Gypsy Rose Blanchard released from prison 8 years after mother’s murder

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Gypsy Rose Blanchard, who conspired with her online ex-boyfriend to kill her mother, has been released from prison.Gypsy, now 32, was originally handed a 10-year sentence after she encouraged her then-boyfriend Nicholas Godejohn to kill Clauddine (Dee Dee) Blanchard in June 2015.On Thursday, after serving over eight years behind bars, Gypsy walked free. She left the Chillicothe Correctional Centre in Missouri around 3:30 a.m.

local time, according to a regional Fox affiliate news station. There was little fanfare, and Gypsy was not seen as she exited.She was granted parole in September after serving 85 per cent of her original sentence.She served the majority of her sentence at the Chillicothe Correctional Centre in Missouri.

Her time held in the Greene County Jail prior to moving to the prison also counted toward her time.Gypsy’s case made international headlines — and went on to become one of the most infamous criminal cases of the last decade — because of the shocking and sensational details surrounding the murder.Gypsy, who is an abuse victim, was born in Louisiana in 1991.She was made to believe by her mother for years that she had numerous serious diseases, including leukemia, muscular dystrophy and brain damage. Gypsy underwent numerous surgeries, used a wheelchair and an oxygen tank and often believed she was fighting for her life.

Dee Dee regularly told others that Gypsy had the mental capacity of a seven-year-old.Only after Gypsy’s arrest was it revealed that Dee Dee had fabricated the list of health conditions. It is widely believed Dee Dee suffered from Munchausen syndrome by proxy, a mental health disorder that involves a caregiver projecting diagnoses or inducing symptoms in a dependent for attention.Gypsy