Biography
Mark Chepman is known to the whole world, but His Glory is negative. In pursuit of popularity, the man killed John Lennon - a member of the favorite American group "The Beatles", depriving the fans of the idol.Childhood and youth
Mark was born in Fort Worth, the US state of Texas, in the spring of 1955. His father served in the US Air Force as senior sergeant, and his mother worked as a nurse.
In the family, Chepman was another child - the daughter of Susan, she is 7 years old younger brother. The childhood of the boy was difficult, according to the recognition of Mark, when he was small, did not like his father and was very afraid of him, because he often offended his mother and could even raise his hand on her.
Education The boy received in high school in the district Decteter, Georgia. In 10 years, his love for the group "The Beatles" began to manifest itself, he even learned to play the guitar and performed in a school rock band, a long collected records of favorite musicians. Love for artists was displayed and in the appearance of the room of the Mark, which he saved posters and photos of John Lennon and other team members. In the imitation of the cumiram, he dressed like them and even reflected long hair.
A boy from a disadvantaged family did not differ good studies, and at the age of 14 and began to walk the lessons at all and for the first time he tried drugs. At 15 years, Mark runs out of the house and the next 2 weeks vagrants on the streets of Atlanta. Contributed to the mockery of classmates.
Chepman was not sports, so he was often offended and even beat. Soon he returned to his native school and continued his studies.
During the absence, the young man joined the "Association of Young Christians" and actively promoted the interests of the organization. Belief in God, which since then has become an integral part of his biography, radically changed the appearance.
Since then, he began to wear a neat short haircut, always put on only a white ironed shirt with a tie and a rigorous suit. And on change only and did that read the sacred writing. In the same period, the guy began to sell Bitlovsk plates collected by the years.
Career
Immediately after graduating from school, Chepman did not go to receive a profession, he lived for some time in Chicago and there he played the guitar in local clubs, and also did not forget about the visit to churches, since it was still as part of the "Association of Young Christians". The guy worked a lot and helped children. At the same time, he worked in a refugee camp, many responded about him positively, noting attention and care.
Returning back, Mark enters the Evangelical Humanitarian College. By the time the group "The Beatles" already broke up, the guy again begins to overcome the thoughts of the idol. It prevents him from learn, Chapman lags behind the fellow students and does not have time to master the material, therefore was expelled after the 1st semester.
In his free time, he reread the novel of Jerome of Sallinger "Above the Gone in Rzya" and often thinks about the image of the chief character of Holden Colfield, which is questioning the value of society and often rejects the norms adopted in it.
Leaving a college, Chepman returns to work in a camp for immigrants, but soon because of a quarrel with the manual leaves from there. After that, the guard works for a while. All this period, he is depressed, from which it cannot go out, and a little later goes to Hawaii, where it comes to suicide. The man is sent to a psychiatric hospital and diagnose "Clinical Depression". In the meantime, the parents brand are bred, and the mother comes to his son in Hawaii. For some time he was treated, and later he was written off.
In 24, Chepman departs in a 6-week journey around the world, he visited Bangkok and Singapore, Seoul, Geneva, Delhi and other cities. After marriage in 1979, he worked as a night guard, at that time a man drank himself, and on this background, brand appear obsessive ideas. In his head, a strange symbiosis - the views of the author of the book "Above the Absurement in Rya" of Sallinger and Singer Lennon are mixed with an inexplicable desire to get glory and love.
At the same time, the man begins to imagine himself with Lennon and Colfield in one person, gradually impede the opportunity to think wisely. Moreover, he himself realized the problem and somehow even wrote a letter to his girlfriend Linde Irish, in which there were words "I am going crazy."
Personal life
The first Mark's love was a certain Jessica Blankenship, with which he entered the college. He fell to her trembling feelings, so after parting it was depressed.
With the future wife of Gloria Abe Mark met, traveling around the world. She worked as a tourist agent, helped choosing a city man for a trip. It was then that young people have a relationship, and at the beginning of the summer of 1979 they got married. They did not have children. The personal life of a man was quite successful.
Murder John Lennon
Before going to New York to kill Lennon, Chepman admitted to his wife that she was obsessed with this thought and even showed her a pistol charged by cartridges. However, the woman preferred to silence and did not appeal to the police and a psychiatric clinic.
Mark also told that a few days before departure, while watching the TV, he saw the words "not kill" on the screen. It was so affected him that the man even signed up for a reception to a psychologist. But the meeting with the doctor did not take place, because Chapman went to New York.
Upon arrival in New York, the man settled at the hotel, and on December 8, 1980, leaving the thing in the room, he went to the store, bought a new book "Above the Great Rye" and signed it by the phrase "this is my statement." He had to spend most of the day at the house in Manhattan, where Lennon lived, while Mark did not hide, he spoke with a doorman, an artist's economy and other people. At that time, he expected the appearance of John.
In the middle of the day, Lennon came out of the house and headed to the recording studio. Chepman approached him and raised to put an autograph on the album Double Fantasy, the singer fulfilled a male request, this moment was captured by photograph. There was a photographer in Horief photographer, who made the last lifetime shot of a great artist. He also promised a brand, which will make a copy of the photography, and that under the pretext of the expectation remained at the entrance to the studio.
In 2011, the very record signed by Lennon was sold at auction for £ 530 thousand.
At around 11 o'clock in the evening, Lennon came out of the studio, Chepman called a man, after which 5 shots made, 4 of whom got into the singer. John fell, and Mark, meanwhile, is located on the asphalt under the lantern and began to read the book acquired in advance. He did not try to hide or run away, and when the police arrived, the man was arrested.
Lennon bleedly expired, so eyewitnesses of what happened decided not to wait for ambulance. He was taken to the hospital at the police car, but the doctors failed to save the singer, almost immediately stated death. For several hours, the whole country found out that the participant of the group "The Beatles" was shot.
Investigation and imprisonment
The first lawyer Chapmen, Herbert Adlerberg, refused to help him, since the fans were ready to attack anyone who would rise on his side, including the very killer of John Lennon. To protect the interests of a man, another lawyer was called - Jonathan Marx, who chose tactics as a defense to refer to a mental disorder, which Mark suffered. But in June 1981, the arrested refused to defend and asked the court to recognize himself samented. Meanwhile, the lawyer tried to challenge this decision. But the judge adopted Chapman's statement, and also took into account the recognition of a man in guilt.
After a few months, the sentence was held. When the word was given to Chepman, the man read the lines from the book "Above the Gone in Rya", and also admitted that he came to New York on the day with the sole purpose of killing Lennon. He was required for self-affirmation and attracting attention to his person.
The court took over all the circumstances of the case. Despite the painstaking work of psychologists and psychiatrists, which raised different diagnoses (paranoid schizophrenia, manic depression, personality disorder, psychosis, etc.), the man was admitted by a changeable, he was appointed a lifelong deprivation of freedom with the right to submit to pardon after 20 years.
2 years after the events of the events, Chepman agreed to give an interview in which he told why it did. According to Mark, the murder of Lennon he planned 3 months. The motive was the statement of an artist that "The Beatles" is more popular than Jesus. The reason for the murder of such a bright personality was that Mark dreamed of glory and hoped to get it, depriving the life of the celebrity. He also claimed that he had heard a sinister whisper calling for killing the artist.
After the sentence of the sentence in 1981, Chepmen is put in prison a strictly regime "Attica", which is located outside the city of Buffalo, New York. There he stayed until 2012, after which the offender was transferred to Erie, New York, in prison called "Wende". In 2000, he first used the right to file a petition for pardon, since at that time he was serving exactly 20 years. The court refused a man. A statement on parole can be submitted 1 time in 2 years. While Chepman did not miss any possibility, although each time it receives a refusal.
In memory of the legendary member of the group "The Beatles", John Lennon in 2007, the film "Chapter 27" came to the screens. This is a biographical drama telling the last clocks of the musician and killer. The role of Mark Chepman in this picture was performed by Jared Summer.
Mark Chepman now
Chepman and is now in prison in the state of New York. The last time the man of pardon was submitted in August 2018, but the court refused him in liberation already at the 10th time. The next time a man will be able to submit a petition in 2020.