JUST IN: Florida To Execute ‘Deadpool Killer’ Wade Wilson — “I Just Wanted To Do It.” 

JUST IN: Florida To Execute ‘Deadpool Killer’ Wade Wilson — “I Just Wanted To Do It.” 

This monster is being called the handsome devil. His face disfigured by dozens of tattoos. And yet somehow there are plenty of women out there who are apparently infatuated with him. This despite the fact that Wilson strangled Christine Melton after picking her up at a bar and just hours later lured Diane Ruiz into his car, choked her, threw her out and repeatedly ran over her.

>> What comes across my mind is murder, just murder, murder, just kill, kill, kill. >> He ran her over, then reversed, then did it again and again. Later, when detectives finally had him in a room, one of them leaned forward and asked him why. He didn’t hesitate. I just wanted to do it.

 No explanation, no remorse, just a man, a Tuesday morning, and a decision he said he would make again. Before this video ends, you will question everything you thought you knew about where evil actually comes from. His name is Wade Wilson. And yes, it’s the same name as the comic book anti-hero millions of people recognize instantly.

 But this Wade Wilson left two real women dead. Christine Melton, Diane Ruiz. Online, millions became obsessed with his face. This documentary is about the people he erased and what actually happened that week in Florida. If this is the kind of true crime reporting you’ve been looking for, detailed, verified, and focused on the full story.

Subscribe now because what comes next is far deeper than the headlines ever were. Christine Melton grew up in Illinois. She was not a Florida native. At some point in her adult life, she and her best friend since high school, Stephanie Sailors, made a decision together. They were moving to Cape Coral.

 The two of them settled into life there the way close friends do. They found work at the same restaurant, lived within reach of each other, and built a routine that kept them close. But the specific reason Christine chose Cape Coral was her mother. Katie Melton had been diagnosed with earlystage Alzheimer’s disease and Christine was not the kind of person who could live far from that.

 She found a duplex three to four houses down from Katie and made herself available every single day. Morning coffee was not optional. Neither were the check-ins, the phone calls, or the quiet work of protecting a woman whose judgment was becoming unreliable. Christine monitored her mother’s finances, watched for anyone who might try to take advantage of her, and kept her connected to the life she had always known.

 That was not an obligation to Christine. It was just who she was. Her cousin Samantha Catr testified at trial about the kind of person was outside of that caregiving role. Quick-witted, someone who had a way of making every person in a room feel genuinely understood. She was the godmother to Samantha’s child. She owned a cat she had named Honor.

 Her favorite holiday, Samantha told the court, was Halloween. She loved dressing up for it every year without fail. Her brother, Robert Melton, who lives in Maryland, described her simply as the glue of the family, the one who held everything together from a distance. Christine Melton was 35 years old. On the evening of October 6th, 2019, she and Stephanie went out to Buddha Live, a bar in Fort Meyers.

 It was a Tuesday, completely routine. 3 mi away, Diane Ruiz was 43 years old and had built a life that was steady and full. She had been working as a bartender at the Moose Lodge on Santa Barbara Boulevard in Cape Coral for five consecutive years. In that entire time, she had not missed a single shift. Not one.

 Her coworker, Linda Jenola, described her as the heartbeat of the place. She was dependable in the way that some people just are. Not because they have to be, but because they genuinely care about showing up. Diane had two sons. Brandon Quay was 29. Zayn Romero was 19. Brandon has spoken publicly about his mother on more than one occasion and has said clearly that she was his closest friend.

 The night before October 7th, he cooked dinner for the whole family. Nobody at that table had any reason to believe it would be their last meal together. It was just dinner. Zayn was days away from performing in his high school marching band for the very first time. >> My name is Zay Romero. I’m 19-year-old college student going for my bachelor degree in graphic design.

 I’m Diane Ruiz’s youngest child. I’m I was only 14 years old when she passed. Just starting my freshman year of high school. She was so excited um to see me grow up and so proud of who I was growing into. She supported me in all my dreams and only tried to help and uplift me when taking on new risk and challenges.

 My father unfortunately passed away when I was only 11 years old. My mother was all I had left. I was barely 2 months into my first year of high school when she passed away. I was in marching band in the week prior. She was telling me how excited she was to go and watch me perform at that weekend’s football game.

Um she would have been her first time seeing me perform because that was my first year in that marching band. She never got to see me perform and I never got the experience of seeing her in the crowd. My mother supported my dreams and only ever wanted me to succeed in life. She always reassured me that my life wasn’t going to end if I got a C in math.

 She always made sure that all the hard work I was putting into my ed education wasn’t going unnoticed. She would always show up with random gifts that helped me and succeeded in my life for what I needed. When I was younger, I originally wanted to be a photographer. My mother went out of her way to find me a professional beginner photographer.

She knew I wanted to print my photos and she bought me a printer with with photo paper. Um, I no longer have those dreams, but I still constantly use those items. She was raised in a tough home environment and only ever wanted to give me and my brother nothing like that. She wanted us to grow up in a loving home and for us to be happy.

 My mother was a single mother who who only ever wanted not only for her family but everybody around her to be happy. My mother’s life dream was to be able to get married and raise her family. She was so close to getting everything she wanted. I was forced to move states to better accommodated for what I needed for my education.

 I moved far away from Florida because I grew up I grew up everywhere with my mom just to have her be stripped away on a random weekday. I tried my best to avoid going back. She was really excited for my future because she was she knew I was going to achieve big things and I refused to disappoint her even in death because it helped me push on every day.

 I would like to share some achievements I’ve been able to accomplish. Um I did three years of marching band. We achieved superiors in the blue ribbon um all throughout high school. My senior year I achieved my high school’s most principal award. Sophomore year, I wore my first scholarship based off of my art portfolio portfolio. I graduated high school.

 I got accepted into all the colleges I applied and also received a full ride scholarship from one. My senior year, I received the John Phillips user award for marching band. I got my driver’s license. I received my first car. Um during co I ran a whole jewelry business for two years at 16. I got my first job.

 I’m getting my first apartment July. Um, I’m a year ahead in my college education and I have my first internship as a graphic designer. I only listed 13 out of many both big and small achievements. All 13 of these achievements. My mom didn’t get the chance to see me accomplish. My mother will never get the chance to see me get married, get to see me graduate college as a first generation graduate, get to see me get my first real job.

>> Diane had been counting down to that debut. She talked about it. She was looking forward to being there. Her father, Felix Ruiz, was present at every stage of the legal proceedings that would eventually follow. After sentencing, he told reporters plainly that he intends to be in the room the day Wade Wilson takes his last breath.

Diane was engaged to Scott Hannon, a 50-year-old doc worker who shared a home with her. On the morning of October 7th, 2019, Scott kissed her goodbye before she headed out for her shift. He later told the court that he had absolutely no idea that morning would be the last time he saw her.

 Diane walked the same route to the Moose Lodge every single day. Same streets, same turns, same schedule. It was the kind of routine that makes a person feel safe. On October 7th, 2019, that familiarity meant she was exactly where a stranger could find her. Wade Wilson was born on May 20th, 1994 in Tallahassee, Florida.

 His biological father, Steven Tesseka, was 14 years old at the time. His biological mother was 13. They were teenagers with no means and no stability. And shortly after Wade was born, he was placed for adoption. He was taken in by Steve and Cindy Wilson, a church-going couple in Tallahassee who already had two daughters.

 By every measurable standard, it was a good home, stable income, strong values, the same opportunities they gave their daughters, both of whom went on to earn college degrees. Wade had access to all of it. At his sentencing years later, a letter written by Steve and Cindy was read aloud in court.

 In it, they described a boy who was joyful in his early years, who loved his parents and sisters and was loved deeply in return. That letter also contained a line that stopped the courtroom. They wrote, “The system failed him on that fateful day in 2019. Please see it in your heart to not take our son.

” But the shift they described in that letter did not happen suddenly. It started around age 11 when Wade told his parents that something felt wrong with him mentally. They tried to get him help. He refused to cooperate with treatment. The situation continued to deteriorate until police became involved and Wade was Baker acted at around 15 or 16 years old.

 That is an involuntary psychiatric hold under Florida law. It was law enforcement, not a doctor, that finally forced the intervention. During those same years, Wade also sustained four documented concussions from sports injuries and a car accident. After one of those incidents, he left the hospital against medical advice without being evaluated for a head injury.

 That detail would later become a central point of argument at trial. He attended Child’s High School in Tallahassee and graduated with the class of 2012. By that same year, his name had already appeared in law enforcement records. In 2012, he was involved in incidents involving burglary, assault, and firearm offenses in Lyon County.

 In November 2013, he was sentenced to prison for burglary in grand theft. He was released in September 2014. In 2015, he was arrested on charges of sexual battery and kidnapping after a woman told investigators he had assaulted her in his vehicle following a party in Tallahassee. Wilson denied the charges. The case went to trial and a sixperson jury acquitted him.

 In 2017, he was incarcerated again, this time for stealing firearms. He was released in July 2018. That same year, his name surfaced in connection with the Denise Williams murder case in Tallahassee. Denise Williams had been convicted of conspiring in the death of her husband, Mike Williams, whose body was found in a lake years after he was reported missing.

 Wilson claimed during this period that he had been paid $20,000 in a white envelope to carry out the attack. He was never charged in connection with that case. In February 2019, a woman named Kelly Matthews, who had met Wilson on a dating app the previous year, reported an assault to the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office. Detective Lewis Potter of the Special Victims Unit was assigned to the case.

He interviewed Wilson, who refused to take a polygraph. A DNA sample was collected. The lab results were never waited on. The case was closed without charges being filed. On July 1st, 2019, Wilson was arrested by the Lee County Sheriff’s Office for battery. Then, in September 2019, just one month before the events that would define the rest of his life, he pleaded guilty to pawning stolen property belonging to a former girlfriend.

 He received credit for time served and was placed on probation. By October 2019, Wade Wilson was 25 years old and living in Fort Meyers with his girlfriend Mila Montinees, who operated a spa in the area. The relationship had become volatile. His methamphetamine use had been escalating for some time. On the evening of October 6th, 2019, Wade and Mila went to Buddha Live together.

What began as an ordinary night out would end in a way that nobody at that bar could have anticipated. At Buddha Live that evening, Wade Wilson and Mila Montinez arrived together. At some point during the night, an argument broke out between them. When Jason Shepard extended an invitation for the group to continue at his home, Ma declined and left. Wade stayed.

 That is when he introduced himself to Christine Melton and Stephanie Sailors. He told them his name was Jr. He was sociable, easy to talk to, and gave no indication of what he was capable of. Jason Shepard would later testify at trial about what he witnessed that night. When Buddha Liv closed around 2:00 a.m.

, the group went to Shepherd’s home. Wilson, and Christine were intimate there. In the early hours of October 7th, Wilson, Christine, and Stephanie made their way to Christine’s duplex in Cape Coral. Wade could not drive a manual transmission, so they called an Uber. Stephanie did not stay long. She had to take her son to school and get to work.

Before leaving, Christine hugged her and said she would see her tomorrow. Stephanie testified at trial that Christine would never have allowed her to leave if she had felt any sense of danger. Nothing felt wrong. She had no reason to stay. After Stephanie left, Christine went to sleep. What followed was established through forensic evidence and medical testimony presented at trial.

 Wilson attacked Christine while she was asleep. Medical examiner Dr. Noelia Alamar Hernandez confirmed the cause of death was manual strangulation. When investigators later processed the scene, they found her body wrapped in carpets and bedding. Wilson had taken her phone, her purse, and the keys to her black Nissan Versa before leaving the apartment at around 10:00 a.m.

 He drove directly to Ma Montenez’s spa. Officers responded to a reported battery at the location that morning. Body camera footage obtained afterward captured Wilson outside shirtless. He denied that anything had taken place. When the responding officer ordered him out of the vehicle, Wilson started the engine and drove away. >> Just wait till my uh partner gets here.

>> L41, going to need a couple more units. Don’t go anywhere. Hey Department protocol at the time prevented the officer from pursuing him. He was now behind the wheel of Christine’s stolen Nissan Versa, moving through the streets of Cape Coral. That was when he came across Diane Ruiz walking her regular route to work.

 He pulled over and asked if she needed a ride. Diane got into the car. At some point after that, Wilson attacked her inside the vehicle, then forced her out and drove over her repeatedly. Steven Testeka testified at trial that Wilson told him he ran her over between 10 and 20 times. >> Well, after he killed the two women and went on the run, he called his biological father who had his own troubles with the law.

 And the father made the courageous decision to turn his son in. They caught him, put him in prison, and then on the phone videos in jail, he confessed to his father what he had done, how he ran over these women, how he strangled them, and he was at a loss to explain just exactly why. Just that a rage overcame him. >> Diane was left in a field behind a Sam’s Club in Cape Coral.

 Her body was not found for 3 days. On October 10th, 2019, witnesses reported vultures circling the area. That is what led investigators to the location. The medical examiner’s findings confirmed injuries consistent with both a physical assault and repeated impacts from a vehicle. After leaving Cape Coral on October 7th, 2019, Wade Wilson called Steven Testeka, his biological father.

 Testeka was at work when the calls came in. He initially dismissed what Wilson was telling him, later saying his son had always been a good storyteller, but the calls kept coming and the details became too specific to ignore. Testeka and his wife put the phone on speaker and contacted police from a second line. They kept Wilson talking and told him they would send an Uber.

 Wilson told them exactly where he was. >> Wait, hold on. Let me cover the phone up. I can’t really hear you. It was me. >> Oh, okay. Let me cover my other damn TV in here turned up like I’m sorry but I’m like I’m in bed right now. >> Oh, you’re in bed right now. Do you want me to call you back at a different time? >> Um no.

 Yeah, I want to talk to you guys back. >> Okay. Yeah, no problem. I was actually um I was actually about to get in the shower so I can um I mean I can call you back. Can you Can you come at your bed here? >> Yeah. What What time is it for you? >> You shower at my house uh right now. >> Huh? Can you shower at my house? >> Hey, listen.

 Are you still Are you still feeling sick or what? Like what’s going on? >> Yeah. Yeah. come and go and then place. >> Yeah. >> I I love >> Yeah. But um >> No, go ahead. Go ahead. What were you going to say? >> No, I’m just >> Oh, listen. I turned in my um my form for my pizza, dude. >> Okay. >> Yeah. >> Yeah.

 And whenever you whenever you get it, to be honest with you, they they don’t I don’t think they make it out today, but it’s better to do it so that they you know what I mean. >> But I learn tomorrow. I just wanted to let you know >> and um hold on. >> It’s connect network. Yeah. >> Yeah. Connect. And then you might need my I think I sent it to you on the message, one of our messages, like my ID number, but you could probably I’m sure you can look it up.

 That’s not very hard to find out. >> Hey, did you read my message where I told you that I wrote this chap, right? I told you on Twitter. >> You asked me am I serious, Joey? >> Yes, man. I’m serious. You asked my parents. Yeah. >> You know what I You know what I was scared of? I was scared that maybe you were just out having so many drinks and such a good time that you were like, >> you know what I mean? Like, damn, you want them.

>> I’m sorry. So [ __ ] stupid and weird. I don’t love you. I don’t mean >> I don’t give a [ __ ] either. I give a [ __ ] if you’re in love with me, but I don’t give a [ __ ] what >> By that evening, Wilson had broken into a vacant home belonging to Kent and Fanny Amlin in Cape Coral. He showered, changed into their clothing, and waited.

Police called the landline. Wilson answered. On October 8th, 2019, a SWAT team surrounded the property. Wilson surrendered without resistance. On October 11th, Cape Coral police officially named him as the person of interest. On November 19th, a Lee County grand jury returned a formal indictment. In December 2019, the state attorney filed intent to seek the death penalty.

While in custody, his conduct drew continued attention. On September 30th, 2020, jail staff discovered that Wilson and his cellmate Joseph Catz had been attempting to remove bars from their cell window. Wilson was identified as the organizer. In April 2023, AK-9 unit detected methamphetamine in a gray grocery bag in his area of the facility.

Drug trafficking charges followed. The trial opened June 3rd, 2024 at the Lee County Courthouse in Fort Meyers. Sarah Miller led the prosecution alongside assistant state attorney Andreas Garder. During opening statements, the defense acknowledged Wilson’s responsibility for both deaths.

 The dispute was not whether he had done it. It was whether his history of brain injuries eliminated his legal intent. The prosecution presented four categories of evidence. The recorded confession calls with testa testifying directly. DNA from forensic analyst Daniel Baker linking Wilson to both scenes and to Christine’s vehicle. Surveillance footage tracking the stolen Nissan Versa across Fort Meyers and Cape Coral on October 7th.

 and direct testimony from Stephanie Sailors, Mila Montinez, Jason Shepard, Brandon Quayar, Zayn Romero, Scott Hannon, and Felix Ruiz. Defense neurologist Dr. Mark Rubino testified that Wilson’s brain scans showed frontal lobe impairment from his documented concussions. Dr. Thomas Coin, testifying for the prosecution, said the scans were within normal range and that drug abuse was the more significant factor.

 Gardner told the jury in closing that this case was about killing for the sake of killing. The jury deliberated for two hours. On June 12th, 2024, guilty verdicts came back on all six counts. Two first-degree murders, grand theft, battery, burglary, and petite theft. >> Count two, grand theft of a motor vehicle.

 The defendant is sentenced to 5 years imprisonment in the Florida Department of Corrections. Count three, battery. The defendant is hereby sentenced to 364 days in the Lee County Jail. Count four, first-degree murder of Diane Ruiz. The defendant is hereby sentenced to death. >> Court reporter Tomas Rodriguez observed that Wilson remained stoic throughout, leaning at times to consult his attorney.

 Police Chief Anthony Seismore sat alongside both families as each count was announced. Robert Melton received the news by phone from Maryland. Wilson showed no reaction. The penalty phase ran from June 20th through June 25th, 2024. Samantha Cado returned to the stand to speak about Christine. Zayn Romero addressed the court directly.

 The jury recommended death by a vote of 9 to3 for the murder of Christine Melton and 10 to2 for the murder of Diane Ruiz. Those votes carried legal significance beyond this case alone. In 2023, Florida had changed its death penalty statute, removing the requirement for a unanimous jury recommendation. A majority was now sufficient.

 Wade Wilson became one of the first defendants in the state sentenced to death under that revised law. On August 27th, 2024, Judge Nicholas Thompson imposed two death sentences. He cited three aggravating factors. The heinous nature of both offenses. Wilson’s demonstrated lack of remorse through his own statements and conduct and his prior criminal history involving violent crimes.

 Wilson remained expressionless throughout. In the gallery, the families held each other. As of May 2026, Wilson is at Union Correctional Institution in Rayford, Florida, spending approximately 23 hours each day in his cell. His attorney, Michael Offerman, withdrew the Florida Supreme Court appeal in early 2026 after rulings in the Jackson and Hunt cases eliminated the legal foundation of his argument.

 The next step is the United States Supreme Court. No execution date has been set. No death warrant has been signed. Katie Melton does not know her daughter is gone. Her brother, Robert, is waiting for the right moment to tell her. Zayn Romero performed in that marching band debut without his mother in the crowd.

 Scott Hannon has said he will be present the day Wilson’s sentence is carried out. Felix Ruiz has said the same. Remember Christine Melton. Remember Diane Ruiz. If this documentary gave you something, a detail you did not know, a fact that stayed with you, hit like. It tells the algorithm these stories deserve to be seen.

 Subscribe for more cases researched beyond the headlines and told with the victims at the center every single time.