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In Gypsy Blanchard\\u2019s world, nothing is as it seems. For years, people saw her as a sickly girl plagued by medical issues. She was wheelchair bound. She suffered from mental delays. She had trouble breathing. Her life was marked by constant doctor visits and too-frequent surgeries. All the while, her doting mother Dee Dee was by her side. Then one day, someone updated the status on Dee Dee and Gypsy\\u2019s shared Facebook account. They wrote, \\u201cthat bitch is dead.\\u201d Friends and neighbors were in for the surprise of their lives.

Then Brandi tells us about four murders at a Chinese hostel. When police arrived at the crime scene in 1995, they had little to go on. The murders were as random as they were brutal. The few leads police developed were vague at best. The case went cold for nearly 20 years. Years later, with the help of DNA testing, investigators took another look at the crime scene. Their discovery led them to a surprising suspect.

And now for a note about our process. For each episode, Kristin reads a bunch of articles, then spits them back out in her very limited vocabulary. Brandi copies and pastes from the best sources on the web. And sometimes Wikipedia. (No shade, Wikipedia. We love you.) We owe a huge debt of gratitude to the real experts who covered these cases.

In this episode, Kristin pulled from:
\\n\\nThe HBO documentary, \\u201cMommy Dead and Dearest\\u201d
\\n\\n\\u201cGypsy Blanchard\\u2019s ex-boyfriend upset with his attorney as murder trial approaches,\\u201d Springfield News-Leader
\\n\\n\\u201cJudge sets trial date for next year in Nicholas Godejohn case,\\u201d Springfield News-Leader
\\n\\n\\u201cCharged with murder, Godejohn give his side of the story,\\u201d Ozarks First

In this episode, Brandi pulled from:
\\n\\n\\u201cAnhui Author Detained for 1995 Quadruple Murder\\u201d by Fan Yiying, sixthtone.com
\\n\\n\\u201cFarmer-writer-killer sentenced to death\\u201d by Ma Zhenhuan, China Daily
\\n\\n\\u201cKiller author who murdered four people 23 years ago then wrote acclaimed novels \\u2018inspired by the case\\u2019 is sentenced to death in China\\u201d by Tracy You, Daily Mail
\\n\\n\\u201cCrime writer arrested for four murders committed 22 years ago\\u201d The Punch
\\n\\n\\u201cChinese author of unsolved-murder novel arrested over unsolved murders\\u201d by Sarah Zheng, South China Morning Post

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