Thought He Was Leaving.

John Lennon's killer, Mark David Chapman, was planning to live and work with a minister in Upstate New York if his parole was granted earlier this month.

John Lennon's killer, Mark David Chapman, was planning to live and work with a minister in Upstate New York if his parole was granted earlier this month. Serving 20 years to life for the 1980 murder, Chapman has now been denied parole seven times. He's up again in 2014.