Kelly Matthews Drives Netflix’s Worst Ex Ever to Wade Wilson Case
Netflix’s Season 2 of Worst Ex Ever puts wade wilson back at the center of Episode 1, “Dating the Deadpool Killer,” which revisits the murders of Kristine Ann Melton and Diane Ruiz. The hour also gives Kelly Matthews a longer platform than the jury-trial coverage she spoke to at the time, turning a true-crime case into a survivor-led account.
Episode 1 on Wade Wilson
Episode 1 is built around the double homicide case tied to Wade Steven Wilson, who is also known as the Deadpool Killer. That choice makes the season opener the most direct entry point for viewers who want the facts of the case, not a broad survey of the show’s domestic-abuse themes.
Kelly Matthews is the episode’s most important witness. She met Wilson through online dating when she was 26, said they hit it off on the first date, and said he moved in within a few weeks. The episode uses her account to connect the public murder case with the abuse allegations that came before and after it.
Kelly Matthews and the arrest
Before late December 2018, reports say Wilson took off with Kelly’s 18-year-old friend and stole her shotgun. Officials then charged him with being a felon in possession of a firearm because he had previous convictions, and by late December 2018 Kelly reportedly lured him to her home, leading to his arrest on that charge.
Kelly later bailed Wilson out of prison and let him move in again. During a drive to the Florida Keys, she alleged that he tried to run her over after an argument, then choked her, cut off her clothes, tied her hands and feet, and sexually assaulted her in the backseat of the car. Her mother reportedly called 911 after Kelly fled to her home, and Kelly said she suffered a cut lip and bruising on her neck.
Trial testimony in public view
Authorities questioned Wilson during the investigation, and he denied any crime. The detective assigned to the case let him go because there was no probable cause and no witnesses, a gap that left Kelly without an immediate arrest outcome even after she said she had been attacked.
Kelly spoke publicly to the media during Wilson’s jury trial for the murders of Kristine Ann Melton and Diane Ruiz. Her line in the episode is blunt: “I just want people to know that they can leave, like get help. If I had seen signs and not been so infatuated with him or whatever, you know, I wouldn’t have gone through all that.”
What the episode leaves viewers with
Kelly said she had worked at a zoo since she was 19, trained tigers, worked with venomous snakes, and wrestled alligators for 2 years. That detail sits alongside the abuse account and makes her testimony harder to dismiss as a passive recollection; she speaks as someone used to physical risk, yet still describing how badly the relationship went wrong.
The clean takeaway from Worst Ex Ever Season 2 is that Episode 1 does more than revisit a murder case. It puts Kelly Matthews’ allegations in the foreground, and that shifts the viewing experience from simple true-crime recap to a sharper record of how the case looked to someone who lived beside Wilson before the murders drew national attention.
