William Nelson was a private pilot who had just married the beautiful Omaima Nelson, a woman 23 years younger than himself. Then, just after Thanksgiving 1991, he disappeared. He was found in early December, murdered and dismembered by his new bride. But had she killed him out of self-defense, or had she murdered him in cold blood?
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