Ex-Model Who Killed and Ate Husband Seeks Parole

California – A former model who killed, cooked and ate her husband 20 years ago will make a bid for freedom. Omaima Aree Nelson is slated to appear before a California parole board to plead for an early release from Chowchilla State Prison, where she is serving 27 years to life. Nelson claimed at trial she had been abused and her husband had raped her the night before she killed him in their Costa Mesa apartment. After murdering him, Nelson boiled her husband’s head on the stove and fried his hands in oil. She once admitted, but now denies, dipping his body in barbecue sauce.  more