John Lennon’s killer was denied parole for the eleventh time.
Mark David Chapman, 65, will remain at the bar for at least two years.
It’s been almost 40 years since he killed Beatles star outdoors in his Apartment in Manahattan in December 1980.
He’s serving a 20-year sentence at the Wende Correctional Center in New York City.
The New York State Parole Board said Chapman was denied parole after an interview on August 19 and is expected to appear before the commission in 2022.
The reasons for the refusal are not known.
Lennon, 40, when he shot in the back four times in the open air at dakota construction on the Upper West Side on December 8, 1980, in front of his devastated wife Yoko Ono.
Chapman, who admitted that the murder was motivated by a thirst for notoriety, was first eligible for parole in 2000.
In past hearings, he told how he won distressed letters for the pain he had caused in murdering a respected musician.
Ono, who married Lennon in 1969, had in the past opposed Chapman’s release, saying he feared for his protection and that of Lennon’s two sons, Julian and Sean, if he was released.
After shooting Lennon, Chapman remained at the scene, reading a copy of JD Salinger’s novel, The Catcher In The Rye, until police arrived to arrest him.
Chapman, who grew up in Georgia, was a big Beatles fan, but had been irritated by Lennon’s way of life and audience, especially since the band was “more popular than Jesus,” as well as the lyrics to his God and Imagine songs.
Before the trial, he told his lawyers that he sought to accuse them because it was God’s will.
The killer rejected all requests for press interviews during his first six years behind bars, but then said he regretted the murder and did not need to give the impression that he had killed the star in search of his own fame and notoriety.
He then recorded interviews with journalist Jack Jones, who used them to write his e-book Let Me Take You Down: Inside the Mind of Mark David Chapman.