Ken Urker, the partner of Gypsy Rose Blanchard, was found dead at his Louisiana home Thursday evening, authorities said.
\n\nDeputies responded to a home in Raceland around 6:15 p.m. and found Urker dead, the Lafourche Sheriff’s Office said in a statement.
\n\n“At this time, we are continuing the death investigation,” the office said.
\n\nThe cause of death has not been revealed. But Blanchard, who welcomed a daughter with Urker in 2024, told People magazine that he overdosed. The magazine reported that he died on his 34th birthday.
\n\nThe sheriff’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
\n\nBlanchard said she was in “disbelief.”
\n\n“I can’t think,” she said. “I’ve screamed until my throat burns.”
\n\nThe couple met through a pen pal program while Blanchard was in prison for her role in the 2015 murder of her mother Clauddine “Dee Dee” Blanchard, Variety reported. The pair briefly split and then reconciled in 2024.
\n\nBlanchard, has said her mother abused her for years and forced her to fake serious illnesses. She pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and was sentenced to 10 years in prison. Her then-boyfriend, Nicholas Godejohn, was sentenced to life in prison for fatally stabbing Dee Dee Blanchard.
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