Dee Dee was found dead in June 2015 at the age of 48, after suffering multiple stab wounds in the home she shared with Gypsy in Mississippi. Gypsy later pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and received 10 years in prison, while Godejohn, now 35, was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison.

Gypsy Rose Blanchard, now 33, said she met Nicholas Godejohn on a Christian dating website in 2012, a relationship that quickly turned into an explicit relationship.

"Nick exposed me to a lot of sexually perverse things and ideas, but 10 years later, knowing what I know about sex, he taught me all the wrong things," she wrote in her memoir. "From what I've read, he didn't have an exact idea of ​​BDSM (bondage, discipline, submission and masochism), and he made it up as we went along."

The former inmate claimed at the time: “The more he praised me for 'good job' after sucking on the dildo he had ordered from Japan, the more I believed he loved me. Of course, if I did the videos 'wrong', e.g. I'd forget to call him 'master' or I wasn't a dirty enough girl, he'd threaten to withdraw that love.”

Nicholas Godejohn described the elaborate fantasy world of Gypsy Rose Blanchard, claiming that he “lived among 12 alien soulmates of different species”.

This fictional universe also featured a villain named Viktor, a 3,000-year-old vampire with a thirst for "rape and murder." Gypsy claimed that Godejohn had an interest in necrophilia and even shared a disturbing fantasy of murdering and then raping his ex-girlfriend.

In addition, she claimed Godejohn made bizarre demands, such as asking her to smear peanut butter or barbecue sauce on her breasts and act out "unusual sexual behavior with phallic objects."

Gypsy Rose Blanchard and Nicholas Godejohn initially maintained a long-distance relationship, but after meeting in person, they began discussing the possibility of Gypsy moving to Wisconsin to live with him. It was around that time the idea of ​​killing Dee Dee began to appear in their conversations.

"We felt like our relationship was on the verge of collapse," Gypsy recalled. "We believed we had tried everything to be together, and now it was a question of taking extreme measures."

But she clarified: "It wasn't one discussion like, 'OK, how do we get rid of your mom?' They were gradual conversations baked into the elaborate fantasy world Nick created. He shared with me that he became sexually aroused when he fantasized about murdering and then raping his ex-girlfriend, but our plot was more like a soap opera.”

Gypsy recounted in her memoir: “And then I suggested (murder), to which Nick said, 'Victor can do it. But you must be the one to plead with him,' referring to the 3,000-year-old vampire villain from Godejohn's elaborate fantasy world.

They eventually agreed on a "deal" in which Godejohn, as his alter ego Victor, would kill Dee Dee and then rape Gypsy.

“What was in Nick's brain? I don't know for sure, but it felt like I was being used to help him live out this fantasy like he was playing with characters he had created in his mind or in a video game,” Gypsy wrote. “And some of them were evil killers, and maybe it would be fun for him to play with that darker side of life. Did we use each other?”

Gypsy pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and was sentenced to 10 years in prison, while Nicholas Godejohn was convicted of first-degree murder and received a life sentence.

During the trial, Gypsy's case attracted considerable public attention and sympathy when details of her abuse emerged.

“My Times To Stand” is out now.