Lennon killer has parole hearing this week

Mark David Chapman, could find out this week if he will be released from jail, 32 years after killing former Beatle John Lennon, New York prison officials said. Chapman, 57, could find out Thursday or Friday if he will be released on parole, the state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision was cited by ABC News Monday as saying. Chapman was moved May 15 from New York's super-maximum-security Attica Correctional Facility 18 miles west to the maximum-security Wende Correctional Facility near Buffalo. The department would not disclose the reason for his move. Spokesman Peter Cutler told The New York Times inmates "can be moved periodically for a variety of reasons." Chapman -- who once said he thought of killing Johnny Carson, Elizabeth Taylor and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis before deciding on Lennon -- told a parole board in 2010 his Christian faith deepened while in prison, and he hoped to get a job and live with his wife after release from prison. Chapman married Japanese-American former travel agent Gloria Hiroko Abe, who now lives in the Honolulu suburb of Kailua, in June 1979, 18 months before he gunned down Lennon outside The Dakota apartment building next to New York's Central Park, Dec. 8, 1980. Chapman pulled a 38-caliber revolver and fired five shots at Lennon after getting the former Beatle to autograph a copy of the "Double Fantasy" album Lennon released with his wife, Yoko Ono, that year.