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Mark David Chapman, who shot John Lennon 40 years ago, has been denied parole for the 11th time. Now 65, he will remain at New York’s Wende Correctional

The elusive motives behind Mark David Chapman fatally shooting John Lennon are now finally being explained in a boundary-breaking Apple TV+ docuseries.'Memory' Trailer: Jessica Chastain Confronts Her Demons in Michel Franco's Riveting Venice Winner “John Lennon: Murder Without a Trial” interrogates why Chapman, a photographer from Hawaii, set out to murder Beatle Lennon. Interviews with Chapman’s defense lawyer David Suggs and Dr Naomi Goldstein, the psychiatrist who first assessed Chapman…

The film is Chapter 27, which is the debut effort of the young writer/director J.P. Schaefer. Mark David Chapman is infamous for the assassination of John Lenon December 8, 1980. Chapman, the son of an Air Force sergeant was born in 1955 in Fort Worth, Texas but grew up primarily in Atlanta. From all accounts, Chapman's life was somewhat rebellious until in high school his life turned around after becoming a Christian, at which point most accounts regard him as well respected, particularly…

It is 4pm on December 8, 1980 in New York. As John Lennon leaves his home on Central Park West, he pauses to autograph a record for Mark David Chapman, without a suspicion in the world.

Thirty-nine years ago today, John Lennon was murdered in the archway of the Dakota in New York, the place he and wife Yoko Ono had called home for seven years.

Here's what we know about Chapman's current whereabouts.

Of course, coincidences happen all the time: we were just thinking of someone when they call us on the phone, or we have this song in mind when it suddenly plays on the radio. Most of the time they don’t mean much, but every once in awhile there is a coincidence that’s outright spooky, or one that has a major impact on world events. When these coincidences are positive in nature, we call them synchronicity or even serendipity; when they are not, however, we call them catastrophes. So here is…

This article features the last known photographs of some of the most famous people from history, taken shortly before their deaths. Among the people featured in this article are famous political figures and leaders, scientists, authors, actors, and musicians. While some on this list lived long and successful lives, others…

Gloria Chapman and Mark David Chapman AP; Getty Images John Lennon’s assassin told his wife his plans to murder the Beatle two months before shooting him dead in 1980, according to new reports. Gloria Hiroko Chapman, wife of killer Mark Chapman told The Daily Mirror that her homicidal hubby revealed his plot after returning to Hawaii from a trip New York. “He came home scared, telling me that to make a name for himself he had planned to kill Lennon. But he said my love had saved him,”…