Malcolm Webster (murderer) Malcolm Webster (murderer) Malcolm John Webster (born 18 April 1959) is an Englishman convicted of the murder of his first wife in Scotland in 1994 and the attempted murder of his second wife. Both cases involved staged car crashes and were carried out for the life insurance money. A police profiler labelled him a sociopath. His crimes were portrayed in the three-part ITV miniseries "The Widower" (2014). Webster's father, Alexander Robertson Webster of Kincardine, Fife, had been the head of the Fraud Squad in the Metropolitan Police, holding the rank of Detective Chief Superintendent. Malcolm's mother was Odette Blewett, a
Malcolm Webster (murderer) former nurse. As a child, Webster was prone to pretending to faint, grew up largely sheltered, and his penchant for fires earned him the nickname of 'pyro'. He left school at 15, with no qualifications. Webster worked as a nurse, a bin man, a driver and an office clerk. In his teens he lied about having cancer. When he was 30, Webster worked in Tawam children's hospital in Abu Dhabi, UAE. Within six months he was forced to resign, following an investigation into the deaths of three children under his care. All three children had been under six years old