Kelly Matthews Reopens Wade Wilson Killer Case in Worst Ex Ever Season 2
Netflix's Worst Ex Ever opens its second season with the wade wilson killer case, centering an episode titled Dating the Deadpool Killer. The four-episode return puts Kelly Matthews back at the center of a Florida story that moved from dating-app contact to violence, then to a murder investigation that spread beyond one victim.
Kelly Matthews and 2018
Kelly Matthews first met Wilson in 2018 on a dating app in the West Palm Beach area, when he was using his middle name Steven. She says he kidnapped, beat, and sexually assaulted her in her own vehicle, then took her accusations to police, where they were dismissed for insufficient evidence. That makes the premiere more than a true-crime retread; it gives the season a survivor-led entry point before the later killings dominate the case.
2012 Charges and 2015 Acquittal
Wilson's record reaches back to 2012, with charges that included sexual assault, burglary, child cruelty, and firearms offenses. He was acquitted of sexual battery and kidnapping charges in Tallahassee in 2015, and he was also suspected in the murder of Mike Williams without being charged. The episode leans on that history to show why the nickname stuck and why his case never sat inside a single incident.
October 2019 in Fort Myers
In October 2019, Wilson was living in the Fort Myers area with his girlfriend when he met 35-year-old Kristine Melton at Buddah LIVE, a Fort Myers bar. After the bar closed, Wilson, Melton, and Stephanie Sailors went to Jayson Shepard's home in Cape Coral, Florida, and Wilson later confessed to strangling Melton in her bed. He then stole Melton's car, fled to his girlfriend's workplace in the morning, assaulted her at the spa, and tried to pull her into the car before bystanders alerted authorities.
Body camera footage later captured police confronting Wilson in a parking lot before he fled again, and he then randomly encountered 43-year-old mother Diane Ruiz. That sequence gives the episode its sharpest value: it ties the streaming release to a case built on survivor testimony, police footage, and a trail of accusations that stretches from 2012 to the 2019 murders. For viewers, the season premiere is the entry point; for the broader case, it is a reminder that the Deadpool nickname never softened the violence behind it.
