It’s been nearly 45 years since the world lost John Lennon — and now, his killer has finally confessed why he did it.
Mark David Chapman, now 70, told a New York parole board that he murdered the beloved Beatle “to be famous.” “My crime was completely selfish,” he admitted. “I wanted to be somebody. I had sunk that low.”
On that December night in 1980, Lennon was walking home with Yoko Ono when Chapman fired four shots into his back — ending the life of a man whose music preached peace and love. Even now, after 14 failed parole requests, Chapman remains behind bars. Officials said he still shows “no genuine remorse.”
“I didn’t care at the time,” he said quietly. “But now I understand the agony I caused his family and the world.”
Millions still remember where they were the night John Lennon died — and how one man’s hunger for attention stole a legend from us all. 💔
