Wade Wilson got the public’s attention when he was arrested for the 2019 murders of Kristine Melton and Diane Ruiz, and he quickly became a social media sensation for his good looks and face tattoos. In the debut trailer for Paramount+’s Handsome Devil: Charming Killer, exclusively shared with Us Weekly, viewers get an even deeper look into the haunting case of the murders pulled off by the man nicknamed the “Deadpool Killer.”
The trailer began with clips of Wilson, 31, as women explained in voiceovers that he was viewed as “attractive” and “very nice” prior to his arrest.
“This is what I do with women, you know. I use my charm, my good looks,” Wilson said in a voiceover.
As the trailer continued, women of Wilson’s past recalled falling in love with him and admitted they thought they could change him.
The trailer took a dark turn when it was revealed he was arrested for killing Melton and Ruiz. “I choked her out so she couldn’t breathe anymore,” Wilson was heard saying in a recorded phone call. “I was on a rampage at this point.”
Once Wilson was arrested, he underwent a major transformation when he started getting tattoos on his face. The case then exploded and he became a social media sensation, with one person saying he was “building a cult following.”
More clips featured women showing up to court to support Wilson, as well as social media posts dedicated to the killer.
“A rage overcomes me. Just kill, kill, kill,” Wilson said in a phone call featured at the end of the trailer. “When I get that way, I become the devil. I’m like the lion, you’re the prey. I can sense it.”
Wilson committed the first murder on October 7, 2019, according to A&E. After he met Melton at a bar, they became intimate and spent the night together. Wilson then strangled Melton in her bed, stole her car and fled the scene.
Later that same morning, Wilson violently assaulted his then-girlfriend, Mila Montanez, at her workplace before he spotted Ruiz walking to her nearby job. After he asked her for directions, he managed to lure her into his car and he strangled. Wilson then made sure she was dead by running over her body several times with Melton’s stolen car.
Wilson was arrested after he confessed to the murders during a phone call with his father, Steven Testasecca, who turned him in.
The case eventually went to trial in June 2024, and Wilson was found guilty on six counts that included two counts of first-degree murder, grand theft, burglary and battery, according to A&E. In August 2024, he was sentenced to death.
Handsome Devil: Charming Killer was written by Brian Ross, who also serves as the project’s producer and director with Rhonda Schwartz for Law & Crime Productions.
Dan Abrams, Rachel Stockman and Melody Shafir serve as executive producers, while See It Now Studios, Susan Zirinsky and Terence Wrong are also executive producers. Aysu Saliba and Cara Tortora are supervising producers for the project.
Handsome Devil: Charming Killer will premiere on Paramount+ on Tuesday, January 20.
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