ABOUT THIS EPISODE
Wade Wilson entered the world through two children who were not equipped to raise him, and by twenty-five, years of identity disruption, neurological trauma, addiction, and escalating violence culminated in the murders of two women in a single night. In this episode of Cycles That Kill, Dr. Dylesia examines the Wade Wilson case through the lens of adoptee identity disruption, cumulative traumatic brain injury and impulse dysregulation, predatory access through socialization, sadistic excitement, attachment-seeking through confession, and identity construction. This is not just a story about a man who strangled two women and called his father to brag, it’s a story about a child who grew up searching for where he belonged, a son who sought connection with an absent father through the most horrific thing he had ever done, and the deadly consequences of a formation no one was able to interrupt.
