Yaser Said, who was convicted of murdering girls in 2008, speaks in the new true crime program

Yasser Said He once again denied killing his two young daughters Speaking on a new true crime TV show, he said he believed his arrest and trial were part of an international political conspiracy.

Said, 67 years old currently serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole for shooting Sarah and Amina Said Yaser had been kidnapped by authorities for more than a decade and was on the FBI’s 10 Most Wanted Fugitives list before his arrest. Caught at a family home in Denton County in August 2020.

Speaking for the first time since his conviction, Said became the subject of the second episode of the series, ‘Honour’ Killings. Court TV’s original series “Interview with the Killer”It airs on Sunday at 7pm CST. The episode also includes footage from Said’s 2022 trial in Dallas County and home videos of his daughters.

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

The killings were called so-called “honour killings”; This narrative quickly spread and became even more heated. 2014 documentary “The Price of Honor” and when the FBI called Honor killings on murders websites. This identification was later denied by law enforcement at Said’s trial.

From behind glass and via prison phone at the William C. McConnell Unit in Beeville, Said told investigative reporter David Scott that he was the victim of a ruse intended to go after “honor killing” laws in the United Arab Emirates.

“The FBI didn’t do its job,” Said told Scott. “Irving police, they’re hiding something (sic). “The media was dishonest in this case, especially in this case, to make a political point.”

Said added: “I did not commit a crime (sic)… I did not kill anyone.”

Sarah and Amina He was found covered in blood and collapsed on the ground In their father’s taxi parked outside the Omni Mandalay Hotel in Las Colinas, part of the Irving. Amina, 18, was shot twice, and Sarah, 17, was shot nine times.

Egyptian Said, He was controlling and abusive. According to testimony at his trial, he was abusive towards his daughters and did not want them to have American boyfriends. Days before he was killed, Amina and Sarah escaped from Texas – with the help of their boyfriends – because they were afraid of their father, but then they came back.

Young people have screamed abuse before; “He will kill us without any drama or suspicion,” Amina wrote in an email to her Lewisville High School history teacher.

In his interview with Scott, Said claims that the email and the abuse allegations are fabricated. He also said he did not have a gun the night of the murders; This contradicts his own testimony at the hearing.

When Said took the witness stand at his own trial, he said:and repeated to Court TV that he was taking the girls out for dinner and sensed there was a car or two behind the orange Jet Taxi cab. Said told jurors that she feared for her life, got into the taxi rank of a strip club and left, abandoning her daughters.

“They wanted to be average teenagers, average American girls,” said Neena Nejad, director of The Price of Honor. “They had dreams, they had hopes, they had ambitions; things they wanted to do in life.”

Amina and Sarah are described as smart, cheerful and cheerful. The sisters were honor students who dreamed of becoming doctors.