News Summary

• Gypsy Rose Blanchard, who admitted to helping her boyfriend kill her abusive mother in a case that generated national attention, was released from prison on parole Thursday, a Missouri corrections official told CNN..
• Prosecutors sentenced her to 10 years in prison in a plea deal after attorneys uncovered the abuse she experienced at the hands of her mother..
• Blanchard pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in 2016 after confessing that she convinced her boyfriend to stab her mother Dee Dee Blanchard to death as she slept..
• Godejohn was convicted of murder and sentenced in 2019 to life in prison without the possibility of parole..
• “She deserved to be where I am, sitting in prison doing time for criminal behavior.” An upcoming book, “Released: Conversations on the Eve of Freedom,” tells Blanchard’s story through her own perspective, with the help of writers Melissa Moore and Michele Matrisciani..
• A six-hour Lifetime special, “The Prison Confessions of Gypsy Rose Blanchard,” featuring interviews with Blanchard from prison, is set to premiere on January 5, 2024..