PROFILING THE CASE OF WADE WILSON
PROFILING THE CASE OF WADE WILSON ______________________________ BACKGROUND INFORMATION: The father of a Fort Myers man facing the death penalty in a 2019 Cape Coral double-murder was paramount to his capture and arrest. In June, Wade Wilson, 30, was found guilty of the Oct. 7, 2019 murders of Kristine Melton, 35, and Diane Ruiz, 43. Wilson, who shares his name with the alter ego of Marvel character Deadpool, met Melton at a Fort Myers bar and eventually accompanied her to her home where he choked her to death as she slept in her bed and stole her car. A short time later, Wilson saw Ruiz walking along a Fort Myers road and asked her for directions. He lured her into the car, choked and beat her when she tried to exit, then pushed her out of the car and ran her over repeatedly. After the murders, Wilson called his biological father several times confessing to the crimes in gruesome detail. After initially dismissing Wilson's calls and attributing the admissions to Wilson being a ...