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

[GigTu]

During an interview, LE said they knew why the neighbor couldn't find Dee Dee but couldn't say. Interesting. IMO

Gruesome thoughts in my mind. She wasn't skinny, and she may have been a hoarder. She was probably covered up in a sunken bed.

 

[kimlynn]

Gruesome thoughts in my mind. She wasn't skinny, and she may have been a hoarder. She was probably covered up in a sunken bed.

Yes due to her size and the age of the mattress her bed may have been sunken in. Another thought of mine is that they sliced the mattress and stuffed her inside. Awful I know,and not sure if that is even doable. IMO

 

[passionflower]

if DD was poisoning her tat may be a reason for the shaved head.............IMO, hair tells the tale

 

[GigTu]

Yes he did. I had missed that story until today when I saw the link from human (thanks) post #540. In the blog (Gypsy Blancharde Thought Catalog) posting he didn't mention that Gypsy had been fed small amounts of poison. He did insinuate strongly that DB had been putting something in her stepmothers food.
It is very scary...if true.
The thing that puts me off about the cousin is how fast he came out with these stories. I doubt if LE had even had a chance to interview or speak with the family before he started posting to blogs and talking to media.
In the blog the only thing he said regarding Gypsy and food was that certain foods made Gypsy sick and DB wouldn't allow her to eat them.
He also mentioned that DB had certain ideas about food and would only eat potatoes. IMO

He sure knows a lot about what was going on in that house, yet did nothing about it. He better watch it or he'll find himself on the dark side of the law, for both DeeDee AND Gypsy.

 

[gitana1]

Plus it was stated that the mother was getting sick possibly due to poison or possibly stress from DEE Dee.

But once Dee Dee left. The mother got better. Dee Dee knew how to mix meds in people's food and drinks. Jmo.

This is insane.

It sounds to me (JMOO) that at first DD was living off her family but when she scammed them using credit cards, they disowned her. It was at that point she played up GB's maladies and sought welfare. At some point that wasn't enough for her and she got full disability for GB and as the guardian had full control over the finances. This would continue until the age of 18 unless GB was not mentally able to care for herself (i.e. low IQ). So naturally - she was also low I.Q. according to DD. . . putting her in complete control of every cent coming in.

Here was a quote from the cousin that stood out to me: (BBM)

This wording drives home the fact that GB was not aware that her mother was being abusive.

I'm not seeing that they were not aware. Making a kid stay in a wheelchair when nothing is wrong is abusive.

Sure doesn't sound like Dee Dee wanted to work. So she got her meal ticket in Gypsy.
I don't think she was going to let her meal ticket to just leave.

I agree. This is a dangerous criminal.

Thanks to insomnia, I got to read a fair amount about this case.
I have much more to learn and my head is totally spinning.

I am puzzled by Gypsy's voice and diminutive size. Has this been discussed?

Thx

This case gave me insomnia last night! Really creeps me out how a perfectly healthy child was made into a wizened, intellectually challenged old lady with, weird, out dated clothes and bonnets and glasses that a senior citizen would wear, and a bald head, and no teeth. How she had to live her life confined and isolated from other kids and a normal life, forced to live as a 7 year old perpetually, and repeatedly hospitalized (if the photos are accurate), subject to the torture of continual medical procedures, and how all of this caused her to apparently develop into a twisted person who likes scary BDSM and daddy/daughter sex fetishes, who knows nothing about relationships and human interaction but manipulation and feigned sickness, and who became a vicious murderer.

This case really freaks me out. So much horror really. It's "Whatever Happened to Baby Jane" and "Mommy Dearest" and worse.

Yup. Same guy.

I will try to find where he said to quit picking on the family

Thanks!

No, I don't think Dee Dee believed her fabricated reality. It was a scam to get money out of people.

Oh yeah. This is a very psychopathic criminal, IMO. Or was.

Yup. The family makes no sense in what they are saying.

I cannot copy the relevant quotte and it is a ways into the article.

Bobby says , in bolder letters at least, that the family is not psychic and that Deedee fooled many.

http://thoughtcatalog.com/m-j-pack/...red-mother-and-her-missing-disabled-daughter/

I kind of think they are just trying to justify why they didn't do more. The cousin's statements indicate they knew some of what was happening and that it began happening 3 years before she left.

From what I can tell he is about 45 years old, so he would've been about 30 when this was happening - old enough to contact someone.

Also, the aunt seems to have known something was happening with Gypsy before everyone lost contact:

Olivier said her sister's path to deception and fraud started early on in Dee Dee's life."I don't know why she always felt like she was the black sheep," said Olivier.
"After my mama passed away, she kept getting further and further from us," said Olivier. "She wanted to be controlling, but she really put her control over Gypsy."
Olivier said Dee Dee and Gypsy were forced out of their family's house, and into the projects. The deception then intensified.
She said Dee Dee opened credit cards in family names without permission, and used Gypsy's leukemia and muscular dystrophy as her "meal ticket."
Claudia does recall Gypsy being sick when she was young, but saw red flags.
"If she'd be playing with any of our kids, the minute she heard Dee Dee or see Dee Dee, she's paralyzed. Shut down," said Olivier. http://www.ozarksfirst.com/news/family-member-shares-dee-dees-path-to-deception

Who knows if they did? They seem like concerned people and supportive of the child. So I don't know. Maybe they tried. Maybe they didn't know what to do. It's all a shame either way.

 

[kimlynn]

I may as well get it out of my system and post my theories on why the neighbor couldn't find Dee Dee.

1) Door to bedroom was locked

2) She was put inside mattress

3) Some chemical was put on her body. Not likely but spray bottles make me wonder if there was an attempt

4) An attempt to make body smaller. Body was cut with swords

5) Bed was one that would go inside wall so neighbor didn't see bed.

I'm hoping for #1 that door was locked although nothing would surprise me after the fb postings. IMO

 

[JasperMKE]

Are you somehow suggesting that persons with "lazy eye" are developmentally delayed? If so, please don't. I find it offensive being that I have had this condition my entire life. Stereotypes - ugh.

TIA

That's not at all what I was suggesting, but sorry if I offended you. I didn't mention anything about a developmental delay in relation to having a lazy eye. Only that perhaps if she does have a lazy eye, it could potentially be related to an underlying medical condition. The reason I pointed it out was just to suggest the possibility that maybe Gypsy did have some legitimate health issues.

 

[gitana1]

***I didn't quote properly, but this response was in reference to the video someone posted of NG & GB in court***

I agree! NG does not sound particularly upset, but he can't seem to articulate his complete address properly without being prompted, and even then he seems a bit unsure. It's a bit funny/ironic since he mailed the knife back to his own house...Good thing he got the right address for that! :/

GB's sobbing makes me think of a scared little girl. It seems to indicate the possibility of stunted emotional/intellectual maturity (or perhaps wanting to give that impression in hopes of gaining sympathy). But I suppose being arrested, sitting in jail, and being charged with murder might make me sob too.

There is zero chance this girl has anything close to a normal psychology.

Frankly, this case is a defense attorney's dream. There will be so much to work with here and it is an interesting case. I predict that several private attorneys have offered or will offer to take her case pro bono.

This case is haunting but I will be following it closely. It is a cautionary tale about the grim effects of serious emotional abuse, IMO.

Yes he did. I had missed that story until today when I saw the link from human (thanks) post #540. In the blog (Gypsy Blancharde Thought Catalog) posting he didn't mention that Gypsy had been fed small amounts of poison. He did insinuate strongly that DB had been putting something in her stepmothers food.
It is very scary...if true.
The thing that puts me off about the cousin is how fast he came out with these stories. I doubt if LE had even had a chance to interview or speak with the family before he started posting to blogs and talking to media.
In the blog the only thing he said regarding Gypsy and food was that certain foods made Gypsy sick and DB wouldn't allow her to eat them.
He also mentioned that DB had certain ideas about food and would only eat potatoes. IMO

I think he's really feeling bad and perhaps a bit defensive for his family and for Gypsy. I believe this family. This is a huge deal for them and quite horrible. They know this child and some of what she was subjected to.

I think she was trying to find out a way to make a living without actually working.
Sure sounds like Dee Dee was a very dishonest person with no concerns for others. She opened up credit cards in her relatives names, and lived off that, according to her nephew.
I don't believe she was actually concerned about Gypsy's well being. I think it's was just a way for her to make a living without having to work, after her credit card scam was discovered.

Yeah, concerned mothers do not turn into psychopathic criminals who destroy their children for profit. She totally destroyed Gypsy's life.

Gruesome thoughts in my mind. She wasn't skinny, and she may have been a hoarder. She was probably covered up in a sunken bed.

A person who knew the family fairly well stated their house was always immaculate.

On another note, I read some posts on the last thread suggesting it could've been Gypsy who orchestrated all of this with her mother as the unwitting foil. 5 and 6 and 7 and 8 year olds do not have the capacity to perpetrate such a complex fraud and manipulate their parents and doctors.

I really urge all who are just learning about Munchausen's and malingering to do a bit of research. The complex psychological relationship the mother created with her daughter is unfathomable and intense. She isolated her, praised her for following along and abused her (clearly, based on her actions when mother stepped outside and saw her walking or playing), when Gypsy did not act the part.

Kids abused in this way develop a complex relationship with their abusive parent. The parent typically showers them with attention and "love" and keeps them very close and very dependent. Enmeshed is the word used to describe the parent-child relationship. However, while smiling with "love" at the child and acting distraught about what the child is going through, these parents cannot totally hide their excitement over the attention and money and their sadistic pleasure in subjecting their children to pain.

So they will do things like hug them tightly and stroke them and then fling them away or slap them the next moment, typically when they think no one is looking.

The child sees a "loving" and totally devoted parent who often showers them with gifts, and praise and attention, but who also gets a scary gleam in their eyes, and heightened adrenaline with a frightening face, right before they put something in their child's IV line or feeding tube or right before they grab a pillow or use their hand to smother the child until they are blue or barely breathing.

Make no mistake, these parents get off on this stuff. They feel he same kind of tension building and addictive need to release that tension through physical abuse and medical torture, as domestic abusers and serial killers do.

Yet their victims have been rendered totally dependent on the evil parent. Completely isolated psychologically from others or from the real world.

And since the abusing parent also "saves" the child by "discovering" the child in distress, breathing the life back into the child's body that they just took, frantically calling 911 or bringing the child to the hospital and acting horrified that the child is in distress, the child feels an impossible conflict.

This is their parent and usually, the only adult that takes care of them besides random medical personnel.

So they feel an insane dichotomy - dependent and intense love and gratitude to the parent who seems so devoted, loves them so much and fights so hard to save them..."I mean, she practically killed herself caring for Gypsy...She would get red in the face carrying all the medical equipment Gypsy needed when they went anywhere"...and also fear. Fear that the one who gave them life and cares so much and rescues them every day, will again get that look and again make the bad things happen.

These children innately know something is wrong and that the parent is a danger to them. But nature - the instinct about the parent-child relationship- and isolation from all others except those repeatedly confirming that the parent is the child's savior - prevents the child from truly understanding and being able to articulate that danger, beyond the random, "Please don't leave tonight. Promise you'll stay with me today?" to a nurse or friend visiting, on the day they sense the adrenaline building and see that look in their parent's eye.

This form of abuse - medical abuse - are so complex and bizarre. It is very understandable that the children subjected to this abuse who survive past toddler hood, often begin becoming complicit in the hoax and often become victims of Munchausen's themselves, carrying on the deception about their health status and developing the condition themselves as adults. To me, it would be a miracle for that not to happen to them.

It bothers me when I hear the media discussing this case as if it were some scummy, criminal family who were together in on a scam to defraud the public. I think that's a reductivist understanding of this case.

To me, Gypsy is not a typical con artist. She is instead, a tragically abused person who was twisted into doing the only thing she knew how.

I do not hold her culpable as I would most others who defraud and murder. She is not, or example, like these people- http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...lion-convincing-son-named-Giorgio-Armani.html. This case is nothing like that one.

Gypsy was created by her mother. DeeDee created a monster and then lost control of the monster who turned on her and destroyed her creator.

 

[jjenny]

It bothers me too, when I read that authorities suspect Dee Dee and Gypsy of fraud.
Gypsy didn't come up with this scheme. She was a little girl when mother started putting her in wheelchair.
Authorities had an opportunity to investigate this fraud when somebody called them in 2009. They didn't.
Now they are blaming Gypsy for it?

 

[jjenny]

He sure knows a lot about what was going on in that house, yet did nothing about it. He better watch it or he'll find himself on the dark side of the law, for both DeeDee AND Gypsy.

He is about the same age as Gypsy. She was a child when he last saw her 15 years ago. I don't think there is any concern about finding him on the dark side of the law.

 

[Wyle_E_Coyote]

He is about the same age as Gypsy. She was a child when he last saw her 15 years ago. I don't think there is any concern about finding him on the dark side of the law.

I'm wondering if the children in the family were more aware of the abuse than the adults. Dee Dee might not have been as guarded when just the kids were around, but focused on hiding things from the adults in the family. The adults may not have been quite sure enough to contact authorities, and the kids weren't able to. MOO

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[gitana1]

He is about the same age as Gypsy. She was a child when he last saw her 15 years ago. I don't think there is any concern about finding him on the dark side of the law.

Looks like he's actually about 45. I did a bit of research.

 

[jjenny]

He is Dee Dee's nephew and Dee Dee was 48.
Seems like he should be younger than 45? Also, he says he was young when he last saw them (which presumably was 15 years ago). 30 ain't that young.

"Looking back, Pitre said he wished he would have done more to try to help Gypsy, but he was young the last time he saw the mother and daughter."
http://www.news-leader.com/story/ne...ive-dee-dee-gypsy-ticking-time-bomb/28834555/

 

[bellesnwhistles]

Looks like he's actually about 45. I did a bit of research.

I think there are two

 

[human]

excellent info Gitana.

What do you think about the BF? Will he get off?

Deedee basically killed Gypsy. If for some reason Deedee would have been busted, she would have not received much prison time, I feel.

I am not sad Deedee is dead. What a monster!

 

[concernedmother]

This is a horrible case of abuse. Gypsy looks simply awful in those pictures. Im surprised she didn't kill her along time ago.

 

[forthelost]

She has a bridge that she wore for a while. It looked to me like she took it out at a certain point because it made her look more disabled.
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There are a decent number of photos with her where she has the bridge, and a decent amount without.
I would think it would have been difficult for her to speak clearly without them.

mods: Sorry about the post of mine that got snipped earlier. I figured the pic was OK to post because it was already on some other sites. I'm new and I guess I didn't totally understand a few of the rules.

That's creepier than the costume pics, IMHO.

 

[concernedmother]

Unless more comes out about this case, I dont think this girl belongs in prison. I think she needs to be in a mental institution because I dont know if there is enough therapy to undue what she has lived with for all these years.

 

[GigTu]

He is Dee Dee's nephew and Dee Dee was 48. Seems like he should be younger than 45?

Not always true. My uncle is much younger than me.

 

[GigTu]

This is a horrible case of abuse. Gypsy looks simply awful in those pictures. Im surprised she didn't kill her along time ago.

I'm surprised too. I am also surprised DeeDee didn't kill Gypsy... accidentally.