A Chicago-area woman discusses what it’s like having a Chicago Outfit hit man for a stepfather on a new episode of the Reelz channel series “I Lived with a Killer.”
Harry “The Hook” Aleman, described as “one of the most feared enforcers in organized crime,” is alleged to have committed or participated in more than a dozen killings. He died in prison in 2010 while serving time for the 1972 murder of William Logan, a steward for the Teamsters union who was shot to death on the West Side.
Aleman’s stepdaughter, Franky Forliano; retired FBI agent Lee Flosi; and former Tribune reporter Maurice Possley, who wrote a book about Logan’s murder, “Everybody Pays,” with Tribune reporter Rick Kogan; were interviewed for Saturday’s episode of “I Lived with a Killer,” which is scheduled to air at 8 p.m.
On the episode, Forliano said Aleman insisted on his deathbed that he didn’t kill Logan.
“He said, ‘Honey, I did not kill Billy Logan. I did a lot of bad things in my life, but this I am not guilty of.’ And I said OK. It wouldn’t have mattered to me if he did or didn’t. I would have still loved him. No matter what people think of me, I would have still loved my father. You love your parents, no matter who they are,” Forliano said.
Aleman was acquitted of the slaying in a 1977 bench trial, but the judge was later accused of accepting a $10,000 bribe to fix the case. Aleman was convicted at a second trial, in 1997. He was the first person in U.S. history to be tried for a murder for which he had previously been acquitted.
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