Mommy Dead and Dearest

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[Waukesha County Sheriff's Office]

[June 15, 2015 10:40PM

Waukesha, WI]

- Man:
Hey, Gypsy, this is Stan.

- Stanley Hancock: Hi, Gypsy.

- I'll let you guys talk.

- Hi, I'm Det. Hancock.

I'm with Greene County

Sheriff's Office.

- How are you today?

- Gypsy:
I'm doing good.

Hancock:

Good.

Hancock:
You need to be honest with me.

And if you're involved in anything

that I'm about ready to tell you,

then you need to tell me, okay?

- Absolutely.

- Um, your mom's dead, okay?

Now, what I want to ask you--

- Wait, what, what?

- Your mom's passed away, okay?

She's deceased, all right?

Now, what I want to ask you--

did you have involvement in this?

- Okay.

- No, no--

Hang on, listen to me for just

a second, okay?

- Uh-huh.

- What happened with your mom,

that night?

Um...

I don't know what happened

with my mom at all.

- Help me. Please help me.

- Okay, you...

Just listen to me, okay, sweetheart?

You know what happened to

your mom, okay?

And I know that you know.

Gypsy:
You think that it's me?

Why would you think that it's me?

I have always loved my mom.

My mom and I are best friends.

Hancock:
Listen to me.

Please don't dig yourself in this hole,

and that's what you're doing.

Gypsy:
I really love my mom.

- I know you do.

- Please.

I know you-- sweetheart,

I know you love your mom.

I have no doubt that you love your mom.

Hancock:
But why did Nick hurt her?

Now's the time to be truthful,

sweetheart.

No more lies.

- Did you kill your mom?

- Gypsy:
No. No, sir.

Hancock:
Did you help Nicholas kill

your mom?

Man:
Ladies and gentlemen,

please welcome a cancer survivor

and passionate young lady,

Gypsy Rose Blanchard

and her mother, Dee Dee Blanchard

from Springfield, Missouri,

to the stage.

[Six years earlier]

I believe

There are angels among us

Sent down to us

From somewhere up above

They come to you and me

In our darkest hours.

Dee Dee:
Thank you, my sweetie.

I've always said

you're the reason I was born to

be your mama.

[SPRINGFIELD, MO]

Reporter:
Breaking news this morning.

48-year-old Dee Dee Blanchard

was found dead inside her home.

Her 19-year-old daughter Gypsy

is still considered missing.

Jim Arnott:
It all started

receiving a call on June 14th

to check the well-being of a family.

[Greene County Sheriff]

Linda Ong:
Gypsy and Dee Dee

were Hurricane Katrina survivors.

Everybody believed that they were

coming here

to the Ozarks to make a better life.

[Local news reporter

Springfield, MO]

Arnott:
There was a Facebook post

that was quite alarming.

We were actually thinking that it was

somebody that hacked into Facebook

and it wasn't actually a threat.

[WHAT?!!! Did your FB get hacked?

I have never heard you talk like that.]

Elaine Scherer:
Gypsy was in a

wheelchair.

She had leukaemia and she was

having seizures

[Community Service Worker Aurora, MO]

and she had to be tube-fed.

Arnott:
As the sheriff,

my primary responsibility

at that time was really to ensure

that her well-being was okay.

Whatever they were going through

was incredibly hard for them,

especially with the medical conditions.

[Gypsy's neighbor and friend]

And so, everybody gathered around them

and would try to help them out

as much as possible.

It just proves that happy endings

are not just in fairy tales,

they're real.

The Facebook post was quote...

"The b*tch is dead."

And another post stating,

"I f***ing slashed that fat pig

and raped her sweet, innocent daughter.

Her scream was so f***ing loud, LOL."

[Green County Sheriff's Office]

[June 16, 2015]

Okay, good morning.

I want to specify at the beginning

of this press conference

that this is an ongoing

investigation.

And I want to start off with saying

things are not always as they appear.

The truth is-- okay, I'll admit it.

[Gypsy's boyfriend]

I did actually...

stab her.

- I will admit it.

- I know, okay.

The only reason I did it

is 'cause I did it

for me and her.

- I would've never did it

if it was not for me and her.

- Okay.

I know that he loves me, and...

he would do anything for me

and-- to be with me.

Did Gypsy know that you were going

to kill her mother?

Um... honestly,

she asked me to.

Okay.

[The b*tch is dead]

Arnott:
Both Facebook postings

were authored by Gypsy.

[I fucken slashed that fat pig

and raped her sweet innocent

daughter...]

[Her scream was soooo fucken loud LOL]

The prosecutor has filed charges

this morning

for first-degree murder.

This is a tragic, tragic event

surrounded by mystery

and public deception.

Gypsy can walk without assistance

or a wheelchair...

and she can do that very well.

Okay.

[Gypsys arraignment

June 16, 2015]

This individual has alleged

to conspire with Nicholas Godejohn

to stab her mother to death

so that they could be together.

- The penalty is life imprisonment

or death. (sobbing)

Reporter:
Seeing Gypsy Blanchard

walk on her own two feet

in a Wisconsin courtroom

was a shock to friends and neighbors.

[Gypsy's neighbor]

Is she sick?

I don't know yet.

We're trying to figure that out.

[Can she walk?]

Um, yes.

Oh, son of a b*tch.

To see her walk...

was really upsetting.

Obviously, if that's a lie,

then who knows what else was a lie.

We really don't know the true

background of this family,

as we have unearthed the appearance

of a long financial fraud scheme.

Reporter:
The family got

medical airlifts,

Disney travel, and free housing

over the years

because of Gypsy's supposed disabilities.

Reporter #2:
It was a facade

that translated online,

[The Gypsy Rose trip]

donations pouring in

for Gypsy's reported muscular dystrophy

and leukaemia.

[Click here to support Gypsy's

medical trip by Dee

and Gypsy Rose Blanchard]

Arnott:
We have not confirmed

the age of Gypsy.

It appears that there are

several dates of birth

that have been used

over a period of time.

I almost want to say,

"Man, I can't believe she--

I even wanted to associate with--

why did I even help them?"

I just never would see

that that little girl

really wasn't who she was

supposed to be.

[July 24, 2015]

[The prosecution presents its

preliminary evidence against Gypsy.]

Case exhibit 53.

Can I ask you if you'll tell me

what that is?

Dan Patterson:
Miss Blanchard is charged

with murder in the first degree.

When you commit a first-degree murder,

[Greene County Prosecutor]

you knowingly cause the death

of another person

after deliberation.

Analysis of cell phones

provided evidence of

numerous text messages

between Gypsy Blanchard

and Nicholas Godejohn.

Patterson:
Nicholas Godejohn was someone

that Gypsy Blanchard met online.

They began an online dating relationship.

Patterson:
During the attacks,

the two discussed

Nicholas killing Clauddine.

[The shits gonna go down tonight...]

[Babe its my evil side doing it]

[he won't mess up because he enjoys killing]

[...we'll be happy soon.]

[After this night

we will never bring it up]

At the beginning,

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