Man Says Mom Was Murdered After ‘Jerry Springer’ Appearance
A new two-part documentary series is coming to Netflix next week. It is called Jerry Springer: Fights, Camera, Action. As the title suggests, this is a look at both Springer and the reality daytime talk show he created in the era of Crash TV. This was all about getting people on the stage and letting them argue and fight with each other for the world’s entertainment.
However, in the documentary, many people talk about the dark side of the show. One man said that his mom appeared on the show and was then killed after that, thanks to what Springer revealed for entertainment value.
Woman Killed After Jerry Springer Show Appearance
A man named Ralf Panitz said he was watching The Jerry Springer Show and felt a lot of pain in what he saw. The episode featured him with his new wife, Eleanor, and his ex-wife, Nancy Campbell-Panitz. The entire theme of the segment was that Ralf cheated on Nancy with Eleanor.
Nancy had won sole ownership of their house and got a restraining order against him. Watching the Springer episode seemed to trigger something in Ralf. A few hours later, he left and went to Nancy’s house. When he arrived, he beat her to death.
Nancy’s son, Jeffrey Campbell, appears in Jerry Springer: Fights, Camera, Action. He claims that the show “ambushed” his mother and lied to her so she would appear and express her anger at her ex-husband on the show. He said that no one involved in the show, not even Springer himself, would ever accept accountability for his mother’s murder.
“When he was asked by reporters about it, Jerry Springer just blew it off as, ‘What do I know about it?’” Jeffrey said (via The U.S. Sun). “How disrespectful can you be?”
Jeffrey said the show’s producers said they were flying Ralf to America from Germany and would fly him back after the show. He said it was a lie and that Ralf lived in the United States. This put his mother in danger, and she would die only months later.
Jerry Springer Show Producers Still Won’t Accept Responsibility
The documentary spoke to the people involved. Executive producer Richard Dominick still refuses to accept responsibility for the murder. However, other producers, such as Toby Yoshimura, said that the show would manipulate vulnerable guests and that they would play “with people’s psyche until you get a result.”
When The Jerry Springer Show began, it was not Crash TV. It was about bringing loved ones back together. However, no one wanted to watch that, and ratings tanked. When Richard Dominick, a man with tabloid experience, came in, they decided to make it “wild and sexy.”
Yoshimura said Dominick knew how to get results for the show. He was forced to “throw the door of the green room open, pick up a chair and hurl it and start screaming…You rev them up to tornado level and then send them out on stage.” As a result, the show had fights and even one murder, thanks to what happened on that stage.
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