Amina kept refusing to go with her mother and she wanted to go back to Tulsa. The jury deliberated for three hours after six days of testimony before reaching a verdict. Said was added to the FBIs 10 Most Wanted fugitives list in 2014. 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. Its a missing persons case thats sat unsolved inside Ross Township police for over 30 years. On Aug. 14, 1996, the grand jury indicted Patricia and Dietrich, each on one count of aggravated sexual assault, a felony that carries a maximum sentence of up to life in prison, according to . How can a mother do such a thing? On New Years Day, Said started chewing the inside of his cheek, which Owens said he did when he was angry. 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. Yaser Said has entered a not guilty plea. They left all their phones behind so they couldn't be traced and finally left on December 25th after Yaser had left to go to work that night. They then moved to another area, closer to Ms Owens sister. Then the 911 emergency operator heard a barrage of gunshots. Reports suggest that she's in Arlington, Texas, having resided in several places before - including Bedford and Lewisville. 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. However, Sarah and Amina Said were American citizens. So they can actually Rest In Peace. NBC 5s Candace Sweat reports. authorities who were tracking the Abu Nidal group. And he controlled everything in his household. Initially we were looking at the two boyfriends, and then we focused on the defendant, he testified. 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. For example, in 2003, on the West Bank, Amira Abu Hanhan Qaoud, brutally murdered her 13 year-old daughter Rofayda who had been raped and impregnated by her two brothers. Copyright 2023 CBS Interactive Inc. All rights reserved. On the stand Monday, he denied killing his daughters and said he loved them. 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 . She added that after she was told of the assault, she took her daughters to make a report at the Hill County Sheriffs Department. She claims that her first-born son Islam needs her, and that he has grown up with his first cousins on his father's side. 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. She initially refused to answer any questions but when investigators charged her with murder, she agreed to reveal what she knew. BOTH RESEARCH AND ANECDOTAL EVIDENCE document that women collaborate, both directly and indirectly, in honor killings. I called "Tissie." 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 girls were described throughout the trial as smart and bubbly sisters who dreamed of becoming doctors. Patricia Said now lives under her maiden name - Patricia Owens. 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. Read More: Movies About Abusive Relationships. The manager gave Patricia days off from work to take the girls to a safe place and call the police, even taking donations among the store employees to help Patricia get her daughters protection. Patricia Owens, the mother of 18-year-old Amina Said and 17-year-old Sarah Said,. Owens repeatedly called Said the devil in her impassioned victim impact statement. Instead, she wanted to get out of the house at the time. Is Dallas becoming unaffordable due to rising housing costs, inflation and stagnating pay? 9:07 AM on Aug 9, 2022 CDT Updated at 7:10 PM on Aug 9, 2022 CDT. But, like Amina and Sarah Said, Palestina also had academic ambitions and she had an African-American "boyfriend." Gun-loving yes. Amina was 18 years old and was shot two times and Sarah was 17 years old as was shot nine times. Patricia has given several interviews in the past six years and most of them are very contradictory. 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.. Even though they remember incidents in which Yasser did not let "Tissie" leave the house and an incident in which he once blocked her car "Tissie" could have left at some other time. Amina and Sarah were honor students who dreamed of becoming doctors. The girls were found shot to . That was when she and her mother learned what was happening to Patricia. 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Saids son, Islam Said, was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison for helping him hide. "Tissie" also worked as a store clerk, as did her daughters. Part of me did, Owens said. These customs and relationships, which may seem (and which are) "primitive," actually preserve a peaceful status quo partly by keeping the wealth within one's own family. "I think that . But she didn't turn him in her mother, the girl's maternal grandmother, did that. "Tissie" covered up each instance. (In reality, he would sneak into the government subsidized housing at night). Their desire to live as Americans, and not as Arab Muslims in Egypt is precisely what doomed them. Im dying, Sarah said in the recording. My father shot me. PACOLET, S.C. . As such, she serves nine life sentences instead. Murderously "crazy" on the subject of women yes. 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. If using this material on another site, please provide a link back to my site. He kissed her forehead and a tear trailed down his face, Owens said. Part of me didnt.. Palestinian Abu Nidal terrorist operative, murdered her. What if people who come from an honor killing culture desire asylum from it? Either way, she failed to protect her daughters. Schingle is an investigator with the Dallas County district attorneys office. Shes spoken about why Yaser might have wanted to kill his daughters. The charge is a Class E felony that carries a possible penalty of up to four years in prison. 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. Watch the full trial here or on the WFAA YouTube page. Prosecutors painted Said as a controlling and abusive father and husband. Mr. Said harbored his father, Yaser, inside an apartment in Bedford, Texas, where a maintenance worker spotted Yaser on Aug. 14, 2017. She quickly glanced toward Said a few times. Owens said she has since been diagnosed with several medical conditions, including severe depression and post-traumatic stress disorder. After the killings, Owens lived briefly with Islam. He said he was being followed that night in his taxi and he ran to safety, abandoning the girls. The other man and his mother were in the courthouse last week, but they were not asked to testify. 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. What can explain such a perversion of maternal instinct and of the life force itself? But eventually, she got her own apartment and she said she believed Islam flew to Egypt. Dr. Brasheer Ahmed with the Muslim Community Center in North Richland Hills provided grief counseling to the girls' mother Patricia after the murders. He said she had some mental health issues and talked about wanting to go to Puerto Rico where it was warm. Start your Independent Premium subscription today. Prosecutors urged jurors to rely on Sarahs 911 call. Conspiracy Against Civil Rights, for her involvement in an actual conspiracy to violate the civil rights of Amina Said that. Mr. Said harbored his father, Yaser, inside an apartment in Bedford, Texas, where a maintenance worker spotted Yaser on Aug. 14, 2017. "Just imagine coping with this kind of thing, the murder of two, young, beautiful children. They had been dating men who werent Muslim. But Owens said she and the girls wished to go home so they could finish the school year. 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. Maybe mitigating circumstances exist that would diminish the charges that will eventually be brought against her. Renard Spivey, a sheriff's deputy in Texas who appeared on a popular TV show, has been charged with murder after his wife was found shot twice in their bedroom closet, according to the . Law enforcement finally captured the girl's father Yaser Said last year. Huskinson wants Patricia Said charged under Title 18, sec. The circuit attorney in St. Louis, Kimberly M. Gardner , said the couple created a dangerous situation . agreed at one point. ", Sometimes, a mother might physically murder her own daughter on her own, by herself, directly, not indirectly. Hopefully, with Yaser facing the consequences of his actions, Patricia will be able to start moving on with her life. It never went to court after the alleged victim said she could not face "the pressures or stress of a trial . 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. Clearly the proof is in the pudding and this is a double Honor Killing and the F.B.I. My informants tell me that "Tissie" could never control her son; that she minimizes, denies, and forgives his "weird, frightening, anti-social behaviors." Owens told jurors she was 15 when she married Said in February 1987. 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(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. Will you do the same? For us and where I was at, in my previous job, coming off the Super Bowl week," Patricia said of being hired last year after a Super Bowl loss with the Patriots. Facebook gives people the power to share and makes the world more open and connected. 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A cemetery posted a personal ad for a goose whose mate died. Ms Owens said he left messages claiming to have changed and that he would vacate the house they wanted him to. He pleaded not guilty to the charge of capital murder. Amina gives in and goes home with her mother and within a couple hours Amina and Sarah were shot to death by their father. Patricia knew there was no way her daughters would return to Texas so she lied to Amina and Sarah telling them she wanted to put flowers on their grandmother grave and they would spent New Years Day at their Aunt Connies, the mothers sister. Not long after that, the daughters withdrew their claims of abuse. Texas father Yaser Said stands accused of shooting and killing his daughters in his taxi, in what has been reported as an honour killing. Owens said Said had previously threatened Amina with a gun. How can we do better? Shock. She's spoken about why Yaser might have wanted to kill his daughters. Patricia Tissie Owens was not charged for the murder of her daughters but she had been to jail for collecting welfare and a housing subsidy based on her husband's presumed absence. 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. Yaser was on the run for so long, and its hard to wrap my brain around it. Irving detective Joe Hennig testified he asked the FBI to remove the honor killings narrative from their website and the department rejected that characterization. I felt scared not to go back, Owens explained. Meanwhile, I urge my readers to please send me your best suggestions about how American law enforcement, school, social service officials, legislators, mental health, and religious professionals may prevent the next honor killing in America. Its a murder, Hennig said. 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. 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. Her eyes shifted around the courtroom during the nearly two hours she was on the stand. Now It's been 13 years of waiting, long. Patricia Owens. They said that traces of ethylene glycol were found on Ryan's baby bottle, the same bottle that she had used to feed him on September 1st. Some batter and stalk their wives and physically and sexually abuse their daughters. The authorities think that the daughters were shot and killed around 7.30pm close to the Omni Hotel. 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 . They all headed for Kansas to Patricias aunts home. Mark and Patricia McCloskey, who are white, are both personal injury attorneys in their 60s. She took him to the hospital for treatment and tests showed high levels of ethylene glycol, the main ingredient in antifreeze, in his blood. Said is accused of killing his two daughters Amina, 18, and Sarah, 17, on New Year's Eve 2007 after police said he was upset his daughters were dating outside the Muslim faith. Said told jurors he saw headlights, pulled into a cab stand at a strip club and fled, leaving a gun in the cab. The girls were brilliant young ladies dreaming of nothing more than to live their lives as Americans and become doctors. The abuse was permitted (or at least not stopped) by their American mother, Patricia. "Join us in welcoming our new Deputy Chief of Mission Patricia Lacina to New Delhi, as she assumes the role of . 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. Amina and Sarah accused their father of sexual abuse in 1998. These experienced investigators never gave up on their quest to find him and pledged to never forget the young victims in this case.". Patricia Said, Yaser . 9:43 AM on Aug 4, 2022 CDT Updated at 6:45 PM on Aug 4, 2022 CDT. Owens made a report with the Hill County Sheriffs Office where they lived. You took my life, you took my family all in one day. Patricia McCloskey was also initially charged with the two felonies, but pleaded guilty to second-degree harassment and ordered to pay a $2,000 fine. She said that she didnt finish the process to get the order because they went back to Mr Said. In the Arab and Muslim world and in "Tissie's " world in Dallas, daughters are nothing but "trouble." And, according to her Owens relatives, "Tissie" laughed it off, "giggled," minimized it all. hear the girl's heartbreaking cries and found both parents guilty. 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.. Krista M. Torralva, Staff writer. The name of Ricks' granddaughter has not been released, but she was 8 years old, according to the sheriff's office. On television, Islam Said insisted that the boyfriends of Amina and Sarah were the ones who pulled the trigger. Among other things, this means that no one will marry the family's sons or the other daughters. Why does she behave as if she lived in the Middle East? Irving police detectives told jurors they did not test the girls boyfriends or the taxi for gunshot residue and did not take fingerprints or DNA. And this is not acceptable.". It's. zgr Tun is on Facebook. A film made about the murders, "The Price of Honor," alleges the girls were killed by their father as an "honor killing," a cultural practice where someone is killed after bringing shame on their family. 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. Patricia Stallings was arrested and charged for the murder of her son because the authorities said that she had poisoned Ryan during her last visit. Said became abusive and controlling, Owens said, and she left him countless times. The FBI said that Said was arrested Wednesday afternoon in the Denton County town of Justin and two relatives were arrested in Euless. The entire murder had been taped by federal Irving Chief of Police Jeff Spivey and FBI Dallas Special Agent in Charge Matthew DeSarno talk about the arrest and capture of Yaser Abdel Said, a Lewisville cab driver wanted in connection with the 2008 brutal slayings of his two teenage daughters. Until the trial, Owens said she hadnt seen Said since the day of the slayings. Ahmed said he specializes in counseling when conflicting matters of faith are involved. Owens told jurors last week she left Said countless times, and the final time was days before the girls slayings. And to this day, he has not been captured. Not only did you abuse our daughters, you brainwashed our son, Owens said. 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." Defense attorneys have argued police ignored the girls boyfriends as suspects and wrongly narrowed in on Said. Log in or sign up for Facebook to connect with friends, family and people you know. I just thought he would, like, punish them, like take their phone away and stuff like that, she said. Thanks for contacting us. 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). He reported them missing the next day, forcing Ms Owens to call the Lewisville Police Department to say she was alive and well but that she was scared of Mr Said, The Daily Beast reported. She is the longest-incarcerated woman in the California penal system. The jury got to brother of the honor murdered Dallas girls has. Sarah Said tells you who her killer is, Black said. Patricia Ann Wick (Stutsman County Jail) A 48-year-old woman and day care provider in North Dakota has been arrested for allegedly beating a 5-month-old child under her care to death last year. The girls and the friends agreed to allow Patricia to go along. Then her voice grew louder and stronger. According to my informants, "Islam bosses his mother around. The mother of two girls who were allegedly killed by their father has told his murder trial that he molested the teenagers. A Houston Independent School District teacher has been charged after being accused of assaulting a 5-year-old girl on Nov. 3 at Katherine Smith Elementary, according to court records. Said was on the run for more than 12 years after he was charged with his daughters' murders. Patricia Owens face grew red and her lips pursed as she pointed to the man accused of killing her two daughters. 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. 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. 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. Mr Said evaded capture for 12 years after the murders, according to prosecutors. Palestina tried very hard to please her parents. Isa said that "he had Diese Petition hat 1.181 Unterschriften erreicht, Diese Seite ist durch reCAPTCHA geschtzt und es gelten die Google. 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. However, Patricia herself, who married Yaser when she was 16, spoke about how he beat her. She is the one who tricked them, first by running. Lawyer Joel Patton claimed that some of Ms Owens allegations were untrue and that she was being led by prosecutors instead of independently answering questions. Diese*r Petitionsstarter*in setzt sich fr Dinge ein, die ihr/ihm am Herzen liegen. Mexican man charged with smuggling 13 . 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. Both men are being charged with harboring a known fugitive. Patricia Lacina assumed the office of Charge d'Affaires at the US Embassy last year.
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