It was a chilly New Year’s Day in Irving, Texas, a day usually filled with hope and new beginnings for most. For Yaser Abdel Said, it was no different, but his idea of starting a new meant moving forward without his two innocent Teenage daughters.
Nisie G. Jimenez
Updated: 8/27/20
It was a chilly New Year’s Day in Irving, Texas, a day usually filled with hope and new beginnings for most. For Yaser Abdel Said, it was no different, but his idea of starting a new meant moving forward without his two innocent Teenage daughters. How could a father be so callous and murder his children in cold blood? Irving Police had an idea, and the answer will leave you staggered.
The term “Honor Killing” became well known when investigators began suspecting this to be the motive for the murder of the two teenage sisters. What is an “Honor Killing” exactly? An honor killing is when a family member murders another family member to regain nobility they feel has been lost.
According to the Honour Based Violence Awareness Network (HBV), “HBV has occurred within many different societies, and many different periods in history, within male-dominated societies where there is an insistence upon the control of female autonomy.” These are crimes that are primarily affecting women and is truly a disturbing phenomenon. HBV also revealed that there are five thousand Honor Killings per year internationally.
The details of this heartbreaking crime are almost too difficult to imagine. Their father deceived sisters Amina 18 and Sarah 17 under the guise of going out to dinner. But instead of arriving at a restaurant, Yaser Abdel Said pulled into a dreary motel parking lot. Irving police show in the 911 tapes how one of the daughters was fatally injured but could call the police and inform 911 operators of their location. Sadly, both sisters had mortal injuries and did not survive the gunshot wounds.
Home video shows a rather creepy side of Yaser Abdel Said. It shows him strangely walking into his daughter’s room, making inappropriate comments to the two girls, and making them uncomfortable. Could some twisted family life be the reason for this grisly murder?
August 27, 2020 Yaser Abdel Said was finally located by FBI detectives just an hour away from Plano. FBI’s Dallas Violent Crimes Task Force lead the manhunt since December of 2014 but never gave up hope. Will we finally learn his motives in court?
Sources:
https://www.fbi.gov/contact-us/field-offices/dallas/news/press-releases/fbi-ten-most-wanted-fugitive-yaser-abdel-said-now-in-custody