Mark Was My First Love...How Could He Have Become the Murderer of John Lennon? ; After 25 Years, Mark Chapman's First Girlfriend Reveals the Pictures That Show Him As a Love-Struck Teenager- and the Moment His Fatal Fascination with Guns Began

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Jessica Blakenship spreads out the photographs, memories of happier, innocent times. In one the pretty brunette is wearing a cream cocktail dress, cuddling her childhood sweetheart. In another, the couple pose by a picturesque lake. A third shows the boy lovingly stroking a rabbit.

They could have been taken of any teenage couple in smalltown America. Yet for more than 30 years these grainy snapshots have remained hidden as Jessica could hardly bear to look at them, let alone share them with anyone else. For the affable young man posing alongside her is Mark Chapman, the man who killed John Lennon.

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Mark Was My First Love...How Could He Have Become the Murderer of John Lennon? ; After 25 Years, Mark Chapman's First Girlfriend Reveals the Pictures That Show Him As a Love-Struck Teenager- and the Moment His Fatal Fascination with Guns Began

Chapman was Jessica's first love and, during a seven-year relationship, they planned marriage and children together. But after the initial flush of romance Jessica began to see a different side to Chapman.

He started experimenting with drugs, became plagued by depression and developed a disturbing obsession with guns which culminated in Lennon's murder on the steps of New York's Dakota building on December 8, 1980.

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