Who is Gypsy Rose Blanchard? Why a 'sick' girl helped murder her mom

ViewEight-and-a-half years ago, Gypsy Rose Blanchard could be described as a charming, severely disabled girl who lived with her doting single mother in southwestern Missouri.

Her story had become widely recognized in Midwestern circles by then: The nearly toothless girl with a childlike voice and shaved head, fed by a feeding...