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We wrestled with whether to show images of Dee Dee’s body. They’re disturbing, and they should be. But without them, it’s far too easy for the sheer brutality of what happened to be diluted by Gypsy’s ever-changing stories and self-serving rewrites. These are not here for shock value. They’re here because the truth matters, and in this case, the truth is written in Dee Dee’s wounds. Sanitising what happened only helps the person still spinning the narrative.
Dee Dee deserves for people to see the reality of her murder, not the watered-down version Gypsy has been selling for years.
WARNING The content on this page contains some graphic images and descriptions of extreme violence which some adults may find distressing. This material is not suitable for children and reader discretion is strongly advised.
(All crime scene photos used throughout the website courtesy of The Good Wives’ Network and Into The Weeds Podcast).
In 2017, Dr. Phil asked Gypsy, “Tell me in your own words what happened that night?”
She answered: “My mother and I had got into an argument two days before (the murder), and it was about my feeding tube. Like, ‘I no longer need this feeding tube, can we please have it removed?’ And she said, ‘No’.” (Mother Knows Best, 2017).
On Monday, June 8th, 2015 – two days before Dee Dee’s murder – Gypsy was messaging Nicholas Godejohn:
3:04 p.m. – Darling I’m going to go to the ER to get my tube changed ll b off my phone for a few hours
9:26 p.m. – Darling I’m home
9:27 p.m. – It was a 6 hour wait in the er
9:30 p.m. – At least it’s done so wer good for a yr
9:30 p.m. – It can be done even by me But I won’t unless I have to
That is not the language of someone desperate to be rid of a feeding tube.
It is the language of someone who just ticked a yearly chore off the list and moved on.
Gypsy continued her story to Dr. Phil: “And I had an upcoming surgery and I didn’t want to have it… I’ve had it 20 times before. Why do we have to have it again?”
According to her, Dee Dee told her there was nothing she could do because “the doctor wants it.”
The problem is, there is no record of any scheduled surgery in 2015.
No pre-op assessments.
No upcoming procedures.
Nothing.
In her ‘memoir’, Gypsy – never one to miss an opportunity for melodrama – referred to the so-called upcoming, surgery to address her squeaky voice, as “my mother tried to cut my throat.”
Reality: on April 11th, 2009, Gypsy had a five-minute laryngoscopy under mild anaesthetic for a mild vocal cord weakness.
That’s it.
One procedure.
Not 20.
And certainly not ‘upcoming’ in June 2015.
The morning Nick was due to board his Greyhound bus to Springfield – a journey he believed was to save Gypsy from immediate danger – she messaged him:
4:11 a.m. – I was made to sleep on the front porch with BUGS
4:12 a.m. – I peed in the bushes … It’s been rough
Dee Dee Blanchard, a woman with a mowed lawn and a fierce grip on appearances, supposedly just rolled her adult daughter onto the front porch for the neighborhood to gawk at?
For context: just over a week earlier, Gypsy had told Nick in a casual chat, “btw I’m afraid of bugs just so you know.” Nick reassured her. She replied, “I’m just letting u know my phobia it’s bugs and spiders.”
Nick then admitted his own fear: “your freak outs.”
Knowing what we do now, Gypsy’s last-minute “BUGS” message reads like strategy, a calculated push to quash any doubt in Nick’s mind and increase the urgency of her so-called “rescue.”
It worked.
A supplementary police report following Nick’s interview notes: “Gypsy had been kicked out of her mother’s home and he was worried sick about her, because she was wandering the streets.” Nick told detectives that “homeless” Gypsy must have found a free Wi-Fi spot, because she was still replying to him.
No credible evidence supports the eviction claim.
But if Dee Dee had finally run out of patience with the volatile, deceitful 23-year-old in her care, it would be hard to blame her.
And here’s the part Gypsy left out of her damsel-in-distress routine:
She had access to cash.
She had a free bus pass to the Greyhound station.
She had two fully functioning legs.
She could have left.
She could have asked for help.
Instead, she stayed.
Allegedly peeing In the bushes.
Waiting for the man she had spent months manipulating – a man with clear cognitive impairments, who believed he was protecting the woman he loved – to arrive and kill her mother.
(Excerpt below) In 2024, Gypsy claims the decision to murder Dee Dee was made in May 2015, allegedly because Dee Dee was about to force her into surgery on her larynx to “fix” her squeaky voice. Even the most ardent Gypsy apologists, who surely know she’s always claimed the murder plot began after her March 2015 cinema outing with Nicholas Godejohn (which is itself untrue), are going to have trouble swallowing this latest rewrite.Let’s be clear: this isn’t just a faulty memory. It’s a wholesale rebranding of the origin story, served up nearly a decade later.
As if that weren’t enough, Gypsy’s book also includes a ‘letter’ she allegedly wrote to Dee Dee in 2018 from prison – lifted straight from her cloying, self-mythologizing volume ‘Conversations on the Eve of Freedom’ (or, as the rest of us might call it, Melissa Moore Sniffing Around for a Paycheck).
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On Monday, June 8th, 2015, Nicholas Godejohn left his home in Big Bend, Wisconsin, to catch a Greyhound bus to Springfield. His stepfather, Charles Goldhammer, later said Nick hadn’t told them about his trip in advance. Instead, he’d left a note on his bed saying he was going to ‘collect Gypsy.’
News of Gypsy’s imminent ‘rescue’ came as a complete surprise to Nick’s mother and stepfather.
Nick’s bus departed Wisconsin around 3:30 p.m. While he waited to board, Gypsy sent him a message:
1:45 p.m. – Making up a song %on the road to Destiny, la la la %
The trip wasn’t funded by Nick’s savings – there weren’t any. As usual, Gypsy had stolen money from Dee Dee and mailed it to him to pay for his bus fare and hotel stay.
Nick purchased his return ticket in advance and kept the rest for expenses.
Dee Dee, unknowingly, had just financed her own murder.
In Mommy Dead and Dearest (2017), Gypsy later claimed, “I managed to scrape up enough money to pay for him a ticket.”
No, she did what she always did when she needed money: she took it from the very woman she was plotting to have killed.
Nick and Gypsy messaged almost constantly during his trip.
He arrived in Springfield on Tuesday, June 9th at 5:36 a.m. That evening, he got a Facebook message from a friend he called ‘Sis.’ She asked how he was; Nick said he was okay and ‘on his way to get Gypsy.’
Nick jumped between chatting with Sis and messaging Gypsy, sometimes speaking to Gypsy in the third person as ‘Victor’ while speaking to Sis as himself.
8:46 p.m. – Sis: are you home right now?
Before answering, Nick asked Gypsy if Dee Dee’s bedroom floor squeaked (“Victor wants to know”). She replied that the room was carpeted – then added, 8:51 p.m. – my private parts are shaved.
8:52 p.m. – Nick (as Victor) said he was excited about what he was going to do – murder Dee Dee – and asked if she had shaved elsewhere as well.
8:53 p.m. – Nick told Sis things weren’t ‘cool’ with Dee Dee, claiming mother and daughter argued daily. He said Gypsy was packing.
Sis asked how Gypsy planned to leave the house. She appeared to believe Gypsy was ‘running away’ with Nick, not that a murder was imminent.
8:54 p.m. – Gypsy told Nick she’d shave her legs after he arrived.
8:55 p.m. – Nick told Gypsy not to be afraid when she heard ‘Victor’ speak – his voice sounded evil.
8:56 p.m. – Nick told Sis that Gypsy would either walk or sneak out.
Gypsy told Nick she was going to get something to eat.
Nick told Sis he was prepared to “get involved” if the plan went wrong.
The conversation with Sis fizzled, and Nick and Gypsy moved back into their own private planning, a mixture of murder logistics and sexual roleplay involving their alter egos, ‘Victor’ and ‘Ruby.’
Part of the plan was for ‘Victor’ to rape ‘Ruby’ after Dee Dee’s death.
Gypsy would later recast this as an actual rape – but at the time, her messages show no fear or reluctance.
She was preparing for her role.
Twelve minutes before Nick called a taxi to Dee Dee’s house, Gypsy messaged him:
1:29 a.m. – Will he (Victor) allow me to wet his .. your penis before he takes me hun? I don’t know if he’s gonna do anal or vag I was hoping to do anal.
Dr. Phil later confronted Gypsy about the messages: “At any point … did you think, ‘this is beyond strange’? You’re talking to a guy who’s talking about himself in the third person, saying he’s a 500-year-old vampire, and he’s glad your mother’s a light sleeper so she’ll be awake when he hacks her to death.”
Gypsy’s response: “To be honest I didn’t even think it was real … I became numb to the idea like, ‘Oh okay, we’re just having another conversation about it.’” (Mother Knows Best, 2017).
Except … she wasn’t ‘just having a conversation.’
On May 29th, 2015 at 9:44 p.m., Gypsy messaged Nick: “Darling can u please meet me online we need to talk about our plan.”
That’s not idle chatter, that’s initiating planning.
Shaving her genitals while her chosen killer rode a Greyhound toward her, ticket paid for with stolen money?
That’s not ‘numb’, that’s preparation.
And Googling “How to remove the smell of a dead body” on June 7th, 2015?
That’s not a step toward planning.
That’s standing at the edge of the cliff, ready to push.
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But before we go forward, we need to briefly rewind.
Saturday, June 6th, 2015 – just four days before Dee Dee’s murder.
At 2:57 pm, Gypsy sent Nick this little gem: “Hunny I was wondering, say I wanted to have sex with a guy before leaving town… could I?” Just a casual, “Hey, while you’re on your way to kill my mother, mind if I squeeze in a quick fling?”
She followed with a flurry:
2:58 pm — “It’s just curious question lol” (Because adding “lol” makes it cute, apparently.)
3:06 pm — “Ok so I know you’re territorial but I’m being tempted… sexually”
3:09 pm — “Darling can we talk online please”
3:56 pm — “I’m guessing you’re napping”
4:46 pm — “I thought u wasn’t getting my texts hun”
4:49 pm — Nick, finally: “I was I didn’t hear them tho Dear since my phone was on Vibrate.”
By 5:47 pm, Gypsy drops this into Nick’s lap: “He agreed to meet up, we are gonna get coffee at this cupcake place Thursday so that will close that.”
Translation: ‘Booked and confirmed, sweetheart. Don’t worry, it’s just the day after my mother is dead.’
5:48 pm — “It’s a public place so all good hun.”
Nick, still operating in his altered, manipulated reality: “Dear I told I’ll be around in the area of it to make sure he don’t do anything and you have to accept that.”
6:00 pm — “Ok Darling.”
6:03 pm — “What time does our bus leave Thursday hun?”
6:04 pm — Nick: “6.13 pm Dear.”
For context, Gypsy hadn’t texted Nick since 9:56 pm the night before. Then, after he responds at 4:49 pm, there’s an hour-long gap before she comes back announcing her date-with-benefits plan, conveniently scheduled for the day after Dee Dee’s murder.
It’s fair to suggest she and ‘cupcake man’ had been chatting up a storm that day.
A 2025 FOIA-obtained court record (seen below) strongly suggests the man was none other than Dan Glidewell (Source: Into The Weeds Podcast).
Why was Nick so oddly fine with this?
His only concern was ‘making sure she was safe,’ not the small matter that this was another man she planned to sleep with right after her mother’s killing. And And where exactly were they planning this tryst?
Back at the hotel while Nick sat in the lobby?
Dan claims he turned Gypsy down.
Did he though?
Nick’s seat on the Greyhound back to Wisconsin was booked in advance.
Gypsy’s wasn’t.
Why?
Any rational escape plan following a murder would start with securing your means of flight, unless, of course, ‘rational’ isn’t really part of the equation.
In her alter ego ‘Ruby’ video, Gypsy told Nick she was “very good at planning things.”
Apparently, booking her own bus ticket wasn’t one of those things.
So why wasn’t her escape ticket secured?
When Gypsy asked Nick, “What time does our bus go back?”, she was referring to a bus she didn’t even have a seat on.
This timing, coupled with her earlier arrangement to meet Dan, makes for an interesting overlap.
Was Gypsy entertaining the idea of a double-cross?
t’s not that implausible: Nick kills Dee Dee. Gypsy vanishes with Dan, perhaps to Arkansas. Nick is left holding the bag, assumed to have killed Dee Dee and the missing Gypsy. In that scenario, Gypsy is finally free from Dee Dee’s control, flush with her mother’s savings, and confident that Nick, whose misguided motive was to “rescue” her, would never betray her.
Dee Dee’s gone.
Gypsy’s safe.
Nick takes the fall.
That’s not what happened, of course, but as the saying goes, “The best laid plans of mice and men often go awry.”
Once Nick arrived in Springfield, there was another flurry of texts.
Nick mentioned being low on funds and unsure he could cover another night at the hotel.
‘Low on funds’ meant he still had just under $200, more than enough for another night (the first night cost $140 including a $50 deposit) and the $10 taxi to Dee Dee’s house.
Instead of simply reassuring him, Gypsy used the opportunity to advance the murder timeline:
(6:55 am) “Unless you wanna do it tonight like the late part of the night”
(6:55 am) “?”
(6:56 am) “It would have to b”
(6:57 am) “It’s the only way to get u money and everything go like we planned”
By 7:00 am, she’d decided: “Tonight hun.”
Three minutes later: “I will text you we are doing this tonight hun it won’t be until later like in the AM… Times so get your rest Darling.”
As with the cupcake-date texts, a tentative ‘could I?’ rapidly hardened into a definitive ‘we are doing this tonight.’
So what was the rush?
Maybe Gypsy was simply anxious to ‘get it over with’, though her tone hours later didn’t exactly radiate fear or urgency: (7:31 am) “The shits gonna go down tonight Ruby said.”
Or maybe the timeline shifted for someone else’s convenience.
By 5:36 am on Tuesday, June 9th, Nick was in Springfield: “I’m in SPRINGFIELD BABY! <3 😀 <3”.
Gypsy’s reply at 6:19 am – “Yay!!!!!!!!!!” – was brimming with enthusiasm.
Dee Dee had less than 24 hours to live.
Nick and Gypsy still had time to change their minds.
Instead, Gypsy messaged Nick from the hotel, reinforcing his role as her ‘hero’ and her ‘everything’:
“For motivation sake bring your A game hun this is life with me on the line” (5:36 am)
“I just wanna say this thank u .. your my hero <3 and I will NEVER leave u I’m staying with u for eternity” (1:12 am)
“Your the most important person to me Sweetie your like me .. fight for what u want And need” (1:17 am)
“No matter what I’m yours forevermore” (1:41 pm)
“I LOVE ADORE AND WORSHIP U MY EVERYTHING” (1:41 pm)
For someone supposedly terrified for her life, she seemed remarkably adept at keeping her co-conspirator emotionally locked in.
WARNING The content on this page contains some graphic images and descriptions of extreme violence which some adults may find distressing. This material is not suitable for children and reader discretion is strongly advised.
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On Monday, June 8th, 2015, at 3:04 p.m., Gypsy texted Nick that she was heading to the ER to have her ‘infected feeding tube’ replaced.
Later, at 9:27 p.m., she reported they had spent six hours there.
Six hours?
One might imagine that a wheelchair-bound patient with a chromosome disorder would be triaged quickly in an emergency department, unless, of course, her emergency wasn’t quite as urgent as presented.
Some speculate Dee Dee was killed that evening after the hospital visit, before Nick even arrived at her home.
We’re not boarding that train, though it’s worth noting the calendar in Dee Dee’s home crossed out only the first seven days of June, fueling theories she died on the 7th.
The more reliable evidence, however, shows Dee Dee and Gypsy on video at the ER on the 8th.
Tuesday, June 9th, Dee Dee’s last day alive – according to Gypsy’s ever-shifting account – consisted of a grocery store run and returning home.
Crime scene photos show a receipt timestamped 6:08 p.m. from the local dollar store for frozen entrees and a pair of bright serving trays.
Neighbors later recalled seeing Dee Dee around 6 p.m., though some misplaced that memory to Wednesday.
Gypsy’s 2024 ‘memoir’ (‘My Time to Stand’ and mislead you into believing I was a victim) claims Dee Dee, a vegetarian, often ate sweet peas over rice, which may well have been her last meal; a bowl fitting that description sits in the sink in the crime scene photos.
Gypsy also claims they painted each other’s nails that night.
At 9:08 p.m., she told Nick she was painting her nails, though failed to mention Dee Dee’s.
Both appear freshly painted pink in crime photos, with a bottle of polish visible on Dee Dee’s bedside table.
When Nick asked about red polish, Gypsy claimed she had none, despite an unopened pack containing it being in plain sight.
Gypsy adds they had recently argued, made up, and she promised to be a ‘good girl.’
Dee Dee reportedly told her she felt ‘more relaxed’ and then, chillingly, ‘Don’t hurt me.’
The phrase ‘good girl’ – one Gypsy used often – was part of Gypsy’s well-honed childlike persona, and was grotesquely out of place for a grown woman plotting her mother’s death.
During a review of FOIA files on Into The Weeds Podcast (April 2025), an observant viewer (@2Misha2-b6u,) noted the bathroom medicine cabinet bore only a latch, with a loose hasp and screws lying nearby, as if a lock was about to be installed.
A receipt and padlock sat on a nearby table.
Dee Dee had reported a burglary in April 2015, saying $1,000 and prescriptions were stolen, and again on June 5th she told an acquaintance she had been robbed of savings for Gypsy’s camp.
Dee Dee’s meticulous tracking of cash hints she suspected the thief wasn’t breaking in from outside.
The threat was already under her roof.
At 1:08 a.m., Gypsy texted Nick: “It’s getting close to time she took her sleep aid pill.”
At 1:09, she warned, “Once you’re inside the house we stay silent … until I open the bathroom door.”
Odd, then, that in her 2024 memoir she claims to have answered the door to Nick in her noisy electric wheelchair to avoid waking Dee Dee, the same Dee Dee she’d just said was asleep from a sleep aid she hadn’t taken.
The autopsy confirmed Dee Dee had no such medication in her system.
Gypsy lied.
Again.
At 1:36 a.m., Gypsy texted Nick: “It’s go time are u ready?”
Dr. Marc Feldman, who (in)famously diagnosed Gypsy with Munchausen by proxy victimhood via the internet, claimed she might have struggled to know if death was “real”, a baffling assertion given she’d orchestrated the stabbing.
In a 2018 prison interview, Gypsy said she was ‘terrified’ and had taken ‘medication not prescribed to me’ to calm down.
At 1:16 a.m., she asked Nick if he’d need anxiety meds after the event.
Minutes later she texted about back pain and “exercising her legs”, the same fully functional legs she’d long insisted didn’t work. She later claimed she was high on Xanax at the time.
Anxiety disorder?
Out of the 100 doctors she claims to have seen, not a single one noted signs of it.
Whatever, but Xanax or no Xanax, nothing stopped her from placing a knife in Nick’s hands the moment he walked through Dee Dee’s door.
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On 9th June 2024, Gypsy proudly uploaded a photo to social media of herself and Ken Urker holding a sonogram of their unborn daughter, Aurora. A year later, on 9th June 2025, she posted the same sonogram, attaching a reflection on the date’s significance:
“One year ago, we saw Aurora for the first time… But today also marks 10 years since the death of my mother…”
She then described Dee Dee, the actual victim, as “a woman not known for love, but for the abuse she inflicted on me.”
A callous framing, especially given the reality of what happened and who truly suffered.
The problem?
Phone records, text messages, and a cab driver’s log show beyond any doubt that Nicholas Godejohn didn’t arrive at Dee Dee’s home until after 2 a.m. on 10th June 2015. Which raises a simple question: If Dee Dee was killed after 2 a.m. on the 10th, how exactly is 9th June the anniversary of her death?
Social media followers quickly spotted the inconsistency.
One asked, “Didn’t Nick get there on the 10th?” Gypsy’s reply was as slippery as ever:
“He was in Springfield on the evening of the 9th and it happened overnight into the early morning of the 10th.”
For those convinced Gypsy herself killed Dee Dee before Nick’s arrival, this kind of vague, elastic storytelling was a gift.
It seems someone in Gypsy’s circle had to point out the obvious -“Gypsy, the version you’ve been selling for a decade is that your mother died on June 10th.”
Within hours, the post was edited to read: “One year ago, we saw Aurora for the first time… But today, June 10th, also marks 10 years since the death of my mother…”
A slip of the tongue?
Or a Freudian crack in the façade?
Hard to say.
But imagine playing a central role in your own mother’s murder, whether by hand or by orchestration, and not remembering the exact date.
Love her or loathe her, Dee Dee deserved far better than to have her final moments misremembered by the daughter who helped end her life.
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According to the police report, in the early hours of Wednesday 10th June 2015, a yellow cab picked Nicholas Godejohn up from his motel at precisely 1:57 a.m., dropping him at Dee Dee’s home at 2:06 a.m.
Just before he left, at 1:14 a.m., Gypsy sent him one last helpful pointer: “My house has the ramp and the front porch ramp is painted white.”
You know, just to make sure the arrow hit dead center.
In 2019, Nick described that, on arriving at Dee Dee’s house, he heard two voices in his head- one an ‘angel,’ the other a ‘devil.’
The angel’s advice was clear: “Take her (Gypsy) and run.” Nick admits, “I wish I would have listened… that would have been the right thing to do.”
It would have been the right thing to do years earlier.
But then came the devil: “This bitch (Dee Dee) is dead.”
Nick also added, with sincerity, “No child should ever have to get raised that way. My heart goes out to her (Gypsy) for that.”
Our hearts go out to Nick – for believing it.
In a separate 2019 prison interview, Nick reflected: “Unfortunately, I’d listened to my darker side because I wanted to be with her, and I remember what she said … She never wanted to run away, so I couldn’t get that to work.”
When Nick arrived, Gypsy – contrary to their earlier plan – opened the front door herself and handed him blue latex gloves before giving him the weapon.
In their messages the day before, she had told him the “skweeky” screen door would be left ajar with the gloves waiting outside.
By the early hours of the 10th, she was messaging again: “btw the gloves are blue.”
Nick recalls she insisted he put them on before either door opened.
The more likely reason?
Gypsy wasn’t about to risk waking Dee Dee and seeing the plan fall apart.
On 9th June, at 8:37 p.m., Gypsy had texted: “Ill hand him (Victor) the knife and duck tape inside Darling. It’s pre cut and ready.”
The ‘Minnie Mouse’ duct tape originally planned for Dee Dee’s ‘muffling’ was abandoned, though a roll of duct tape was later seen in crime scene photos – looking completely out of place – in Dee Dee’s bedside drawer.
The weapon Gypsy passed to Nick was a KVD curved knife with a six-inch blade – one side serrated, the other smooth – stolen, by Gypsy, from Walmart’s fishing aisle.
Whether Gypsy removed the sheath before handing it over is unknown, but let’s be honest: probably.
At Nick’s 2018 trial, the cab driver testified she saw him head toward the rear of the house, not the front door. In his police interview, Nick claimed he entered through the front.
Was he meeting someone before going inside, or just disoriented in the dark, arriving at a house he’d never visited before? Whatever the case, by then, the wheels were already in motion.
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Nick told police in 2015 that when he stepped inside Dee Dee’s house, “I couldn’t believe how much of a pigsty it was.”
Pigsty may have been putting it mildly, though not for the reason Nick likely imagined.
Dee Dee, struggling with her mobility and deteriorating health, had long since stopped prioritizing housework.
What’s harder to excuse is the presence of a healthy 23-year-old daughter in the same home who simply chose not to bother.
Yet, this wasn’t always the case.
A post dated June 18th, 2015 on Web Sleuths describes a prior visit to the Blanchard home: “The home was immaculate… there wasn’t anything out of place aside from a few dishes in the sink.”
The writer noted that this had been the norm on multiple visits.
Something had changed, either Dee Dee’s health had finally forced her to surrender to the mess, or she had been made to give up by circumstance.
And nothing, not illness nor circumstance, had prevented Gypsy from picking up a mop.
Gypsy later recalled, “He (Nick) came in and he was wearing a hoodie and dark clothing, and a scary t-shirt that had evil clowns on it.”
She had known since the night before that her ‘Prince Charming’ costume purchase wasn’t going to be worn; Nick had told her he’d chosen all black “because my evil side picked the outfit.”
Gypsy told one version of events in 2018: “The plan was that he would put on the gloves and come in, and all I just had to do was go in the bathroom and keep quiet.”
That’s not the plan she and Nick actually discussed.
The night before the murder, she had texted him to say she’d shaved her “private parts” – a detail Nick followed up on by asking her to also shave her legs.
Her reply: “I will do my legs as soon as he knocks.”
Later that night she warned him, “… if it doesn’t go right run out of the house as fast as you can hun.” Nick’s response: “Baby there is no other option … he is going to finish her no matter what.”
Gypsy’s reply: “Ok Darling he is brave I respect and admire that.”
So much for hiding in the bathroom solely for safety, apparently, it was also an opportune time for personal grooming.
Two birds.
One stone.
Gypsy told Dr. Phil that after handing Nick the knife, he barked, “Get your ass in the bathroom now!”
Nick’s recollection is similar: “Get in the bathroom… I just wanted this over with.”
In Nick’s mind, there was no turning back.
He says he paused for a minute, thinking about whether he should go through with it, before deciding he couldn’t break his word to Gypsy.
For him, keeping that promise was a matter of love and loyalty, tragically misplaced, but genuine in his mind.
Years later, Gypsy told Dr. Phil she wished Nick had simply offered to help her get out of her situation “by contacting the police.”
She went further, claiming Nick “exploited” her – a bitterly ironic charge from the person who had spent years weaving a narrative to bind him to her, only to aim him like a weapon at her mother.
Gypsy has offered inconsistent accounts of her time in the bathroom: fetal position, kneeling with hands over ears, both meant to evoke helplessness.
But with just over an hour of life left to Dee Dee, Gypsy texted Nick, “And how long must I hold my ears hun?” His reply: “5 at the most.”
The bathroom, opposite Dee Dee’s bedroom and separated only by a narrow hallway, placed her within 30 feet of her mother’s final moments.
The bedroom door had been removed long before, ensuring Gypsy would hear every cry, every plea.
Whether she was cowering or shaving, the sound would have reached her.
And she did nothing.
In her 2024 memoir – the literary equivalent of a late-night infomercial for self-pity – Gypsy claims, with a straight face, that she answered the door to Nick in her electric wheelchair. As if that weren’t implausible enough, she also insists in the very same book that Dee Dee never allowed her to use her electric wheelchair. Oh, and she knocked back 3 more Vicodin. Had she run out of Xanax?
The mental gymnastics required to believe both statements simultaneously could qualify for the Olympics.
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According to Nick’s 2015 police statement, Dee Dee was asleep on her stomach when he entered her bedroom, a position he described as allowing “easy access to her body.”
She was wearing a white nightie, loosely covered by blankets, with no undergarments, something Nick claims he didn’t realise until after killing her.
We don’t know if the small hallway into Dee Dee’s bedroom was lit, but court records show her Doctor Who LED lights across the headboard were possibly on, as was a light in her closet.
Earlier that morning, Gypsy had texted Nick, “She sleeps on her tummy like I said but light sleeper hun.”
Nick says he climbed onto Dee Dee’s back and stabbed her in a random spot.
That first blow, combined with the weight on top of her, would have shocked her awake, confusion, pain, and terror flooding in all at once.
In his interview, Nick recalled Dee Dee saying, “Help,” then, “Who are you?”
She struggled but, straddled as she was, couldn’t fend him off.
Nick is left-handed and says he used only one hand on the knife.
Gypsy heard the scream.
In 2015 she called it a “startled” scream.
In 2017, she remembered Dee Dee waking up “startled” and making noises she “couldn’t make out.
In 2018, she said she covered her ears, thought, I want this to stop now, but was “too afraid to go and help.”
Or perhaps too busy shaving her short, stumpy legs.
That same year she added, “She sounded startled, like ‘Who’s there?’”
In 2019, she told yet another version: Dee Dee screamed once, then again, and asked who was in the bedroom.
To Dr. Phil, Gypsy said Dee Dee’s scream “broke my heart” because “there was no going back.”
She claimed part of her wanted to save her mother because “there were good parts to her,” but another part wanted it over so she could “be free.”
Freedom, of course, could have been achieved by simply leaving with Nick when he arrived, but instead she handed him a stolen knife.
If Dee Dee had tried to evict Gypsy days earlier, perhaps she was the one seeking freedom.
In her interview, Gypsy said she knew what Nick was doing but was “too afraid” to intervene.
She told Dr. Phil that Nick warned her ‘Victor’ might hurt her too, another lie, as Nick told police he would “never lay a hand on her.”
Nick told police it was his “evil side” speaking during the attack, saying things like “You’re dead to me,” “Stop resisting me, you know you’re dead,” and “Never get between me and Ruby.”
Gypsy remembered him saying, “You won’t keep us apart. You’ll be dead before that happens.”
Both suggest Dee Dee might initially have thought it was a random attack, but there’s the heartbreaking possibility she realised who was attacking her and that her daughter was involved.
Gypsy claims Dee Dee cried her name for help – three or four times – but says fear kept her frozen.
Nick confirmed Dee Dee “yelped” for Gypsy, but “Gypsy didn’t do anything.”
Gypsy says she “didn’t think anything,” hid by the toilet, and covered her ears.
Crime scene photos show there wasn’t much room beside the toilet, that space largely taken by a cat litter tray full of faeces.
Gypsy has never expressed empathy for Dee Dee in her dying moments moments.
No “It must have been awful for her.”
No “She must have been terrified.”
No “My poor mother.”
Only me, the victim – “too afraid,” “too scared,” “terrified me.
Then it went quiet.
Dee Dee was dead, and Gypsy got exactly what she’d been waiting for.
Were her first thoughts remorse?
No.
Instead, she likened herself to “a little bluebird trapped in an invisible cage” finally set free – because nothing says justice for Mom quite like comparing her brutal stabbing to an uplifting Disney subplot.
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During his 2015 police interview, Nicholas Godejohn was asked, “Do you know how many times you stabbed her?”
Nick held up four fingers. “Er, four.”
The detective clarified, “You stabbed her four?”
“Yeah, four times,” Nick confirmed, before adding, “The fourth one, I felt it go into… I think it might have been in her lungs because… it was harder to get out.”
He described having to “yank” the knife from that last wound, though the others “came out easier.”
The questioning circled back repeatedly. “You only stabbed her four times? Are you sure about that?”
Nick maintained, “Well, as in stabbing, I stabbed four times. But I did actually cut her one other time besides that, on the back of her neck.”
That wound, he said, had bled.
Later, the detective pressed: “Any reason to think you stabbed her more than four times?”
“Not that I’m aware of,” Nick replied.
They asked if Gypsy stabbed Dee Dee.
“No, no, no,” he insisted.
“So when you say four actual stabs… those went in deeper?”
“Yeah.”
“There might have been (smaller ones),” he admitted, “because the truth is I counted the ones that went in deep. I didn’t count any others.”
The detective then suggested perhaps there were shallow wounds he didn’t recall, and Nick, now second-guessing himself, went along with it.
When asked where he stabbed Dee Dee, Nick faltered: “I honestly can’t remember … I think it’s just a blockage because of the guilt.”
Thomas Vandeperg, Chief Forensic Investigator with the Greene County Medical Examiner’s Office, examined Dee Dee’s body in her bed and attended her autopsy.
His findings dismantled Nick’s version.
Dee Dee had not been stabbed four times — she had been stabbed seventeen times.
Fourteen stab wounds marked her back.
One pierced just above her collarbone.
Two more entered her head, just above the neck.
There were also wounds to her neck, including one behind her right ear, and two large incise wounds to the back of her neck, both cut down to the bone of her cervical spine.
Nick had, in 2015, told police: “I did actually cut her one other time besides that, on the back of her neck.”
The forensic record shows otherwise – those neck injuries were not single, glancing cuts. They were deliberate, forceful, and deep.
Of the fourteen back wounds, six penetrated the chest cavity, a few breaching the abdominal cavity.
One sliced through the left lung, pierced the pericardial sac, and entered the left atrium of her heart.
Two stabbed through the right lung, diaphragm, and into the liver.
Three more entered the right lung alone.
A defensive wound marked the ring finger of Dee Dee’s left hand, a final, futile attempt to ward off the blade.
Forensic expert Joseph Scott Morgan explained: “She is essentially suffocating to death on her own blood.”
This is a far cry from Nick’s polite “four deep stabs” narrative.
And it is why speculation persists that more than one person attacked Dee Dee.
The patterns suggest two styles: deep, panicked thrusts – consistent with Nick’s description of a struggle – and smaller, tentative jabs, the sort that don’t face resistance … or urgency.
It’s why some argue there was another assailant – possibly before Nick entered, during his presence, or after he left.
Others go further, suggesting Dee Dee may have been dead before Nick arrived.
That theory either grossly underestimates Nick’s mental capacity.
Another possibility: Dee Dee was already unconscious and wounded when he got there.
Officer Jim Stanley, who checked Dee Dee’s body, noted in newly released 2025 court documents that her wounds appeared “black in color, not red like people normally would think of blood.”
That discoloration is perhaps one detail that sets the larger wounds apart from the smaller ones, and has fed the “two attackers” theory.
Talk of two knives has also circulated, though no conclusive proof has surfaced.
Crime scene photos show a heavily bloodstained length of cloth near Dee Dee’s body.
Some speculated it was a restraint. In reality, it was a prayer rag Dee Dee kept by her bed.
And then there’s the blood, or lack of it, on Nick’s clothing.
Seventeen stab wounds. Two deep neck incisions. Dee Dee’s nightgown soaked in blood.
Yet Nick’s T-shirt and hoodie bore so little blood that it could be missed entirely unless specifically examined.
His clothes were recovered unwashed days later. Minimal blood.
Meanwhile, his own account suggests the fatal wound – to the heart via the lung – was his fourth “deep” stab.
If that wound truly came last, Dee Dee’s heart would have still been pumping for the prior stabs … so where is all the blood?
We have to concede; Something doesn’t align.
In the end, only two people know exactly what happened that night.
One will never tell the truth.
The other can’t, not while there’s still an appeal to file.
Let’s hope, for Dee Dee’s sake, that she slipped into unconsciousness quickly and never fully woke to feel the rest.
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Nick told police in 2015 that Gypsy didn’t think he’d actually be able to go through with killing Dee Dee. “She didn’t think I was capable of it.”
Gypsy herself admitted in 2018, “I honestly thought he would end up not doing it.”
Which raises the question, was there someone else waiting in the wings, a Plan B if Nick bailed?
Dee Dee’s autopsy was carried out at 1 p.m. the day her body was found.
Somehow, Kristy Blanchard, no relation to Dee Dee, got access to the report.
When she came to the section on Dee Dee’s brain, Kristy reportedly stared for a while before telling Gypsy’s lawyer, “I want to know what the hell was going through her mind. What is in that brain of hers that triggered all of this shit?” (Michelle Dean, Buzz Feed News, August 19th, 2016).
From day one, Kristy has inserted herself deep into a murder case she had no real connection to other than being married to Rod Blanchard, the father who conveniently avoided raising Gypsy but still manages to polish his halo for the cameras.
Under the guise of ‘helping,’ Kristy has cut deals, shaped the narrative, sold the stories, and kept the Gypsy media train running. She’s placed herself in the center of a tragedy her own husband helped create.
This is not Kristy’s story to tell.
It’s not Rod’s.
It’s not even Gypsy’s.
At its core, it’s Dee Dee’s story.
And people need to start telling it.
In 2018, Gypsy admitted that she and Nick brainstormed murder methods: poison, arson (“pretended a candle fell in the bedroom”), even a gun. (Gypsy’s Revenge, 2018).
In Nick’s police interview he says Gypsy researched “multiple times” looking for the quickest, least painful way for her mother to die.
If that was truly her goal, a single bullet would have been far faster than what Dee Dee endured.
It’s almost as though she didn’t want quick.
She wanted Dee Dee to suffer.
Nick later admitted he got a small knife cut on his right index finger and another just below his right elbow while stabbing Dee Dee. He blamed a blood-slicked knife handle for the slips.
What’s almost never mentioned is the lesion on the right side of his back, a large scrape, visible in a photo taken six days after the murder.
According to Nick’s support group, NPG Cornerstone Nation, the injury happened during his altercation with Dee Dee, despite the fact he was wearing both a T-shirt and hoodie.
Riddle me that.
And then there’s the letter ‘V,’ apparently written on one of Dee Dee’s buttocks in her own blood.
Maybe V for Victor.
Or, in Gypsy’s mind, V for victory.
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On 7th December, 2024, NPG: Cornerstone Nation released information revealing that Stephanie Godejohn, Nick’s mother, texted Nick when he was at Dee Dee’s house, at 2.13am, and asked him to call her the following day.
She also told him she loved him.
Nick responded to this message a minute later, and to a subsequent text message which quickly followed.
The group also claim that Gypsy did not immediately open the bathroom door following the agreed code, but offered no further explanation.
Nick arrived at Dee Dee’s house at 2.07am. This offers a very short time frame for Nick to commit the crime, try and get Gypsy to open the bathroom door, go to the kitchen to look for a Band Aid and to read and respond to his mother’s text message.
This information not only brings into question Gypsy’s sequence of events, but, also, ironically, Nick’s.
And so the plot thickens.
Are you hearing this, Gyp?
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Gypsy claims that while ‘Victor’ had agreed to kill Dee Dee, he attached conditions: “One condition would be, it would be with a knife. The other condition is he would have to rape her (Dee Dee) after he murdered her. And I told him, ‘Absolutely not …’ He’s like, ‘Well fine, I’ll make you a deal. It’s either rape her or rape you after.’ And I said, ‘Rape me,’ because I won’t let you do it to her.” (The Killer Thorn of Gypsy Rose, 2019).
But the record tells a different story.
The choice of a knife wasn’t some imposed ‘condition’ – it was the result of their own joint process of elimination.
Nick has openly admitted in his 2015 police interview that he had once discussed the idea of raping Dee Dee, but claims he changed his mind before the murder: “I felt bad for the whole situation … so I decided just to kill her quickly.”
He never names who first suggested the rape, but he is unequivocal that he didn’t touch Dee Dee sexually before, during, or after her death.
Dee Dee’s autopsy found no injuries consistent with sexual assault.
And as for Gypsy’s ‘sacrificial lamb’ story – it collapses under the weight of her own messages.
Roughly two hours before Nick was straddling and stabbing Dee Dee, Gypsy texted him: 1:29 a.m. — “Will he (Victor) allow me to wet his… your penis before he takes me hun? I don’t know if he’s gonna do anal or vag I was hoping to do anal.”
Her concern wasn’t about preventing a rape, staged or otherwise, it was about whether ‘Victor’ would use lubricant.
Across the hundreds of text messages exchanged between the two, there is no discussion whatsoever about Gypsy offering herself instead of her mother. That claim seems to appear only in Gypsy’s later, carefully packaged retellings, the kind you can put between two hardcovers and sell.
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After Nick confirmed Dee Dee was dead, he says he went to the bathroom door and delivered their pre-arranged signal; three knocks and two scratches, to let Gypsy know it was safe to come out.
In 2017, Gypsy claimed, “Before I could let him in, he commanded me to shave my legs and any body hair and present myself naked.”
But text messages from June 9th, 2015, tell a different story.
At 10:09 pm, Nick messaged: “When he (Victor) gets you from the bathroom, I suggest you are naked when he sees you after the deed.”
Two minutes later, Gypsy replied: “Ok Darling.”
This wasn’t an on-the-spot command, it was part of the plan.
In her 2015 police interview, Gypsy said Nick forced her to clean up by grabbing her throat, yet at his 2018 trial she admitted she had cleaned voluntarily.
She also insisted she never saw Dee Dee’s body, a claim Nick backed up, although Nick often protected her.
When Dee Dee’s body was found, a stuffed Barney doll was resting under her head, Gypsy’s doll.
It is unlikely Nick placed it there after the murder, suggesting Gypsy may have done so deliberately, perhaps for symbolic reasons.
Nick’s account of events aligns more closely with the text messages and physical evidence.
He says Gypsy didn’t open the bathroom door right away because she was shaving her legs and private parts, something he admits wanting but believes she also wanted to do.
When she emerged, she was naked and wearing the brunette ‘Ruby’ wig.
Together, they cleaned with liquid cleaner, disinfectant wipes, and paper towels.
Gypsy took the lead, removing personal items and even discarding photographs that showed she lived there.
Police later found an out-of-place black NFL Saints cap in the hallway alongside cleaning supplies.
It belonged to neither Nick, Gypsy, nor Dee Dee, but the plea deal ensured no DNA testing was done.
In The Prison Confessions of Gypsy Rose (2024), Gypsy accused Nick of wanting Dee Dee to “suffer as much as possible” and of fantasizing about dumping her body at a pig farm.
Yet Nick has consistently said he wanted it over quickly.
The ‘pig farm’ story collapses under simple logistics: neither could drive, and there was no way to move the body.
This detail is also eerily similar to a past conversation Gypsy had with Dan, a man she once said offered her refuge on his family’s farm in Arkansas.
The pig farm raises the possibility that Gypsy was sending Dan a veiled warning: support Nick’s appeal, and I’ll implicate you.
Would you be surprised if you heard that it was?
In her 2015 police interview, Gypsy described her post-murder sexual encounter with Nick as, “I was in shock and he took me to my bedroom and he made me take all my toys off the bed and he raped me.” (Gypsy’s Police Interview, 2015).
One of those toys wouldn’t happen to have been a Barney doll, would it?
She says the rape made her feel “horrible because it hurt.”
Two years later, in Mommy Dead and Dearest (2017), her version shifted. This time, she claimed, “He had wanted to rape my mother… so, what I did was I made a deal with him. I’d let him rape me, and then he wouldn’t do that to my mum.” She added, “Technically once we got to that point, I screamed for him to stop and he didn’t. So, I don’t consider it to be consensual. I loved Nick very much at that time… being with him felt exciting because I was with someone I loved and thought cared for me.”
There’s no question Nick cared for her.
The real question: did Gypsy ever care for him?
In our opinion – absolutely not.
Nick’s 2015 police interview paints a different picture. He said that after cleaning up, “She wanted to have sex with me, so I did.”
According to him, it was consensual.
They made room on the bed by moving stuffed toys, had vaginal, anal, and oral sex, and put the toys back afterward.
He claims he didn’t ejaculate — “hardly felt any pleasure” — and even struggled the entire time he was in Springfield.
If Nick didn’t ejaculate, then whose semen was on Gypsy’s bed? (Evidence markers #103 and #104).
If not his … who else had Gypsy been with there?
After the murder, they took nearly $5,000 from a pouch in Dee Dee’s bedroom, money that came from her savings, not from Gypsy’s supposed ‘child support’ windfall. ( Gypsy: “My mother had a money pouch. Little did I know that it was my dad sending child support. So we took it, and that’s how we paid for everything”. (Gypsy’s Revenge, 2018).
Dee Dee had already spent $5,000 on a car deposit, leaving the rest in cash.
Nick says Gypsy told him where it was.
Gypsy’s comment? “We took it… that’s how we paid for everything.”
Correction: Dee Dee paid for everything, the clothes on Gypsy’s back, the house she lived in, the food she ate.
Gypsy even swiped a Walmart gift card meant for Dee Dee along with her savings.
Every little helps, eh, Gyp?
At Nick’s 2018 trial, Gypsy admitted under oath, “I stole it (the cash) from my mother’s safe.”
How? The safe was in Dee Dee’s bedroom, the very room she swears she never entered while Nick was there.
Yet later, fellow inmates came forward claiming Gypsy told them she had been in that bedroom after the killing.(Evidence shown here).
Nick also recalls Gypsy packing a pink suitcase and a black backpack with clothes and movies, including Game of Thrones and True Blood.
Disney apparently didn’t make the cut.
On May 30th, 2015, Gypsy had texted Nick: “The first movie I wanna watch with u is Fifty Shades of Gray. I also think we should start with soft wet anal sex before big time anal.”
Just in case he was losing enthusiasm.
In Mommy Dead and Dearest (2017), Gypsy said “We packed a couple things … we called the cab … and went back to the hotel.”
Months later on Dr Phil, she claimed Nick told her to grab a suitcase while he chose her clothes.
The cab arrived at Dee Dee’s house at 5:48 a.m.
The driver testified Nick wore blue jeans and a white T-shirt.
Gypsy paid the fare, suggesting she had control of the cash.
Nick says the murder took about five minutes, after which they cleaned, had sex, and packed, a process that somehow took four hours?
A bottle of men’s body wash in the bathroom hints at a shower, though Nick never mentioned bathing.
It’s not exactly a typical Walmart theft item. So … whose was it?
In all Gypsy’s retellings, she never mentions that before leaving, she cranked the air conditioning to slow decomposition and (likely) sprinkled baby powder to mask the smell.
“I always reference myself to this little bluebird that was trapped in an invisible cage… and I felt like this bluebird was set free,” she once said.
We’re thinking more Godzilla.