Killer's signed Lennon album on sale
The record signed by John Lennon for Mark David Chapman just hours before Chapman fatally shot the former Beatle is being auctioned online.
Gary Zimet, president of the website Moments in Time, said the album, “Double Fantasy”, is being offered for sale for $525,000 (€427,648).
The album is being sold by the man who originally found it outside the Dakota apartment building near New York’s Central Park. Lennon was assassinated in 1980 outside the building where he lived with his wife Yoko Ono.
Zimet said on the website that the owner, “a Beatle fan all of his life … wrestled for 18 years before coming to the decision to sell the album.”
The website does not identify the album’s owner.
The album is signed by John Lennon and dated 1980. Zimet says the cover and dust jacket contain forensically enhanced fingerprints of Chapman.
“This piece of crucial evidence against Chapman was turned in to police and then returned to the owner with a letter of extreme gratitude from the District Attorney,” Mr Zimet said.
