Nicholas Godejohn's Motivation For Murdering Dee Dee Blanchard
As Biography goes on to note, Dee Dee Blanchard likely managed a behavioral disorder once known as Munchausen syndrome by proxy, but that is now commonly referred to as factitious disorder imposed on another (per Mayo Clinic). Characterizing the mental illness is a caretaker who projects, or takes steps to fabricate, fake illnesses on their dependents, who are often children. Because of this, for the first two decades or so of her life, Gypsy Rose (above) experienced medical treatment at her mother's urging for illnesses that were never real.
Dee Dee even lied about her daughter's age as Gypsy cycled through unneeded treatments for leukemia and muscular dystrophy, among other examples of mistreatment and abuse. As Godejohn and Gypsy Rose became close, the relationship took on a sexual nature through virtual communication, and once in an illicit in-person encounter, as Harper's Bazaar goes on to note. Godejohn and Gypsy Rose considered eloping, and they made making plans for a future together. The only thing, in their view, that stood in their way was Dee Dee Blanchard.
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