Gypsy Rose Blanchard’s home where she killed her mother Dee Dee bothers neighbors as it attracts tourists
SPRINGFIELD, MISSOURI: The Springfield, Missouri, home where Gypsy Rose Blanchard and her then-boyfriend Nicholas Godejohn murdered her mother Clauddine “Dee Dee” Blanchard, in 2015 has become a hotspot for curious visitors.
However, the former neighbors of the Blanchards are not pleased with the attention and wish the house would be demolished.
Neighbors complain about tourists and traffic at Gypsy Rose Blanchard's former home
According to TMZ, a resident named Tonia said that she and other neighbors have seen many out-of-the-state cars driving by and stopping to take photos of the house which has been painted from pink to blue.
She said that tourists often ask the neighbors if they are at the right place and she “once refused to provide details” to protect the privacy of the new mother-daughter duo who live there now.
Another neighbor, Thomas Pengilly, told the outlet that he is worried that some people may have “bad intentions” when they visit the house and that it has been “stressful” for the residents.
He said that he thinks the house should have been torn down because of the trauma and pain that happened there and he advised people to “find better things to do” than gawk at the crime scene.
Sam Baker, a third neighbor, said that what he finds most “aggravating” is the traffic that the tourism has caused on their street as his children often play outside.
The tragic story of Gypsy Rose Blanchard and her mother Dee Dee Blanchard
Gypsy Rose and Dee Dee Blanchard moved into the Springfield home in 2008 after receiving it as a gift from Habitat for Humanity, a nonprofit organization that builds affordable housing.
The organization believed that the Blanchards needed financial help because of Gypsy Rose’s alleged medical conditions which included leukemia, muscular dystrophy, and epilepsy, according to PageSix.
However, it was later revealed that Dee Dee suffered from Munchausen by proxy syndrome, a psychological disorder in which a caretaker fakes or causes a child’s illness.
Dee Dee had been abusing Gypsy Rose for years, forcing her to use a wheelchair, feeding her through a tube, and subjecting her to unnecessary surgeries and medications.
In June 2015, Gypsy Rose and Godejohn, whom she met online, plotted to kill Dee Dee as a way of escaping from her control. They stabbed her to death in her bedroom and fled to Wisconsin where they were arrested.
Who lives in house where Gypsy Rose Blanchard killed her mother?
According to the outlet, there is another mother-daughter duo currently living in the house where Gypsy Rose Blanchard killed her mother. It had been left abandoned in August 2015 following the murder. Greene County Public Administrator David Yancey, at the time according to reports, had been appointed as the estate’s personal representative to “take charge and protect the property” from vandals, weather, and other dangers.
However, it was never ruled out that someone else may move and live at the property. The property, according to the publication, had an estimated value of approximately $72,500 in 2015. It’s unclear how much it is worth now given the amount of publicity and notoriety it has received, the outlet noted.
