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Topics: Crime, News, Sex and Relationships, US News, Gypsy Rose Blanchard
Joe Yates
Topics: Crime, News, Sex and Relationships, US News, Gypsy Rose Blanchard
Just mere moments after murdering Gypsy Rose Blanchard's mother, Nicholas Godejohn went on to carry out his dark sexual fantasy.
While Claudine 'Dee Dee' Blanchard was sleeping, her daughter, then aged 23, opened the door to allow her then 25-year-old boyfriend in - with the sole intention that he would murder her mom.
In the cover of darkness, he snuck into her room and stabbed Dee Dee 17 times... but his crimes under their roof wouldn't end there.
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Before we get into that, here's a quick debrief of the case.
At her mom's hands, Gypsy Rose was a victim of 'Munchausen syndrome by proxy', defined as someone exaggerating, faking and even inducing an illness for attention.
Her mom reaped the rewards with financial gains and social advantages she believed having a sick child got her.
It took several days until cops discovered Dee Dee's body at her home in Springfield, Missouri, and police came to the assumption that Gypsy was likely abducted - with many being under the impression she was unable to walk at the time.
It wasn't until officials tracked the IP address of a Facebook post, which read 'that b***h is dead', that they discovered she was in fact alive and was at large with her boyfriend after they uncovered the pair wrote it.
Gypsy and Nick met on an online Christian chat room and became close, and after Dee Dee disapproved of their relationship and continued to control her daughter's life, the pair plotted her murder.
Nick was convicted of first degree murder and sentenced to life in prison, while Gypsy was convicted of second-degree murder and sentenced to 10 years.
After serving just seven years, she was released in December and has gone on to divorce from her husband Ryan Anderson, and become pregnant with her boyfriend, Ken Urker.
Back in 2019, Nick appeared in the Oxygen documentary Killer Couples, and opened up about the night of the murder.
He revealed that minutes after he killed Dee Dee, he carried out one of his sexual fantasies, with Gypsy cleaning blood from a wound on his finger and the pair having sex.
"The very second I put my foot down, I had one of those moments that you might only have once in your lifetime," he explained.
"It was an angel and the devil. First, the angel spoke — it actually said, ‘Take her and run', and then you had the other part of me, that darn devil. What he ended up telling me was, ‘This b***h is dead'.
"I got so darn enraged that something inside of me clicked. Unfortunately, that part of me wanted to come out for a very long time and the very first opportunity it got, it didn’t waste any time.
"That dark shadow part of me that really is triggered by anger; once that anger clicks, I see red."
However, when asked if he had any regrets, the killer said no.
"I would’ve done it again. I might have done it differently but I would’ve done it again," he added. "I couldn’t see [Gypsy Rose] suffer anymore."