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"John Lennon&amp;#039;s killer Mark David Chapman has said that he hoped to &amp;quot;become somebody&amp;quot; by murdering the ex-Beatle in 1980. Transcripts from Chapman&amp;#039;s recent hearing, where he was denied parole for the sixth time, have now been published, BBC News reports. They reveal that Chapman told the board: &amp;quot;I wasn&amp;#039;t thinking clearly. I made a horrible decision to end another human being&amp;#039;s life, for reasons of selfishness. &amp;quot;I felt that by killing John Lennon I would become somebody and instead of that I became a murderer, and murderers are not somebodies.&amp;quot; Chapman also claimed that he has found Jesus since his incarceration. &amp;quot;I know him, he is with me, he is with me now, he is helping me speak to you now,&amp;quot; he said. &amp;quot;Without him I am nothing - I would have been an even bigger nobody.&amp;quot; The 55-year-old confirmed that Lennon topped a list of people he had wanted to kill. Actress Elizabeth Taylor and Tonight Show host Johnny Carson were also among his targets. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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