Yasser Said, the man convicted of killing his daughters in 2008, speaks out on new crime show

Yasser Said again denies killing his two teenage daughters and believes his arrest and prosecution are part of an international political conspiracy, he claimed on a new crime TV show.

Said is 67 years old. currently serving life in prison without the possibility of parole for shooting Sarah and Amina Said on New Year’s Day 2008. Yasser eluded authorities for more than a decade and was on the FBI’s 10 Most Wanted list before he was arrested. burglary in August 2020 at a Denton County family home..

Speaking for the first time after the verdict, Said became the hero of the second episode, “Honor Killing,” of the series. Court TV original series “Interview with a Killer”“, which will air on Sunday at 7:00 pm central standard time. The episode also includes footage of Saeed’s 2022 trial in Dallas County and home videos of his daughters.

“I want my voice to be heard,” said Said, dressed in white prison clothes. “My case is being used to score cheap political points.”

The killings were described as so-called “honor killings”. This story quickly spread and was further fueled 2014 documentary film “The Price of Honor”.” and when the FBI called murders in honor of murders on their site. This characterization was later refuted by law enforcement at Said’s trial.

From behind glass and over a prison phone at the William C. McConnell Unit in Beeville, Said told investigative reporter David Scott that he was the victim of a ploy to crack down on “honor killing” laws in the United Arab Emirates.

“The FBI didn’t do its job,” Said told Scott. “Irving police, they are hiding something (sic). In this case – especially in this case – the media were not honest in order to achieve a political goal.”

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Saeed added: “I didn’t commit any crimes (sic)… I didn’t kill anyone.”

Sarah and Amina were found bloodied and fallen in their father’s taxi parked outside the Omni Mandalay Hotel in Las Colinas, which is part of Irving. Amina, 18, was shot twice, and Sarah, 17, nine times.

Said, who is from Egypt, controlled and abused towards his daughters and did not want them to have American boyfriends, according to testimony at the trial. A few days before they were killed, Amina and Sarah fled Texas – with the help of their boys – because they were afraid of their father, but later returned.

Teenagers have cried out about abuse before; “He will, without any drama or doubt, kill us,” Amina wrote in an email to her history teacher at Lewisville High School.

In an interview with Scott, Said claims the email and abuse allegations were fabricated. He also said he did not have a gun on the night of the murder, contradicting his own testimony at the trial.

Said said when he appeared as a witness at his own trialand repeated to Court TV that he took the girls out to dinner when he sensed one or two cars following his orange jet taxi. Said told jurors he feared for his life, pulled into a strip club taxi rank and left, leaving his daughters behind.

“They wanted to be regular teenagers, regular American girls,” said Nina Nejad, director of “The Price of Honor.” “They had dreams, hopes, ambitions—what they wanted to do in life.”

Amina and Sarah are described as smart, playful and energetic. The sisters were excellent students and dreamed of becoming doctors.