Yaser Said, man convicted of murdering daughters in 2008, speaks out in new true crime show

Yaser said again denied killing his two teenage daughters and believes his arrest and prosecution are part of an international political conspiracy, he said on a new true crime TV show.

Said is speaking for the first time since his conviction and is the subject of the second episode – ”Honour Killings” – of Court TV’s original series ‘Interview with a Killer’”, which airs Sundays at 7pm CST. The episode also includes footage from Said’s 2022 Dallas County trial and home videos of his daughters.

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

From behind glass and via a prison phone at the William C. McConnell Unit in Beeville, Said told investigative journalist David Scott that he is the victim of a ploy to pursue honor killing laws in the United Arab Emirates.

“The FBI didn’t do its job,” Said told Scott. “Irving police, they’re hiding something. The media was not honest in this case – especially in this case – to reach a political point.”

Yaser Said denies the murder of daughters Amina and Sarah and says he was followed

Sara and Amina were found bloodied and slumped over in their father’s taxi parked outside the Omni Mandalay Hotel in Las Colinas, which is part of Irving. Amina, 18, was shot twice and Sarah, 17, was shot nine times.

Said, who comes from Egypt, was controlling and abusive towards his daughters and did not want them to have American boyfriends, according to testimony during his trial. Days before they were killed, Amina and Sarah fled Texas – with the help of their friends – because they were afraid of their father, but later returned.

The teens had expressed abuse before; “He will kill us, without any drama or doubt,” Amina wrote in an email to her history teacher at Lewisville High School.

In the interview with Scott, Said claims the email and abuse allegations were fabricated. He also said he had no gun the night of the murders – contrary to his own testimony at trial.

Said said as he took the witness stand at his own trialand repeated to Court TV that he had taken the girls out for dinner when he felt one or two cars following his orange Jet Taxi cab. Said told jurors he feared for his life, drove into the taxi stand of a strip club and left, leaving his daughters behind.

“They wanted to be average teenagers, average American girls,” says 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, bubbly and lively. The sisters were honor students who dreamed of becoming doctors.