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In 2000, a 52-year-old woman flew to Chicago to be on Jerry Springer because she believed it would bring her ex-husband back to her. She thought it was a reunion. On stage, with the audience jeering, she found out he had married someone else. She kept her composure and walked off. The day the episode aired, he killed her. According to the video, Nancy Campbell-Panitz never wanted to be on TV. Her ex-husband Ralf Panitz applied. In the video below is the moment Nancy hears from Ralf that he married Eleanor. The episode was called "Secret Mistresses Confronted." Eleanor went out first and told the audience Nancy was stalking them. Then Nancy walked out into the boos. Ralf kissed Eleanor on the lips and Nancy on the cheek. Her answer when he told her: "That's fine. Bye." Years earlier, according to the video, she had told a judge: "I do believe he will kill me." After the taping, she got home alone on a bus, and no one from the show called to check on her. On the day it aired, a judge barred Ralf from living in her house. He reportedly watched the episode in a bar. Hours later Nancy was dead. Ralf fled to Maine with Eleanor and surrendered days later. A jury found him guilty of second-degree murder. He got life. The judge asked the show's producers: "Are ratings more important than the dignity of human life?" The show kept airing for 16 more years. Did the show get Nancy killed, or was Ralf always going to do it?