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 | the extremely manipulative mother: Dee Dee Blanchard.2015The Angel of the Glass House: The Ordeal of Gypsy Rose and the Blanchard Crime In a small pink house in Springfield, Missouri, the world believed it was witnessing a daily miracle of maternal love. Dee Dee Blanchard was considered a secular saint, a courageous mother who dedicated every breath to her daughter, Gypsy Rose—a fragile girl confined to a wheelchair, bald, and fed through a tube in her abdomen. But behind those candy-colored walls, there was no home; there was only a prison of flesh and pharmaceuticals. The Mask of Devotion In this story, terror does not wear the face of a monster, but the reassuring, smiling face of Dee Dee. For years, the woman executed a plan of manipulation so total it defied logic. Through “Munchausen Syndrome... Read More |
 | Madame Delphine LaLaurie, the Monster, Slave Torturer, Serial Killer1800Madame Delphine LaLaurie nowadays is famous for the interpretation of Kathy Bates in the tv serie American Horror Story: Coven. She was famous for torturing slaves and a lot of other sick behaviours, Delphine was born in New Orleans in 1787 from an irish immigrant (Barthelemy McCarthy) and a french woman (Marie-Jeanne). Delphine was known to be a beautiful woman and she got married quite early with a spanish official called Don Ramon de Lopez y Angulo, so Delphine became a really influent woman at that time. After her husband died she married the richest man in the area, a banker: Jean Blanque and she had 4 children from him: Marie Louise Pauline, Louise Marie Laure, Marie Louise Jeanne, and Jeanne Pierre Paulin Blanque but unfortunately mr... Read More |