he stabbed dede blanchard to death with a knife her daughter gave him, and the pair fled the scene.fox 49 news, they explained why the case is so big in the u.s. >> i think because it has been so controversial. anytime you have a murder case, things seem cut and dried with the crime being committed. because of this, with her background, with gypsy -- if you have been following this case, her mother was suffering from what many people believe to be when chosen syndrome -- muncha usen syndrome, where you faked illness of a child of yours to get attention. you have this controversy. gypsy pleaded guilty to the murder of her mother, but a lot of people thought perhaps she was justified in doing it because she was kept hostage all of those years. here locally, that has been what everybody has talked about back-and-forth, was -- was she justified? was she being abused? did she have a reason to do that? she did commit a murder, according to her own admission in court. that is why you have people on both sides of this. lauren: the boyfriend is still in prison as i understand it. what happen