Police: Hudson Family Killer May Have Had Help
Chicago police say evidence shows the Hudson family murderer may have had help.
Hours after the bodies of Jennifer Hudson’s mother, Darnell Donerson, and brother, Jason Hudson, were found shot to death inside their home, police issued an Amber Alert for Hudson’s missing 7-year-old nephew, Julian King, along with two cars.
Police now say William Balfour, the estranged husband of Hudson’s sister Julia Hudson, drove his teal Chrysler to the Hudson home in Englewood on the South Side of Chicago around 7 am Friday. He had argued over the phone with Julia Hudson earlier that morning.
Cops later found the Chrysler parked about a mile from the residence. A grainy security video obtained by police shows someone parking the car outside Robeson High School.
A time stamp on the video shows the car was left there at 12:30 pm Friday. Police were unable to determine the identity of the individual getting out of the car. Balfour’s cell phone records place him on Chicago’s West Side at that hour.
Police arrested Balfour at his pregnant girlfriend’s house on the West Side, about 5 hours after the bodies were found.
A neighbor who lived on the street where Balfour was arrested, saw a man fitting Balfour’s description park a white SUV across from his home on Friday a few hours before the bodies were found.
The white SUV matched the truck that was listed on the Amber Alert. Julian King’s body was found Monday on the floor behind the driver’s side seat of a white SUV parked on the West Side about two miles from Balfour’s girlfriend’s house.
Autopsy results revealed the boy had been shot twice in the head.
Balfour’s girlfriend disputes his alibi and he was caught in at least one other lie. Balfour, who has not been charged in the case, stopped cooperating with police when they asked him to take a lie detector test.
He is currently being held at a state correctional facility on a parole violation.
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Just watched the clip of Balfour’s mother claiming his innocents on Nancy Grace…
http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/10/28/illinois.shootings.hudson/index.html#cnnSTCVideo
somebody just get these fools and handle it..seriously i want the police to turn their head like nothing happened..they deserve the worse and much more
i’m sorry…but if the man got ‘attempted murder’ in his record already….i wouldn’t have been anywhere near him. YES i am bias when it comes to dating a man who has either taken a life or tried to take a life. You wont get my number, you wont meet my family nor know where I live if i have anything to do with it. It’s hard, but you gotta get to know people beyond what they ‘tell’ you. I watch everything my male friend does. The way he treats his mother, his past relationships, the types of company that he keeps, man I watch and analyze it all and ask myself is this the man I want my future kids looking up to. i’m NOT saying people can’t change, im just saying that I dont want to take chances and guess has this person changed or not when it comes to murder.
Other reports say that this dude was gang affiliated, maybe it was one of knucklehead friends doing hoodrat stuff for his friends. I hope this case is handled properly and everyone involved gets the maximum penalty due to them.
@2
I agree. I watch the men I date closely. I personally would not want a man who has been to jail, especially for a violent crime. Then you have to figure in the man being “jail gay”. I just really want them to just release Balfour, drop him off on the South side and let the hood give him his due justice. He doesn’t deserve prison.
I am really confused… how did he drive 2 cars… So he had to have help. I wonder if it is his brother who tried to lie about his brothers alibi… So has it been confirmed that there car was parked since Friday
@ 2beme & sexieblacc…I cosign on everything ya’ll said…I’m an ole head and it just upsets my nerves to no end to see what these young women will tolerate and put up with from these dudes…(hell what am i sayin)…i know some older chicks my age (45) that’ll put up with a lotta shyt off dudes just to say they have a man…sorry, i’d be by myself all day everyday before i tolerate some foolishness! ladies please please please watch yourselves and most importantly if you have kids and you’re dating, please have a discerning spirit when it comes to these niggas!!! this shyt is no joke!
it is so sad that some women are so desperate that they dont take the time or patience and wait … get to know him, his family, his friends. Am I old fashion when i say that i must know someone I bring them around my family or anyone that i care about. Or even let them know where i live or work. This whole situation is sad… the sister dating a violent felon, moms having to kick him out, he running around and got another baby on the way with another chick that is not his wife…. where does it stop. HOW COULD JULIA NOT SEEING THIS POTENTIONALLY ENDING BADLY.HE WAS IN JAIL FOR ATTEMTPED MURDER…
Fam..my heart goes to this child and I hope his murder was swift in which he wasn’t in pain..normally shots to the head will do that so lets hope for that at least. my issue is, it’s very hard for me to feel a large amount of compassion for the mother. I can’t stand a weak and needy woman..she put this child in danger based on the company she chose to keep..i’m more angry at her than the killers..i know she’s grieving and i will never take away she loved her son..and maybe i’m speculating here, but if she loved herself her son would still be alive in my opinion..not trying to go a Charles route but am i wrong for feeling like i do about the mother?
#9 said:
am i wrong for feeling like i do about the mother?
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Nope. Women need to distinguish between being lonely and alone. They confuse the two. I for one am alone, but never lonely. I have a family who loves me. I have too much sh!t to occupy my mind to even be bothered by somebody else. I remember I was in the store shopping one day. I literally stopped in my tracks and said “damn, it feels good to be single”. Why, because I notice that when I’m out with some of my friends, who have “men” at home and they start that “I gotta get back and cook him some food before he gets home”. I’m like “?”. This dude is OUT kickin’ it with his friends and he ain’t nowhere NEAR concerned if you done ate yet. Some women WILL do anything to keep a man. That’s some other sh!t that I choose not to get involved in.
#3 Poor self esteem equates to settling for anything, including loser men.
I WAS ASSUMING THIS ALL ALONG. DUDE HAD TO HAVE HELP!
Just find all the muthaphucka’s involved QUICK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Put this up on First 48. Stomp the yahd and talk to folks. There is NO WAY dude could have driven the two cars. What purpose does a phukin security camera serve if all the damn pictures are too far away or grainy? I get heated EVERY time something is mentioned about this case. Just looking at his picture makes my stomach and head hurt. Ugh.
And that pregnant baby mama ain’t sh!t either. She knew that man was married, estranged or not. She a skank too! She knew he did something, cuz he probably ran in her house all hysterical and sh!t. I’m so pissed off right now! They should lock her up too. She knew all about it, then tried to lie. Where is her picture. Sandra dig up her myspace page and photos. I’m so sick of yall cousins I don’t know what to do!
Hmmmm…I’m still convinced he did this
Locals are staying JHUDs brother was a SKRAIGHT up thug! That had some dealings…
I’ll be damned; his wack mother was on Nancy Grace saying her son is innocent.
William Balfour — the “person of interest” in the murders of Jennifer Hudson’s mother, brother and nephew — isn’t the first Balfour to run afoul of the law.
Balfour’s father is currently serving a 30-year prison sentence for murder. His brother served time for drug dealing.
Balfour himself has served time for attempted murder and carjacking.
According to court documents obtained by TMZ, Balfour was a member of the Gangster Disciple Street Gang.
Also according to court docs, Balfour told the judge back in 1999 he had a good relationship with his mother until “she gets an attitude.”
WOW! JUST WOW!
I think that he was involved in this and had help also. I don’t see this as being done by some random people because they took the child out of the home and killed him and usually with random acts of violence, everyone in the home would have gotten killed and left there.
And why would you shoot a little boy multiple times? That is just sick.
This is always why we must watch who we keep company with because not only does it effect us but also our loved ones and friends who may get caught up in things that we have involved ourselves with. Thats one reason I never wanted to mess with the local hustlers when i was growin up because what they do CAN effect me, I’ve seen it way too many times. But unfortunately we don’t always see or think about those things at that moment.
I still feel sorry for Julia she lost her son. Self esteem issues are some hard things to deal with but in the words of Kat Williams it is self esteem how do you let someone mess up how you feel about you. I agree with Prynn I am not that desperate but I know plenty of females who are and most of the times it is the ones who were told they are nothing all of their lives. I too wonder what is the story behind Jennifer’s brother. We need to look at all angles here
@ DB
I have a couple family members who are detectives and stay patroling the Engelwood area and that is what they tell me. I didn’t wanna say anything bc I felt bad even thinking it but they tell me that he was a big time banger.
I feel sorry for the Julia too, she lost her son, mother and brother in the same day. I think one of the biggest problems now is that people don’t know how to ‘start’ a relationship. They skip over the ‘getting to know each other’ and head straight for the bedroom. Oh I know his favorite color, and what he like to do in his spare time. Egh, Be FRIENDS first, and that’s WITHOUT benefits. When people get comfortable wiht you that’s when they let you see who they really are. All most men gotta do is give the woman an orgasm and wallah…she’s in love.
@hermosa & DVB
YEAH you’re right J-Hud’s was a Banger (Real Talk)
And the very fact that they can commit a Vicious crime AND drop the car off in K-Town (West Side) W/O being noticed AT ALL… THAT spells Gang-Affiliated on a Very-High-Level!!!
It APPEARS that this Balfour cat IS connected For Real AND there’s No WAY that Julia Hood-Booger AZZ didn’t know that fact about him…
I’ll end by saying @2bme… There IS nothing wrong in what you are thinking and JULIA gets My Wrath TOO!!!
@ ELove
You are so right, West side smells vice lords to me and they don’t play.
Shocker…………