Moments after finding her mother’s body, the sister of Oscar-winning actress Jennifer Hudson sobs as she pleads for help in a disturbing 911 recording released to the news media Monday. “Oh my God…. Somebody’s killed my mother,” Julia Hudson says, while a dispatcher tries to get her to calm down and repeat her address. “She’s […]
Friday’s testimonies took the Hudson family murder case in a whole different direction when William Balfour’s ex girlfriend said he admitted to the killings to her. Shonta Cathey told the jury on the day Jennifer Hudson’s three family members were murdered, Balfour showed up at her home at 3 p.m. and told her, “If anybody […]
Jennifer Hudson shut her eyes tight Tuesday, holding still on a spectators’ bench, as a police officer at the trial of the man accused of killing three members of the Oscar winner’s family described coming across bloodied bodies at the Chicago home where Hudson grew up. Before prosecutors projected dozens of photographs of her mother […]
The otherwise blank-faced defendant accused of killing Jennifer Hudson’s family appeared to cry at his trial Wednesday when prosecutors projected photographs onto a large screen of the bloodied body of the youngest victim — Oscar winner’s 7-year-old nephew. It was the third day of testimony and the first time Hudson’s former brother-in-law, William Balfour, showed […]
Chicago prosecutors created a buzz by calling Oscar-winner Jennifer Hudson as their first witness during the trial of the man accused of killing her mother, brother and nephew. But the hard part starts Tuesday, when they’ll have to get down to the nitty-gritty of their case. With no surviving witnesses to the murders, prosecutors must […]
The house is like many others nearby. Blinded by boards over windows after witnessing the worst kind of violence, the white two-story house, its paint chipped and its front steps crumbling, sits vacant behind a rusty iron fence that separates an overgrown yard from the cracked sidewalk. About the only difference between it and thousands […]
CHICAGO (AP) — The first full day of jury selection in the Chicago trial of the man accused of killing singer and actress Jennifer Hudson’s family ended Monday without the seating of a full jury. William Balfour is accused of killing Hudson’s mother, brother and nephew. The 30-year-old Balfour faces a maximum life sentence if […]
CHICAGO (AP) — Potential jurors got their first look Thursday at the man accused in the 2008 slayings of actress and singer Jennifer Hudson’s mother, brother and 7-year-old nephew ahead of trial testimony set to begin later this month. When Judge Charles Burns introduced the defendant, a deferential William Balfour stood, tugged nervously on his […]
Jennifer Hudson talks with TJMS about her sophomore CD, “I Remember Me”, which comes out on March 22nd. and more
