“I do think Gypsy is potentially dangerous” (Erin Lee Carr, 2017)
Aleah Woodmansee, once a passing acquaintance, later self-promoted to the status of ‘like a sister’ to Gypsy Rose Blanchard, declared in 2018’s Gypsy’s Revenge: “Once I started realising the extent of what she (Dee Dee) did and her actions, I started realising how cruel she was, and how she allowed her daughter to be essentially tortured, constantly, for all of her life.” (Gypsy’s Revenge, 2018).
Strong words from someone who, in 2014, knew Gypsy had a chromosome disorder, yet never quite found the right moment to bring that up in the many interviews she ‘reluctantly’ granted.
In 2015, she could even acknowledge that Dee Dee was exhausting her own health caring for Gypsy.
Somewhere between then and 2018, that nuanced view condensed neatly into the approved post-murder script.
Perhaps it’s easier to get media calls returned when one’s recollections are properly aligned.
Kristy Blanchard, the stepmother absent during Gypsy’s formative years but omnipresent in the aftermath, presented herself as ‘mum’ in 2017’s Mother Knows Best: “I couldn’t believe that a mother would do this to their child. But Dee Dee was a piece of work. Definitely a piece of work.”
Her husband Rod, who played no active role in Gypsy’s life for over a decade, added his own flourish to the New York Post (May 9th, 2017): “If Dee Dee was right here, right now, I might do the same thing that Gypsy did.”
In context, the statement sounded less like outrage and more like opportunism, an eagerness to echo the new family brand.
After all, outrage sells.
So does a tight, sensational storyline.
And in that storyline, Dee Dee must be the villain, Gypsy the survivor, and Nicholas Godejohn the convenient, unredeemable monster.
It is not unreasonable to note that Rod, Kristy, and Gypsy all stand to gain from this narrative.
Not just in sympathetic headlines, but in speaking fees, documentary payments, and whatever residual spotlight can be squeezed from a murder turned into a cottage industry.
The defining piece of that industry was Mommy Dead and Dearest (2017), directed by Kristy Blanchard’s ‘beautiful friend,’ Erin Lee Carr.
Filming began before Gypsy had even secured a plea deal, the production apparently confident the story would break the right way.
The unproven diagnosis of Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy was delivered to a mass audience via Dr. Marc Feldman, courtesy (in our opinion) of Kristy Blanchard’s strategic placement.
Feldman’s 2016 interview with M.J. Pack – friend to Aleah and Gypsy – contained a cautious ‘most likely’ assessment of Dee Dee’s supposed disorder. ((ThoughtCatalog).
By the time the HBO cameras rolled, ‘most likely’ had been conveniently upgraded to unqualified certainty.
The documentary, made with the full cooperation of Gypsy, Kristy, and Rod, was released on May 16, 2017.
Just a week earlier, Erin Lee Carr had described Nicholas Godejohn as “a severely mentally ill person who got a bad end of this.” (New York Post (May 9th, 2017).
Yet in the finished product, Nick’s complexity was erased.
It’s hard to maintain sympathy for him while selling Gypsy as the pure victim, and purity, like outrage, sells better when it’s simple.
Rod and Kristy attended the premiere beaming, accompanied by their teenage daughter, Mia, a family moment made possible not by reconciliation, but by the murder of the woman they now publicly condemn.
The same pattern followed –
Mother Knows Best (Nov. 21st, 2017) watered the seed planted by Mommy Dead and Dearest.
ABC’s 20/20: Gypsy’s Truth and Lies (Jan. 6th, 2018) and Gypsy’s Revenge (Nov. 6th, 2018) reinforced the profitable caricature: Gypsy the haloed victim, Dee Dee the sadistic abuser, Nick the deranged killer.
When Nicholas Godejohn’s trial began in Greene County on November 13, 2018, most jurors had already consumed that version of events.
Nick, socially vulnerable, emotionally dependent, and operating under the belief that he was saving Gypsy from ongoing abuse, was left to face a jury already sold on the family’s market-tested storyline.
The first casualty of Gypsy Rose Blanchard’s curated tale was her mother.
The second was the man she convinced to kill for her.
Both now serve as the foundation for an ongoing enterprise, one that trades in tragedy, edits out inconvenient truths, and ensures that the only people making a living from Dee Dee Blanchard’s death are the ones who lived without her.
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Don’t ignore Kristy Blanchard folks!
“They didn’t really have to kill my sister. They could have just ran away together, but they chose to go a
different route and my sister got killed. Well not killed, (stresses) murdered. (Evans Pitre, 2018).
Back in 2017, Rod Blanchard offered this thoughtful insight: “No doubt they (Nick and Gypsy) did it, or planned it and everything, so it was just a matter of, why they did it, you know, and is that reasonable” (Mommy Dead And Dearest, 2017).It was, apparently, a mystery to him why they did it.
There is no mystery.
There is no argument.
Gypsy could have left.
Rod later expanded his position with all the clinical precision of a man who abandoned his daughter decades earlier: “She (Gypsy) just had enough and snapped.” (Mother Knows Best, 2017).
Again – there is no argument.
Gypsy could have left.
Rod’s current wife, Kristy Blanchard, whose loyalty to Gypsy has been as tireless as her willingness to sit in front of a camera, weighed in: “I think Gypsy had her mom killed so she could finally live the life she wanted.” (Mother Knows Best, 2017).
A strikingly accurate statement, though not quite the defense they all think it is.
There is no argument.
Gypsy could have left.
Good ‘ol Cousin Bobby Pitre reasoned, “Gypsy was backed up into a corner, and she tried to get out but she couldn’t.” (The Prison Confessions, 2024).
There is no argument.
Gypsy could have left.
When asked why she wanted Dee Dee dead, Gypsy explained: “I knew I was being abused, but I didn’t know exactly what kind of abuse it was. I just knew that I wasn’t allowed to do a lot of things and my mother was the reason. She would force me to be in a wheelchair and force me to go to doctor’s appointments that I didn’t need, and I just wanted that life to stop, so ultimately I never wanted her dead, I just wanted that life to stop. That life to be dead.” (Mother Knows Best, 2017).
There is no argument.
Gypsy could have left.
Dr Marc Feldman, speaking with the gravity of a psychiatrist, compared it to a hostage situation: “The control was total, in the same sense that the control of a kidnapped victim sometimes is total. Her (Dee Dee) daughter was, in essence, a hostage, and I think we can understand the crime that occurred subsequently in terms of a hostage trying to gain escape.” (Mommy Dead And Dearest, 2017).
But most hostages do not get regular unsupervised opportunities to leave.
Most hostages do not use these windows of freedom to make pornographic videos for strangers on the internet.
On her feelings about Dee Dee’s death, Gypsy said: “I’m not happy that she’s dead. You know, I didn’t want that. I know it sounds strange to plan something and go through the steps to make it happen and then, but at the same time not want it to happen.” (Mommy Dead And Dearest, 2017).
“I’m glad that I’m out of that situation, but I am not happy that she’s dead.” (Mother Knows Best, 2017).
“I was happy because I was free.” (Gypsy’s Revenge, 2018).
One of the first things Gypsy planned to do with her ‘freedom’ was meet Dan Glidewell for sex at a cupcake shop.
When asked if what she did was justified, Gypsy said: “No, nothing justifies murder. I think that abuse should be punished by prison.” (Mother Knows Best, 2017).
That was not the question.
On whether she deserved prison time: “To be honest I have complicated feelings about that. I believe firmly that no matter what, murder is not okay. But at the same time, I don’t believe I deserve as many years as I got.” (Mother Knows Best, 2017).
Many believe Gypsy deserved more years, but a compelling victim narrative, crafted by herself, Rod, Kristy, and their media partners, made sure that would never happen.
Dee Dee could not defend herself from the grave, and her reputation became the currency that bought Gypsy’s plea deal and funded the Blanchards’ lucrative interview circuit.
On whether justice was served: “No. She (Dee Dee) didn’t deserve what happened. If anything she just deserved to be where I am.” (Mother Knows Best, 2017).
On whether Nick was to blame: “I asked him to, played a part asking him (Nick) to commit the murder. That is why I am in prison.” (The Prison Confessions, 2024).
In other words, it was Dee Dee and Nick’s fault she was in prison, not hers.
On what should happen to Nick: “I think he should spend the rest of his life in prison.” (Mother Knows Best, 2017).
On how she feels about him: “I can’t stand him. Because I went from one abusive person to another.” (Mother Knows Best, 2017).
Nick’s account tells a different story: “She said, ‘If you truly love me, you’d be willing to do this for me, because, you know, this is the only way we can be together.’ And at some point, I ended up giving in because I didn’t know what else to do. There’s nothing I wouldn’t do for her. I was just excited to be with her for the rest of my life, and I believed that’s what she wanted.” (Gypsy’s Revenge, 2018).
Nick, who was vulnerable, socially isolated, and easily manipulated, became the perfect instrument for Gypsy’s plan.
When asked what she could have done differently, Gypsy said: “The only thing I could have done differently, that I know better now, is reach out to my dad, told my dad. And he could have came and got me and I would’ve went and lived with him.” (Mommy Dead And Dearest, 2017).
Rod knew she could walk.
He did not come to get her.
He did not want her.
But he did want the media tours, the documentary credits, and the sympathetic father role in the story that made Gypsy famous — and Dee Dee disposable.
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Hoping to catch Trump’s eye. We’ll leave this one here.
On a 2024 podcast, Gypsy earnestly explained: “I don’t associate myself as a murderer because if you think about it, yes, I had a part to play in it. I requested, I asked Nick for help and how all that conversation started was, he was saying, you know, that he would protect me from anyone. I said, ‘Anyone?’ He said, ‘Yes’. I said, ‘Even my mother?’ He said, ‘Yes’. And then the plan kind of formed from there. But he’s the one that did the actual kill. Not me. I can’t actually kill anyone, that’s why he’s in trouble to begin with, because he’s the one that did it. So when they say I’m a murderer, I don’t identify as that.”
(Viall Files, Jan 8, 2024)
Translation: If you outsource the stabbing, your conscience stays clean.
And if you repeat it enough, maybe the world will believe you.
When asked in 2017 if Nick exploited her, Gypsy’s emphatic “Yes” came without hesitation.
A curious inversion, considering Nick’s own account paints him as the one lured into a crime by a woman who convinced him she was in danger.
And while Nick will die in prison, Gypsy will be cashing podcast checks.
In one of her early post-prison interviews, Gypsy spoke of recurring nightmares. Not, of course, about the sheer terror and pain Dee Dee endured in her final minutes, but about feeling guilty for, “not reaching out to other people to, um, help me out.” (Viall Files, Jan 8, 2024)
She was in her twenties.
The way out was through the front door.
No “um” required.
Rod Blanchard, meanwhile, has perfected the art of selective accountability: “I blame myself now for not doing more. I mean, it is what it is. You know, I’m not a ‘blame yourself’ type of guy, but who else is there to look at, you know.”
(Mommy Dead And Dearest, 2017)
Agreed, who else indeed?
Later that same year, Rod reflected: “I feel guilt. How can I let this happen? You know, why I wasn’t there for Gypsy more. If I could have built that relationship with her, she wouldn’t have hesitated to call me.”
(Mother Knows Best, 2017)
By 2018, the guilt had softened into a general indictment of everyone: “I don’t blame her (Gypsy) for what she done. Everyone failed Gypsy. From down, from myself, her mother, doctors, police, Social Services. We all looked out for ourselves.” (Gypsy’s Revenge, 2018)
No, Rod.
You failed both women.
You failed the daughter you never visited, and the mother you let carry the weight alone, until the day she was butchered in her bed.
Rod is quick to point out that critics “don’t understand that I’ve always been supportive.” Kristy chimes in with “In every way.” (Michelle Dean, BuzzFeedNews, Aug 19, 2016)
A fascinating claim from a man who didn’t physically see his child for 11 years, bolstered by a woman who chimes in far too often.
Kristy, of course, wasted no time forging a maternal claim.
“She (Gypsy) started calling me mom, I want to say it was about 6 months in.” (The Prison Confessions, 2024)
In Mommy Dead And Dearest, Kristy proudly displays a silver-framed photograph of Gypsy with Santa Claus, claiming Gypsy was “about 21 or 22” at the time. The accuracy of her guess matters little; the provenance does. That same photograph was taken from Dee Dee’s bedroom, the one she was murdered in, and may have been the last picture of Gypsy her mother ever saw.
It sits now in Kristy’s home, the air long cleared of the smell of blood, but not of the trophy-collector’s intent.
One part keepsake, one part victory lap:
“I got your husband. Now I have your child.”
On 16th June 2015, Gypsy Rose Blanchard and Nicholas Godejohn were charged with first-degree murder and armed criminal action.
Bond was set at one million dollars, a figure well out of reach for the Blanchard family, though not for lack of priorities elsewhere.
Five days later, Gypsy began her phone campaign.
On 21 June, she rang her aunt Celeste, Rod’s sister: “I’m innocent and I got messed up with someone very awful.” (Stan Hancock, Supplemental Report, 8 July 2015)
On 22 June, she called Kristy Blanchard: “Tell my dad I’m innocent, and I want to know if he still loves me. What they’re saying in the news isn’t true.” (Stan Hancock, Supplementary Report, 28 July 2015)
The next day, she called Rod himself: “I want to build a relationship with you, and I want you to know I’m innocent.” (Stan Hancock, Supplementary Report, 28 July 2015)
The supplementary report records two more calls.
In one, speaking to a woman likely Kristy, Gypsy remarked: “I never asked him [Nick] to be that gruesome.”
As though the act of murdering her mother could be rendered palatable by a gentler choice of blade.
In another, placed at 8:50 p.m. on 24 July, Gypsy told Rod: “I was desperate to get away.”
In Mommy Dead And Dearest (2017), a segment of one jail call between Gypsy and Rod is aired –
Gypsy: “Daddy, I understand that we haven’t had a chance to get close in a long time, probably my whole life.”
Rod: “I have a lot of questions, obviously. You know, I’m confused.”
Nothing new there.
Gypsy: “The stuff they say in the news is horrible and not true. You know that I love my mama and you know that I would never hurt her. Just know that I am innocent and know that I’m still your little girl.” (Gypsy’s Truth And Lies, 2018).
Little girl?
Gypsy was in her early twenties.
A jail call between Gypsy and Kristy is also featured: Kristy: “Hey my sweetie.”
This from the same Kristy who once insisted: “I’d speak to Gypsy a couple of times every few months, special occasions, um, calling to see how she was doing… I never thought that anything was wrong.” (The Killer Thorn Of Gypsy Rose, 2019)
With such regular contact, one might expect Gypsy to instantly recognise her voice.
She didn’t.
Gypsy: “Hi! Is this Kristy?”
Kristy: “Yes baby.”
Once identity was confirmed, Gypsy reverted to script: “I’m innocent. It’s a complicated situation but what they say on the news is not true.” (Mommy Dead And Dearest, 2017).
Whilst awaiting trial, Gypsy shared a cell with three other inmates – Amanda Flores, Markayla Lutz, and Mariah Rodriguez.
On 14 July 2015, Gypsy reported Flores to a corrections officer, claiming she had seen Flores hide a small plastic bag in her vagina while using the toilet, and trade marijuana for commissary items.
Gypsy even named two inmates involved in the trades.
In jail parlance, she snitched.
On 11 August 2015, Flores requested to speak to a detective working on Dee Dee’s case.
She met with Detective Stan Hancock and offered to provide information in exchange for immunity.
Hancock told her he couldn’t make that deal, but Flores decided to talk anyway, stating she didn’t want Gypsy to “get away with murder.”
While Flores’s initial motive might cast doubt on her credibility, much of what she told Hancock was information not yet public.
Flores described Gypsy as “creepy smart.”
She asked Gypsy if she had “sought Nicholas out” to kill Dee Dee. Gypsy’s response: “I probably did.”
Flores recalled Gypsy mentioning Nick cutting his finger during the stabbing, and that Gypsy often spoke about missing her “stuffed animal”, though Flores couldn’t recall which animal.
Barney, perhaps?
Flores said Gypsy had tried, unsuccessfully, to get a friend to pass notes to Nick.
Twice, she overheard Gypsy say: “I’m going to get away with this.”
Gypsy allegedly told Flores she put the knife in Nick’s hand and told him to go kill her mother, then turned the air conditioning down to 40 degrees to preserve the body.
According to Hancock’s report: “She (Gypsy) cleaned up the blood including blood in the bedroom … she went into Clauddinnea’s bedroom after she was dead and took $5,000 out of a drawer from a table beside her mum’s bed.”
Flores claimed Gypsy said she had cleaned the blood from “the bed” to “the bathroom” – “pretty good,” – in Gypsy’s own words.
(Stan Hancock, Supplemental Report, 11 August 2015)
On 2 September 2015, Hancock interviewed Markayla Lutz, who corroborated much of Flores’s account.
Lutz added that Gypsy told her she had expected Dee Dee to have $10,000 in savings, but Dee Dee had spent half on a car.
“It should be noted a contract between Clauddinea and Central Bank of America was located for purchase of a 2011 Nissan Cube on April 9th, 2015. The contract indicated $5,000 in cash was put down toward the purchase of the Nissan Cube.”
(Stan Hancock, Supplemental Report, 2 September 2015)
And how exactly would Lutz know about Dee Dee’s car purchase unless Gypsy told her?
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On 28th March 2025, NPG: Cornerstone Nation, Nicholas Godejohn’s chosen support group, released details from a series of jail calls Gypsy made while on remand.
Claim 1: Gypsy didn’t know the extent of what Nick had done.
Debunked.
While Nick has said Gypsy didn’t see Dee Dee’s body, he’s also stated there is one thing he will never reveal, a secret he’ll take to his grave.
That kind of statement doesn’t exactly scream ‘she was in the dark.’
We have no doubt Gypsy Rose Blanchard saw her mother’s body.
Claim 2: Gypsy feels like she’s a victim.
Debunked.
Dee Dee Blanchard was a victim.
Nicholas Godejohn – though he committed a heinous act – was manipulated and is, in a tragic sense, a victim too.
Stephanie Goldammer, Nick’s mother, is a victim.
Gypsy Rose Blanchard is not a victim.
Claim 3: She was completely honest with her attorney.
Debunked.
In her own words: “This is actually, kind of, the first time I’ve been honest. Besides being honest, you know, with my attorneys. Even then, I haven’t been entirely honest with them.” (Mommy Dead and Dearest, 2017)
Claim 4: She wouldn’t ‘do that normally’ (about her text messages to Nick).
Debunked.
Gypsy sent Nick around 101 videos – many pornographic – along with sexual roleplay instructions.
That’s not exactly the profile of a reluctant participant.
Claim 5: Her Harley Quinn pictures were taken out of context.
Debunked.
Were the topless photos she sent to four men aged 35–50 also “taken out of context,” or was that just a flexible creative choice?
Gypsy also revealed a few additional points:
- Her attorney, Mike Stanfield, planned to use battered spouse syndrome as a defence.
Atrocious.
This is not only deeply offensive to actual survivors of domestic abuse, but unsupported by any credible evidence that Gypsy was in a spousal relationship, let alone an abusive one. - She doesn’t enjoy the media attention.
Debunked.
The evidence is overwhelming: Gypsy doesn’t just tolerate the spotlight; she choreographs her dance under it. - She planned to claim memory loss regarding the crime.
Debunked.
Gypsy has told multiple, contradictory versions of events, “can’t remember” has never truly been one of them. - Nick was cheating on her.
Debunked.
He may have been speaking to other women online, but there’s no proof of physical cheating, unlike Gypsy, who arranged to have sex with another man the day after Dee Dee’s murder. - Dee Dee lied about her age.
If she did, it would hardly be the first time a woman adjusted her age for social reasons.
Relevance to the case: nil. - Nick is a “dolt.”
Untrue.
A dolt is a stupid person. Learning disabilities and a low IQ do not make someone “stupid.”
That label belongs squarely in the insult pile where Gypsy’s narrative tactics also belong.
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On 17th June 2015, the Greene County courthouse hosted a study in contrasts.
Nicholas Godejohn; calm, composed, seemingly prepared to face the consequences of his actions.
Gypsy Rose Blanchard; wide-eyed, meek, adopting the persona she had perfected: the lost, fragile, “child” who didn’t appear to understand where she was or why.
Rod Blanchard, suddenly struck with epiphany, told Gypsy: Truth and Lies (2018): “I felt so stupid. If she can walk, what else have we been lied to about?”
A reasonable question, except Kristy Blanchard admitted in a Facebook post shortly after Gypsy’s arrest that she had always known Gypsy could walk.
So perhaps the ‘shock’ was less revelation and more performance.
Fast-forward to 2025 TikTok Live, where Kristy reminisced about Rod being shown a post-murder photo of Dee Dee with her dog. Rod “didn’t recognise” her. Kristy was “shocked” that Dee Dee had “let herself go.”
“Maybe she didn’t want us to come because she got overweight. Maybe she was embarrassed.” (Source: Morgan Allena).
Using a woman’s weight to justify your own absence is grotesque.
And considering Rod and Kristy hadn’t seen Dee Dee or Gypsy in person for over a decade, yet remained connected on
Facebook, the “no recent photos” defense is flimsy at best.
Meanwhile, the Springfield News-Leader (June 2015) revealed investigators had obtained 193 pages of Gypsy’s medical records and surveillance footage from Cox Hospital on 8th June 2015, the hospital Dee Dee and visited on 8th June 2015.
The warrant application read: “It is my belief that… Clauddinnea and Gypsy have defrauded an unknown amount of persons for an unknown amount of time.” (Harrison Keegan)
Clauddinnea and Gypsy.
Both.
By November 2015, the prosecution waived the death penalty. Nicholas, when hearing the news, mouthed: “Thank you, dear Lord, thank you.” (M J Pack, Thoughtcatalog, 2016)
Likely relief for Gypsy, not himself.
Prosecutor Dan Patterson, in Mommy Dead and Dearest (2017), said: “This case was not an appropriate first-degree murder case in which to seek the death penalty.”
January 2016 placed Nick and Gypsy in the same courtroom once again, mere feet apart, yet behaving as though the other did not exist.
No glance, no nod, no acknowledgement.
Then came 5th July 2016 and the so-called ‘surprise’ pre-trial hearing.
The surprise?
That Gypsy had been offered, and accepted, a plea deal.
Mike Stanfield leaned in and whispered the news to Gypsy like a man delivering a secret blessing: “This is the new charge, class A felony of murder in the second degree.” (Mommy Dead and Dearest, 2017)
Gypsy’s sentence?
Ten years in the Missouri Department of Corrections, with 85% to be served before parole eligibility.
The absolute minimum sentence possible.
Based on the false claim that Gypsy was a victim of Munchausen syndrome by proxy.
Because she accepted the plea deal, Gypsy never went to trial.
She avoided a trial by jury, the scrutiny of cross-examination, and the risk of the truth dismantling her carefully constructed narrative.
The facts were never revealed.
The truth was buried.
And justice was not served.
Dan Patterson again: “Gypsy Blanchard endured nearly two decades of … abuse … so by amending to murder in the second degree, we were both able to hold Gypsy accountable… and account for those mitigating circumstances.”
No she didn’t, and there were no mitigating circumstances.
There was, however, a documentary crew in the courtroom.
Mike Stanfield, post-sentencing: “All of us involved are … it’s a relief … Ultimately it’s the best outcome for her… the right thing to do for everybody.”
Everybody except the victim, Dee Dee Blanchard.
Everybody except co-defendant Nicholas Godejohn.
And as for Stanfield’s final flourish to director Erin Lee Carter: “I mean, it’s a murder. There’s nothing we can do about that.”
No, Mike.
There was nothing Dee Dee could do about that.
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Rod and Kristy Blanchard were permitted their first full-contact visit with Gypsy immediately following her sentencing.
In a Facebook post just before the visit, Kristy enthused: “Going see our beautiful daughter Tuesday.”
She even attached a photo of Gypsy to the post.
Kristy Blanchard has a daughter.
Her name is Mia.
Gypsy Rose Blanchard had a mother.
Her name was Dee Dee Blanchard.
Kristy later suggested on Facebook that the visit had been “full of kisses, hugs and tears,” likening it to: “Holding your child right after they are born.”
Rod and Kristy were filmed in their motel room, getting ready for the visit, though what they seemed to be preparing for was less Gypsy and more Mommy Dead and Dearest.
Kristy concentrated on her makeup; Rod’s chief concern was hat colour selection.
Rod (in green hat): “Green?”
Kristy (mascara wand in hand): “Yeah.”
Rod swaps to white hat: “White or green?”
Kristy: “No, no, no, no, no.”
Rod (now in white cap): “It’s my favourite hat.”
Kristy: “No, other hat.” (Mommy Dead and Dearest, 2017)
Without protest, Rod removed his favourite hat and put the green one back on.
One tiny clip that says a great deal about their dynamic.
When the long-awaited meeting finally happened, we witnessed zero tears.(Mommy Dead and Dearest).
Rod, wearing his approved green hat, was the only one to initiate a hug.
He told Gypsy: “Honestly, we was hoping for less.”
Gypsy replied: “I look at it like I could’ve got life in prison, you know.” (Mommy Dead and Dearest, 2017)
We look at it like she should have got life in prison.
She continued: “I was thinking if I get life in prison, and that is what I get. I’m committing suicide right now, you know. I was seriously considering it.” (Mommy Dead and Dearest, 2017)
As she was led from the courtroom, Rod called after her: “Don’t get in trouble.”
Gypsy: “I won’t, I’ll be a good girl.” (Mommy Dead and Dearest, 2017)
An assurance that “I’ll be a good girl” didn’t end well for Dee Dee Blanchard.
Kristy claimed later that Gypsy hugged Rod at the end and said, “Daddy, I don’t want to go, I want to go home with you and mom,” and that they “cried again.”
In reality: (at 1:19 in the footage): Gypsy cried: “I don’t want to go. I don’t want to go. I don’t want to go.”
No mention of wanting to go home with them, and the only one who cried was Gypsy.
Dr Phil would later ask Gypsy: “Should you be in this prison?”
Gypsy: “To be honest I have complicated feelings about that. I believe firmly that no matter what, murder is not okay, But at the same time, I don’t believe I deserve as many years as I got.”
Even Dr Phil seemed momentarily wrong-footed –
“But your mother is dead.”
“She is, yes.”
“And she was murdered.”
“Yes Sir.”
“And you were involved.”
“I was.”
“And but for you initiating this sequence of events she would still be alive.”
“Yes Sir.”
“So in that sense, you are responsible for her death.”
“Yes Sir.” (Mother Knows Best, 2017)
That took some doing.
When asked what she wanted to do with her life, Gypsy replied: “I want to be an advocate for abused children or abused people.” (Mother Knows Best, 2017)
As people who have suffered abuse, and know others who have too, we can say this without hesitation: under no circumstances should this woman advocate for us, or anyone else.
Gypsy Rose Blanchard was released from Chillicothe Correctional Center on December 28th, 2023, after serving 8½ years.
Since then, her behaviour — well documented in the media — speaks for itself.
There are no tears for Dee Dee Blanchard.
No genuine remorse for her actions.
No compassion for Nicholas Godejohn.
And still… still… the grifter grifts.
To keep up with Gypsy’s behaviour post-prison, we highly recommend following Becca Scoops on YouTube – sharp coverage with receipts to match.
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Nicholas Godejohn was also offered a plea deal.
In fact, he was offered two.
He declined both.
Post-release, when Gypsy was asked about her feelings on Nick still being in prison, she was quick to point out that Nick had refused two plea deals, whereas she, the good girl’ that she is, accepted the very first plea deal she was offered.
The plea deal Gypsy accepted was 10 years for second-degree murder.
Nick was offered life in prison for second-degree murder with the possibility of parole.
Nick believed, rightly, in our opinion, that he should have been offered something closer to Gypsy’s sentence.His refusal of a lesser charge meant that the original counts of first-degree murder and armed criminal action still stood when he went to trial.
That in itself doesn’t sound right.
If a prosecutor is prepared to accept that a defendant is guilty of second-degree murder, how then can that same prosecutor try them for first-degree?
Nick’s trial by jury began on 13th November 2018.
He pled not guilty to all charges.
Eighty potential jurors were called and asked if they had any prior knowledge of the case.
So many answered yes, that the question had to be rephrased: Did not have knowledge of the case.
Only thirteen potential jurors claimed not to have heard about it at all.
Most of those eventually seated on the jury admitted they had seen media coverage before the trial, but were never asked to what extent.
It was left in the hands of these jurors to decide whether Nicholas Godejohn was guilty of: First-degree murder. Second-degree murder. Or Involuntary manslaughter
And whether he was guilty of armed criminal action.
Nicholas Godejohn’s defence team would later argue at his 2022 appeal hearing that the role of the media had been instrumental in prejudicing any chance he had of receiving a fair trial.
And when you consider the near-saturation coverage, the public fascination with ‘Gypsy the victim,’ and the Blanchards’ own eager participation in selling that story, it’s hard to disagree.(Source: Into The Weeds Podcast).
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A 2020 Equality and Human Rights Commission report warned that the Criminal Justice System was failing people with learning disabilities and autism. You don’t have to look far to see that warning play out — it’s right there in Nicholas Godejohn’s police interview and on full display during his trial.
Following her release from prison in December 2024, Gypsy appeared on a podcast and casually remarked: “I’ve had two relationships since I’ve been incarcerated, and each one of my exes, and even my husband, is like, ‘Baby, if you would have asked me that question… If you would have said, “Hey, can you kill my mom to get me out of the situation?” they would have said, “No. Okay. No. We’re not doing that. Let’s go to the police.”’ ”(Nick Viall podcast, 8th January 2024).
Do either of these men have Level 2 Autism Spectrum Disorder?
No.
Do they have Asperger’s Syndrome, or an IQ lower than 82% of the population?
No.
Had either been manipulated and deceived to the point they believed there was no other option?
No.
Did Nick choose to reach out to a convicted murderer in prison?
No.
Did they?
Yes.
That just about says everything you need to know about Ryan Anderson and Ken Urker.
When Nick first entered the prison system, his mental state was assessed by Stacy Sullivan, a counsellor at Waukesha County Jail.
She saw him four times over one month to determine whether he needed psychiatric care or other treatment.
Her initial evaluation noted Nick was suicidal, tearful, vulnerable, and solely worried about his girlfriend, Gypsy Blanchard.
There were concerns about his safety among other inmates.
Later evaluations found he remained emotionally flat, still fixated on Gypsy, and more concerned about her welfare than his own charges. He repeated more than once: “The only reason I did what I did was to be with my girlfriend.”
Sullivan concluded that the mental health unit was the best placement for Nick.
His defence team never requested those jail records, nor her evaluation, to present at trial.
Nick did not testify in his own defence – almost certainly at the advice of his lawyers, given his intellectual disabilities.
That decision alone left him at a disadvantage.
It may also have been tied to a pre-trial interview from January 2018, in which he admitted that just before killing Dee Dee, “I waited at least a minute and thought about if I really wanted to do it.”
Prosecutor Dan Patterson would later seize on that single line to devastating effect.
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Nick’s defence team did call psychologist Dr. Kent Franks, who testified under oath that Nick’s Level 2 Autism Spectrum Disorder would have made it difficult for him to deliberate, a key legal element of first-degree murder.
The State countered with their own expert, Dr. Denny, who dismissed Franks’ conclusion.
And that was that.
Nick’s lawyers never brought in an autism specialist to rebut Dr. Denny’s testimony.
They never hired a neuropsychologist to fully evaluate Nick.
They didn’t even call a single family member to describe the severity of his autism or Asperger’s.
The jury never saw the instructional video Gypsy sent Nick two weeks before Dee Dee’s death.
They never saw the ‘Ruby’ video she sent three weeks before.
They never saw any of the videos Nick and Gypsy exchanged.
Gypsy herself was subpoenaed to testify, a baffling move by Nick’s defence.
What was the point of calling a proven compulsive liar to the stand, other than to hand the prosecution a golden opportunity to demolish her credibility in front of the jury?
NPG: Cornerstone Nation, a group advocating for Nicholas Godejohn, recently released testimony Gypsy gave on 1st November 2018, just before Nick’s trial.
In it, she said fifteen years – “just a little more than me” – would have been a fair sentence for Nick.
She admitted she lied during her police interview, withheld the truth in TV appearances (including Dr. Phil), and confessed that Nick did not rape her after Dee Dee’s murder – a lie that had poisoned public perception from day one.
On 16th November 2018, after barely two hours of deliberation, a jury – arguably tainted by years of false media narrative – found Nicholas Godejohn guilty of first-degree murder and armed criminal action.
Before sentencing, Nick addressed the court: “When this whole thing happened, I said it before in my statements, it’s very much the truth, so I’ll just say it again. When this whole thing happened, all I ever really wanted was to be with Miss Blanchard. That’s all I ever wanted to be. I’ve never known what it was to have a motherly love. I’ve never known what it was like to have a female connection … it’s always been a missing link. And that’s why I fell so deeply in love. Love is blind, they’ve always said that – and I was blindly in love. So I understand you’re a fair judge, and all I ask is for mercy. Mercy of any form. That’s all I ask.”
Mercy never came.
Nick was sentenced to life without parole, plus twenty-five years for armed criminal action.
He is now serving his sentence at Potosi Correctional Center in Mineral Point, Missouri.
Nick appealed, arguing diminished capacity, but the Missouri Supreme Court denied his request for a new trial on June 24th, 2024.
In March 2025, he filed a Habeas Corpus petition challenging the legality of his imprisonment.
And so the fight continues.
At the very least, Nicholas Godejohn deserves a fair trial.
At the very least, Dee Dee Blanchard deserves justice.
Meanwhile, the monster that is Gypsy Rose Blanchard walks freely among us.
You can keep up to date with Nicholas Godejohn’s appeal process, here
Footnote: Although Nicholas Godejohn committed a heinous crime, he and Gypsy Rose Blanchard were equally culpable in Dee Dee Blanchard’s death — yet he faced life without parole while she, fully competent and manipulative, served just eight and a half years. Nick, living with significant intellectual disabilities, was misled by Gypsy’s fabricated claims of abuse and denied the benefit of a fair trial by a system eager to champion her profitable narrative. We are not advocating for his release, only that he is afforded the fair trial he was denied.
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For anyone still clinging to the fantasy that Gypsy Rose Blanchard walked out of prison a reformed woman – the brave, selfless advocate for abuse victims she likes to brand herself as – let’s look at some receipts.
During her incarceration, Gypsy’s prison emails show she received steady monthly deposits from family and friends, more than enough to cover her commissary luxuries. Add to that a tidy sum from media ventures, including a $50,000 trust fund courtesy of someone involved in The Act, and you’ve got yourself a very comfortable inmate lifestyle.
Yet, just a few months before her December 2023 release, our 32-year-old, financially secure ‘advocate’ found herself dabbling in findom – financial domination – an online fetish where a submissive ‘pay pig’ hands over money to a dominant ‘Goddess’ for the sheer thrill of being financially drained. In Gypsy’s case, the ‘servant’ was a 59-year-old stranger (gender unknown) who dutifully wired her $50 a week for nearly two months.
Payments stopped only when the smitten benefactor discovered that Gypsy – who had implied she was separated – was, in fact, still married.
Reform?
Advocacy?
Or just the same old Gypsy, working the angles and cashing in?
Old habits die hard, eh Gyp.
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And lest we forget ….. 🪽 🕊 ✨ Fly high Dee Dee; Emma has you there, we’ve got you here ❤️🩷🩵