After two weeks of harrowing and often shocking testimony, the defense rested their case Tuesday in the triple murder trial of William Balfour, the man accused of killing Jennifer Hudson’s family.

As RadarOnline.com previously reported, Balfour faces three counts of first-degree murder, aggravated kidnapping and home invasion in the deaths of Jennifer’s mother Darnell Hudson Donerson, 57; brother Jason Hudson, 29; and nephew Julian King, 7, in October 2008.

The man accused of killing Jennifer Hudson’s family was far from discreet in the months leading up to the murders, and even allegedly spilled his deadly desires to a 13-year-old stranger in a park.

The Chicago courtroom heard on Tuesday how William Balfour randomly approached teenager Maria Wilkes in the South Side park in the summer of 2008 and began pouring his heart out to her about his crumbling marriage and how he suspected wife, Julia Hudson, was cheating on him.

In the midst of the high profile trial of William Balfour for the murder of Jennifer Hudson’s family, the 911 call made by the Oscar-winner’s sister that was played in court last week was released on Monday, and RadarOnline.com has the distressing audio.

During the chilling tape, Julia Hudson can be heard appealing to the dispatcher to get help to the house on Yale Avenue on the South Side of Chicago after she discovered the body of her murdered mother at the family home.

It was far from happy families in the Hudson household when William Balfour was around.

Jurors in the Chicago courtroom triple murder trial heard from a family friend of Jennifer Hudson’s how the defendant repeatedly threatened to kill the Hudsons while attending a children’s birthday party a couple months before the murders, reported ChicagoCBSLocal.com.

As RadarOnline.com previously reported, Balfour faces three counts of first-degree murder, aggravated kidnapping and home

Before he allegedly gunned down Jennifer Hudson’s mother, brother and nephew, William Balfour was cheating on her sister, according to a witness who testified in his triple murder trial on Thursday.

Diana Grant told the Chicago courtroom that she met the defendant in 2007 through friends, she found out Balfour was married to Julia Hudson a few months later but says she was already in love with him and they continued to date, reported the Chicago Tribune.

With a tragic triple murder, an Oscar winner as a witness and allegations of drug-dealing victims and an abusive defendant, the Jennifer Hudson family murder trial has all the ingredients of a John Grisham novel.

Now RadarOnline.com can exclusively reveal that the defense may have an extra tough time getting suspect William Balfour released because of the star power sitting in the Chicago courtroom.

The trial of the man accused of murdering Jennifer Hudson’s family took a surprising twist when the defense suggested that the Oscar winner’s brother was a big time drug dealer.

Assistant Public Defender Amy Thompson argued that it was not suspect William Balfour who killed Hudson’s mother, brother and nephew, and even went as far as suggesting an alternative suspect whom she claimed assisted Jason Hudson in his alleged illegal drug business, reported the Chicago Sun Times.

Nearly two years after Jennifer Hudson’s mother, brother and nephew were brutally murdered; the family is trying to move on but still doesn’t have any closure.

Prime suspect William Balfour was charged in the triple homicide in late 2008 and RadarOnline.com has learned that the much anticipated case has been granted yet another continuance today.

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Balfour, 29, has been in the Cook County jail in Chicago since he was arrested on December 1, 2008 for the murders of Jennifer’s mother Darnell Hudson Donerson, her brother Jason Hudson and her nephew Julian Hudson-King, who was only 7-years-old at the time of his death.

Balfour is the estranged husband to Jennifer’s sister Julia and was stepfather to her son, Julian. Before being arrested in 2008, he served nearly seven years in prison for attempted murder and vehicular hijacking.

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"It's all a blur, it was surreal," Chicago native Jennifer Hudson, 28, said in her first interview since the murders with VH1’s Behind The Music in early 2010.

"It was like I was outside of myself -- for almost two weeks straight ... [I was] inside one room with just family and friends coming in and out, because the press was everywhere and it was like, 'Where's Jennifer?'"

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Since the tragedy, Jennifer became engaged to reality-TV actor David Otunga in 2008 and gave birth to their first child together in 2009.

Earlier this month Jennifer and her sister celebrated what would have been her nephew Julian’s ninth birthday while surrounded by family and friends. A large banner adorned with Julian’s face was hung in memory while guests enjoyed a large birthday cake decorated with Julian’s favorite superhero, Spider-Man.

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The bodies of Jennifer’s mother and brother were discovered inside the home she grew up in on Chicago's South Side on November 24, 2008. Julian's body was found days later in an SUV on Chicago's West Side. All three victims died from multiple gunshot wounds.