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Topic: 8 Famous Criminals
Episode 1 (Yaser Abdel Said)
Highlight: On January 1, 2008, Yaser shot his two daughters dead, Amina (18), and Sarah (17). Their bodies were found in his abandoned taxi cab in Irving, Texas.
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Episode 1 (Yaser Abdel Said)
Highlight: On January 1, 2008, Yaser shot his two daughters dead, Amina (18), and Sarah (17). Their bodies were found in his abandoned taxi cab in Irving, Texas.
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Yaser Said married the girls' mother Patricia (Tissie) Owens when she was just 15 years old. Yaser was 31 at that time. When the girls were 8 and 7, Tissie accused Yaser of raping them, but later recanted stating she made up the charges.
Amina and Sarah grew up to be American teenagers. They planned to go to college, and become doctors. When they told their mom they had boyfriends, she did not tell Yaser.
Yaser Abdel Said eventually noticed the Romeo and Juliet affairs, One friend told The Dallas Morning News that Sarah said her father had threatened her older sister when he learned that she had a boyfriend, saying he’d put a bullet through Amina’s head.
Another friend said Amina came to school with welts on her body, and one time said her father had kicked her in the face after he found notes from a boyfriend
Yaser took his daughter Sarah to Egypt for an arranged marriage to a much older friend of Said's, but Sarah rejected. He had also threatened to harm the girls for being western. Sarah managed to 911 call.
The Sisters, their mother ran away with their boyfriends, but then came back. Yaser and their mother convinced them to come back, but Amina stayed with her boyfriend for two more days.
After their return, the girls stated they were hungry, so Yaser said he wanted to take the girls out to eat. Tissie wanted to come along but Yaser said he just wanted to talk to the girls.
He drove them to Irving, Texas, where he shot both girls to death, and then vanished.
Sarah Said called 911 about 7:30 p.m. the night she was killed.
“I’m dying, I’m dying, I’m dying ...” she said.
Sarah Said called 911 about 7:30 p.m. the night she was killed.
“I’m dying, I’m dying, I’m dying ...” she said.
Authorities traced the call to the Las Colinas area of Irving but didn’t find anything. A short time later, someone called to report two unconscious women in a vehicle near the service entrance of what was then the Omni Mandalay Hotel.
Said disappeared after the killings and remained a fugitive from law enforcement for 13 years, with six of those years being on the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives List for the fatal shootings.
For years, law-enforcement officers searched around the world for Yaser Said, following leads that took them as far away as Egypt; he was named one of the FBI’s most-wanted fugitives in 2014.
On Aug 26, 2020, the 63-year-old was arrested close to home, at a house in Justin in southwestern Denton County. His son and brother also were taken into custody that day, accused of helping him remain at large.
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