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xmas74

(29,682 posts)
Thu Jun 18, 2015, 05:33 PM Jun 2015

Who has been keeping up with the murder in Springfield,MO/Gypsy Rose Blanchard(e)?

It's still big news in my area. I know a few people who knew the mother and daughter and they're still in shock about the murder and the scams they pulled.

http://thoughtcatalog.com/m-j-pack/2015/06/terrifying-facebook-post-leads-to-discovery-of-brutally-murdered-mother-and-her-missing-disabled-daughter/


(above link really is one of the most in depth. Updates have been constantly added-and there have been constant updates.)

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Who has been keeping up with the murder in Springfield,MO/Gypsy Rose Blanchard(e)? (Original Post) xmas74 Jun 2015 OP
kick xmas74 Jun 2015 #1
link won't load. wilsonbooks Jun 2015 #2
Try this xmas74 Jun 2015 #3
Jesus! That is some seriously messed-up shit!! hatrack Jun 2015 #4
Bookmark that link xmas74 Jun 2015 #8
http://www.news-leader.com/story/news/crime/2015/06/16/daughter-boyfriend-charged-murder-dee-dee-bla wilsonbooks Jun 2015 #5
I know people who actually knew the Blanchardes. xmas74 Jun 2015 #7
Another facebook story from southwest Missouri wilsonbooks Jun 2015 #6
Joplin Honky xmas74 Jun 2015 #9
They are supposed to be the largest gang in the Missouri Penitentiaries. wilsonbooks Jun 2015 #11
I heard they were mostly xmas74 Jun 2015 #13
There is yet another update xmas74 Jun 2015 #10
I had never even heard of this. NaturalHigh Jun 2015 #12
The Facebook post happened on Sunday. xmas74 Jun 2015 #14
Yet another update was made yesterday xmas74 Jun 2015 #15

xmas74

(29,682 posts)
8. Bookmark that link
Fri Jun 19, 2015, 04:51 PM
Jun 2015

and check it every day for the next few days. There have been constant updates as family and friends have stepped forward with incidents that they now question.

Just a week before her murder Dee Dee was begging for money for Camp Barnabas. It's a camp for children with disabilities. My kid has talked about working there next year and I know others who have, along with Camp Wonderland. (That camp was mentioned on another site for the same family.) So she was pulling a scam just a week before her death.

The story gets more twisted by the day.

xmas74

(29,682 posts)
7. I know people who actually knew the Blanchardes.
Fri Jun 19, 2015, 04:47 PM
Jun 2015

They really believed that Gypsy was in poor shape and didn't have too much longer left. They all thought they were helping a little girl live her last days in as much comfort and joy as possible.

There are many feeling duped right now.

If you can load the other link I gave do it-the story is constantly updating. It's a great link but so long that it'll kill anyone who still has a dial up connection.

xmas74

(29,682 posts)
9. Joplin Honky
Fri Jun 19, 2015, 04:53 PM
Jun 2015

I've actually heard of them. I saw someone in my area just a couple of weeks ago with a 417 tattoo. I said something to a friend about why would someone get such a stupid tattoo and she said it meant they were a member of the Joplin Honkies, a trashy red neck methy sort of country gang.

xmas74

(29,682 posts)
14. The Facebook post happened on Sunday.
Sat Jun 20, 2015, 01:00 AM
Jun 2015

All that information is just from this week. It's been picked up by the AP and Reuters and has had some international press following it.

Bookmark that link and follow it over the next few weeks-it just keeps growing.

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