3-year-long investigation into John Lennon's murder leaves many extraordinary inconsistencies, reveals author David Whelan
NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK: British author and TV producer David Whelan has finally completed his intense investigation into the murder of John Lennon. It lasted for three years, bringing a range of incredible contradictions such as suggesting that detectives back then may even have got it all wrong on the entire assassination plot. The music icon John Lennon was shot dead along with his wife Yoko Ono on December 8, 1980, after the couple was returning home in the Dakota Building.
The property overlooked New York’s Central Park, and the shooter Mark Chapman used his .38 caliber gun to murder his victims. In the investigation, Whelan also shared the ‘hit list’ the killer had with him and included the name of the Beatle, actor Marlon Brando and former First Lady Jackie Kennedy Onassis. The research was done for David Whelan’s forthcoming book which leaves us with several unanswered questions. Some of them are discrepancies in the surgeon who treated Lennon and two assistant nurses, and other witnesses.
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'Unanswered discrepancies in killing'
“Between the two of them, nurses Kammerer and Sato saw Lennon’s wounds up close, three times. Twice when he was washed and shrouded. Nobody was better placed to say where and how John Lennon was shot,” said Whelan. Adding, “Yet retired NYPD lead detective Ron Hoffman, in a recorded interview with Whelan, claimed Lennon must have been shot in the back and not in the front, stating: 'It's impossible because he (Lennon) was walking up the stairs in front of Yoko. But that in itself raises another question.”
'Do it do it'
Whelan also digs deeper into convict Chapman’s testimony of the shooting. “He could not coherently understand why he felt compelled to shoot John Lennon – Chapman did not remember pulling the hammer or aiming. All he could remember was a voice in his head saying, "do it do it".” According to NYPD Lieutenant Arthur O'Connor, Chapman appeared "programmed" on the night he shot Lennon,' as per Daily Mail.
Whelan in his investigation observed, “I think Mark Chapman was potentially shooting a gun or thinking he was shooting a gun possibly blanks. He thinks he's done something he couldn't have possibly done -- therefore, the only conclusion I can come to is there might have been a second shooter or it was highly likely there was a second shooter in the vestibule area on the stairs, shooting John in a close group pattern in his upper left chest area.”