Man still in custody in Hudson deaths

Jorge Montes (left), chairman of the Illinois Prisoner Review Board, said William Balfour (below) will remain behind bars. (M. Spencer Green/Associated Press)

JOLIET, Ill. - He hasn't been charged in the killings of three members of actress Jennifer Hudson's family. But William Balfour is going to stay behind bars until a hearing next month because a panel found probable cause yesterday to believe that the convicted felon violated parole.

Early next month, he'll have another hearing before the Illinois Prisoner Review Board.

At a hearing yesterday in Joliet, a parole review official refused to release Balfour, after a witness reported seeing him with a gun similar to the one that was used in the killings of Hudson's mother, brother, and nephew. Balfour has been questioned in the killings, and has been called a "person of interest."

During yesterday's hearing by a member of the review board, Balfour denied involvement in the crime, and that he had been seen with a gun. He has been in custody since the day the bodies of Hudson's mother and brother were found at the family's Chicago home.

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