In real life, Gypsy and Godejohn left behind tons of clues that led investigators to catch them and arrest them five days later. The authorities cracked the case by tracing a suspicious Facebook message back to Godejohn's computer.
Life Behind Bars For Nicholas Godejohn
Gypsy assumed the police would think a random criminal had done the deed but that obviously wasn't the case. Police traced the post back to Big Bend, Wisconsin, where they quickly found Gypsy Rose Blanchard and Nicholas Godejohn. Both were arrested for murder.
YouTubeGypsy Rose Blanchard on a trip to Disney World, which was sponsored by the Make-A-Wish Foundation. In 2010, Dee Dee was telling everyone that Gypsy Rose was 14, but she was actually 19 years old. By then, she knew she wasn't as sick as her mother claimed — as she was well aware that she could walk.
The following day, police found Gypsy Rose in Wisconsin, where she had traveled with her boyfriend, Nicholas Godejohn, whom she had met online.
Blanchard is currently serving a 10-year prison sentence for her involvement with the murder of her mother, Dee Dee Blanchard.
She was also seen expressing immediate regret at the murder of her mother, and was desperately attempting to cover her up. However, in an interview following her arrest, Gypsy didn't think she was going to be caught at all – in fact, she thought their entire plan was faultless.
Are Nick Godejohn and Gypsy Rose still together? Gypsy pled guilty for second-degree murder and is currently serving her 10-year sentence. She'll be eligible for parole in 2024, and has made it clear that she and Godejohn are no longer together. “He was very much like my mother in certain ways.
In addition to being told she had leukemia, muscular dystrophy and epilepsy, Gypsy Rose Blanchard never even knew her real age.
Prosecutors cut a deal with Gypsy, however, because of the horrific abuse she suffered at the hands of her mother. In exchange for pleading guilty to second-degree murder, Gypsy was sentenced to the minimum of 10 years in prison.
In the trailer, Dee Dee says Gypsy was born in 1995, to which Gypsy responds, “I thought you said I was born in 1993?” Later, Gypsy discovers she was actually born even earlier when she finds her insurance card that states her birthday as July 1991.
According to the American Dental Association, dental extractions occur when the teeth are severely decayed, damaged, or diseased. It's unclear why Gypsy's teeth decayed, but it's likely a combination of poor dental hygiene, malnutrition, and the many unnecessary medications she was taking.
Dee Dee says Gypsy's sugar allergy is so severe that it could kill her-but it turns out, Gypsy has no such allergy. While sugar allergies do exist, they're extremely rare, and it's much more likely for someone to have a sugar intolerance.
When she turned 5, Dee Dee declared Gypsy could no longer walk, because she had muscular dystrophy and epilepsy. She put her daughter in a wheelchair.
Rod and Gypsy have reconnected since she's been in prison.
"We email each other. She can call me anytime, and she does. I'm keeping tabs on all of her accomplishments in school.
Gypsy believed most her mother's imposed illnesses to be true, but eventually began to figure out that many of her disabilities weren't real. “There are certain illnesses I knew I didn't have. I knew I didn't need the feeding tube; I knew that I could eat. And I knew that I could walk," she said.
Speech experts have weighed in on why her voice was so high pitched, with some reasoning that she was doing it almost unconsciously in response to being infantilized by her mother, Dee Dee, who had convinced her that she was years younger than she was.
Eventually, she destroyed Gypsy Rose's phone so the teenagers couldn't speak anymore. The friends lost touch. In doing so, Gypsy Rose lost one of her few allies outside her toxic home environment.
Gypsy told him she had 30 different procedures, including multiple eye, leg and throat surgeries. Her salivary glands were also removed.
The meeting did not go as planned—Dee Dee hated Godejohn—but Gypsy was still able to sneak away and lose her virginity to Godejohn in a bathroom stall, according to her testimony at his trial.
In 2016, Gypsy pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and was sentenced to 10 years in prison. Two years later, Nicholas was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison.
When Gypsy was eight years old, Dee Dee described her as suffering from leukemia and muscular dystrophy and said she required a wheelchair and feeding tube. The list of medical problems that Dee Dee related about her daughter would go on to include seizures, asthma and hearing and visual impairments.
Although he traveled from Big Bend, Wisconsin, to Springfield, Missouri, the meetup didn't go as planned, but she did sneak off to have sex with him in the handicap bathroom. In the show, Nick calls Dee Dee to have it out over the terrible first impression, and she's almost too stunned to have words with Gypsy.
“I couldn't just jump out of the wheelchair because I was afraid and I didn't know what my mother would do. I didn't have anyone to trust,” Gypsy says in an exclusive clip from Investigation Discovery's documentary Gypsy's Revenge, airing on Nov.
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