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Netflix’s Jerry Springer: Fights, Camera, Action docuseries reexamined guest Nancy Campbell-Panitz‘s brutal murder at the hands of ex-husband Ralf Panitz after their appearance on the controversial talk show.

During the second part of the special, which was released on Tuesday, January 7, Nancy’s son, Jeffrey Campbell, discussed how his mother’s tumultuous relationship with Ralf ended in her death months after they participated as guests on The Jerry Springer Show.

“I don’t think they have ever been held accountable for anything. I am sure there have been other people that have been affected — other guests we don’t know about,” Jeffrey said of the show’s producers. “Or people just watching the show at home thinking, ‘Oh, this is normal.’ It isn’t.”

Nancy and Ralf were married for 15 months before divorcing in 1999. They continued to live together off and on until Ralf secretly married wife Eleanor Panitz in 2000. The trio ultimately went on The Jerry Springer Show in May 2000 to air out their relationship issues.

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After an onscreen confrontation with Eleanor and Ralf, Nancy left the show. She briefly reconciled with Ralf, but was ultimately granted a restraining order against him in July 2000. The same day as the court hearing — and the airing of their Jerry Springer episode — Nancy was found murdered in her home.

Ralf received a life sentence two years later after he was found guilty of second degree-murder. Judge Nancy Donnellan addressed Jerry Springer and his show specifically during the sentencing.

“Ralf Panitz, Eleanor Panitz and Nancy Campbell were brought to Chicago by the Jerry Springer Show, then manipulated by producers of that show,” Donnellan read in May 2002. “Are ratings more important than the dignity of human life? Shame on you.”

Springer and producers associated with the show denied that their talk show contributed to Nancy’s death. The Jerry Springer Show, which aired from 1991 to 2018, started as a traditional talk show but was reformatted due to low ratings. It became infamous for its new structure that tackled topics such as incest and adultery while encouraging profanity, nudity and physical fights.

Jerry Springer: Fights, Camera, Action is a two-part docuseries that pulled back the curtain on America’s most controversial talk show by exposing its biggest scandals on and off screen. Keep scrolling for a breakdown of the notorious episode with Ralf and Nancy and the aftermath that led to her murder:

Who Was Nancy?

Jeffrey said Nancy was “a really good mother” before her death, adding, “My dad died when I was just a toddler so she raised me and my brother by herself. She was strong, independent and just a great person.”

Nancy welcomed sons Jeffrey and Gary Campbell with her husband before his death. While watching Nancy’s episode, which was titled “Secret Mistresses Confronted,” Jeffrey was surprised she took part in something so salacious.

“It was shocking, to say the least, that she agreed to do it. It was so out of character. Growing up, I don’t even remember my mother ever dating. Maybe once or twice but nothing like a serious relationship because she was a widow,” he added. “To see her up on the show just looking like a deer caught in the headlights like, ‘What is going on here?’ I just wish I could go back and say to her, ‘Don’t do it.'”

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What Was the History Between Nancy and Ralf?

After meeting in an AOL chat room, Nancy and Ralf started speaking regularly and one year later he immigrated from Germany to the U.S. The pair got married in 1997, but by 1999 they were officially divorced and despite continuing to engage in an on-again, off-again relationship.

“It wasn’t long after [their wedding] that there was a domestic issue. [Ralf] had thrown her on the floor and she had hit her head. After that, she left and filed for divorce,” Jeffrey recalled. “All of sudden, she was in a big house alone and I think she just got lonely. That’s why she went on the show, to get him back.”

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Nancy, Ralf and Eleanor traveled from Florida to Chicago in May 2000 to pre-record the episode.

“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 then they would reconcile,” Jeffrey noted. “Then he would tell his new girlfriend that he wanted to be with my mother. But she was basically lied to because that never happened. I don’t think my mother had any idea what she was walking into.”

Footage from the episode is shown in the docuseries. Nancy appeared on stage to explain how she and Ralf were trying to “restore” their marriage, but Eleanor wouldn’t leave the estranged couple alone. Later in the episode, Nancy revealed that she had “slept with” Ralf the past two nights despite him being with Eleanor.

“This is Ralf. He plays the games with all his women. He takes all the money he can get,” Nancy said after Ralf revealed to the audience that he “had sex with my ex-wife yesterday.”

“But the matter of the fact is that I married Ellie and I do love Eleanor,” he added.

Ralf and Eleanor went on to accuse Nancy of stalking them. “Ralf loves me and he wants to be with me. And you redheaded bitch from hell, you need to leave us alone,” Eleanor fired back. “You need to get a life. I hope you enjoyed yourself immensely the last two nights because it is the last time you are ever going to see him. He wants to be with me.”

The episode took a turn when Nancy walked off stage instead of engaging in a physical altercation.

“It is pretty obvious that they were there to ambush her. The interesting thing is the title of the show. If she had known that that was the title, she probably would have thought twice [about appearing]. But she didn’t know that,” her son Jeffrey told the doc. “The producers wanted them to get physical and make threats and she wasn’t about to do that.”

In clips from the show, Springer was seen telling Nancy that her ex-husband “doesn’t want to be” with her. There was also a wrap up message from the host, which he said, “Let me take this opportunity to thank you for being with us. I hope you are able to find some peace in your future relationships. I hope it works out for you.”

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What Took Place Immediately After the Taping?

“Backstage [my mom] was informed that if she didn’t return to the end of the show, that they would not provide her with her return ticket back to Florida,” Jeffrey claimed. “And she wasn’t having that.”

He continued: “Somehow she found her way to the bus station in Chicago after walking the streets [alone] by herself. She didn’t have any money and didn’t have anywhere to go. It was just her, crying. Finally a good Samaritan saw her visibly upset and bought her a bus ticket to come home.”

Multiple former producers from the show confirmed the “tactic.”

“You as a producer had one more opportunity to keep them,” Toby Yoshimura, a former Jerry Springer Show producer, explained to the camera. “They should feel beholden to you that they are letting you down and you have done all of this for them.”

Jeffrey noted that “no one” from the show contacted Nancy afterward to “check on her or see where she went.” Former executive producer Richard Dominick weighed in on the producer’s post-show hands-off approach.

“We weren’t problem solvers,” he told the cameras. “We were going to give you a chance to tell your story and get it all out but we are not going to help you.”

Where Did Nancy and Ralf Stand After the Episode?

“After the taping of the show, Mom was determined to go on with her life without Ralf. She didn’t want anything more from him. I don’t know what happened in the two or three months after they were on the stage, but somehow they got back together at some point,” Jeffrey recalled. “She put money down on a home and then he went back to his old ways. He threatened her again and like she did on the show — she wasn’t going to take it anymore.”

Nancy’s attorney Lisa Kleinberg was interviewed for the docuseries about a domestic violence injunction her client acquired against Ralf.

“There had been several incidents with Ralf before, and this time he had actually kicked her out of the house. Nancy said to me that her and Ralf had been on The Jerry Springer Show and that it was going to air in two weeks. That didn’t register with me,” Kleinberg shared. “I really felt from her that this was it between her and Ralf. She was done with him and she wanted to get back into her house.”

In July 2000, Nancy was granted sole ownership of her home after Ralf and Eleanor moved onto the property. She also received a restraining order against Ralf. Coincidentally, that same day was when their episode of The Jerry Springer Show officially aired.

“When Ralf walked out of the courtroom, he wasn’t cursing or stomping. He seemed resigned to the ruling. There really wasn’t an issue,” Kleinberg said. “But then he went to a bar and they were playing his episode. Ralf watched the entire show, getting drunk, and he was getting more agitated. I think that is what really pushed Ralf because at some point he said to someone at the bar, ‘I am going to kill her.'”

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How Did Nancy Die?

Hours after the episode aired, Nancy was killed at her home and the Florida police treated her death as a homicide. A first-degree murder warrant was issued for Ralf, who initially tried to flee to Canada to avoid prosecution before turning himself in. (Eleanor, for her part, was held as a material witness but wasn’t charged in connection to Nancy’s murder.)

“They told me someone had attacked my mom, choked her, pushed her down on the floor and stomped on her head. That was her cause of death,” Jeffrey recalled. “They said, it was one of the worst scenes that they have ever encountered.”

In interviews after Nancy’s death, Springer admitted he didn’t remember the guests.

“People happen to have been on the show, as I understand it, so I hope they get the killer. That’s the main thing. The rest is just TV so we will cooperate fully,” he said before elaborating in another appearance. “I don’t mean to trivialize this because it was a very sad event. But it has nothing to do with the show.”

Was ‘The Jerry Springer Show’ Involved in the Trial?

“The rumors were, we were going to be subpoenaed. That is when Richard called me into a meeting and said, ‘I like that Jamaica show idea at a swingers’ resort. Everyone is going,'” Yoshimura claimed. “I don’t want Richard to get at me but if you are going to subpoena someone, all of them were there. That is a great coincidence. We didn’t get subpoenaed.”

Dominick denied the accusation in a separate confessional. (Netflix noted at the end of the doc that the show “denied that they attempted to evade subpoenas” in the case.)

“There’s a rumor going out that the company took the entire show and sent us to Jamaica to get Jerry out of the country. That is bulls— because you can’t take a whole show and 60 people on a whim and move them. It is impossible,” Dominick said, while noting that Springer “would have quit” if the show was somehow responsible for the events that led to Nancy’s death.

Yoshimura blamed the show’s audience for producers ultimately deciding to book people like Nancy and Ralf on the program, adding, “Are we responsible for months after they leave the show for everything that happens in their life? We aren’t.”

What Was the Outcome of the Trial?

In 2002, after a 10-day trial and 18 hours of juror deliberation, Ralf was convicted of Nancy’s murder and sentenced to life in prison. Springer’s involvement in the case, meanwhile, was brought up several times in court by the judge.

Jeffrey filed a lawsuit against Springer and the show, but a spokesperson for the program denied any responsibility. The suit was dropped in 2003.

“This whole situation just erased the whole middle part of my life. I dealt with it for the last 20 years now. Here I am 24 years later still talking about it,” Jeffrey said in the doc. “It has had a pretty big impact — it is hard to trust people anymore.”

The Jerry Springer Show continued to air new episodes until 2018, but new guidelines were put in place. Dominick, who left the show in 2008, said the boundaries were “slowly removing the life” for the show.

Springer died in April 2023 at age 79 after a battle with pancreatic cancer. He previously reflected on his show’s complicated legacy.

“I just apologize. I’m so sorry. What have I done? I’ve ruined the culture,” he said during a November 2022 appearance on the “Behind the Velvet Rope” podcast, before quipping, “I just hope hell isn’t that hot, because I burn real easy. I’m very light-complected.”

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Meredith Vieira’s husband, Richard Cohen, died at age 76 following a battle with multiple sclerosis.

The Today show confirmed on Tuesday, January 7, that Cohen died on Christmas Eve after living with the disease for over 50 years. Today show host Hoda Kotb shared with viewers that Cohen was “surrounded by his family and love” at the time of his death.

The family had been together at Thanksgiving, Kotb continued, telling viewers that they were “concerned” about losing him early. “Instead, they got a glorious month with their dad,” she said.

Today cohost Savannah Guthrie said that Vieira is “in really good spirits” following Cohen’s death.

“She was such a beautiful and devoted wife to Richard and he adored Meredith,” Guthrie added. “And hanging out with them, they were like the most fun and entertaining, irreverent, cool couple you could hang out with.”

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In addition to his MS diagnosis, which Cohen received at age 25, he survived colon cancer twice.

Cohen previously revealed that he told the journalist about his MS diagnosis on their second date. The two got married in 1986.

“I told her about the illness, because I sort of learned the hard way to get it on the table,” Cohen said during a 2019 interview with Yahoo Life. “And she really didn’t blink.”

Vieira noted that MS “wasn’t enough” to scare her off.

She spoke candidly about her husband’s illness during a separate interview with People that same year, telling the publication that Cohen was “doing OK.” At the time, he was also declared legally blind.

“It’s a progressive illness, so you don’t know from day to day,” Vieira said. “He needs a walker, and since he’s been using it, he’s much stronger. It was something he dreaded, but it’s been a blessing.”

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The journalist noted that she and Cohen “definitely allow each other to vent” during the tough times. (Vieira left Today in 2011 to spend more time with Cohen, but continued to host various TV series over the years including the 25 Words or Less game show.)

“That’s part of the deal. Certainly he’s allowed to vent, because he’s got chronic illness. But I am too,” she said. “Because there are days I can’t stand it and the limitations it puts on the entire family. It’s good to say it. But we don’t dwell.”

Cohen is survived by wife Vieira, 71, and their three kids, Benjamin, 36, Gabriel 34, and Lily, 32.

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