‘Until I Kill You’ tells the story of a woman who survived the so-called ‘Scalp Hunter’ killer. This is what happened to them.

• “Until I Kill You” is about Delia Balmer’s relationship with would-be Scalp Hunter killer, John Sweeney.
• Balmer dated Sweeney in the 1990s before he tried to kill her.

‘Until I Kill You’ tells the story of a nurse who survived being attacked by her ex-boyfriend, a serial killer known as the ‘Scalp Hunter’.

The show is the last in a series true crime shows and podcastsin a boom started by the 2015 Netflix documentary “Making a Murderer.”

In “Until I Kill You,” viewers observe John Sweeney (Shaun Evans) through the eyes of his ex-girlfriend, Delia Balmer (Anna Maxwell Martin). It is an adaptation of Balmer’s book ‘Living With a Serial Killer’, which charts her relationship with Sweeney.

The show aired on British network ITV in November. US viewers can stream it on BritBox starting November 13.

The network also released a documentary, “Until I Kill You: The Real Story,” featuring interviews with Balmer about her ordeal.

This is what happened to Balmer and Sweeney.

John Sweeney was convicted of murdering two women in 1990 and 2001.

As seen in the series, which is based on Balmer’s book, Sweeney and Balmer started dating in the early 1990s. He attacked her at her home when the relationship began to break down.

During the assault, he confessed to her that he had killed his ex-girlfriend, Melissa Halstead, 33, in Amsterdam. The police had discovered Halstead’s dismembered body in a Rotterdam canal in 1990.

Police arrested Sweeney for assaulting Balmer, but he was released on bail. A few months later, in December 1994, he attacked Balmer at her home with an ax and cut off her finger, before a neighbor intervened to defend her.

Sweeney went on the run and remained at large for six years until February 2001. Police arrested him in London and he was given four life sentences for attempting to murder Balmer.

He was serving that sentence at Gartree Prison in Leicestershire when police arrested him in 2010. He was linked to both Halstead’s murder and the death of Paula Fields, 31, whose body parts were found in Regent’s Canal, Camden, in 2001.

During a search of his London home, authorities found 300 works of art depicting extreme violence, and a poem entitled ‘Scalp Hunter’, which: Guardian reported, referring to Halstead’s death.

It read: “Poor old Melissa, chopped her up, food to feed the fish, Am*dam was the well.”

The BBC reported that authorities also suspected Sweeney was involved in the disappearance of three other women, including one from the late 1970s or early 1980s — but it is unknown whether she was murdered or sent to work in Switzerland. Two of Sweeney’s other ex-girlfriends have also not been seen since he went on the run in the late 1990s.

In 2011, Sweeney was sentenced to life in prison for the murders of Halstead and Fields. Mr Justice Saunders, the judge who presided over the case, said during sentencing: “Now that the heads of the victims have been removed, it is impossible to be sure how they were murdered. The mutilation of the bodies is a seriously aggravating feature of the murders. .

“Not only does it reveal the cold-blooded nature of the killer, but it has greatly increased the families’ anguish knowing parts of their loved ones’ bodies have never been recovered.”

Delia Balmer survived John Sweeney’s attack.

Balmer survived both of Sweeney’s attacks and went on to write the 2017 book ‘Until I Kill You’, an adaptation of. She also appeared in the documentary that accompanied the TV series.

In it, Balmer explained that she has loved dancing since she was a child and still takes dance lessons.

She said: “I was very quiet and shy, had no real friends and was afraid of children. My mother took me to the ballet and I always danced when I could. If I travel and there is music, then I will dance. I’m a perfectionist, but my life is the opposite of perfect.”

Towards the end of the documentary, Balmer explained how her experiences with Sweeney changed her.

She said: “I’m an angry person and I’ve been very bitter, and I’m still quite bitter. I don’t like the damage that has been done to this body. It doesn’t have to have happened.”