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Surviving: Mommy Dead and Dearest

2022/12/1
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On June 14, 2015, sheriff's deputies in Greene County, Missouri), found the body of **Clauddine "Dee Dee" Blanchard **face down in the bedroom of her house just outside Springfield), lying on the bed in a pool of blood from stab wounds inflicted several days earlier. There was no sign of her daughter, Gypsy Rose, who, according to Blanchard, had chronic conditions including leukemia), asthma), and muscular dystrophy), and who had the "mental capacity of a 7-year-old due to brain damage)" as the result of premature birth).

After reading troubling Facebook) posts earlier in the evening, concerned neighbors notified the police, reporting that Dee Dee might have fallen victim to foul play and that Gypsy Rose, whose wheelchair and medications were still in the house, might have been abducted. Was the murder justified? 

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