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tip that i received. >> plus, a teenage girl's terrifying call to 911. >> my daughter. >> dark family secrets, forbidden love, and a shocking arrest. >> he's a monster. >> i went to texas to investigate the twisted case of a modern day romeo and juliet. that ended in a double homicide. thanks for joining us. when amanda riley told her friends that she had stage three cancer, the donations started pouring in. then our managing editor began investigating an anonymous tip that amanda might be faking her diagnosis. she had no idea that it would lead to the arrest of a suburban mom, and turned amanda riley into a household name, now known to millions of true crime fans as amanda. >> the community raised $100,000. >> i started donating $500 a month. >> the sympathy money was rolling in by the thousands, all

with heartfelt intent from friends and churchgoers to help a young woman with a horrible cancer diagnosis. >> i heard the words, you have stage three blood cancer. >> amanda riley, a bubbly california wife and mom and self-proclaimed devout christian, eagerly joined the cancer warrior community. >> i'm a terminal patient, so i'm in a clinical trial just trying to buy more time. >> her case even caught the attention of celebrities, from leann rimes to glee's matthew morrison. but amanda's real diagnosis was about to change. >> the information that amanda gave didn't make sense. these things are not adding up. i don't think she's sick. >> everyone knows. >> turns out she didn't have cancer at all. it was just one big money grabbing scam. true crime news managing editor nancy moscatello first discovered amanda riley's scam. nancy is a

producer on the docuseries and a longtime colleague of mine. nancy, what put amanda on your radar? >> amanda was on my radar from a tip that i received back in 2015. she had a really detailed blog. that's how i came to learn about her. >> amanda, based on the number one podcast by the same name, takes a deep dive into this elaborate con with so many victims. so how would you describe who the victims in this case are? >> the victims range from family, friends, the community as a whole. the church, especially the church, was pretty integral with her being able to run the scam for as long as she did. she took them on an emotional roller coaster, with appearing on stage and confiding in them, making friends within the church. the whole community was affected by her. >> amanda documented everything, posting pictures on her website and updating her supposed cancer

treatments. it was all a fake. >> we searched szwarz. nancy's investigation prompted cops to start digging. the two of us were there in the bay area, when local police and federal agents raided amanda's house. it looks like amanda's husband is coming out. what's interesting about that raid is you generally don't always think of the irs being in charge of a raid. >> yeah, no, this was this was across forces between san jose police and the federal government with the irs. it was, i would say, a good 10 to 15 agents battering ram weapons. what you need to go, you know, pound on the door and announce that the irs is here. was there. if you're defrauding someone, it becomes a financial crime, whether it's an individual or a business or even the government. >> i had information and documentation that i shared with the irs, and they found that the

case was going to have enough for them to continue on. >> with her lies unraveling. amanda was busted. she pleaded guilty to wire fraud and was sentenced to five years. what's your opinion of her sentence? >> i was really surprised by it, in the sense that i was pleased by it, because the department of justice had asked for about 18 months and the judge, after hearing impact statements, the judge felt the need to update the sentencing guidelines and went for five years as opposed to 18 months. >> and now, after the abc doc was shot, there are new developments in the case. it seems freedom could be right around the corner. >> amanda recently was moved from the federal prison that she was at in texas to here in southern california to not quite a halfway house, but like a step down facility, which is a reentry program in the riverside county area, riverside, california. she's she's there

for now. and then by the end of december this year or mid-december this year, 2025, her sentencing is done. >> viewers will get a behind the scenes look at the woman now infamously named scamanda. premiering tonight on abc and hulu. >> it was only a matter of time until amanda's whole world came tumbling down. >> amanda riley has been ordered to pay back her victims. when we come back, a secret romance. a family in fear and a panicked 911 call. the tragic story of teen sisters amina and sarah saeed. that's next. >> a brighter, whiter smile is now easier than ever with smile actives, the daily teeth whitening breakthrough that fades away stains to brilliantly brighten your smile every time you brush. within 30 days of using smile actives daily, your teeth stay white. it is the

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bodies of amina and sarah saeed are found riddled with bullets in an abandoned taxi, investigators launch an international manhunt for the missing driver. the girl's own father. >> who would think that their father would kill them. >> i think it takes a pretty evil person to murder your two daughters. >> he's a monster. >> amina leaves behind a brokenhearted boyfriend, joseph moreno. the real life romeo in this ill fated love story. >> we both felt like what we had was very real. and it was very. very much worth fighting for. and to her, it was worth dying for. >> sadly, his juliet, amina saeed, does die for it after her father, yasser abdel saeed, learns about their forbidden romance. >> it was hard to say the least.

>> joseph and amina met in a martial arts class, and the young teens become inseparable for the next four years. >> we used to write like little love notes to each other pretty much every day. >> there's only one problem with their relationship they have to keep it top secret. the saeed sisters are caught in the crossfire between two cultures. their mother, patricia, texas, born and raised, married their egyptian father, yasser, when she was 15 and he was 29. now, yasser is set on marrying off his daughters to much older men in his native egypt, and he lays down the law no american boyfriends. >> she smiled to the customers. >> she has to part of her job. >> she's in trouble. >> it isn't just that yasser is controlling. he's creepy. >> wow, look at this ice. i put my eye on you. >> i'm going to get sick now.

>> keeping his girls under surveillance at work, even at home in the bedroom. the girls share. >> a very nice. >> get out! i'm erasing this tape. >> no you can't. >> yes, i will. are you joking? this is illegal. i videotape you and you're sleeping. don't even think about it, sir. >> asleep with her pants. good. that's for recordation people. see how you sleep with your clothes. nice leaks. >> they told their grandmother, patricia's mother, that yasser had been messing with them. and by that. >> by that you mean sexually. >> sexually abusing them? yes. >> after the girls alleged their father raped them, their mother moved out. but then, says their great aunt jill, she went back. she always went back. and then suddenly, curiously, the girl said they fabricated the whole

story of abuse. >> yasser and her made the kids recant their story and say that it didn't happen to keep him out of jail. >> it could be that they, you know, they felt pressured or they were scared and didn't want to see that parent get in trouble. >> now, yasser was ruling the household in ways he saw fit for his wife, patricia. it was pure hell. >> he would take stuff from the dresser drawers and go pour it all out in the middle of the floor and then make me sit there and clean it all up. he cut me on my leg because i wouldn't have intercourse with him. yasser was not faithful. he had. six affairs, and i know of. >> yasser also had his wife pose for disturbing photos, like this one, where he's holding a knife to her throat. despite the

abuse, patricia would stay. >> she would leave him for a day or two. she'd think it was funny, like she was teaching him a lesson. >> but it would escalate after yasser finds a love note his daughter amina had written to her secret boyfriend joseph. >> and she got a brutal beating because he wanted all the information on my son and she didn't reveal anything to him. >> the enraged father solution. within days, he moves his family out of town. >> i went from talking to her hours a day, every day to just nothing. she just. she was just gone. >> it all goes downhill from there. when we come back, an internatio l manhunt for a killer begins. that's next. >> can the riva support your brain health? >> mary? janet. hey, eddie. >> noé. fraser. frank. frank.

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sarah saeed, teen sisters who made a desperate 911 call as the crime was unfolding. now, police are honing in on a suspect. yasir saeed is furious after learning that both of his teenage daughters have american boyfriends. then, when amina refuses an arranged marriage to a much older man in her father's native egypt, yasir goes ballistic. >> he pulled a gun on him that day and he was going to kill him. >> the girls know they have to escape to save their lives. along with their mother, patricia, they flee to oklahoma, but yasir calms down and urges them to come home. >> joseph begged her not to go back. he said, amina, you know what's going to happen. >> they knew if they ever went back that he would definitely kill them. >> still, patricia caves and the three women go back to texas. amina doesn't want to see her father, but patricia convinces

her and sister sarah to go have a meal with him to discuss the situation. the girls go with their father. what happens next is nothing short of horrifying. police dispatchers get a frantic 911 call from sarah. >> what's going on, ma'am? >> i'm dying. magwood rybar. unbelievably, sarah is being shot as she's calling. as cops try to track her location, dispatchers getnother 911 call about bodies in a cab parked at a taxi stand outside this hotel. >> but there are two people inside the cab, one in the passenger seat and one in the rear of the vehicle, and she has blood coming from her ear. >> cops arrive at the scene to find amina lying dead from two gunshot wounds and sarah from nine, but no driver. yasir

saeed. >> the officers, they began searching the area. any place that they could think of that he might go. >> police raided saeed's lewisville home. he was gone. never seen since. >> and it would take a dozen years to finally catch up with him. >> this is a good day for law enforcement. >> yasir saeed had been hiding in plain sight all along with the help of his egyptian family members. >> his flight from justice ended in justice for amina and sarah begins. >> his son islam pleads guilty to harboring a fugitive and is sentenced to ten years in federal prison, and yasir's brother receives 12 years for helping yasir evade capture. as for the accused killer himself, he pleads not guilty and goes to trial. two years later. >> did you kill your daughter that night? >> definitely not. i did not kill my daughters. >> the jury disagreed, deliberating only three hours before coming to a decision. >> we, the jury, unanimously

find the defendant, yasir saeed, guilty of the offense of capital murder. >> saeed didn't get the death penalty, but he will spend the rest of his life behind bars, a devastating end to a tragic texas made romeo and juliet love story. >> when it's the person that means more than anything in the world to you. i mean, how do you deal with that? >> with cameras all around us, i wondered how in the world this man could have averted capture for so many years and then plead not guilty? these questions and more can be answered by detective eric curtis of the irving, texas police department, who joins me now. detective curtis, it's good to see you again. how are you? >> good. how are you? >> good. detective, can you explain to us why it took 12 years to get this man? >> well, i think he he obviously had some help from family that

was helping him to hide. >> so when you finally got a chance to question him, what did he say? >> he said that there was a car following them and that when the car was following them, it was the girl's boyfriend's. and he was scared and afraid that they were going to harm him. so he said that he pulled over in the area of a bus station that was close to the hotel, and that he just got out and just walked away and just left the girls there. >> what a ridiculous story. >> yes. >> i know you cover a lot of horrific murder cases, but this one i understand really disturbed you. >> it did. everybody, you know, as we learned more about amina and sarah and their life, they were abused their entire life emotionally and physically. and it was a very sad case. and everybody was more than happy to come back and willing to come testify because they wanted to see yasir punished for what he

did to amina and sarah. >> the verdict was life in prison without parole, but no death penalty. >> no, that was the choice of the district attorney's office not to go for the death penalty. >> are you satisfied with the sentence? >> i am? i'm satisfied that he will spend the rest of his life in prison and not see the light of day again. >> detective, it's very good to see you again. i hope that you and everyone there are well. and thank you again for always welcoming us in. we always do appreciate your help, sir. >> yeah. thank you. >> we'll be right back. >> look at this one under-eye bag. it's gone. >> there's this side and this side. >> 50 and haven't slept in weeks. 35 and fresh from a vacation. >> have you seen these videos all over social media and said to yourself, how is that real? well, it's real. it works in as little as ten minutes. and these results are incredible. it's called plexaderm and it can change the way you look almost

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