Gypsy Rose Blanchard‘s partner Kenan Urker has died, authorities said, adding there’s no evidence of foul play.
Authorities found Urker, 34, dead when they responded to a call from a home in Raceland, Louisiana, on Thursday evening, the Lafourche Parish Sheriff’s Office said.
“We are continuing the death investigation. To this point in the investigation, we have found no evidence of foul play,” the sheriff’s office said in a statement.
Blanchard wrote on Instagram on Friday, “You will always be my greatest love story. You will be remembered and loved forever.”
She added in an Instagram story that he was an “amazing father” and “will forever be my soulmate.”
In 2015, Blanchard and her then-boyfriend Nicholas Godejohn were arrested for the fatal stabbing of Blanchard’s mother, Clauddinnea “Dee Dee” Blanchard.
Gypsy Rose Blanchard pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and was released from prison in 2023.
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“Dee Dee” Blanchard had allegedly abused her daughter for years by convincing Gypsy Rose and the public that she was extremely sick, when she wasn’t. “Dee Dee” Blanchard allegedly portrayed her daughter as a frail, disabled child who suffered from multiple illnesses including leukemia and muscular dystrophy, subjecting her to a life in a wheelchair, a feeding tube and unnecessary surgeries.
After her release from prison, Gypsy Rose Blanchard told ABC News she wanted to share her story “to bring awareness to mental health issues, to Munchausen by proxy, to abuse victims.”
She said she hoped her story would serve as a “cautionary tale” for others.
“So that the next person that might be in a situation like mine, they don’t take the route that I did,” she said.
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