Hudson Family Update
Posted by Bossip Staff
William Balfour is set to released on the 23rd of this month, and his new girl is saying he told her he was involved:
William Balfour, the only individual to be identified as a “person of interest” in the shootings of Jennifer Hudson’s mother and brother, allegedly told his girlfriend he was involved in the murders, sources told the Chicago Tribune. However, Balfour’s girlfriend reportedly told police that he was not involved in the death of Hudson’s 7-year-old nephew, Julian King. Julian, the son of Jennifer’s sister (and Balfour’s estranged wife) Julia, went missing around the time of the shootings. His body was later discovered in an SUV on the South Side of Chicago. Law enforcement officials reportedly told the Tribune that Balfour allegedly stated that he was at the Hudsons’ home the morning of the murders. Darnell Donerson and Jason Hudson, the mother and brother of Oscar winner Jennifer, were found dead on the afternoon of Oct. 24 in their home on the South Side of Chicago. Balfour had been on parole since his 2006 release from prison after a 1999 conviction for attempted murder until he was reportedly taken into police custody at around 6 PM on the day of the murders. He has not been charged in the case, though he was reportedly returned to prison on a parole violation after being held for 48 hours.The day of the murders, he reportedly missed a meeting with his parole officer and told him that he was “babysitting on the West Side,” according to the Associated Press. The Tribune reported that upon his arrest, he answered officers’ questions until offered a lie-detector test, which he refused to take. Balfour is scheduled to have a hearing before the Illinois Prisoner Review Board at 9 AM on Monday, at which time he could be set free or held for further hearings should the board find probable cause that he has violated his parole or committed a crime.
This story just seems to get more and more bizarre by the day. The Police really need to get on their job here and bring Balfour’s chick in for questioning if it is within the law to do so. As the many different layers to this story continue to unravel, we will be sure to keep you posted.
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They need to hurry up and get to the bottom of this.
Whether its Balfour or someone else, I don’t really care..I just want the person responsible for this to face some serious charges
Set him free, tha streets are waiting on him.
This investigation doesn’t seem to be going well.
Black people need to do better & be better.
Strange. I hope that they are not wasting time trying to pin him and it was someone else involved also. I just can’t believe that they can’t get a finger print or nothing!!! Haven’t they been watching CSI NY, CSI Miami, CSI Vegas etc…….
if this is true and others were involved she will be dead by weeks end. I still believe it was more than one person so if this is correct then DAMN, the CPD is setting her up by not protecting her.
WOW! Thanks for the tip Bossip. I’m sure you guys were the only ones to come up with the amazing idea of questioning a girlfriend. I’m SURE whatever source you’re getting your info from is COMPLETELY accurate and the Chicago PD have simply NEVER, EVER thought to question a girlfriend. I mean, what a unique and ground-breaking concept….
at the end of the day, Balfour knows something. and thats a fact!
This story reminds me of the one of Tonya Smith and her two boys. now I am reading that Julia came up missing. What’s is up with that? “Where my child is… is where I will be” What about the DNA it was stated in earlier reports that the brother fault his attacker, look very close and make William take the test and Julia too. CPD need to know everybodys where about and do they have an alibi. I watch a lot of television. I pray that this will come to an end soon.
now why would anyone just flat out tell their girlfriend they had something to do with some murders? that doesn’t even sound right. now i’m not saying he’s innocent at all. i’m just saying i think that girlfriend is *****ed off because balfour mother went on nancy grace and said he had another girlfriend besides her. it’s just funny how all of a sudden she seem to know something. and just in time for his hearing today. hmmm.
They are not going to give us all the details of their investigation. This was already probably in the report, and the girlfriend now see a way to get on one of them news shows and make some money too. Just like Julia, and Balfour’s momma did. It sounds like a money game to her. I think Balfour did it, and had help. Julia also knows too.
They need to bring Julia’s ***** in for questioning!!!!!!!!!!! Julia knows more about the motive of this killing than she’s leading on! I dont think that she was directly involved in the murders, but I do think that she knows more about the motive of the murders. Something went down to cause these gruesome murders to occur. I just think that Julia knows more than shes telling!
@ CYNT>>>i’m just saying i think that girlfriend is *****ed off because balfour mother went on nancy grace and said he had another girlfriend besides her. it’s just funny how all of a sudden she seem to know something. and just in time for his hearing today. hmmm.
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THE GIRLFRIEND WAS QUESTIONED DAY ONE, AND HAS “ALWAYS” IIMPLICATED WILLIAM BALFOUR…PRIOR TO ANY NANCY GRACE SHOW. I SAW THAT SHOW..IT WAS DAYS LATERE.
IF YOU READ THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE’S EARLIAR REPORTS IT CLEARLY STATED THAT THEY QUESTIONED THE GIRLFRIEND ON DAY ONE , SHORTLY AFTER ARRESTING HIM AT HER HOME. COMMON SENSE. THIS IS WHY THEY DETAINED HIM AS A PERSON OF INTEREST. SHE CONTRADICTED HIS ABLIBI AND IMPLICATED HIM IN THE MURDERS.…SO GET YA FACTS STRAIGHT. THIS IS NOT ABOUT HER BEING JEALOUS AFTER SEEING NANCY GRACE. THAT’S SILLY.HE WAS ARRESTED AT HER HOME AND I DON’T BLAME HER FOR COOPERATING. IF A THUG AZZ WAS ARRESTED IN MY HOME, I’M NOT GOING TO LIE FOR HIM. IF THEY FIND OUT SHE IS LYING ..THAT IMPLICATES HER.
WILLIAM BALFOUR HAS BEEN CAUGHT IN SEVERAL LIES. AFTER THEY TRACKED HIM VIA CELL PHONE RECORDS THEY DISCOVERED THAT HE HAD BEEN LYING. LATER, HE REFUSED A LIT DETECTOR TESTS. THEY ALREADY KNOW HE LYING..SO WHATEVER. A PERSON THAT HAS NOTHING TO HIDE IS NOT GOING TO BE LYING ABOUT EVENTS AND TIMES FOR A SPECIFIC DATE., SO HE HAS BEEN BUSTED LYING. THAT’S FACT NUMBER ONE. HE CLEARLY IS INVOLVED IN THE MURDERS….AND SHOULD BE HELD UNTIL EVIDENCE IS GOOD ENOUGH TO ACTUALLY CHARGE HIM. NO SLIP UPS. THE ACCOMPLICES ARE LIKELY WHAT THEY ARE HOLDING OUT FOR. JULIA KNOWS SOMETHING AND MAY EVEN BE AN ACCOMPLICE.. I THINK THIS IS A KIDNAPPING FOR MONEY, GONE BAD. THE GIRLFRIEND IS SAYING WILLIAM DID NOT KILL THE LITTLE BOY, SO OBVIOUSLY THE ACCOMPLICE DID. AFTER WILLIAM WAS ARRESTED, THE PLANS WERE JACKED UP. SOMEONE IS GOING TO CRACK SOON, AND I SAY ZERO IN ON JULIA. SHE IS THE KEY.
Am I retarded? Doesn’t the article say he told his girl he was NOT involved…maybe I’m slow!
This is ridiculous! How in the hell is the family ever going to get closure with all this speculation and no charges and no arrests? WTF is going on? I mean they have 3 victims, the damn gun, a suspect damn all that person of interest ***** and they have motives, WTF? Once again the police are screwin’ this up. And what’s all this stuff now about William not killing Julian? C’mon! If you were involved your hands still have blood on them regardless if you pulled the trigger or not. *****ing douche bags. UGH! This makes me so mad…
I believe and probably always will, that Julia has something to do with what happened…Jealousy is a powerful part of hate…..
@yea yea, you’re fine .. he told ole girl that he was NOT involved .. some people are going to read and think what they wanna … the sad thing is that he STILL has no representation .. can’t understand that ..
as for flex being released on the 23rd — BOSSIP IS BEING RETARDED AS USUAL – they already said he’ll be in there till the other hearing on the 4th of DECEMBER ..
this is a week old article – the 9am was for today .. BOSSIP u *****swipes suck
I think ole boyee had sumthin to do with those murders…..set ‘em up, pull the trigger, helped orchestrate the set up, carried it out, ……….1,2,3,4,5,or all of the above.
leave him in jail. Those people who died, knew who they let in and trusted them enough not to worry about getting robbed or killed.
Julia knows something…her big azz needs to tell the truth.
I bet she was in on it!
The police department is just letting everyone involve(maybe Julia) get comfortable so that they can actually mess up and say something(on their My*****e)criminating. Julia will spill the beans soon.
Can someone tell me where was Julia when the murders were takin place. I still haven’t heard where she was when her mother, brother and son were killed. Can someone bring me up to date. I just want to know where was Julia’s FAT *****
@jaime
i was wondering the same thing
Look, again, WILLIAM DID NOT DO IT!!! This was a drug murder! Just watch and see!
@Observation
you are wrong! Julia and William was in on it…… she was MIA during all the murders
@ Yea yea, no you’re not retarded. The article Bossip quotes states that William’s girlfriend told the police William didn’t have anything to do with the murders. However *unnamed* ’sources’ are telling the Chicago Tribune William confessed.
I’d LOVE to know who the unnamed sources are. They might be real. They might be made up. They might be a trap meant to get the real murderers all comfortable. I don’t know. I do know, that Bossip is in the wrong to take the word of unnamed sources over what’s in the police report… without knowing who the unnamed sources are and what their intentions are.
@ Foxxie, people lie all the time. Some lies are bigger than others. Was he supposed to be at the girlfriend’s house? Was he doing other things he wasn’t supposed to be doing while pretending to be ‘upstanding’ by babysitting his stepson? Why would a man who murdered three people, including a child, straight up tell the police that he was at the scene of the crime? William was up to something, I believe, but it was of the penny ante variety. If he knew murders were going down, he’d place himself as far away as possible from the scene, instead of trying to make himself look good to the cops by claiming babysitting duties.
He’s a thug. Probably the only life he knows. Folks like that lie even when there’s no reason to lie, because they don’t trust. But I still don’t think he killed Julian.
As for the girlfriend implicating William in the report immediately after — then something is dreadfully, dreadfully wrong… for the report to NOW say that she claimed William wasn’t involved. Has the report been changed? and if it has, who did it? If it hasn’t, who’s responsible for some seriously sloppy reporting Bossip is pretending is its own?
I thught Bossip was all about “***** Tha Police!”. Now you need the police. Today’s word is “hypocrite.”
Just goes to show that even the most hateful site out there will need to call 911 someday.
HUDSON TRAGEDY would be just a result of a DRUG BEEF between TWO drug(cocaine) dealers. The dealer came to punish(to kill) Jennifer’s brother; but after he did that, he killed ALL WITNESSES.POINT BLANK. You can see that scenari in many movies.
@Macho-in-Paris-France
I have to disagree. Like you said, a drug hit kills everyone in the house point blank (very clean)… they don’t take a 7 year old little boy hostage and later kill him. If it were a hit, what was the point of taking Julian… a witness to the crime?
I believe this was either a kidnapping/ransom situation or a straight up robbery gone bad (Jason was known to keep cash in the home). Jennifer always proved money for her mother, but Julia and Jason were on their own.
Here’s what I believe went down: Balfour, possibly Julia (I pray I’m wrong on that one), and 2 accomplices hatched a plan for a big payday. Julia reported to work (it’s never been said how she got there), Balfour and accomplices arrived at the home and rang the bell. As Jason approached and unlocked the door for William… he noticed the accomplices and shut the door (before he had a chance to lock it) someone fired a shot through the door striking him. As Jason retreated upstairs to safety, Darnell ran in to see what was happening and was instantly gunned down . Jason was shot and killed in the bedroom. William took Julian out of the house and drove off in Jason’s Suburban while 1 accomplice took William’s car and the other jumped into a third vehicle. The accomplice didn’t want to be caught in William’s car, so he dumped it blocks away from the Hudson home. The school’s security camera caught a time-stamped glimpse of the driver leaving the car… it wasn’t William, fore his cell phone tracked him miles away on the Westside at the exact time the car was being abandoned at the school.
With a botched robbery/kidnapping ending in a double homicide they couldn’t: 1)request ransom for Julian’s safe return and 2)go back to look for money inside the home. I believe William drove around most of the day with Julian in that vehicle before coming to the inevitible conclusion. He handed the vehicle over to the accomplices and went to his girlfriend’s home where he was arrested later that night. The accomplices ended up stuck with a vehicle that was plastered all over the news and Julian (a witness to the murders). They murdered Julian and planted the gun and vehicle near the girlfriend’s home… trying to implicate William. Problem was several neighbors say that vehicle wasn’t there until Saturday (after Balfour was in custody)and 2 witnesses said they saw a couple of men driving that vehicle early Saturday down the alley where the gun was later retrieved.
The police are desperately trying to get William to talk but he won’t… he’s probably afraid of retaliation against his family. And if Julia was somehow involved in the initial plot, she’s needs to come clean also… or maybe she already has and doesn’t know who the accomplices were, that’s why they have been in protective custody ever since Jennifer arrived (as well as the Police seizing everyone’s cell phone records). Either way, there’s some cold blooded killers running around, and I seriously doubt that they’re still in Chicago.
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@foxxie.. THE GIRLFRIEND WAS QUESTIONED DAY ONE, AND HAS “ALWAYS” IIMPLICATED WILLIAM BALFOUR…PRIOR TO ANY NANCY GRACE SHOW. I SAW THAT SHOW..IT WAS DAYS LATERE.
IF YOU READ THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE’S EARLIAR REPORTS IT CLEARLY STATED THAT THEY QUESTIONED THE GIRLFRIEND ON DAY ONE , SHORTLY AFTER ARRESTING HIM AT HER HOME. COMMON SENSE. THIS IS WHY THEY DETAINED HIM AS A PERSON OF INTEREST. SHE CONTRADICTED HIS ABLIBI AND IMPLICATED HIM IN THE MURDERS.…SO GET YA FACTS STRAIGHT. THIS IS NOT ABOUT HER BEING JEALOUS AFTER SEEING NANCY GRACE. THAT’S SILLY.HE WAS ARRESTED AT HER HOME AND I DON’T BLAME HER FOR COOPERATING. IF A THUG AZZ WAS ARRESTED IN MY HOME, I’M NOT GOING TO LIE FOR HIM. IF THEY FIND OUT SHE IS LYING ..THAT IMPLICATES HER.
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trick STFU! learn how to spell first. i know what the hell i saw too. and i don’t care if you did see the show two days “LATERE”. you talk like you on the d@mn case yourself. your facts aren’t even straight sweetheart.
Investigators said from jump that the girlfriend contradicted his story, and that William was caught in a lie.
The Nancy Grace interview with dudes mom, happened after that. Dont know how many days, but ole girl did say it before the show.
@ Anon
Dang!! You better becareful that ish sounded so convincing that CPD might come looking to talk to you lol.
Thanks for clearing that up you’s guys!
A girlfriend of Balfour has told authorities that in the days before the shootings, she saw him with a weapon that looked like the one that was recovered, sources said.
Authorities also have talked to a 19-year-old Mississippi college student who said she got a phone call from Balfour about 4 a.m. on Oct. 24. Rashia Whitlock alleged that Balfour told her that he and his “boys” were “getting ready for something real big that’s going to go down tomorrow” and asked if they could come to Mississippi.
Whitlock alleged that Balfour also asked if she knew Jennifer Hudson and whether she could be “loyal.” Whitlock said she had met Balfour online on My*****e.com and talked to him only twice before. Whitlock said she refused to let Balfour visit.
Balfour has not been charged in connection with the shootings, but he has been in custody since Oct. 24, after Chicago Police arrested him.
He subsequently was transferred to the Illinois Department of Corrections for violating parole conditions from his 1999 felony conviction for attempted murder.
This is from todays Chicago Sun Times
GOD BLESS DONALD TRUMP AND HAVE MERCY ON JENNIFER AND HER SISTER TO CATCH THE CROOKS.
JULIA’S FAT FUNKY ***** helped with this, she knew jennifer loved little julian and used him as a ways to get big time paid, like the other writer stated jealousy is a MFer, how could she not be jealous of jhudson. i know for a fact that if i looked like julia and had a sister that overcame, and achieved stardom, making videos with fine men dammit i’d be jealous too, especially if you only sending money home for the moms and leaving me out of the fame and glory stuck on chicago’s south side of *****!!!!!!!!*****ody still has said where her FAT NASTY ***** was and GOD please forgive me if i am judging julia wrong, but these vibes i have about her are the same vibes that kept me safe on the streets in knowing who to trust and who not to trust. call it a woman intuition.
I can’t wait for the police to tell us what they have found, I believe that Julia is involved but I also believe that someone must have paid for the killer(s) to kill the three members of the family.
I heard of a theory that Matthew Knowles (Beyonce’s father) had a strong beef against Jennifer Hudson. Make your own research and you will see for yourself.
He gave her hell first because she didn’t want to sign his management contract, second because she was a competitor to Beyonce.
He tried everything he can to stop her from having success, he even tried to convince the producer of “Dreamgirls” not to sign Jennifer on the movie.
And on the top of that, he got mad when Beyonce didn’t get an award for the movie but Jennifer did.
Beyonce has always been jealous of Jennifer anyway, Beyonce is a witch , she is jealous of all the beautiful and talented females anyway.
And when a triple murder is committed, ask yourself a simple question: who is benefiting from this mess?
Also it wasn’t a murder committed out of anger, Balfour told his girlfriend that he was going to do “something big” one day before the murders.
So it was all planned. If you ask me, I believe that someone in “higher” places wanted Jennifer to pay for something.
I pray that the truth will come out soon because just like you, I can’t stand this situation.
It makes me so angry.