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Mark David Chapman (* 10. May 1955 in Fort Worth, Texas, the USA) is the murderer of the ex Beatles John of the Lennon.

Chapman led an unsteady life before the act. It was occasionally drug dependent and in treatment in a mental hospital, joined temporarily "the fount Again Christian ". He was a former student of the Covenant college in Lookout Mountain in Georgia. After a Nervenzusammenbruch its admiration for the Beatles and John Lennon increased to an obsession. Chapman even married a Japanese woman, because she reminded him of Yoko Ono. When Chapman continued to glide always, he began, to make Lennon responsible for it. Chapman has its aspect on Lennon considerably after its interview of http://de.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Lennon 4. March 1966 changed, in the Lennon said to "more popular than Jesus incoming goods of acres now"". Its extreme admiration turned Lennon over to hate for "the swindler ". (Source for it is the television documentation of Guido Knopp - see below).

The murder John Lennons

On 6 December 1980 Mark David Chapman - without return flight ticket of Hawaii coming - landed in New York and referred a room in the YMCA in the 63. Road. Because it felt disturbed by two homosexual ones there, Chapman moved on the next day in the Sheraton Centre hotel. During the later search of the hotel room the police found Chapmans belongings developed as on an altar. Among other things there also a Bible lay. Chapman with ball-point pen had extended the title "Gospel According ton John" (Johannes gospel) by the word "Lennon ". In addition Chapman had signed its last presence receipt with its working premises in Waikiki with "John Lennon ". On 8 December Chapman left the hotel against 14.00 o'clock, bought first Lennons of LP double Fantasy and then in a stationery shop an expenditure of the novel of the in the rye of J.D. Salinger, its own expenditure had forgotten Chapman in Hawaii. From Salingers novel was Chapman since its childhood possessed. In the later court process it indicated in this book "the request "to have read to have to kill a celebrity in order to become famous. It, it maintained another time intended to make the novel Salingers world-famous.

On 8 December Lennon and Ono gave an halfhour interview, which lasted to 17,00 o'clock to the broadcasting station RKO radio. Chapman met five minutes later before the Dakota Building, where the pair lived, on John Lennon and asked it, the album bought before to mark. Afterwards John Lennon and Yoko Ono with coworkers of the Radiosenders rose into a car and drove to the record plan Studio. They returned only at 22.48 o'clock to the Dakota Building, where Chapman waited for them.

Against its habit Lennon gave to its driver the order, to non as usual - into the inner court of the building to drive to let but it and Ono before the house step out. Ono stepped out first. After it had passed Chapman, this called: "Mr John "and fired from approximately six meters distance with a gun of the caliber 38 on before the open standing Lennon. From the five fired hollow pointed projectiles two Lennons lung met, its left Schulterblatt and the carotid artery. Lennon called: "I'm of SHOT, I'm of SHOT! "tumbled up, the four stages to the entrance and broke down forward. Broke its eyeglasses, which were photographed later - still covered with Blutspritzern - by Ono for the Cover of its album "Seasons OF Glass ". Lennon was still with consciousness, when he was driven into the Roosevelt General Hospital, succumbed however around 23:07 clock its injuries, after he had lost 80% of his blood.

When the police arrested Chapman immediately after the act, it did not offer a resistance. It stood calmly and calm under a strassenlaterne before the Dakota Building and read "the in rye ". Chapman confessed the act on the following day. In the evening it was brought on the psychiatric station of the Bellevue of hospital.

Condemnation and punishment

Chapman was condemned to a lifelong detention. It is at present in the Attica State Prison arrested in close proximity to Buffalo (New York). So far three times a pardon was refused to it, its third request for grace was rejected in the first October week 2004. In the documentation of Guido Knopp (see below) avowed Fred Seaman, which from 1977 to 1982 Yoko Onos Butler was, Ono became it - Seaman - explain again and again until today, it would have still fear of Chapman. In the state New York is enough only one protest against a request for grace, in order to leave this purged. Onos of lawyers won also in the winter 2005/2006 with their request for refusal of the request for grace before court. Chapmans fourth request for grace was finally rejected in the spring 2006 judicially.

Sources

Television report "murder case: John Lennon "by Egon cook and Friedrich Scherer. Produced of Arte, 2005. Erstausstrahlung with Arte: 30. November 2005

Television report "murder case John Lennon" of Guido Knopp from the row "Second Channel of German Television History", Erstsendung in the Second Channel of German Television on 4 December 2005