Prosecutors Unveil Circumstantial Evidence Against Balfour
Prosecutors in Chicago unveiled for the first time yesterday their weak circumstantial evidence against murder suspect William Balfour.
Balfour is charged with murdering actress Jennifer Hudson’s mother, Darnell Donerson, 57, brother, Jason Hudson, 29 and nephew, Julian King, 7.
Prosecutors claim the killings were motivated by jealousy and rage at his wife for seeing another man.
Balfour, 27, originally said he saw his wife Julia Hudson on the morning of October 24 at the Hudson home before she left for work at 8:10 AM. They argued briefly about her seeing another man after he spotted a birthday gift he thought was given to her by her new boyfriend.
Cell phones records show Balfour was in the vicinity of the Hudson home until shortly after 9 AM. Balfour claimed he then took the subway back to his home using his CTA card. But police learned his CTA card was last used two days before the killings.
Prosecutors revealed that gunshot residue was found on the steering wheel of Balfour’s car which witnesses say they saw parked outside the home that morning.
What wasn’t explained was how Balfour drove both his car and Jason Hudson’s SUV away from the murder scene.
Assistant State’s Atty. LuAnn Snow told the judge that Balfour entered the home after first firing a shot through the front door (probably because Donerson wouldn’t let him in). He then shot Donerson in the living room of the home and shot Jason Hudson while he was still asleep in his bed upstairs.
According to the National Enquirer, evidence shows Julian received traumatic injuries while still inside the house. Trauma to Julian’s right hand, which included fractured fingers and lacerations, were consistent with the child’s hand being crushed by a slammed door.
He was carried out of the house wrapped in a shower curtain from inside the home, according to sources.
Julian was shot to death as he lay behind the front seat of his uncle Jason Hudson’s white Chevrolet Suburban. His body was found 3 days later in the truck which was abandoned on Chicago’s west side.
Cook County Circuit Judge Raymond Myles ordered Balfour held without bail on three counts of first-degree murder and one count of home invasion in the Oct. 24 slayings. (Source)
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not gonna go there right now with lil billy balfour. just not.
i don’t feel like him right now.
kwallace577 Says:
not gonna go there right now with lil billy balfour. just not.
i don’t feel like him right now.
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I 2nd that .. not in the mood …
THEY HAVE CONVICTED PEOPLE ON LESSER EVIDENCE …..HE IS GOING UP THE RIVER FOR SURE
WHO DROVE THE CARS????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I just want him and his accomplice to be prosecuted and I don’t want to hear anything else about this.
I feel ya’ll this morning. I dont need another visual of the boy being hurt. Good morning everybody.
Morn Keely … I agree .. that information I could have done without .. I didn’t need to know how that baby was tortured.
Good morning all and I am w/ you keely.
That poor baby! I said this before, I’ll say it again. . .Julia knows William did this. If he gets off, if I were the mother of that baby I would kill him my damn self.
I HOPE THEY DIDNT JUST FIGURE THIS OUT, I COULD HAVE CAME UP WITH THIS STORY FROM DAY 3
Hey Keely… they are going to keeop running this into the ground and telling us about that poor baby. I can’t help but to think of my kids and KNOW that I would have been in jail if someone just THOUGHT of pulling that mess.
HE WONT GET OFF, THEY WILL SHOW HIM SOME SHYT ONCE HE GETS INTO GENERAL POPULATION. TRUST ME. HE WILL BEG TO BE IN THE HOLE ON LOCK DAOWN 23 HRS OUT THE DAY SO HE WONT BE IN HARMS WAY.
“i’m going to kill your family because you have another man”……that is f*ckin’ pathetic.
HOW DO YOU LIVE WITH YOURSELF?
Check it…
If they will give me $150 dollars a day, put me up in the Ritz Carlton, Lowes, or Hyatt, a rental car and petty cash fund…I’ll bring the homies and we will crack this case.
that’s it…that’s all!
CPD AIN’T BOUT NATHAN
again why did julian have to die? i am sure billy had cross words with the fam about his treatment of julia. i mean if MY husband was a piece of a man… you can BEST believe my momma and my sisters gonna cuss him out everytime they have a chance. my uncles gonna be tryna come visit JUST so they can stomp dude. so i can see his anger towards moms and brother. but little julian? what did he do?
god bless this family.
I cannot read how that poor baby died anymore. I still can’t get over his mama naming the girlfriends he was with. She just needs to sit down and be quiet.
uuuughhhhhh….
He got them weed smokin’, Newport Kings lips. Look like his breath smell like coffee grinds and fresh ash straight from the cigarette.
i think another thing that just irks the mess outta me is this piece of shyt at one time made julia happy. look at her in that picture! that just tugs my heart. she did not know this fool was crazy. she just thought prolly he’s a piece of shyt so i am moving on. there is just no WAY she coulda ever thought this was gonna happen….
yes billy momma need to SAT DOWN @shunda.i agree.
Good Morning Ladies;
What I can’t understand is,
1. Him getting mad about her being with another man when he was staying with another women…ie they questioned his girlfriend of his whereabouts she first stated he was at home
2. If he was that mad at her and he knew she left for work wouldn’t he have went to her job to kill her, not to the house to kill the family…
I’m not convinced…this stuff aint adding up
hey lelon where you been? i always thought why he didn’t harm her either? harming any of them was just uncalled for…but why her fam? her baby? he is a coward imo.
Hey Ielon .. u need to check in at least ONCE aday on this blog sir .. we have very few Straight Male voices and opinions .. so .. Imma need you to do betta..
now … I still can’t comment on this sitcheeation.
dang it KWeezy …. we are TRULY kindred cyber sisters … lol
I’m with Kwallace on this matter. I don’t have the energy to discuss this one. I’ll need several glasses of wine if i even attempt. It’s too early in the morning to be drankin’!!
I can see the reason for killing the family it would hurt her more. She now has to suffer without her family. They do it all the time in the movies. The drug dealers always hurt the family never the person that actually messed up they money.
It makes me sick to my stomach everytime I hear about this story. Especially about poor little Julian. I just don’t know what else to say about it anymore.
Call me Ms. Belfour because I swear I don’t think he did this. & the reason behind it makes no sense.
He thought she cheated but stayed the night with her. Just to let her get up in the morning go to work. He leaves, comes back shots in the door. (& why would the mother not let him in? He just stayed the night.) & kills her mother, brother and the child he probably raised in a jealous rage. But leaves Julia Alive? I hope he gets a good lawyer.
& if he did it its not for what they are saying. I’m just saying.
You know ladies you’re right! I’ve been in meetings every and all day but I do look on here to see what’s going on so I can at least say something. My apologizes and I WILL do better
LOL @mrsjones…i went ahead and addressed it only cause it needed to be. i have had so many questions and after about the 3rd hudson family post i stopped posting on it…
but i started back and i posted on him yesterday too i think. because the pain i feel behind this whole case is like my momma, sibling, and nephew was killed.
cpd needs to do better. faster. i pick and choose my news and i am gonna follow this one to the end.
Can I get some comments on another subject? Yesterday I was listening to Wendy Williams (don’t lose focus I have also considered the source) and she mentioned that Jennifer Hudson wants to tear down the house where the tragedies happened but Julia (sister) doesn’t want to – she (Julia) said she is not going to let the south side of chicago take her down – and she is planning to continue living in the house.
Now like I said I have considered the source, but I’m also considering all the other information I’ve heard about Julia. Any thoughts?
@ shunda…
That is the movies; however they only go after the family when they can’t get to the person that didn’t conduct business right. So iscream aka Ms. Belfour I too believe he didn’t do this
@ melinla
Jennifer gets to move on to become, probably, more successful than she was before this tragedy. . .if she wants too. Julia goes back to being Julia, without the people that she saw and loved on a regular basis. I say let Julia keep the house!
SANDRA, CAN WE GET ANOTHER POST, THIS SH!T IS MAKING ME DEPRESSED!
@ melinla .. I said if I were JHud .. the house would be bulldozed … how in the HAIL can Julia want to live there .. she’s beyond stupid.
Julia can be Julia in another part of Chicago . hell in another STATE… she’s on Dope and Dog Food !
Ielon, but if your theory holds true, then he should have shot Julia when he was spending the night. I’m not saying that he didn’t do it (I think he did, just with help), but he had the opportunity to get her.
I think that he knew that it would hurt her more if he killed the family and left her to suffer.
@Ielon
Yeah I did say the movies but it happens in real life too. I do believe there are some holes in this story but his mama is making herself look foolish. If she is going to use big words at least say them correctly.
@MRS. BALFOUR aka iscream #28 said:
why would the mother not let him in? He just stayed the night
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He probably came back in a fit of rage. I think I did read that they argued BEFORE she left for work. Hell I wouldn’t open my door to a crazy….deranged man either.
I’m still stuck on the fact that “the baby was carried out in a shower curtain”. WHY? Was he unconscience? I’ve read that the baby was “shot in the truck”.
There are too many missing words and I for one don’t take hints too well.
I can understand his hand being slammed in the door. He was probably coming out of his/a room when he heard the commotion. Seen the murder(s) and tried to hurry back and close the door and his hand got slammed in it. But the shower curtain? Why did he have to be carried out in the shower curtain, if he was killed in the truck. WHO DROVE THE TRUCK? WHO DROVE AND PARKED BALFOURS CAR? DID HE RETURN TO GET HIS CAR? DID HE ACTUALLY WALK BACK TO WHERE THE MURDERS TOOK PLACE AND GOT THE OTHER VEHICLE? DID ONE OF HIS BABY MAMAS, BOYS, HELL, EVEN HIS OWN STUPID ASS MOTHER DRIVE HIM BACK TO GET THE OTHER VEHICLE?
I know this man wasn’t smart enough to clean himself up after he committed these “HE’nous” crimes.
CPD I NEED ANSWERS!!!!!!!!!
My bad about the rant.
SANDRA, CAN WE GET ANOTHER POST, THIS SH!T IS MAKING ME DEPRESSED!
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and we got one. an Obama bashing post. be careful for what we wish for around here. LOL.
I apologize for the typos, any mis-spelled or grammatically incorrect statements. My “thoak” and ears hurt.
I don’t think he did it either- at least if he did he didn’t act alone.
That was another great family discussion but I too would like another topic.. However I just want to mention this; they stated that his is associated with an organization/gang called GD(Gangster Disciple) I know they have something called a black out and that’s when they will kill everyone ie mother, father siblings kids everyone. So maybe the family or someone in that family probably bit off more then they can chew in regards to them selling drugs…
@ Ielon
The brother was a big time banger, that could be a possibility.
I bet his momma feel sofaking stupid right about now…
He’s a loser, he looks like a loser, she looks to have low esteem, especially to be with a loser, the house looks really eerie now, and aside from probably being raggedy and not worth what the county assessor says – IT SHOULD BE TORN DOWN! Why would someone want to stay in the house where their family members were murdered?
the GD’s? Dammit, that girl I hated so much in school (Gekeetah Willims from Chicago)was running with them, but she said they was about gettin money and she never had any money with her run-over shoes! *whew – sorry, flashback, yall!
IS IT ME OR DOES WILLIAM BALFOUR LOOK LIKE HE COULD BE HURRICANE CHRIS’S BIG BROTHER?
LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
YOU STILL ON Gekeetah Willims!!!!!!!!!
LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Did she ever graduate?
#46 carmel said:
DOES WILLIAM BALFOUR LOOK LIKE HE COULD BE HURRICANE CHRIS’S BIG BROTHER?
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I JUST looked at the picture long enough to know that I am mad that his beads match his shirt. That some “gay sh!t” as Riley Freeman would say.
ever the googler (like our other fam up here…who is the queen of google LMAO)
is see that gekeetah has a facebook page. anybody up here do facebook? please try to be her friend cause obviously our cyber fam readtheblog is NO friend of hers…..
i mean **i see.**
hurricane chris. i am so real done with yall right now. and not riley freeman either?
okay i am gonna go eat my salad right now. laughing TOO hard.
pssssst … anyone want the Porsche Foxx article … email me … kymmystry gmail com
Kym you already know “PRYNSEXXX LOVES EMAIL”! lol
LOL @pryn. that is what i told her. i don’t even live in the “A” but hell i can live anywhere and still be nosey.
i hope sandra let us talk about porsche after that bizarre “stop e-mailing me about porsche” post she put up.
hope porsche is a reader. rooting for you in raleigh.
If the man is innocent, then why all the lies? I say tell the truth because you have to remember a lie. We are not defending an upholding citizen here.
KWall I’m with you I’m not in the A but love to read about our people/and some
@kwall
I just had to do some googling lol. These geeks I work with are giving away a gift card if you could decode an IM message. I had to look up some of those phrases. Who knew JFGI meant just freaking google it
LOL … thats a Nerd phrase if there was eva one @ Shunda ..
and I’m STILL waitin on my Blackberry Storm …12/15 whooo hoooo
People and they’re abbreviations JFGI…I got one it’s DJDI (D*mn Just Do It)works well at home with kids and/or spouse or at work
kym, send it to me… and I can’t wait for my Storm, either!!!
@Kymystry
My manager just called the Verizon lady every thing but a child of God. You know how I told you ours was supposed to be in the mail… Well it is still not here. I didn’t make it any better I told one of my co-workers I knew she was lying and my manger turned around and yelled some more lol
@Ielon
I know and the sad thing is we don’t know how much the gift card is worth lol. I hope it is $25 for groceries or gas. I am sure I won.
Im on the phone with VZW now .. they messed up my bill … since I used to work there .. I’m Johnny on the Spot … lol … tellin them How to correct it .. the whole nine .. the girl is like .. dang .. U know MY job …lol
well make sure you google gekeetah who is still fresh on our fam mind many years later. it is a pic of her an errythang. i am still wondering what kind of personality defect miss williams got for her to have gotten to readtheblog like that. even though i have some folks who have gotten under my skin before in the past that i will never ever forget. so i know her pain. LMAO.
for me it was a boy in the 2nd grade named george georgiou who announced to us all that there was no santa claus. and went on to say there was no easter bunny or toof fairy either. bastard.
okay ya’ll on one now..is VZW that bad, I was thinking about switching because they have phones that fits my hands for texting
@64. DON’T switch. my husband just switched from sprint to vzw and said he made a mistake. ain’t even got his first bill and already admitted it was a mistake.
why when I google Gekeetah readtheblog’s comment comes up lmao. Girl she is going to come looking for you
Wow, so do you get dropped calls or is the cust service reps just bad
@ Ielon, I switched from Sprint to VZW b/c my husband was on there and he never had any issues. I wish I had stayed.
k-dub, he can switch back with no penalty. sprint will take him back as long as it’s within 30 days of the number porting.
@ readtheblog:
i googled the Geico girls name and a pic came up in facebook is that the Lizard you were speaking of…
@ Ielon, I don’t think that the plans are as versatile as Sprint. My calls don’t get dropped, but they don’t offer much. That’s what I found. Sprint CS is straight SHYT, though. VZW is fine…
Thank you ladies, I’m with T mobile and the only problem I have is the phones and the buttons fit small hands, oh and every time you buy a new phone or change a plan you start your contract completely over…Other then that service is great. But down south I did notice that Sprint and VZW is the cell phone company’s that’s mostly used.
tx diva. i am gonna tell him. i ain’t parting with my at & t for NATHAN. before that i had alltel which sucked but finally found cell bliss with a t & t. i say if you find it with one company why mess it up? he finds that his vzw doesn’t work NEARLY as many places as that sprint phone did. got his black behind up there in the mountains of idaho and washington state and didn’t have NOT a lick of service. he was heated. that is when he started saying he made a mistake. i tried to tell him….
Gun powder, in the vicinity, lied about the train, lied about his whereabouts and has a motive; good enough for me. If you have nothing to hide; why lie?
He may not have done it alone but he knows something and he isn’t speaking. Regardless of the family squabbles, that was his family (whether by marriage or otherwise) and you don’t hesitate to help if a family member(s) have been murdered. Balfour needs and should step up but he’s not and therefore, he is guilty as ever.
@carameldrop….
here lizard lizard.
you just ain’t right (in my martin voice)
the geico girl. now that was just uncalled for. LMAO.
I’ve been with VZW .. for 4 yrs .. love it.. was with Srpint and All-Hell prior … Hated them both …
Ielon.. I have large hands for a girl ..(got them from my daddy) … so the phone work great for me … I currently have the touch screen LG Dare .. had it since Aug.. love it .. but just HAD to have the Blackberry Storm so I opened a 2nd line to get the phone .. and according to Fed-Ex it was shipped yesterday… should arrive tomm … whoooo hooooo
I feel HORRIBLE for that baby boy…children ALWAYS bear the sins of their parents…
Because, I’ma need to ask some questions…
Why was Jennifer Hudson’s mama letting her drug dealing son stay all up in her house…
Why would Jennifer Hudson’s mama be down with her daughter marrying a convicted violent felon and bringing him around her grandson and other members of the family…
And, being a home girl from Chicago…and growing up on the Southside…why would Jennifer Hudson’s mama stay in one of the WORST neighboorhoods in the country?
I’m asking all of these questions regarding Jennifer Hudson’s mama…because I know she was the Queen of her family and her house was her kingdom (also…got some inside info cause you KNOW I got peoples who know folks, went to the same church, hair dresser…all sorts of mess)…
I truly think that this isn’t a “crime of passion”…PLEASE (look at Julia, I mean DAMN!!!)…
I think this had something to do with drugs and money…and you know the Mama knew what was going on regarding that because her son was selling drugs RIGHT OUT OF HER HOUSE!!! (ya’ll seen “The Wire”…don’t trip)…
That poor baby got killed because of a bunch of grown folks who were NOT RIGHT!!!
lala you betta preach.
Ya’ll I was looking at pictures on another site and william’s mama had on a fur coat in court. It looks like the same fur my mama wore when she came home from the hospital with me in 1980.
Wait when this first happened, I thought they found Balfour at his girlfriend’s house.
So NOT a crime of passion, like “LaLa” stated. Its the work of a heartless killer. Is there insurance money involved? There is a motive, but jealousy and rage? He would have went to Julia’s job and killed her, not the family.