Within the second a part of the doc, launched Tuesday January 7, visitor Nancy Campbell-Panitz’s brutal homicide by the hands of ex-husband Ralf Panitz was mentioned by Nancy’s son, Jeffrey Campbell.

Jeffrey mentioned how his mom’s tumultuous relationship with Ralf led to her demise months after they participated as friends on The Jerry Springer Present.

“I do not suppose they’ve ever been held accountable for something. I’m positive there have been different folks which have been affected — different friends we do not learn about,” Jeffrey mentioned of the present’s producers. “Or folks simply watching the present at house considering, ‘Oh, that is regular.’ It is not.”

Nancy and Ralf had been married for 15 months earlier than divorcing in 1999. They continued to reside collectively on and off till Ralf secretly married spouse Eleanor Panitz in 2000. The trio in the end went on The Jerry Springer Present in Might 2000, the place they aired out their relationship points.

The bitter back-and-forth resulted in Ralf and Elanor accusing Nancy of stalking them, regardless of Ralf admitting to sleeping with Nancy simply two nights prior.

“Ralf loves me and he needs to be with me. And also you redheaded bitch from hell, it is advisable to depart us alone,” Elanor mentioned in the course of the episode. “It’s worthwhile to get a life. I hope you loved your self immensely the final two nights as a result of it’s the final time you’re ever going to see him. He needs to be with me.”

Nancy walked off stage as an alternative of participating in a bodily altercation — an unlikely route for the present which regularly led to onstage blowups.

Whereas The Jerry Springer Present, led by the late Jerry Springer, began as a chat present, over its twenty years on air, it adopted a brand new format, tackling taboo subjects like incest and adultery whereas encouraging profanity, nudity and bodily combat — one thing Jeffrey mentioned his mom would not have been part of had she identified.

“It’s fairly apparent that they had been there to ambush her. The attention-grabbing factor is the title of the present. If she had identified that that was the title, she most likely would have thought twice [about appearing]. However she did not know that,” Jeffrey mentioned. “The producers wished them to get bodily and make threats and she or he wasn’t about to do this.”

Whereas she did briefly reconciled with Ralf, she was in the end granted a restraining order in opposition to him in July 2000 — the identical day because the courtroom listening to and the airing of their Jerry Springer episode, and sadly, the identical day Nany was discovered lifeless in her house.

Ralf acquired a life sentence two years later after he was discovered responsible of second degree-murder.

The present was referenced by Choose Nancy Donnellan throughout his sentencing. with Donnellan sharing her perception that Ralf and Nancy’s messy relationship dynamic was “manipulated” by producers on the present.

“Ralf Panitz, Eleanor Panitz and Nancy Campbell had been delivered to Chicago by the Jerry Springer Present, then manipulated by producers of that present,” Donnellan learn in Might 2002. “Are scores extra necessary than the dignity of human life? Disgrace on you.”

On the time, Springer and producers related to the present denied that their discuss present contributed to Nancy’s demise.

Nancy’s son, in the meantime, needs he may flip again time and cease his mom from happening the present.

“It was surprising, to say the least, that she agreed to do it. It was so out of character. Rising up, I do not even bear in mind my mom ever courting. Perhaps a few times however nothing like a severe relationship as a result of she was a widow,” Jeffrey, who shared that his father and Nancy’s ex, died when he was younger, added. “To see her up on the present simply trying like a deer caught within the headlights like, ‘What’s going on right here?’ I simply want I may return and say to her, ‘Do not do it.’”

Jerry Springer: Fights, Digicam, Motion is streaming now on Netflix.