Prosecutor Fights Parole for Ex-Model Who Cooked, Ate Husband's Body Parts

Omaima Aree Nelson in 2006 (California Dept. of Corrections)

The prosecutor that put her away 20-years ago is opposing parole for a former model convicted of killing her husband, then cooking and eating his remains.

Omaima Aree Nelson is seeking early release from her 27-years-to-life sentence for murdering William E. Nelson, 56, over Thanksgiving weekend in 1991.

Nelson is scheduled to appear at a parole board hearing next Wednesday in Chowchilla State Prison in Central California.

Her first bid at parole was rejected in 2006.

The prosecutor who helped send Nelson to prison has written a letter to the board saying Nelson would be a threat to public safety if released.

He says he'll never forget the horror of visiting the couple's home.

“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,” Palowski recalls. “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.”

Nelson, who worked as a part-time model and nanny in Egypt, immigrated to the U.S. in 1986.

She was in her 20's when she killed her husband and then dismembered and cooked parts of his body in their Costa Mesa apartment.

The couple had been married for about a month.

After the murder, Nelson boiled her husband's head on the stove in an attempt to remove his teeth, skinned his torso and fried his hands in oil, Pawloski told the Daily Pilot.

Nelson then drove garbage bags filled with the body parts to various ex-boyfriends, asking them to help dispose of the evidence and offering $75,000 for help, Pawloski said.

Neighbors at the time said the garbage disposal was on for "a long time" and "constant chopping sounds" were coming from the home, according to the newspaper.

In court, a psychiatrist testified that Nelson put on red shoes, a red hat and red lipstick before spending hours chopping up her husband's body.

According to Pawloski, Nelson was the first defendant to used the "battered wife" defense in Orange County, claiming her husband raped her the night before she killed him.

She also told psychiatrists and her attorney that she had been the victim of sexual abuse as a child in Egypt where she was molested, beaten and forced to undergo female circumcision, a mutilation of the female genitalia.