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CHAPTER 3
PORNOGRAPHY AND
RITUAL MURDER
On May 5, 1988, Margo Georgiu* and her daughter Brenda
Parker*, 17, filed a complaint against an Omaha photographer,
Rusty Nelson, which the Omaha Police Department (OPD)
logged under "possible child pornography."
According to police records, Nelson approached Brenda at
a store where she was a cashier, and told her he was "doing
some photographic work for the Easter Seals Campaign." He
left her his business card, which read "Rusty Nelson the Camera
Man, Creative Photography." When Brenda telephoned, Nelson
said he needed to take pictures of redheads like her for a
"European portfolio," and that she would pose wearing swimsuits
and lingerie. Brenda asked if she could bring her mother
to the photography session, to which Nelson agreed.
Officer IrlCarmean interviewed Parker and Georgiu on May
9, about what they had seen five days earlier, during the fivehour
session with Nelson at his studio in the Twin Towers.
Carmean recorded:
NELSON took several photographs of PARKER in various
types of clothing, although no swimsuits or lengerie [sic]
were worn. Brenda stated that NELSON repeatedly made
references to PARKER in her birthday suit and making
her breasts look bigger. Nelson never specifically asked
PARKER to pose nude or semi-nude but did try to get her
to show as much skin as possible and also try to make
PARKER show as much cleavage as possible. Repeatedly,
NELSON tried to persuade PARKER to model in lengerie
[sic] as well as a form of clothing known as "teddies."
PARKER indicated she refused to do this.
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