The man who killed John Lennon, Mark David Chapman, told his wife he planned to assassinate the Beatle two months before he pumped four slugs into the “Imagine” singer’s back — but she never ran to the cops. If Gloria Chapman had squealed, the music legend might still be alive — and Chapman may have spent the last 37 years as a free man. Instead, the psycho remains locked up after his tenth attempt to at parole proved as futile as the previous nine — and devoutly religious Gloria revealed the shocking reasons she protected him. Read on for details of Gloria’s regretful memory, and click here for more news of celebrity crime ….
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Gloria insisted Chapman first told her he planned to murder Lennon and “make a name for himself” in October 1980 — two months before he did the dirty deed on a New York City sidewalk.
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The National ENQUIRER has learned that Gloria, who wed Chapman about a year before the slaying, didn’t alert the law because “he said my love had saved him” and he was calling off the kill. Chapman also swore he’d tossed his gun into the ocean, she says, but Gloria now knows “he lied.”
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Then her guy went to New York, saying “he needed to grow up as an adult and husband and needed time to think about his life,” said Gloria. Instead, the crazed creep carried out his murderous plot, gunning Lennon down as he and his wife,
Yoko Ono (right), entered their apartment building.
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Gloria admits their marriage was rocky from the start. Emotionally unstable Chapman got fired from a hospital job and became bitter and twisted. “He started drinking and came home drunk,” she recalled. “On a couple of occasions, he hurt me.”
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She stuck with him due to her religious beliefs — and has had pizza and sex visits with Chapman in a prison trailer for more than two decades. She has vowed to “wait for him.” His next opportunity for parole will come up in 2020.
Gloria insisted Chapman first told her he planned to murder Lennon and “make a name for himself” in October 1980 — two months before he did the dirty deed on a New York City sidewalk.
The National ENQUIRER has learned that Gloria, who wed Chapman about a year before the slaying, didn’t alert the law because “he said my love had saved him” and he was calling off the kill. Chapman also swore he’d tossed his gun into the ocean, she says, but Gloria now knows “he lied.”
Then her guy went to New York, saying “he needed to grow up as an adult and husband and needed time to think about his life,” said Gloria. Instead, the crazed creep carried out his murderous plot, gunning Lennon down as he and his wife,
Yoko Ono (right), entered their apartment building.
Photo credit: Getty Images
Gloria admits their marriage was rocky from the start. Emotionally unstable Chapman got fired from a hospital job and became bitter and twisted. “He started drinking and came home drunk,” she recalled. “On a couple of occasions, he hurt me.”
She stuck with him due to her religious beliefs — and has had pizza and sex visits with Chapman in a prison trailer for more than two decades. She has vowed to “wait for him.” His next opportunity for parole will come up in 2020.
Photo credit: Coleman-Rayner.
