Gypsy Rose Blanchard, the Missouri woman serving a 10-year prison term for her mother’s death, is apparently engaged to her boyfriend after he started writing her.
The boyfriend wasn’t named in the report. He began writing her after a documentary of her case aired on television.
According to the report, they have been writing to each other for about a year and a half.
Macelli said Blanchard won’t get married until she is released from prison, adding that it is a “good thing for her.”
“And whether it ends up being that way in the end no one knows, but for her right now it’s a very positive and happy time,” Macelli said.
Blanchard was convicted of the murder of her mother, Dee Dee Blanchard, who had convinced Gypsy that she was suffering from several illnesses as a form of abuse known as Munchausen-by-proxy, according to People magazine.
Blanchard, 27, also sent an email to apparent supporters, asking them to send letters of support to Missouri Gov. Mike Parson to request an early release.
She was convicted for her role in killing her mother in 2015 after asking her then-boyfriend, Nicholas Godejohn, to kill her.
Gypsy Rose and Dee Dee’s story has been featured on a number of TV specials and shows.
Violent Crime Declined
In September 2018, the FBI said Americans committed fewer violent and property crimes across the United States in 2017, according to statistics. The violent crime rate—including offenses such as murder, robbery, and aggravated assault—dropped by almost 1 percent although it is still about 4 percent above the 2014 rate. The murder rate dropped by 0.7 percent.“There were more than 1.2 million violent crimes reported to [the FBI] nationwide in 2017. There was a 0.7 percent decrease in murders and a 4 percent decrease in robberies from 2016 to 2017. Aggravated assaults increased 1 percent in 2017. The FBI began collecting data solely on an updated rape definition last year, and 135,755 rapes were reported to law enforcement in 2017,” the agency said.
Of the estimated 17,284 murders in 2017, more than half occurred in larger cities—with populations of more than 100,000.
There are fewer than 300 such cities in the United States, and while they account for less than 30 percent of the country’s population, many of them contribute far beyond their share to national crime rates and have done so for years, even decades.
While the national murder rate inched down to 5.3 per 100,000 residents, it spiked by 15 percent in Philadelphia, to a rate of more than 20 per 100,000 residents. Columbus, Ohio, saw a massive 54 percent murder rate increase, reaching nearly 16.3 per 100,000 residents.
