Clauddine "Dee Dee" Blanchard (née Pitre; May 3, 1967 – June 10, 2015) was a 48-year-old American woman whose life became widely known following her death in a high-profile homicide case involving her daughter, Gypsy Rose Blanchard, and Gypsy's then boyfriend, Nicholas Godejohn. Dee Dee was killed at her home in Springfield, Missouri, on June 10, 2015. Gypsy later pleaded guilty to second-degree murder for conspiring with her boyfriend to carry out the killing.
Police discovered the body of Dee Dee five days after the murder, upon residents seeing alarming Facebook posts written by Gypsy-Rose the day prior. Hours later, both Gypsy-Rose and Godejohn were arrested in his native Big Bend, Wisconsin, and confessed to the murder. The media revealed that Dee Dee had forced Gypsy-Rose to pretend to have severe physical and mental disabilities for financial and social advantage, a condition known as factitious disorder imposed on another (FDIA).
In 2016, Gypsy Rose Blanchard accepted a plea agreement, pleading guilty to second-degree murder and receiving a ten-year prison sentence.
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