20/20 255x4 - Gypsy Rose the Next Act

For over a decade, Gypsy-Rose Blanchard lived in a wheelchairand allegedly suffered from multiple medical issues, includingleukemia, seizures and muscular dystrophy. Known in hercommunity as a local hero, Gypsy and her mother, Dee Dee,spoke at conferences, met celebrities, and even received ahome from Habitat for Humanity. However, everything changed in2015, when police discovered Dee Dee stabbed to death in herhome and named Gypsy and her secret boyfriend, NicholasGodejohn, as the main suspects. In a case that reverberatedacross the nation, experts revealed that this was likely acase of Munchausen by proxy, a form of abuse, usually by aparent to their child, in which a guardian exaggerates orinduces illness in a child often motivated by a desire forattention and sympathy — Gypsy was a healthy young woman.