Black Widow Butchered Her Husband And Ate Him

A cannibal wife branded the Californian Hannibal Lecter after killing and eating her new husband for Thanksgiving 20 years ago has again been denied parole.

Egyptian-born Omaima Nelson, 43, who cooked William Nelson and ate his ribs with BBQ sauce, lost her request for freedom after a five-hour hearing at the Central California Women’s Facility in Chowchilla, where she is serving a life sentence.

In 1993, the then 23-year-old was convicted of murdering her 56-year-old husband in a grotesque slaying that authorities compared to ‘The Silence of the Lambs.’

The killer represented herself at the hearing and argued for freedom because she has become a changed person and wanted ‘to live the good life God meant.’

Although she said that she murdered in self-defence, she expressed regret.

‘If I didn’t defend my life, I would have been dead. I’m sorry it happened, but I’m glad I lived, I’m sorry I dismembered him,’ she said.

Before slicing and preparing her husband’s body, Nelson had put on red shoes, a red hat, and red lipstick.

The authorities stated she prepared his ribs like in a restaurant, and she said aloud, ‘It’s so sweet.’

But at the parole hearing this week, Nelson shook her head and denied eating her husband.

‘I swear to God I did not eat any part of him. I am not a monster,’ she said.

Commissioner Cynthia Fritz then asked, ‘What was your purpose in cooking him?’

Nelson refused to answer the question.

Despite her plea, a two-person panel of the state Board of Parole found that Nelson, a former model and nanny, continued to be a danger to society.

Commissioners said she had not accepted full responsibility for the slaying, nor completed educational or vocational programs while incarcerated that would help her lead a productive life outside prison.

Nelson was ‘blaming anybody but herself,’ deputy commissioner Robert Barese said.

Nelson’s criminal background, which included shoplifting, auto theft, and assault with a firearm, as well as her disregard for prison regulations, which included fighting, assaulting a staff member, hiding contraband, stealing, disobeying orders, and arguing, were mentioned by commissioners.

They also found that Nelson had shown a pattern of exchanging sex with older men for money and goods, which in the past had led to violence.

William Nelson’s daughter Margaret Nelson – who was 15 at the time of the murder – gave a long, tearful speech in which she said her father’s murder meant he couldn’t attend her wedding or meet her eight-week-old daughter.

‘I don’t have the language to explain the pain of my father not being there,’ she said.

‘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.’

This lady poses a serious threat to society and should never be released from prison, but it makes me wonder if she is just a truly evil person or a mad person because to even chop up another human being and eat them, you really can’t be that sane, and she deserves to spend the rest of her natural life behind bars – there should be no parole.

The fact that she said that she wanted to live the good life God meant – what did she miraculously find God, or did she think it would impress the parole board, they’ve probably heard that line so many times before.