ORLANDO, Fla. — A man accused of killing a Winter Park personal assistant in September 2017 has written an extraordinary homicide confession — and all he wants is better jail food.

In a letter to Orange County Circuit Judge Keith White, Scott Edward Nelson says in exchange for better jail food, Nelson will agree to confess to eight murders and several armed bank robberies, for which he says he has not been caught.



In the five-page letter, Nelson wrote he has been in some of the worst prisons in America, but by far, the Orange County Jail has been the worst for him.

"I am starving to death," Nelson wrote in his letter to the judge.

Nelson, 54, wrote that he will offer a full confession and cooperation if he can get a high-calorie diet, saying he has lost 40 pounds of body weight since Oct. 1 of last year while awaiting trial on charges that he killed Fulford.

In his letter, Nelson said:

"I've provided a full confession -- gave up unsolved armed bank robberies and promised to divulge 8 homicides. I've never been caught for this," he wrote.

Judge White told Nelson during a hearing Friday that he does not have any jurisdiction over jail operations.



Attorneys on both sides did not reveal in court whether they believe there is any truth to Nelson’s claims of having committed additional crimes.



Nelson is facing the death penalty when he goes to trial later this year for the September 2017 murder of Winter Park caretaker Jennifer Lynn Fulford.

He faces charges of first-degree murder, kidnapping, burglary, carjacking and more in the death of 56-year-old Fulford of Altamonte Springs. Her body was found three days after her Sept. 27, 2017 disappearance in a wooded area off Apopka-Vineland Road in Orange County. Nelson was taken into custody in Jacksonville Oct. 1, 2017.

The Orange County Medical Examiner concluded Fulford died from stab wounds and asphyxiation.

Nelson was in court Friday as his attorneys argued a series of motions, in an attempt to throw out the chance of the death penalty being used as a penalty if convicted.

He denied in court Friday that he believed his attorneys were “ineffective,” though Nelson also wrote that he does not want to waive his right to a speedy trial and wants his defense team at the public defender's office to be prohibited from asking for any continuance.

Against Nelson’s objections, defense attorneys continue to ask for more time in a trial, tentatively set for June. Judge White told Nelson that scheduling issues may push the trial back.

Reporter Greg Angel contributed to this story.