Chicago Sun-Times
CHOWCHILLA, Calif. — A California woman who killed her newlywed husband and chopped and cooked his body parts over Thanksgiving weekend in 1991 has been denied parole for the second time.
Parole commissioners rejected Omaima Nelson’s bid for freedom following a hearing Wednesday. She has been serving a life sentence. Nelson was convicted of murdering her 56-year-old husband, William Nelson, in a grisly killing that authorities compared to the fictional slayings of Hannibal Lecter.
Prosecutors say Nelson stabbed her husband and likely plotted to steal from him as she had done with other middle-aged men. Nelson said she acted in self-defense.
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