Gypsy Rose Blanchard, an American woman sentenced to ten years in prison in 2015 for the murder of her mother, was released this Thursday. According to the data, the 32-year-old woman served only seven years in prison. ABC News.
The mother, “Dee Dee” Blanchard, abused her daughter for years, convincing her that she suffered from various illnesses. These included leukemia, muscular dystrophy, visual and hearing impairment, and seizures.
Gypsy Rose underwent several surgeries, moved in a wheelchair and was even fed through a feeding tube. The information contained in personal documents was also not true.
The motive for the crime was the discovery that she had been deceived by her mother. The young woman was an accomplice of her boyfriend, Nicholas Godejohn, whom she met on social media and who stabbed the woman to death in her bedroom in Springfield, United States of America.
The man was sentenced to life in prison on charges of first-degree murder. Gypsy Rose confessed to the crime and was found guilty of second-degree murder.
“He physically chained me to the bed, put bells on the door,” Gypsy Rose told the publication in 2017. ABC News. The gypsy woman killed her mother because she “wanted to get away from her,” he added.
The case became internationally famous and became the subject of the TV series “The Act” in 2019.
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