I think that her needs are not necessarily going to be met by the prison system, and that’s something that I’ve thought about a lot.
Did you have a similar goal in mind when telling Gypsy’s story?Ī: I don’t think that the right place for Gypsy is prison. Q: True-crime shows or documentaries often are produced with the explicit goal of getting justice for the people whose stories they tell. The first three episodes are available on Hulu, and the remaining five episodes will be posted weekly on Wednesdays on the streaming service.ĭean talked about the emotional experience of telling Gypsy’s story and why it is important to have women well-represented behind the camera as well as onscreen.
Now she has explored the story as a co-creator of the miniseries ‘‘The Act,’’ starring Patricia Arquette and Joey King as Dee Dee and Gypsy. The 8,000-word piece Dean wrote in 2016 for BuzzFeed about Gypsy’s life and Dee Dee’s death immediately went viral. Her then-boyfriend, Nicholas Godejohn, was sentenced to life in prison without parole. Gypsy is serving a 10-year prison sentence for second-degree murder. It turned out Gypsy wasn’t really sick, didn’t need her wheelchair and that this disturbing murder involved a case of Munchausen Syndrome by proxy, in which a caregiver fabricates illnesses in another person to attract sympathy and financial support, or for other reasons.
It took a year of reporting to piece together what happened - specifically, why Dee Dee Blanchard’s sickly daughter, Gypsy Rose, whose medical care was Blanchard’s full-time job, would want her mother dead. Included were the mug shots of the woman’s daughter and her boyfriend, who had been arrested for the crime. Four years ago, journalist Michelle Dean saw a news report about a woman who had been murdered in Missouri.
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