In February 2009, Hassan was arrested and charged with beheading his estranged wife Aasiya Zubair.
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Prior to his marriage to Aasiya Zubair, Hassan was married twice before: first, to a Caucasian American woman, Janice, with whom he had two children, Michael and Sonia; second, for 13 months to a Pakistani-American Muslim woman, Sadia.