{"id":7244,"date":"1979-05-29T11:37:52","date_gmt":"1979-05-29T11:37:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/history.dialectzone.org\/?p=7244"},"modified":"1979-05-29T11:37:52","modified_gmt":"1979-05-29T11:37:52","slug":"woody-harrelsons-father-is-arrested-for-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.beanybux.com\/woody-harrelsons-father-is-arrested-for-murder\/","title":{"rendered":"Woody Harrelson\u2019s Father Is Arrested For Murder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Judge John Wood, known as \u201cMaximum John,\u201d is assassinated outside his San Antonio, Texas, home as he bent down to look at a flat tire on his car. Actor Woody Harrelson\u2019s father, Charles Harrelson, was charged with the murder after evidence revealed that drug kingpin Jimmy Chagra, whose case was about to come up before \u201cMaximum John,\u201d had paid him $250,000.<\/p>\n<p>Chagra, worried about the sentence that was soon to be imposed by Judge Wood, apparently conspired with his wife and brother to hire Harrelson to carry out the murder. Shattered bullet fragments found at the scene were traced to a .240 Wetherby MarkV rifle\u2014the type recently purchased by Harrelson\u2019s wife, Jo Ann. Harrelson, who had a prior conviction for murder in 1968, was convicted and sentenced to two life sentences in prison. Jo Ann, convicted of conspiracy to obstruct justice and perjufy, was later paroled. Woody Harrelson funded his father\u2019s appeals,enlisting the aid of famed attorney Alan Dershowitz.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Charles Harrelson died on March 15, 2007, at age 69 of a heart attack in his cell at Colorado\u2019s Supermax federal prison.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Judge John Wood, known as \u201cMaximum John,\u201d is assassinated outside his San Antonio, Texas, home as he bent down to look at a flat tire on his car. Actor Woody Harrelson\u2019s father, Charles Harrelson, was charged with the murder after evidence revealed that drug kingpin Jimmy Chagra, whose case was about to come up before [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3502],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.beanybux.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.beanybux.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.beanybux.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.beanybux.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.beanybux.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.beanybux.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7244\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.beanybux.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.beanybux.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.beanybux.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}