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David Hudson

After graduating from EHS I went to Southern State College for a year and flunked out. Subsequently I got a letter from Uncle Sam who said you are just the type of flunky we are looking for come play with me. I spent two years in the U.S. Army one of which was spent in South Vietnam serving in the 9th Infantry Division. After Vietnam I went back to Southern State College and earned a degree in accounting. I worked for a C.P.A. firm in Little Rock for five years and then I was appointed to the FBI in 1976.

After graduating from the FBI Training Academy my first office assignment was the Atlanta Division. I initially worked bank robberies, extortions, kidnappings and foreign counter intelligence. In 1978 I was transferred to the FBI Division located in New Orleans. There I worked white collar crimes and political corruption. In 1981 I was transferred to the FBI Resident Agency located in Shreveport, LA. I was fortunate enough to remain in the Shreveport Resident Agency for the remainder of my career.

In Shreveport I worked just about every criminal violations on the books. Even though I enjoyed working on all of my cases, one of my most exciting cases occurred near the end of my career. In 2001 a recently married individual by the name of Curtis Whorton took his new wife on a honeymoon trip first to Aruba and then to Haiti (there are many more details on why they went to Haiti which are too numerous to lay out in this brief synopsis of my life since high school). While in Haiti, Whorton took his bride to a resort located just northwest of Port-au-Prince where he stayed for approximately two days. Prior to their return trip back to Port-au-Prince Whorton doped his wife with the date rape drug Rohypnol and on a lonely stretch of Highway 1 running between Port-au-Prince and Moulin Sur Mer, Haiti, Whorton had his wife shot four times in the face, shoulder and twice behind the right ear. He claimed during his trial they were victims of a hijacking even though he didn’t suffer any injuries and he retained his passport (which was worth approximately $10,000 in Haiti). Whorton subsequently returned to the U.S. and file a four million dollar life insurance claim for the murder of his wife allegedly by Haitian hijackers. I traveled to Aruba and Haiti during the investigation and we eventually indicted Whorton for murdering his wife in Haiti utilizing a very seldom used criminal statute which allows the U.S. Government to charge someone for murdering an American citizen in a foreign country. That statute is used extensively today for charging terrorist with killing American citizens in a foreign country. Whorton was convicted for the murder scheme and was sentenced to two life terms plus eighty years to run consecutively.

After retiring from the FBI in 2003, I went back to work at the U.S. Attorney’s Office. I was hired to be the U.S. Attorney’s representative on the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force. I now work part time (two days a week) at the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Financial Litigation Unit.

I’m married to Wanda Blann Hudson and we have one son, Shawn. I recently bought some land in north Claiborne Parish, LA and we just built a new house. My hobbies include a little hunting, fishing, shooting and working on the homestead. I don’t know of any other career I could have pursued which would have given me the enjoyment I received from serving in the FBI. I never got out of bed and dreaded to go to work.

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