On Dec. 21, 2007, Amina sent an email to her history teacher claiming her father wanted her to be in an arranged marriage. And she refused. Ten days later the girl’s bodies were found.
“He has simply made our lives a nightmare,” Amina recounted in her email. “He’s one man, not God.”
“We don’t want the police involved until we are ready,” Amina said.
“I am so scared right now. It’s crazy. Ok, well, as you know, we’re not allowed to date, and my dad is arranging my marriage. My dad said I cannot put it off anymore, and I have to get married this year.”
A family friend Ruth Trotter said, “He followed them everywhere they went and recorded their every move.”
Amina also explained to her teacher that Said threatened her younger sister.
There was testimony that Yaser Said held each girl at gunpoint at different points in December.
Father threatened daughters
When her father forced her to go home. Her boyfriend was afraid for her.
“She said that I would never see her again,” Ruiz stated. “This was the last time I would ever see her. Then she walked out.”
