Wade Wilson’s Ex-Girlfriend Breaks Silence on TikTok: ‘The Police Failed Me’

The ex-girlfriend of Wade Wilson, the tattoo-covered Florida man facing the death penalty for brutally murdering two women in 2019, says he was never violent toward her — until he allegedly tried to kill her.

Kelly Matthews opened up on TikTok about her relationship with Wilson after they met online in 2018. She said Newsweek Friday, Wilson reportedly called her last year but she blocked the prison number.

In a video posted last week, Matthews shared “thirst trap” photos of a “charismatic and intelligent” Wilson smiling from that era and without his facial tattoos, which now include two swastikas.

But Matthews says Wilson’s polite demeanor began to change when he started doing cocaine. She says they once got into a fight when she grabbed his backpack to search it for drugs. He kicked in a door and she threw a kitchen table at him.

“He never hit me, ever, until that night,” Matthews said in the TikTok video. “So there were no red flags until the end.”

In a recent interview with Fox 4, Matthews recalled the events of February 18, 2019, when Wilson’s alleged abuse nearly led to his death. She said Wilson had agreed to go to a nearby rehab, but then changed his mind and wanted to go to a rehab in the Florida Keys, about three and a half hours from where they lived. They got into a fight in a parking lot when Matthews suggested Wilson was lying and really wanted to go to the Keys to meet someone there.

“I got back in the car, put my seatbelt on and that’s when he started choking me,” Matthews told the outlet. “He choked me two or three times. I started to pass out, I was panicking.”

She claimed Wilson pushed her onto the floor of his car, cut off her clothes with a knife and told her to stay there until he put her in the back of the car and allegedly sexually assaulted her.

“At one point he bit my face, bit my chin,” she said, showing photos of the alleged assault in a June 15 TikTok, which included a photo of her “busted lip.” Matthews also claimed he gagged her, tied a shirt around her face, and bound her hands and feet with a used trash bag inside the car.

Eventually, Wilson allegedly released Matthews before they reached the Keys, gave her the car keys, and then got into another car with a woman. Matthews said she “drove 100 mph all the way home” and went straight to police to explain what had happened.

In the TikTok posted on June 15, Matthews claimed that the hospital took more than 200 photos of her alleged abuse, but that she never saw them and was never able to locate them. A police officer reportedly told her that he went to the Keys and spoke to Wilson about the incident, and that he told her that Matthews was sexually “interested in that kind of thing.” He has never been arrested for anything related to Matthews’ alleged assault.

“This man drove through McDonald’s while I was tied up in the back of my car, naked, bound and gagged. I literally had a shirt tied around my face. I had leggings in my mouth. My foot was broken because he slammed it in the door. So when I heard the trial where he did that to Christina Melton, tying her up with her own clothes, it brought back a lot of emotions,” she said of one of Wilson’s two deceased victims.

Matthews claims police “seriously failed” in their duty by failing to arrest Wilson and believes the murders of Melton and Diane Ruiz, allegedly committed by Wilson, could have been prevented if the detective in his case had “actually done his job.”

“I think those women would still be alive because I would have testified against him for that. My whole family, all my friends, everybody would have stood up for that. And this detective basically said, ‘You were into this stuff, so there’s nothing we can do about it.'”

A judge will decide on July 23 whether Wilson will receive the death penalty or life in prison.

Wilson, 30, was convicted June 12 of killing Kristine Melton, 35, and Diane Ruiz, 43, within hours of each other in October 2019. On Tuesday, jurors recommended that Wilson be executed for his crimes, bringing “silent tears” to the eyes of the victims’ families.

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