Yaser Said, accused of killing his two daughters in 2008, was nearly caught in 2017, authorities say The FBI believes Said narrowly escaped after a maintenance worker reported seeing him at a Bedford apartment leased to the fugitive’s son, documents show.

(Dallas Morning News) Three years ago, authorities nearly captured Yaser Abdel Said — who spent more than a decade evading law enforcement on suspicion of killing his two teenage daughters in Irving — when a maintenance worker spotted him in a North Texas apartment belonging to his son.

Those and other details about what led to the capture of Said, who’d been on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list since 2014, were released Friday by the U.S. attorney’s office for the Northern District of Texas.

Said, 63, is suspected of killing 18-year-old Amina Said and 17-year-old Sarah Said on New Year’s Day 2008. Authorities said he shot them in his taxicab and left it outside an Irving hotel.

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