WADE WILSON’S PRISON CALLS REVEALED A FAN BASE THAT WANTED MORE THAN HIS ATTENTION

Even after Wade Wilson was convicted of murdering two women, some admirers appeared determined to make him the center of their lives.

The convicted double murderer, known online as the “Deadpool Killer,” developed a devoted following while behind bars, with women sending letters, photographs, money and messages expressing their desire to be close to him.

Some of the prison calls reportedly went far beyond ordinary admiration.

According to reporting tied to the documentary Handsome Devil: Charming Killer, women who communicated with Wilson made highly sexualized comments during video calls, including one admirer who reportedly asked him to father her child. Fox News also reported that another woman spoke about wanting “marathon sex” with him.

The attention was not limited to a handful of messages.

The Lee County Sheriff’s Office told Newsweek that Wilson received 3,903 messages between June 12 and July 12, 2024, shortly after his murder conviction. He also received 65 letters and 754 photographs, with 163 photographs rejected as inappropriate, according to the report cited by Fox News.

Some supporters reportedly went even further.

One admirer was shown in documentary material with a tattoo connected to Wilson. Others reportedly purchased clothing and other items for him, while supporters also sent money through fundraising efforts.

The phenomenon has become part of the story surrounding Wilson himself.

His appearance, courtroom behavior and social-media notoriety helped create an online following that some documentary producers described as unusually intense.

Brian Ross, co-director and producer of Handsome Devil: Charming Killer, told Fox News that hundreds of women appeared to become emotionally attached to Wilson despite knowing details of the murders for which he was convicted.

That raises a disturbing question: why would someone become romantically attached to a man convicted of such violent crimes?

The documentary’s producers said criminologists they interviewed offered several possible explanations. One suggested that some people may feel a sense of safety interacting with a dangerous person when that person is physically confined behind bars. Those explanations are interpretations from experts interviewed for the documentary, not a diagnosis of Wilson’s supporters as a group.

There was another striking element to the relationship.

According to Fox News, Wilson sometimes told women he loved them and made them laugh during calls. At the same time, the report says he repeatedly asked supporters for money.

The attention also arrived while Wilson remained incarcerated following his convictions for the 2019 killings of Kristine Melton and Diane Ruiz.

He was convicted in June 2024 and sentenced to death in August of that year.

For the families of the two women Wilson killed, the existence of such a following presents a painful contrast.

While supporters were sending letters, photographs and declarations of affection to Wilson, Melton and Ruiz were remembered by their families and communities as women whose lives were violently taken.

The online fascination surrounding Wilson has therefore become another chapter in a case that already attracted enormous public attention.

His prison calls did not change the verdict.

They did, however, reveal another side of what happened after the courtroom proceedings became a social-media spectacle: a convicted murderer became the object of intense romantic attention from strangers who knew what he had been convicted of doing.

And some of those admirers apparently wanted far more than a conversation.

They wanted a relationship, his attention — and, according to reports from the prison calls, even a child with him.