When Gypsy was in her early 20s - though her mother still claimed she was a teenager - she murdered Dee Dee with the help of her boyfriend, Nicholas Godejohn, who she had met online. In 2016, reporter Michelle Dean wrote a story for BuzzFeed that became an unexpected viral sensation, called ‘Dee Dee Wanted Her Daughter to Be Sick, Gypsy Wanted Her Mom Murdered.’ For years Dee Dee Blancharde, who had Munchausen syndrome by proxy, had faked her daughter’s illness, confining her unnecessarily to a wheelchair and feeding her through a feeding tube.
