A brand new Apple+ docu-series titled John Lennon: Murder Without a Trial contains new eyewitness accounts that reveal the unusual disconnect between killer Mark David Chapman and his brutal act.
“He really apologized to us,” one bystander reports in the promotional trailer below. “He stated: ‘Gee, I’m sorry I ruined your evening.’ And I stated, ‘You gotta be kidding me. You simply ruined your entire life.'”
John Lennon: Murder Without a Trial is set to premiere on Dec. 6, almost 43 years to the day after Chapman killed Lennon on Dec. 8, 1980, outside his apartment at the Dakota building in New York City. The three-part presentation is billed as the “most totally researched examination” of that tragic day, with narration by actor Kiefer Sutherland.
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Chapman pled guilty to officers at the scene and was never tried for the crime. He remains in jail, after being denied parole for the 12th time in 2022. Chapman has said he was seeking fame.
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Among the witnesses interviewed are doorman Jay Hastings, who said he heard Lennon’s final words, and taxi driver Richard Peterson. These accounts, “advised for the primary time by those that had been there,” were paired with previously unseen photos to complete the docu-series.
John Lennon: Murder Without a Trial made use of “intensive Freedom of Information Act requests from the New York City Police Department, the Board of Parole and the District Attorney’s workplace” in order to obtain new material. Lennon’s friends, detectives, prosecutors and Chapman’s defense attorneys were also interviewed.
Chapman’s next appearance before the parole board is set for February.
“I am not going guilty the rest or anyone else for bringing me there,” Chapman told the board last August. “I knew what I was doing, and I knew it was evil. I knew it was incorrect, however I needed the celebrity a lot that I was prepared to provide every thing and take a human life.”
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