her boyfriend the truth, nor why she actively participated in the deception for years, benefiting from it in the process.
Meanwhile, Dee Dee was still driving a twelve-year-old van, hardly the transport of someone obsessed with status or luxury.
The money raised didn’t go into flashy purchases, but into sustaining a carefully crafted image and providing for Gypsy.
And here’s the complexity: Gypsy did have genuine medical problems. Dee Dee may well have believed her daughter’s health would deteriorate further because of her chromosomal microdeletion disorder, but despite knowing Gypsy could walk, she continued to tell people otherwise, whether out of fear of losing medical access, misguided protection, or because the story had long since taken on a momentum of its own.
Dee Dee’s motives were more layered than greed alone. They were shaped by genuine belief, fear for her daughter’s future health, and a desire to secure resources she felt were necessary, even if it meant crossing moral and legal lines.
But Gypsy was no helpless child. She was an adult who knew the truth, who had multiple opportunities to speak out, leave home, or tell supporters the reality. She chose not to. She stayed, played her part, and reaped the rewards.
When they returned from the conference, they were welcomed home by David and Kim Blanchard , at least one of whom, and likely both, knew the truth about her mobility.
On 7th October 2013, Dee Dee contacted police to report that both license plates had been stolen from her 2001 Ford van. Whether the theft happened at home or elsewhere remains unclear. (Police report courtesy of Into The Weeds Podcast).
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In October 2014, Gypsy’s Revenge (2018), co-starring the self-effacing yet strangely ever-present Aleah Woodmansee, recounts how, after at least two years of silence, Gypsy began messaging Aleah again. (See images on the right.)
Gypsy opens with: “This is my personal account, my mom is still overprotective so she doesn’t know about this account.”
She gushes about “wonderful” Nick, her “first boyfriend,” their plans to marry, and the names already chosen for their future children: Nicholas or Gabriella.
Gypsy claims, “I’m 18. Nick… is 24.”
In reality, Gypsy was 23.
And knew she was 23.
Notably absent from these messages: any talk of Nick being a vampire, or of Gypsy being ‘afraid’ of him.
Aleah says she felt uncomfortable talking to Gypsy behind Dee Dee’s back, so allowed the friendship to fade.
This is an interesting contrast to what she told a detective in 2015 after Dee Dee’s murder: “Gypsy had gotten upset with Aleah and blocked her from Facebook.” (Stan Hancock, Supplementary Report, 14 June 2015.)
So whose decision was it really, Aleah’s or Gypsy’s?
On 13th November 2014, Gypsy messages Aleah: “Help me Sis.”
The perfect moment, perhaps, to finally ask for help to escape her miserable life?
No.
Gypsy wanted Aleah’s help perpetuating a lie.
Years later, in Gypsy’s Truth and Lies (2019), Gypsy describes Aleah as ‘an angel that can do no wrong.’
In her 2015 prison interview, that ‘angel’ had become a ‘bully.’
Aleah claims there was no further contact after November 2014, until Gypsy’s arrest in June 2015.
At that point, Aleah began attending every preliminary hearing, now accompanied by Megan J. Pack, self-proclaimed expert on the case and Olympic-standard jumper from sitting on the fence to joining the bandwagon.
For someone who repeatedly says she wants no media attention, Aleah appears in the final image on the right smiling into the very cameras she says she avoids.
Aleah’s first reaction when the case broke in 2015 was telling: “I don’t believe all blame should be put on Dee Dee.”
It’s a sentiment quickly abandoned once the public narrative shifted.
And then there’s the 2015 interview in which Aleah said of Dee Dee: “That woman was like practically killing herself constantly trying to help Gypsy.”
Possibly the truest thing she’s ever said, though it sits awkwardly alongside her later portrayals of Dee Dee.
Coming up next:
The messages Aleah Woodmansee never seems to recall when the cameras are rolling.
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The following Facebook messages between Gypsy and Aleah Woodmansee, dated 12 October 2014, were obtained in 2025 via a FOIA request made by Into The Weeds Podcast
In Gypsy’s Revenge (2018), Gypsy claimed: “I couldn’t trust Aleah because my mother was starting to put things in my head that Aleah wasn’t my true friend and that she was a bad influence on me so I couldn’t be friends with her anymore.”
Hmm.
All Dee Dee’s fault, then?
But in the actual 2014 messages, Gypsy wrote: “I heard rumors that when we we’re friends u was making fun of me behind my back so I stopped being your friend… My mom and I didn’t like you after…”
Yes, Dee Dee may have repeated those rumors, but Gypsy herself takes ownership for ending the friendship.
That’s not Dee Dee “pulling the strings”, that’s Gypsy making a choice.
We could almost end the analysis there, given Gypsy’s next line begins, “Well I’ll be honest…”, a phrase that, in hindsight, should come with a disclaimer.
The real bombshell?
Gypsy tells Aleah: “They found out I have a chromosome deletion — that’s why I have medical issues.”
Boom.
In 2014, 23-year-old Gypsy knew she had a chromosome disorder.
In 2014, Aleah knew Gypsy had a chromosome disorder.
And Gypsy states outright that this explained the medical issues she had.
So why has this never appeared in a single post-murder documentary starring Gypsy?
Why didn’t it surface in any of Aleah Woodmansee’s oh-so-reluctant-but-somehow-frequent media appearances?
In the same exchange, Gypsy tells Aleah her health is “stable”.
No thanks offered to Dee Dee for the years of medical management it took to get there, just a passing mention before turning to this –
“My mom’s health has gotten worse over the yrs — she’s got diabetes, heart problems, glochomo [glaucoma], liver disease, kidney failure, Parkinson’s disease.”
And then, without a hint of irony: “Mom and I are going to Disney World again in January.”
Stable health, courtesy of Dee Dee’s endless appointments and interventions, and the priority is another Disney trip.
(Excerpts below) Fast-forward to 2024: Gypsy now claims she didn’t learn about the chromosome disorder until after she was imprisoned in 2015, and suggests it was ‘just a coincidence’ she had all the illnesses associated with it.
She also says she found a chromosome test ordered in 2012, despite medical records showing she was diagnosed in 2011.
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For Dee Dee Blanchard, it was business as usual at 2103 W Volunteer Way, Springfield, which almost certainly meant juggling Gypsy’s health needs, attempting to curb her “daddy” issues, and managing her own deteriorating body.
One imagines she was also dosing herself with enough anxiety medication to fell a horse, simply to keep pace with everything Gypsy had, and was, putting her through.
On January 19, 2014, Dee Dee (or Gypsy; the Facebook authorship was always a toss-up) posted that Dee Dee was going into the hospital. It would be, the post noted, the first time mother and daughter had ever slept in separate beds.
A year later, on January 24, 2015, another update: Dee Dee had been taken to hospital in an ambulance.
The reason? A kidney stone lodged in her urethra, an agony so acute it’s been likened to ‘trying to pass a barbed wire fence.’ It had to be broken into smaller stones before she could pass them.
Anyone who’s been there will tell you: this is not a walk-it-off situation.
A perfect opportunity, you might think, for the desperately unhappy Gypsy to make her escape.
Sling her hook.
Vanish.
But she didn’t.
Instead, in January 2015, Dee Dee and Gypsy were back at Disney World, Florida, courtesy of the Make-A-Wish Foundation, where 22-year-old Gypsy met the cast of Harry Potter at Universal Studios.
Dee Dee’s health was now in steep decline, and Gypsy would have known it.
But priorities are priorities: “I know you’re sick, Mamma, and have trouble getting around … but we are going to Disney World because I’m the special one.”
Meanwhile, Dee Dee was working to raise funds for an Oley Foundation conference in New York, scheduled for June 29th-July 3rd, 2015.
A Facebook page, The Gypsy Road Trip, was created to promote the trips, managed, tellingly, by a member of the VisionCon community.
You know, the same crowd who all believed Gypsy was a fragile, terminally ill child.
The page described “wheelchair-bound, feeding-tube fed” Gypsy as having chromosome defects, muscular dystrophy, mild MR (heart disease), hearing and vision impairment, a history of leukemia, asthma, allergies, and nocturnal hypoventilation – “to mention just a few” of her supposed issues.
And yet no one in that community thought to question how this ‘little girl,’ allegedly at death’s door, managed to power through so many jam-packed weekends at VisionCon?
Even one of Dee Dee’s siblings reposted the appeal: “Please help my beloved niece be blessed with top notch medical treatment.”
This, despite the fact that Dee Dee’s siblings didn’t believe anything was seriously wrong with Gypsy.
Which circles us back to the obvious question:
Why didn’t 23-year-old Gypsy leave when Dee Dee was in the hospital, or recovering at home?
She had full access to Dee Dee’s safe.
She had full access to the pharmacy-in-a-cupboard that was Dee Dee’s medication stash.
She had Nick, actively encouraging her to go, ready to “rescue” her.
She had a fully functional pair of legs.
Why didn’t Gypsy leave then?
In our humble opinion, because it would have left Dee Dee breathing.
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According to Nick, shooting Dee Dee with the BB gun wasn’t Gypsy’s first attempt to kill her mother.
In a 2019 prison interview, he recalled: “She warned me that she’d tried it twice before, and she’s only mentioned one of these times in the media. The other, apparently, she almost got close to killing her mother, but she couldn’t do it. She was attempting to do it mainly for someone that she had an infatuation with. And she found out later that’s just infatuation, but the person keeps using her to this day.”
The only person evidence suggests Gypsy ever had such an ‘infatuation’ with is Dan.
If that’s true, and she’d already tried twice before meeting Nick, was he really the great love she later claimed, or simply the next tool to achieve the same end?
The one attempt she has admitted to publicly is the BB gun episode.
The other? Still unknown.
Nick says she’d been pushing him to kill Dee Dee for over a year before it happened, probably closer to two.
He told her no, over and over.
She tried every tactic: guilt, flattery, emotional pressure.
She knew about his neurodevelopmental disorders, understood his vulnerabilities, and yet used them to her advantage.
And still, for a long time, he resisted.
By mid-2014, Nick was starting to question her stability.
On May 16th, 2014, he opened up to someone he called “Sis,” later identified as Alli Noble. According to court records, she knew about the plan in detail. Nick told her an earlier murder plot had been dropped because Gypsy changed her mind, more than a year before Dee Dee actually died.
Two separate near-attempts.
Two windows of opportunity where Gypsy could have simply left.
Two occasions when Dee Dee was still alive, caring for her daughter, while her daughter quietly planned otherwise.
Eighteen minutes after telling ‘Sis’ about the aborted plan, Nick asked her:
“Ya Sis I have to ask u something. How crazy do u think Gypsy is? U won’t hurt my feelings or anything, I really wanna know tho since I just obviously can tell she is. I just can’t seem to put in words how crazy I think she is.”
‘Sis’ replied:
“Well idk how to put it into words either but I will be honest I would not ever kill my mom or anyone else unless they tried to kill me first.”
It’s worth noting: ‘Sis’ was never called to testify at Nick’s trial.
We would have liked to have known why ‘Sis’ never alerted anyone to the plan to murder Dee Dee Blanchard.
We’d also be interested to know if either Nick or Gypsy messaged ‘Sis’ on 14th June 2015, the day one of her Facebook photos was liked by ‘Nicholas Bella Rose’, aka Gypsy’s secret Facebook account.
Liked on a day when Nick and Gypsy were hiding out at Nick’s house following Dee Dee’s murder.
For Nick, doubts about Gypsy’s mental state should have been his exit point. But by then, she’d been weaving her story into his life for nearly two years.
He clung to the hope that killing Dee Dee would never be necessary, that maybe he could meet her, win her over, and avoid all of it.
And that’s when Gypsy adjusted the script.
Dee Dee would meet Nicholas Godejohn, see him as the perfect match for her ‘frail’ daughter, and everything would fall into place.
At least, that’s how Gypsy sold it.
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The ‘Nick meets Dee Dee’ plan wasn’t some spur-of-the-moment teenage rebellion, adult Gypsy set it in motion three months ahead of time.
She posted on her secret Facebook profile, “3 months until I experience True Love, and a kiss I will never forget.”
From there, she micromanaged everything: choosing the exact outfit Nick would wear, buying and mailing it to him, and sending him the money for his return Greyhound ticket.
How did she pull that off without her ‘captor’ knowing?
Did she steal the clothes?
Sneak to the post office alone?
Or did Dee Dee know all along?
In interviews from 2017 and 2018, Gypsy never explains where the funds for the trip came from:
In 2017, Gypsy told filmmakers she said to Nick, “I’ll buy your ticket and you come to the movie theatre.” (Mommy Dead And Dearest, 2017)
In another interview that same year, she again said, “He took a greyhound bus” (Mother Knows Best, 2017), still no mention of where the money came from.
In 2018, she told yet another crew, “So we got our bus ticket and he came to Springfield” (Gypsy’s Revenge, 2018), again, no details.
Then came Nick’s 2018 trial, where Gypsy testified under oath: “I stole the money from my mother and I sent it to him via the mail.”
So much for the ‘helpless captive’ narrative.
Where was Dee Dee during all this? The ever-watchful ‘owner of the prize bull’ – Just calmly watching men’s clothes appear, lingerie orders pile up, whipped cream disappear, and a neon-pink bikini materialize?
Either Dee Dee was losing her grip, or Gypsy was better at running the household than we’ve been led to believe.
The truth is, Gypsy was juggling multiple online personas.
There are whispers that Gypsy wasn’t just role-playing for Nick. That she had paying fans. Maybe men with reputations to protect. Which might explain why Dee Dee’s vigilance was faltering by 2015, or why tensions in that house were reaching a point where both knew something had to give.
By 2015, it’s worth asking who was really in charge.
Was Dee Dee worn out, sick, and turning a blind eye?
Had she threatened to expose what Gypsy was doing?
Or had she just given up trying to keep up?
The usual question has been, “What was Dee Dee doing to stop Gypsy from leaving?”
We already know the answer: nothing.
The real question is, “Why did Gypsy want Dee Dee dead?”
For Nick, this trip wasn’t just about romance.
It was the moment Gypsy shifted the plan from fantasy to reality, wrapping her manipulation in the language of “true love,” knowing exactly which strings to pull.
(Excerpt below) In her second ‘memoir’ (‘My Time To Stand), Gypsy claims Nick’s mother paid for his bus ticket, a direct contradiction to her sworn trial testimony that she stole the money from Dee Dee. But then, consistency was never part of her skill set.
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On or around 9th March 2015, Nicholas Godejohn, packed as if headed to a royal ball rather than a midweek Greyhound, travelled nearly 600 miles from Big Bend, Wisconsin, to Springfield, Missouri.
His mission: to meet Dee Dee and Gypsy at a Cinderella screening planned for the 12th.
It’s a long way to go for a cinema date, but we know Nick was already in Springfield on the 9th thanks to his Papa John’s receipt for a hotel delivery that evening.
Perhaps not quite the stuff of fairy tales, but everyone has to eat.
The master plan was for Gypsy and Nick to ‘accidentally’ bump into each other at the cinema, as if strangers.
Not much of a challenge, considering Dee Dee, Gypsy, and Nick were the only ones there.
Gypsy would then introduce her ‘Prince Charming’ to her mother, Dee Dee would instantly adore him, and they’d all live happily ever after.
At least, that’s how Gypsy liked to tell it.
Gypsy claims Dee Dee despised Nick on sight, branding him ‘creepy’ and ‘weird’ for attending a children’s film alone.
“He didn’t have a kid with him, or a girlfriend, or nothing,” she laughed in one interview, even though she was the one who had orchestrated this exact scenario and was watching the movie dressed as Cinderella.
Gypsy’s accounts vary – no surprise there – but in one, she says Dee Dee moved a few seats away and told Gypsy to follow, an order ‘terrified of Dee Dee’ Gypsy claims she ignored. Yet photographs from that day show both Dee Dee and Gypsy looking perfectly cheerful, hardly the visual evidence of a seat-moving standoff. Unless the photographer, one of the only three people present, had a magic way of making arguments vanish.
Nick, for his part, remembered Dee Dee being ‘really nice’ to him, always nice, in fact.
A neighbour even claimed Dee Dee approved of the relationship, which, if true, would make Nick a marked upgrade from Gypsy’s previous choice, Dan Glidewell.
What happened next depends on whose script you’re reading.
According to Nick, Gypsy wanted to have sex, so they did, in the men’s bathroom.
According to Gypsy, it happened in the handicap stall.
The symbolism writes itself.
What’s less clear is how Dee Dee, allegedly convinced Nick was ‘creepy’ and ‘dangerous’, didn’t follow the pair out of an empty cinema.
Either Dee Dee suddenly lost all maternal vigilance or she wasn’t nearly as concerned as Gypsy later claimed.
Gypsy’s story continues: they argued, Dee Dee slapped her, and Gypsy spiralled into desperate thoughts about freedom and the ‘ideal life.’
Nick, however, remembers none of this, which might explain why in 2017, Gypsy agreed with Dr Phil’s summary that Dee Dee ‘knew none the better’ after the restroom rendezvous.
(The story Gypsy fed Nick) Nick recalls in his police interview, “I don’t know what it was, but apparently the night got ruined in some way. I couldn’t, I was trying to understand what was going on with her mom” (Nick’s Police Interview, 2015).
Ruined?
From Nick’s perspective, it was an all-round success, complete with the fairytale princess, a private cinema, and what he thought was a mutual happily-ever-after in progress, translating as: Someone’s story is a lie.
Let’s all take a wild guess whose – the guy who barely changes his account over the years, or the woman whose version shapeshifts more often than a soap opera plotline?
(Excerpts below) In 2024, Gypsy revised her decade-old tale, claiming they didn’t actually have sex because she was forced to wear a diaper, a detail that somehow hadn’t surfaced in any of her previous retellings. She also insisted she left the restroom a virgin, though other evidence suggests that milestone had been crossed long before the popcorn started popping. (Source: ‘My Time To Stand’).
In her 2015 police interview, Gypsy claimed Dee Dee later told Nick exactly how she felt about him during a phone argument.
Nick has never mentioned such a call. Good try, Gyp. Who knows – in her next ‘memoir,’ perhaps Dee Dee will have expressed her disapproval via smoke signal or carrier pigeon.
God forbid, there’s another one.
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Once Nick was safely back in Missouri, he says Gypsy told him she’d sent Dee Dee a bouquet of flowers as if from him, a sweet little PR campaign to win the mother-in-law vote.
Nick even claims she showed him a picture of the receipt.
Which begs the question: why would Gypsy send flowers to a woman she later claimed despised Nick so much she slapped her in public?
Either this was the most passive-aggressive bouquet in Missouri, or someone’s narrative is starting to smell less like roses.
A 2024 FOIA request (courtesy of Into The Weeds Podcast) revealed that Nick’s search history included ‘Springfield Missouri flower service.’
That doesn’t prove his version, but it does poke a hole in Gypsy’s.
In her 2018 prison interview, Gypsy goes for the drama: “She (Dee Dee) had ordered me to stay away from him (Nick), and needless to say that was a very long argument that lasted a couple of weeks. Yelling, throwing things, calling me names. Bitch, slut, whore” (Gypsy’s Truth And Lies, 2018).
But did that really happen, or was Dee Dee too busy enjoying her flowers and telling the neighbours what a nice boy Nick was?
According to Gypsy, she told a bewildered Nick their plan had failed: Dee Dee hated him.
Which left, apparently, only one option, Dee Dee had to go.
At Nick’s 2018 trial, the questioning was blunt:
Q: After this meeting at the movies did you ask him to kill your mother?
A: Yes.
Q: Did you ask him, ‘Would you kill my mother for me?’
A: I probably did, yes Sir.
There was no ‘probably’ about it. Even if Dee Dee had been open to Nick, Gypsy still wanted her dead.
Because it wasn’t Nick that Gypsy wanted.
It was Dan.
In April 2015, a burglary at Dee Dee’s house left her ‘nervous ever since.’
Over $1,000 cash and prescription meds gone.
The police supplemental report (seen below courtesy of Into The Weeds Podcast) hints at ‘certain people’ in the neighbourhood causing trouble, but names aren’t given.
Pure speculation, of course, but one might guess the culprit’s name started with a G and ended in a Y … and that the loot may have ended up with Dan Glidewell.
The final months of Dee Dee’s life look like a siege.
Not for Gypsy.
For Dee Dee.
(Excerpts below) In her December 2024 fabricated ‘memoir,’ Gypsy completely skips over the ‘slapping’ incident she reported in 2018, when she claimed Dee Dee took her to the bathroom at the cinema and hit her – “She took me to the bathroom and she slapped me” (Gypsy’s Revenge, 2018). In the new version, there’s no slap, no confrontation, just Dee Dee stepping outside, inexplicably leaving her daughter in the clutches of ‘weird, creepy’ Nick. There’s also a new a never-before-mentioned repercussion: she was taken home and locked in a pink-painted shed with a dirt floor. Small problem. The shed was blue. Always blue. And carpeted. No dirt floor in sight.
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At Nick’s 2018 trial, Gypsy is asked, “At some point you decided to kill your mother, is that correct?”
Gypsy: “Yes sir.”
“When?”
Gypsy: “About a year before it happened.”
“Whose idea was it?”
Gypsy: “Mine.”
“Who initially brought it up?”
Gypsy: “I did.”
“Who talked who into killing your mother?”
Gypsy: “I did. I talked him into it.”
“Why?”
Gypsy: “Because I wanted to be free of her hold on me.”
Notice – not free from abuse, but free from her hold.
Subtle wording, but telling. The answer of someone thinking in terms of control, not survival.
Also, not exactly the line you expect from a cowering victim, more the language of a person calling the shots.
Now compare this to Gypsy in 2017.
On camera, the killing morphs into an ‘indirect idea’ between her and Nick. A casual “Even my mum?” tossed into conversation, his “Yeah”, and suddenly it’s “Plan B.” A plan they supposedly kept pushing back.
Same again in 2018’s Gypsy’s Revenge.
But the moment she’s under oath? No gentle back-and-forth, just flat-out ownership: her idea, her push, her persuasion.
Then, like clockwork, she changes tack.
Later in 2018, she’s claiming Nick had her as ‘Victor,’ to kill Dee Dee.
The goalposts don’t just move; they vanish entirely and reappear wherever she needs them.
Nick’s story?
It stays steady.
January 2018: “All the planning she did, every bit of it. She pretty much willed the knife in my hand … She is the mastermind behind the entire thing.”
And police records show Gypsy researching poisons, arson, guns, everything except the obvious option: walk out the door.
By 2019 on Dr Phil, Gypsy’s back to pointing at Nick; he chose the weapon, the method, the number of stabs.
Never mind that she’d already sent him a cheerful video tutorial, complete with four stabbing motions for reference.
Her reasoning for choosing stabbing? “I didn’t want her to suffer.”
Which is a strange way to describe seventeen back stabs and two deep cuts to the neck.
That’s not mercy; that’s theatre.
Nick remembers it differently. She asked, “How badly do you want to be with me?” He said, “I’ll do anything.”
Her response? As long as her mum was alive, they couldn’t be together.
He suggested running away – she shut it down.
Every time.
And so, inch by inch, she walked him into a corner until there was only one ‘option’ left.
There’s a phrase for that: grooming.
She knew his devotion, knew he’d do anything for her, and she played it like a violin.
Gypsy Rose Blanchard wanted Dee Dee dead.
And she found the perfect instrument, a man so besotted that when she put the knife in his hand, he thought it was his choice.
Gypsy admits in her Dr Phil interview that she did ask Nick to kill Dee Dee, but quickly softens it with: “But I didn’t put a gun to his head.” (Mother Knows Best, 2017).
True. Just a knife in his hands and a belief in his heart that there was no other way to save the girl he loved from the torment and abuse she swore she was suffering. Oh, and the occasional promise of sex without limits.
Gypsy describes Nick to Dr Phil as: “I think he used me to have his own means. He was a lonely person. Not a lot of friends. Girls would never look at him, so I was the only one who would never tell him no. I would always agree to everything he said and do it with a smile. And I think he saw that in me.” (Mother Knows Best, 2017).
She even tells Dr Phil that Nick deserves to spend the rest of his life in prison because he ‘used’ her. Which is rich, considering she’d been having thoughts of murdering Dee Dee long before Nick entered the picture.
Who was using who, exactly?
In a 2018 news report, Gypsy says of Nick: “I don’t hate him. I feel sorry for him, and just that somebody could do something so heartless and not express remorse and not feel like he’s responsible for it.” (ABC News, Jan 4, 2018).
Meanwhile, in that same report, Nick said:
“I did what I did because I loved her (Gypsy). I really wanted a life with her, I really did.”
Nick has never denied his role in Dee Dee’s murder.
The difference? Gypsy doesn’t see herself as a murderer at all.
The weeks before the killing were a blur of explicit messages from Gypsy to Nick – not exactly the tone of a terrified, desperate prisoner:
May 30, 2015, 7:39pm: “I look forward to cuddles.”
7:40pm: “I dreamt about it… and you gave me oral sex.”
7:47pm: “Will u give me my first orgasm soon my love? Will u finger me on the bus? I desire pleasure too hun.”
(The “bus” being the Greyhound they planned to escape on — after Dee Dee’s murder.)
8:06pm: “The first movie I wanna watch with u is Fifty Shades of Grey. I also think we should start with soft wet anal sex before big time anal.”
June 4, 12:38pm: “Warning — I’m in a very sexual mood.”
June 10, 1:08am: “It’s getting close to the time.”
1:12am: “Thank u… you’re my hero <3 and I will NEVER leave u. I’m staying with u for eternity.”
This is the same woman who tells Dr Phil, “I would always agree to everything he said and do it with a smile.”
Indeed, but when you’re the one feeding the script, that’s not agreement. That’s direction.
So when Gypsy paints herself as the naive girl swept up in Nick’s dark designs, the only question left is: what kind of fools does she take us for?
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Images below are transcripts of video’s Gypsy sent to Nick drawn from official court documents. (Source: Into The Weeds Podcast).
On the 22nd April 2015, Nick exchanges a series of Facebook messages with a girl called Laura.
We are assuming Laura is a woman Nick once had an online relationship with.
(6.25) Nick – ‘Ya like I Said I’m Different and actually u didn’t see a side of me that the Woman I am with now knows about and it still didn’t scare her off it’s called truelove Laura’
(6.26) – Laura – ‘i have tht now. U have no idea wat iv been through with my husband. And it was alot worse then wat i went through with u. And im still here by his side.’
(6.27) Nick – ‘Ya well me and the one i am with are Defying the Laws of Nature to stay together it is as bad as can be I won’t tell u what I’ll have to do to stay with her but I’ll do it if it means keeping her’
(6.29) Laura – ‘actualy Nick im in the same boat. People have threatened to kill me my husband and my daughter. For me to leave him. And i still havnt. There are demons in this world that are destined to keep me and him apart. But im not letting them tear us apart.’
(6.30) Nick – ‘Oh i see well u don’t understand how bad it really is for me I mean u may know a nugget of it but not the full thing sorry I can’t share it, it must stay between me and her’
(6.31) Laura – ‘this is the same between me and him. If i even think of telling someone my life is on the line . i cud be killed any day now.’
(6.32) Nick – ‘Well someone else’s life is on the line and that is all i can say sorry’
(6.33) Laura – ‘u think i don’t know how it is. but i do. I got into a whole another world and life that i knew nothing about until i met tim.’
(6.34) Nick – ‘believe me Laura u don’t know what I’m talking about just keep it at that I can’t say anymore.’
(6.34) Laura – ‘i’m not asking u to say anymore. I know what ur talking about’
(6.34) Nick – ‘tell me then if u are so confident in that u know?’
(6.35) Laura – ‘wat im talking about are demons and spirits from another world. The wiccan world the afterlife’
(6.36) Nick – ‘hmm well that is something completely different from what i am experiencing and will have to deal with soon u don’t know what i am talking about but if it must stay between me and her I guess it has to’
(6.37) Laura – ‘completely different? Wat cud be worse then the chaos dragon and the rulers of the spirit worl and after life threatenin to kill her whole family for staying with one person’
(6.37) Laura – ‘i have ghosts haunting me’
(6.38) Laura – ‘possessing tim. Have try to kill me’
(6.40) Nick – ‘Well u are in a whole Different Dilemma then me but once I do what I must I’ll have to disappear from a place on Earth possibly for the rest of My Life and she’ll have to come with me and leave all of her Past behind her’
(6.41) Laura – ‘we wer the same way when i joined the coven’
(6.42) Nick – ‘Well the one I am with is aware of that stuff too but I can’t say anymore so. I’m shutting up about what me and her must do in the future.’
(6.43) Laura – ‘i have to do things i hate. terrible things that i hate just to keep him’
(6.43) Nick – ‘hmm I would be surprised if u were in the exact same spot as me’
(6.44) Laura – ‘u wud be surpised’
(6.45) Laura – ‘Nick i have to have sex with tim in ways i hate in order to keep him. I make deals with the devil and have to do as he says other wise i loose’
(6.47) Nick – ‘Wow and just think if we would of been together u wouldn’t of went down that path. The one I am with is aware of those things however I will have to do the unthinkable just to keep me and her Safe and I must say please never come around me it’s that I Worry for the sake of him not you I wouldn’t ever hurt u even to this day but what he sounds like he is putting u through it makes me sad even tho it dos i can’t open up about My Situation even if I wanted to … in truth I do but I can’t as u know me being a Taurus the most Loyal Sign in the Zodiac if I say anything I would betray myself as much as I would betray her and I can’t do that to her. But I’ll let u know I hope u stay safe even if u have to do things that are BDSM related.’
It’s as if Nick’s simultaneously trying to keep Gypsy’s secret and desperately wanting someone to drag it out of him.
But Laura’s too busy bargaining with the devil (literally, in her version) to notice.
In hindsight, these lines read less like vague drama and more like the soundtrack to a very real countdown.
Nick frames everything through Gypsy – “the one I am with” – and the looming act is cast not as his choice, but as a grim, unavoidable requirement of keeping her.
That’s not just loyalty; that’s a man so deep in someone else’s narrative that the ending feels prewritten.
Seven weeks later, Dee Dee was dead.
(And Laura? She was probably still arguing with the chaos dragon).
On March 29th, 2015, during a Skype chat, Nick let something slip: “Gypsy went on a mother’s type group on Facebook and talked about our story on what we planned on doing … we are planning on having a Baby next year as a way to stay together so her mum has no choice but to let us be together.”
This was Nick’s big plan, or at least the plan Gypsy had let him believe in.
The ‘baby’ wasn’t just a child in his mind; it was the master key to a locked life.
But then he saw comments from strangers telling Gypsy she could ‘find someone better,’ and instead of defending him, she just typed, “Wow. Ok I’m a wait.”
Poor Nick.
Gypsy didn’t see him as a future father. She saw him as a tool to get what she wanted, and fatherhood wasn’t it.
Fast forward to May 2015, not long after their sexual encounter in the men’s disabled toilet, evidence suggests Gypsy tells Nick she’s pregnant.
(Text message to Gypsy from Nick: May 30th 2015 “So you want me to get you pregnant again?”)
Gypsy even ups the emotional ante: it’s a girl.
And Nick, whose dream was to have a daughter, swallows the whole thing without a flicker of suspicion.
No wondering how she knew the sex so soon.
No wondering how she could be pregnant when he wore a condom, and didn’t actually finish the job.
No wondering if this baby was even his.
The condom, by the way, wasn’t even Nick’s idea. It came after his mother, Stephanie, heard about a Facebook post where Gypsy announced they were ‘trying for a baby.’ Mortified, Stephanie had a talk with him, and Nick promised they’d hold off.
Gypsy, however, just found another angle.
Years later, from prison, Gypsy would allege to another inmate that Nick’s desire for a daughter was sexual, a claim directly contradicted by newly released 2025 court documents, which show it was Gypsy who told Nick their hypothetical daughter “had to lose her virginity to Nicholas.”
And just as suddenly as she ‘became pregnant,’ Gypsy had a miscarriage.
Her explanation? Dee Dee forced her to have her feeding tube changed, and that caused the loss of the baby.
Except …
Nick couldn’t have fathered the child.
The child didn’t exist.
Gypsy’s medical records show no miscarriage.
Those same records show no feeding tube change in April or May 2015.
In Nick’s 2018 trial, when asked, “Did you do anything to prepare for having children with Nick?” Gypsy cheerfully replied, “Yes. I stole baby clothes and things for a child.” And when asked if she was worried about her mother catching her? “She would have been in a different aisle or a different section of the store.”
It was the same casual boldness she’d shown in 2012, when she stole craft supplies from Hobby Lobby.
Dee Dee’s house might have been piled high like a hoarder’s dream, but there was one thing sitting in plain view: A World of Baby Names. (Final two images on the right).
Not exactly the light reading of a 48-year-old mother of one.
Gypsy wasn’t hiding these things.
She was daring Dee Dee to see them.
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On 2nd October 2024, NPG: Cornerstone Nation, Nicholas Godejohn’s support group, dropped a never-before-seen video they claim Gypsy sent to Nick after their cinema date. In it, she lays out a follow-up ‘get pregnant’ plan. It gives context to Nick’s 30th May 2015 text to her: “So you want me to get you pregnant again?”
In the video, Gypsy tells Nick “where we should do this,” offering two romantic venues:
The “greenhouse” – actually a large green shed behind her house.
A neighbour’s yard.
Both, she assures him, would give them privacy to “do what we need to do,” and both were far enough from her house that Dee Dee wouldn’t find them if she came looking.
NPG: Cornerstone Nation allege this encounter was scheduled for the night of 9th June 2015: “That would be good, and nice and dark”, or the early hours of 10th June.
That’s right: another plan was apparently on the table for the night Dee Dee died, a plan to get Gypsy pregnant.
In the video, Gypsy notes Dee Dee’s absence from the home because her car isn’t in the driveway.
Which is odd.
Gypsy’s story has always been that Dee Dee smothered her, monitored her, and never left her alone.
The blueprint was simple: Nick would travel down, impregnate Gypsy in either the rusted old shed or amidst the “foliage” of the neighbour’s yard, and then head home.
The video has no date stamp. There’s speculation Gypsy was walking when she filmed it, supporting neighbour reports of seeing Gypsy moving freely in the area, but more likely she was in her motorised wheelchair. The faint whir of the motor is audible as she rides up the ramp to the house.
For some reason the plan was never carried out.
Instead, Dee Dee’s murder was.
(Extracts below) In December 2024, Gypsy finally admitted to the pregnancy-in-the-shed plan in her dreadful ‘memoir’. We have little doubt this ‘confession’ was damage control after the video surfaced, the sort of reluctant honesty that only arrives when the evidence is already public. Even then, she couldn’t quite own it. Instead, she claims the idea was the product of a ‘brainstorming’ session with Nick, as if she were an unwilling co-architect in her own scheme. In the same book, she insists Dee Dee never allowed her to use her motorised wheelchair. Curious, then, that it was conveniently fully charged and operational for the video tour of her chosen love nests. (Source: My Time To Stand … and to casually call murdering my mother a “mistake.”)
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Newly released court documents (2025) show that May 22nd, 2015 – the day Gypsy sent Nick her instructional ‘How to Murder Dee Dee’ video – was busier than she’s ever admitted.
That same day, Gypsy also took five photographs of the inside of Dee Dee’s bedroom, including shots of Dee Dee asleep. (Source: Into The Weeds Podcast).
In 2018, Gypsy told ABC News she was ‘too afraid’ to reach out to anyone for help: “I beat myself up about that all the time, but I have to understand my mind frame back then. I was always so afraid of her.”
Apparently not so afraid that she couldn’t tiptoe in, camera in hand, while Dee Dee slept.
FOIA documents obtained by Hello Starlight also reveal that on that same day, Gypsy sent Nick photos of herself holding the very knife she had stolen, the one used to kill Dee Dee.
She also told him she was “pretty much packed, clothes, personal information, papers, trinkets. Yep, I’m all ready.”
Nick’s murder conviction hinged partly on his own admission that, just before entering Dee Dee’s bedroom, he paused for at least a minute to think about whether he really wanted to go through with it, a sign of premeditation.
Gypsy, however, was already packed two and a half weeks earlier.
If that’s not premeditation, what is?
On 2nd June 2015, ‘packed and ready to leave’ Gypsy uploaded a set of photos to her secret Emma Rose Facebook profile titled, ‘My Anastasia Cosplay pics.’
Anastasia, of course, being the lead character in Fifty Shades of Grey, hardly the sort of bedtime reading Dee Dee would have encouraged.
So, where did Gypsy get her copy?
Another five-finger-discount during a shopping trip with Dee Dee?
Even more curious, the Anastasia photo set was ‘liked’ by Dee Gyp Blancharde, the Facebook account Gypsy ‘shared’ with Dee Dee. (Source for information and top image on the right: Becca Scoops).
That either means Dee Dee was perfectly fine with her daughter’s erotic roleplay (unlikely), or Gypsy had complete control over their joint social media (much more likely).
Court documents released in 2025 add another layer: that same day, just over a week before Dee Dee’s murder, Nick threatened suicide.
His defence later claimed that Gypsy herself had been making suicide threats since 2013, and that Nick’s own threat simply mimicked a behaviour he’d learned from her.
Two days later, on 5th June, the ‘VIP Child’ was photographed at the Dickerson Zoo in Springfield, ironically posing outside the reptile house.
Dee Dee, diabetic and obese, was probably in no mood to trek around a zoo, but what the precious one wanted, the precious one got.
After all, keeping up appearances mattered, even if the afternoon doubled as a farewell tour in Gypsy’s private calendar.
Pictures taken at the zoo (seen below) show a smiling Gypsy, basking in the sunshine and attention, despite knowing her mother had only days left to live.
That same evening, while Dee Dee likely dozed from exhaustion, Gypsy was messaging Nick about what colour restraints to pack for their post-murder reunion:
9:50pm Gypsy: Darling what color restraints do u want? Black or pink?
9:52pm Nick: Dear we’re collecting em. But get Black Sweetie <3
9:56pm Gypsy: Ok Darling.
Conflicting feelings?
Sure.
Black or pink.
And somewhere between the zoo and home, a dozen Krispy Kreme doughnuts were purchased at 3:46pm, according to a crime scene receipt.
Adding one final irony: a calendar in Dee Dee’s bedroom shows an upcoming trip planned for Jurassic World on 12th June 2015, two days after she was murdered.
That poor, isolated ‘child’ with no freedom to have fun.
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A FOIA document shared by Into The Weeds Podcast on 26th June 2025 reveals that Dee Dee did indeed file a police report for a burglary at her home, allegedly occurring on the evening of 17th April 2015, while she was out at Wal-Mart.
According to Dee Dee, $56 vanished along with roughly 90 pills of Hydrocodone/Acetaminophen 5-325 TB and about 75 pills of Alprazolam .5 MG.
In the report, Dee Dee claimed she had “no idea” who could have done it.
We have an idea.
And we suspect Dee Dee had the same one.
Police report seen below courtesy of Into The Weeds Podcast