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[eerie music playing]

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[music surges]

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[man 1 speaking]

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[audio glitches]

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[man 2] Evil is out there.

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[man 1 speaking]

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Evil walks among us.

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[audio glitches]

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[man 1 speaking]

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I thought I was going to die, 100%.

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[man 1 speaking]

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[woman] I was begging her to leave him.

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Like, "Please get away from this man.
He's going to kill you."

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[woman 2] We realized that we had
a really evil monster on our hands.

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[disturbing music builds]

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[music glitches, ends]

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[mellow music playing]

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[birds cawing]

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[woman 1] In 2018, I was 26 years old

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and living in my first apartment
by myself,

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with my two dogs and my two cats,

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a couple of miles up the road
from my parents.

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So I was still close enough
that I felt like I was safe,

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but I was on my own, finally.

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I've always loved working with animals.

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When I was 19 years old,
I started working at a zoo.

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And they used to train tigers,
work with venomous snakes.

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And I wrestled alligators for two years.

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Then I took a break
from the dangerous stuff

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and got into dog grooming.

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My dating life was not… the best.

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I have always been, like, a shy person,
so I don't go out and meet people.

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{\an8}But then I did try online dating.

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I scrolled past this guy
whose name was Steven,

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{\an8}and he was 6'5" and had dimples

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{\an8}and super handsome.

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{\an8}And I was like,
"Oh, this is obviously a catfish."

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{\an8}But I swiped on him,
and he replied and messaged me back,

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and we agreed to go out.

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He met up with me, and he was really him.

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He was a real person, 6'5",
super handsome, nice teeth.

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And I was like, "Holy crap,
I found, like, the perfect man."

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We hit it off, like, right away.

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And at the end of the night,
he asked me if he could kiss me.

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And I was like, "What is this?"

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"This is… This is like fairy-tale stuff."

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So that's… that's where it all started,
and we just were, like, inseparable.

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Steven was a personal trainer.

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He told me that he was from North Florida,

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and he was adopted

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and given to these two awesome people
through their church.

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They were nice, well-off people.

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And he had told me that
he had been in contact with his dad,

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his biological dad.

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And he seemed happy about that.

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When my parents first met Steven,
they did really like him.

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They thought he was super sweet

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and seemed to have a nice head
on his shoulders.

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And my animals really liked him,
which was a huge deal for me.

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[dog barks softly]

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[bright music playing]

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[clicks tongue]

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[chuckles] Don't take the whole thing.

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A couple of weeks into dating,
he asked if I wanted to be his girlfriend.

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And of course, I said yes.

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At the time, Steven had been complaining
about his roommate.

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I trusted him and felt something for him,

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so I let him move in with me
pretty quickly,

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like within the first month.

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He didn't have a car.
He would borrow my car a lot.

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And I only lived a couple of miles
from the park that he would go to.

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So he would go and do personal training.

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I believe it was, like,
late September, early October

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that we started officially dating.

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I was super happy. I thought,
"This is it. I'm going to marry this guy."

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{\an8}[chimes softly]

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In 2018, Wade and I matched
on Plenty of Fish

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around the end of September,
the beginning of October.

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[music fades]

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I was 26 years old,
and I had just moved to Loxahatchee.

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[upbeat music playing]

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[keypad beeps]

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When I first saw Wade, I was like,

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"Wow, he's really attractive,
really good-looking, really tall."

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And he had a nice voice.

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He kept mentioning,
"Let's go to the park."

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So we met up,
and we just sat there and talked.

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There was a lot of joking,
a lot of laughing,

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just like we had known each other
for a while.

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Wade said that
he was looking for a relationship,

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and that his only flaw was that
he didn't have a good woman in his life.

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I was just like,
"It's too good to be true."

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Wade and I were dating at this point,

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and we were on the phone all the time,

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{\an8}texting, calling,

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{\an8}sending pictures to each other
back and forth.

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{\an8}But I worked a lot,

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{\an8}so Wade and I didn't really get to see
each other in the beginning as much.

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{\an8}But I was just, like,
over the moon ecstatic

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that I had found someone.

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[music ends]

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[tense music playing]

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[Kelly] Living with Steven was great.

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You know, he would cook,
and he took care of me a lot.

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[dog whimpering]

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But the first big red flag
that I had with him

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was one day I came home from work

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and I was looking for my laptop
to edit some photos,

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and I couldn't find it.

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And I looked everywhere,

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and Steven was like,
"I don't know. I haven't seen it."

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I couldn't find it anywhere.

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And then finally, Steven admitted

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that he pawned my laptop
because he needed money.

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I was just so mad that I called the police
and I filed a police report.

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The police did a search
for all the pawn shops in the county.

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They found my laptop
literally two miles up the road,

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and they went there and they verified
that it was Steven that dropped it off.

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That's when I found out his name was Wade,

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because he used his ID to pawn it.

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And I found out
that Steven was his middle name.

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So that was a big shock to me,

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because, you know, this whole time,
I thought his name was Steven.

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And I asked him about
why he was going by Steven,

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why his dating profile said Steven.

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I actually found that he had several
Facebook profiles with that name as well.

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And he just said that he needed,
like, an escape,

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because he had some exes and stuff
that knew his real name,

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and he didn't want them to find him.

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[music fades]

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He was very good at laying it on thick.

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Like, when you have a 6'5" man
crying to you that he's so sorry

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and he just needed the money…
your heart kind of breaks,

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and you're like, "Okay, I… I understand."

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"It's, like, a one-time thing.
It's not gonna happen again." You know.

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This was one of my first
more serious relationships,

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so I hadn't really figured out
how a real relationship should work.

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And we had only been together
for a couple of months.

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So, you know, when he apologized

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and he said he wouldn't do it again,
I believed him.

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[dog whimpering]

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[intriguing music playing]

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[Courtney] In November,
on Wade's Instagram,

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I saw a person named "Pinup Princess"

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commenting all over his posts.

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So I was, you know, asking him,
"Who is this girl?"

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"Why is she telling you to call her?"

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And I found out that
"Pinup Princess" was Kelly

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and also the girl
that was in his phone under K.

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And he told me,
"Oh, that's just my roommate."

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And at that time, I was just like,
"Okay." And I believed that.

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[tense music playing]

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[Kelly] I had a friend
that had broken up with her boyfriend,

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and she needed to move in
with someone temporarily.

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So I let her come crash with me.

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One day, we were all sitting around
talking about mastiffs.

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And I was like, "I know this guy
who breeds this rare breed of mastiff

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called a Presa Canario,
and they had some puppies."

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I didn't know that he was taking that
and running with it.

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And my friend was only 18,

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so I think that
she got sucked into Wade's charisma.

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[sinister music playing]

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I went to work,

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and Wade and my friend,
apparently they went to the kennel

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and had stolen,
I believe, three or four puppies

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and brought them back to my house.

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[puppies barking and whimpering]

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I got home from work, and I was like,
"Why are there these dogs in my house?"

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"There's going to be people looking
for these dogs." I was freaking out.

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[inaudible]

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Wade didn't care.

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He said, "We need to sell these dogs."

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So he and my friend took pictures of them
in front of my couch

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and posted them on Craigslist.

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The man that owned the dogs
recognized my house and called the police.

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[phone buzzing]

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So I get a phone call from Wade,
and he says,

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"I need you to three-way the detective
and tell him that it was you."

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"And if you don't,
I'm going to kill your dogs."

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[music surges]

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It was like totally out of left field.
I was like, "Who are you?"

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Like, "What is happening right now?"

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I wasn't 100% sure if he would actually
go through something like that,

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but I was so afraid for my own animals
that I didn't want to risk it.

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And he was home alone with my dogs,
and I was at work.

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So I called the cops.

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They told me to walk them through
everything, how I stole the puppies,

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what the place looked like, and I did.

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They told me I needed to turn myself in
the next day.

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I confronted Wade when I got home.

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Thankfully, he didn't do anything
to my dogs.

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And he was like,
"I have a criminal record, and you don't."

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"So it's better for you
to be on probation, not me."

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He said that he had just gone to jail
for a couple of petty things,

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like stealing and stuff like that.

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This is the first time I heard
he had a record.

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I had no idea.

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I thought he was a good boy
from Tallahassee.

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[tense music playing]

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The next day, Wade and my friend
dropped me off at the jail.

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And I had to sit in a jail for 27 hours.

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I grew up in Catholic school.

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I am not a criminal.

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So I was, like, sobbing the whole time.

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When I got home, they were gone…

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[music fades]

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…and so was all of their stuff.

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All of Wade's clothes,

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all of her clothes,

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my handgun.

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I panicked.

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[pensive music playing]

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I went to check my Ring footage,

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and what I found was the night
that they had dropped me off at the jail,

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they went back home,

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and they were all flirty and huggy
and kissy right in front of my camera.

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I had evidence now that
he was being unfaithful with my friend.

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[music intensifies, fades]

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At this point,
I had looked up Wade's background,

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found out that he was a felon.

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He had several records of stealing weapons

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and thieving
and breaking into people's homes.

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And I believe he had
a few drug charges as well.

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So I told the police
a felon stole my handgun,

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which then put a warrant out
for his arrest in the state of Florida.

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So I called my friend's phone.
I called his phone.

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They wouldn't answer me for several hours.

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Eventually they did, and they told me
that they were going to Texas.

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I was very angry.

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The police couldn't extradite him
or anything like that.

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So I had to somehow
get him back to Florida.

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[music fades]

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[ominous music playing]

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Late December,
I get a phone call from Wade,

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and he is like,
"I am so sorry. I want to come home."

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And all I had in my head was revenge.

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I agreed to pay for his bus ticket,
and I called the police.

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And I said, "I have him coming back,
and you guys have a warrant."

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"So if I get him to my house,
will you come get him?"

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And they said, "Sure." [chuckles]

241
00:14:31,996 --> 00:14:33,455
[intriguing music playing]

242
00:14:33,539 --> 00:14:35,791
I picked him up from the bus station.

243
00:14:35,875 --> 00:14:39,420
He had told me that
he had started doing cocaine.

244
00:14:40,671 --> 00:14:43,132
I don't do drugs. I've never done drugs.

245
00:14:43,632 --> 00:14:46,635
But now, we were sitting in the car,

246
00:14:47,136 --> 00:14:50,431
and he was trying to, like,
get a pen apart,

247
00:14:50,514 --> 00:14:53,434
because he was trying to use it
as a crack pipe.

248
00:14:53,934 --> 00:14:56,562
When he couldn't get it apart,
he was freaking out.

249
00:14:57,062 --> 00:15:00,065
He was trying to break it.
He was, like, jabbing stuff in it.

250
00:15:00,149 --> 00:15:02,526
And I was like,
"You're being really aggressive."

251
00:15:03,652 --> 00:15:06,655
And that's the first time I ever,
like, felt fear from him.

252
00:15:07,239 --> 00:15:09,825
I thought he was gonna actually
put his hands on me.

253
00:15:11,076 --> 00:15:14,538
I brought him back to my house,
called the police.

254
00:15:15,039 --> 00:15:18,292
They said, "We need you
to try to get him to come outside."

255
00:15:19,293 --> 00:15:22,171
So I went outside.
There was like 15 cop cars.

256
00:15:22,254 --> 00:15:23,339
[indistinct radio chatter]

257
00:15:23,422 --> 00:15:25,799
There were dogs. The cops had shotguns.

258
00:15:25,883 --> 00:15:27,968
And I was like,
"Oh my gosh, this is terrifying."

259
00:15:28,052 --> 00:15:29,511
[inaudible]

260
00:15:29,595 --> 00:15:32,723
So I called him, and I said,
"Can you bring me my car keys?"

261
00:15:32,806 --> 00:15:35,184
"I need to get something out of my car."

262
00:15:35,684 --> 00:15:37,978
- So he came outside.
- [guns cocking]

263
00:15:38,062 --> 00:15:42,232
And the cops put shotguns in his face
and took him down,

264
00:15:42,316 --> 00:15:44,902
and dragged him into the car.

265
00:15:46,779 --> 00:15:50,491
After Wade was arrested,
he called me from jail,

266
00:15:50,574 --> 00:15:53,035
begging for me to bail him out.

267
00:15:53,535 --> 00:15:54,870
And I was like, "Absolutely not."

268
00:15:56,121 --> 00:16:00,125
I think I let him sit in there
for like four days, maybe.

269
00:16:01,043 --> 00:16:05,881
And eventually, he broke down my walls
by crying and begging.

270
00:16:06,799 --> 00:16:10,678
I bailed him out, but I told him
I didn't want him coming back to my house.

271
00:16:10,761 --> 00:16:13,472
We were gonna figure something out,
but it's not gonna be at the house.

272
00:16:14,348 --> 00:16:18,060
So that's when I suggested
that maybe he should go to a rehab.

273
00:16:19,269 --> 00:16:21,647
And he told me,

274
00:16:21,730 --> 00:16:26,235
"I have a friend who agreed
to take me to a rehab in the Keys."

275
00:16:26,318 --> 00:16:28,320
[mellow music playing]

276
00:16:29,238 --> 00:16:31,699
[Courtney] Wade and I continued talking.

277
00:16:32,199 --> 00:16:34,702
He would go missing,
you know, for like a day or two.

278
00:16:34,785 --> 00:16:37,579
And then I'd write him,
and I'd be like, "Hey, stranger."

279
00:16:37,663 --> 00:16:40,666
And then he would be like,
"I'm so sorry. I've been so busy."

280
00:16:41,792 --> 00:16:47,297
But in January,
I moved to the Keys with my sister.

281
00:16:47,923 --> 00:16:52,011
I knew that it was going to be a while
before I could see him again.

282
00:16:53,429 --> 00:16:56,557
After I moved,
I was posting pictures on, you know,

283
00:16:56,640 --> 00:16:59,268
{\an8}Snapchat about us being in Key Largo.

284
00:16:59,351 --> 00:17:00,352
[phone ringing]

285
00:17:00,436 --> 00:17:02,855
And Wade called me.

286
00:17:04,273 --> 00:17:07,192
[Wade on voicemail]

287
00:17:20,748 --> 00:17:23,917
He was like, "Can I come live with you?
Can I come be with you?"

288
00:17:24,001 --> 00:17:26,003
And I was like, "Yeah, sure."

289
00:17:26,962 --> 00:17:29,548
Because I obviously wanted
to be with him too.

290
00:17:30,299 --> 00:17:34,636
Then he told me,
"Okay, I'll be there in a few hours."

291
00:17:35,512 --> 00:17:36,972
[music fades]

292
00:17:37,056 --> 00:17:38,766
[pensive music playing]

293
00:17:38,849 --> 00:17:42,478
Wade and I needed to get to the Keys
to meet up with this supposed person

294
00:17:42,561 --> 00:17:44,480
that was gonna help him with a rehab.

295
00:17:44,563 --> 00:17:45,939
But I didn't have any money

296
00:17:46,023 --> 00:17:48,192
because over the course
of our relationship,

297
00:17:48,275 --> 00:17:49,777
he had pretty much drained me dry.

298
00:17:50,819 --> 00:17:53,447
I had like a quarter of a tank,
so there's no physical way.

299
00:17:53,530 --> 00:17:55,157
That's a three-hour drive.

300
00:17:56,909 --> 00:17:58,911
He was panicking at this point.

301
00:18:02,122 --> 00:18:05,292
We had gotten in an argument,
so I got out of the car at a stoplight.

302
00:18:05,375 --> 00:18:07,503
He was driving.
I didn't want to deal with it.

303
00:18:07,586 --> 00:18:09,963
I said, "Take my car to the Keys.
I don't care."

304
00:18:10,506 --> 00:18:13,300
I felt like there was something
seriously off with him,

305
00:18:13,383 --> 00:18:15,135
and I was afraid.

306
00:18:15,219 --> 00:18:19,389
That's when things started to go downhill.

307
00:18:20,641 --> 00:18:22,101
So I started walking.

308
00:18:22,768 --> 00:18:24,478
He drove around the block…

309
00:18:24,561 --> 00:18:25,604
[engine revving]

310
00:18:25,687 --> 00:18:27,731
…and attempted to hit me with my own car.

311
00:18:28,565 --> 00:18:31,110
- [tires screeching]
- And told me to get back in.

312
00:18:31,819 --> 00:18:33,570
I was really scared.

313
00:18:34,780 --> 00:18:36,240
But I got back in the car,

314
00:18:36,907 --> 00:18:41,495
and as soon as I did that,
he started strangling me with both hands.

315
00:18:43,163 --> 00:18:46,667
I froze. I didn't know what to do.
I was, like, in full panic mode.

316
00:18:46,750 --> 00:18:50,045
This person that I thought loved me
was putting his hands on me.

317
00:18:51,380 --> 00:18:53,173
I was, like, clawing at his arms.

318
00:18:53,757 --> 00:18:57,511
And somewhere,
he had gotten a pocketknife.

319
00:18:58,846 --> 00:19:01,014
So he pushed me onto the floorboard,

320
00:19:01,098 --> 00:19:03,350
then he took the pocket knife,

321
00:19:03,433 --> 00:19:07,437
and he cut through my shirt
and my sports bra.

322
00:19:07,521 --> 00:19:11,525
Then cut it off completely
and held the knife to the back of my neck.

323
00:19:11,608 --> 00:19:15,696
And he said, "You need to stay there,
and if you get up, I'm going to stab you."

324
00:19:15,779 --> 00:19:17,906
[tense music playing]

325
00:19:17,990 --> 00:19:20,701
And he used my sports bra and my shirt,

326
00:19:20,784 --> 00:19:25,330
and he tied my hands together
and started driving.

327
00:19:25,831 --> 00:19:27,708
[music intensifies]

328
00:19:27,791 --> 00:19:30,502
He told me if I picked my head up,
if I did anything,

329
00:19:30,586 --> 00:19:32,588
he was going to kill me.

330
00:19:33,797 --> 00:19:36,300
At one point, he punched me in the face.

331
00:19:37,467 --> 00:19:40,429
Then he told me, "Get out of the car,

332
00:19:40,512 --> 00:19:43,432
don't look at anything,
and go to the back seat."

333
00:19:43,515 --> 00:19:44,474
So I did.

334
00:19:45,434 --> 00:19:47,436
When I got into the back seat,

335
00:19:48,395 --> 00:19:53,567
he ripped off my shorts,
and he sexually assaulted me.

336
00:19:54,693 --> 00:19:59,072
And when he was done,
he pushed me on the floor,

337
00:19:59,156 --> 00:20:01,116
in the back between the seats,

338
00:20:01,867 --> 00:20:06,246
and he took the laundry that I had,

339
00:20:06,747 --> 00:20:09,291
and he covered me
with all the dirty laundry.

340
00:20:09,958 --> 00:20:11,960
I thought I was going to die, 100%.

341
00:20:12,669 --> 00:20:17,799
And then he met up with somebody
and sold my phone for 50 bucks,

342
00:20:18,342 --> 00:20:21,720
all while I'm in the back seat of the car,
underneath dirty laundry,

343
00:20:21,803 --> 00:20:24,348
bound and gagged and bleeding.

344
00:20:25,557 --> 00:20:29,228
He ended up driving for several hours.

345
00:20:32,397 --> 00:20:34,650
It was like 2:00 a.m.

346
00:20:34,733 --> 00:20:37,027
And then I said,
"We're supposed to be meeting your friend,

347
00:20:37,110 --> 00:20:40,447
so shouldn't I be sitting
in the front seat with you?"

348
00:20:40,530 --> 00:20:44,326
"Because if I'm sitting in the back,
it's going to look kind of weird."

349
00:20:44,409 --> 00:20:48,413
He's like, "You're right, but I want you
on the floorboard until we get there."

350
00:20:52,251 --> 00:20:54,503
And then when we got close enough,
to where his friend was,

351
00:20:54,586 --> 00:20:56,296
he let me sit up on the seat.

352
00:20:56,880 --> 00:20:59,091
He said, "Don't look at her

353
00:20:59,174 --> 00:21:01,593
because I don't want her
to see your face."

354
00:21:01,677 --> 00:21:03,679
[crickets chirping]

355
00:21:05,097 --> 00:21:09,518
Wade pulled up to the gas station
around, like, two o'clock in the morning.

356
00:21:09,601 --> 00:21:10,560
[car door slams]

357
00:21:10,644 --> 00:21:13,772
He went to the back seat,
grabbed his backpack.

358
00:21:14,564 --> 00:21:16,858
I didn't see anything off about Kelly.

359
00:21:16,942 --> 00:21:19,528
Um, I didn't see anything off
about him either.

360
00:21:20,320 --> 00:21:22,739
And we went back to my house.

361
00:21:25,784 --> 00:21:31,081
What he told me was that she was just
doing him a favor dropping him off.

362
00:21:31,915 --> 00:21:34,918
If I knew that he did anything to her,

363
00:21:35,002 --> 00:21:39,506
if I would have seen her bloody, bruised,
or anything like that, like,

364
00:21:39,589 --> 00:21:43,051
I would not have taken him to my house.

365
00:21:44,970 --> 00:21:49,474
[Kelly] I was just in the Keys
with my car and no phone, no nothing.

366
00:21:49,975 --> 00:21:51,643
And I just wanted to go home.

367
00:21:52,144 --> 00:21:53,979
[engine roaring]

368
00:21:54,062 --> 00:21:56,815
I went like 120 the entire way.

369
00:21:57,357 --> 00:21:59,192
I went to my mom's house,

370
00:21:59,985 --> 00:22:01,486
woke her up at 400 a.m.

371
00:22:02,279 --> 00:22:06,325
And she turned on the light
and saw my face, and we called the police.

372
00:22:07,743 --> 00:22:11,288
{\an8}The Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office
was in charge of the investigation

373
00:22:11,371 --> 00:22:14,458
{\an8}And Detective Potter was put on the case
against Wade.

374
00:22:19,963 --> 00:22:21,089
[music fades]

375
00:22:36,396 --> 00:22:39,524
{\an8}[Potter speaking]

376
00:22:39,608 --> 00:22:44,780
{\an8}[Kelly speaking]

377
00:22:44,863 --> 00:22:45,739
{\an8}[Potter speaking]

378
00:22:45,822 --> 00:22:46,907
{\an8}[Kelly speaking]

379
00:22:49,201 --> 00:22:50,702
{\an8}[Potter speaking]

380
00:22:50,786 --> 00:22:51,661
{\an8}[Kelly speaking]

381
00:22:51,745 --> 00:22:52,621
{\an8}[Potter speaking]

382
00:22:52,704 --> 00:22:53,538
{\an8}[Kelly speaking]

383
00:22:53,622 --> 00:22:54,664
{\an8}[Potter speaking]

384
00:22:55,165 --> 00:22:57,167
{\an8}[Kelly speaking]

385
00:23:03,382 --> 00:23:06,343
{\an8}[Potter speaking]

386
00:23:08,804 --> 00:23:12,474
{\an8}[Kelly speaking]

387
00:23:20,982 --> 00:23:27,614
When I went to the police,
I thought that I was doing the best thing,

388
00:23:27,697 --> 00:23:30,909
and that I was gonna get justice
for what had happened to me.

389
00:23:31,785 --> 00:23:35,956
I was happy to give them all this
information and DNA and everything else.

390
00:23:41,420 --> 00:23:44,631
[dramatic sting]

391
00:23:47,050 --> 00:23:49,052
[music fades]

392
00:23:57,811 --> 00:23:58,728
[Potter] Cool.

393
00:24:01,064 --> 00:24:03,567
- [Potter] All right, brother.
- All right. Yes, sir.

394
00:24:06,361 --> 00:24:09,573
[Potter] Have any police officials
involved in this case coerced, threatened,

395
00:24:09,656 --> 00:24:11,741
or otherwise forced you
to give me a statement?

396
00:24:11,825 --> 00:24:12,701
[Wade] No, sir.

397
00:24:12,784 --> 00:24:14,327
You're making a statement
of your own free will.

398
00:24:14,411 --> 00:24:15,245
Absolutely. Yes, sir.

399
00:24:15,328 --> 00:24:18,206
[Potter] Okay. All right.
Now, well, you know why you're here.

400
00:24:18,290 --> 00:24:20,792
- [Wade] I know why I'm here. Sure.
- You're a suspect in the case.

401
00:24:20,876 --> 00:24:23,253
- She called and said you did ugly things.
- I understand.

402
00:24:23,336 --> 00:24:26,631
- She's my victim. I'm working for her.
- Yeah.

403
00:24:26,715 --> 00:24:28,592
- You've got to realize that.
- I know.

404
00:24:28,675 --> 00:24:32,471
Um, but I do have to give you
the option to tell me,

405
00:24:32,554 --> 00:24:36,224
"Hey, I didn't kidnap, I didn't rape,
and I didn't assault that woman."

406
00:24:36,308 --> 00:24:37,142
[Wade] Yeah.

407
00:24:37,225 --> 00:24:39,686
- And I have to believe you.
- Thank you. Yes, sir.

408
00:24:39,769 --> 00:24:41,354
- You see what I'm saying? Um…
- Yeah.

409
00:24:41,438 --> 00:24:44,941
So with that said, did you kidnap her?

410
00:24:45,025 --> 00:24:47,110
Did you take her to Key Largo
against her will?

411
00:24:47,194 --> 00:24:48,028
No.

412
00:24:48,111 --> 00:24:49,070
[audio glitches]

413
00:24:49,154 --> 00:24:51,656
Let me just tell you, Detective Potter,
like, I need to say this.

414
00:24:51,740 --> 00:24:53,825
- Like, there's… I've caused her no harm.
- Mm-hmm.

415
00:24:53,909 --> 00:24:55,285
Physically, nothing, dude.

416
00:24:55,368 --> 00:24:59,915
I haven't done nothing ever, in my…
ever, since I've known her.

417
00:24:59,998 --> 00:25:01,625
- That's all I need to hear. Um…
- Yes, sir.

418
00:25:01,708 --> 00:25:03,793
- You know that and I know that. You know?
- Yes, sir.

419
00:25:03,877 --> 00:25:06,338
She said, "He beats me.
He does this. He does that."

420
00:25:06,421 --> 00:25:08,924
And, you know, and I'm like,
"Well, I just don't know."

421
00:25:09,007 --> 00:25:09,841
[Wade] Yeah.

422
00:25:09,925 --> 00:25:12,677
- I'm not doubting you. You're doing great.
- I'm trying to let you know.

423
00:25:12,761 --> 00:25:14,846
You're doing great,
and you're a smart man.

424
00:25:14,930 --> 00:25:16,806
- You know? You're on the right track.
- Thank you.

425
00:25:16,890 --> 00:25:18,683
But you know why we're here.

426
00:25:19,851 --> 00:25:23,605
She wants this to go quick
because there's an ulterior motive.

427
00:25:23,688 --> 00:25:28,360
Which sucks because she is my victim,
so I got to give her 100% of my abilities.

428
00:25:28,944 --> 00:25:32,113
But I ain't putting the wrong man in jail.
I'll be damned if I do that.

429
00:25:32,197 --> 00:25:34,115
- That's all I want.
- I'll be damned. No.

430
00:25:34,199 --> 00:25:37,327
I just want it all to stop, man.
Please, like, that's all I need.

431
00:25:37,410 --> 00:25:39,538
[Potter] That'll never happen
from this department.

432
00:25:39,621 --> 00:25:40,747
Like, honestly, thank you.

433
00:25:40,830 --> 00:25:44,125
- None of our people are gonna do that.
- Yeah, thank you so much, dude.

434
00:25:47,754 --> 00:25:51,466
I did find out that eventually
he did get a swab from Wade for DNA.

435
00:25:51,550 --> 00:25:53,510
- Both sides, get 'em good.
- Mm-hmm.

436
00:25:53,593 --> 00:25:55,845
- Both sides a few seconds, okay?
- Mm-hmm.

437
00:25:56,763 --> 00:26:01,518
[Kelly] And he asked if he would do
a lie detector test.

438
00:26:01,601 --> 00:26:02,852
Wade declined.

439
00:26:03,436 --> 00:26:05,105
Um…

440
00:26:05,188 --> 00:26:08,900
And for whatever reason, the detective
was like, "Okay, that's fine."

441
00:26:08,984 --> 00:26:12,320
If you know anybody that needs
a personal trainer, I'm a great one.

442
00:26:12,862 --> 00:26:15,115
- [Wade] All right, thank you, man.
- All right.

443
00:26:17,033 --> 00:26:21,621
[Kelly] He closed the case
without getting the DNA back,

444
00:26:21,705 --> 00:26:24,374
and just said, "I have no proof."

445
00:26:25,041 --> 00:26:28,837
"And this is just like
a 'he said, she said' type of thing."

446
00:26:28,920 --> 00:26:30,505
"There was no witnesses."

447
00:26:31,840 --> 00:26:34,718
I begged for him to not close the case.

448
00:26:35,343 --> 00:26:38,263
I was like, "You're a detective.
You're supposed to be protecting me."

449
00:26:39,806 --> 00:26:42,851
From a young age, you're taught
to go to police when you need help.

450
00:26:42,934 --> 00:26:46,605
And I did that, and nothing was done.

451
00:26:46,688 --> 00:26:51,067
I was failed as a victim
and a sexual assault victim.

452
00:26:53,278 --> 00:26:55,322
[tense music playing]

453
00:26:58,325 --> 00:27:01,077
[Courtney] Living in my sister's house,

454
00:27:01,161 --> 00:27:02,787
it was going pretty good.

455
00:27:02,871 --> 00:27:07,917
{\an8}But, like, a week or so later,
my sister and I got into an argument,

456
00:27:08,543 --> 00:27:10,920
{\an8}and she told me that I had to leave.

457
00:27:11,004 --> 00:27:13,673
And obviously, Wade had to go with me.

458
00:27:14,257 --> 00:27:18,720
Um, but where I was going,
Wade couldn't go with me.

459
00:27:20,221 --> 00:27:24,559
Wade told me he had a friend,
um, that he was going to go with.

460
00:27:26,144 --> 00:27:29,230
After I moved, we talked on the phone

461
00:27:29,314 --> 00:27:31,566
and we were messaging and everything.

462
00:27:31,650 --> 00:27:34,694
And then I couldn't get a hold of him.

463
00:27:34,778 --> 00:27:36,696
The phone was off.

464
00:27:36,780 --> 00:27:38,531
The messages weren't going through.

465
00:27:39,407 --> 00:27:42,661
And I just realized
that he had ghosted me.

466
00:27:48,416 --> 00:27:52,379
[Kelly] One of my longtime zoo friends
had reached out to me and said

467
00:27:52,462 --> 00:27:55,298
that one of her friends was dating Wade.

468
00:27:55,840 --> 00:27:59,803
And then she told me that it was a guy.
And I was like, "Wait, what?"

469
00:27:59,886 --> 00:28:01,888
[pensive music playing]

470
00:28:07,143 --> 00:28:10,271
I was in Inverness, Florida,
working on a carnival

471
00:28:10,355 --> 00:28:15,360
when I first noticed a hot guy
working at a pizza stand.

472
00:28:15,443 --> 00:28:17,529
[chuckling]

473
00:28:17,612 --> 00:28:19,614
[sinister music playing]

474
00:28:27,747 --> 00:28:34,295
In 2019, I was living in an RV,
traveling on a carnival.

475
00:28:35,255 --> 00:28:38,258
I was working on a bungee jump
at the carnival.

476
00:28:39,342 --> 00:28:43,221
I saw this new guy
that I'd never recognized before.

477
00:28:43,805 --> 00:28:46,349
And, I was like,
"Wow, he's pretty good-looking."

478
00:28:46,433 --> 00:28:50,103
I just told my friend, I was like,
"I think I'm gonna give him my number."

479
00:28:51,020 --> 00:28:53,565
So I wrote my number on a napkin

480
00:28:53,648 --> 00:28:56,568
and just left it there
at the stand that he worked in.

481
00:28:58,653 --> 00:29:02,365
And a couple of days went by,
and I felt someone tap on my shoulder.

482
00:29:02,949 --> 00:29:05,744
He just said, "I'm Wade." And da, da, da.

483
00:29:05,827 --> 00:29:08,580
And I was like,
"Okay, cool. I'm Christopher."

484
00:29:09,581 --> 00:29:13,251
He's like, "I need that number again."
And I was like, "Oh, okay." So…

485
00:29:14,669 --> 00:29:16,588
And I just put it in his phone.

486
00:29:16,671 --> 00:29:18,923
[crowd screaming on rides]

487
00:29:19,632 --> 00:29:22,093
That night, he messaged me.

488
00:29:22,594 --> 00:29:26,556
And he's like, "So I just got in a fight
with the girl that I'm with."

489
00:29:27,724 --> 00:29:30,852
"And she kicked me out."
And he's like, "I have nowhere to go."

490
00:29:30,935 --> 00:29:34,564
I was like, "Yeah, I have a couch.
You can sleep on the couch or whatever."

491
00:29:35,148 --> 00:29:37,734
And he's like,
"I don't wanna sleep on the couch."

492
00:29:37,817 --> 00:29:40,695
I'm like, "You can sleep
wherever you want." I don't care.

493
00:29:41,738 --> 00:29:44,783
I met Wade on, like,
a Tuesday or Wednesday.

494
00:29:44,866 --> 00:29:49,746
And then, like,
maybe that following Sunday night,

495
00:29:49,829 --> 00:29:51,706
Wade moved into my RV. [chuckles]

496
00:29:54,542 --> 00:29:57,504
{\an8}Wade said that he was straight
when I met him.

497
00:29:57,587 --> 00:29:59,547
{\an8}But I was like,
"That seems a little sketchy."

498
00:29:59,631 --> 00:30:02,634
If you're straight, you don't move
into a guy's house with a guy

499
00:30:02,717 --> 00:30:04,469
and then want to sleep in his bed.

500
00:30:06,596 --> 00:30:10,892
Maybe, like, a week had went by,
and then we ended up going out

501
00:30:12,227 --> 00:30:13,812
and had some drinks.

502
00:30:13,895 --> 00:30:15,355
[indistinct chatter]

503
00:30:15,438 --> 00:30:19,275
And I was feeling pretty good,
so then I think that was the first time.

504
00:30:20,652 --> 00:30:23,988
{\an8}Usually after the first time,
like, you sleep together,

505
00:30:24,072 --> 00:30:27,951
either it goes well,
or you never hear from that person again.

506
00:30:28,034 --> 00:30:29,786
Like, that's just how it goes.

507
00:30:29,869 --> 00:30:32,330
But then he still was living with me. So…

508
00:30:32,413 --> 00:30:34,415
[ominous music playing]

509
00:30:38,419 --> 00:30:41,130
Two weeks after he'd moved in,

510
00:30:41,631 --> 00:30:45,009
he had asked if I wanted to make it
Facebook official.

511
00:30:46,219 --> 00:30:47,929
I was very surprised

512
00:30:48,012 --> 00:30:51,933
because he was so skeptical
about being with a guy.

513
00:30:52,725 --> 00:30:55,728
And this was my first relationship
with a guy.

514
00:30:57,272 --> 00:30:58,314
We enjoyed being together.

515
00:30:58,398 --> 00:31:00,775
We did a lot of stuff together.
We had fun.

516
00:31:01,484 --> 00:31:04,362
And then after that was our last fair.

517
00:31:05,321 --> 00:31:08,741
I was like, "Well, I'm going to go home
to my mom's house for a little bit

518
00:31:08,825 --> 00:31:12,036
and just park my trailer there
so I can spend a little time with her

519
00:31:12,120 --> 00:31:14,247
before I figure out what I'm going to do."

520
00:31:14,330 --> 00:31:16,583
So we ended up doing that.

521
00:31:18,376 --> 00:31:23,089
One night, me, Wade, my mom,
and a few friends went out to a bar.

522
00:31:23,172 --> 00:31:26,467
And they thought he was hot,
I mean, obviously.

523
00:31:26,551 --> 00:31:30,179
And they thought he was cool because
he's a good, smooth talker, you know?

524
00:31:30,263 --> 00:31:32,265
[suspenseful music playing]

525
00:31:33,683 --> 00:31:36,936
One night, Wade was just like,
"Oh, we should get some drugs."

526
00:31:37,020 --> 00:31:40,064
"Then, like, have fun.
We just chill at the house, and like…"

527
00:31:40,148 --> 00:31:42,817
I was like, "Okay, cool.
I'll call this dude I used to know."

528
00:31:44,694 --> 00:31:47,614
And this guy, like,
I don't know what he, like, gave us.

529
00:31:47,697 --> 00:31:50,825
Like, ended up giving us, like,
bath salts or something.

530
00:31:52,493 --> 00:31:55,079
In the middle of the night,
Wade is flipping out.

531
00:31:55,663 --> 00:31:59,334
And he's just like, "Oh my God,
somebody's trying to break in the house."

532
00:31:59,417 --> 00:32:02,545
I'm like, "Nobody's trying
to break in the house. Go to bed."

533
00:32:03,046 --> 00:32:06,841
So then, like, a few hours later,
he ends up waking me up again.

534
00:32:06,925 --> 00:32:09,677
This time, he's, like,
standing over my bed with a knife.

535
00:32:11,137 --> 00:32:13,723
Wade said,
"If somebody breaks in the house,

536
00:32:13,806 --> 00:32:16,100
I'm gonna slit your throat
before I slit theirs."

537
00:32:16,184 --> 00:32:18,102
And I was like, "That pissed me off."

538
00:32:18,186 --> 00:32:20,980
So I ended up, like, getting up
out of bed, and we got in a fight.

539
00:32:21,064 --> 00:32:24,150
[music crescendos, fades]

540
00:32:24,233 --> 00:32:26,986
And I pushed him and got crazy
while he had a knife in his hand.

541
00:32:27,070 --> 00:32:29,948
And so then he ended up cutting my chest.
And he cut my hand.

542
00:32:30,949 --> 00:32:34,285
For four hours, he wouldn't let me get up,
and I would try to get up.

543
00:32:34,369 --> 00:32:37,538
Even then he, like,
literally was choking me. It was crazy.

544
00:32:37,622 --> 00:32:38,581
[loud rattling]

545
00:32:38,665 --> 00:32:42,919
I had, like, these sliding glass doors
in my RV, like, that covered my closet.

546
00:32:43,002 --> 00:32:45,797
And he ended up, like,
throwing me through there.

547
00:32:45,880 --> 00:32:49,425
And then it broke the glass.
So then that ended up cutting me more.

548
00:32:49,509 --> 00:32:51,594
So now I'm, like, really bleeding.

549
00:32:51,678 --> 00:32:53,680
And I was like, "Oh my gosh."

550
00:32:55,932 --> 00:32:57,725
Then he ran out of the house.

551
00:32:57,809 --> 00:33:01,688
So as soon as he, like, left,
I, like, locked my door.

552
00:33:01,771 --> 00:33:03,147
[door slams loudly]

553
00:33:03,231 --> 00:33:05,775
My heart was beating so fast,
it was like forever.

554
00:33:05,858 --> 00:33:07,610
[pensive music playing]

555
00:33:07,694 --> 00:33:10,780
After he stabbed me,
I didn't call the police.

556
00:33:11,531 --> 00:33:14,701
Unless someone's dead,
there's no reason to call the cops.

557
00:33:15,576 --> 00:33:17,912
I, um, ended up taking an Advil PM,

558
00:33:17,996 --> 00:33:21,582
and I got under my kitchen table
and I just slept under there.

559
00:33:22,834 --> 00:33:25,628
[music fades]

560
00:33:25,712 --> 00:33:28,006
[tense music playing]

561
00:33:28,589 --> 00:33:30,258
[loud banging]

562
00:33:30,341 --> 00:33:35,596
And I wake up, like, the next day
to my sister, like, banging on my door.

563
00:33:36,597 --> 00:33:39,434
Wade had ended up
getting a hold of my sister.

564
00:33:41,310 --> 00:33:43,312
My sister calmed the situation down.

565
00:33:43,396 --> 00:33:46,733
And, like, he showed back up
with blood all over him

566
00:33:46,816 --> 00:33:49,068
and, um, apologized.

567
00:33:50,069 --> 00:33:51,529
He seemed sincere.

568
00:33:52,196 --> 00:33:54,741
He sounded like he was sorry.

569
00:33:54,824 --> 00:33:56,701
So I said, after that,

570
00:33:57,285 --> 00:34:00,455
"If you're with me, like,
there's no more drinking, no more smoking,

571
00:34:00,538 --> 00:34:03,082
like, you're not even smoking cigarettes.
I don't care."

572
00:34:05,376 --> 00:34:07,795
[mellow music playing]

573
00:34:10,214 --> 00:34:14,552
Wade had found this job on Indeed
that sounded different

574
00:34:14,635 --> 00:34:17,472
and more interesting
than what I had going on.

575
00:34:19,265 --> 00:34:21,851
And then we moved to Key West,
like, two days later.

576
00:34:22,435 --> 00:34:23,978
He had lived down there prior,

577
00:34:24,687 --> 00:34:28,608
so he seemed to have a little familiarity
with it, but I didn't.

578
00:34:29,192 --> 00:34:32,904
I would say maybe two weeks
after we had arrived in the Keys,

579
00:34:32,987 --> 00:34:36,157
I found out that Wade was, like,
going around and telling people

580
00:34:36,240 --> 00:34:37,533
that we were cousins.

581
00:34:39,869 --> 00:34:44,207
And I felt like Wade was embarrassed
about our relationship.

582
00:34:44,290 --> 00:34:47,794
And I didn't want to be in a relationship
where I had to hide anything.

583
00:34:49,754 --> 00:34:51,798
So I kicked him out.

584
00:34:53,132 --> 00:34:55,009
Then I just packed up and left.

585
00:34:57,887 --> 00:35:00,848
[Kelly] I found out that
Wade had been dating Chris.

586
00:35:02,683 --> 00:35:06,229
And I wanted to reach out
and warn Chris about everything.

587
00:35:07,230 --> 00:35:11,567
He had told me that
he had kicked Wade out recently,

588
00:35:11,651 --> 00:35:13,653
and he had attempted to stab him.

589
00:35:14,570 --> 00:35:18,157
He told me everything about
how things had gone great in the beginning

590
00:35:18,241 --> 00:35:22,829
and then just went way south very fast,
just like with mine.

591
00:35:23,830 --> 00:35:27,708
After that, I started reaching out
to all the people I could find

592
00:35:27,792 --> 00:35:32,380
that had dated Wade and that he had hurt.

593
00:35:32,463 --> 00:35:36,425
And I started telling my story
on Instagram and TikTok…

594
00:35:36,509 --> 00:35:38,177
So this is my lip.

595
00:35:38,261 --> 00:35:39,846
He busted my lip open.

596
00:35:39,929 --> 00:35:42,265
These are the ligature marks on my hands.

597
00:35:42,348 --> 00:35:46,477
This is the marks from being strangled.

598
00:35:47,103 --> 00:35:50,690
…posting videos about Wade
and what he did to me.

599
00:35:50,773 --> 00:35:56,112
And that other women and men
should not hide,

600
00:35:56,195 --> 00:35:58,072
and they should tell their story.

601
00:35:58,156 --> 00:36:01,450
And if anyone ever needed someone
to talk to, they could message me.

602
00:36:01,534 --> 00:36:04,078
[tense music continues]

603
00:36:04,162 --> 00:36:07,290
Wade's biological father
reached out to me.

604
00:36:08,124 --> 00:36:10,168
I had no idea who he was.

605
00:36:10,668 --> 00:36:14,714
And he told me, "Don't go back to him.
He's done this before."

606
00:36:15,965 --> 00:36:19,760
And hearing that from his father

607
00:36:19,844 --> 00:36:24,307
really solidified that
I cannot ever go back to this man,

608
00:36:24,390 --> 00:36:26,434
which is part of the reason
why I was so adamant

609
00:36:26,517 --> 00:36:29,061
about helping other people
to stay away from him.

610
00:36:30,521 --> 00:36:32,607
[music fades]

611
00:36:32,690 --> 00:36:34,692
[dramatic sting]

612
00:36:36,652 --> 00:36:41,699
[Kelly] Several months
after I started posting on social media,

613
00:36:41,782 --> 00:36:45,161
I got a message on Instagram
from somebody saying that

614
00:36:45,244 --> 00:36:48,289
his friend Mila had started dating Wade

615
00:36:48,372 --> 00:36:51,626
and they needed help
to get her away from him,

616
00:36:51,709 --> 00:36:54,337
because he was already abusing her.

617
00:36:57,632 --> 00:37:00,927
They sent me pictures of her
covered in bruises.

618
00:37:01,010 --> 00:37:02,845
Like, way worse than I was.

619
00:37:03,429 --> 00:37:06,057
So they gave me her information.
I reached out to her.

620
00:37:06,140 --> 00:37:10,019
And she told me from the beginning
he was putting his hands on her.

621
00:37:10,102 --> 00:37:12,813
But she loved him,
and she wanted to try to make it work.

622
00:37:14,023 --> 00:37:20,279
Seeing how he was so easily able to do
what he did to me,

623
00:37:20,363 --> 00:37:23,074
and to Chris and to Mila
and to everybody else,

624
00:37:23,658 --> 00:37:24,909
I knew it was gonna escalate.

625
00:37:26,160 --> 00:37:29,455
I was begging Mila to leave him.

626
00:37:30,164 --> 00:37:32,667
I told her everything that he did to me.

627
00:37:33,417 --> 00:37:35,878
I was like,
"Please get away from this man."

628
00:37:36,379 --> 00:37:38,047
"He's going to kill you."

629
00:37:41,259 --> 00:37:42,551
[music fades]

630
00:37:42,635 --> 00:37:43,719
[dialing]

631
00:37:43,803 --> 00:37:45,638
[line ringing]

632
00:37:54,063 --> 00:37:55,773
[line ringing]

633
00:37:58,109 --> 00:37:58,943
{\an8}[line ringing]

634
00:38:01,362 --> 00:38:04,156
[operator speaking]

635
00:38:04,657 --> 00:38:06,158
[suspenseful music playing]

636
00:38:06,242 --> 00:38:08,327
[indistinct police radio chatter]

637
00:38:09,036 --> 00:38:12,623
[man] The Fort Myers Police Department
responded to Mila Spa

638
00:38:12,707 --> 00:38:14,458
{\an8}for a domestic violence fight,

639
00:38:14,542 --> 00:38:18,296
where witnesses had told
the Fort Myers police officers

640
00:38:18,379 --> 00:38:21,007
that Wade Wilson
had punched her in the face.

641
00:38:21,590 --> 00:38:23,676
{\an8}- [officer] What's his name?
- Wade Wilson.

642
00:38:23,759 --> 00:38:25,303
{\an8}He just got out of jail.

643
00:38:26,429 --> 00:38:29,098
Well, he left me at the bar
at Buddha last night.

644
00:38:29,181 --> 00:38:31,517
- [woman] This guy's a nightmare.
- [officer] Mm-hmm.

645
00:38:31,600 --> 00:38:34,729
{\an8}Like, she spent the night at my house
because there was…

646
00:38:35,271 --> 00:38:36,939
{\an8}He took her… He took her car.

647
00:38:37,023 --> 00:38:39,567
{\an8}So she spent the night
at my house on the sofa,

648
00:38:39,650 --> 00:38:43,237
and he was calling her up.
"You're not at… house. You're not at…"

649
00:38:43,321 --> 00:38:46,574
And he's like, "You fucking liar."
I'm like, "She is, bro."

650
00:38:46,657 --> 00:38:50,161
"She's right here on my bed because
you took her car and won't give it back."

651
00:38:50,244 --> 00:38:52,371
Now he has her car,
keys to her freakin' place,

652
00:38:52,455 --> 00:38:53,581
didn't give any of that back.

653
00:38:53,664 --> 00:38:56,000
I'm like, "Mila, you got to get rid
of this fucking guy."

654
00:38:57,209 --> 00:38:58,461
[Jones] When they responded there,

655
00:38:58,544 --> 00:39:01,130
Melissa Montanez
gave a vehicle description

656
00:39:01,213 --> 00:39:03,632
of the car that Wade was driving.

657
00:39:05,468 --> 00:39:09,972
[woman] Wade Wilson was supposed to come
to her spa and bring her back her car

658
00:39:10,056 --> 00:39:11,891
that he had taken the night before.

659
00:39:11,974 --> 00:39:13,976
{\an8}And instead of showing up in her car,

660
00:39:14,060 --> 00:39:17,438
{\an8}he showed up in a car
that she did not recognize.

661
00:39:18,022 --> 00:39:22,109
[officer] Black Nissan Versa,
white male, no shirt. Covered in tattoos.

662
00:39:22,860 --> 00:39:24,737
[dispatcher] <i>He's at Joe's.</i>

663
00:39:24,820 --> 00:39:28,240
[Jones] They end up locating the car
with Wade Wilson in it

664
00:39:28,324 --> 00:39:32,036
at a Joe's Crab Shack,
just sitting in the parking lot.

665
00:39:33,996 --> 00:39:36,457
[tense music playing]

666
00:39:36,540 --> 00:39:39,251
[officer] L-4-1,
gonna need a couple more units.

667
00:39:39,919 --> 00:39:41,420
[dispatcher] <i>10-4.</i>

668
00:39:48,636 --> 00:39:50,888
- [officer] How you doing?
- Good. How you doing?

669
00:39:50,971 --> 00:39:53,849
{\an8}- What's going on, man?
- I'm just waiting on my girlfriend.

670
00:39:53,933 --> 00:39:58,020
{\an8}You're waiting on your girlfriend?
Oh! Okay. That's no problem.

671
00:39:58,104 --> 00:40:00,940
{\an8}No, I got a call that somebody
was sitting in their car. So…

672
00:40:01,023 --> 00:40:04,318
{\an8}Oh. No, no, no. You know Mila Spa?
She's coming out.

673
00:40:04,402 --> 00:40:05,694
Oh, okay. She's on her way now?

674
00:40:05,778 --> 00:40:08,531
Yeah, she… You know Mila Spa right there.

675
00:40:08,614 --> 00:40:09,865
[officer] Mm-hmm.

676
00:40:09,949 --> 00:40:10,908
Okay.

677
00:40:12,701 --> 00:40:16,622
I'm gonna have you step out of the car,
and I'm going to detain you.

678
00:40:17,456 --> 00:40:20,418
{\an8}Not arrest. Detain you right now.

679
00:40:20,501 --> 00:40:22,044
{\an8}- For what? What happened?
- Mmm?

680
00:40:22,128 --> 00:40:23,045
{\an8}What happened?

681
00:40:23,129 --> 00:40:25,381
{\an8}Because of the battery this morning.

682
00:40:25,881 --> 00:40:26,882
{\an8}There's no battery.

683
00:40:26,966 --> 00:40:29,510
{\an8}- There wasn't any battery?
- No, sir.

684
00:40:29,593 --> 00:40:30,803
{\an8}[officer] Okay.

685
00:40:32,221 --> 00:40:34,598
Give me the…
Let me see the keys to the car.

686
00:40:34,682 --> 00:40:36,725
{\an8}I didn't do anything wrong.

687
00:40:37,351 --> 00:40:38,185
{\an8}[officer] Wade?

688
00:40:38,269 --> 00:40:40,396
{\an8}Sir, I didn't do anything. Look at me.

689
00:40:40,479 --> 00:40:42,690
{\an8}Call my girl. I'll be good.
I didn't do anything.

690
00:40:42,773 --> 00:40:44,859
{\an8}I miss her. Please, I didn't do anything.

691
00:40:45,693 --> 00:40:47,278
{\an8}- [officer] All right.
- Please?

692
00:40:47,361 --> 00:40:49,697
{\an8}[officer] Just wait
till my partner gets here.

693
00:40:51,991 --> 00:40:54,827
{\an8}- L-4-1, gonna need a couple more units.
- [engine starting]

694
00:40:54,910 --> 00:40:56,912
[officer] Don't go anywhere. Hey.

695
00:40:56,996 --> 00:40:59,665
[music intensifies]

696
00:40:59,748 --> 00:41:02,334
[indistinct radio chatter]

697
00:41:02,418 --> 00:41:06,213
[officer] He's taking off, Fort Myers.
Just ran a stop sign.

698
00:41:07,298 --> 00:41:09,008
Going up towards McGregor.

699
00:41:09,508 --> 00:41:12,970
[officer 2] <i>Do we have an address</i>
<i>of where this guy lives or anything?</i>

700
00:41:14,054 --> 00:41:17,808
[officer 1] Negative, sir.
We don't know who that car belongs to.

701
00:41:17,892 --> 00:41:19,894
I'm off of him. [clears throat]

702
00:41:19,977 --> 00:41:22,313
He's signal 12.
It's only a battery charge.

703
00:41:24,398 --> 00:41:25,608
[radio crackles]

704
00:41:27,776 --> 00:41:30,279
[Jones] When Wade Wilson took off
from the scene,

705
00:41:30,362 --> 00:41:34,325
there was a very brief pursuit
before that was terminated.

706
00:41:34,825 --> 00:41:38,704
Wade Wilson was only being investigated
by the Fort Myers Police Department

707
00:41:38,787 --> 00:41:41,832
at that time
for a misdemeanor battery charge.

708
00:41:43,292 --> 00:41:46,962
Pursuing someone,
endangering the lives of the public

709
00:41:47,046 --> 00:41:50,674
for a misdemeanor battery charge
is not something that any agency would do.

710
00:41:50,758 --> 00:41:53,260
[dramatic sting]

711
00:41:53,344 --> 00:41:55,638
[tense music playing]

712
00:41:57,765 --> 00:42:01,310
We know that
Wade went to Joe's Crab Shack.

713
00:42:01,393 --> 00:42:06,232
And then he left there
and then went back over the bridge,

714
00:42:06,315 --> 00:42:09,568
back over into the Cape,
and went to Matteo's Graphics,

715
00:42:09,652 --> 00:42:14,198
where Wade had approached
Joshua Lukitsch, seeking to get help,

716
00:42:14,281 --> 00:42:16,450
{\an8}just to get out of town
as quickly as he could.

717
00:42:16,534 --> 00:42:17,826
[dialing]

718
00:42:17,910 --> 00:42:19,995
[line ringing]

719
00:42:37,179 --> 00:42:38,430
[operator speaking]

720
00:42:39,765 --> 00:42:42,810
[Joshua speaking]

721
00:42:59,451 --> 00:43:03,914
When the Cape Coral Police Department
arrived to meet with Josh Lukitsch,

722
00:43:05,124 --> 00:43:07,876
officers tried to locate Wade
inside the business,

723
00:43:07,960 --> 00:43:10,087
but he had fled the area on foot.

724
00:43:11,255 --> 00:43:14,341
Cape Coral, at that point,
wasn't even aware of what had happened

725
00:43:14,425 --> 00:43:16,927
{\an8}at Mila Spa in Fort Myers.

726
00:43:17,428 --> 00:43:19,930
{\an8}There would have not been
any communication or knowledge

727
00:43:20,014 --> 00:43:21,515
between the two agencies.

728
00:43:22,516 --> 00:43:25,894
[Andreas] Detectives began investigating
the vehicle that was located there

729
00:43:25,978 --> 00:43:27,605
at the business.

730
00:43:27,688 --> 00:43:29,523
They determined that
it belonged to a young lady

731
00:43:29,607 --> 00:43:30,816
by the name of Kristine Melton.

732
00:43:32,026 --> 00:43:34,153
Kristine Melton was then placed
on their radar,

733
00:43:34,236 --> 00:43:37,781
and they began to try to locate,
uh, Miss Melton.

734
00:43:38,782 --> 00:43:42,786
They began running the driver's license
information for her,

735
00:43:42,870 --> 00:43:44,788
determining who the emergency contact was,

736
00:43:44,872 --> 00:43:48,167
which happened to have been a young lady
by the name of Stephanie Johnson.

737
00:43:48,250 --> 00:43:49,752
They reached out to Miss Johnson.

738
00:43:49,835 --> 00:43:53,297
Miss Johnson had told them
that the night before,

739
00:43:53,380 --> 00:43:58,052
she and Kristine Melton
met Wade Wilson at the Buddha,

740
00:43:58,135 --> 00:44:00,763
which is a local establishment
here in Fort Myers.

741
00:44:01,972 --> 00:44:04,933
They were in the process
of closing down the Buddha.

742
00:44:05,017 --> 00:44:07,436
It was about two o'clock in the morning,

743
00:44:07,519 --> 00:44:10,230
but yet they didn't want to stop partying.

744
00:44:11,815 --> 00:44:15,152
So they decided to move over
to Miss Melton's residence.

745
00:44:16,445 --> 00:44:18,822
Stephanie had to get her child to school,

746
00:44:19,323 --> 00:44:23,410
so she left Kristine alone
with Wade Wilson at that point in time.

747
00:44:26,080 --> 00:44:29,792
{\an8}[Jones] The Cape Coral Police Department
had responded to Kristine Melton's home

748
00:44:29,875 --> 00:44:30,834
{\an8}in South Cape Coral.

749
00:44:30,918 --> 00:44:32,002
[police radio beeps]

750
00:44:32,920 --> 00:44:35,673
When law enforcement arrived,
they knocked at the residence.

751
00:44:35,756 --> 00:44:37,007
They didn't receive a response,

752
00:44:37,091 --> 00:44:39,677
so they ultimately wound up
breaching the door.

753
00:44:39,760 --> 00:44:41,595
[foreboding music playing]

754
00:44:41,679 --> 00:44:45,891
When officers went inside,
they had located Kristine Melton,

755
00:44:46,392 --> 00:44:48,352
wrapped up in some blankets and a carpet.

756
00:44:49,061 --> 00:44:51,021
Kristine Melton was choked to death.

757
00:44:53,107 --> 00:44:55,067
Right about that same time,

758
00:44:55,150 --> 00:44:58,862
we received a call
from the Fort Myers Police Department.

759
00:45:00,030 --> 00:45:04,952
They had been investigating the domestic
incident with Melissa Montanez

760
00:45:05,035 --> 00:45:08,497
and Wade Wilson fleeing the scene
in Kristine Melton's car.

761
00:45:09,623 --> 00:45:11,792
The homicide of Kristine Melton,

762
00:45:11,875 --> 00:45:15,170
then the domestic violence incident
with Melissa Montanez,

763
00:45:15,254 --> 00:45:18,173
happened right on the border
between the two cities.

764
00:45:19,258 --> 00:45:23,011
We are working two investigations
that are separate from each other

765
00:45:23,095 --> 00:45:25,556
at the same time with the same suspect.

766
00:45:25,639 --> 00:45:26,640
[sirens blaring]

767
00:45:26,724 --> 00:45:30,227
The search was on at that point
to find Wade Wilson.

768
00:45:33,564 --> 00:45:36,525
[man] In 2019, I was working
for the Cape Coral Police Department

769
00:45:36,608 --> 00:45:37,735
as a detective.

770
00:45:37,818 --> 00:45:39,194
[pensive music playing]

771
00:45:39,278 --> 00:45:43,991
When we found out that Mila
was the girlfriend of our current suspect,

772
00:45:44,992 --> 00:45:48,078
then that's when they requested,
"Hey, Detective Mino,

773
00:45:48,162 --> 00:45:50,164
{\an8}go to the Fort Myers Police Department."

774
00:45:50,247 --> 00:45:53,709
"Go speak with Mila. See what information
you can get from her."

775
00:45:53,792 --> 00:45:57,504
Most importantly,
a location for Wade Wilson at the time,

776
00:45:58,005 --> 00:46:02,760
and what relationship Wade Wilson
had with Miss Kristine Melton.

777
00:46:02,843 --> 00:46:04,887
[dramatic sting]

778
00:46:07,765 --> 00:46:09,099
[Mino] How do you know Wade?

779
00:46:09,183 --> 00:46:11,477
- How long have you known him?
- Boyfriend, six months

780
00:46:11,560 --> 00:46:13,103
- Boyfriend, six months?
- Hmm.

781
00:46:14,146 --> 00:46:17,107
He's been in jail,
incarcerated three and a half of those.

782
00:46:17,691 --> 00:46:20,235
He beat me up, and I put him in jail here.

783
00:46:20,319 --> 00:46:22,237
And then he had a charge in West Palm

784
00:46:22,905 --> 00:46:27,910
for second degree felony,
um, stolen property.

785
00:46:28,952 --> 00:46:32,831
They released him, and me, stupid enough,
went down five days ago and got him.

786
00:46:33,957 --> 00:46:37,211
There's a gang of exes that keep saying,
"Mila, don't go back."

787
00:46:37,294 --> 00:46:38,670
[Mino] Mm-hmm. Exes of his?

788
00:46:38,754 --> 00:46:40,547
[Mila] Yeah. Kelly was friends with Chris.

789
00:46:40,631 --> 00:46:42,508
And it's just, like, all these people

790
00:46:42,591 --> 00:46:45,135
that link up together
and just share information.

791
00:46:45,636 --> 00:46:48,138
Everybody told me that this would happen.

792
00:46:49,181 --> 00:46:51,141
I have a busted mouth,
so I'm talking funny.

793
00:46:51,225 --> 00:46:54,228
- Oh, that's... I'm sorry.
- He busted it this morning. It's okay.

794
00:46:54,311 --> 00:46:58,941
He punches me as hard as he can
right here, like, in the face.

795
00:46:59,024 --> 00:47:00,776
And somehow when he punched like that,

796
00:47:00,859 --> 00:47:04,446
I was able to kind of, like,
maneuver around the back and run.

797
00:47:05,739 --> 00:47:06,865
And that's how I got away.

798
00:47:06,949 --> 00:47:09,034
And then he jumped in the car and left.

799
00:47:10,035 --> 00:47:11,787
- You haven't seen him though since then?
- No.

800
00:47:11,870 --> 00:47:14,540
- Okay. Now let's rewind.
- Okay.

801
00:47:14,623 --> 00:47:16,083
[rewinding]

802
00:47:23,340 --> 00:47:27,302
[Mila] Last night we went to Buddha,
roughly 11-ish.

803
00:47:28,220 --> 00:47:31,181
- [Mino] What happened there?
- [Mila] We order a few beers.

804
00:47:31,265 --> 00:47:34,268
He's wandering around talking to people.
You know, he's very social.

805
00:47:34,351 --> 00:47:38,188
And then, I pretty much sit at the table
watching the band.

806
00:47:38,272 --> 00:47:41,441
And yeah, we just hang with friends
and stuff like that.

807
00:47:41,525 --> 00:47:47,322
And then, um, that's when he wanted to go
get drugs at the drug house or something.

808
00:47:47,406 --> 00:47:50,117
I said, "No, I don't wanna go
to a drug house," you know?

809
00:47:50,200 --> 00:47:52,953
I guess he knew I wasn't gonna do that.
He took the keys.

810
00:47:53,036 --> 00:47:55,664
And then I see the Hellcat drive off.

811
00:47:55,747 --> 00:47:58,208
[Mino] He leaves the Buddha
in your car by himself?

812
00:47:58,292 --> 00:48:01,670
[Mila] No, he can't drive a stick shift.
So he had somebody else with him.

813
00:48:01,753 --> 00:48:02,588
[Mino] Who?

814
00:48:03,171 --> 00:48:07,467
I don't know. I don't know.
I feel like it was a car full of people.

815
00:48:08,218 --> 00:48:10,596
And in the morning,
he was blowing up my phone.

816
00:48:10,679 --> 00:48:13,307
He told me that
the Hellcat ran out of gas somewhere.

817
00:48:13,390 --> 00:48:17,394
So I said, "Okay, let me, um…
Let me come get the keys."

818
00:48:17,978 --> 00:48:19,897
So I said, "Meet me at the spa."

819
00:48:19,980 --> 00:48:21,815
He pulls in in a black car.

820
00:48:21,899 --> 00:48:23,483
I'm wondering whose car it is.

821
00:48:23,567 --> 00:48:26,153
- Were you ever inside that car?
- No, I was not getting in that car.

822
00:48:26,236 --> 00:48:28,363
- You never made it inside?
- I would've died if I got in.

823
00:48:28,447 --> 00:48:29,406
[Mino] Okay.

824
00:48:30,198 --> 00:48:31,825
[Mino] Speaking with Mila,

825
00:48:32,326 --> 00:48:34,870
we were able to put Wade Wilson
at the Buddha

826
00:48:34,953 --> 00:48:37,748
the same night as Miss Melton.

827
00:48:38,540 --> 00:48:43,128
And we were able to connect the charges
for the battery domestic violence

828
00:48:43,211 --> 00:48:45,130
with the homicide investigation.

829
00:48:46,173 --> 00:48:48,216
I'm gonna be straight up
and honest with you.

830
00:48:48,300 --> 00:48:51,345
- We do have a body. Okay?
- [gasps] Oh my God!

831
00:48:51,428 --> 00:48:54,139
- So this is a homicide case.
- Stop it. Are you really serious?

832
00:48:55,098 --> 00:48:57,768
[Mino] Did you see him talking
to any females at the club last night?

833
00:48:57,851 --> 00:48:59,311
- [Mila] No…
- [Mino] The Buddha?

834
00:48:59,811 --> 00:49:02,022
Was he talking just to random people
all over the place?

835
00:49:02,105 --> 00:49:04,232
- [Mila] Guys. He's very social.
- [Mino] Just guys?

836
00:49:05,067 --> 00:49:05,901
[Mino] Hmm.

837
00:49:05,984 --> 00:49:09,029
If I wouldn't have went and got him,
this never would have happened

838
00:49:09,112 --> 00:49:11,573
[Mino] Well, you can't blame this on that.

839
00:49:11,657 --> 00:49:13,659
[Mila sobbing]

840
00:49:15,744 --> 00:49:17,913
I wish I would've just left him
down there.

841
00:49:18,914 --> 00:49:22,834
[Mino] While speaking with Mila,
I asked her if I could see her phone.

842
00:49:22,918 --> 00:49:25,504
And I noticed that he had called her

843
00:49:25,587 --> 00:49:30,968
several times throughout the day
of October 7th from different numbers.

844
00:49:31,051 --> 00:49:33,053
[suspenseful music playing]

845
00:49:34,096 --> 00:49:37,724
[Jones] When we recovered the black Nissan
belonging to Kristine Melton,

846
00:49:37,808 --> 00:49:40,143
we ended up serving a search warrant
on the vehicle.

847
00:49:42,270 --> 00:49:48,193
And we did locate two cell phones
inside of this black Nissan.

848
00:49:49,152 --> 00:49:50,487
When we recover the phones,

849
00:49:50,570 --> 00:49:55,117
we're not able to just turn on cell phones
and see who they belong to

850
00:49:55,200 --> 00:49:56,743
and start rummaging through them.

851
00:49:56,827 --> 00:50:01,289
To be able to go inside someone's
cell phone requires a search warrant.

852
00:50:01,373 --> 00:50:02,916
And that takes time.

853
00:50:03,000 --> 00:50:05,252
And in a situation like this,
time is important.

854
00:50:06,294 --> 00:50:08,922
So I was really playing a waiting game.

855
00:50:10,132 --> 00:50:12,926
While we were working on
the Kristine Melton case,

856
00:50:13,010 --> 00:50:14,386
um, that first day,

857
00:50:14,469 --> 00:50:16,179
we get another case.

858
00:50:17,055 --> 00:50:19,683
We had received a call
at the Cape Coral Police Department

859
00:50:19,766 --> 00:50:22,894
about a found purse
and possible missing woman.

860
00:50:23,603 --> 00:50:28,734
A police officer
at a local elementary school

861
00:50:28,817 --> 00:50:31,236
had a parent come into the school and say,

862
00:50:31,319 --> 00:50:35,240
"Hey, I found this purse out in front
of the school by the sidewalk."

863
00:50:35,741 --> 00:50:38,577
He looks in the wallet,
gets the name and the address,

864
00:50:39,077 --> 00:50:42,998
and realizes that
the owner of the purse, Diane Ruiz,

865
00:50:43,081 --> 00:50:45,375
lives just a couple of streets
behind his school.

866
00:50:46,960 --> 00:50:50,047
The officer went to return the purse.

867
00:50:50,130 --> 00:50:55,177
And when he got to the home, uh,
he learned that Diane Ruiz was not there.

868
00:50:55,260 --> 00:51:01,600
Her son told our school resource officer
that "My mom is supposed to be at work."

869
00:51:01,683 --> 00:51:02,934
[dialing]

870
00:51:03,018 --> 00:51:05,020
[line ringing]

871
00:51:11,860 --> 00:51:14,279
[operator speaking]

872
00:51:14,362 --> 00:51:21,953
[Diane Ruiz's fiancé speaking]

873
00:51:26,249 --> 00:51:28,210
[operator speaking]

874
00:51:28,293 --> 00:51:30,087
{\an8}[Diane Ruiz's fiancé speaking]

875
00:51:30,796 --> 00:51:31,922
{\an8}[operator speaking]

876
00:51:33,090 --> 00:51:37,177
{\an8}[Diane Ruiz's fiancé speaking]

877
00:51:37,719 --> 00:51:41,431
[Jones] In Diane's case,
knowing that her cell phone was turned off

878
00:51:41,515 --> 00:51:43,683
and that she was not responding
to any messages,

879
00:51:43,767 --> 00:51:47,354
I really wanted to get a hold
of her cell phone records quickly.

880
00:51:47,437 --> 00:51:50,649
When I was speaking
with another detective, she said,

881
00:51:50,732 --> 00:51:53,276
"You know, Nick,
what do you think the chances are

882
00:51:53,360 --> 00:51:55,695
that these two cases are related?"

883
00:51:56,196 --> 00:52:00,492
And at that time, I said, "I don't know.
We're on opposite ends of the city."

884
00:52:01,076 --> 00:52:07,958
"Nothing so far has said that Diane Ruiz
or Kristine Melton knew each other."

885
00:52:08,041 --> 00:52:12,254
And we could not come up with a connection
between the two women.

886
00:52:13,130 --> 00:52:19,094
All at the same time, there's still a big
piece of the Kristine Melton case missing.

887
00:52:19,177 --> 00:52:21,263
Our suspect is still on the loose.

888
00:52:22,097 --> 00:52:24,683
We knew the general area
that he was last in

889
00:52:24,766 --> 00:52:26,768
when he was at Matteo Graphics.

890
00:52:27,978 --> 00:52:30,605
That neighborhood
was searched extensively.

891
00:52:30,689 --> 00:52:33,733
And we had hoped that he was still
in that general area.

892
00:52:33,817 --> 00:52:36,611
[dramatic sting]

893
00:52:41,783 --> 00:52:46,204
All of a sudden, that night
on October 7th, we get a big break.

894
00:52:46,788 --> 00:52:49,958
We received a call from Wade Wilson's dad

895
00:52:51,084 --> 00:52:55,213
giving us a location of a house that
he was hiding inside of in Cape Coral

896
00:52:55,297 --> 00:52:58,466
that was right down the street
from Matteo Graphics.

897
00:53:00,177 --> 00:53:01,803
[Wade's dad] <i>I said, "What's going on?"</i>

898
00:53:01,887 --> 00:53:05,140
<i>So he goes,</i>
<i>"Do you want me to tell you the truth?"</i>

899
00:53:05,223 --> 00:53:06,766
<i>And I said, "Yeah."</i>

900
00:53:06,850 --> 00:53:09,561
<i>He said, "I killed a girl last night."</i>

901
00:53:10,812 --> 00:53:12,272
<i>And I said, "What?"</i>

902
00:53:12,814 --> 00:53:14,941
<i>And he said, "Two."</i>

903
00:53:15,442 --> 00:53:17,903
<i>And he said, "I choked the bitch."</i>

904
00:53:18,737 --> 00:53:20,655
<i>He said, "Dad, I'm a killer."</i>

905
00:53:20,739 --> 00:53:23,617
<i>"I'm a killer,</i>
<i>and I kill with my bare hands."</i>

906
00:53:25,243 --> 00:53:27,829
<i>He said, "They'll find the first one.</i>
<i>I know that." You know?</i>

907
00:53:27,913 --> 00:53:30,081
<i>He went in detail what he did.</i>

908
00:53:30,165 --> 00:53:33,710
<i>And he laughed,</i>
<i>and he thought it was funny.</i>

909
00:53:33,793 --> 00:53:35,795
[ominous music playing]

910
00:53:36,755 --> 00:53:38,548
<i>And I said, "Where are you?"</i>

911
00:53:39,132 --> 00:53:42,135
<i>He said, "I got away. I found a house."</i>

912
00:53:43,595 --> 00:53:48,141
[woman] Wade Wilson broke into a home
nearby in Northeast Cape Coral.

913
00:53:49,184 --> 00:53:51,978
{\an8}Luckily, the couple that was living there
had left the day before

914
00:53:52,062 --> 00:53:53,396
{\an8}and went back to Ohio.

915
00:53:55,148 --> 00:53:59,486
Wade Wilson helped himself
to some White Claws, food, and clothing.

916
00:54:00,612 --> 00:54:05,033
During that time,
he ended up calling his biological father.

917
00:54:05,533 --> 00:54:10,497
We found out that his dad didn't have
much of a connection with Wade

918
00:54:10,580 --> 00:54:13,750
until he had reconnected
when he was 18 years old,

919
00:54:13,833 --> 00:54:17,420
and had started asking his parents
for money.

920
00:54:19,506 --> 00:54:21,925
[Andreas] Wade had asked him
whether or not he would assist him

921
00:54:22,008 --> 00:54:23,468
{\an8}in getting out of town.

922
00:54:23,551 --> 00:54:27,138
{\an8}The dad put out a ruse to indicate that,
yeah, he would get him an Uber,

923
00:54:27,222 --> 00:54:29,349
{\an8}but he needed to know
what the address was,

924
00:54:29,432 --> 00:54:30,433
where he was located.

925
00:54:31,351 --> 00:54:35,605
So at that point in time, the father let
Cape Coral Police Department know

926
00:54:35,689 --> 00:54:37,565
where Wade Wilson was.

927
00:54:37,649 --> 00:54:39,943
{\an8}[sirens blaring]

928
00:54:41,361 --> 00:54:45,824
{\an8}When the task force got there,
they then invited Mr. Wilson to come out.

929
00:54:46,324 --> 00:54:49,077
And that's how he was ultimately located
and ultimately arrested.

930
00:54:50,537 --> 00:54:52,998
[officer] All right, man, listen.
I'm a nice guy, okay?

931
00:54:53,081 --> 00:54:54,082
[Wade] Good. Me too, bro.

932
00:54:54,165 --> 00:54:56,167
- [officer] All right, good. So…
- [Wade] What's up?

933
00:54:56,251 --> 00:54:59,212
[officer] All right, I'm gonna put
some new handcuffs on you.

934
00:54:59,296 --> 00:55:01,214
Do anything stupid, I'm gonna slam you.

935
00:55:01,298 --> 00:55:04,134
[Wade] Do I look stupid?
You can slam me if you want. I don't care.

936
00:55:04,217 --> 00:55:06,136
I can't do nothing.
You don't have to threaten me.

937
00:55:06,219 --> 00:55:08,388
[officer] Face the fucking car, man.
Spread your feet.

938
00:55:08,471 --> 00:55:11,391
- [Wade] Man, fuck you, man.
- [officer] Fuck you. Burn-ass bitch.

939
00:55:11,474 --> 00:55:12,475
[handcuffs click]

940
00:55:18,064 --> 00:55:19,149
Watch your knee.

941
00:55:21,609 --> 00:55:26,489
{\an8}I got a phone call from his dad saying,

942
00:55:26,573 --> 00:55:31,745
{\an8}"I'm on the other line with the marshals.
And they have Wade surrounded."

943
00:55:31,828 --> 00:55:33,872
"And he murdered two women."

944
00:55:33,955 --> 00:55:35,457
[pensive music playing]

945
00:55:35,540 --> 00:55:36,833
[officer] Come this way.

946
00:55:36,916 --> 00:55:40,086
Of course, I was like, "Are you serious?"

947
00:55:40,170 --> 00:55:43,173
But deep down, I wasn't shocked at all.

948
00:55:43,256 --> 00:55:45,800
I knew that that's what he was capable of.

949
00:55:45,884 --> 00:55:47,802
[officer] It's the second door here.

950
00:55:48,303 --> 00:55:51,097
[Jones] After Wade Wilson was placed
under arrest,

951
00:55:51,181 --> 00:55:53,600
the first interview with him
went very quickly.

952
00:55:53,683 --> 00:55:55,310
You know, suck my dick, cracker.

953
00:55:55,393 --> 00:55:57,479
How about that?
I'll see you in trial. Suck my…

954
00:55:57,562 --> 00:56:00,065
[Jones] He did not admit
to knowing Kristine Melton,

955
00:56:00,148 --> 00:56:05,487
did not admit to having anything to do
with the homicide of Kristine Melton.

956
00:56:05,570 --> 00:56:07,238
[enigmatic music playing]

957
00:56:07,322 --> 00:56:11,284
The next morning, an email came
from Diane's cell phone carrier.

958
00:56:12,077 --> 00:56:14,913
At that point,
I now have her cell phone records.

959
00:56:14,996 --> 00:56:19,125
And I'm looking at the last calls
or text messages

960
00:56:19,209 --> 00:56:20,919
that were made or came through.

961
00:56:21,503 --> 00:56:26,508
And when I looked at the phone number,
immediately, my heart sank

962
00:56:26,591 --> 00:56:30,261
because I recognized the phone number
that was being dialed,

963
00:56:30,345 --> 00:56:32,680
belonging to the girlfriend
of Wade Wilson.

964
00:56:33,640 --> 00:56:38,603
Wade was calling his girlfriend Mila
from Diane Ruiz's phone.

965
00:56:39,562 --> 00:56:42,899
At that point,
I knew that the Kristine Melton case

966
00:56:42,982 --> 00:56:45,819
and the Diane Ruiz case were connected.

967
00:56:46,403 --> 00:56:48,488
So at this point, my strategy changes.

968
00:56:49,072 --> 00:56:54,202
I go from working a missing person case
to working a possible homicide.

969
00:56:54,702 --> 00:56:56,204
[music intensifies]

970
00:56:56,287 --> 00:56:57,288
[music fades]

971
00:56:57,372 --> 00:56:59,916
[newscaster1] <i>A painful night</i>
<i>for a Southwest Florida family.</i>

972
00:56:59,999 --> 00:57:01,251
<i>Their loved one is missing.</i>

973
00:57:01,334 --> 00:57:03,920
[newscaster 2] Diane Ruiz
disappeared yesterday morning

974
00:57:04,003 --> 00:57:06,506
{\an8}on her way to work,
her purse found nearby.

975
00:57:06,589 --> 00:57:10,301
{\an8}This torture just… It's just sitting
back here and just waiting. It's…

976
00:57:10,385 --> 00:57:13,263
{\an8}It's killing us. It really is killing us.

977
00:57:13,346 --> 00:57:16,349
{\an8}[newscaster 3] <i>Brandon Cuellar</i>
<i>and his family are still reeling</i>

978
00:57:16,433 --> 00:57:18,476
{\an8}<i>from the sudden disappearance</i>
<i>of his mother.</i>

979
00:57:18,560 --> 00:57:20,895
{\an8}I want my mother to come home.
That's my mother.

980
00:57:22,939 --> 00:57:24,774
[Jones] After getting the phone records,

981
00:57:24,858 --> 00:57:30,029
I was able to go in the elementary school
and take a look at the surveillance video

982
00:57:30,530 --> 00:57:32,991
from the time where the purse
was dropped off.

983
00:57:34,200 --> 00:57:38,121
And now I see Kristine Melton's car
in the same spot

984
00:57:38,204 --> 00:57:40,832
where Diane Ruiz's purse was located.

985
00:57:41,583 --> 00:57:46,463
I also obtained GPS
and longitude/latitude coordinates

986
00:57:46,546 --> 00:57:50,175
for every spot that her phone was pinging.

987
00:57:51,468 --> 00:57:54,679
Diane's phone had traveled a lot
within her neighborhood,

988
00:57:55,555 --> 00:57:59,517
and then had traveled west
on Pine Island Road.

989
00:58:00,810 --> 00:58:05,273
Pine Island Road is a lot of vacant lots,

990
00:58:05,857 --> 00:58:08,693
a lot of trees, bushes, wooded areas

991
00:58:08,776 --> 00:58:12,739
that you could potentially hide a body
if you wanted to.

992
00:58:14,908 --> 00:58:17,494
I had believed that Diane Ruiz's body

993
00:58:17,577 --> 00:58:20,788
was somewhere located
along Pine Island Road.

994
00:58:21,372 --> 00:58:24,250
We had canines out searching for her.

995
00:58:24,334 --> 00:58:29,881
We had side-by-side ATVs
out looking for her, squad cars.

996
00:58:29,964 --> 00:58:32,467
You name it, everybody was out looking.

997
00:58:33,092 --> 00:58:35,094
[dramatic sting]

998
00:58:39,557 --> 00:58:41,142
[pensive music playing]

999
00:58:41,226 --> 00:58:44,354
Within, I would say,
about two and a half days of searching,

1000
00:58:44,437 --> 00:58:48,149
Wade Wilson's dad
had another conversation with him

1001
00:58:48,233 --> 00:58:50,652
while he was in the Lee County Jail.

1002
00:58:59,827 --> 00:59:01,287
- What's up, Dad?
- What's up, boy?

1003
00:59:01,371 --> 00:59:03,998
- All right. How're you doing?
- I'm all right. You okay?

1004
00:59:04,082 --> 00:59:06,834
Yeah, not really.
So I found out how they found me.

1005
00:59:06,918 --> 00:59:09,462
- What?
- They said they found me through you.

1006
00:59:09,546 --> 00:59:11,714
- What'd they say?
- They said you called 'em.

1007
00:59:11,798 --> 00:59:12,632
[Steven] Yeah?

1008
00:59:12,715 --> 00:59:14,133
- Did you?
- What do you think?

1009
00:59:14,217 --> 00:59:15,593
- Yeah.
- Yeah?

1010
00:59:15,677 --> 00:59:16,511
Yeah.

1011
00:59:16,594 --> 00:59:18,805
All right. And how do you feel about that?

1012
00:59:18,888 --> 00:59:20,640
Bad. Yeah.

1013
00:59:20,723 --> 00:59:22,058
- Yeah.
- I do too.

1014
00:59:22,141 --> 00:59:22,976
Yeah.

1015
00:59:23,643 --> 00:59:25,186
Do you understand that?

1016
00:59:25,270 --> 00:59:26,479
- No.
- Why?

1017
00:59:26,563 --> 00:59:28,982
'Cause why would you want me here?
You know I'm gonna be here.

1018
00:59:29,065 --> 00:59:30,483
Wade, son. Listen to me.

1019
00:59:30,567 --> 00:59:33,152
I love you more than anything
on this fucking earth.

1020
00:59:33,236 --> 00:59:34,070
[Wade] Yeah.

1021
00:59:34,654 --> 00:59:37,198
And I'm gonna be honest with you, son.

1022
00:59:38,157 --> 00:59:39,325
[choking] You…

1023
00:59:40,326 --> 00:59:44,414
- You… You broke my heart.
- Yeah.

1024
00:59:44,497 --> 00:59:49,127
When I say that to you, I don't mean that
to make you feel like shit.

1025
00:59:49,627 --> 00:59:54,841
But I say that to you
because, you know, you came from me.

1026
00:59:54,924 --> 00:59:55,758
Yeah.

1027
00:59:55,842 --> 01:00:01,306
And the pain that you have caused, son,
I can't even describe to you.

1028
01:00:01,389 --> 01:00:02,223
[Wade] Yeah.

1029
01:00:02,307 --> 01:00:04,767
It's something that'll never be forgotten.

1030
01:00:05,685 --> 01:00:08,146
- But listen to me, son.
- Yeah.

1031
01:00:08,229 --> 01:00:11,149
- [Steven] We got to fix it.
- Well, how do you want me to fix it?

1032
01:00:11,232 --> 01:00:13,359
[Steven] I'm here to help you fix it.

1033
01:00:13,443 --> 01:00:15,820
Because I'm gonna tell you
why we got to fix it.

1034
01:00:15,903 --> 01:00:17,155
Three reasons.

1035
01:00:17,947 --> 01:00:18,781
[Wade] Yeah.

1036
01:00:18,865 --> 01:00:22,410
That 15-year-old boy that's missing
his fucking mom right now.

1037
01:00:22,493 --> 01:00:25,371
- [Wade] Yeah.
- Who is about to fucking lose his shit.

1038
01:00:25,455 --> 01:00:28,416
Because he's waiting on his fucking mom
to walk back in that door.

1039
01:00:28,499 --> 01:00:29,334
[Wade] Yeah.

1040
01:00:29,417 --> 01:00:30,668
[Steven] We got to fix it.

1041
01:00:30,752 --> 01:00:33,338
That… that… that fiancé
who's waiting on his…

1042
01:00:33,421 --> 01:00:34,255
[Wade] Yeah.

1043
01:00:34,339 --> 01:00:37,216
- …wife to come home? We got to fix it.
- Yeah.

1044
01:00:37,300 --> 01:00:41,512
And the only way, Wade, that you are
going to get any fucking leniency

1045
01:00:42,180 --> 01:00:44,182
is to fix this shit. Okay?

1046
01:00:44,265 --> 01:00:46,934
Everybody in the state
thinks you're a monster.

1047
01:00:47,018 --> 01:00:48,478
- [Wade] Yeah, I know. I know.
- Okay?

1048
01:00:48,561 --> 01:00:52,190
- Yes, yes, you did some monstrous shit.
- Yeah.

1049
01:00:52,273 --> 01:00:55,860
But you know what?
You can show them that you have remorse,

1050
01:00:55,943 --> 01:00:57,111
and you fixed it, son.

1051
01:00:57,195 --> 01:00:59,238
Did they put the story on the news
and everything?

1052
01:00:59,322 --> 01:01:01,324
- [Steven] Yeah. Yeah.
- Yeah?

1053
01:01:01,407 --> 01:01:03,534
So what do you want me to do?
I mean, when?

1054
01:01:03,618 --> 01:01:07,664
[spluttering] We… We gotta…
We gotta send that…

1055
01:01:07,747 --> 01:01:09,999
that lady home to her family, son.

1056
01:01:10,083 --> 01:01:11,417
- All right, Dad.
- Okay?

1057
01:01:11,501 --> 01:01:13,503
She's got to go home to her family.

1058
01:01:13,586 --> 01:01:16,005
As painful as it's going to be
for those people…

1059
01:01:16,089 --> 01:01:19,258
- Yeah.
- …not knowing is harder for them.

1060
01:01:19,342 --> 01:01:20,176
[Wade] Yeah.

1061
01:01:20,259 --> 01:01:22,553
And that little boy's been
on that fucking news…

1062
01:01:22,637 --> 01:01:24,514
- Yeah.
- …just crying for his mama, son.

1063
01:01:24,597 --> 01:01:25,556
Are you kidding me?

1064
01:01:25,640 --> 01:01:27,642
No, dude,
I'm not fucking kidding you, Wade.

1065
01:01:27,725 --> 01:01:29,977
- It's fucking heartbreaking.
- Yeah.

1066
01:01:30,061 --> 01:01:34,315
Okay? And this is what I don't understand.
You know, and I don't… whatever…

1067
01:01:34,399 --> 01:01:37,151
Was that… Was that just random as fuck?

1068
01:01:37,235 --> 01:01:39,862
- Yeah.
- Yeah, I knew it. I knew it was.

1069
01:01:39,946 --> 01:01:40,780
Yeah.

1070
01:01:40,863 --> 01:01:43,783
It's just… you know,
you lost your goddamn mind.

1071
01:01:43,866 --> 01:01:45,910
[Wade] Yeah. Yeah, it was random.

1072
01:01:45,993 --> 01:01:47,787
[Steven] And my biggest fear was,

1073
01:01:47,870 --> 01:01:51,374
that you were gonna lose it
and go on a rampage.

1074
01:01:51,457 --> 01:01:53,835
[Wade] And I just about did.
That's what I was doing.

1075
01:01:53,918 --> 01:01:55,962
- I know you were heading there.
- Yeah, I was.

1076
01:01:56,045 --> 01:01:57,880
- I was going to do more.
- I know.

1077
01:01:58,840 --> 01:02:00,258
How did you know? That's crazy!

1078
01:02:00,341 --> 01:02:02,051
- 'Cause you're my son.
- You're right!

1079
01:02:02,135 --> 01:02:04,470
- I knew what you were gonna do.
- Yeah. That's why I went…

1080
01:02:04,554 --> 01:02:07,765
That's why after the first one, I said,
"Number two, then number three."

1081
01:02:07,849 --> 01:02:10,309
- Right, yes. You think I didn't know that?
- Yeah. That's right.

1082
01:02:10,393 --> 01:02:11,978
- You know what's crazy, son?
- What's that?

1083
01:02:12,061 --> 01:02:13,855
Is the people's house that you went in?

1084
01:02:13,938 --> 01:02:15,648
- Yeah.
- They just left.

1085
01:02:16,357 --> 01:02:19,110
- No! Just left?
- They fucking just left to go to Ohio.

1086
01:02:19,193 --> 01:02:20,111
You're kidding me.

1087
01:02:20,194 --> 01:02:21,446
- No, I'm not.
- I believe it.

1088
01:02:21,529 --> 01:02:23,990
What do you think would've happened
when you went in that house?

1089
01:02:24,073 --> 01:02:25,366
- Oh, everybody.
- Right.

1090
01:02:25,450 --> 01:02:26,701
- Everybody.
- Okay.

1091
01:02:26,784 --> 01:02:28,786
[tense music playing]

1092
01:02:29,620 --> 01:02:32,999
[Jones] October the 10th
was now the third day

1093
01:02:33,082 --> 01:02:35,918
that we were looking for Diane Ruiz.

1094
01:02:37,336 --> 01:02:40,047
All of the officers
at our police department

1095
01:02:40,131 --> 01:02:43,176
were still searching
the Pine Island corridor.

1096
01:02:45,219 --> 01:02:49,640
Two of our officers
had taken a break from searching,

1097
01:02:50,141 --> 01:02:53,936
and they were having lunch
in a vacant field.

1098
01:02:56,981 --> 01:03:02,904
While they were having lunch,
one of our officers noticed a buzzard

1099
01:03:02,987 --> 01:03:04,822
in the sky in the area.

1100
01:03:04,906 --> 01:03:06,532
[buzzard cries]

1101
01:03:08,284 --> 01:03:11,245
The buzzard ended up landing
in a vacant field

1102
01:03:11,329 --> 01:03:13,122
next to some pepper bushes.

1103
01:03:14,248 --> 01:03:17,543
Buzzards are attracted
to decomposing flesh.

1104
01:03:19,754 --> 01:03:24,675
So the officer went into, uh,
the pepper bushes in this vacant lot,

1105
01:03:26,886 --> 01:03:29,889
and that's where he had located
the body of Diane Ruiz.

1106
01:03:32,391 --> 01:03:34,435
[music fades]

1107
01:03:34,519 --> 01:03:36,562
[pensive music playing]

1108
01:03:36,646 --> 01:03:39,273
When the medical examiner
had responded to the scene,

1109
01:03:39,941 --> 01:03:45,404
Diane Ruiz had some marks on her body
that looked like tire marks.

1110
01:03:45,905 --> 01:03:51,702
However, it was really hard to tell
from the naked eye any cause of death.

1111
01:03:53,204 --> 01:03:57,291
While we were on scene,
I get a phone call saying,

1112
01:03:57,375 --> 01:03:59,502
"Hey, Wade Wilson wants to talk to you."

1113
01:04:04,715 --> 01:04:08,761
[Wade speaking]

1114
01:04:09,303 --> 01:04:10,304
[Jones speaking]

1115
01:04:10,388 --> 01:04:11,264
[Wade speaking]

1116
01:04:12,348 --> 01:04:15,309
He wanted to trade a body for a meal.

1117
01:04:16,727 --> 01:04:19,897
But Wade Wilson has no idea

1118
01:04:20,398 --> 01:04:23,484
that we just located
the body of Diane Ruiz.

1119
01:04:26,654 --> 01:04:27,488
[Jones] <i>Yeah.</i>

1120
01:04:27,572 --> 01:04:28,698
[Wade speaking]

1121
01:04:30,867 --> 01:04:34,161
{\an8}[Wade speaking]

1122
01:04:47,884 --> 01:04:50,219
{\an8}[Wade speaking]

1123
01:05:10,656 --> 01:05:12,909
[suspenseful music playing]

1124
01:05:15,119 --> 01:05:17,997
[Wade speaking]

1125
01:05:44,148 --> 01:05:46,776
While talking with him,
he's got really dark eyes.

1126
01:05:48,277 --> 01:05:50,821
It's almost like that
there was just nothing there.

1127
01:05:50,905 --> 01:05:52,782
There was no remorse.

1128
01:05:52,865 --> 01:05:54,116
No empathy.

1129
01:06:33,155 --> 01:06:34,073
[Jones speaking]

1130
01:06:34,156 --> 01:06:36,158
[Wade speaking]

1131
01:06:36,575 --> 01:06:37,618
[Jones speaking]

1132
01:06:37,702 --> 01:06:38,744
[Wade speaking]

1133
01:06:41,080 --> 01:06:42,540
{\an8}[Jones speaking]

1134
01:06:42,623 --> 01:06:45,876
[Wade speaking]

1135
01:07:25,791 --> 01:07:27,835
The fact that
we had already located Diane,

1136
01:07:27,918 --> 01:07:30,713
there was no reason for me
to take him out of jail.

1137
01:07:32,173 --> 01:07:34,175
[newscaster] Cape Coral Police tonight
are confirming

1138
01:07:34,258 --> 01:07:35,885
they consider Wade Wilson,

1139
01:07:35,968 --> 01:07:38,387
{\an8}who's in custody, seen here
in a court appearance yesterday,

1140
01:07:38,471 --> 01:07:41,307
{\an8}a person of interest
in the deaths of both these women.

1141
01:07:42,641 --> 01:07:47,438
[Courtney] I started watching the news,
and my heart dropped.

1142
01:07:47,521 --> 01:07:51,567
{\an8}Like, it had to have been someone else.
It can't be him.

1143
01:07:51,650 --> 01:07:53,819
{\an8}Like, he's not that type of person.

1144
01:07:53,903 --> 01:07:58,365
Like, yeah, he cheats,
but he's not a murderer.

1145
01:07:58,449 --> 01:08:00,451
[newscaster] <i>…confirming</i>
<i>they consider Wade Wilson…</i>

1146
01:08:00,534 --> 01:08:03,996
{\an8}I turn on the news and, like,
it's literally Wade on the news.

1147
01:08:04,080 --> 01:08:06,832
{\an8}Like, Lee County, murder.

1148
01:08:06,916 --> 01:08:08,959
I was like, "Oh my gosh."

1149
01:08:10,419 --> 01:08:12,463
But looking back,
the night Wade stabbed me

1150
01:08:12,546 --> 01:08:14,340
could have ended up very differently.

1151
01:08:14,423 --> 01:08:15,841
I could have been dead.

1152
01:08:20,179 --> 01:08:23,516
[Jones] A couple of months later,
we were able to get DNA confirmation

1153
01:08:24,100 --> 01:08:26,811
for both Diane Ruiz and Kristine Melton.

1154
01:08:27,436 --> 01:08:30,773
Wade Wilson's DNA was recovered
from both crime scenes.

1155
01:08:32,066 --> 01:08:35,986
And we were able to confirm
that Wade Wilson

1156
01:08:36,070 --> 01:08:37,905
sexually assaulted Diane Ruiz

1157
01:08:38,489 --> 01:08:39,907
after he killed her.

1158
01:08:40,783 --> 01:08:42,827
[dramatic sting]

1159
01:08:42,910 --> 01:08:46,831
{\an8}Grand jury officially indicted Wade Wilson
on two counts of first-degree murder

1160
01:08:46,914 --> 01:08:50,334
{\an8}in the deaths of Ruiz
and another woman, Kristine Melton.

1161
01:08:50,417 --> 01:08:53,087
{\an8}Both women were killed
within hours of each other

1162
01:08:53,170 --> 01:08:54,713
{\an8}in Cape Coral last month.

1163
01:08:54,797 --> 01:08:58,926
{\an8}These two women were preyed upon
by the defendant,

1164
01:08:59,009 --> 01:09:03,139
{\an8}and their murders impacted their families
and shook our community.

1165
01:09:04,348 --> 01:09:06,016
{\an8}[woman] The grand jury indictment
comes out,

1166
01:09:06,100 --> 01:09:09,186
{\an8}and the public is very interested
in this case.

1167
01:09:10,020 --> 01:09:14,567
{\an8}The media attention grew and grew
and grew over time.

1168
01:09:14,650 --> 01:09:16,318
{\an8}This is not what we're used to,

1169
01:09:16,402 --> 01:09:19,321
this type of
just absolute random violence.

1170
01:09:20,656 --> 01:09:22,825
[Kaitlin] Some people made a bit
of a weird connection

1171
01:09:22,908 --> 01:09:25,035
between Wade Wilson in Cape Coral

1172
01:09:25,119 --> 01:09:27,746
{\an8}and Wade Wilson, the anti-hero,

1173
01:09:27,830 --> 01:09:29,748
{\an8}also known as Deadpool.

1174
01:09:30,708 --> 01:09:33,335
{\an8}Some people were calling him
the Deadpool killer,

1175
01:09:33,419 --> 01:09:37,006
using it in headlines, saying
the Deadpool killer is going to trial.

1176
01:09:37,798 --> 01:09:40,009
{\an8}Anytime we would have court,
he'd be on the news

1177
01:09:40,092 --> 01:09:41,594
{\an8}and people would see his face.

1178
01:09:41,677 --> 01:09:46,557
{\an8}And so women started writing him.
Women started reaching out to him.

1179
01:09:47,433 --> 01:09:51,145
{\an8}[Kaitlin] I did a public records request
for Wade Wilson's visitor log.

1180
01:09:51,228 --> 01:09:54,607
{\an8}There were hundreds of kiosk calls
from women.

1181
01:10:03,199 --> 01:10:04,200
[Wade sighing]

1182
01:10:05,910 --> 01:10:07,286
[Wade speaking]

1183
01:10:07,369 --> 01:10:09,496
- [female caller 2]
- [Wade] <i>Hey, baby.</i>

1184
01:10:09,580 --> 01:10:11,540
[Wade laughing]

1185
01:10:12,041 --> 01:10:14,251
{\an8}[Wade speaking]

1186
01:10:14,335 --> 01:10:15,336
{\an8}[female caller 3 speaking]

1187
01:10:15,419 --> 01:10:16,462
[chuckling]

1188
01:10:16,545 --> 01:10:18,756
[Wade laughing]

1189
01:10:18,839 --> 01:10:21,050
- [Wade speaking]
- [female caller 3 chuckles]

1190
01:10:23,052 --> 01:10:25,054
[Amira] During the time period
up to the trial,

1191
01:10:25,137 --> 01:10:29,183
Wade Wilson is changing his appearance
while he's in jail,

1192
01:10:29,266 --> 01:10:34,813
including adding tattoos on his face
and head, such as a swastika.

1193
01:10:35,606 --> 01:10:40,361
This grabs media attention, of course,
and it just caused a media sensation.

1194
01:10:40,444 --> 01:10:41,528
- Wade Wilson.
- Wade Wilson.

1195
01:10:41,612 --> 01:10:42,821
- Wade Wilson.
- Wade Wilson.

1196
01:10:42,905 --> 01:10:46,200
Wade Wilson's receiving an interesting
number of messages from the outside.

1197
01:10:46,784 --> 01:10:51,580
{\an8}3,903 messages
since June 12th of this year.

1198
01:10:51,664 --> 01:10:53,207
{\an8}["Double Dutch" by Helena playing]

1199
01:10:53,290 --> 01:10:54,833
{\an8}<i>♪ …sip it up like a lemonade ♪</i>

1200
01:10:54,917 --> 01:10:57,002
{\an8}<i>♪ Sweet and sour, make it bussin'… ♪</i>

1201
01:10:57,086 --> 01:10:59,088
{\an8}[Sara] He ate it up. He loved it.

1202
01:10:59,588 --> 01:11:02,258
{\an8}Every time he'd come to court,
he'd look behind

1203
01:11:02,341 --> 01:11:04,093
and see who was there watching him.

1204
01:11:06,095 --> 01:11:09,473
He gained a following
from all over the world

1205
01:11:09,556 --> 01:11:13,477
that went on email writing campaigns
for him

1206
01:11:13,560 --> 01:11:17,147
and started GoFundMe pages for him.

1207
01:11:17,940 --> 01:11:20,067
And he started collecting money

1208
01:11:20,150 --> 01:11:24,029
basically for brutally killing
two young women.

1209
01:11:28,742 --> 01:11:32,788
[Wade speaking]

1210
01:11:32,871 --> 01:11:35,582
{\an8}[female caller speaking]

1211
01:11:35,666 --> 01:11:38,919
[Sara] The attention was very upsetting
to the families.

1212
01:11:39,920 --> 01:11:42,631
To just think that
women could be attracted to

1213
01:11:42,715 --> 01:11:46,093
and giving attention to this man
that really was a monster,

1214
01:11:46,176 --> 01:11:48,846
um, and who upended their lives,

1215
01:11:48,929 --> 01:11:51,640
that was a really difficult thing
to deal with.

1216
01:11:52,141 --> 01:11:54,143
[dramatic sting]

1217
01:11:59,940 --> 01:12:02,901
[Sara] I think one thing about this case
that stands out

1218
01:12:02,985 --> 01:12:06,280
is how justice can't be served

1219
01:12:06,363 --> 01:12:08,991
without people that are willing
to come in and testify.

1220
01:12:09,074 --> 01:12:11,076
{\an8}[Sara] You know someone
by the name of Wade Wilson?

1221
01:12:11,160 --> 01:12:11,994
{\an8}Yes, ma'am.

1222
01:12:12,077 --> 01:12:13,370
{\an8}How do you know Wade Wilson?

1223
01:12:13,454 --> 01:12:14,830
{\an8}He's my son.

1224
01:12:15,497 --> 01:12:19,251
How old were you when you found out
you were going to be his father?

1225
01:12:19,335 --> 01:12:20,836
Fourteen or fifteen.

1226
01:12:20,919 --> 01:12:22,504
How old was his mother at the time?

1227
01:12:22,588 --> 01:12:24,048
A year younger than me.

1228
01:12:24,131 --> 01:12:26,717
Was he placed up, uh, for adoption?

1229
01:12:26,800 --> 01:12:27,760
Yes, ma'am.

1230
01:12:28,594 --> 01:12:35,059
{\an8}Kristine Melton was my best friend
and my cousin until October 7th, 2019.

1231
01:12:35,142 --> 01:12:38,645
{\an8}[Andreas] Did you have any contact
with her after you left for work that day?

1232
01:12:38,729 --> 01:12:41,065
{\an8}Um, a brief text message.

1233
01:12:41,148 --> 01:12:42,149
{\an8}Um…

1234
01:12:42,941 --> 01:12:44,234
She, uh…

1235
01:12:47,946 --> 01:12:49,239
She, uh…

1236
01:12:49,323 --> 01:12:51,325
[sniffling]

1237
01:12:53,869 --> 01:12:54,787
She…

1238
01:12:56,205 --> 01:12:58,832
[voice breaking] She didn't think
I gave her a kiss goodbye.

1239
01:12:58,916 --> 01:13:00,250
[sniffling]

1240
01:13:00,334 --> 01:13:01,335
[Andreas] Had you?

1241
01:13:01,835 --> 01:13:02,920
Of course.

1242
01:13:06,090 --> 01:13:09,885
This was certainly a group effort
of people in the community

1243
01:13:09,968 --> 01:13:13,138
willing to come in and testify
against someone who was so dangerous.

1244
01:13:13,222 --> 01:13:15,933
And because of that,
we were able to do what we did.

1245
01:13:16,016 --> 01:13:19,061
[foreperson] We the jury
find the defendant is guilty

1246
01:13:19,144 --> 01:13:20,604
of first-degree murder.

1247
01:13:21,563 --> 01:13:24,149
[Amira] There are certain people who,
I'll say it,

1248
01:13:24,233 --> 01:13:26,777
they are poster children
for the death penalty,

1249
01:13:26,860 --> 01:13:29,446
and Wade Wilson is one of them.

1250
01:13:29,988 --> 01:13:35,369
So our goal from the minute we knew
what he had done to these two women

1251
01:13:35,452 --> 01:13:38,330
was to receive a death penalty sentence.

1252
01:13:40,165 --> 01:13:41,834
[Andreas] He killed
for the sake of killing.

1253
01:13:42,501 --> 01:13:44,920
That's what he wanted to do,
and that's why he did it.

1254
01:13:45,003 --> 01:13:47,923
I don't think there was any ounce
of remorse whatsoever.

1255
01:13:48,006 --> 01:13:51,218
[judge] The totality of the circumstances
warrants that the defendant,

1256
01:13:51,301 --> 01:13:55,806
Wade Steven Wilson, be sentenced to death
for each count of first-degree murder.

1257
01:13:55,889 --> 01:13:58,642
Count 1, first-degree murder
of Kristine Melton.

1258
01:13:58,725 --> 01:14:00,811
The defendant is hereby sentenced
to death.

1259
01:14:00,894 --> 01:14:04,064
Count 4, first-degree murder
of Diane Ruiz.

1260
01:14:04,148 --> 01:14:06,400
The defendant is hereby sentenced
to death.

1261
01:14:09,361 --> 01:14:11,905
[Kelly] When I heard that
he got the death penalty,

1262
01:14:12,781 --> 01:14:17,202
all I could think of was if the Palm Beach
County sheriffs had done their job,

1263
01:14:17,286 --> 01:14:19,746
these two women
would probably still be here.

1264
01:14:21,790 --> 01:14:27,171
So I filed a complaint against
the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office

1265
01:14:27,254 --> 01:14:30,215
for not thoroughly investigating
my sexual assault.

1266
01:14:31,467 --> 01:14:33,302
{\an8}[Kaitlin] The Palm Beach
County Sheriff's Office

1267
01:14:33,385 --> 01:14:35,554
{\an8}did do an internal affairs investigation.

1268
01:14:35,637 --> 01:14:37,848
{\an8}At the end of the report,
they did find that

1269
01:14:37,931 --> 01:14:40,851
Detective Potter did not do
a thorough investigation

1270
01:14:40,934 --> 01:14:43,353
on the sexual assault of Kelly Matthews.

1271
01:14:44,021 --> 01:14:46,607
Detective Potter was supposed to be
suspended for three weeks,

1272
01:14:46,690 --> 01:14:49,401
but he ended up only being suspended
for two weeks.

1273
01:14:50,068 --> 01:14:52,070
[pensive music playing]

1274
01:15:10,506 --> 01:15:13,759
[Kelly] Wade ruined my trust
in the dating world,

1275
01:15:14,593 --> 01:15:16,720
but he didn't ruin my life.

1276
01:15:16,803 --> 01:15:18,222
I have a great life.

1277
01:15:19,181 --> 01:15:24,978
Assault is, like, such a dirty thing
that no one wants to talk about it,

1278
01:15:25,562 --> 01:15:30,317
and I refused to be one of those people.

1279
01:15:31,318 --> 01:15:33,237
I'm not a victim. I'm a survivor.

1280
01:15:33,320 --> 01:15:37,783
And I will always advocate for people
that have gone through this

1281
01:15:37,866 --> 01:15:41,036
and want to share their story.

1282
01:15:41,119 --> 01:15:43,914
And if they're too afraid to,
they can always reach out to me,

1283
01:15:43,997 --> 01:15:45,123
and I'll help them.

1284
01:15:45,624 --> 01:15:48,043
They shouldn't hide
from this kind of stuff.

1285
01:15:49,503 --> 01:15:51,797
[music fades]

1286
01:15:51,880 --> 01:15:53,882
[suspenseful music playing]

1287
01:17:15,130 --> 01:17:16,506
[music ends]