John Lennon’s Killer
This is Mark David Chapman who shot John Lennon on December 8, 1980. In that day, Chapman asked John Lennon for an autograph, but the singer wanted to offer it later. However, Chapman stayed in the same area until Lennon returned, and he shoot him in the back four times with a 38-caliber pistol.
Mark Chapman was sentenced for 20 years in a maximum-security prison and he also received mandatory psychiatric treatment. Unfortunately, Chapman’s next parole hearing is this year in August, but let’s hope he will stay in prison, where he belongs.
Leslie Van Houten
She’s a former member of a cult lead by the late Charles Manson, who tried to start a race war. Leslie says that she was manipulated by Manson adding that she was unaware of what she was doing, because in that time she used to take LSD.
She’s in her late sixties and has been serving her sentence since 1971, until was recommended for parole in 2017, but the governor Jerry Brown blocked her parole this January. However, Leslie’s attorney intends to challenge the Brown’s decision in court.
