SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) – A Missouri woman whose mother forced her to use a wheelchair and pretend to be ill testified that she asked her ex-boyfriend to kill her mother.
Gypsy Blanchard testified Thursday in the trial of Nicholas Godejohn. The Big Bend, Wisconsin, man is charged with fatally stabbing 48-year-old Clauddine “Dee Dee” Blanchard at their home near Springfield on June 10, 2015.
Blanchard said her mother physically abused her and controlled her life. She said she thought killing her mom was the only way out. She said she talked Godejohn into coming to Missouri to kill her mother.
The two met on a Christian dating site and carried on a mostly online relationship.
Under questioning from the prosecutor, Blanchard Gypsy acknowledged that Godejohn dominated their relationship, with him being the “master” and her the “slave.”
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