“I’ve been in touch with Woody’s longtime assistant,” says Cavanagh. I ask Cavanagh what he makes of the man himself.“I think he did some terrible things over the course of his life,” he says about Harrelson. He gathered documents. At the time it was alleged that a rival carpet seller named Frank DiMaria had hired Harrelson to kill Berg. Laywer David Berg's new memoir reveals the story of his most dramatic case. He thought about Alan often, but he didn't talk about him. The next morning, a picture of a police officer holding Berg’s skull was published on the front page of the newspaper. Then the woman got in the car and saw my face and realised something was up. “The FBI, CIA, organised crime, and Hollywood – a lot of people who have an interest in not having the full picture told. Just don’t do that.”“Going into this I knew I’d be looking at this intersection of different worlds that were potentially dangerous,” says Cavanagh. I cried so hard that she thought someone had died.“And I said, yes, someone had. Yes.”Though Woody Harrelson isn’t interviewed on the podcast, he has spoken before about learning his father was a killer.“I was 11 or 12 when I heard his name mentioned on a car radio,” Woody told The Guardian in 2012. One person told me that he knows how to ‘disappear people’. The Alan Berg story is basically one big soap opera, full of twists, turns, and crazy cliffhangers. Charles had left Woody, his mom, and his two brothers in 1968, and soon after, had been tried for the murder of Alan Berg, a carpet salesman, as well as the murder-for-hire-killing of Sam Degelia Jr, a resident of Hearne, Texas. And the long-range sniper shooting doesn't fit Harrelson's other known and alleged murders.Charles Harrelson was sentenced to two life sentences. Alan Berg was a carpet salesman working with his father in Houston when he was lured to a bar by a phone ... Berg believes the trial of Harrelson was beset by … “I was in the car waiting for a lady who was picking me up from school, helping my mum, and anyway I was listening to the radio and it was talking about Charles V Harrelson and his trial for murder and blah blah blah blah and I’m sitting there thinking there can’t be another Charles V Harrelson. There was Harrelson's ex-girlfriend, Sandra Sue Attaway, who witnessed the murder; the Chronicle called her a "shapely brunette," the Post, "alluring. )As part of his investigation, Cavanagh tracked down Frank DiMaria, and a brief phone conversation is included on the podcast. Some heavy s–––.”Eldest brother Jordan seems more resigned to their father’s guilt. Eventually, the trail led to a hit man, Charles Harrelson, said to have been hired for $1,500 by a competitor in the low-end carpet business.The lurid trial started in August 1970, and for weeks Houston newspapers reveled in it. He even paid off a guard so he could have sex with another inmate’s sister.Harrelson was found guilty at the retrial. Run, Brother, Run is about the 1968 murder of Berg's brother, Alan, allegedly by Charles Harrelson — … "That book surprised me. He later was convicted of assassinating U.S. District Judge John H. Wood in San Antonio.David imagines the opening argument that the prosecutor should have made: an opening argument that paints the victim as a likable guy, not perfect but perfectly human. At several points in the book, he second-guesses the prosecutor's decisions, the ones that led to a not-guilty verdict, the ones that let Harrelson go free, to kill again. And that is, really, the Alan that David describes in the book - warm and funny, the kind of guy who'd subject his little brother to the dreaded Dutch Oven, trapping him under covers with a rancid fart. In some ways, it's framed from the perspective of them not knowing the full story. Woody Harrelson, with his wife Laura Louie, leaving a hearing for his father in Denver, 1998 One prison guard recalls how Harrelson always had money and status in prison. President John F. Kennedy, Jaqueline Kennedy and Texas Governor John Connally ride in a liousine moments before Kennedy was assassinated, in Dallas According to Son of a Hitman, Chagra made $100 million in a decade.Wood was checking a flat tyre outside his home when he was shot in the back. A postcard retrieved by a state trooper and later pieced together by a FBI agent said:"Since death is certain, I should only be credited with speeding up a natural process. In an archive interview, replayed in Son of a Hitman, Woody Harrelson said: “I think that it was not a fair trial… I‘m not saying my father’s a saint but I think he’s innocent of that.”Woody had also said be believed his father was a secret CIA operative. “But I think the state had to find somebody and I think he would have been the easiest one to convict. While Woody Harrelson, the “Natural Born Killers” and “ No Country For Old Men” star, isn't involved in the podcast, his brothers Brett and Jordan do participate. You need to be a subscriber to join the conversation. And unlike David, Alan didn't have a big brother to serve as a father figure; he had only their flawed, never-satisfied father.One night, David received a report from an investigator he'd hired, and for the first time he read the statement of eyewitness Sandra Sue Attaway - a statement stored for years in Department of Public Safety files. It was the first murder of federal judge in over a century and became the biggest FBI investigation outside of the Kennedy assassination.Texas Rangers first tipped the FBI off about Harrelson as a potential suspect.

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