Police have said the AuSable Forks woman and her ex-boyfriend, Brandon Bushey, 25, of New Jersey, were responsible for the . In her victim impact statement, Moggio, the girls aunt, dismissed Saids story that someone else was responsible for their murders and that he loved his daughters. agreed at one point. It cost me a lot of money. Dealing with Muslim Family Terrorism in Canada, Palestinian Girl's Murder Highlights Honor Killings, Honor Killing' shakes up Sweden Over Arranged Marriage, Maintaining Muslim Family Honor Through Murder, Murdering Mother Hidden Face of Honor Killing, Not Islam - Sufism the Deviated Muslim Path, Secular Humanism in Practice Leads to Tyranny, Mental Pathways to Islamic Jihadi Terrorism, Who did what for Israel in 1948? In 1998, while living near Waco, Texas, Owens filed a report with the Hill County Sheriffs Office accusing Said of sexually abusing the two girls. That's where he's been ever since he dropped out of school when he was 14. Either way, she failed to protect her daughters. That driver, Jihad Tafal, told jurors Said asked to use the car a few days before Christmas because he didnt like the owner of the car he leased. She removed her glasses, looked up and locked eyes with Yaser Said. Their desire to live as Americans, and not as Arab Muslims in Egypt is precisely what doomed them. Krista M. Torralva, Staff writer. AT THE BEGINNING OF THIS ARTICLE, I asked how such a perversion of maternal behavior can be understood. Ms Owens said during the third day of testimony in the trial that Mr Said would insist on deciding on where they would live and who they would speak to. The last words from Texas teenager Sarah Said were 'Oh my God, I'm dying'. The other man and his mother were in the courthouse last week, but they were not asked to testify. Said, Owens ex-husband and her daughters father, squinted and furrowed his brow across the courtroom not long after he was convicted of capital murder. Diese Petition hat 1.181 Unterschriften erreicht, Diese Seite ist durch reCAPTCHA geschtzt und es gelten die Google. Patricia Said Record Date: Jan 01, 2023 Case Type: Theft/Burglary Offense Date: Jun 29, 1994 Offense Code: 23000019 Offense Desc: THEFT >= 20 BUT < 200 BY CHECK Court: TX220273J - TARRANT COUNTY CRIMINAL COURT 8 FORT W Disposition: COURT DISPOSITION: DEFERRED,,ARREST DISPOSITION: DISPOSITION UNKNOWN Disposition Date: Feb 01, 1995 Case NO: 0564205 Mr Said evaded capture for 12 years after the murders, according to prosecutors. Dr. Brasheer Ahmed with the Muslim Community Center in North Richland Hills provided grief counseling to the girls' mother Patricia after the murders. But, if many kinds of people (Christians, Jews, Muslims, Hindus, Sikhs, native-Indians) engage in some or all of the above behaviors (wife-and daughter-battering, incest, etc.) Both Sarah and Amina appeared at school with bruises, and at one point Amina even had a split lip. According to Patricia, she didnt marry Yaser out of love. She knew he had a gun. Web site Copyright Lewis Loflin, All rights reserved. You deserve to die now.. After "Tissie's" own mother had turned Yasser in to the police, "Tissie" kept all the relatives on her side of the family far away from the girls. We've received your submission. Indeed, Islam's need for her perhaps her need for Islam is the reason "Tissie" gave for having to return to Yasser, leaving her girls behind somewhere in Oklahoma. Yaser had plans for the girls to marry in an arranged marriage. Their father Yaser Abdel Said is wanted by the FBI for their murders. Owens brought Amina home that evening. The girls fled with their mother to Oklahoma where Patricia leased a apartment , even got all new phones and numbers so the father wouldn't be able to . She answered immediately. Many of the jurors watched Owens statement from the courtroom gallery after being dismissed from jury duty. 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Patricia Owens, YaserSaids former wife, had not seen him since New Years Day of 2008 when he took their daughters Amina, 18, and Sarah, 17, to dinner and insisted on going alone so they could talk. Said was on the run for more than 12 years after he was charged with his daughters' murders. But now Carrie Huskinson, a retired private investigator who has been investigating the murders of Amina and Sarah on her own for four years, has written to the FBI to file a formal complaint against Patricia Said. Read More: Movies About Abusive Relationships. The search for Said was coordinated by the FBIs Dallas Violent Crimes Task Force, which is comprised of FBI special agents and officers from the Carrollton, Dallas, Texas Department of Public Safety, Garland, Grand Prairie, and Irving police departments. See Photos. So, where is Patricia today? The orange car had GPS, but former Irving police Detective John Schingle testified the GPS was turned off on the evening of Dec. 31, 2007. How can a mother do such a thing? People named Patricia Owens. He said he didnt think anyone would harm Amina and Sarah. Palestina tried very hard to please her parents. All four were adamant: "Tissie" loves him, he never battered her, they never saw any bruises on her. Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? Its a case closed, and a family reconnected. Colombia wants to deport "cocaine hippos" to stop them from multiplying, Alex Murdaugh found guilty of murders of wife and son, Skeletal remains found in Pennsylvania identified as man missing since 2013. The honour killing allegedly occurred outside Dallas after he found out that they had begun dating and that he wasnt able to control them. The sheriff's office received a call just after 4 p.m. that afternoon reporting a deceased child at one of the area's local emergency rooms. She added that after she was told of the assault, she took her daughters to make a report at the Hill County Sheriffs Department. Irving Police Department not only refuses to bring charges against Patricia Owens, Islam Said or any of the bothers of Yaser Said but they didn't even care to officially interrogate them. I didnt believe it. The daughters went back to the area around Dallas on New Years Eve, following numerous calls from Mr Said and his brother telling them to come back. Theres almost 24 hours where we dont know where that cab went, Schingle said. A Texas man on trial for murdering his two daughters in honor killings because they were dating American boys was called the devil in court Thursday by the girls mother, who detailed 15 years of abuse during their marriage. All rights reserved. By the end of the day it was decided it would be best to go to Tulsa, Oklahoma, a bigger city close to a collage for Amina. You kill somebody, there is no honor to it. Jurors previously heard from their former boyfriends and a Lewisville High School teacher who said the girls feared Said would kill them. Sarah and Amina Said deserve JUSTICE. The Tate-LaBianca jurors also found Manson, 36; Patricia Krenwinkel, 23; Susan Atkins, 22, and Leslie Van Houten, 21, guilty of what the prosecutor said was a "chilling, unearthly conspiracy to . These girls already had to lose their lives too soon. Patricia Said, Yaser . This documentary presents the events that led up to their murders and details the evidence that demonstrates that not only Yaser Said was the shooter but that other members of the Said family were involved and have helped shield him from arrest and prosecution. After "Tissie" left her daughters in Tulsa, she returned home to Dallas. "She said. What is the "American" thing to do? The murderer was my husband, and those girls were my beautiful, brilliant, talented daughters. You can also check out a post where Patricia laments the death of the girls. As per Patricia, Yasers brother told her, Yaser didnt want to raise whores as daughters. She also noted that one of the brothers said that Patricia was lucky Yaser left the bodies to be found so that the girls could be buried. Maggie Prosser, Suburban Public Safety Reporter. Amina called and her mother asked her to come home, again Amina refused. Tahir Utas is on Facebook. Im dying, Sarah said in the recording. "Obviously, a disappointing week . In all fairness to her, shes commented that in her belief, Yaser would not abuse his daughters. 2023 CBS Interactive Inc. All Rights Reserved. Owens took the stand in a Dallas County courtroom Thursday, the third day of Saids capital murder trial. Facebook gives people the power to share and makes the world more open and connected. Brazilian-born second wife, Maria Isa, held her daughter Palestina A theory that the shootings were so-called honor killings spread quickly and was further fueled after the 2014 documentary, The Price of Honor, and when the FBI called the murders honor killings on their website. Amina wrote Said would without any drama or doubt, kill us., Prosecutor Lauren Black argued Sarah said who the killer was in her 911 call where she said, My dad shot me.. Texas father Yaser Said stands accused of shooting and killing his daughters in his taxi, in what has been reported as an honour killing. Their families testify against them. And I know for a fact that she knows that he raped them. Machen Sie das auch? Said has maintained his innocence. The authorities think that the daughters were shot and killed around 7.30pm close to the Omni Hotel. Clearly the proof is in the pudding and this is a double Honor Killing and the F.B.I. I am indebted to my good friend and colleague, the psycho-analyst and Arabist, Nancy H. Kobrin, for the following insight: What balances such family dynamics out and partially "protects" the women in a culture which otherwise despises and fears them are the practices of arranged marriage to one's first cousin and the relationship between brothers and sisters. Yaser Said has entered a not guilty plea. Owens and Sarah went back to Said, but dropped Amina off at her boyfriends house on Dec. 30, 2007. In addition, she paid two months rent up front for a place in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where she and the girls were going to live. She sounded very angry. Upon arrival Patricia tells her aunt the girls were going to run away with their friends and she couldnt let that happen, then Amina spoke up and said; "my mom said she always wanted to leave my dad so we let her come with us." Long after the murder, Patricia continued to be haunted by the deaths of her daughters. A member of the defence team claimed during opening arguments that Mr Said had been targeted for being Muslim, adding that all the 911 calls reveal is that Sarah was in extreme trauma. Log In. Patricia Cornwall, 51, allegedly became aggressive with officers after she crashed her gray Nissan into a tree in Santa Rose Beach on Nov. 10, according to court and police records. Said hugged Amina when she returned, Owens said. On Thursday, Said's brother and son were convicted of helping him evade arrest. EVEN NOW, WHEN HER DAUGHTERS ARE DEAD and her man is still on the run, "Tissie" has chosen to live with one of Yasser's brothers and she has warned her great-aunts not to speak out and not to call this cold-blooded murder an "honor killing." Patricia Kabore said a recent act of kindness had an immeasurable impact on her and her daughter, Rema Kabore. Perhaps she was not alone, perhaps her every word was being monitored, both internally and externally. They both were victims of their abusive father, Yaser, on several occasions. At the same time, there has been little discussion of the larger number of Jews that were forced out of Middle Eastern and North African countries where they had lived for thousand of years. Saids abusive tendencies were evident early on when he sliced her leg open with a knife for refusing to have sex with him. This should be taken as a proof that the information is not clear and search deeply into these murders. Join Facebook to connect with Tahir Utas and others you may know. I am very happy now. And he controlled everything in his household. My father shot me. The girls, who were both students at Lewisville High School, were reportedly shot multiple times. 0 BOTH RESEARCH AND ANECDOTAL EVIDENCE document that women collaborate, both directly and indirectly, in honor killings. If one's mother-in-law is also one's aunt, a daughter-in-law might be safer living with a family with whom she has probably grown up than among complete strangers. ("Tina") Isa down for twenty minutes as her father, Zein Isa, a The next morning, on New Years, Amina's friend received a text message from Sarah asking Amina to call her mom. It's a lie, in fact we and the British supported the Arabs. But some non-Arabs and non-Muslims in America also engage in these behaviors but not necessarily in all of these behaviors simultaneously: Some own guns and participate in a macho gun culture. He said she had some mental health issues and talked about wanting to go to Puerto Rico where it was warm. "We were in shock," Juana said. Therefore, despite certain statements and beliefs that Patricia might have lured her daughters to their deaths, one cannot deny how heartbroken the mother has been over her losses. Yaser Abdel Said, 65, of Lewisville, was found guilty of capital murder in the deaths of Amina Said, 18, and 17-year-old Sarah Said. The jury deliberated for three hours after six days of testimony before reaching a verdict. Defense lawyers said they intend to appeal the verdict. Muse suggested Amina had plans to marry another young man and Ruiz was upset when he found out. 9:07 AM on Aug 9, 2022 CDT Updated at 7:10 PM on Aug 9, 2022 CDT. The mother must be charged with conspiracy to murder her daughters. I do not have a simple answer. And he controlled everything in his household, prosecutor says, Find your bookmarks in your Independent Premium section, under my profile, Mother of murdered girls calls ex-husband the devil in honor killings trial. The child had arrived at Nash UNC Healthcare's ER "with severe injuries" to her head and throughout her body, and had already died by the time she got there, the office said. The Crime Junkie podcast unravels all details of the case, but nobody quite knows what was Patricias initial stance about the alleged physical and sexual abuse meted out to Amina and Sarah. Raised in Columbus, she's a graduate of Ohio University, where she studied journalism. And this is not acceptable.". Can we refuse to allow people from such cultures to become residents or citizens here? She could have returned her daughters back to their father so the murders could take place as planned. The mother and daughters returned to Texas to finish their schooling on the promise that Said would leave the family home. And then "Tissie" called her daughters and begged them to come back to Dallas to accompany her to put flowers on their grandmothers' grave (the very grandmother who, a decade before, had turned their father in for child sexual abuse). PACOLET, S.C. . It was the happiest moment he is caught, and justice can be served for Amina and Sarah.. Maggie previously worked at the Chicago Tribune and The Columbus Dispatch. Owens said the girls wanted to leave because Said prohibited them from dating. The next day the girls brother Islam Said, said to the media that Amina and Sarah got what they deserved because they knew the rules. Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner told The Associated Press that . Juana said that when she was 13, her father tried to molest her, too, and she did speak up. My informants tell me that "Tissie" could never control her son; that she minimizes, denies, and forgives his "weird, frightening, anti-social behaviors." That devil there, Owens said of Yaser Said, the man she divorced while he was on the run after the murders. On Christmas Day, after Mr Said went to work, Ms Owens testified that they fled to Oklahoma with their clothes in trash bags. She took him to the hospital for treatment and tests showed high levels of ethylene glycol, the main ingredient in antifreeze, in his blood. By signing up you agree to our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy, Stand with us in our mission to discover and uncover the story of North Texas, Photos: Yaser Said found guilty of capital murder in 2008 slayings of daughters, Sarah and Amina, Yaser Said found guilty of capital murder in 2008 slayings of daughters, Sarah and Amina. Some of "Tissie's" female relatives believe that she converted to Islam. ROSS TOWNSHIP, Pa. (WPXI) - A Pennsylvania man who has been searching for his wife for over 30 years has just learned that she is alive and well and has been living in Puerto Rico for decades. Weeks later, Ramirez turned up dead, but it would take decades before his killers were found. After the killings, Owens lived briefly with Islam. In one instance, Yasser had embedded one of his daughters' braces in her lip. But Islam also spends all his time at home with his mother. The mother, Patricia Said, failed as a parent as a mother to protect her daughters, who repeatedly confided to relatives and friends that their father abused them both, physically and sexually. Hennig said the FBIs online bulletin described the crime as an honor killing a narrative that took off soon after the killings and reignited after Saids arrest. "Tissie" told them that Yasser was contrite, that he only wanted to have tea with his daughters and to talk things through. Instead, Said, 65, is accused of shooting 18-year-old Amina Said and 17-year-old Sarah Said multiple times in a taxi cab that he left outside an Irving hotel. Is Islam Said being groomed by his paternal male relatives in New York? Patricia made call after call to Amina begging her to come home throughout the day saying her father had forgiven her and they were all going to go out to eat but Amina again refused. Will you do the same? Of course, if she kept herself apart, her relatives might not know such details. killing on American soil. She initially refused to answer any questions but when investigators charged her with murder, she agreed to reveal what she knew. Owens said she has since been diagnosed with several medical conditions, including severe depression and post-traumatic stress disorder. America did nothing The universal belief, never challenged by the media, is that the United States was wholly or largely responsible for fully supporting Israel on the ground from the very beginning of its independence in May, 1948. It is that of Patricia Said, the mother. Prosecutors asked Owens if she had any inclination what would happen. The film furthers speculation the girls' father objected to his daughters living an "American lifestyle.". Amina Said's mother Patricia Owens Said was not charged with murder. Then she has the odasity to trick the girls into going back home to Texas. Said told jurors he saw headlights, pulled into a cab stand at a strip club and fled, leaving a gun in the cab. Owens told jurors she was 15 when she married Said in February 1987. Said was born in Egypt and investigators believed he may have been seeking shelter in communities with Egyptian ties, or in New York City, Canada or Egypt where he had known connections. Or criminal. The charge stemmed from an allegation against Patricia when he was in college in 1996. Speaking outside the courtroom, Dallas County District Attorney John Creuzot called Said the epitome of evil. Creuzots office has not sought the death penalty in any case since he assumed office in 2019. Patricia Graham, a 71-year-old teacher at South Lenoir High School, was caught on camera using the cord to hit one of the teens in a classroom, according to WITN and the Lenoir County Sheriff's. Her eyes shifted around the courtroom during the nearly two hours she was on the stand. The entire murder had been taped by federal St. Louis lawyers Mark and Patricia McCloskey charged with menacing protesters - The Washington Post St. Louis couple who aimed guns at protesters charged with felony weapons count Lawyers. (In reality, he would sneak into the government subsidized housing at night). Mr Said told Ms Owens to stay home while he went for a drive with the teens to talk. Schingle is an investigator with the Dallas County district attorneys office. Patricia Ripley was allegedly seen on . In the Arab and Muslim world and in "Tissie's " world in Dallas, daughters are nothing but "trouble." But "Tissie" lives in Dallas, Texas. As such, she serves nine life sentences instead. Hopefully, with Yaser facing the consequences of his actions, Patricia will be able to start moving on with her life. Todays arrest of their father, Yaser Said brings us closer to ensuring justice is served on their behalf," Spivey said in a prepared statement. Sign Up. 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The authorities and the prosecutor of Texas needs to press charges on Patricia Said. Raised in Columbus, she's a graduate of Ohio University, where she studied journalism. The girls fled with their mother to Oklahoma where Patricia leased a apartment , even got all new phones and numbers so the father wouldn't be able to track them. Texas-born Patricia ("Tissie) Said, formerly of the Owens family, is the mother who lured her two teenage daughters, Sarah and Amina, to their deaths at the hands of their own father this past New Years Day in Dallas. Ms Owens testified that she had been aware that her daughters had boyfriends, but that the three of them had kept it quiet for fear of reprisals. Maggie previously worked at the Chicago Tribune and The Columbus Dispatch. Patricia Owens face grew red and her lips pursed as she pointed to the man accused of killing her two daughters. And to this day, he has not been captured. The state wants to convict Yaser for being Muslim in 2008.. America did nothing. Today, Patricia Krenwinkel remains in prison. If using this material on another site, please provide a link back to my site. zgr Tun is on Facebook. According to a report from The Dallas Morning News, the girls alleged their father had sexually and physically abused them and had pulled a gun on Amina, threatening her life, after learning she had a boyfriend. All signs point to Yaser Said. "This man a brutally murdered and shot to death his two daughters in his taxi cab. It's. Jewish Refugees of 1948 The Palestinian refugee issue has festered for 70 years and remains a major stumbling block in reaching an Israeli-Palestinian accord. Is Dallas becoming unaffordable due to rising housing costs, inflation and stagnating pay? Please refresh the page or navigate to another page on the site to be automatically logged inPlease refresh your browser to be logged in, He controlled what they did, who they talked to, who they could be friends with, if they and who they could date. It was at about that time that Sarah called 911 two times, saying that she was dying after being shot by her father. 2023 Cinemaholic Inc. All rights reserved. Patricia Ann Wick was taken into custody and charged with one count each of murder in the course and in furtherance . I even put advertisements down in the paper in Puerto Rico looking for her.. What if the women of such cultures, transplanted to American shores, are relying upon American law to prevail and to save their lives? authorities who were tracking the Abu Nidal group. Updated at 7:10 p.m. with additional information throughout. Amina and Sarah accused their father of sexual abuse in 1998. First published on February 8, 2023 / 12:20 PM. Prosecutors say that Mr Said shot and killed his daughters on New Years Day in 2008. They then moved to another area, closer to Ms Owens sister. He will die in prison, which is our goal for him, Creuzot said. Amina returned the embrace, she said. By signing up you agree to our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy, Stand with us in our mission to discover and uncover the story of North Texas, That devil there: Mother of Sarah, Amina Said testifies at ex-husbands murder trial. These experienced investigators never gave up on their quest to find him and pledged to never forget the young victims in this case.". Instead, she wanted to get out of the house at the time. An unregistered Santa Fe investment adviser dubbed a "mini-Madoff" was ordered to pay nearly $10.4 million in restitution and penalties after engaging in a Ponzi scheme for 20 years involving . Amina kept refusing to go with her mother and she wanted to go back to Tulsa. Patricia Owens. The siblings of Ricks' granddaughter, who also lived at their grandmother's home, have been placed in the custody of Nash County social services. Amina very upset and angry, refused to go to her fathers house knowing he would kill her and she went to her boyfriends parents and called her Aunt Connie, "did you know my mom went back to my dad" she asked, crying and upset she told her aunt about her mother lying to her to get her back to Texas. The charge is a Class E felony that carries a possible penalty of up to four years in prison. Her husband, Mark . Patricia McCloskey, who menaced the marching crowd with her finger on the trigger of a handgun, pleaded guilty to misdemeanor harassment and was ordered to pay a fine of $2,000. Prosecutors did not seek the death penalty. what might we have to do to prevent honor killings in America? Patricia Owens. Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. He had been wanted on capital murder charges for the deaths of his daughters, Lewisville High School students, Sarah Yaser Said, 17, and Amina Yaser Said, 18. NORWICH - A 57-year-old Norwich man was charged Wednesday with second-degree manslaughter in connection with a domestic violence incident in which the victim later died, police said.. Michael Gervais, of 245 Dunham St., made $150,000 bail at his Norwich Superior Court arraignment Thursday, but was ordered wear a GPS bracelet and have no contact with the family of the victim, 62-year-old . Texas-born Patricia ("Tissie) Said, formerly of the Owens family, is the mother who lured her two teenage daughters, Sarah and Amina, to their deaths at the hands of their own father this past New Years Day in Dallas. The FBI-led Dallas Violent Crimes Task Force has worked tirelessly to find Yaser Abdel Said. Theres no such thing as an honor killing. Im not scared of you anymore, she said, no longer reading what she prepared. Who did what for Israel in 1948? It is wrong for the government to generalize an entire culture, criminalize an entire culture, to fit their narrative, and to fit their objective, Mr Patton said in court on Tuesday, according to The Daily Beast.
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