Greene County

It's in Strong City, Kansas.

You're going to be detained at the Greene County facility, which is in Springfield, Missouri.

Or you're going to be at a newly opened facility in Leavenworth, Kansas.

It's operated by a private organization, CoreCivic.

They do so much good, and it's not just Springfield.

It's the 21 counties, including Greene County, where I grew up, and it's not that things couldn't, not that they couldn't have a lot more resources, but they do such a remarkable job with what they have.

We wanted to be involved.

How did someone from Greene County, whether it be Carrollton or somewhere else, end up in Springfield, Illinois?

Roothouse.

Well, close enough.

They really do.

I mean, the procurement, raising the money, finding the food, finding the grants, and then distributing it over 21 counties.

The number shows how many children will result from the marriage.

Green County, Missouri.

260.

261.

The other two have each given accounts that put the weight on the other one, and both of them had every reason in the world to do that.

The Greene County Sheriff faced the press the next morning and gave them a line that got quoted around the world: "Things are not always as they appear." And then Springfield had to face the lie it had been told for so many years.

Gypsy's own framing of it then and since has been that she was used as much as anybody else.

She said her mother used her as a pawn, that she was in the dark, and that the only two things she knew for sure about her own body were that she could walk and that she could eat.

She said she wanted to know what was in there that had set all of this off.

Six days after Dee Dee was killed, on June 16th, both Gypsy Rose Blanchard and Nicholas Godejohn were charged with first-degree murder.

Greene County prosecutor Dan Patterson announced he wouldn't seek the death penalty for either of them.

Gypsy's case went to the public defender's office, and it landed on a lawyer named Michael Stanfield.

So today we are talking with Janine Berkenfield.

She's the outreach services manager for the Springfield-Greene County Library District.

Good morning to you.

Well, good morning, Julie and Afton.

We just have a large, um, service area.

Mm-hmm.

Springfield-Greene County, our funding w- predominantly comes from property taxes, so it just depends on the size of the location.

Okay.