Beard Laws (00:00.25)
Hey, what's up, Megh? Oh, hey. Oh, hey, we did it. We pressed it. We're live by pre recording and happy Thanksgiving week. Happy Thanksgiving. I love Thanksgiving. I mean, Thanksgiving's in a couple of days. It's pretty much a week, you know, a couple of half days. I'm no school. I get a day off work. So that's cool. Thanksgiving. It's like probably my favorite holiday. It's up there for me, too. It's just awesome. You know what I mean? You.
You get the smell of the turkey and all the fixings. There's football all day. You know, you just, good company. Hopefully everybody gets some good company, or mediocre company at least. And just a good day. Everybody seems to be happy. Just pretty awesome. I prefer it over Christmas. Yeah, less. I think it's less pressure. Mm-hmm. Less expectations. True, I mean people know they're just gonna eat. You don't have to do the whole present thing. Either way, but it's a...
It's supposed to be a good thing. There's supposed to be a bunch of people that enjoy themselves, but in 1991, there was a situation on Thanksgiving that wasn't so good. And we're gonna call it the Thanksgiving Day murder, but I don't know if there's an actual one or whatever, but do you think we should jump right into this? Let's jump. We're gonna jump. And right at this point is when I'm gonna put the intro in because it doesn't play well in this new thing.
But you don't want me to sing it again. I mean, you can sing it again.
Beard Laws (01:32.47)
Shhh, holy cow. Nailed it, nailed it. And obviously, happy Thanksgiving. We're back from our awesome intro and shout out to the Deluxe Edition Network. Podcast of the month is the Beardlaws podcast and take on the world. So make sure you guys check them out, deluxeeditionnetwork.com. And again, what are you thankful for, Meg? Thankful for my family and my friends. Yeah.
It's good to be thankful. Lots of stuff. Yeah. And it's, I'm also thankful that, you know, pretty healthy overall family. You know what I mean? There's, I'm thankful for that. People are pretty happy. People are pretty healthy. I'm thankful that this year I'm not buried in six feet of snow, having to shovel my way out. So yeah. That's also thankful for that. That was a very stressful day. But this story also is pretty wild.
way more wild than six foot of snow, no offense. But again, what we're talking about is, well, like what's that? We're calling the Thanksgiving Day murder. And it starts at least this murder happened in 1991 in Costa Mesa, California. Looked it up. I mean, it's not we try to do small towns, smaller stories. But every once in a while, there's just a crazy story that's in a bigger town. And like I said, it's at the end of the day, it's your town, your stories for the Yorktown podcast. So somebody else. Even big towns are someone's town.
And they were all small towns at some point, probably. But at the same point, it's your town and there's probably about 110,000 people or so that are living in Costa Mesa, California, that it is your town. So hopefully this story makes it out there. And if you happen to be from the area, let us know. And let us know if you remember this wild family. And it's about the Nelsons and their apartment on Thanksgiving Day. And it's honestly one of the most gruesome things out there. It's even.
up there with some very, very wild horror stories and maybe even some documentaries that you have seen recently. But have you ever heard of anything crazy on Thanksgiving in Costa Mesa, California? I don't think so. Okay, let's give a little backstory. Okay, we have a couple. I'm gonna say it's Oma, Omaima, Nelson, and her husband Bill. Sure.
Beard Laws (03:50.966)
Bill's much easier to say. This couple has a 33 year age difference and you're probably thinking who cares? Well, you know, that could come into play, but whatever. So at the time, Mrs. Nelson or Oma Yima was an Egyptian model, actually immigrated to the United States when she was 18 to get away from some very, very terrible things that happened in her life when she was younger. And according to the Los Angeles Times, she was actually a beauty with cut glass cheekbones.
and they actually met in 1991 at a bar playing pool. It's where every love story starts, in a bar playing pool. Bill used to be a pilot, but in 1984 he was convicted of smuggling marijuana. He served a four-year prison sentence and a federal prison, was released on parole, and got a job at a mortgage company. And apparently prosecutors in the case and everything later did say that before they met, that she allegedly began using her beauty
older men to kind of lavish her with money and, you know, help with the rent and buy cars and all of that stuff. They knew each other for just a few days. Must have been really good at pulling on them saying they get married. He was 56. She was 33 or sorry. She he was 56 and 33 years older than the wife. So she's pretty young. That's a big difference. Yes. And they're married, but they go on a honeymoon.
Um, and ended up going, I think with his family and like the Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, something like that area. I know they're all not three really close to each other, but they ended up, uh, spending some time out there with his family and the honeymoon ended. And the, like the honeymoon phase ended very, very quickly, according to a lot of people, neighbors, coworkers and stuff like that, they were just a real quiet kind of mysterious couple, but, uh,
Turns out it was a very, very unhappy marriage, to put it lightly. It was reported that once they were married, Bill kind of really started to show his violent side, physically, sexually abusing her. It was even alleged that at one point they were driving home with a brand new kitten. Something was said, he got mad, and actually ripped the kitten out of her hands and threw it out a moving vehicle. That kind of violent.
Beard Laws (06:14.646)
And there was also many reports that he actually pimped her out to other men. But obviously these stories are very dark, very disturbing and a lot of other details. And I think we do a really good job of leaving out the really kind of grotesque details. So we're going to continue to do that. But this is still pretty graphic. So as they say in the movies and the shows and stuff, viewer discretion advised.
Yeah. Or listeners. Viewer, listeners, whatever. All right. Listeners, viewers, whoever. So again, fast foward in 1991 Thanksgiving day. And her story is obviously the only one that we can hear. Spoiler alert. It was a murder. Somebody's dying. The though it's a one-sided story and we might not ever know 100% of the details, but there's a very
thorough investigation for the 90s. And this is kind of what we're gonna do from some facts in our sources that we'll tell you later. But apparently they get into some kind of incident at the house Thanksgiving weekend. And she grabs a pair of scissors and then begins to stab Bill. It was reported the chest, the stomach, and potentially even the head. But apparently it didn't work to, well, I say work. It didn't work to end his life like she was trying to do. So she then grabs a-
clothing iron and strikes him so much, so hard, and just with so much force that it actually breaks in her hand. So I mean, obviously a crime of passion. He ends up being reported missing. He doesn't obviously show up to work on Monday. But before the missing report even comes out, Mrs. Nelson is busy, I guess is the term that we want to put this, trying to get rid of the evidence of her husband.
She then proceeds to actually butcher up his body right on the kitchen floor. She takes the hands, boils them in oil to try to remove fingerprints, takes the severed head and sticks it in the freezer so she could later break the teeth out and hide the evidence. Wow. Yeah, that turned quickly, right? Yeah. Pretty quick, but this part even more gross. She then goes on to castrate him in revenge for the assault.
Beard Laws (08:37.638)
and obviously the very terrible dark past that has happened. She then takes the body parts, as many as she could, puts them in trash bags, wraps them in newspapers, and then she took as much of the other body parts and put them down the garbage disposal. And then apparently she got hungry. It was Thanksgiving and everything. And then turns to cannibalism. Oh, boy.
Yes. So according to documents and some stuff that apparently she had told a psychiatrist and some other one, she actually cooked the ribs, put them in the oven as if it was like a restaurant style rib, barbecue sauce them, flavored them. And then upon sinking her teeth into Bill's ribs that she cooked, she said it's so sweet to kind of paraphrase some stuff. So. Yeah.
Whopper. No ribs. Not from Burger King. Not getting these ones there, hopefully. But I mean, obviously, you're starting to get like Hannibal Lecter vibes and you have the Jeffrey Dahmer's and, you know, obviously those stories and those accounts were earlier than the 90s. But, you know, it's just one of those things where these document documentaries and stuff are coming out now on those. It's wild. Absolutely wild. And what's even crazier is.
at the time of when all of this went down, they had been married for less than three weeks and they've only known each other for a total of five.
Yeah. I mean, that's a rough couple of weeks. Yeah. A lot of, a lot of... Seems like a lot of maltreatment, a very short amount of time to lead up to that. Yeah, that's probably an easy way to put that. But what's even more crazy, if you think it could get even crazier, she apparently dressed up in red shoes, red hat, red lipstick, got all real, like, redded up, dressed up and everything to prepare or butcher her husband.
Beard Laws (10:44.482)
She then drives to a friend's house, showed the friend the trash bags that she'd stuff in the back of Bill's 1975 red Corvette. Apparently she offered a friend $75,000 to help dispose of the body. And from some stuff that I read, the friends then instantly, almost instantly reported what had been going on. And then December 1st, they checked the car, find his remains, they searched the house, they found a bunch of suitcases.
That had plastic bags soaked in some kind of dark liquid The cooker still had the hand sitting in the oil the freezer is well where the heads still was but Later comes out in the investigation and through court and everything that in 1990 a year or so before She meets Bill. She was actually arrested on a felony charge because she Actually tied up an ex-boyfriend Slapped him around
and actually held him at gunpoint in demand for money. Yeah. And then obviously this goes through trial. All of the details, all of this stuff is then released. The jury finds her guilty. She sentenced to 27 years to life. She came up for parole in 2006 denied as they saw, you know, she wasn't fit or whatever it is to get back in the public. She then gets married while she's in jail to a man in his 70s who actually ends up passing away.
before the next parole that was in 2011, and she was also denied. So it's believed that she will end up sending the kind of full sentence of 27 years to life. Because I mean, at this point, it's life for the terrible things that she did. Most of these stories, they're no longer alive in the jail.
This one? This one's a little different. Yeah, this one's a little different. I mean, what do we got here? A little more recent. I'd say quite, yeah, quite a bit more recent. I mean, what is it? 1991, 32 years. I guess she would have been in jail at 33. So she's what? 65? Yeah, she's 65 years old on her 32nd year of jail. Yeah, I mean, terrible story.
Beard Laws (13:07.842)
But obviously it's a wild one. It had something to do with Thanksgiving. And kind of we did the same thing with Halloween, a Halloween murder. And I wanted to see, there's a disturbing amount of stuff that has happened on Thanksgiving. I did Google Thanksgiving murders and there was quite a bit of them, but this is one that kind of stuck out because it's wild. I just think it's so wild that I've never heard of this. Mm-mm.
You know, through say Netflix specials, Hulu specials, whatever specials. And I'll, you know, it seems to be a lot of documentaries coming out over the life, especially the last couple of years on crazy stuff like this. Haven't heard anything about it. It's a pretty wild one. A woman killing a husband on Thanksgiving and then eating him. It seems like there's a lot of stuff being looked at and reopened from the 90s. Yeah. Well, even the seventies too, you know what I mean? Like all those crazy cases. Remember when we went like week after week after week, it seemed like a cases with the seventies.
Man, thankfully though, I guess the time that we are here, our technology is much, much better. It's evolved quite well over the last 30, 40 years. So a lot of cases and certain things like this can be digitized and brought to there and evidence is being found. And it's pretty wild, but on a lighter note, hope you guys have a great Thanksgiving and you have some much deserved rest.
you know, time with friends, families, neighbors, whoever it might be. So happy Thanksgiving from, you know, us at the Yore Town to all of you wonderful viewers. And we should do the quote, we should do the quote. Do the quote. All right, let's do, I'm gonna do the sources first. Let's do the sources. There was a lot of great stuff on investigationdiscovery.com, our friend Wikipedia, and a lot of other great information from allthatsinteresting.com.
the three sources of the show. So again, it's one I haven't heard of the investigation discovery. Yeah, it's a really cool site. I kind of obviously was looking at stuff on this and a lot of good stuff. So if I would remember, or if I come back and listen to this, I want to bookmark that link so we can use that one for a future day and whatever we have going on. So happy Thanksgiving, Meg. And to everybody listening, let's do the quote. Happy Thanksgiving. When I think quote, I think, I think of this person.
Beard Laws (15:29.13)
So we should be thankful for being together. I think that's what they meant or mean by Thanksgiving. That was by Charlie Brown. Good old Chuck. You can't beat a Chuckie Brown. But either way, we can't thank you enough for listening. Enjoy your Thanksgiving and we'll be back for Cyber Monday here at the Yoretown Podcast. Maybe we'll have a great deal on these cool hats that I'm wearing. Probably not, but if you wanna buy one.
pretty cheap anyways. They're nice hats. They are nice. It's got a little black leather patch on it for anybody just listening. It's got the goldish Yoretown in it and there's so many different style hats. Why would you want to support us? Christmas is coming up and it'd be cool to have a little Christmas. Anyways, I'm just kidding. All kidding aside though, we can't thank you enough for whoever's listening to this still. We appreciate it. Zach?
He told me today in a text message, he didn't forget about the show. He does have intentions to continue to write some stuff. So big believe when I see it kind of guy at this point, because I mean, what's he actually, he's got three kids and as a, as a wrestling coach and, you know, just has to have, you know, a pretty, you know, intensive day job that handles, you know, at least six days a week. And yeah, he acts, yeah, he acts like his plate is full, which it is for anybody that doesn't understand sarcasm. That was very.
thick sarcasm. We appreciate the heck out of Zach and thankful that him and his family are healthy as well and look forward to having some articles written with some words that I can't pronounce just like the person of the name. I should have looked it up but either way I think I'm good enough. Alright, happy Thanksgiving. Don't know why you're still listening. Probably aren't. We can't thank you enough and we'll see you next week. Bye. Later.