One for Wanda Faye Hudson. If any of her family can see this, you are welcome here any time.


"Across the country, loved ones sat stunned Friday, still absorbing startling revelations about daughters or mothers taken from them a long time ago.

Wanda Faye Hudson's relatives heard the news on television Thursday and immediately began calling one another with the shocking news: Robert Charles Browne, a home-town boy from Coushatta, La., was a self-described serial killer.

And his confession, cops now say, could bring the mystery that had haunted them for 23 years to an end.

The news brought back horrific memories. But, along with the anguish came some vindication. Hudson's uncle, Robert Watson, always felt that the case was bungled. He described his family as "poor white folk" and said the sheriff's office failed to pursue the case.

"It's a terrible situation," Watson said. "They wouldn't tell us nothing at the sheriff's office. They sure wouldn't. They still don't want to talk about it."

Watson recalled the horror of the scene. His 21-year-old niece was naked and had been stabbed repeatedly.

"I put my hands over my face and looked. She was struck with a screwdriver 20 times," Watson said.

Afterward, Watson sat on the porch of his niece's home. Burning up with a fever, he tried to protect her from the many people who were tromping through the crime scene. He said he heard that sheriff's deputies were snapping crime scene photos and showing them around town.

Watson's son, Rusty Watson, said Hudson was a "happy-go-lucky" girl. About six months before her death, she had decided to return to the church.

"She was just being a teenager, running around and having a good time. She had just quit all that and started going to church and was living for the Lord," said Rusty Watson, who now lives in Petal, Miss.

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