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“That bitch is dead!”
When those chilling words appeared on the shared Facebook page of Dee Dee Blanchard and her teenage daughter Gypsy Rose, friends were immediately concerned. “Between the two of them, never a heavy word. Never a curse word, heaven forbid,” said friend Kim Blanchard (no relation) in Oxygen’s Killer Couples: Gypsy Rose and Nick special. “To see an expletive on their [Facebook page] was like, ‘Oh my goodness!’”
The cruel Facebook post led the Greene County, Missouri police to perform a wellness check at the Blanchards’ home, where they discovered Dee Dee’s dead body, marked by stab wounds, in bed. Gypsy Rose was nowhere to be seen.
The unusual story of Dee Dee Blanchard’s 2015 murder is well-trod territory by now. The name Gypsy Rose Blanchard should ring a few bells, or perhaps even bring to mind images of a skinny wheelchair-bound girl with a shaved head and thick-framed glasses. The twisted true story of murder and Munchausen syndrome by proxy in the Midwest has since been the subject of an in-depth BuzzFeed News article, an HBO documentary called Mommy Dead and Dearest (directed by I Love You, Now Die’s Erin Lee Carr) and a Hulu series, The Act. The latter, starring Joey King and showbiz veteran Patricia Arquette, received overwhelmingly positive reviews from critics.
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