Gypsy Rose Blanchard, who had her boyfriend murder her abusive mother in 2015, will be released from a Missouri prison this year after being granted parole.
KOZL reported that Blanchard, 32, will be released from prison on December 28 after serving 85 percent of a 10-year sentence. Blanchard, who pleaded guilty to second-degree murder, admitted to having her boyfriend, Nicholas Godejohn, go to her family’s home in Springfield to kill her mother, Dee Dee Blanchard, as CrimeOnline reported.
While Godejohn was sentenced to life in prison, prosecutors considered the abuse Gypsy Rose Blanchard suffered at her mother’s hands and sought a lighter sentence, KOZL said. Dee Dee Blanchard is believed to have suffered from Munchausen by proxy — which entailed forcing her daughter to use a wheelchair and subjecting her to unnecessary medical treatments.
TMZ reported that before the slaying, Gypsy Rose Blanchard’s mother also isolated her and tied her to a bed when she tried to escape.
“There are things that are coming once she comes out of prison,” family friend Titania Gisclair told inTouch. “She is going to reach out into the true crime industry and be able to share her story.”
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[Featured image: Gypsy Rose Blanchard and Clauddine Blanchard, Greene County Sheriff’s Office/Nicholas Godejohn, Waukesha County Sheriff’s Department]
