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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWho 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.)
wilsonbooks
(972 posts)xmas74
(29,682 posts)(I clicked on the link and it loaded, it just took a long time. There have been constant updates so it takes some time to fully load.)
hatrack
(59,606 posts)xmas74
(29,682 posts)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.
wilsonbooks
(972 posts)xmas74
(29,682 posts)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.
wilsonbooks
(972 posts)xmas74
(29,682 posts)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.
wilsonbooks
(972 posts)Not the brightest bunch.
xmas74
(29,682 posts)meth heads and wannabe white supremacists.
xmas74
(29,682 posts)at that thread above. People are sending in lots of information.
NaturalHigh
(12,778 posts)xmas74
(29,682 posts)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.
xmas74
(29,682 posts)and I missed it.
This case is insane.