Netflix’s Worst Ex Ever Season 2: 5 Key Takeaways from ‘Deadpool Killer’ Wade Wilson Episode

Netflix’s Worst Ex Ever is back with a second season that brings some of the horrific true crime stories to the screen. The first episode of the season, titled Dating the Deadpool Killer, explored the story of Wade Wilson, who was charged with murdering two women. In 2024, Wilson attained internet fame after the media started calling him the Deadpool Killer due to him sharing a same name as the Marvel character.

Worst Ex Ever Season 2	Details
Platform	Netflix
Episodes	1. Dating the Deadpool Killer 2. Primetime Predator 3. A Fatal Attraction 4. Ride or Die
Executive producers	Jason Blum Cynthia Childs Jordana Hochman Chris McCumber Gretchen Palek
Directed by	Cynthia Childs
IMDb Score (As of May 7, 2026)	7.3/10
Release Date	May 6, 2026

He frequently changed his facial appearance with tattoos, presented a Nazi imagery with a swastika tattoo on his head, and appeared with a smug attitude in the courtroom during his trial. Even more disturbing was the fact that he received the support of many women who found him attractive.

The series, which has Jason Blum of Blumhouse as an executive producer, touched upon these trial shenanigans along with the horrors of his brutal crime. Here are the key takeaways from the episode Dating the Deadpool Killer.

1 Kelly and Christopher: The Ones Who Escaped Death

The Netflix documentary anchors its narrative on Kelly Matthews, who is presented as a former girlfriend of the Deadpool Killer, Wade Wilson. Kelly narrated how she met this 6’5″ guy on a dating profile and described it as a fairytale story. However, it quickly unraveled, as she found out that he had lied to her about his name and his several felony charges. Unfortunately, she was living with him when she started to uncover more secrets about him.

The first red flag that Kelly noticed was when he confessed to having pawned her missing laptop. Things went south when a girlfriend of Kelly moved in, and she and Wade went on to steal a few puppies to sell them for money, and eventually landed her in jail for 27 hours for a crime she didn’t commit.

When she returned, Wade, her friend, her things, and her handgun were missing. She called the police, lured him to her house, and got him arrested. But after he cried and begged, Kelly bailed him out after four days. However, within no time, he unleashed violence on her when he tried to run her over and choked her in her car.

He threatened to stab her with a pocket knife and s*xually assaulted her. He moved on as if nothing had happened, staying with his other girlfriend, Courtney, for a few days, and then moved in with another one of his dates, Christopher, in his RV. Wade also attacked him with a knife after a night of drug-fueled rage. He was badly injured, but did not file a complaint after Wade apologized to him for the incident.

Wade’s escalation had a clear pattern. Both these incidents could have easily gotten out of hand, and both Kelly and Christopher could have been Wade’s would-be victims. He started with small lies and petty theft, then gradually escalated to choking, threats with a knife, and sexual assault. Each step tested how much he could get away with. And when he was faced with the consequences, he would use emotional manipulation to get out of the situation, like all the crying and begging.

This is exactly what makes the episode so uncomfortable to watch. These people are trapped in Wade’s manipulations, and by the time the danger becomes undeniable, the victims are already deep in.

2 Detective Potter’s Actions Were Maddening

After her brutal assault, Kelly Matthews went to the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office to file a complaint against Wade Wilson. She gave her statement to Detective Potter and submitted evidence in the hopes that Wade would soon be caught and he would go to prison for a long time. However, the detective’s actions showed how the system let Wade Wilson slip through the cracks for a long time.

The documentary showed a genuinely infuriating interrogation footage between Detective Potter and Wade. He didn’t question him like a suspect, but coached him through it. His tone is reassuring, and his language borders on victim-blaming. At first, you would think of it as a questioning tactic to soften up Wade and get him to confess to his crimes. But that theory falls apart fast.

When Wade refuses a lie detector test, it should have been a glaring red flag in any investigation. However, Potter doesn’t press him on it. And we are shocked to learn that he eventually dismisses the case entirely, telling Kelly there’s simply no evidence. Kelly was failed by a system that treated her report as an inconvenience. Had Potter done his due diligence, Wade might have been behind bars before he ever had the chance to kill anyone.

She filed a complaint, Potter got a two-week suspension, and that was it. His punishment for that level of negligence feels less like justice and more like a footnote.

3 How Wade Wilson Targeted Kristine Melton?

After his romantic stints with Kelly, Courtney, and Christopher, Wade Wilson moved on with another woman, Mila Montanez. Kelly had posted her story online and found out about Mila from a friend of hers. She learned that Mila was trapped in the same cycle of abuse and that Wade was escalating. But knowing and stopping are two very different things, and the episode makes that gap painfully visible.

On October 7, 2019, the Fort Myers Police Department responded to multiple 911 calls about Wade assaulting Mila. They found him soon in a parking lot, but he drove away, and the cops decided not to pursue in a dangerous chase. Had they known what he had done the previous night, they wouldn’t have let him go. Mila was assaulted, and she explained how her boyfriend showed up in a stranger’s car. On further joint investigation with the Cape Coral Police Department, they found that the car belonged to a waitress, Kristine Melton.

By the time they traced the vehicle back to her address, she was already dead, strangled and wrapped in a carpet. According to Mila’s statement, he had left the Buddha bar the previous night with some strangers. He took her car and went to Kristine’s home with her and her friend Stephanie. When Stephanie left to pick up her kid, he choked Kristine to death in her sleep out of another drug-filled rage.

Kristine wasn’t one of his girlfriends or someone he had known for a long time, making her a random target of his murderous rage. And once he murdered this random person who crossed his path, he was ready to indulge in more violence.

4 Diane Ruiz Was Another Random Target for the Deadpool Killer

The Cape Coral Police Department got another case the same day as Kristine Melton’s murder. What was initially reported as a lost-and-found purse eventually turned into a missing case. They had a suspicion that Wade Wilson might have something to do with the missing woman, Diane Ruiz. The episode pieces together Diane’s case almost like a police procedural.

The crucial link that connected her missing case to Wade was one of the calls Mila received from Wade that actually was from Diane’s phone. As far as the police knew, she was someone who was walking down the street on her way to work. They didn’t know how she came across Wade or became one of his potential victims.

It was at this point that Wade’s father called the police and informed them that his son had confessed to the murders of two women. He also gave up his son’s location, which led the police to arrest Wade. They still didn’t have a body, although they figured out the possible locations and executed a search all over that stretch. Wade’s father visited him in jail and tried to convince his son to give up the location of Diane’s body. Wade agreed to talk, but by that time, the police had found Diane’s body.

What follows is arguably the most disturbing sequence in the episode. Wade confesses to both the crimes. He admitted to Diane being a random target and shared that there would have been more if the police hadn’t caught him. He chillingly said during his confession, “Randomly driving around, randomly saw that girl walking. And I was like, ‘That’s the one.'” It was evident that he showed no remorse after brutally killing these two women.

They found visible tire tracks on Diane’s body, suggesting that he had run her over. He had lured her to his car on the pretext of asking for directions and then threatened her. After he had killed her, he also s*xually assaulted Diane. Wade chillingly demanded french fries in exchange for information on where to find Diane’s body. However, the police saw no reason to give him that as they had already found the body.

5 Wade Wilson’s Fan Following: The Obsession With a Killer

An abuser escalates, systems fail, and innocent people die. While the things have so far been brutal, they were at least comprehensible in some sense. However, the harder thing to process in this case happened after Wade Wilson’s indictment. Two months after his confession, DNA evidence confirmed that he had killed these two women.

We get clips from the State Attorney, Amira Fox, and reporter, Kaitlin Knapp, talking about the popularity that he received between his indictment and his trial. The media called him the Deadpool Killer, and some women became obsessed with this killer. The phone call messages between Wade and these women were all flirty, and a few newspaper headlines showed how he was receiving X-rated pictures from random women in prison. Knapp found out that his visitor’s log consisted of hundreds of kiosk calls from women.

With this revelation, the series prompts the audience to confront something uglier about the culture surrounding true crime. From Ted Bundy to the Menendez Brothers and recently Luigi Mangione, there has been an attraction to men behind bars. While this disturbing trend of romanticizing a killer who brutally murdered two women needs a psychological analysis and study, it didn’t stop the prosecution from showing his brutality to the jury.

In August 2024, he was sentenced to the maximum sentence of the death penalty for the murders of Kristine Melton and Diane Ruiz. As of now, he is reportedly on death row, even though his legal team has filed an appeal to the Florida Supreme Court to overturn his execution.

Wade Wilson’s story was also told in another documentary released earlier this year. In Paramount+’s Handsome Devil: Charming Killer, Mila Martinez, who appeared only in bodycam and CCTV footage in the Netflix episode, narrated her personal experience with the killer.

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Worst Ex Ever Season 2 is now available for streaming on Netflix.