Marco David Chapmanman who killed John Lennon outside his apartment in 1980 he told a court that he knew it was wrong to kill his beloved Beatle, but he sought fame and had “evil in my heart”.
Chapman spoke to bail court attorneys in August of this year. His words were top secret, but the AP news agency filed a formal request for freedom of expression and all speeches revealed.
In meeting with that court, he was denied parole for the twelfth timeciting his “selfish disrespect for a human life of global consequences”.
Her words
Chapman, according to the transcript released Tuesday, said his decision to kill Lennon was “my big solution to everything, because I didn’t want to be a stranger anymore.”
“I will not blame anyone for being there that night. I knew he was wrong, but he wanted fame so much that he was willing to give his all and take a human life, “he told the court.
Chapman killed John Lennon on December 8, 1980., when the former Beatle and Yoko Ono were returning home after a day of recording. At the beginning of that same day, Lennon signed a vinyl for Chapman, who was already outside his apartmentwaiting for him.
Mark David Chapman, now 67, told the court: “There was evil in my heart, I wanted to stop being a stranger and be someoneAnd nothing would have stopped him. “
His punishment was life sentence in a New York state prison, and has repeatedly expressed remorse at subsequent hearings in recent years.
“What I’ve done has hurt a lot of people everywhere, and if anyone wants to hate me, that’s okay, I understand,” he added.
Denying him parole, the court said what Chapman had done left the world “to recover from a void it caused”.
He will try his luck again in 2024
His next hearing is set for February 2024.
Chapman’s secret hope is to have the same fate as John Hinckley Jr., who shot and wounded President Ronald Reagan in 1981, and who was eventually paroled on mental health grounds.
details of the murder
On the morning of December 8, 1980, photographer Annie Leibovitz went to Ono and Lennon’s home for a photo shoot for Rolling Stone magazine. After, Lennon gave what would be his last interview San Francisco DJ Dave Sholin for a musical show on RKO Radio Network.
At 5pm, Lennon and Ono left their apartment to mix the song together. Walking on thin ice en Record Plant Studio. As they made their way to their limo, they were surrounded by several people looking for autographs; among them, Mark David Chapman. It was customary for fans to wait outside the Dakota building.
Chapman, a 25-year-old hospital worker from Honolulu, he had first gone to New York to kill Lennon in November, but he changed his mind and went home. Silently, he handed a copy to Lennon Double fantasyand the musician signed it.
After doing so, Lennon politely asked “Is that all you want?”, And Chapman nodded. Photographer Paul Goresh took a photo of the meeting.
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Source: Clarin
