[Black Agnes]

Hmmm, I dunno. Maybe hellinahandcart will post something? I just can't imagine what kind of husband and father would *kill* his wife who was pregnant with *twins* and as a result too tired to pray (multiples generally have bedrest prescribed, especially for last trimester, she was 6 months pregnant)

[hellinahandcart]

I heard about the arrest at around 4:15 but it was a teaser for the five o'clock news; in other words they would only say an arrest had been made. Turns out, yep, it was the husband of the youngest and they caught him trying to cross the Canadian border at Buffalo.

wnbc.com - News - Husband Arrested In Murder Of Wife, In-Laws

Alim Hassan, 31, was taken off the bus after authorities received an anonymous phone call Tuesday evening. The caller warned that a man who had stabbed the three women to death in their Jersey City home earlier in the day was headed to Toronto from New York City, said Prosecutor Edward J. DeFazio.

Hassan was turned over first to U.S. immigration officials, then to police in Buffalo, where he appeared in New York state court Wednesday morning, DeFazio said.

He said Hassan agreed to be extradited to New Jersey, and will be brought back to Jersey City on Thursday to be formally charged.

Bernadette Seajatan, 49, and her daughters, Sharon Yassim, 30, and Marlyn Hassan, 29, who was married to the defendant, were found dead in the home they shared with their husbands and Yassim's two sons.

The two boys, ages 3 and 6, discovered the bloody bodies of their mother, aunt and grandmother, after the three men had left the house Tuesday morning.

The family is from Guyana, on the northern coast of South America, and the defendant is not a U.S. citizen, DeFazio said.

After receiving the tip, the mounties called Jersey City police to confirmed that the crime had occurred, then notified Canadian customs officials, who also alerted their U.S. counterparts, DeFazio said.

"Needless to say, we appreciate the cooperation of all the law enforcement involved," he said.

Meanwhile, investigators already suspected that the crime was domestic in nature and had gone to interview relatives of the defendant in a Pennsylvania suburb of Philadelphia, where they found the vehicle Hassan had driven from Jersey City.

Apparently, Hassan then made his way to New York, where he boarded the bus at the Port Authority Bus Terminal in Manhattan, DeFazio said.

"So we knew that he wasn't in the car, and we at that point were under the assumption that he was taking public transportation. And the anonymous caller told us he was headed for Toronto," DeFazio said.