Shes asking for help and she names her killer, her father, Yaser Said, Ms Black said. The woman, identified as Patricia Ann Ricks, was the child's legal guardian, according to the Nash County Sheriff's Office, which said in a news release that the girl and "several other siblings" lived at Ricks' home in the town of Nashville. I come home one night and shes just gone, and nobody knows where shes at, said Bob Kopta, who struggled to talk about the journey to search for his missing wife Patricia Kopta. Here his FBI profile: http://www.fbi.gov/wanted/murders/yaser-abdel-said. Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. A Pennsylvania woman who has been missing for more than 30 years is found alive in an adult care home in Puerto Rico. They had been dating men who werent Muslim. If using this material on another site, please provide a link back to my site. He still needs her. He said nothing would happen to him, Ms Owens said, with Mr Said present in the courtroom. Shes spoken about why Yaser might have wanted to kill his daughters. She knew he would beat the girls. HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- A veteran deputy of the Harris County Sheriff's Office has been arrested and charged with murder after his wife was killed in a weekend shooting in southeast Houston.. Patricia Lacina assumed the office of Charge d'Affaires at the US Embassy last year. But police did not test for gunshot residue on their hands, defense lawyers pointed out, and two other detectives who testified Thursday said they were not suspects. However, Sarah and Amina Said were American citizens. She is currently being held without bail at the Nash County Detention Center and is due to appear in the county's district court for the first time on Thursday, the sheriff's office said. The jury got to Owens and her sister, Connie Moggio, addressed Said in a crowded courtroom Tuesday afternoon. My four informants do not believe that "Tissie" is now being or was ever held hostage. (Source: WPXI/ROSS TOWNSHIP POLICE/CNN) Join Facebook to connect with zgr Tun and others you may know. Their father Yaser Abdel Said is wanted by the FBI for their murders. Owens said she has since been diagnosed with several medical conditions, including severe depression and post-traumatic stress disorder. Owens testified that she and the girls had just returned to their home in Lewisville, Texas, from Oklahoma, where they had gone to get away from Said. The honour killing allegedly occurred outside Dallas after he found out that they had begun dating and that he wasnt able to control them. Shes screaming out from the grave right now. Six years later, with Said still on the run, he was placed on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives List on Dec. 4, 2014. Though a $100,000 reward was being offered for his capture, FBI Dallas Special Agent in Charge Matthew DeSarno said Wednesday night the apprehension of Said was done through "good old-fashioned, aggressive, initiative-based police work.". Violent yes. Owens turned over a box of ammunition from their house, Johnson said. Patricia said she herself was moved to perform an act of kindness . Owens knew the girls boyfriends and approved. Mother and ex-wife Patricia Owens testified in Dallas County Court in the 64-year-old's capital murder trial on Thursday that he sexually assaulted the girls two years before the killing and then. Tafal insisted Said fill out paperwork with its owner to replace Tafals name on the lease. She knew he had a gun. 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. She commented, Now the girls can rest in peace. Unlike many American girls who cleave to their families of origin, "Tissie's" primary alliance is not with her own family but with her son, her husband, and with her husband's family. Not only did you abuse our daughters, you brainwashed our son, Owens said. Patricia said she relishes the time she went for an audition for the popular drama series "Tunga", as that was her stepping stone in the arts sector. An emotional Ms Owens said that Sarah and Amina told her back in 1998 that their father had sexually assaulted them. At fifteen, she married Yasser, who apparently presented himself to her family as a wealthy Egyptian "prince" someone who had property and other holdings back in Egypt. Bruno sentenced Giddings, 22, to four to 12 years in prison. "Tissie" covered up each instance. In late 2007, Owens and her daughters fled again to Tulsa, Okla., after the girls feared their father would kill them if he learned they had both become engaged to their boyfriends. The girls were discovered in an orange Jet Taxi cab that police said Said borrowed from a fellow driver. Said was added to the FBIs 10 Most Wanted fugitives list in 2014. His defence attorneys have claimed that he was blamed for the killings because hes Muslim. 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. 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. Victims of Muslim Honor and Political Correctness. It was her father, Yaser Said who committed the crime of killing his two innocent teen daughters. And, according to her Owens relatives, "Tissie" laughed it off, "giggled," minimized it all. She quickly glanced toward Said a few times. Initially we were looking at the two boyfriends, and then we focused on the defendant, he testified. In pleading guilty, Islam Said admitted that evidence proved he committed the crimes charged in the superseding indictment filed in November 2020. Patricia Said, Yaser . A cemetery posted a personal ad for a goose whose mate died. Owens told jurors she was 15 when she married Said in February 1987. A 72-year-old woman was arrested in North Carolina this week for allegedly beating her 8-year-old granddaughter to death, authorities 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. Irving detective Joe Hennig testified he asked the FBI to remove the honor killings narrative from their website and the department rejected that characterization. California Suspect in North Hollywood anti-Asian attack on Filipino family is arrested and charged Nerissa Roque, left, stands next to her daughter Patricia at a rally Friday outside the Van. 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. Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner told The Associated Press that . But eventually, she got her own apartment and she said she believed Islam flew to Egypt. Yaser Abdel Said, a Lewisville cab driver wanted in connection with brutal slayings of his two teenage daughters, is in custody in North Texas after 12 years on the run. 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. Sarah, 17, and her sister Amina, 18, were found shot 11 times in the back of their father's taxi, abandoned in a hotel parking lot in 2008. (In reality, he would sneak into the government subsidized housing at night). Maggie writes about public safety in the D-FW suburbs. She filed a police report but took the kids back to Said a few months later and the girls recanted. How can we do better? However, like many girls in the Muslim world, (and sadly, among the poor everywhere), "Tissie" dropped out of high school ; she may only have completed the 8th grade. Now Yaser, its your turn to get what you gave a prison to call home.. August 27, 2020 / 1:30 PM / CBS DFW DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) - The mother of two sisters found shot to death in their father's taxicab in 2008 says justice will be served now that FBI agents have. Ms Owens said the charges against Mr Said were dropped after the girls withdrew their statements to police because they were scared of Mr Said. She could have returned her daughters back to their father so the murders could take place as planned. 2 men found drugged after leaving NYC gay bars were killed, medical examiner says. Yaser found out that both girls were dating in the fall of 2007 and like many times before he pulled a gun on Amina and Sarah and threatened to kill them for not following his rules. I think that "Tissie's" hand steadied that trigger far more fatefully. (Unsuprisingly, Zein Isa had the same mind-set that Islam Said, the Then she has the odasity to trick the girls into going back home to Texas. The FBI said that Said was arrested Wednesday afternoon in the Denton County town of Justin and two relatives were arrested in Euless. The girls subsequently told relatives that their recantation was false. This seems a likely possibility in "Tissie's" case which, however, does not mean that she is morally or even legally innocent in the matter of her daughters' abuse and death. In 2016, Oklahoma police arrested the mother, Patricia Spann, now 44, and her 26-year-old daughter, Misty Velvet Dawn Spann, charging both of them with incest. 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 . 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. Amina was shot twice and Sarah was shot nine times, lawyers have said. Saids abusive tendencies were evident early on when he sliced her leg open with a knife for refusing to have sex with him. PACOLET, S.C. . I do not have a simple answer. Who did what for Israel in 1948? Patricia Said now lives under her maiden name - Patricia Owens. Said, sitting across the room next to his lawyers and an interpreter, cocked his head to watch her. Please join us in the fight for justice for Amina and Sarah Said by calling on the Irving Police to revise this case and interrogate Patricia Owens Said and Islam Said. Owens pressed a tissue to her eyes and her shoulders shook as Sarahs cries rang through the courtroom. Amina was 18 years old and was shot two times and Sarah was 17 years old as was shot nine times. This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google. Their families often give them up. She returned to The Morning News in 2021 as a reporter covering primarily Dallas County criminal courts. Patricia Owens. When prosecutors asked Owens if she knew what would happen when they returned, she replied, Part of me did. 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. Armed homeowners Mark T. and Patricia N. McCloskey standing in front their house along Portland Place as they confront protesters marching on Sunday, June 28, 2020, in the Central West End of St.. According to my interviewees, "Tissie" also went to jail for her man when she was caught collecting welfare and a housing subsidy based on Yasser's presumed absence. Said was on the run for more than 12 years after he was charged with his daughters' murders. Maggie Prosser, Suburban Public Safety Reporter. 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 . They have seen (or were told about) photos of "Tissie" and Yasser in Arab dress, posing with guns and knives in exaggerated "jihadic" poses. Texas-born Patricia ("Tissie") Said, the mother of the two girls, should long ago have been charged as an accomplice in their honor killing. Web site Copyright Lewis Loflin, All rights reserved. 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. Patricia not getting anywhere with Amina took her by the arm telling her to hurry up they were running out of time. Long after the murder, Patricia continued to be haunted by the deaths of her daughters. Said also faces a federal charge of unlawful flight to avoid prosecution for the years he spent evading authorities. In the terrible case of honor killings, where Yaser Abdel Said shot his daughters Amina and Sarah, one role has remained murky throughout. Theres almost 24 hours where we dont know where that cab went, Schingle said. Owens divorced Said while he was on the run. Prosecutors painted Said as a controlling and abusive father and husband. Sarah and Amina Said deserve JUSTICE. However, Patricia herself, who married Yaser when she was 16, spoke about how he beat her. The girls managed to run away of the home to their mothers job where the girls also had part time jobs. "I think that . We failed them. My father shot me. NBC 5s Candace Sweat reports. She commented, That was the day I lost my whole family and my life as I knew it was gone forever. Mark and Patricia McCloskey, the Central West End couple who confronted protesters June 28 with a rifle and a gun in Mayor Lyda Krewson's neighborhood, have been charged with unlawful use of a .