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Woman appeared on The Jerry Springer Show with ex-husband and his mistress before being murdered weeks later

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Updated 15:02 20 Jan 2025 GMTPublished 10:52 14 Jan 2025 GMT

Woman appeared on The Jerry Springer Show with ex-husband and his mistress before being murdered weeks later

The woman was found beaten and strangled to death

Gerrard Kaonga

Gerrard Kaonga

Featured Image Credit: Jerry Springer Show / Ralf-Finn Hestoft/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images

Topics: Celebrity, Crime, Documentaries, Domestic Abuse, Film and TV, Netflix, US News, The Jerry Springer Show

Gerrard Kaonga
Gerrard Kaonga

Gerrard is a Journalist at UNILAD and has dived headfirst into covering everything from breaking global stories to trending entertainment news. He has a bachelors in English Literature from Brunel University and has written across a number of different national and international publications. Most notably the Financial Times, Daily Express, Evening Standard and Newsweek.

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A recent documentary about the Jerry Springer Show has shed light on one of the most concerning stories attached to it.

Netflix has recently dropped a new documentary, Jerry Springer Show: Fights, Camera, Action, focusing on the notorious day-time TV show.

While the show was cancelled in 2018, after premiering back in 1991, people are still fascinated by it because of its reputation of carnage and unpredictability.

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While that sounds like good TV, this chaos etched into the real world and often saw the show face outraged critics and demands for it to be taken off the air due to its ‘extreme content’.

One story that was particularly concerning is an episode that saw Nancy Campbell-Panitz confront her ex-husband, Ralf Panitz, and his mistress only weeks before she was murdered.

Campbell-Panitz wasn’t your typical guest and was described as a mild-mannered single mother.

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However, she agreed to come on the show only to storm off the set when she realized what producers wanted from her, an attention-grabbing fight in front of a live audience.

Jeffrey Campbell believes the show misled his mother to get her to come on (Netflix)
Jeffrey Campbell believes the show misled his mother to get her to come on (Netflix)

Her son Jeffrey Campbell, who features in the documentary, explained the issues he had with the show as well as his thoughts on the show’s culpability for her murder.

He said: “To see her up there on stage looking like a deer caught in the headlights.

“I just wish I could go back and say, ‘Don’t do it.'

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“My mother believed that Ralf had been deported to Germany and that the show was going to pay for his travel back to America, and that they would reconcile, and that he would tell his new girlfriend that he wanted to be with my mother.”

Even though she had been granted a restraining order against her ex, two months after appearing on the show in 2000, Campbell-Panitz was beaten and strangled to death by her ex-husband.

Jerry Springer has long faced criticism from guests and viewers for its content(Getty Images)
Jerry Springer has long faced criticism from guests and viewers for its content(Getty Images)

He was ultimately convicted for her murder and sentenced to life in prison. In his sentencing, the judge referenced the show and condemned both Jerry Springer and the producers.

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In the documentary, the show’s executive producer Richard Dominick denied that the show had any thing to do with the murder.

However, Jeffrey disagrees and has said that he believes his mother was misled and continues to chastise the show.

He added: “I don’t think they’ve ever been held accountable for anything. People just watching this show and think. ‘Oh this is normal.’ It’s not.”

Jeffrey also attempted to sue Springer and the show's producers but dropped his case without any compensation.

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Jerry Springer Show: Fights, Camera, Action is now available to watch on Netflix.

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