After gunning down one of the world’s greatest musicians, Mark David Chapman sat down and did something that shocked police to their core.
Mark David Chapman was a 25-year-old who was obsessed with Lennon – on his final day of work as a security guard in Honolulu before travelling to New York to commit the murder, he signed his log sheet as “John Lennon” – and had planned his murder for months.
When police came to arrest Chapman, he was doing something that shocked officers to their core – calmly sitting outside the Dakota reading a copy ofAlthough Lennon was his target, Chapman’s larger obsession was Holden Caulfield, the disgruntled narrator of JD Salinger’s 1951 novel. Caulfield rallied against “phonies” and saw society as being a broken place where adults lose the innocence they once had as children.
“I mean if they’re running and they don’t look where they’re going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That’s all I’d do all day. I’d just be the catcher in the rye.” “I’ve got to do something now to make you understand, in no uncertain terms, that I am doing all of this for your sake! By sacrificing my freedom and possibly my life, I hope to change your mind about me.
“I just want to say goodbye to the old year, which was nothing; total misery, total death, John Lennon is dead, the world is over, forget it,” Hinckley says on the disturbing audio recording. Craving a more individualised connection, he attempted in vain to get access to the show’s set to play her songs he had written about their imaginary relationship.Source:News Corp Australia
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