
At first, it was thought that Gypsy had been kidnapped, but when police found her with Nick, they were shocked to see she wanted to be there-and she was healthy. Dee Dee was found dead days later after a series a strange Facebook messages appeared on her page that caused police to investigate.

He and Gypsy then fled to Wisconsin, where Nick lived. In order to control and isolate Gypsy, Dee Dee claimed. In 2015, when Gypsy was 23, Nick stabbed Dee Dee to death in their Springfield home. This is certainly true of the story of Gypsy Rose Blanchard, a teenage girl who helped kill her mother. Gypsy told Nick about what her mom was doing and how she wanted to get away, and Nick was willing to murder Dee Dee to make that happen. Gypsy confided in Nick Godejohn, and they made a plan to kill Dee Dee. Late at night, when Dee Dee was asleep, she would escape online and eventually met a boyfriend on the site, Nick Godejohn. Her mom would never leave her side, and Gypsy felt she had to go along with the lies. In a 20/20 interview last year, she said she tried to escape, only to be chained to her bed. When she wouldn’t use her walking aids, Dee Dee would beat her. Gypsy discovered that her health issues were a lie, but felt she couldn’t escape her mom.Īs Gypsy got older and realized what her mother was doing, she tried to fight back. That’s when the family moved from Louisiana to Springfield, Missouri, where they stayed until Dee Dee’s murder. Habitat for Humanity provided Dee Dee and Gypsy with a house (complete with a wheelchair ramp and hot tub for Gypsy’s muscle pain) when they lost theirs during Hurricane Katrina. The four-parter chronicles a string of murders that targeted gay men in 1990s Manhattan and the cultural and historical context that allowed the killer to go undetected for so long.
