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Sep 2025
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Woody Harrelson's Dad Was a Hitman - The...

Ray William Johnson
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Charles V. Harrelson was an American contract killer and the father of actor Woody Harrelson. A career criminal with a long history of violence, Harrelson was convicted of multiple murders for hire, including the 1979 assassination of federal judge John H. Wood Jr.

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