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Anyone have any idea why this one is at the top today with almost double the 2nd entry? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Dee_Dee_Blanchard

EDIT: Ah, her daughter was released from prison today. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-67833339

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That page reads like a blog or a murder novel, not a wikipedia article

That happens to basically everything the true crime followers get their hands on. They are all about narrative.

I had the same question. Seems like the perpetrator (her daughter?) was released from prison yesterday: https://www.google.com/search?q=Dee+Dee+Blanchard&sca_esv=59...

Seems like she (daughter) planned it or at least provided the weapon, but the person who actually did it was her boyfriend and is now serving life without possibility of parole. Kind of a crazy sentence considering the 'victim' truly had it coming (tortured her daughter for years, with unnecessary surgeries, feeding tube, etc)

> unnecessary surgeries

I hope the doctors involved got a decent reprimand for that too...

The only example of surgery I saw was Botox for and then removal of the saliva gland, after the mother induced drooling by applying an anaesthetic prior to the doctor's examination.

So yes there's some suspicions not reported or not well followed through on by some doctors and police, but it's clearly not that cut and dry, it was quite a fraud.

The Wikipedia page also mentions that “Tubes were implanted in her ears to control her myriad purported ear infections”.

I missed that one, but my point wasn't that there was only one - it was that the mother was lying about things, doing deliberate fraudulent things to get that medical attention and treatment for the daughter.

For the ear infection, maybe she just lied that the daughter kept complaining of hot itchy ears etc., or did something to them so that she did poke and scratch them (and the doctor could see that).

It turns out you can't just go and unilaterally decide to kill people.

There is a good reason people want government institutions to jealously guard this right.

The government is very fickle with giving out the death penalty.

Obviously prison time was warranted, I just think life without parole was excessive. 20 years would have been adaquate justice in this case.

I'm surprised none of you have heard of the story. It was subject to a pretty interesting dramatisation only a year or two ago.

She may have killed her mother but doing so was not too far from self defense in my mind.

I live in the Netherlands, probably not talked about over here. But second, I try to avoid the news. Glad I missed this one :)

She didn't kill her mother, though. She had someone else do it. I guess that's the problem, and I think he's still in prison.

Yeah, that's true. Also the preplanning aspect of it. I think if she'd have just snapped and killed her mum herself it wouldn't have gone to court. But someone who lived through that doubtlessly had a strange view of the world so judging her behaviour though any rational lens is probably slightly unfair.

Men get tasked with violence at the behest of women far too often, imo.

But her boyfriend got life in prison.

I assume that plenty of people were released from prison today: it doesn't explain why so many people want to look up this one.

It makes sense once you've read the article. Not everyday a person who has been through something so unusual and awful with multiple media interpretations gets released.

Quite a read though...

Killer got out of jail.

Maybe you should read the related Wikipedia article.

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