Over 100 new, previously unseen videos related to the Gypsy Rose Blanchard murder case have been made public, reviving interest in one of the USA’s most unsettling true crime stories from recent years.
This footage was made available due to a fresh freedom of information (FOI) request and was published on YouTube by the Into the Weeds podcast. This occurs almost ten years after Clauddine ‘Dee Dee’ Blanchard was found dead from stab wounds in her Missouri residence.
In 2016, Gypsy Rose Blanchard admitted to second-degree murder for persuading her then-boyfriend, Nicholas Godejohn, to murder her mother. After serving only seven years, she was released from prison in December 2023.
Godejohn, the actual perpetrator of the murder, was found guilty of first-degree murder and is currently serving a life sentence.
Even after Gypsy Rose’s release and her subsequent life changes, including becoming a mother, the public’s fascination with the case continues unabated.
Experts have frequently described the case as a ‘disturbing and complex narrative where the lines between victim and perpetrator are blurred’, largely due to the abuse Gypsy Rose suffered for years.
Dee Dee misled doctors, charities, and the public into believing her daughter was gravely ill, leading to unnecessary medical treatment and procedures.
Prosecutors acknowledged this abuse when they offered Gypsy Rose a plea agreement.
“When you look at this case, it’s a murder. And it’s a first-degree murder,” prosecutor Dan Patterson stated. “But it’s also one of the most extraordinary and unusual cases we have seen.”
The newly unveiled videos appear to show personal communications between Gypsy Rose and Godejohn from their online relationship.
One video shows Gypsy Rose in a red dress and curly brown wig, talking about ‘fantasies’ involving Godejohn as a vampire and discussing the idea of marriage.
In another clip, she mentions: “The plan for if we have a boy first, we’re going to protect him and our children from the outside world, because they can’t know about you being a vampire.”
She then adds, according to the video: “If we have a girl, the way it has to be, she has to lose her virginity to you because you are the master of the household.”
Additional clips depict Gypsy Rose assuming various character roles in wigs, reportedly filmed inside the same house where Dee Dee was later murdered.
Not all of the videos were available for release, as officials cited concerns over the ‘nonconsensual dissemination of private sexual images’, leaving some footage sealed.
The documents reportedly incurred a cost of $786 to obtain, following an extensive FOI process with Missouri authorities.