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As reported on Celebrity Today , Jennifer Hudson has just suffered a huge loss and must be asking herself what could happen to turn her life around like this. Just a few years back she was singing on cruise ships, then became a finalist on American Idol, drawing praise from the likes of Elton John. She then campaigned hard for the coveted role of Effie in the film version of Dreamgirls and got it, over season three American Idol winner Fantasia Barrino. She won an Oscar for the role, appeared in the film version of Sex and the City, and released an album … finally. She recently announced her engagement, and last week premiered her third movie, The Secret Life of Bees.

The news broke yesterday afternoon towards the end of the workday in Chicago that Jennifer’s mother and brother had been found murdered in the city. Worse yet, a little boy in the home, 7 years old, had disappeared. They seemed pretty intent on wanting to find this little boy as Amber Alerts went out all over the Chicagoland area. And in the midst of a really terrible thunderstorm, the alerts on the TV weren’t weather-related. They were all mentioning the Amber Alert, with the city intent on finding this little boy.

How do you go from that to that? How do you go from everything working and clicking to absolutely everything going so terribly wrong?  Not only is she losing her mother, but her brother as well, and in such a terrible way! Two things came to my mind with this, the murders and abduction are either a child custody case or being done because of Jennifer’s fame. Either is terrible. Police have now announced that they have taken Jennifer’s brother-in-law (her older sister’s husband and the step-father to the boy) into custody, yet he hasn’t been charged with anything yet. They caught up with him fairly quickly, but he didn’t have the little boy with him, which means it’s not looking very good that the little boy is alive.

And I’ll admit, I did have another thought regarding this. Such a big deal is being made of this with the Amber alert, making it so far-reaching. I live in the far northwestern suburbs, and never before has a Chicago Amber Alert reached us, only alerts from our own community. I know that little kids go missing in Chicago far more often than what we see, prompting me to question why this alert has been issued so desperately. It has to be the celebrity factor, and while that’s great for Jennifer and her remaining family to be helped in this way, imagine how the parents of other missing children are feeling, as they are wishing that police had put this much effort into finding their child.

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Stay tuned to What’s Hot On TV and Celebrity Today , or Sirlinksalot: American Idol for further developments of this story.

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