There’s just one extra date remaining to finish the crime-life timeline of convicted killer Wade Wilson’s path to demise row.
When he’s put to demise.
On Tuesday afternoon (Aug. 27), Wilson sat in a Lee County courtroom the place Decide Nicholas Thompson handed Wilson the demise sentence for killing Kristine Melton and Diane Ruiz in 2019. Wilson will now head to Florida’s demise row on account of the capital sentence.
In keeping with our court docket reporter Tomas Rodriguez, who was within the courtroom on Tuesday, “Wilson remained stoic, leaning over to seek the advice of together with his lawyer because the choose spoke.”
This timeline particulars Wilson’s lifetime of crime courting again to his youth.
Wade Wilson timeline: Convicted killer’s lifetime of crime
Could 20, 1994: That is Wilson’s date of beginning. His beginning mother and father gave him up for adoption. He grew up in Tallahassee and attended Chiles Excessive Faculty and is listed within the Class of 2012.
2015: Wilson was arrested on costs of sexual battery and kidnapping after a girl advised investigators he raped her in his SUV after they met at a celebration in Tallahassee. Wilson denied the fees. A six-person jury acquitted him at trial.
2018: Wilson emerged as a determine within the trial of Denise Williams in Tallahassee, who was convicted of first-degree homicide and conspiracy within the demise of her husband Mike Williams and plotting together with her lover, Brian Winchester, to make it appear like a boating accident. His disappearance, in 2000, was one in every of Tallahassee’s most vexing mysteries till investigators lastly leveled costs towards Winchester and later Williams.
Winchester, who testified towards Denise Williams, advised jurors he tried to get Wilson, one in every of his jail mates, to manufacture proof within the case. He mentioned Wilson went as far as to supply to kill Denise Williams, who was finally sentenced to life in jail.
Feb. 19, 2019: Wilson’s former girlfriend accused him in January of stealing her laptop computer and cellphone. The next month, she advised investigators he kidnapped and raped her. However Wilson and his former girlfriend had been beneath a no-contact court docket order, and investigators opted to not pursue the rape and kidnapping allegations.
September 2019: In keeping with media reviews, Wilson pleaded responsible for pawning stolen property within the case involving his ex-girlfriend and was given credit score for time served and probation. A media report additionally mentioned that one other girl in Lee County accused him of rape and kidnapping however later determined not search costs.
July 1, 2019: Wilson was arrested by the Lee County Sheriff’s Workplace and charged with battery.Oct. 7, 2019: Wilson, then 25 years previous, met Kristine Melton, 35, and her pal Stephanie Sailors at Buddah LIVE, a Fort Myers bar. Steven Testasecca, Wilson’s organic father, mentioned he acquired a name from Wilson on Oct. 7, 2019, whereas he was at work. In keeping with Testasecca, Wilson requested for assist and mentioned he did one thing he couldn’t take again.
Oct. 8, 2019: Wilson was arrested for the ugly crimes he dedicated.
Oct. 11, 2019: Cape Coral police have confirmed that Wade Steven Wilson, 25, of Fort Myers, is the particular person of curiosity in Diane Ruiz’s and Kristine Melton’s deaths.
Sept. 30, 2020: Deputies on the Lee County Jail acquired details about a attainable escape try involving Wilson and his cellmate, Joseph Katz. Wilson was charged with tried escape and prison mischief.
April 20, 2023: A K9 recognized narcotics on the Lee County Jail, close to an space the place landscaping rocks are laid. Authorities recovered a grey grocery bag with two Ziploc baggage inside. Every bag contained free cigarettes, suspected narcotics, lighters and tablets. Each baggage examined constructive for methamphetamine. Authorities decided Wilson was working with different inmates to plant the narcotics on the Lee County Jail.
June 12, 2024: Wilson was discovered responsible of the 2019 murders of Kristine Melton, 35, and Diane Ruiz, 43.
June 25, 2024: The jury in Wilson’s trial beneficial he obtain the demise penalty for every of the murders.
Aug. 15, 2024: Lee Circuit Decide Nicholas Thompson on Thursday denied a movement for brand spanking new trial for Wilson.
Aug. 27, 2024: Wilson is sentenced to demise within the Lee County courthouse by Decide Nicholas Thompson.