Omaima Aree Nelson
The name Hannibal Lecter is likely familiar to most people as a fictional character who enjoyed eating people. The name Omaima Aree Nelson is likely not so familiar to people. She is a real person who enjoyed eating … her husband.
Now I have written about pedophiles and necrophiles, murderers and rapists, and I have been disgusted and outraged by them all. Somehow Omaima Nelson has added the yecchhh factor that most of the others somehow lacked.
Californian William E. Nelson met Omaima in 1991 in a bar while playing pool. He must have thought he’d really lucked out. Omaima was an attractive, Egyptian-born former nanny and model and only 24 years old. William himself was 56 and a not-so-svelte 230 pounds.
Regardless of these differences, romance blossomed right away. Possibly William’s Costa Mesa apartment and Corvette and money and property were better inducements than his personal attributes, but “love” was in the air. Within days the couple were married.
How does that saying go? Marry in haste, repent in leisure? There was no leisure time for repentance in this marriage.
Most likely William Nelson had no idea that his bride had had a troubled and violent past. Omaima had a history of seducing older men, tying them up during sex and then robbing them. She had even been convicted of tying up and beating up a former boyfriend at gunpoint. Not nice. Pretty sure William wasn’t told of that little episode during their brief and frantic courtship.
Sadly, after only 3 weeks of “wedded bliss” William E. Nelson was separated … from his head, his hands, his ribs, his entrails and so on and so forth.
Pardon me while I shudder.
Omaima the lovely bride had shackled her husband to their bed during Thanksgiving weekend, 1991, as what William thought was a precursor to some sex. Having him completely at her mercy, Omaima then introduced scissors and an iron into the scenario.
William died, likely painfully and horrifically, which was what Omaima had intended. She had wanted his money but not the husband that went with it.
Oh, but what to do with the body? What’s a girl to do?
Disposing of a 6’4″, 230 pound body is not easy for a petite former model, but Omaima Aree Nelson is nothing if not determined. And bizarre.
For the upcoming events, Omaima Nelson decked herself out in red high heels, a red hat and red lipstick.
This is where it gets really yeeccchhh. Consider yourself warned.
For the next few hours, Omaima Nelson was busy decapitating, skinning, dismembering and dissecting poor William Nelson. She spent hours upon hours grinding some of his body parts in the garbage disposal. She filled garbage bags with other body parts and put them in his Corvette, then drove around the county to dispose of them like garbage. And still there was more William Nelson to dispose of.
And all that work made Omaima Nelson hungry.
So parts of the butchered William Nelson were boiled, breaded, deep-fried, dipped in barbecue sauce and eaten by the black widow.
Omaima later joked to police, “Nothing tastes as good as the man I married. It’s the sauce that does it.”
How did she get caught? Because grinding him up, cooking him up, eating him up and tossing him away did not get rid of William Nelson entirely. Omaima Nelson approached two ex-boyfriends to ask for help. ONE of them alerted police.
Randolph J. Pawloski, the prosecutor, had visited the scene of the crime — the Nelsons’ Costa Mesa apartment. It was horrifying. It was a bloody abattoir.
“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,” Mr. Palowski recounted. “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 Back Bay.”
I cannot imagine (and really don’t want to imagine) going into that apartment, with the pools of blood on the floor, the bloody walls and sheets, and then finding hands fried in oil and a boiled head in the freezer. And of course the skinned lower body and torso that were awaiting disposal.
Spare a thought for the police officers and detectives and everyone else that had to visit the scene. Someone should invent a brain bleach to wipe the mind clear of horrors like that.
When the coroner’s office weighed the accumulated body parts, there were 80 pounds of William Nelson unaccounted for.
So Omaima Nelson was caught “red handed” as they say in the Corvette with the entrails.
Needless to say, Omaima Nelson was charged with murder. Did this hellbeast admit her guilt? Hell no! Instead she began bleating about how her husband, the evil William, had tied her hands, kicked her, bit her, grabbed and choked her and threatened to kill her. And he raped her which was awful because when she was a child she’d been beaten by men in Egypt and subjected to female circumcision so she freaked out. It was totally self-defense, doncha know, that she grabbed scissors to protect herself (I thought she was tied up).
“If I didn’t defend my life, I would have been dead. I’m sorry it happened, but I’m glad I lived,” Omaima Aree Nelson said. “I’m sorry I dismembered him.”
Poor helpless Omaima fell into a “trance-like state” after she’d killed William in self-defense and had no memory of hacking him up. Well, she did vaguely recall cutting off his penis and his ring finger and wrapping up body parts.
And Omaima Nelson had actually told the psychiatrist that she sat at the kitchen table with her husband’s ribs and said out loud, “It’s so sweet, it’s so delicious… I like mine tender.” Maybe she should’ve kept that to herself. I wonder if she still had the red hat on.
The Orange County jury found Omaima Nelson guilty of 2nd degree murder in 1993 and she was sentenced to 25 years to life in state prison.
At her parole hearing in 2011, Omaima Nelson stuck to her story of self-defense, and added, “”I swear to God I did not eat any part of him. I am not a monster.” Commissioner Cynthia Fritz then asked her, “What was your purpose in cooking him?” That shut her up.
Omaima Nelson insisted that she had changed from the person she was 20 years ago. Back then she had “look for love in all the wrong places… but now I value my integrity and my journey.” She then added, “I have a strong desire to help others.”
To prove she’d changed, Omaima Nelson told the parole hearing about her conjugal visits with her latest deceased husband, a man in his 70s she’d married while in prison. (What’s with these guys? Are they that desperate for sex they’ll marry lifers who butchered their previous husbands?)
“We had 3-day conjugal visits,” she told the commissioners. “There were knives in the kitchen. He never felt threatened or endangered in any way. I loved him so much.”
This elderly husband could not testify as he had died, naturally one supposes.
William Nelson’s daughter Margaret testified at the parole hearing. She said it best: “I don’t know the adequate punishment for a murderer who doesn’t even leave a family a body to mourn over. But I do know you don’t let her out.”
The parole board did not let her out. They deemed her to be a risk to society. Smart people.
I wish I could end this article with an idea of how William Nelson was when he was alive rather than how he wound up dead. He missed becoming a father-in-law and a grandfather. His daughter characterized him as kind and patient. He is mourned.
Omaima Nelson, may you rot in prison for the rest of your life and in hell thereafter. And may old men beware and stay out of your clutches.
To read about Omaima’s parole hearing, click here.
Should Omaima Aree Nelson be fried up and broiled in hell?
- Yes, with sauce on the side. (96%, 404 Votes)
- No, she was just defending herself from her meal ticket. (4%, 17 Votes)
Total Voters: 421
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So in 2018 – she;l have “paid her debt to society” and be free???
Sounds like she’s my age – born in 1967….. Sure 25 years sounded like a long time away in 1993, but that’s less than 6 years from now. Now is 19 years from 1993 – suddenly 25 years does not look that long ago, but what does 25 years into the future look like – 2037…..
Either way she’ll still look good to some elderly lonely guy or some horn-dog…….
Please note:
25 “to life.” That last part is kind of important.
Actually, she was turned down for parole in both 2006 and 2011. Her next parole hearing is not until 2026.
No insanity defense? Even after she cooked and ate him? Someone had a shitty defense attorney.
I consider cooking and eating someone as the work of a person who is many crayons short of a full box.
After all, everyone can kill somebody. Turning them into Beef Wellington and eating them as Sunday dinner takes a special kind of whack job, even among murderers.
This might be the first person featured on DD that I want to be notified when they’re set loose.
I wish they did put her away on an insanity verdict: typically, people found insane but factually tied to the crime stay in mental hospitals far longer than they would in prison. First, they stay in a forensic mental facility until they are deemed no longer a danger, then released to a mental hospital for the rest of the treatment. Then, maybe, to an out patient facility, if they’re coöperative and reliable.
This takes years and years and years. Plus, there’s no such thing as parole and politics has nothing to do with anyone’s release. Additionally, most facilities are way too fearful of letting someone lose too soon.
She’s not insane. She knew what she did was wrong. Seems she has a personality disorder….which isn’t considered “crazy”.
Exactly. The fact that she was trying to get rid of his body in such a gruesome way proves that she knew the difference between right and wrong. This case reminds me a little of the Katherine Knight case in Australia. Talk about your yecchhh factor.
This woman is sick.
And standards must be really fucking low for models over in Egypt. Yuck.
haha. no kidding. she looks to be about a few thousand years behind in evolution.
could explain the appetite.
I thought it was the sauce…
Maybe she modeled Burkas!
Face it – with one of those on, all one has to be is under 50 lbs overweight and she looks like a hottie under one of those….
http://www.google.com/search?q=omaima+nelson&oe=UTF-8&hl=en&client=safari&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=OD0qT5mAJqOA2wW_ue2UDw&biw=1024&bih=672&sei=Oz0qT-b9Me-r2AXAp7yXDw
She wast ugly as a younger woman and prior to prison
my thoughts exaclty she looks like a gold fish
Whatever. You can plainly see she was a beautiful woman.
I hear people taste like pork, I wonder if he was tasty?
beautiful woman, what? She looks like a horse.
but, as a stupid internet troll a horse is probably all you can get, so it’d probably make sense why you found her attractive
She wasn’t a model in Egypt, she was a model (for a department store) here.
she was a model in the USA, she was never a model in egypt.
Agh. Poor guy.
Why does she only have half an eyebrow?
What i can say is I hope that anybody else who she tries to seduce first Googles her name and this article comes up
That’s what I’m hoping too.
Yech that is really horrific!! How could anyone go though eating another human being!!
There is no way this woman has changed from being a cannibalistic husband killer. The only reason she hasn’t had Hubby Hamburger Helper lately is that she doesn’t have access to all the tools needed to complete the task. She had the husband, but he had to go and die on her naturally before she could get the deed done.
Maybe it’s just how my mind works, but I find it ironic that the word “maim” is found in her name. She should not be released b/c she is a danger to society. I don’t get why she didn’t get life in prison or the death penalty if she was found guilty of such a sick and heinous crime. The system sucks sometimes.
“I’m sorry I dismembered him.” (But not sorry she murdered him?)Runner=up for best line ever.
“What was your purpose in cooking him?” at her parole hearing. Absolute best line ever.
What is is about “25 years to life” that eludes people? She’s not likely to be paroled. Ever. Or at least not as long as her late husband’s kids can still show up to parole hearings within that “to life” part of her sentence.
you’re not doing it right. Don’t you know you need to use call caps and no punctuation?
allow me to demonstrate using one of your comments. *ahem*
SHE WASNT A MODEL IN EGYPT SHE WAS A MODEL FOR A DEPARTMENT STORE HERE
WHAT IS IT ABOUT 25 TO LIFE THAT ELUDES PEOPLE questionmark SHE’S NOT LIKELY TO BE PAROLED EVER OR AT LEAST NOT AS LONG AS HER LATE HUSBANDS KIDS CAN SHOW UP TO THE PAROLE HEARINGS WITHIN THAT TO LIFE PART OF HER SENTENCE
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See? Please don’t make me do that again
“anyone have any grey poupon?” SMH
Murderers always blame the victim. She ties him up and kills him, but somehow she manages to try to say he’d tied her up instead.
I feel so bad for Mr. Nelson and his family.
Even if he attacked her, which is total crap, 99.99% of us would plan to escape and get help and .01% of us would plan to kill him. Only Omaima would plan to kill and eat him! And only Omaima would accessorize for the event.
Cannibalism isn’t that rare in murderers. Nico Claux (who only served seven years and is free today), Edmund Kemper (who is in prison for life with the possibility of parole), Albert Fish, Arthur Shawcross, Jeffrey Dahmer, and Armin Meiwes (whose victim consented) all ate their victim(s).
tyler you are a funny man. yes it isn’t rare, but the way you say it, it’s almost as if your calling it a natural everyday occurrence. you don’t happen to be a dahmer in training now are you?
Actually…..I am refusing to believe this is a TRUE story. Thank you, but it’s the only way I can come out of this shocked and horrified state and get anything accomplished today. I’ve got to block this out entirely……somehow.
Maybe she was just mimicking spiders
Taste like chicken but seriously, I hope she rot in prison.
How was she charged with 2nd degree murder. She handcuffed him chopped him up then cooked some of him and ate him. To my mind thats 1st degree murder and she should have been given a death sentence. My god men everywhere need to be informed when this loon gets paroled.
as nasty as this story was, I just had to laugh at the voting part where it said “yes, with sauce on the side”. that had me cracking up. Anywhom, ive heard of a similar story. If you guys know spanish, watch Mujeres Asesinas. There is a story where a lady kills this man that sexually abuses her and she makes him tamales in his own restaurant. A lot of clients n even the dead mans brother eat the tamales. lol. It was later discovered because she wasnt able to do anything with the head and she just threw it out in a trashcan which was later discovered by a dog or something. Watch it, you might even get a story or two from there. :-)
I will say that the actress they hired to play Omaima on Happily Never After was a damn sight prettier than the real deal, but bore a closer resemblance to Ethopian than Omaima, who looks more, well, Egyptian/Somalian.
That lady was seriously “touched”, but why did they have an “american black woman” play her! She is not black AT ALL! I am from Egypt and we do not look that black women at all! She is a beautiful woman from Egypt with olive skin and long dark straight hair. Black are beautiful but they dont look anything like us.
I don’t understand why she was charged with SECOND degree murder. The murder was obviously planned and premeditated, so it should have been FIRST degree murder. And I’m sorry, if there was ever a case where the death penalty would have been appropriate this was it! What’s wrong with these prosecutors?
Probably because 2nd degree murder was a slam-dunk case, whereas first degree murder is harder to prove. Prosecutors are scared if they go too high they’ll lose the case.
See? I WAS paying attention in my jury duty orientation!
BLEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAUUUUUUUURGH, oh, sorry about that.
OH GOD THAT IS JUST DISGUSTING o_o
she has a lots of loot now, some rich guy died and left her millions. when she gets out (maybe never) she can buy people to eat.
this has more information involving the case than the actual bio I read on examiner. thanks.
Why do they say the victim was “not so svelte”? 6’4 and 230 lbs sounds pretty solidly built to me… but I think if I was gonna murder / dismember a guy, I’d pick one of those lil scrappy ones. If she picked a guy that was 5’10 and 180, maybe she wouldn’t have had that last pesky 80 lbs to deal with.