The father of the man suspected of being the Yanbu serial killer defended his son and said, “I can't believe that my son has slaughtered three people because he can't kill a chicken.” The father described his son as alert, but a little bit unstable and described him and his grandson, Marzouq, as troublemakers. “Thy both love to save pictures of any thing on their mobiles,” he said. He, however, expressed sympathy for to the slaughtered housemaids and said authorities should investigate the crimes and issue a sentence against his son if he was really convicted of committing them. “If the investigations prove he is guilty, he deserves to be punished,” the suspect's father said. The father said he lived in Khamis Mushayt, southwest of the Kingdom, before moving to Yanbu and had two wives, Umm Owdhah, the suspect's mother, and a second wife. The man said his Saudi nationality was withdrawn 20 years ago. He said had traded in goats he brought from Sabya in the Jizan region, but a pelvis fracture forced him to leave the job so he asked his wives to beg for money. He said he would only send his sons out to do so when there was an urgent need to pay for rent and other necessities. Okaz/Saudi Gazette also interviewed Ahmad Hassan, the Saudi uncle of the suspected serial killer, who was found in the district looking for Marzouq, the suspect's son. Hassan said he was looking for Marzouq because he is sponsoring him and his brothers. Okaz/Saudi Gazette joined Hassan in his search, but he did not find any trace of Marzouq. He thought that the landlord kicked the family out of their apartment after he had learned of the crimes their father is suspected of committing. When the suspect's wife was contacted, she said she had lied about her husband as having no relatives because she wanted to protect them because many of them were illegal residents. She said this would also explain her commitment to her husband. “I have no place to go to with my children,” she said. Her brother said they cannot stay with him. “We are living in a very miserable condition so we can't receive my sister and her children,” he said. “I have 10 children of my own, my wife, my sister and her six children.” The suspect's wife said his second son, Ahmad, 10, disappeared because of his father's cruelty and abuse. She said he was last seen during Ramadan, playing in the street with children. Zare' Bin Awwad Al-Sayyid, district chief of Al-Balad District, where the suspect worked in a shop, said there was nothing strange in the suspect's behavior that drew his attention and there were no complaints from businesses that had employed the man. Al-Sayyid has praised the Al-Balad Police, especially its Criminal Research Department, for dismantling a network that forged national identities, which led to finding the man suspected of killing the three foreign housemaids.
