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Dee Dee won't ever be able to answer anyone’s questions. All there will be is Gypsy’s story.
(Michelle Dean, 2016)
Clauddinne Ann Pitre, affectionately known as Dee Dee, was born on Wednesday, May 3rd, 1967, in Chackbay, Louisiana, a small town located approximately an hour from New Orleans.
She was the youngest of six children born to Claude Anthony Pitre Sr. and Emma Lois Gisclair (seen below)
Dee Dee and her five older siblings – (Anthony) Claude Jr., Tate, Evans, Claudia, and Dorla – were raised in Golden Meadow, Louisiana, a small Cajun town, nestled along the Bayou, known for its strong ties to the fishing and seafood industries.
According to her brother Evans, Dee Dee’s arrival was met with unexpected concern; “She came along with all these sicknesses, heart murmur and stuff like that” (Gypsy’s Revenge, 2018).
This revelation reportedly came as a surprise to their father, Claude Sr., who believed his youngest child had been born healthy until Emma returned home from the hospital with news of Dee Dee’s medical issues.
As was common in that era, Emma remained at home to care for the children, while Claude Sr. worked as a boat captain to support the family. However, according to Claude Sr., Emma’s behavior behind closed doors was troubling. He described her as “a shoplifter and all kind of stuff,” adding, “I don’t know how many times she had to go to court for shoplifting and other things” (Mommy Dead and Dearest, 2017).
Claude also accused Emma of financial misconduct, claiming she stole “three or four thousand dollars from my daddy.”
Claude’s second wife, Laura, echoed these sentiments, recalling, “She’d go to the washeteria and steal people’s clothes” (Mommy Dead and Dearest, 2017).”. (Mommy Dead And Dearest, 2017).
To date, no evidence has being shown to substantiate these claims.
(Seen below) Gypsy’s medical records include details pertaining to Dee Dee’s family medical history, presumably provided by Dee Dee herself. Among the conditions noted is beta thalassemia—a hereditary blood disorder that impairs hemoglobin production and leads to chronic anemia.
All references to Gypsy’s medical records cited throughout this website are sourced from The Good Wives’ Network
Dee Dee spent much of her childhood under the constant care and attention of her devoted mother, Emma.
Due to her reported health issues, Dee Dee was not permitted to engage in physical activities, so outdoor play and other energetic pursuits were strictly off-limits for Emma’s delicate, “frail” Dee Dee.Dee Dee’s sister, Dorla, recalls that she and the other siblings were often sent outside to provide Dee Dee with the quiet and rest their mother believed she needed.
Emma would tell them, “Your sister’s not feeling good. Your sister’s got an upset stomach. She’s got a headache. Y’all play outside. Be quiet. Leave her alone.” (Gypsy’s Revenge, 2018).The death of Emma’s final child, a son named Todd, who passed away just hours after his birth on November 22, 1969, likely intensified her overprotectiveness toward Dee Dee.
Dorla remembers that Dee Dee was constantly by their mother’s side, like a shadow, rarely out of her sight. She reflects that it seemed Emma didn’t want Dee Dee to grow up and leave her, “so that she would always have her to hold on to.” (Gypsy’s Revenge, 2018).
And all the while, little Dee Dee Pitre was watching and learning.
The portrait of Dee Dee Pitre’s childhood and adolescence, largely painted by siblings and childhood acquaintances, is that of a spoiled, sheltered girl, bound tightly to her mother’s apron strings by a carousel of illnesses she may or may not have truly suffered from.
The youngest child of an overindulgent, controlling mother who seemed determined to keep her final daughter close, forever.
A mother who taught her that illness was a blessing.
That it brought attention, affection, and special treatment.
That manipulation, and, eventually, criminal behavior, wasn’t shameful, but strategic.
That lying got you what you wanted.
A mother who may have been grieving the loss of her last baby.
Dee Dee, Dorla and Claudia
To her siblings, Dee Dee was the pampered favorite; resented, envied, treated differently.
To her friends, she was a volatile presence.
A girl best kept at arm’s length.
The kind of person your parents warned you about.
Mad, bad, and dangerous to know: Dee Dee Pitre.
In the 2017 documentary Mommy Dead and Dearest, Laura Pitre reflects, “Her mama (Emma) was a bit like her.”
Claude Sr. echoes the sentiment: “Yeah. Her mama too.”
But let’s be clear: the child does not teach the mother.
The mother teaches the child.
Dee Dee Pitre was like her mother.
Just as Dee Dee’s daughter, Gypsy, would one day be like her.
And so the stage was set for the horror story that was about to unfold.
Dee Dee Pitre the antagonist, the schemer, the manipulator with a fascination for the occult.
But is that truly who Dee Dee was?
Not according to some of her other high school friends, who spoke out in the wake of her death.
To them, Dee Dee was cheerful, fun-loving, and a loyal friend. Far from being tightly controlled, they claimed she was given a great deal of freedom by her mother, Emma.
In their eyes, Dee Dee Pitre had a life worth envying.
But this version of Dee Dee Pitre doesn’t fit the prevailing narrative.
It disrupts the story carefully crafted and pushed forward by the Gypsy train, a media engine fueled by sympathy, sensationalism, and a single, seductive storyline.
That’s not the Dee Dee they want you to see.
That’s not the story the Gypsy train wants you to hear.
"In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes" (Andy Warhol)
Following Dee Dee (Pitre) Blanchard’s death, not one of her siblings offered particularly kind words about her, at least not publicly or in front of a camera. While several of them expressed that they loved and missed their youngest sister, none could recall or share a single fond memory of her. (Source: The Good Wives’ Network).
Perhaps old resentments still lingered.
Perhaps whatever warm memories once existed had been clouded by the dominant narrative, a narrative that cast Dee Dee as a modern-day Frankenstein’s monster: manipulative, malevolent, and monstrous.
Or perhaps they had been gently nudged onto the “Gypsy train,” where there seemed to be no room in business class for compassion, nuance, or tender recollections.
But in Frankenstein, the monster was never the true villain.
The creature, the wretch, the fiend, the devil, was not Frankenstein.
The real monster was the creator. And in this case, there wasn’t just one.
There were many. The monster didn’t come from nowhere. It was built.
In the years following Dee Dee’s death, her sister Dorla would claim that Dee Dee had a different father than the rest of the siblings, that their mother, Emma, had strayed outside her marriage.
Whether fact or speculation, it is one of many skeletons that have emerged from closets throughout this complex case.
But not every door needs to be opened.
A more compassionate take emerged in August 2024, when a friend of Dee Dee’s sister Claudia reported on social media: “They miss their sister. No matter what anybody says, they miss her.” (Source: Ivory Rose Knows, 8th August 2024). Whether or not that sentiment reflects the private truth is, perhaps, up for debate.
When Laura Pitre was asked if she felt sadness upon learning of Dee Dee’s death, she replied: “I didn’t believe it. It just didn’t sink in. It took a few days before, you know… I didn’t believe that she was dead. I thought it was another one of her tricks.” (Mommy Dead and Dearest, 2017).
When Dee Dee’s father, Claude Sr., was asked whether he believed his daughter had received what she deserved, he responded: “According to Gypsy, she did, yes.” His second wife, Laura, added: “Yeah. Yeah, she got what she deserved.” (Mommy Dead and Dearest, 2017).
Bobby Pitre, the son of Dee Dee’s brother Claude Jr., made headlines with his reaction to the news of Dee Dee Blanchard’s murder. In the 2017 documentary Mommy Dead and Dearest, he stated: “Who did Dee Dee piss off now, you know? What kind of shit did Dee Dee get into? I wasn’t thinking, ‘Oh my God, my aunt’s dead,’ because I figured one day she’d piss off somebody to that point. And I did actually think it would be Gypsy, you know.”
By Bobby’s own admission, he had not seen or spoken to either Dee Dee or Gypsy in many years.
His recollection of just how long it had been, however, appears inconsistent across multiple interviews.
In a Springfield News-Leader article dated June 16th, 2015, Bobby claimed he had not spoken to Dee Dee or Gypsy for 15 years prior to the murder – placing Gypsy at around 8 years old at their last meeting.
Yet in another interview given the same day, he said he hadn’t seen her since she was 7 or 8.
Then, in a 2024 podcast appearance (The Outlier Podcast, January 12th, 2024), Bobby revised that estimate again, saying he hadn’t seen Gypsy since she was 4.
Despite this apparent distance and lack of recent personal contact, Bobby made several inflammatory public statements about Dee Dee.
In 2017, Bobby was quoted as saying: “I wish that Dee Dee would come back to life right now, so I could kill that bitch as slow as possible.” (Crime Online, June 27, 2017).
Two years later, in a 2019 Newsweek interview, he added: “She was pretty fucking crazy. She deserved to die.” (Newsweek, February 14th, 2019).
Given his limited firsthand knowledge of Dee Dee Blanchard in the years leading up to her death, such statements raise questions about motive and credibility.
While Bobby Pitre may not have had a current relationship with his aunt, he did have a struggling business, one of many affected by the fallout from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill, the worst environmental disaster in U.S. history.
A business in need of funds.
At the time of Dee Dee’s death and the media firestorm that followed, it’s fair to ask whether Bobby Pitre’s outspoken involvement was driven by personal conviction, or by an opportunity for exposure during a time when his business was in need of recovery.
Rod Blanchard, Dee Dee’s ex-husband and the biological father of Gypsy Rose Blanchard, reflected on Dee Dee’s death in the 2017 documentary Mother Knows Best:
“I don’t think Dee Dee deserved to be killed. I mean, what she did was definitely wrong. There’s no question that you don’t do that to your child. But there’s not a lot of love lost now.”
Research suggests there wasn’t a lot of love there in the first place, not for the mother or for the child they shared.
Kristy Blanchard, Rod’s second wife, stated: “You know, you never want to think that someone you love is capable of doing something so horrendous.” (Mother Knows Best, 2017).
However, despite professed love and concern, there was no public mention of Gypsy on Kristy’s social media prior to Dee Dee’s death.
Nor on Bobby Pitre’s, another vocal figure in the story’s aftermath.
A New York Post article published on May 9th, 2017, reported that neither Rod nor Kristy had physically seen Gypsy in over a decade prior to Dee Dee’s murder.
The article noted: “As Dee Dee and Gypsy moved farther away from Rod and Kristy’s home in Cut Off, La., they stopped seeing them in person; their last visit was when Gypsy was 12 years old.” (New York Post, Andrea Morabito, 2017).
Gypsy was just over a month shy of her 24th birthday when Dee Dee was killed. By that point, Rod and Kristy had been absent from her life for nearly half of it. Yet in the days, weeks, and years that followed, Kristy stepped into the spotlight, taking an active role in shaping and amplifying the narrative surrounding Gypsy’s story.
Some would argue she positioned herself at the center of a story that was never hers to tell, crafting a version of events that cast Dee Dee as the monster and Gypsy as the innocent victim of an almost mythic scale.
Nearly a decade later, that narrative remains largely intact, and Kristy Blanchard continues to promote it.
Thus, Dee Dee Blanchard, the real woman, the real victim, was lost beneath a legend.
A monster was born, not through impartial investigation or nuanced understanding, but through repetition, media influence, and selective storytelling.
And the public, many of them eager for a villain, followed where the self-appointed shepherd led.
When the question arose of what to do with Dee Dee Blanchard’s remains, the responses from her family were strikingly indifferent, if not outright callous.
Claude Pitre Sr., Dee Dee’s father, recalled: “I know that all the brothers and sisters don’t care about Dee Dee no more. She got cremated. I said, ‘What you want me to do with the ashes?’ Everybody said, ‘I don’t want her, I don’t want her.’ I told them—(laughing)—‘Throw that in the toilet.’”
(Mommy Dead and Dearest, 2017)
Laura Pitre, Claude’s second wife, joked, “Her sister said, ‘Flush that in the toilet.”
Claude elaborated further: “She (one of Dee Dee’s sisters) said, ‘We’re going bring that in mama’s room, make her a mass and everything.’ I said, ‘You gonna pay for it? I’m not paying for it. We can’t afford it. Flush it in the toilet.’”
That had a name.
Dee Dee Blanchard.
A woman whose life, and whose death, has too often been overshadowed by the notoriety of her daughter, Gypsy Rose, who orchestrated and facilitated her murder.
For years, Dee Dee’s ashes remained unceremoniously stored. Her sister, Claudia, held onto them – left in a bag, inside a shipping box, on a shelf.
No urn, no marker, no memorial.
Just remains waiting, untouched and unclaimed in any meaningful way, for nearly a decade.
In January 2025, it was not family, but followers of the case – led by content creator, Sir Morbid X – who finally took the initiative. Together, they raised the funds to purchase an urn for Dee Dee.
It was a simple but dignified gesture, a symbolic act of closure and respect.
The urn was forwarded to Claudia, filling a void that Dee Dee’s immediate family had left unaddressed for nine and a half years.
Photo courtesy of The Good Wives’ Network. Dee Dee’s cremated remains sat on a shelf in an envelope in a shipping box for nine and a half years.
Sir Morbid X and other content creators held a virtual vigil and tribute for Dee Dee
In a prison email dated December 18th, 2018, Gypsy Rose Blanchard wrote to her father, Rod Blanchard, expressing an intention to ensure that her mother, Dee Dee, would receive a proper memorial. This was the same mother she had publicly accused of years of medical, emotional, and physical abuse, yet spoke of in the email with fondness.
But that memorial never materialized.
Honouring Dee Dee’s memory would have conflicted with the carefully constructed narrative that had gained momentum in the wake of her murder, a narrative in which Dee Dee Blanchard was cast solely as the villain, and her daughter the victim-turned-survivor. Within that framework, there was no room for nuance.
No space for complexity.
And certainly, no place for remembrance.
When news of Dee Dee Blanchard’s death first emerged in 2015, social media platforms and discussion groups were quickly flooded with commentary.
Among the voices were individuals who claimed to have known Dee Dee personally.
One woman, in particular, who stated that her family had been friends with Dee Dee’s for over 15 years, made a series of thoughtful and revealing posts in the days that followed the murder.
She did not idealize Dee Dee – describing her candidly as a con artist – but firmly rejected the popular narrative of Munchausen by Proxy, stating,
“Dee Dee didn’t want Gypsy to be physically hurt.”
She also made an unflattering remark regarding Rod Blanchard, questioning his role and presence in Gypsy’s life.
What stands out in revisiting these early posts is the distinct sense of skepticism many felt toward Rod and Kristy Blanchard’s sudden emergence into the public spotlight.
Their previously limited involvement in Gypsy’s life left many questioning their motivations and authenticity.
This raises an important question: Why weren’t voices like this woman’s – individuals with apparent firsthand experience – invited to participate in the 2017 HBO documentary Mommy Dead and Dearest?
Instead, the documentary featured figures like Kristy Blanchard and Bobby Pitre, both of whom had limited contact with Dee Dee and Gypsy in the years leading up to the murder.
Notably, the pair were also administrators of a questionable Facebook group from 2015 titled “Bobby Pitre Groupies! Lol.”
It’s also worth noting that Bobby Pitre was posting on social media about Dee Dee’s death just one day after the news broke, despite the fact that his own mother had died suddenly only weeks earlier, at the age of 49.
One might wonder: Is it typical behaviour to attack the memory of someone else’s mother, a woman he scarcely knew, while still grieving the loss of your own?
But then again, the scent of attention can do strange things to people. Can’t it just.
On December 9th, 2019, Bobby Pitre—a licensed tattoo artist—posted a photo of himself tattooing his 15-year-old daughter’s foot.
Just an observation.
Maybe start by getting your own house in order, Bob.
In 2015, Gypsy Rose Blanchard entered a plea that invoked Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy (MSbP) as part of her defense in the murder of her mother, Dee Dee Blanchard, a claim that was accepted despite a lack of definitive medical or psychological evidence to substantiate it.
Further scrutiny of Gypsy’s narrative emerged in 2025, following the release of her prison emails. In one message dated May 26th, 2021, Gypsy speculated that her grandmother, Emma, might also have exhibited signs of Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy, writing: “I believe we can somehow fit the suspicion of my grandmother having MBP as well and that cycle repeating itself.”
There is no known evidence to support this assertion. On the contrary, accounts suggest that the relationship between Dee Dee and her mother, Emma, was close and affectionate.
Such unsubstantiated claims appear to serve a broader pattern in Gypsy’s post-conviction efforts to reinforce her narrative, a narrative that increasingly strains credibility as it evolves to fit public and media attention. (screenshots of FOIA emails below)
We now enter the next chapter of Dee Dee Pitre’s life, one that introduces Rod Blanchard, a figure described in one of the Facebook posts above as “pretty much a jerk,” and, more recently, known in certain circles – particularly following the release of Gypsy’s prison emails – by the rather unflattering nickname, “Pimp Juice.”