Theo Wilson (born Theodora Nadelstein, May 22, 1917 – January 17, 1997) was an American reporter best known for her coverage of high-profile court cases of serial killers, assassinations and radicals for the Daily News of New York including those of Patty Hearst, Sirhan Sirhan, and Charles Manson[2] She was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Adolph and Rebecca Nadelstein.

After graduating Phi Beta Kappa in 1937, she was hired by the Evansville Press in Indiana and was soon promoted to tri-state editor.

[2] Since she covered so many major trials for the Daily News, with enough of them taking place in California, the paper suggested she open a West Coast bureau.

In 1976, when a school bus driver and the 26 children in his care were kidnapped in a small town 200 miles north of Los Angeles, she hailed a taxi to take her there.

[5] Theo Wilson Square, an intersection in the Hollywood Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles, where she lived for 25 years, was named for her in 1997.