http://www.mansfieldnewsjournal.com.../?hootPostID=2df832467d437e4e012d47d5f99c3562
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Another neighbor, Steve Au, said Mansfield police detectives had search dogs last week in the neighborhood. Authorities were carrying crowbars, too, he said. Au said a city of Mansfield Water Department truck also was on the scene.
His son, Treven Au, watched last week as authorities removed items from Hudson's residence, and from a next-door neighbor's house at 290 Spring St.
"They (police) didn't do nothing until her sister came over here and talked to a neighbor," Treven Au said. The sister, Patricia Rentz, filed a missing persons report on Dec. 22, and police issued a press release about Hudson being missing Jan. 12.
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Wayne Liggett, a Plymouth police officer, said he was staying at his uncle's on Spring Street, caring for him. He called police on Aug. 11 to report Hudson had not been seen for multiple weeks, a gate was open, a strange odor was coming from the house and the mail was piling up.
Liggett, who went inside Hudson's house with police when they responded to his Aug.11 call, said fleas were eating everyone up while they inside.
"A neighbor told me the couple next door dumped the biggest majority of her cats, but she still had a few there," Liggett said.
"She had a love/hate relationship with the couple (at 294 Spring St.)," Liggett said of the couple who authorities believe are linked to Hudson's disappearance.
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She worked three jobs to support me. My mom used to buy 50 pounds of potatoes and flour and we could eat all month off of them," Clevenger said. "We canned everything. We never had store-bought bread. She made our bread. She was a good mother."
When he was in third grade, Clevenger and his mom moved from Galion to Mansfield. She worked as a waitress and bartender and also at a factory. Her son said his mom dropped out of school when she was pregnant with him. Her first husband died. She remarried, but later was divorced.
Clevenger said he has no idea what has happened to her.
"She kept a pretty clean house. But that place was a mess," he said of his visit around Christmas Eve.
Clevenger said he last talked to his mom in June.
"She was telling me some of her cats were sick and she thought someone was poisoning them," he said.
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IMO: if she loved cats/animals that much, which she obviously did, there is no way she would just walk away and leave them to fend for themselves. Everything points to foul play. Hopefully they find this couple and get some answers soon
(I saw that LOS has posted right before me so I deleted some info that is up above)
