Found Deceased MO - Clauddinnea 'Dee Dee' Blancharde, 48, Springfield, 10 June 2015 - #2 *Arrests*

[Lilibet]

Very good and compassionate analysis along with questions that I hope will be answered. I agree that wherever she ends up, Gypsy will be better off. Her life is a tragedy on so many levels.

You would have to be hard pressed to view her as a hero. She admitted to planning in and participating in killing her mom. She will feel the hand of justice for the remainder of her life, as it should be.

I think though, there is a great need to know what makes Gypsy tick. What was her life like behind closed doors; What were the conditions that she was desperate enough to kill to obtain freedom; How and why did she go along with the scams, when it is clear she had enough sense to want to stop it and have some sort of normal life; What emotional, physical, and psychological traumas did she endure since birth; Why did not one single adult in her life try to rescue her, when they've stated clearly they knew what was going on (fake illnesses/scams); How very alone must she have felt in this world, with all the good people surrounding her at events, yet none of them able to save her?

I have said it before - at some point in the future, Gypsy will be part of a documentary process that will allow us to see into her mind, at least a little. I will not be at all surprised if she spent the majority of her adolescence pleading with her mom not to (hit her/drug her/punish her) if she plays along perfectly instead. I also will not be surprised to learn that there were levels of torturous rituals. DeeDee was evil on the inside, and Gypsy is a product of that. While I would not want her to be my neighbor (she needs forever help and supervision), I do have a great deal of sympathy for a young woman who finally found a way to escape her hell. I will venture to guess that she'll say any future living arrangements will be far better than her previous one.

 

[jjenny]

No doubt that if that were the case, Gypsy would be a very different girl right now.... including her size.

She is very small. Just physically, no way she could win in a fight with a much bigger Dee Dee. And we know Dee Dee could get physical if somebody didn't do as she wanted (assault of a pizza driver).

 

[Jo in Calif]

I may have missed it, but has there been any mention of a life insurance policy that DeeDee might have had?

 

[Tssiemer]

I may have missed it, but has there been any mention of a life insurance policy that DeeDee might have had?

Good question.


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[Lulu14]

I may have missed it, but has there been any mention of a life insurance policy that DeeDee might have had?

I think the only person in the household likely to have one is Gypsy. I don't think DD was much concerned with her death, not too preoccupied with insuring her daughter's future.

 

[jjenny]

I may have missed it, but has there been any mention of a life insurance policy that DeeDee might have had?

No. Considering Dee Dee was allegedly scamming money out of people, and using her daughter to do so, somehow I doubt she was going to spend money for somebody else to benefit after she died.

 

[ChuckieD]

This case makes my skin crawl from the bottom to the top. What a horrendous set of circumstances.

 

[Cricket99]

This case makes my skin crawl from the bottom to the top. What a horrendous set of circumstances.

My sentiments also. I won't be surprised if Gypsy and John are found mentally incompetent and end up in a Mental Prison.

 

[gitana1]

I am so conflicted.

I feel extremely sympathetic for Gypsy and then I don't and then I do again and then I don't.........

I wouldn't want to be a juror for this trial.

I have to go back to the beginning and reiterate that Gypsy did not have a choice when this all began. In fact, she didn't have a choice for most of it. She lived a lie perpetuated by her controlling, scamming, dominating mother who MUST have been mentally ill to some degree to do what has been done. Just because you're mentally ill doesn't mean you're stupid. Dee Dee had a good gig going. Shameful and disgusting.

Gypsy's entire life and being has been a lie. Her "self" has been created and moulded by a very sick woman for financial gain. What is real and what is not? What is truth and what are lies? What is right and what is wrong? The answers to these questions for Gypsy come from her mother. Brainwashing maybe....a bit of stockholm syndrome? Who knows. The one reality is that it's not NORMAL thinking.

Gypsy did not go to school. She did not have friends. She did what ever mother told her to do. She reached out over the internet when she was old enough to do so, but the damage was already done. She wanted to behave like a normal girl but didn't know how. The psych people on this site may disagree with me or have more input and I hope they help us understand Gypsy a bit more. She was unsocialized but that doesn't mean that she was stupid or unable to think and problem solve. However, her reality was, and is not, ours. What is reasonable to us, Gypsy wouldn't even think of. She is stunted emotionally, probably mentally and socially.

Every time she tried to run away her mother found her and brought her home. So if you're Gypsy how do you escape? What do you do? In desperation to have a boyfriend, children, a life, do you kill the person that has caused you to live the life you are now stuck in? If it means and end to the torment, the abuse, the isolation and "the only way out", I think that's a choice you make.

A wrong choice but a choice that makes sense to an isolated and abused person who sees no way out. Not a choice that most of us would make but I understand Gypsy's choice.

I almost wish she had killed her mother herself. It's easier to understand and accept. I think we struggle because she got someone else to do it and that shows us a level of conniving and manipulation which makes us think that she's not a victim.

But Gypsy really is a victim because the things her mother taught her all those years was how to lie, manipulate and get what you want by making people feel sorry for you so that they would do things for you. That's exactly what Gypsy did to get her BF to kill her mother. It's what she knows!

Gypsy was a good student.

I feel so sad about this case.

I just found this thread and case. I'm going back and up to about page 19 on the first thread and have read your post and that's all I know. Based on that, I hope the poor woman is found not guilty by reason of insanity. And is given rigorous treatment for several years but it able to be released when and if she's deemed no longer a risk to society.

How can she be at all normal due to what her mother did to her?

 

[jjenny]

I don't see how she could be normal either. It's like expecting someone who was raised by wolves to be normal. But I don't think she would qualify for legally insane.

 

[kimlynn]

Blancharde Pleads Not Guilty and requests that case be severed from Godejohn.

http://www.ozarksfirst.com/news/bla...ty-and-requests-case-be-severed-from-godejohn

 

[MandaRose]

Hi, all. Long time fan, first time poster. *waves*

I grew up in Nixa (a suburb of Springfield) and actually lived less than 5 minutes from the Blancharde home in Springfield in 2008/2009 before moving cross-country. I never met either of them (nor had I heard of them), but I've been fascinated by this case ever since they were reported "missing." Here's my personal take on things as they stand at the moment (because Lord knows they're changing moment by moment):

Though Dee Dee was clearly abusing Gypsy into playing along in the early days, I feel that Gypsy eventually had to have become complicit in the fraud once she was old enough to know better (even if that just means DB told GB, "You're in too deep with me now to avoid getting in trouble yourself.") And I know first-hand that the people of SWMO will bend over backward to help someone who appears to need it, but in hindsight there seem to have been so many blind eyes turned in this case. Did any of the neighbors ever ask why Dee Dee had the windows tinted/blacked out? How did she explain it? And how was it paid for?

There have been a lot of people asking why Gypsy didn't just walk away, and just as many saying abuse victims often don't feel they can. While I completely understand that, I'd argue that she DID walk away in the end - she just left a bloody body behind when she did it. To that point, it's also been said, "But how could she just walk away? She wasn't educated, she had no skills, she had nowhere to go!" Those things were all true after she had Dee Dee killed, too, so why couldn't she have just used her bus pass and just walked into the police department? Whether Dee Dee was dead or not, Gypsy would still have found herself in the situation she is now, just without the murder trial.

Gypsy clearly has some kind of mental issues from everything she endured throughout her life, I don't question that at all. But I, too, find it hard to believe the sobbing little creature in the court room. I think Dee Dee taught Gypsy extremely well on how to manipulate and play-act into getting exactly what she wants. The trial is going to be Gypsy's master class and I'll definitely have the popcorn ready for this one.

 

[jjenny]

She didn't just walk way. Obviously she had no palce to go, no skills, no education. She did the only thing she could to get away, she found a man to "rescue her." Sounds like she has been looking for years.
I am also not sure how she was supposed to become old enough to know better, when mother has been allegedly training her for years, from very erly age, to scam people. Does she just magially realize it's wrong when she turns 18?
Who was supposed to teach her right from wrong?
Society clearly failed her.

 

[MandaRose]

Who was supposed to teach her right from wrong?
Society clearly failed her.

That was another facet that I meant to address in my first post, so I'm glad you reminded me. People talk about Gypsy like she was raised in a cave in the woods with zero contact with the human race. She watched hours upon hours of tv and movies and listened to the radio and saw the news and was all over the internet and had at least one friend that we know of. As restrictive as Dee Dee tried to be, Gypsy wasn't raised in a vacuum. She knew right from wrong. Her version was certainly skewed, but it's not like she thought the world was just a free-for-all.

 

[jjenny]

That was another facet that I meant to address in my first post, so I'm glad you reminded me. People talk about Gypsy like she was raised in a cave in the woods with zero contact with the human race. She watched hours upon hours of tv and movies and listened to the radio and saw the news and was all over the internet and had at least one friend that we know of. As restrictive as Dee Dee tried to be, Gypsy wasn't raised in a vacuum. She knew right from wrong. Her version was certainly skewed, but it's not like she thought the world was just a free-for-all.

Friend who says Dee Dee didn't appreciate people treating Gypsy as if she wasn't 7 years old.

 

[human]

Blancharde Pleads Not Guilty and requests that case be severed from Godejohn.

http://www.ozarksfirst.com/news/bla...ty-and-requests-case-be-severed-from-godejohn

Why? Are they going to say it was all him?

 

[MandaRose]

Friend who says Dee Dee didn't appreciate people treating Gypsy as if she wasn't 7 years old.

Right, but that just goes to show that her friend did try to treat Gypsy appropriately. Even if that weren't the case, Gypsy still had plenty of exposure to the world from television and movies. You're more than welcome to disagree. As I said, this is just my own personal take having grown up in the area and having read through every thread here and every article I can find on the case.

Why? Are they going to say it was all him?

I wondered about this, too. Those of you with more experience with these kind of cases, what effect would severing their cases have? Why would they request it?

 

[jjenny]

Why? Are they going to say it was all him?

Could be. But it would only make sense to have the cases separated. Strategies for the defense could be totally different.

 

[jjenny]

Right, but that just goes to show that her friend did try to treat Gypsy appropriately. Even if that weren't the case, Gypsy still had plenty of exposure to the world from television and movies. You're more than welcome to disagree. As I said, this is just my own personal take having grown up in the area and having read through every thread here and every article I can find on the case.



I wondered about this, too. Those of you with more experience with these kind of cases, what effect would severing their cases have? Why would they request it?

So do you expect the friend to teach Gypsy right from wrong? When her own mother is telling her otherwise?

 

[human]

So do you expect the friend to teach Gypsy right from wrong? When her own mother is telling her otherwise?

She did say she was Catholic so I wonder if she went to Sunday School or church.