In 2018, Nicholas Godejohn was convicted of first-degree murder in the killing of Gypsy Rose Blanchard’s mother.
In 2015, Gypsy Rose Blanchard and Nicholas Godejohn, her then-boyfriend, were arrested in connection to the death of Blanchard’s mother, Dee Dee Blanchard.
Blanchard, who was released from prison on December 28, 2023, and is now promoting her new Lifetime series « The Prison Confessions of Gypsy Rose Blanchard, » was charged with second-degree murder in 2016. Godejohn was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison in 2018. He was 26 at the time.
The former couple met online when Blanchard was still living with her mother, who falsely claimed that Gypsy had been diagnosed with a range of afflictions ranging from chromosomal defects, asthma, epilepsy, and leukemia, BuzzFeed News reported.
But after Dee Dee’s death, it was revealed that Gypsy hadn’t been ill. Dee Dee was believed to have Munchausen by proxy, a condition in which a child’s caretaker creates fake symptoms for them to mimic illness. And while Gypsy has denounced her actions in connection to her mother’s death, she told CNN that she thinks she would likely still experience medical abuse if her mother was alive today.
While Gypsy is now out of prison and happily married, Godejohn is currently serving a life sentence without parole at the Potosi Correctional Center, a maximum-security prison in Mineral Point, Missouri.Nicholas Godejohn and Gypsy Rose met on a Christian dating forum
According to BuzzFeed News, Godejohn and Gypsy met on a Christian dating website without her mother’s knowledge. The two formed a texting relationship, and became a couple in October 2012, Gypsy testified during Godejohn’s trial. According to the Springfield News-Leader, their messages ranged from talk of their love, future together, and potential sex life, to discussion about killing.
It was during those conversations that Gypsy asked Godejohn to kill her mother, People reported.
« It was panic, desperation, » Gypsy told the outlet. « Because I was facing yet another surgery pretty soon, and I really did not want to have the surgery.
