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Article: `Jerry Springer' guest charged with murder charge puts heat on Springer show
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- July 30, 2000
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A GUEST on last Monday's US broadcast of the Jerry Springer Show
was yesterday being held without bail in a Florida jail. He was
charged with murder in connection with the death, just hours after
the airing of the programme, of his ex-wife, who had also appeared on
the show.
Ralf Panitz and Eleanor Panitz, his new bride of just a few
months, had vanished on Monday evening when police reported finding
the badly beaten body of his previous wife, Nancy Campbell-Panitz, in
a home that the three had apparently been sharing in the resort of
Sarasota.
The killing occurred on the same day viewers in the US watched as
Ralf, Eleanor and Nancy traded vicious barbs on the set of Jerry
Springer. The ...