Godejohn is serving a life sentence for the 2015 murder of Dee Dee Blanchard. Hulu's The Act fictionalizes the twisted real-life events that led to Dee Dee Blanchard's murder at the hands of daughter Gypsy's boyfriend Nicholas Godejohn.
He is serving life in prison without parole, plus 25 years for armed criminal action. Attorneys for Godejohn asked Greene County Judge David Jones to set aside his 2018 murder conviction based on poor representation. An evidentiary hearing was held in August 2022.
Nicholas Godejohn pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder but received a life sentence after being found guilty. Gypsy did plead guilty to second-degree murder and was sentenced to 10 years in prison.
Nicholas Godejohn, the 32-year-old Wisconsin man who is serving a life sentence for the infamous 2015 murder of Clauddine “Dee Dee” Blanchard, was back in the courtroom this week.
They called off their engagement in August 2019, InTouch reports. Gypsy, whose story was detailed in the Hulu series The Act, is currently serving a 10-year prison sentence after the 2015 murder of her mother, Dee Dee Blanchard.
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 testified that Nick wanted to rape her mom but she talked him out of it and offered herself up instead. Nick, too, has admitted that he thought about raping Dee Dee but ultimately decided against it. The events of their final days together weren't the only signs that their relationship was unhealthy.
Nicholas Godejohn was convicted of first-degree murder for stabbing Dee Dee Blanchard in 2015. He is serving life in prison without parole, plus 25 years for armed criminal action.
The character Lacey on Hulu's The Act is based off Aleah Woodmansee, Gypsy Rose Blanchard's neighbor in real life. Woodmansee was one of the only people who knew that Gypsy met men online and that she later had a relationship with Nicholas Godejohn, the man that helped Gypsy murder her mother, Dee Dee.
In actuality, she was 16. As of the The Act's premiere in March 2019, the real Gypsy Rose is 27. She told Dr. Phil in a 2017 interview that she didn't discover her mother's secrets until she was 19 and some paperwork didn't add up.
Who is Nicholas Godejohn? Before Nicholas “Nick” Godejohn crossed paths with Gypsy, he was living in Wisconsin with his family. While not much is known about him personally, he was reportedly diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder and a low-average IQ.
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Gypsy and Nick did not actually meet in person until March 2015, when Gypsy planned for herself and her mother to be at a Springfield movie theater at the same time as Nick. (For the planned run-in, Gypsy and Nick coordinated costumes—Gypsy dressed as Cinderella and Nick dressed as Prince Charming.)
Godejohn was diagnosed with autism in grade school, according to his father, Bobby, who spoke out in the “Killer Couples” episode. However, the severity of Godejohn's autism spectrum disorder was called into question by a psychologist brought in by prosecutors at his trial.
Gypsy hid in the bathroom and covered her ears so that she would not have to hear her mother screaming. Godejohn then stabbed Dee Dee 17 times in her back while she was asleep.
Gypsy Rose is serving a 10-year prison sentence for second-degree murder (Godejohn got life in prison). It appears that Woodmansee is getting married. But she's still in touch with her old friend.
According to Macelli, Gypsy Rose claims that Hulu's show is "inaccurate," especially when it comes to the portrayals of her sex life, which Gypsy Rose says was "dramatized to make her seem like a nymphomaniac." The subject of the TV series added that her mother tying her to her bed (which happens multiple times in The ...
Gypsy didn't willingly sign over guardianship to Dee Dee
Over the years, she lied about Gypsy's age – saying she was born in 1993, and then later 1995. Gypsy was actually born in 1991. In real life, according to accounts by Gypsy and the Blanchard family, Dee Dee forged Gypsy's signature to get control.
Who Is Nick Godejohn? Godejohn is Gypsy's ex-boyfriend, but at the time of the murder, they were together. As portrayed in The Act — Hulu's hit TV show about Gypsy's life and the events surrounding Dee Dee's death — Gypsy fell for Godejohn online and enlisted his help to kill her mom.
She tied the knot in Missouri with Ryan Scott Anderson on June 27. The murder of Gypsy's mother, Dee Dee Blanchard, was detailed in the Hulu series The Act.
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.
"I was blindly in love," Godejohn said. "That was always very much the case." In addition to a life sentence, he received a concurrent 25-year sentence on the charge of armed criminal action.
Although The Act dramatizes her story, Gypsy won't benefit fiscally from the show—at least, that's according to Gypsy's stepmom Kristy Blanchard.
Meanwhile, Gypsy Rose has since researched her mother's condition and has come to terms with the abuse she suffered. She is remorseful for the murder but maintains she is better off without Dee Dee.