The Story of Omaima Nelson
True Crime
20 Episodes
On the night of Thursday, 28 November 1991 — Thanksgiving Day — William Edward Nelson was killed in his apartment in Costa Mesa, Orange County, California. He was 56 years old. He had been married to his 23-year-old wife Omaima Aree Nelson for 29 days. The investigation was initiated on 1 December 1991 by a phone call to the Anaheim Police Department from a man who had known Omaima before her marriage. It ended, in its investigative phase, less than 48 hours later with her arrest and the recovery of William Nelson's remains from three separate locations in and around the apartment. The case that followed produced a second-degree murder conviction, a 27-year-to-life sentence, and a set of forensic and psychiatric findings that Orange County investigators have subsequently described as among the most disturbing they ever handled. This series is about how they made the case — from the phone call to the sentence.
The Story of Omaima Nelson
True Crime
20 Episodes
On the night of Thursday, 28 November 1991 — Thanksgiving Day — William Edward Nelson was killed in his apartment in Costa Mesa, Orange County, California. He was 56 years old. He had been married to his 23-year-old wife Omaima Aree Nelson for 29 days. The investigation was initiated on 1 December 1991 by a phone call to the Anaheim Police Department from a man who had known Omaima before her marriage. It ended, in its investigative phase, less than 48 hours later with her arrest and the recovery of William Nelson's remains from three separate locations in and around the apartment. The case that followed produced a second-degree murder conviction, a 27-year-to-life sentence, and a set of forensic and psychiatric findings that Orange County investigators have subsequently described as among the most disturbing they ever handled. This series is about how they made the case — from the phone call to the sentence.