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Wade Williamson: Still Arrested: How a Detective Tried to Make Me a Killer | DSH #1601
01 Nov 2025
Chapter 1: What led to Wade's first arrest and how did it change his life?
When I watched my daughter graduate, this was right after it happened, I'm watching her walk across the stage. And immediately I'm thinking, am I going to be around to watch my son walk across the stage? And it was every birthday is just the last one. Wow. Every Christmas is just the last one. Thanksgiving.
So it's like you don't even really get to enjoy the moment because you're so worried, is that going to be the last moment? Yeah. And it weighs on you, man. It really, really weighs on you.
Okay, guys.
Chapter 2: How did Wade's family support him during the legal battle?
Wade Chip Williamson here today. One of the craziest stories and journeys I've seen in someone's life. So thanks for coming on, man.
I said a lot coming from you because you talk to a lot of people.
Chapter 3: What are the hidden costs of being wrongfully accused?
Yeah. Well, your life was on the line, right? You were facing a lot of time.
Yeah, life in prison, essentially.
Chapter 4: What role did forensic evidence play in Wade's case?
And to see your name on a piece of paper where it's saying state of wherever you reside versus yourself and life in prison is in the balance, dude, let me tell you, there is nothing that can put things in perspective quicker than seeing your name on that piece of paper. And I'm not a criminal. It's not like I've, you know, beat a million other cases or I've been in and out of jail.
Chapter 5: What factors contributed to the dismissal of Wade's charges?
Like this was the only really time I'd ever been arrested.
And it was just, it was a big one. So your first arrest, you were facing life.
Chapter 6: How did Wade cope with the mental toll of facing life in prison?
Yes. That's pretty crazy, right? Yeah. And it was for basically a self-defense case, right?
Yeah, self-defense shooting. And the details behind it are really kind of what convolutes the case is, you know, me and my wife were together, and we had decided that we were going to split up. And once we had decided we were going to split up, she went her way, I went mine. We were both doing our own thing.
And then a few months later, we were talking around Christmas time, trying to figure out what we were going to do with the kids because we had kids. And it was obvious there was still a little something there, you know, something we could maybe –
hold on to but we still weren't sure if we wanted to jump right back into it but we did did make the decision that we were going to reconcile and what the actual plan was was we were going to go through with divorce be done with it date for a little while kind of restart you know restart from the beginning work our way forward if it worked great you know if it didn't then you know we could go our own ways
And ultimately when she told the guy that she was seeing, he got a little upset. The girl that I was seeing didn't really care, but the guy she was seeing got a little upset and he wanted to talk to me, but he, he was clear in his message of like, Hey, it's not, I'm not coming over there to, you know, go at you. He was like, I just want to talk man to man.
Hmm.
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Chapter 7: What insights can be gained from Wade's experience with the justice system?
and we did that and then what it ended up happening was while we were in the middle of talking you know everything was going fine we were actually talking the subject of tattoos and i pulled my shirt down to show him this tattoo right here and you can kind of see it right here i got an open heart surgery scar and so when he's seen that he grabbed the bottom of my shirt and like lifted it up
Chapter 8: How did Wade navigate the legal system after being charged with murder?
It was like, wow, that's gnarly. And I was looking at the scar. And he's like, you know, under different circumstances, you and I could have probably been pretty good friends. And I'm like, you know, maybe so. Who knows? So he goes to the bathroom. He comes out. And then I'm standing like with my back to the stove. And he comes straight up to me and boom, left hand up under my throat.
I went, it was so hard. Like I went up off my feet onto the stove. I managed to get back down and he looked me dead in my eyes and he said, I'm going to kill you. And I told him, I was like, dude, if you don't get off me, I'm going to shoot you. Cause I had my gun on me. I'd had it on me from earlier that day. When we went back to my house, we were actually together.
And so the way my house is a two story house, but all the bedrooms are upstairs.
Um,
So I've had all people always ask me, why do you have a gun in your kitchen? That's strange. I had a gun in my kitchen because it was on me when I come in the house. I take it off when I go upstairs, but I never went upstairs because me and him stayed in the downstairs area. So when I shot it, it was three shots. And then I immediately called 911. And they came.
And it was a wild scenario, man, because, like, they could still hear him, like, breathing in the background. And they got there. And in my mind, I'm not thinking I've done anything wrong. You know, he said he was going to – You know, when he had me like that, he swung. When he swung, I tried to lift my head up just a little bit. So he kind of clipped my chin.
And when he clipped it, he let go with that left hand. And that's when I fired. And so in my mind, I'm thinking he threatened to kill me. He assaulted me. He hit me in my home. I've got a weapon, a legally weapon. I was licensed to carry. I had a CWP. So I'm not thinking I'm doing anything wrong.
And, you know, ultimately that led me being charged with, you know, they were looking to give me life in prison, 25 to life. And which state was this? South Carolina. Wow. Which is odd.
Yeah, that sounds surprising for South Carolina.
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