The Thanksgiving Butcher

Not Another True Crime Podcast

Betches

Comedy, True Crime, Society & Culture

3.8 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 10 February 2026

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Sara and Danny are back with a seasonal crime this week, covering how Omaima Nelson murdered and carved her husband during Thanksgiving 1991. The cover the situation in the marriage a leading up to the event, and what Omaima alleged was the inciting incident for the murder. They also go through the aftermath and all the details of the trail, which turned out to be stranger than fiction. To end the show, they play a game called ‘In Poor Taste’, where they try to discern fact from fiction in tasteless acts done by celebrities throughout the years. RESOURCES: https://abcnews.go.com/US/omaima-nelson-california-woman-convicted-grisly-murder-husband/story?id=14675780 https://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2011/10/05/model-who-killed-cooked-and-ate-husband-denied-parole/ https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/world-news/model-24-killed-castrated-cooked-24953545 https://www.oxygen.com/martinis-murder/martinis-murder/former-model-deep-fried-her-husbands-head-and-allegedly-said-his Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	In 1986, Oma Nelson moved to the United States from Egypt and started working as a model and nanny.
0:09.4	While out at a bar, Oma met Bill Nelson, and despite him being 33 years older than her, within a few months, they were married.
0:16.3	However, their married life didn't seem to get off to a good start, and Oma claimed that he quickly turned
0:21.1	violent and abusive. It all came to a head when in Thanksgiving, 1991, Oma showed up at her
0:26.7	ex's house claiming that Bill had attacked her and she had been forced to kill him in self-defense.
0:31.6	Does she really act in self-defense, or was this an act of premeditated murder?
0:38.0	Betcha's Media Presents
0:39.8	Not another true crime podcast.
0:43.9	It's all fun in games until someone gets hurt.
0:52.9	Welcome back.
0:54.5	Happy Thanksgiving.
0:56.0	Bladed.
0:57.0	I don't know.
0:57.5	Yeah.
0:58.1	Something like that.
0:59.1	Yeah.
1:00.0	It's not another true crime podcast.
1:01.6	I'm Sarah Levine.
1:02.6	And I'm Danny Murphy.
1:03.8	We're of course your partner's wine crime time.
1:06.1	We're in your ear for the next hour.
1:07.7	And we got some things to talk about.
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