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Revealed: How the wife of John Lennon’s killer still stands by him 30 years on... and even visits him in prison once a year for sex
By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 8:52 PM on 8th December 2010
Gloria Chapman is a 59-year-old woman hospital worker who lives with two women in a quiet town on the outskirts of Honolulu.
There is little extraordinary about this Japanese-American woman's life, but for one thing - each year she flies to New York to enjoy a conjugal visit with her jailed husband, a convicted killer.
That man is Mark Chapman, the man who murdered John Lennon in cold blood 30 years ago today.
Standing by her man: Gloria Chapman, wife of John Lennon's killer Mark Chapman, stays with him once a year for a 44-hour 'conjugal visit'
Thirty years in prison: Mark Chapman after his arrest in 1980, and right, a recently-released prison photograph
As the world mourns 'the day the music died' today in dozens of different locations, Gloria's Chapman's incredible loyalty to her husband can finally be revealed.
Beatle Lennon was shot dead outside his Dakota apartment building in New York.
A massive fan, he had waited for the Liverpudlian outside his home and shot him five times in the back with a revolver in a bid for instant notoriety.
He later said had waged an unsuccessful battle with 'little people' inside his head who told him to kill Lennon.
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The outpouring of grief was instant, almost a quarter of a million people gathering in New York's Central Park for 10 minutes of silence.
Approached by the New York Daily News two years ago outside her home, she appealed for the media to leave her alone.
But now, in a new U.S TV documentary interview with Mrs Chapman, she reveals she was aware of her husband's murderous intent and even saw the gun he planned to use in the attack.
Target: John Lennon signs an autograph for Mark Chapman, just hours before he was killed
Witness: Yoko Ono was nearby when her husband John Lennon was shot by Mark Chapman
However, she said she decided not to alert police or psychiatrists because she believed she could help Chapman.
He had aborted an earlier attempt to assassinate Lennon, which took him as far as the U.S., saying his love for her had prevented him pulling the trigger.
Gloria said: 'He had finally realised what I mean to him and finally understood something, and he was ready to come home.'
Chapman, now 55, had grown up in Atlanta, Georgia, but quit college to move to Hawaii after a relationshp with a girlfriend broke down.
He met Gloria and the couple married in 1979 and initially Chapman held down a job as a security guard at an apartment block in Honolulu.
But the mental issues which were a constant focus of their relationship, soon reared their head.
Tribute: A young fan leaves a flower on the Strawberry Fields memorial in Central Park, New York
She says in the interview: 'He kept talking about divorce, threatening me with "if you don't do this, I'm going to divorce you" or something. It was really miserable.'
Chapman, however, in another interview conducted after his conviction, had actually blamed her for not doing more to prevent the killing.
He said: 'It's crazy. I laid out the gun and I laid out all five bullets - she'd never seen a gun before. And I said this is what I was going to do.
'My God, I still have deep-seated resentment that she didn't go to somebody, even the police, and say, "Look, my husband's bought a gun and he says he's going to kill John Lennon."'
Following his arrest and conviction, Gloria quit her job as a travel agent and dedicated herself to a life in reparation, helping others.
Whatever their problems, she still travels 5,000 miles to see him on an annual basis - spending up to 44 hours alone, away from guards and cameras, to have sex.
In memory: Yoko Ono appears on stage today at the Dream Power John Lennon Super Live concert in Tokyo
Chapman revealed earlier this year that her visits were the reason he had agreed to spend the rest of his sentence in solitary confinement.
He said: 'The condition was to sign up for protective custody because they opened up the programme only to inmates in protective custody so I did that.'
He still harbours hopes of being released. His sixth parole request was turned down in September.
Friends say Gloria has let the island temporarily to escape the annual furore that surrounds the anniversary of Lennon's death.
Then she will then return to her peaceful existence on Hawaii.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...e-Gloria-visits-prison-sex.html#ixzz17b5XI6x7
By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 8:52 PM on 8th December 2010
Gloria Chapman is a 59-year-old woman hospital worker who lives with two women in a quiet town on the outskirts of Honolulu.
There is little extraordinary about this Japanese-American woman's life, but for one thing - each year she flies to New York to enjoy a conjugal visit with her jailed husband, a convicted killer.
That man is Mark Chapman, the man who murdered John Lennon in cold blood 30 years ago today.
Standing by her man: Gloria Chapman, wife of John Lennon's killer Mark Chapman, stays with him once a year for a 44-hour 'conjugal visit' Thirty years in prison: Mark Chapman after his arrest in 1980, and right, a recently-released prison photograph
As the world mourns 'the day the music died' today in dozens of different locations, Gloria's Chapman's incredible loyalty to her husband can finally be revealed.
Beatle Lennon was shot dead outside his Dakota apartment building in New York.
A massive fan, he had waited for the Liverpudlian outside his home and shot him five times in the back with a revolver in a bid for instant notoriety.
He later said had waged an unsuccessful battle with 'little people' inside his head who told him to kill Lennon.
More...
- 'I'm not interested in being a dead hero': John Lennon's eerie last interview... three days before he was shot
- John Lennon's last day: A gripping NEW eyewitness account on the 30th anniversary of Beatle's murder
The outpouring of grief was instant, almost a quarter of a million people gathering in New York's Central Park for 10 minutes of silence.
Approached by the New York Daily News two years ago outside her home, she appealed for the media to leave her alone.
But now, in a new U.S TV documentary interview with Mrs Chapman, she reveals she was aware of her husband's murderous intent and even saw the gun he planned to use in the attack.
Target: John Lennon signs an autograph for Mark Chapman, just hours before he was killed Witness: Yoko Ono was nearby when her husband John Lennon was shot by Mark ChapmanHowever, she said she decided not to alert police or psychiatrists because she believed she could help Chapman.
He had aborted an earlier attempt to assassinate Lennon, which took him as far as the U.S., saying his love for her had prevented him pulling the trigger.
Gloria said: 'He had finally realised what I mean to him and finally understood something, and he was ready to come home.'
Chapman, now 55, had grown up in Atlanta, Georgia, but quit college to move to Hawaii after a relationshp with a girlfriend broke down.
He met Gloria and the couple married in 1979 and initially Chapman held down a job as a security guard at an apartment block in Honolulu.
But the mental issues which were a constant focus of their relationship, soon reared their head.
Tribute: A young fan leaves a flower on the Strawberry Fields memorial in Central Park, New YorkShe says in the interview: 'He kept talking about divorce, threatening me with "if you don't do this, I'm going to divorce you" or something. It was really miserable.'
Chapman, however, in another interview conducted after his conviction, had actually blamed her for not doing more to prevent the killing.
He said: 'It's crazy. I laid out the gun and I laid out all five bullets - she'd never seen a gun before. And I said this is what I was going to do.
'My God, I still have deep-seated resentment that she didn't go to somebody, even the police, and say, "Look, my husband's bought a gun and he says he's going to kill John Lennon."'
Following his arrest and conviction, Gloria quit her job as a travel agent and dedicated herself to a life in reparation, helping others.
Whatever their problems, she still travels 5,000 miles to see him on an annual basis - spending up to 44 hours alone, away from guards and cameras, to have sex.
In memory: Yoko Ono appears on stage today at the Dream Power John Lennon Super Live concert in TokyoChapman revealed earlier this year that her visits were the reason he had agreed to spend the rest of his sentence in solitary confinement.
He said: 'The condition was to sign up for protective custody because they opened up the programme only to inmates in protective custody so I did that.'
He still harbours hopes of being released. His sixth parole request was turned down in September.
Friends say Gloria has let the island temporarily to escape the annual furore that surrounds the anniversary of Lennon's death.
Then she will then return to her peaceful existence on Hawaii.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...e-Gloria-visits-prison-sex.html#ixzz17b5XI6x7
