LOS ANGELES: An Egyptian-American model and nanny who was convicted in 1993 for killing and eating her husband, was denied parole on Wednesday. The parole commissioners at the Central California Women's Facility in Chowchilla refused the woman's pleas for freedom for a second time. According to reports, Omaima Aree Nelson, was convicted of second-degree murder and was sentenced to life in jail for killing her husband, William E. Nelson, in their Costa Mesa apartment, CBS's KXTX reported. Prosecutors say Nelson killed her husband, who was 32 years her elder, of less than a month, on Thanksgiving Day. She then cooked his head and his hands. She then attempted to get friends to help dispose of the rest of the body parts. “There were suitcases and plastic bags soaked with dark liquid from his body parts. In the fry cooker there sat Mr. Nelson's hands, and when we opened the refrigerator there was Mr. Nelson's head with stab wounds,” Orange County Senior Deputy Dist. Atty. Randolph J. Pawloski told the LA Times. “She had his entrails in his Corvette, and she was trying to get an ex-boyfriend to yank out the dentures from the head so she could dump it in the [Newport Beach] Back Bay.” The then 24-year-old former model said she had been severely sexually abused and raped often over the month-long marriage. According to court medical workers, she was found to suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder. The case has sparked a few comments among Egyptian social media activists and commentators, who posted a few statements wondering how someone could kill and eat their spouse. Others were more vulgar and sarcastic. BM
