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Crime Junkie

Kelly Dee Wilson (10 of Spades, Ohio)

Crime Junkie

Audiochuck

True Crime

4.7370.9K Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2026

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

R&B radio fans in Dayton, Ohio, knew Kelly Dee Wilson as her on air name Nikki Brooks. When Wilson turned up murdered in her apartment after her show in March 2000, the community was shocked.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi, crime junkies. If you listen to Monday's episode on Nikki McCowan, then you already know why I'm dropping in your feed today and what's coming. If you haven't, let me give you the scoop. Back in 2022, I covered the story of Kelly D. Wilson out of Dayton, Ohio for my other podcast, The Deck. It is a bizarre and unsettling case that still remains unsolved.

0:24.2

Well, as we were re-investigating Nikki McCown's case, guess whose name popped up in the case

0:30.4

reports that we got? Kelly D. Wilson. Now, the mention is just a one-off that isn't given much

0:36.5

attention in the report I have,

0:38.5

but it was hard for me to ignore, mostly because the apartment complex where Kelly lived and died

0:44.9

is the same one Nikki's missing vehicle was found at the following year.

0:50.3

It doesn't mean there is a connection.

0:52.5

But I think any investigator, and therefore any crime

0:55.7

junkie, would be remiss if you didn't know the facts of both cases. So, for those of you who don't

1:02.8

listen to the deck every week, first of all, start. But here you go. I'm dropping Kelly's case

1:08.9

right here in the crime junkie feed. You can listen before or

1:12.4

after you listen to Nicky's case, doesn't matter. And by the way, if you want to listen ad free,

1:16.9

you can find the deck in the crime junkie fan club. But when you finish both, come chat with me,

1:21.6

either in the fan club app or on social, and tell me what you think. Could there be a connection? Listen close so you don't miss any

1:31.1

of the key details. Our card this week is Kelly D. Wilson, the Ten of Spades from Ohio.

1:42.8

Kelly D. Wilson was a young woman whose life and career as a rising star in radio was

1:47.0

tragically cut short, with few clues left behind to piece together the mystery.

1:52.4

What happened to Kelly at the start of the new millennium shocked her fans, it horrified

1:56.4

her family, and it left detectives baffled to this very day.

2:00.5

Telling her story to a wider audience might be the spark investigators need to kickstart

2:05.1

their work and to bring whoever took her life to justice.

2:09.1

I'm Ashley Flowers, and this is The Deck.

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