The Crazy Real-Life Story Of Woody Harrelson's Dad

When he was interviewed from his prison cell years after leaving Woody Harrelson and his family behind, Charles Harrelson denied being a hitman, insisting that he was just a simple "card player" who had been wrongly jailed. However, reports suggest that he actually began working as a contract killer around the time he started operating his own poker table, and at some point had left professional gambling behind for professional killing. Charles apparently even went as far as getting his own business cards printed. 

"He used to carry a card that said 'Have gun will travel' and another card that said 'Hit man,'" David Berg, who believes that his brother was murdered by Woody Harrelson's dad for $1,500, claimed to Inside Edition. Carpet salesman Alan Berg disappeared in 1968 after a mysterious woman lured him to a Houston bar called the Brass Jar. According to his brother, hitman Charles Harrelson was there waiting for him and reportedly forced him into a car at gunpoint. "Charles Harrelson took Alan to a deserted road and shot him through the temple and when Alan didn't die, he strangled him to death,'" David Berg added to Inside Edition. 

The woman that tricked Alan Berg was reportedly Charles' then-girlfriend, Sandra Sue Attaway, per Berg's memoir, "Run, Brother, Run." She witnessed the murder, he says, but as his "common-law wife," she wasn't able to testify. "The jury had to disregard all of her testimony," he told Inside Edition. "Without her testimony there wasn't much of a case."

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