People have been gripped by the tale of Gypsy Rose Blanchard, the young woman who plotted to murder her mother to escape a prison of false sickness, ever since she was arrested in 2015.
For a long time, British interest was limited to an especially interested and extremely online few. The case was huge in the States, but didn’t quite cut through in the UK to the same extent. This was until last week, when Blanchard was released from prison after serving eight years for second-degree murder, and her name hit the headlines all over again — and this time, it’s everywhere.
