2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15
The strange case of a young girl who everyone believed was dying and who ended up being perfectly healthy and then murdered her mother, has been brought to the screen by HBO in the form of a documentary, Mommy Dead and Dearest, which will be released on 15 of May.
In June 2015, family and friends of Rose Blanchard, who was 23 at the time, were dumbfounded to learn that the frail and sickly young girl who they believed suffered from a long list of diseases such as muscular dystrophy and leukemia had had the forces to murder his mother, Dee Dee Blanchard, 48.
Their surprise multiplied because they had never known that there was any kind of discord between them. On the contrary, throughout their lives they had been inseparable, and the image they had of the mother was of a sacrificed woman, completely dedicated to the care of her daughter.
However, research has indicated that Dee Dee Blanchard suffered from Münchhausen Syndrome, a rare mental illness in which the child's caregiver, often the mother, fabricates false symptoms or causes real symptoms to make it appear that the child is ill.
The girl's father, Rod Blanchard, told People magazine that the data that continues to come to light about the abuse his daughter was a victim still amazes him. For example, his ex-wife - from whom he divorced before the girl was born - forced the girl to shave her head to make it look like she was receiving chemotherapy; He also forced her to take unnecessary medications to induce symptoms of other illnesses.
The unusual story has been brought to the small screen by director Erin Lee Carr who investigated Dee Dee Blanchard's long history of medical visits with her daughter, interviewed Rose Blanchard, her father, and others close by in prison to present a analysis of the murder.
The Blanchards' daughter was found guilty in 2016 of second-degree murder and sentenced to ten years in prison. Her boyfriend, Nicholas Godejohn, is also accused of this murder and awaiting trial.
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