The Story of Gypsy Rose Blanchard, If Love Could Kill.
Dee Dee Blanchard looked like the ideal mother, taking care of her sickly, wheelchair-bound daughter Gypsy Rose in the quiet Springfield, Missouri suburbs. The neighboring families felt sorry for the benevolent Dee Dee, who was raising a child with muscular dystrophy, leukemia, and a host of other conditions that required continuous medical care and surgeries. However, the reality surrounding Gypsy Rose and her overbearing mother was far darker than anyone could have ever imagined.
This gripping biography describes the poisonous bond between a controlling mother who is a "Munchausen by proxy" and her daughter, who is willing to do whatever it takes to get away from her. It chronicles Gypsy's early years, when she was denied any opportunity for independence or a typical life by Dee Dee, and instead was given false medical conditions to cause sympathy and donations from others. And it culminates in that horrifying day when Gypsy decides to finally be free by hiring her online boyfriend to kill her mother.
If Love Could Kill, a meticulously researched book that delves into the strange deception at the heart of this mother-daughter relationship, was made possible by interviews with friends, relatives, neighbors, doctors who unwittingly helped Gypsy Rose tell lies, and even Gypsy Rose herself from her prison cell.
It aims to comprehend the characters that clashed with such ferocity as well as the system that let a helpless child get hurt. Remarkable, unsettling, and captivating, this is the official story of a crime that took the country by surprise.
