Alert – How ‘Deadpool Killer’ Wade Wilson was adopted by loving church-going parents before going off the rails at high school taking drugs and stealing

Tattoo-covered Wade Wilson was adopted by loving church-going parents before going off the rails at high school, taking drugs, and stealing until ultimately carrying out a killing spree.

The so-called ‘Deadpool Killer’, 30, was was handed the death sentence in a Lee County courtroom on Tuesday for brutally murdering Kristine Melton, 35, and Diane Ruiz, 43, in 2019.

But his committing of the heinous crimes sent shockwaves through Florida, as his former classmates revealed to Newsweek that the ‘troubled’ man had been adopted by ‘super friendly’ Steve and Candace Wilson.

One of Wilson’s ex school friends said: ‘He had the world given to him, he had a nice house in the suburbs with his parents who adopted him. 

‘They had greyhounds and expensive vehicles, but they were not just all about their material stuff. Their mindset was in the right place, too.’

Wade Wilson was known for ‘looking eerie’ and ‘passing around drugs’ at high school, according to former classmates. Pictured: Wilson in 11th grade pictured in the Chiles High School 2012 yearbook

Wilson, known as the ‘Deadpool killer’ was handed the death sentence on Tuesday after killing two women in October 2019

Wilson was convicted over the murders of Diane Ruiz, 43, and Kristine Melton, 35, who prosecutors said he killed ‘for the sake of killing’ 

But for those who watched him grow up, they believed this was all taken for granted.

One classmate even recalled Wilson stealing is parents’ car before disappearing for three days.

Another woman who remained anonymous, claimed she attended Deerlake Middle School and Chiles High School with Wilson and said he and his friends ‘looked so eerie’.

She said during lunchtime, none of the friendship group would eat, but would instead pass around drugs.

The woman said Wilson was also the first person she had ever smoked marijuana with when she was just 14-years-old.

‘We would smoke in the woods before school started, and that was almost a daily thing after the first time.

‘Sometimes it would just be me and Wade, and sometimes [her boyfriend] would be there. 

‘But every time I was alone with Wade, he never gave me any vibes that I was unsafe,’ she said.

Wilson was previously convicted in June of the two first-degree murder counts, whom he strangled within hours of each other on October 6, 2019 in Cape Coral.

Prosecutors said Wilson began his murder spree on the afternoon of October 6, 2019, when he met Melton at a live music bar and went home with her.

Wilson strangled her to death inside her home in Cape Coral, Florida the next day, where her body was found inside.

The same day, Ruiz was reported missing after she was seen being asked for directions by Wilson while on her walk to work.

Wilson was previously convicted in June of two counts of first-degree murder and two counts of first-degree meditated murder in the deaths of the two women, whom he strangled within hours of each other on October 6, 2019 in Cape Coral

He was driving a car he stole from Melton’s home after he murdered her, which Ruiz got into before she was also strangled to death.

In chilling testimony from Wilson’s father, it was said that he went onto ‘run her over until she looked like spaghetti.’ 

Ruiz’s body was found three days later in a field behind a Sam’s Club.

Melton suffered bruising to her face and body, hemorrhages on her neck and contusions to the lungs, liver, bladder and colon, among others. 

Some of the injuries Ruiz suffered included a nasal bone fracture, a laceration to her left breast, bruising on both sides of her body and multiple rib fractures. 

The killer also drove to Fort Myers in Melton’s car and attacked Melissa Montanez, his ex-girlfriend. 

Wilson was finally arrested on October 8, and remained behind bars without bail prior to his murder conviction.

He has since added a number of tattoos to his face includes several swastikas, menacing Joker-like mouth tattoos, and a neck tattoo reading: ‘Bred for war.’

Throughout the trial, Wilson’s attorneys have tried to argued he was impaired by drugs.

His adoptive parents submitted letters saying he was a ‘joyful child’ who ‘loved his parents,’ and claimed that he became delusional after his drug addiction began.

During his sentencing on August 27, Wilson made a morbid last request to the court.

‘I understand he has other cases pending here and elsewhere… but Mr Wilson asked me to ask the court within whatever authority you have to get him to death row as soon as possible,’ his lawyer said.

Since his arrest, Wilson has had a number of tattoos added to his face including several swastikas, menacing Joker-like mouth tattoos, and a neck tattoo reading: ‘Bred for war’

Wilson’ spate of criminal charges date back four years prior to the murders of Melton and Ruiz, after he was arrested on charges of sexual battery and kidnapping in 2015.

A woman told investigators he raped her in his SUV after they met at a party in Tallahassee – but he denied the charges and a six-person jury later acquitted him at trial.

Eight months before the Fort Meyers killing spree, in February 2019, Wilson’s former girlfriend came forward to accuse him of stealing her laptop and cellphone.

Just a month later, she told officers he had kidnapped and raped her but as the pair were under a no-contact court order, investigators decided not to pursue the rape and kidnapping allegations.

Wilson’s high-school fueled drug habits then followed him into prison following the arrest after his gruesome October 2019 killings.

In April 2023, a K9 identified narcotics the Lee County Jail where Wilson was being held.

Authorities discovered a grocery bag with two Ziploc bags  inside which contained loose cigarettes, suspected narcotics, lighters, and pills.

Both bags tested positive for methamphetamine and officials later confirmed Wilson had been working alongside other inmates to plant the narcotics within the prison.

Following Tuesday’s sentencing, Ruiz’s father said he plans to be there when Wilson is on death row, recounting how he ‘didn’t get to say I love her’ to her daughter before her untimely death.

Meanwhile, prosecutors stated that Wilson will now be just a number in the Florida Department of Corrections, awaiting death.