On the current, award-winning investigative reporter David Scott sits down with quite a lot of probably the most notorious murderers inside the U.S., a number of of whom have not at all spoken with the media about their convictions.

This Sunday’s new hour revolves spherical Mentioned, who was convicted in 2022 of fatally taking photos 18-year-old Amina Mentioned and 17-year-old Sarah Mentioned, after 12 years on the run from authorities. The 2 had been found lifeless in Mentioned’s taxi cab, with Sarah calling 911 in her dying moments and determining her father because the one which shot her.

Their deaths bought right here each week after the two sisters and their mother fled their dwelling in Lewisville, Texas to Oklahoma, to allegedly escape Mentioned. The killings had been dubbed “honor killings” inside the media, as Mentioned was accused of murdering the ladies for bringing dishonor to their family by courting males of non-Muslim faith.

He has always maintained his innocence, claiming conspiracy theories all by way of the trial; his private partner, nonetheless, not at all believed him, testified in opposition to him all through his trial, and, after his verdict was study, knowledgeable her ex “You need to die.”

Talking with Scott for the first time since his conviction in a clip distinctive to TooFab, Mentioned is requested regarding the motive behind their killings, leading to a heated backwards and forwards between the pair.

“Amina, simply earlier than she was murdered, she informed a instructor in regards to the stress within the family and she or he was fearful of you,” Scott acknowledged, finding out an electronic message Mentioned’s daughter allegedly acknowledged to a teacher days sooner than her murder. “She stated, ‘We’re operating away earlier than the break ends. I do know he’ll seek for us till he finds us and he’ll, with none drama or doubt, kill us.’ She’s speaking about you.”

Mentioned, nonetheless, responded by saying, “I do not suppose that is true. No, I did not consider that.” When Scott pushed once more, saying, ‘It is an electronic message she wrote to a teacher,” Mentioned added, “I do not understand how this electronic mail is made and I do not know if it is actual or not.”

When immediately requested whether or not or not he believes the e-mail “may very well be a faux,” Mentioned replied, “I feel so, sure.”

Scott then launched up one different doable motive for the murders.

“Not due to their disgraceful conduct, however to cowl up your personal disgraceful conduct. Amina was speaking about your sexual abuse of her once more,” he acknowledged, mentioning Amina’s claims her father assaulted her. “And she or he informed the instructor that once we had been youthful, he used to do issues, and he began hinting at them once more. Did you kill your daughters to close them up from making these accusations?”

That question appeared to tick off the convicted killer, who reacted by exclaiming, “Oh, that is bulls–t. This isn’t reality. That is simply accusation. Why in a critical case like this, why would you carry accusations. She stated, he stated.”

When knowledgeable these had been his daughter’s phrases, Mentioned added, “I did not consider this paper … I do not know.”

Then, Scott really went in, criticizing Mentioned’s complete safety.

“You continue to say it is a political conspiracy, even with all this proof. Let me ask you this, Mr. Mentioned, as a result of your story defies logic and customary sense, and, frankly, all perception,” he knowledgeable him. “I am not even certain you consider it, however your loved ones definitely would not appear to consider it, the jury did not consider it.”

“It is not possible to think about that these crimes are the results of an elaborate conspiracy when, in actual fact, your daughters had been threatened, they are saying, by you, and so they had been discovered lifeless in your taxi cab, final seen with you. Does that make sense to you?” he then requested.

Mentioned replied by saying the FBI “did not do their job,” sooner than accusing police of attempting to “disguise one thing” with their investigation. He moreover criticized the media for not being “sincere on this case.”

The clip ends with Scott questioning why, if he was innocent, he stayed hidden for 12 years and not at all turned himself in.

See further from the sit-down when Interview With a Killer airs Sunday at 8pm on Courtroom TV.