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Gypsy Rose Released From Prison After Serving Seven Years For Her Abusive Mother’s Murder
“I’m glad that I’m out of that situation, but I’m not happy she’s dead.”
Gypsy Rose Blanchard was released today from the Chillicothe Correctional Center in Missouri around 3:30 a.m. local time, according to the Missouri Department of Corrections. Gypsy was released early after serving more than seven years for the role she played in her mother’s murder.
She was originally sentenced to 10 years in prison in July 2016 after pleading guilty. She served 85% of that sentence, but today is a free woman at 32 years old.
While she didn’t physically wield the weapon, Gypsy was charged and convicted of second-degree murder in the stabbing death of her mother, Clauddine “Dee Dee” Blanchard in June 2015. She was complicit in the plan to kill her mother and supplied her boyfriend, Nicholas Godejohn with the opportunity and supplies to commit the crime.
Godejohn was sentenced to life in prison for first-degree murder and armed criminal action as it was decided that he was the one who initiated the murder plot and actually stabbed Dee Dee to death.
