According to a British writer investigating the case, two different guns may have been used in the John Lennon shooting.
Writer and TV producer David Whelan has unearthed official records showing for the first time that two different types of bullets were removed from the music legend’s body following his fatal shooting on December 8, 1980.
David Whelan believes a second shooter could have been involved in the killing of John Lennon and has now discovered dramatic new evidence reinforcing his case.
A newspaper outlet reported in April how David Whelan had already uncovered a trove of fascinating documents relating to the killing which took place as John Lennon and his wife Yoko Ono returned to their home in the Dakota Building overlooking New York’s Central Park.
David Whelan’s three-year inquiry into the murder has highlighted a string of extraordinary inconsistencies, including the suggestion that investigators may have fundamentally misinterpreted how the shooting occurred.
The newspaper outlet has exclusively revealed some of David Whelan’s dossier, including convicted gunman Mark Chapman’s hit list, published for the first time, which as well as the former Beatle also featured Marlon Brando and former First Lady Jackie Kennedy Onassis.
Now David Whelan’s investigation has focused on the ammunition retrieved from the scene.
Oddly, only two slugs were ever entered into evidence, according to the documents, despite the fact that Chapman was said to have fired all the rounds in his five-chamber 38 special revolver, four of them hitting John Lennon. The whereabouts of the missing three bullets are unknown.
However, the two bullets which were extracted from John Lennon’s body during the autopsy raise their own intriguing questions, says David Whelan, because they were marked as being of different types.
One is marked on a receipt from the New York morgue, where John Lennon’s body was held, as a ‘1 x 38 cal.SWC’, which stands for ‘Semi wadcutter’ or hollow point bullet, designed to spread out on impact with a target.
The other is recorded as simply ‘1 x 38cal lead bullet’.
But Chapman always insisted he was using hollow point wadcutter bullets and he was acquainted with firearms and ammunition from his security guard days.
He added that different bullet types found in John Lennon’s body was explosive information.
He said that perhaps this was one of the reasons why John Lennon’s autopsy had not been leaked to the world by the authorities, and the wishes of Lennon’s family to keep John’s autopsy private have been respected.
Perhaps the NYPD did do a sloppy investigation, concealed things or got it wrong because of global pressure on them, but we’ll probably never know. What we do know is that Mark David Chapman allegedly killed John Lennon – he confessed to it, right?
Mark Chapman allegedly started plotting on killing John Lennon three months prior to the murder.
Evidently, Mark Chapman was a longtime fan of John Lennon’s band the Beatles, but he turned against John Lennon due to a religious conversion and Lennon’s highly publicised 1966 comment about the Beatles being more popular than Jesus.
Some members of Mark Chapman’s prayer group evidently made a joke in relation to John Lennon’s song ‘Imagine’, and it went, ‘Imagine, imagine if John Lennon was dead’, and Mark Chapman’s childhood friend Miles McManushe recalled that he said the song was communist.
Mark Chapman was impacted by a lot of other things, and also John Lennon’s lifestyle in New York, and according to his wife Gloria, he was angry that Lennon would preach love and peace, yet had millions.
Mark Chapman later said that John Lennon told everyone to imagine no possessions and there he was, with millions of dollars and yachts, farms and country estates, laughing at people like him who had believed the lies and bought the records and built a big part of their lives around his music.
The world has some insane people in it, and whether Mark Chapman worked alone or somebody else was involved, well, we will probably never know because stuff like that is covered up. I mean, what kind of threat would John Lennon be to the US? He was just a pop singer, but also extremely controversial.
John Lennon might have been a mere singer but if we believe that celebrities don’t have any influence… well!
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