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 (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