Our take on infamous Gypsy Rose Blanchard case, trigger warning for child abuse.
in June of 2015 Dee Dee Blanchard was found, slain in her home and her severely disabled daughter Gypsy, who was also suffering for leukemia was no where to be found. But, as it would turn out nothing was as it seems.
This is Part 1 of the Gypsy Rose Blanchard Case.
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Our take on infamous Gypsy Rose Blanchard case, trigger warning for child abuse.
in June of 2015 Dee Dee Blanchard was found, slain in her home and her severely disabled daughter Gypsy, who was also suffering for leukemia was no where to be found. But, as it would turn out nothing was as it seems.
This is Part 1 of the Gypsy Rose Blanchard Case.
If you’re interested in receiving bonus episodes, early release dates, an everything scary sticker and ‘thank you’ as well as a shout out on our regular feed! Please join at Patreon//everythingscarypod571
Welcome to Everything Scary. My name is Lynn and I'm here with my co-host local celebrity, sorry, sorry, international celebrity. Thank you, matt McClain.
Speaker 2:Hello, hello.
Speaker 1:Every Tuesday we release a new episode, mostly true crime, but we've also been known to cover a pandemic, a haunting, a super mad, super strong chimpanzee. We'll cover anything and everything scary. Please rate us five stars and join us on Instagram at Everything Scary Pod. Here we go and we're back. Hi, hello, hello, how's it going?
Speaker 2:I am lovely and yourself.
Speaker 1:I'm good, so we're going to try something different today, I think.
Speaker 2:All right.
Speaker 1:Well, it was partially your idea, so Well, I don't act like I'm just informing you.
Speaker 2:I just have been dying to talk about Gypsy Rose.
Speaker 1:Okay, let's do it.
Speaker 2:Because I am fascinated with her stardom Like she's like TMZ. If you go to the homepage of TMZ, it's like three stories about her.
Speaker 1:I think that's because so many of us are so torn on kind of how it all went down Like what are your feelings? What do you feel like was the right? I know you're, so you bleed blue.
Speaker 2:I think, I think that very the first of all, these are very different cases. The example some of us.
Speaker 1:but I think, if somebody You're wearing an NYPD shirt right now.
Speaker 2:Oh, yes, that's correct, it's not a village. Hey, five dollars shirts, five dollars shirts. I think if somebody, again very different, like Charles Manson, spends a lot of time in jail some say his entire life and did not physically kill somebody but was the cause of somebody's death, I think that, yeah, that's probably about the same as Gypsy. I think that.
Speaker 1:Oh, you and I are going to have very differing positions on this.
Speaker 2:Well, I think that she served her time, I think that she's out and I think that that's fine.
Speaker 1:I think that her time was served before the crime was committed. Yeah, yeah, can I? I'm just going to read to you just and this isn't even all of them in their entirety, but I just want to tell you some of the surgeries.
Speaker 2:Okay, yeah, well, and then, what the fuck were some of these doctors, I guess, not thinking? Just listening to the now I only watched the act in a little bit, so like if that was taken out of contact or for you know dramatic purposes. That's kind of my basis on on the story.
Speaker 1:Okay. So, guys, this is for the Patreon and this is off script. I don't have anything written down. I have my notebook that I was going to do a scripted version of this, but I came here ill prepared today, so Matt and I just decided we're just going to talk off off the record.
Speaker 2:I guess Is it on the record usually, I don't know. It's on the record it is. We're broadcasting.
Speaker 1:So some of the things that when Gypsy was three months old, which was right around, okay. So what I want to tell you first of all is that Didi Blanchard, the mom.
Speaker 1:She was 24 when she met her husband, who was 17. So there was a seven year age gap there. They dated for about three months before she became pregnant with Gypsy, and he thought at the age of 17 that the right thing to do would be to wed this woman because he had gotten her pregnant, which is very respectful they're from just outside of New Orleans and he's got a wicked accent. But he was married to her for three months and he woke up one day and he said I can't do this. This is not where I'm supposed to be, but I still want to take care of this baby. I'm going to give you all the financial support you need and blah, blah, blah. So still at 17, like 10 full better than most 17 year old guys that get a surprise pregnancy.
Speaker 2:I'm showing any sort of responsibility for a major act like that. Yeah, for sure, right.
Speaker 1:So then, when Gypsy was born, he said that he went right to the hospital. He saw her. She was gorgeous, he was proud to be a father, he was happy to be a father, and so it all started when Gypsy was three months and it was sleep apnea. Now she wanted to get a heart monitor placed on her baby. I'm a bit of a psychopath and I did have a heart monitor on my kids. It's not an actual heart monitor, but it's. It's a off the shelves product and it's called an outlet and basically what it is is. It's um, it's like the finger monitor that you get in the hospital, but it's a sock Okay.
Speaker 1:It's a honey like Velcro sock that goes on their foot and it tells me they're breathing their heart. And that's only because I was so afraid of SIDS.
Speaker 2:Right, okay.
Speaker 1:I was. For an entire year I didn't sleep with my daughter and then I knew that this product existed. So for both my boys I had it, because boys it's more likely to happen with. So when they said that she wanted a heart monitor for her baby, I'm like that's not the craziest thing.
Speaker 2:So that Munchowns in by proxy started that early? Yes, I didn't know that.
Speaker 1:I didn't know that it was a sleep apnea that was leading to seizures that babies have.
Speaker 2:I didn't know that babies got sleep apnea because of the the alleged seizures. It's like all babies sound like they have sleep apnea. Yeah, like are you good.
Speaker 1:That's why I had to get fucking socks for all them, because I just stood there for a year. I didn't sleep at all.
Speaker 2:Are you putting on your?
Speaker 1:heart sock. My kids were like going into two years old and I was still putting the heart sock on them. Oh, wow, yeah, so they're fine though. They're just destroying my house every day. So by the end of it, gypsy had leukemia, so she was shaving her head regularly because her hair was going to fall out all on its own.
Speaker 2:Right.
Speaker 1:She had multiple eye surgeries. The mum was saying that there was something in her eye that was giving her seizures, so she was having eye surgery on top of eye surgery on top of eye surgery. Now, gypsy did have a lazy eye, which same and so that's really not that big of a deal.
Speaker 2:You can wear a patch for a bit. They say yeah, doesn't help.
Speaker 1:You just look like a pirate for a bit.
Speaker 2:Do you have a lazy eye right now?
Speaker 1:Yeah, you haven't noticed it ever.
Speaker 2:No, really I'm not really observant though. Well, thanks which one is it Like, is it?
Speaker 1:I don't know. It's the person looking at me that knows.
Speaker 2:Oh, okay.
Speaker 1:Yeah, see, my husband says it's usually when I've had a few glasses of wine.
Speaker 2:One's looking at you and the other one's looking for you. Oh my God, that's a fine angry Bargain.
Speaker 1:So she had the eye surgeries that were causing seizures, muscular dystrophy. She had stomach surgery to stop her from throwing up. She also had, because she had really bad acid reflex, they took out the eye, they took off the lining of her stomach and then relined her esophagus with the lining of her stomach, which is apparently a horrendously painful surgery. She had a feeding tube in place. So God only knows what she was giving this child.
Speaker 2:Like do we know, like where she's getting all the?
Speaker 1:money for all of this. Well, the ex-husband had health insurance, oh shit, and then they were also taking so many donations.
Speaker 2:Yeah, like their house is built by Habitat for Manity.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they were going to see their Miranda Lambert backstage concert. They were going to Walt Disney World. So Gypsy also apparently had epilepsy and anti-seizure medication is really bad for your teeth, so her teeth were dropping out of her head. Respiratory issues.
Speaker 2:Well, and then didn't she have a bunch of her teeth removed at the dentist? Yeah, mm-hmm Like.
Speaker 1:And here's the thing, matt is like. You say that she should have had some jail time. Okay, so from Rod, which was her dad, they kept moving further and further away. So first she moved 45 minutes away, then she moved five hours away and then, in 2005, hurricane Katrina came in, allegedly took out their house, took out all of Gypsy's quote unquote health records.
Speaker 2:No, so that they didn't have those anymore, right?
Speaker 1:But then they had this house built for them in Springfield, missouri, and so that was 11 and a half hours away from Rod Right. So Gypsy had always been terminal. This is what Didi was telling everybody that she was terminal, and it was only a matter of time before she was going to kill this girl, oh wow. She told everybody that Gypsy was not going to make it to her 20th birthday.
Speaker 2:Because that's the story, that Right, she had leukemia. So was it for attention.
Speaker 1:Essentially, there's so much psychology behind much out of them by proxy. Now, didi was the youngest child in the family. I think she had like a bunch of brothers and sisters, but her mom, like, would always have her sleep in the same bed as them and, like the other kids, like Didi was the only one who got a license. Didi was the only one who got a car. Didi was the only one who went to college, like she was, they were hyperfixated on Didi. That's fast.
Speaker 2:I almost find her childlike.
Speaker 1:I think that maybe she was childlike and maybe she just was accustomed to so much attention and then when she went into the real world, like people weren't- I listened to Dr Philip's episode and I know a lot of people are kind of torn on where he stands. But he said when Didi came to rod the father with this sleep apnea thing, right, he at that point tried to make the marriage work again. So he moved back into the house. He was giving all this money and all this kind of stuff.
Speaker 1:And so Dr Phil said, like had it not been for him giving all this attention, maybe it wouldn't have blossomed into like if he just ignored her saying that she had sleep apnea, maybe it would not gotten to where it got. But for me.
Speaker 2:I truly think Blame the dad. Dr Phil, good move Like an asshole.
Speaker 1:I just I really do believe that. So when Didi died, or when she was killed, gypsy thought she was 15 years old until she found a medicard. That what's her face. Didi had sorry, that's rude, what's her?
Speaker 2:name.
Speaker 1:What's her butt? So she had removed. She was born in 1991 and Didi had made it a five.
Speaker 1:So she was 15, but really she was 19. And she had told everybody in earshot that this kid wasn't going to make it until she was 20 years old. So I think she was moving further and further away to give herself a little bit more time before the inevitable happened. Because I mean, when you're getting your kid's stomach relined or taking relining out and like doing all these horrific this wasn't just like, oh, she's got a cold today Like these are horrific surgeries.
Speaker 2:Yeah, to me in that mini series the act, there's nothing more just not as offensive but just horrific than that scene in the Dentist when she's begging her mom not to have the dentist pull all the teeth and her mom's just like kind of fucking.
Speaker 1:Yeah well, you just never know. We don't know really the long term effects that all these things have had on her too right, like it's only when you start to get in like your 40s and all that kind of stuff that starts falling apart.
Speaker 2:Yeah, true, and she's had all these awful things Like the, the one thing that makes her feel like to the next day or two, right, yeah, so I don't know.
Speaker 1:I just think that it was only a matter of time. Her whole life was a prison. She was three months old when this stuff started any resources, you know what I mean? Like she had run away once before. Yeah, did you know that? I think so Did they include it in the act.
Speaker 2:I think they did.
Speaker 1:I think it was like an old dude, like not old God. He's three years younger than me, but he was 36, and he at the time thought Gypsy was 15, but she was 19. Right, and he was living with friends and the friend called Didi, and then Didi showed up and she, of course said I'm going to call the authorities if you don't just hand her over. But then she smashed her computer so yeah.
Speaker 1:Gypsy had a computer and Didi smashed it and then so what Didi would do was she would go to bed and then Gypsy would come in and take her computer and she would delete all of her stuff afterwards. But that night that Nick go to, john came to kill Didi. Gypsy and her had done manicures on each other and then she had tucked her mom into bed and, like to me, it's like the constant reminder that she's walking around in the house and like you've got screens up on the window, like you're not even fooling yourself. You know what.
Speaker 2:I mean.
Speaker 1:Like you're just. You're blatantly lying to everyone outside of the home. It's just so crazy.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and you know it's like that. It's just a house of cards, right that eventually something's going to happen. You're going to get found out.
Speaker 1:Or you're going to kill your kid.
Speaker 2:Yeah, to keep up.
Speaker 1:That's the only option she had to not get found out.
Speaker 2:So were they getting? I guess they were. I guess she was making money, right?
Speaker 1:Well, she was a nurse's aide, and then she quit her job to be like a soul kid, yeah, and that's a lot of the reason.
Speaker 2:Oh. So she had some health background so she kind of knew maybe things to recommend or words keywords for doctors to shit.
Speaker 1:And that's kind of what Rod said, was he and he seems like a really great guy, like he tried the entire time to keep up with her and like he said that he would form a bond with her that was just long enough so that she would start to get comfortable, and then it would be months before I'd get to see her again. But like he would try so hard and he was like I don't know what Didi was telling her the entire time, because I would show up there and she would be physically shaking Like she had said something horrible about me, yeah, and like he would try, like he'd give her gifts and he'd give her all this, and like he even he had a wife at the time and like the wife said that people used to say, like what's wrong with Gypsy?
Speaker 1:And she said, let me tell you what's not wrong with Gypsy, because that's a shorter list.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:But like he really tried it up until today, he still wants her to come and be with him. And like when he said, when he watched her walk into the courtroom for the first time, can you imagine, as a father seeing this kid, that it was since the time that she was?
Speaker 2:like oh yeah, she never walked. She never walked. Yeah, that's right. And she was fine.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I didn't even thought of that and, like she was really, didi was videotaping her and she was on the side. So Home for Humanity built them this beautiful home and it's like this baby pink, really cute house. And then it's got like a white ramp, a right white wheelchair ramp, and so Gypsy sitting on the side of the ramp, like beside where the snowfall is, and she does a countdown and says she's going to jump into the snow, but she lands feet first, like she's as soon as she does? She flops over.
Speaker 2:But yeah, it's that instinct for your feet to hit the ground First.
Speaker 1:You know what I mean. Like it's not like she didn't go like right into the snow. It was like her feet hit the ground first and then she flopped over like.
Speaker 2:So when do you think Gypsy found out that it was all bullshit?
Speaker 1:Gypsy knew that she could walk for a bit and she knew that.
Speaker 2:Like was she in on it or just kind of going along with it because she was so afraid. Like that's kind of where I kind of lean.
Speaker 1:To say that a kid is in on it, though, is so it's so hard because it's been. Like you think of the things that inherently you've taken away from your parent just by being raised from them. You know what I mean. Like not bad things, but just anything.
Speaker 2:Like the brown color of my dad's hair, for example, like just your dad's like what he thinks about certain sports teams Like you.
Speaker 1:just take their opinion as what it is right. And then what if you found out that all those sports guys were out there raping people? You just find out that something's horrific so far down the road and like who knows, this woman is so manipulative that, like who really knows what she was saying to this little child. And so Gypsy knew that she could eat and she knew that she could walk, but she thought that everything else was real.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And the mum said that she had it's called something cephaloph, so it's mini cephaloph. So basically, what it is is when you're born prematurely, your brain and your cranium are too small. So and the way they worded it in the documentary that I watch was mental retardation, which is not the way we say it nowadays, but they were saying that Gypsy would always have like a delay, a mentality of a seven year old.
Speaker 2:Yeah, okay.
Speaker 1:So she believed that she had the mentality of a seven year old I don't know like when she started using the computer. If these things changed, like at some point, she does have to take some sort of like ownership in it. But I mean, yeah, it's pretty savvy. I guess she's savvy, but it's not like she was going out at night and like hanging out with people who were teaching her things, Like she had to learn all these things on her own it wasn't like a school.
Speaker 1:It wasn't anything like that. Like I think she would have died if she wasn't savvy.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, I never thought about that. But the mom, of course, said what's the end game? If this wasn't the end, how does Munchausen by proxy end?
Speaker 1:But then what you know what I mean. It seems like it was an addiction for almost 20 years. So, like, how is she going to gain sympathy from people after the child's death? She could ride that for a bit, I'm sure.
Speaker 2:For a little bit.
Speaker 1:But then what?
Speaker 2:Yeah, you know, and maybe be a victim's advocate, I don't know, and probably lap up the spotlight.
Speaker 1:She'd get a dog. That would say, or something oh no.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's so bizarre. And then you see her and she's got the Lifetime series and she got married and prisoned to Peter Griffin Twice, I think.
Speaker 1:Isn't this her second husband, I don't know? And he looks exactly like her mom.
Speaker 2:I know Andy has a Bret Hart Vanity License plate.
Speaker 1:No, he doesn't, yeah, he does. Do you want to hang out with him? I kind of do.
Speaker 2:I could not believe it that he's got. Well, he's always got a Bret Hart license plate.
Speaker 1:And he's a teacher.
Speaker 2:And he's got a fire D, according to social media. Did you think that when you take a look at that guy, that he has a fire D. Yeah.
Speaker 1:Okay, for anybody that doesn't know what we're talking about, I guess.
Speaker 2:Fire D stands for fire dick and.
Speaker 1:Gypsy herself was the one who said it, not us, matt does not formally condone that statement no.
Speaker 2:No, yeah, I'm just, I'm repeating what I've heard.
Speaker 1:From Gypsy herself, so I guess I think people were making fun of him. Yeah, and then she said like don't let the haters get you.
Speaker 2:Damn baby, you've got a fire D and yeah, no, because he said he ended the comment with now come up and come and get it.
Speaker 1:I think she started it. He said come and get it after she said the fire event. Like were they in separate rooms? Like can't you just comfort somebody?
Speaker 2:Yeah, really.
Speaker 1:One-on-one.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:But yeah, she said that he had a fire D and he said, no, come up here and get it. And then I started throwing up and it haven't stopped.
Speaker 2:Do you think, okay, what's happening first? Only fans or cameo?
Speaker 1:Wow.
Speaker 2:It got to be one of them. You think so. Well, at the very minimum, the fact that she's not doing cameo is very suspect, because that is guaranteed money in the bank.
Speaker 1:You think so?
Speaker 2:100%. All the people on social media, all over the country.
Speaker 1:Do people really get that many cameos?
Speaker 2:Yeah, 100%.
Speaker 1:Have you ever gotten a cameo?
Speaker 2:Like, received one yeah.
Speaker 1:Have you given one?
Speaker 2:Have you done one? I have given one, yes.
Speaker 1:Really.
Speaker 2:I've given my ex-girlfriend one of Jillian Harris. My sister got one from a 90-day fiance guy.
Speaker 1:I got my husband got me one from Wes, from the challenge, oh, okay.
Speaker 2:They were watching the challenge.
Speaker 1:They were watching the challenge it was only four bucks. How much you shut your fucking mouth about Wes, was it just?
Speaker 2:the face time.
Speaker 1:Yeah, he came over actually With Hadley. It was the craziest thing, oh, did I tell you about. So you said on. So I said on one of our episodes about how my husband paid $1,500 for Hadley tickets and you said I thought you could rent Hadley for that much.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah.
Speaker 1:And my husband went into like his, his buddy's shop and like the receptionist was there and she was like you, spent $1,500 on Hadley. I thought you could rent Hadley for that. She just took your line, knowing that he doesn't listen to our bug.
Speaker 2:Amazing, why not?
Speaker 1:But yeah, no, it was more than $40, but I don't know. I don't know if I think she will sell out eventually.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'm shocked she's not doing it right now, to be honest with you Like.
Speaker 1:I mean, unless she, I don't know anything behind if she went to school or got any sort of an education in jail.
Speaker 2:You usually hear about those things. Yeah, she's really hanging on to that baby voice too.
Speaker 1:Well, that is a thing. It's called the little girl voice. Yeah, I think.
Speaker 2:Hey guys. Hi guys, it's Drew Seabroce. I'm going to be on the view today. Get ready with me. My skirt is from a Ritza, my shirt is from a Ritza. My socks are from a Ritza.
Speaker 1:So this is an informal name for a vocal trait in adult women that is caused by a psychological trauma before the onset of puberty. Okay, okay, dr Drew can actually guess when the trauma happened within six months Get the fuck out of here.
Speaker 2:given the tone of the voice. Well, I told you about my experience with the baby voice.
Speaker 1:Oh boy, there's a lady that used it in the boob war. What is the boob war?
Speaker 2:That's the ex room, but it was very like, and I'm like what?
Speaker 1:Okay, can you imitate it? Come on, you've been there, let's hear it.
Speaker 2:It was oh God.
Speaker 1:And what's your ex-girlfriend's first and last name? Wasn't a girlfriend, it was an informal name Was that when we first started doing the podcast?
Speaker 2:No, I don't think. So Are you?
Speaker 1:sure, because you had an informal that you had to break it off with when we first started doing the pod.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Geez, you've been around the block.
Speaker 2:Eh, I have had ladies upwards of four partners, okay, but I want to hear the voice real quick. I think it was just like half Paris Hilton, half baby, and it was just like oh yeah, is that what you wanted? You know what I have For something? Yeah, that's it. Yeah, yeah, that's it. Yeah, I'm like, don't say you First of all, I see it. Don't say yup, don't close words when you're sexy.
Speaker 1:You look like a man. It's just half-miss one from that TV. That's so hot. Yeah, that's why it's hot. Do you think she was trying on something new or do you think this had been something that was like?
Speaker 2:You know what? I think that, aside from after the fact talking shit about it on the podcast, I think guys were just so happy to be in the moment that, no, no red flags for us.
Speaker 1:She's in the Patreon. She's like oh no, yes, I am.
Speaker 2:Is he so cute? That's what you think of me. No, no, no, poor little guy, it's just Tweety Bird.
Speaker 1:It's just the voice that you've given your aunt and a Cool Smith poster.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it doesn't have to be.
Speaker 1:Okay, well, this is the first time we've had a discussion Kind of went off the rails. I don't know if we're going to do it again.
Speaker 2:Wow, just zeroes, Like is she working.
Speaker 1:I don't think so he's a teacher though Her boyfriend or husband.
Speaker 2:Still a teacher.
Speaker 1:Yeah, well, now his students know his deez fire.
Speaker 2:That's great.
Speaker 1:I dated a teacher and he wouldn't even be on Facebook, let alone people.
Speaker 2:I dated a teacher. That wasn't a fire date, no, it was like loop one.
Speaker 1:But I mean I don't think they go to school for their deez stuff.
Speaker 2:So no, that's true, which is a good thing actually, you know what? I'm actually in favor of that policy.
Speaker 1:Good choice, I don't know, I just don't know Did you answer cameo or Onlyfans for Gypsy Rose? Oh God, you know what they're. The same to me.
Speaker 2:Yeah, Gypsy toes oh shit Feed pigs.
Speaker 1:Yes, Okay, TM TM TM. We're going to get in contact Nice.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and Bathwater.
Speaker 1:Oh, gypsy, no, yeah people sell bathwater Gypsy rose petals.
Speaker 2:Oh man.
Speaker 1:Okay, guys, let us know what you think about Gypsy Rose. Yeah, okay, okay.
Speaker 2:Bye, bye.