The Widower (miniseries) The Widower (miniseries) The Widower is a British television miniseries originally broadcast in three one-hour installments on ITV in 2014. The series portrays the life and crimes of convicted murderer Malcolm Webster. ITV described the show as: "The Widower tells how, over a 13-year period, a seemingly mild-mannered nurse, Malcolm Webster, set about poisoning and murdering his first wife, attempting to do the same to his second wife and moving on to a further scheme to deceive his third fiancée." The series was written by Jim Barton and Jeff Pope. In March 2014, ITV announced the broadcast of "The Widower".
Malcolm Webster Ford was the winner at the National Championships of the long jump and 100 and 200 yard dash, a "triple" which was not accomplished again until Carl Lewis did it in 1983. Ford's father and the Ford family strongly opposed his participation in athletics and he was disinherited because of his refusal to give up competition. He also twice endured scandals for competing as a professional and was banned from amateur competition. He married Janet Wilhelmina Graves, a Brooklyn heiress, in 1892 and they had a child, also named Malcolm Webster Ford. The couple divorced in 1898 and Ford was granted