She used Amina and Sarah’s MySpace website last week, in time for Independence Day, to say her life turned upside down Jan. 1, when the sisters were murdered “for the sake of cleansing the Said family name.”

Great Aunt Gail Gartrell wrote she had to learn about Islam, understand why a religion would bless the actions of Yaser Abdul Said to shoot dead such miraculously precious girls.

Gartrell said she speaks despite being terrorized by Said family son Islam Yaser Abdul Said, 20, who has been defending his father’s reputation and attacking those questioning it or Islam.

According to police, Yaser Said fled justice the night of the brutal gun slayings in which “tiny” Sarah was shot nine times, and both were left to die in the back seat of Said’s Taxicab.

He is still at large, he is presumed armed and very dangerous.

Police investigation records obtained by CAN News demonstrate how Islam Said helped his father use police to hunt for Amina and Sarah when the girls fled days before their deaths.

Gartrell said the odyssey that wounds her deeply is just as fresh, just as open, as on New Year’s Day when the phone call informed her of unimaginable tragedy.

But there is one thing that died along with a great big piece of her heart that day: fear. “The terror to this family stops here, it stops now!” Gartrell said.

“I will not fear...They might as well throw the venomous words of terror to the wind because they are not working on me,” she added.

“Sarah and Amina were silenced. This is why I will always speak for them until justice is served. You will never hear words of despair again, not from this family.”

Gartrell described Islam Said’s actions as “cloning” those of his father, that he is carrying forward a tradition of family terrorism that has devastated three generations.

“He has sent me phone threats, which I have recorded, [and] blog threats...he hopes to send me to Hell so I could say hello to Amina and Sarah,” she said.

“He can’t threaten me without being nasty toward his dead sisters,” she added. “Islam has sent threats through the girls’ web sight [now] set up for...Yaser’s capture, offering a reward.”

Gartrell not only confirmed the motive behind the honor killings, but stated the motive had been an obvious threat for years.

“How did Sarah and Amina dirty the Said name? Both girls dared think for themselves, they saw education as an open door to freedom...a life they could only dream about,” she said.

They struggled against Islamic religious demands that they be sold into marriage – Yaser made it known he would provide his daughters to Islamic men of Egypt only.

The power of Islamic law [Sharia’] ruled the Said family, not just through dad, but his three brothers, plus an Islamic community ready to back men’s threats with support.

Texas law that should have protected Sarah and Amina fell short – and Yaser, plus his support team of son, brothers, and Islam itself, continue to freely defy civil authority.

The girls reached out, the girls spoke of the threats and terror, but teachers, friends and family – and finally the police, just did not understand.

“No one heard their words of despair? No one listened to these girls except for the deceptive dad and the spying brother,” Gartrell said.

“In fact, Sarah had proclaimed she was afraid of her uncles taking her away, and yet no comfort or security did she ever find. Not in this life,” she added.

“These two brilliant girls are in a grave...because of a terroristic family, and not one single person to truly place trust...look at their pictures, you will see they shared more than sisterhood.

“These girls shared the pain, terror and eventually death together at the hands of their dad and others who helped him accomplish his [Islamic Sharia’ law] ‘duty.’”

Gartrell said when she searched the family’s history; she discovered Yaser sexually abused the girls as well as terrorizing the family.

“I was livid when I found this out,” she said. Her sister, the girls’ grandmother, and her sister’s husband, were made to know they could not tell.

Gartrell said she was recently told why her sister died early in life, a stroke at age 50, it was because of the burden that gripped her as she saw these things unfold.

Her sister could not tell – the threat was too strong, too close. Yaser kept guns about him constantly, including a machine gun. “Yaser was terrorizing my sister’s entire family,” she said.

The situation came to a head the day after Christmas, as “Tissy,” the girls’ mother, helped Sarah and Amina flee the home.

Within hours, the Said family Sharia’ support system was in action, using local police to try to haul the Sharia’ fugitives in.

Police soon had good information, from Patricia “Tissy” Said herself, that the girls were okay, but when it came to the Said men, they all “feared for their lives” and would not return home.

Tissy wanted to enroll Sarah and Amina at an undisclosed school, and she asked for help to conceal their whereabouts.

Her fears, obvious to police, caused the investigation to turn. The police report stated at its Dec. 28 filing that Amina and Sarah Said were victims, and Yaser and his son Islam were “persons involved.”

In other words, persons of interest in the developing incident that 72 hours later resulted in the Islamic-law “honor killings” that Texas law charged as a double-murder.

What police learned about the terror that the victims faced contrasted sharply with the Said men’s accounts of there being no problems at home.

“Officers asked Yaser if they had any arguments. Yaser said no,” Lewisville Police Officer Brad Kenney said in his report. Yaser later admitted some anger over Amina’s boyfriend.

Kenney added the Said family grandfather was on hand to assure officers he had not heard any arguing or reason to believe the girls were on the run from them.

Islam Said wrote in a police report statement, “When my dad went to work, my mom and two sisters [went] to the store,” he said. “We were joking around before she left, and everything seemed to be normal.”