A woman who killed her newlywed husband and chopped and cooked his body parts over Thanksgiving weekend in 1991 was denied her second bid for parole on Wednesday.
Parole commissioners rejected Omaima Nelson's request for freedom following a five-and-a-half-hour hearing at the Central California Women's Facility in Chowchilla, where she has been serving a life sentence.
The then 23-year-old Nelson was convicted of murdering her 56-year-old husband William Nelson in a grotesque killing that authorities likened to the fictional slayings of Hannibal Lecter - the cannibalistic character in the film Silence Of The Lambs.
Nelson, now 43, argued she should be paroled because she has become a changed person and she wanted 'to live the good life God meant.'
But commissioners said Nelson, an Egyptian-born former model and nanny, had not accepted responsibility for the slaying, nor completed educational or vocational programmes while incarcerated that would help her lead a productive life outside prison.
