Detroit Lions head coach Matt Patricia has come under fire following a disturbing investigative report by Robert Snell of The Detroit News. 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. Both men are being charged with harboring a known fugitive. Palestina Isa's three sisters kept pestering their father to "do something about the nigger-loving whore. https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/7045530-Yaser-Abdel-Said.html, Copyright 2023 NBCUniversal Media, LLC. You deserve to die now.. I do not have a simple answer. "Tissie" told them that Yasser was contrite, that he only wanted to have tea with his daughters and to talk things through. Its a missing persons case thats sat unsolved inside Ross Township police for over 30 years. 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.) At one point, state District Judge Chika Anyiam told Lollar to instruct Said to sit quietly so the family can say their piece., You have their blood on your hands, Owens said. DeSarno said while they are now focusing on the prosecution of Said, but they also hope to learn who else provided him aid and comfort over the last 12 years so that they, too, can face charges. If using this material on another site, please provide a link back to my site. During a conversation Patricia stated if she took her daughters back to Texas Yaser would definitely kill them. 9:07 AM on Aug 9, 2022 CDT Updated at 7:10 PM on Aug 9, 2022 CDT. 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. She is the longest-incarcerated woman in the California penal system. 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. 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. Updated at 7:10 p.m. with additional information throughout. Non-Arab and non-Muslim mothers also stand by their batterers (who may have girlfriends, and who, like Yasser, may leave for extended periods of time); and, they have been known to scapegoat their daughters for having "provoked" paternal lust. And, according to her Owens relatives, "Tissie" laughed it off, "giggled," minimized it all. As for a motive, Irving Police Chief Jeff Spivey said he's more concerned about seeing justice done now that Said is in custody. Patricia Ripley was allegedly seen on . According to Patricia, she didnt marry Yaser out of love. Even if her own life was threatened, even if her husband Yasser had literally held a gun to her head and told her to trick her daughters into returning, isn't a mother supposed to sacrifice herself for her children? Liesbeth Powers/The Dallas Morning News via AP, Shafkat Anowar/The Dallas Morning News via AP, 2023 NYP Holdings, Inc. All Rights Reserved, Pakistan arrests man in honor killing of teen daughter who rejected arranged marriage, Indian woman murdered, dumped in suitcase by parents for marrying a man from different caste, Honor killings trial starts for Texas father accused of gunning down daughters, Brother acquitted for honor killing of Pakistans Kim Kardashian, murdering his two daughters in honor killings. He still needs her. But, Patricia maintained that if she saw her ex-husband again, shed first call the authorities and then ask him why and how someone could murder his daughters. Im not scared of you anymore, she said, no longer reading what she prepared. Randall Johnson, an Irving police detective, testified he sensed from talking with the mother and son that night that Islam was controlling the situation more than Patricia. Johnson, who has since retired, described Owens as reserved. She told the jury how she married Said in 1987, when she was just 15 and he was 29. "We were in shock," Juana said. 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. Amina, Sarah and Owens fled to an apartment in Tulsa with the girls boyfriends. They said they had responded to "a disturbance call involving an unruly passenger." We've received your submission. 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Owens said she has since been diagnosed with several medical conditions, including severe depression and post-traumatic stress disorder. Owens told jurors last week she left Said countless times, and the final time was days before the girls slayings. I am very happy now. Defense attorneys have argued police ignored the girls boyfriends as suspects and wrongly narrowed in on Said. Her husband, Mark . The girls managed to run away of the home to their mothers job where the girls also had part time jobs. And she never left him because he battered their daughters. "Tissie" also worked as a store clerk, as did her daughters. According to my interviewees, "Tissie," not Yasser, was the main support of the family. "Tissie" Said is not the first mother to have participated in an honor what might we have to do to prevent honor killings in America? Patricia Owens face grew red and her lips pursed as she pointed to the man accused of killing her two daughters. 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. But, such parents do not usually kill their daughters. I saw her tears," he said. Owens fixed her eyes straight ahead as she walked into the courtroom. That evening Patricia drove to Amina boyfriends parents to talk to her daughter. She knew about the home videos. Gun-loving yes. Patricia exited while reporters were still asking questions, and the effort to "clear his name" ultimately did not include many (any) specifics. 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. Krista Torralva first joined The Dallas Morning News as an intern on the business desk in 2013. Yaser was abusive.. (Source: WPXI/ROSS TOWNSHIP POLICE/CNN) At that time, "Tissie" also admitted to one of my interviewees that Yasser had threatened to kill the girls. New Jersey law bars anyone under 14 . The mother must be charged with conspiracy to murder her daughters. All signs point to Yaser Said. 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. 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. NBC 5's Ken Kalthoff contributed to this report. Part of me did, Owens said. 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. The film furthers speculation the girls' father objected to his daughters living an "American lifestyle.". The last words from Texas teenager Sarah Said were 'Oh my God, I'm dying'. Then the 911 emergency operator heard a barrage of gunshots. The next day Patricia bought a new cell phone and now had a number Yaser didnt have, they rented an apartment and bought some furniture and the girls felt a little safer. "The fact that he murdered his two daughters, the fact that hes been in the run for 12 years and the fact that tonight his flight from justice ended and justice for Amina and Sarah begins, thats what is most important to us.". There is something wrong with him." The girls subsequently told relatives that their recantation was false. 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 . What if the women of such cultures, transplanted to American shores, are relying upon American law to prevail and to save their lives? He kissed her forehead and a tear trailed down his face, Owens said. It was total shock, said Gloria Smith, Patricia Koptas sister. Owens and her sister, Connie Moggio, addressed Said in a crowded courtroom Tuesday afternoon. But, like Amina and Sarah Said, Palestina also had academic ambitions and she had an African-American "boyfriend." Earlier this week, prosecutors played a recording of a 911 call placed by Sarah after she had been shot, but was still alive. killing on American soil. My father shot me. 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. 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 . Patricia Ann Ricks, 72, is being held without bond in Nash County, North Carolina, following her arrest this week on multiple charges including first-degree murder. 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. Owens testimony was at odds with what Aminas boyfriend told jurors: He said Amina did not want to return. 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. On Christmas Day, after Mr Said went to work, Ms Owens testified that they fled to Oklahoma with their clothes in trash bags. 2023 CBS Interactive Inc. All Rights Reserved. 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 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. It never went to court after the alleged victim said she could not face "the pressures or stress of a trial . "We don't know how long he was in Justin, but we do know he's not there anymore," DeSarno said. At one level, it is quite simple to understand: "Tissie" behaves in the same way that any normal, uneducated Arab Muslim wife might behave. A Florida mother, who allegedly lied to police that her son with autism was abducted by two black men, was charged with the child's murder, police said. 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. Even then, Amina refused to go back to the house, fearful of the repercussions. 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. Long after the murder, Patricia continued to be haunted by the deaths of her daughters. And we all want justice for Sarah, said defense attorney Joseph Patton earlier Tuesday during lawyers closing arguments before the 12-person jury began deliberating. That devil there, Owens said of Yaser Said, the man she divorced while he was on the run after the murders. What makes such behavior unexpected, or culturally "abnormal," is that "Tissie" was born in America and raised in a Christian (although not in an especially religious) household. Patricia tells her daughters she had always wanted to leave their father and asked to run with them. 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. Patricia Owens holds up photos of her daughters 18-year-old Amina Said (center) and 17-year-old Sarah Said as she walks up to the stand to give a victim impact statement to Yaser Said after. After ending up on the FBIs Most Wanted List, he was located in 2020 in Justin, Texas only 40 minutes from where the alleged murder took place. 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 . And he controlled everything in his household. She knew he had a gun. You kill somebody, there is no honor to it. 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. Owens and the girls fled Said again in December 2007. At least 10 killed as Israel unleashes deadly missile stri Canadian teacher with size-Z prosthetic breasts placed on paid leave, What's next for Buster Murdaugh after dad's murder conviction, life sentence, Murdaugh son collapsed outside court after sitting stone-faced through dad's 6-week murder trial: source, Kelly Osbourne posts first photo of baby son as he hangs out with uncle Jack, Greys Anatomy alum Isaiah Washington retiring from acting: The haters have won, Madonna watches new boyfriend Joshua Poppers fight in New York City, Max Scherzer's first look at the new pitch clock, Chris Rock Jokes About Watching Emancipation to See Will Smith Getting Whipped In Advance of Netflix Special: Report, Kellyanne Conway and George Conway to divorce. 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. They do not shelter them. Their own father. Their father Yaser Abdel Said is wanted by the FBI for their murders. First published on February 8, 2023 / 12:20 PM. 9:43 AM on Aug 4, 2022 CDT Updated at 6:45 PM on Aug 4, 2022 CDT. Owens took the stand in a Dallas County courtroom Thursday, the third day of Saids capital murder trial. Its a case closed, and a family reconnected. Patricia Owens, the mother of 18-year-old Amina Said and 17-year-old Sarah Said, takes the stand on the third day of trial of her ex-husband Yaser Said at the Frank Crowley Courts Building in Dallas on Thursday, Aug. 4, 2022, Yaser Said, 65, looks behind him during his first day on trial at the Frank Crowley Courts Building in Dallas, on Tuesday, Aug. 2, 2022. . 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. That said, his denial seemed heartfelt and genuine. Now Yaser, its your turn to get what you gave a prison to call home.. Amina Said, 18, and her sister Sarah, 17, were shot dead on New Year's Day in 2008 and their bodies left in cab at hotel parking. Police have said the AuSable Forks woman and her ex-boyfriend, Brandon Bushey, 25, of New Jersey, were responsible for the . Im dying, Sarah said in the recording. 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. 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. Or political. When Patricia Owens was asked to identify her ex-husband in court, she pointed at Yaser Said, saying: "That devil there." Said, 65, is charged with capital murder, accused of killing 18-year-old Amina Said and 17-year-old Sarah Said on New Year's Day in 2008. 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. While we may not always be successful in preventing or prosecuting such behaviors, we know that they constitute crimes. She and the three children left Said for about four months. She added that Mr Said said that he wanted to murder her after the charges were filed. Shes asking for help and she names her killer, her father, Yaser Said, Ms Black said. Mr Said evaded capture for 12 years after the murders, according to prosecutors. Patricia Owens, the mother of 18-year-old Amina Said and 17-year-old Sarah Said,. She took all three children and left him for months, before returning and telling the girls to recant their story. Some of "Tissie's" female relatives believe that she converted to Islam. They moved to Oklahoma but later went back to Texas when Mr Said reported them as missing. Theres no such thing as an honor killing. Yaser Said had been on the run since 2008 after police said he took his daughters, 18-year-old Amina and 17-year-old Sarah, to get something to eat on New Year's Day. But for honor killing, it was her husband Yaser, brother-in-law Yassein Abdulfatah Said, and their own son Islam was charged. Will you do the same? 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. She is Patricia Kopta. 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. Part of me didnt.. Both Sarah and Amina appeared at school with bruises, and at one point Amina even had a split lip. He said he didnt think anyone would harm Amina and Sarah. Texas-born Patricia ("Tissie") Said, the mother of the two girls, should long ago have been charged as an accomplice in their honor killing. I must clarify that this conduct is against any Islamic principals," he said. Also, if "Tissie" had Arab Muslim brothers of her own, they might potentially come to her aid against her husband or on behalf of her daughters but they might also help her husband enforce the rules and customs of Islamic gender apartheid against her. While there she refused to discuss her private life or where she came from, he said. 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. All rights reserved. Krista graduated from the University of Texas at Arlington with a major in journalism and a minor in criminal justice. 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. While none of that worked, she was right where he thought she might be. "She said. He was 29. hellcat vs p938; simple small front yard landscaping ideas low maintenance; jenny's super stretchy bind off in the round; senate democratic media center Saids son, Islam Said, was sentenced to 10 years in prison for helping him hide. 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. Such Americanized behavior doomed all these honor murdered girls. It's. 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. 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. or. In what could only be described as a horrid evil act of honorcide. The abuse was permitted (or at least not stopped) by their American mother, Patricia. Shock. 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. 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. The FBI-led Dallas Violent Crimes Task Force has worked tirelessly to find Yaser Abdel Said. My four informants do not believe that "Tissie" is now being or was ever held hostage. This is just killing. 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. "Just imagine coping with this kind of thing, the murder of two, young, beautiful children. Is Dallas becoming unaffordable due to rising housing costs, inflation and stagnating pay? Said hugged Amina when she returned, Owens said. Reports suggest that shes in Arlington, Texas, having resided in several places before including Bedford and Lewisville. Taxi drivers lease vehicles for short stints, often weeks at a time, from fleet owners whom the cars are registered to. If this approach became known public policy, some people might simply lie. (l am). Ms Owens testified that she left Mr Said multiple times but that fear forced her back. 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. Ms Owens added that another factor in the return to Texas was for Amina for graduate high school and not put her college scholarship at risk. Raised in Columbus, she's a graduate of Ohio University, where she studied journalism. Now It's been 13 years of waiting, long. 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. But she didn't turn him in her mother, the girl's maternal grandmother, did that. My informants tell me that "Tissie" could never control her son; that she minimizes, denies, and forgives his "weird, frightening, anti-social behaviors." If it were him, hed have made the bodies disappear. "I think that . Their families testify against them. Either way, she failed to protect her daughters. Saids abusive tendencies were evident early on when he sliced her leg open with a knife for refusing to have sex with him. 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. Said was on the run for more than 12 years after he was charged with his daughters' murders. 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. In one instance, Yasser had embedded one of his daughters' braces in her lip. (Source: WPXI/ROSS TOWNSHIP POLICE/CNN), Greenville woman charged in Beaufort County burglaries, Family of man killed by Wallace police seek justice during prayer vigil, Tom Sizemore, Saving Private Ryan actor, dies at 61. 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 . 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. He is her wounded child. On the stand Monday, he denied killing his daughters and said he loved them. Bruno sentenced Giddings, 22, to four to 12 years in prison. Owens brought Amina home that evening. The honour killing allegedly occurred outside Dallas after he found out that they had begun dating and that he wasnt able to control them. She and Yasser kept moving, roving, "like nomads," (or like sociopaths), to escape school or child protective agency scrutiny. She returned to The Morning News in 2021 as a reporter covering primarily Dallas County criminal courts. Hennig testified Irving police rejected that characterization of the slayings. Read More: Movies About Abusive Relationships. Owens said Said had previously threatened Amina with a gun. A 21-year-old woman alleged that the two of them broke into her room and sexually assaulted her. Amina and Sarah were honor students who dreamed of becoming doctors. Authorities took Ricks into custody on Tuesday, and the woman now faces charges for first-degree murder and felony child abuse resulting in serious injury. Prosecutors urged jurors to rely on Sarahs 911 call. A Dallas County jury found Said guilty of capital murder Tuesday and a judge sentenced him to life in prison 14 years after he killed Amina and Sarah Said. Owens claimed she left Said multiple times during the marriage and described him as controlling. What if people who come from an honor killing culture desire asylum from it? "Under no way, this is honor killing. Muse suggested Amina had plans to marry another young man and Ruiz was upset when he found out. The charge stemmed from an allegation against Patricia when he was in college in 1996. So, where is Patricia today? An emotional Ms Owens said that Sarah and Amina told her back in 1998 that their father had sexually assaulted them. 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