ON PAPER, her crime is shocking. She convinced her boyfriend to murder her mother and he stabbed her as she lay sleeping in her bed.
Gypsy Rose Blanchard was sentenced to 10 years in prison for her part in the killing and the boyfriend got life without parole – but the story of why Gypsy received a light sentence for a crime so heinous is enough to make your hair stand on end.
The 32-year-old woman from Missouri in the US is out on parole now after serving eight years of her sentence. Yet the truth is she’s free for the first time in her life.
Since birth Gypsy was a prisoner of her mother, Dee Dee, who kept her
