Gypsy Rose Blanchard's baby's father Ken Urker dies aged 34
Tragedy has struck for Gypsy Rose Blanchard, whose fiancé Ken Urker has passed away at just 34 years old.
Louisiana's Lafourche Parish Sheriff's Office told LADbible Group in a statement that officers were called to a property in the state after Urker was found 'unresponsive'.
Officers reportedly received the call at approximately 6.15pm local time on 1 October, and upon reaching the property, Urker had already died.
The pair welcomed a daughter, Aurora Raina, in December 2024.
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Her arrival came not long after 35-year-old Blanchard, who served time for her role in the killing of her own mother, Dee Dee Blanchard, publicly put to bed months of speculation over who Aurora's biological father really was, confirming it was Urker and not her then-estranged husband, Ryan Anderson.
"There's been a lot of chatter around the paternity of our baby and while we've known for sure from the beginning, I feel that it's finally time to put all these theories to rest," she wrote in a now-deleted post. "Ken is the father."
She continued: "Ken is going to be an incredible dad and we are so excited to welcome our baby girl into the world."
Blanchard and Urker's romance actually dates back much further, to 2017, when he began writing to her as a pen pal while she was serving her sentence over the 2015 murder of her mother.
By October 2018, the two had gotten engaged, though things didn't last, with the pair parting ways less than a year later in August 2019.
Blanchard went on to tie the knot with Anderson in a 2022 prison wedding, a marriage that ultimately unravelled in March 2024, just a few months after she'd regained her freedom. By the close of that year, the divorce had been formally signed off.
It didn't take long for Blanchard and Urker to find their way back to one another, within weeks of news breaking of her split from Anderson, the former couple marked their reunion with matching husky ink.
She later opened up about the physical side of their reconciliation during an April 2025 episode of Life After Lock Up, describing things between her and Urker as particularly 'adventurous' in the bedroom.
"Our first weekend that we reconnected, it was like a floodgate," she revealed on the Lifetime show, before adding: "And naturally, now there are times that I think is harder because of schedules and business and work and, like, I want that back for us."
Who is Gypsy Rose Blanchard?
Blanchard shot to international fame off the back of one of the most disturbing true crime cases in recent memory.
Dee Dee spent years spinning an elaborate lie to the outside world, insisting her daughter battled leukaemia, muscular dystrophy and developmental issues, when in reality none of it was real.
Experts believe Dee Dee was living with Munchausen by proxy, a condition doctors now classify as factitious disorder imposed on another (FDIA). It's a severe and little-understood type of abuse, where someone responsible for another's care - most often a parent - invents or manufactures illness in the person they're supposed to be looking after.
The consequences for Blanchard were devastating: years spent in an unnecessary wheelchair, hooked up to a feeding tube she didn't require, and put through operation after operation that had no genuine medical justification.
Everything changed when, as a teenager, Blanchard struck up an online relationship with Nicholas Godejohn, a connection that would eventually lead the pair to plot her mother's murder together.
He would go on to stab Dee Dee to death in June 2015.
Come trial time, Blanchard admitted guilt to second-degree murder, earning herself a decade behind bars. She was released in December 2023.
Godejohn was convicted of first-degree murder and slapped with a life sentence with zero chance of parole, topped off with another 25 years for armed criminal action.
Topics: Gypsy Rose Blanchard, True Crime, Entertainment
Michael D. Carroll