On paper, her crime is shocking. She convinced her boyfriend to murder her mother and he stabbed her as she lay sleeping in her bed. The 32-year-old woman from Missouri in the US is out on parole now after serving eight years of her sentence. Yet the truth is she’s free for the first time in her life. Since birth Gypsy was a prisoner of her mother, Dee Dee, who kept her heavily medicated and fabricated stories of dire illnesses and reaped the benefits along the way.

Source: The Guardian December 20, 2023 11:43 UTC