On December 8, 1980, one of the most famous and prolific musicians of a generation, John Lennon, 40, was gunned down in front of the Dakota building, which housed his Upper West Side apartment in the adopted city that he loved, where he could walk around freely without getting bombarded by fans. However, one mentally unstable anddisillusioned fan, Mark David Chapman, 25, who had been planning John’s murder for months, finally completed his mission. Did Mark take Holden Caulfield’s catchphrase of “phony” a little too literally?

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https://www.biography.com/musicians/john-lennon

https://biographics.org/john-lennon-troubled-beatle/

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https://www.udiscovermusic.com/stories/when-john-lennon-faced-us-deportation/

https://people.com/music/john-lennon-yoko-ono-relationship-timeline/

https://www.express.co.uk/entertainment/music/1298130/John-Lennon-will-son-Julian-yoko-ono-sean-ono

https://medium.com/the-beatles-faq/when-paul-met-george-38ce74cbcd7e

https://www.goldradio.com/artists/the-beatles/julian-lennon-sean-friends/

https://allthatsinteresting.com/cynthia-lennon

https://www.dailycal.org/archives/we-can-love-lennon-s-music-as-long-as-we-don-t-defend-his-abuse/article_f193ef1a-cc6d-5a77-a9fe-7805e42cd12a.html

Let Me Take You Down: Inside the Mind of Mark David Chapman by Jack Jones

https://www.winknews.com/news/lennon-s-killer-says-he-sought-glory-deserved-death-penalty/article_baa5407c-3a5c-5c81-a4c9-bc0df97f337b.html

https://www.wlfi.com/news/national/mark-david-chapman-fast-facts/article_bfc9a6f9-8298-5e52-860a-268dee3ee1e5.html

https://archives.law.virginia.edu/dengrove/writeup/mark-david-chapman-trial-murder-john-lennon#:~:text=On%20June%2022%2C%201981%2C%20Chapman,eligible%20for%20parole%20in%202000

Days before wrapping up their tour to head home for the Christmas holidays, the band Damageplan was playing a show at the Alrosa Villa Nightclub in Columbus, Ohio. However, this would be the last show for “Dimebag” Darrell Abbott and three other people. Nathan Gale went on a shooting spree that would send ripples through the heavy metal music community by ending the life of one of metal’s most influential power guitar players, leaving people to question how he was able to access the club and end the lives of four people in a matter of minutes.

Sources:

https://loudwire.com/dimebag-darrell-slain-onstage-anniversary/?utm_source=tsmclip&utm_medium=referral

https://ultimateclassicrock.com/dimebag-darrell-legacy/?utm_source=tsmclip&utm_medium=referral

https://metalinjection.net/shocking-revelations/pantera-were-nickelback-fans-from-the-beginning#:~:text=According%20to%20bassist%20Mike%20Kroeger,What%20is%20this%3F

https://ultimateclassicrock.com/dimebag-darrell-alrosa-villa-demolished/

https://ultimateclassicrock.com/dimebag-darrell-legacy/

https://www.today.com/popculture/police-release-report-dimebags-murder-1c9482652

https://usafacts.org/articles/what-is-considered-a-mass-shooting/

https://allthatsinteresting.com/nathan-gale

https://www.myplainview.com/news/article/Mother-of-shooter-says-he-had-paranoid-8938837.ph

https://www.rollingstone.com/feature/behind-the-murder-of-dimebag-darrell-233541/

https://www.nbc4i.com/news/columbus-business-first/former-alrosa-nightclub-will-become-affordable-housing/

https://www.guitarworld.com/artists/guitarists/rita-haney-on-preserving-dimebag-darrell-legacy

https://cwcolumbus.com/entertainment/the-columbus-curse-in-musical-history-central-ohio-music-dimebag-darrell-abbott-jimi-hendrix-lynyrd-skynard-stevie-ray-vaughn-chris-cornell-teddy-pendergrass-buddy-holly-ritchie-valens-jp-big-bopper-richardson

https://www.guitarworld.com/artists/guitarists/what-made-dimebag-darrell-a-true-guitar-original

hhttps://vocal.media/beat/dimebag-darrell-a-loss-echoing-through-generationsttps://www.iheart.com/content/2020-12-07-25-things-you-might-not-know-about-dimebag-darrel

https://norml.org/marijuana/fact-sheets/racial-disparity-in-marijuana-arrests/

We’re starting our new true crime theme: when celebrity fandom turns to murder. Rebecca Schaeffer was a 21-year-old actress whose career was just starting to take off. On the morning of her murder, she was anxiously waiting for a messenger to deliver the script for the highly anticipated third and final Godfather movie which she would be auditioning for later that afternoon. She opened her apartment door to be met not with a messenger, but a troubled fan named Robert John Bardo. Rebecca’s death would send shockwaves through Hollywood and force law enforcement to finally take stalking seriously.

Sources:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/when-celebrity-worship-turns-deadly-1.1129874

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3960781/

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9977013/

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/talking-about-trauma/201306/in-the-mind-of-a-stalker

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/bjpsych-advances/article/stalking-risks-to-celebrities-and-public-figures/B389AB3D8AC6A3641C8320C8D2BABB07

https://allthatsinteresting.com/robert-john-bardo

https://abcnews.go.com/US/schaeffer-rebeccas-star-sister-sam-devastated-murder/story?id=62284160

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-05-08/rebecca-schaeffer-hollywood-murder-that-changed-america

https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/life/a27116831/rebecca-schaeffer-murder/

https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2019/07/the-hollywood-murder-that-made-states-take-stalking-seriously/

https://www.etonline.com/rebecca-schaeffers-murder-how-actress-death-changed-hollywood-and-inspired-anti-stalking-laws

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-10-22-me-114-story.html

https://www.eonline.com/news/1057267/the-still-terrifying-details-of-the-murder-of-rebecca-schaeffer-a-star-on-the-rise-and-an-obsession-turned-deadly

https://www.10minutemurder.com/blog/robert-the-celebrity-stalker/

https://www.stalkingawareness.org/contact/

“Lizzie Borden took an ax …” You may know the rhyme, but do you know the true story behind it? Today, for our final case on daughters who kill, we’re talking about Lizzie Borden. Even though she was acquitted, most people still believe that Lizzie Borden killed her father, Andrew Borden, and stepmother, Abby Borden with a hatchet in 1892. Could she have been innocent, or did Lizzie kill them for her inheritance? What about the rumors of incest? Give our last episode on daughters who kill a listen and tell us what you think!

Sources:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-lizzie-borden-got-away-with-murder-180972707/

https://historyofmassachusetts.org/fall-river-ma-history/

https://www.road2college.com/seven-sisters-colleges/

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https://www.americanheritage.com/what-made-lizzie-borden-kill

https://lizzieandrewborden.com/cast-of-characters.htm

https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/24213-pelvic-congestion-syndrome

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/hydrocephalus/symptoms-causes/syc-20373604

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Police arrived at the two-story home in quiet Markham, Ontario on November 8, 2010, in response to 24-year-old Jennifer Pan’s 911 call in which she told the dispatcher that three men had broken into her home and shot her parents, Hann and Bich Pan. Police and ambulance services pulled up to find a bloodied Hann in the front yard. Upon entering the home, they discovered Jennifer tied to the upstairs banister, apparently uninjured, but Bich was found in the basement, dead from multiple gunshots. Jennifer hadn’t made a lucky escape, though, she had been the one behind the hit on her parents.

Sources:

https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/true-stories/when-chinese-cubs-turn-on-their-tiger-parents/news-story/36ad884522b2d22ba1e2f88faa5d72ab

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/jennifer-pan-sentenced-to-life-without-parole-for-25-years-1.2930113

“What Jennifer Did”, Netflix, 2024, directed by Jenny Popplewell

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/jennifer-pan-s-father-testifies-at-murder-trial-1.2585146

https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/books/article/2043688/murder-toronto-and-dark-side-asian-immigrant-dream

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/07/27/tragedy-of-golden-daughters-murder-plot-against-parents-resonates-with-asian-immigrant-children/

https://www.today.com/popculture/tv/jennifer-pan-dad-now-rcna148242

https://soundcloud.com/user-873765053/jennifer-pan-911-call

A blood-soaked scene, three bodies, and one missing girl, the police can hardly be faulted for assuming they were looking at an abduction following a triple murder. But the person who had plotted the murders of Debra and Marc Richardson and their eight-year-old son, Tyler Jacob, wasn’t a stranger. It was 12-year-old Jasmine Richardson who had enlisted the help of her “boyfriend,” 23-year-old Jeremy Steinke, to kill her family. We’re back with another daughter who killed her family in this week’s episode on the youngest Canadian to have ever been convicted of multiple counts of first-degree murder who is now walking free.

Sources:

https://allthatsinteresting.com/jasmine-richardson

https://www.priv.gc.ca/en/opc-actions-and-decisions/investigations/investigations-into-businesses/2012/pipeda-2012-001/

https://www.mamamia.com.au/jasmine-richardson/

https://restore-mentalhealth.com/richardson-family-murders-mind/

https://www.worldremit.com/en/blog/education/education-system-in-canada

Numerous articles by the CBC such as: ⁠https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/crown-rips-into-accused-alberta-killer-in-cross-examination-1.733208⁠ (For all the links, please email us.)

https://people.com/richardson-family-murders-how-a-12-year-old-helped-murder-her-family-with-23-year-old-boyfriend-8682958

https://globalnews.ca/news/1835793/timeline-tracking-canadas-youngest-multiple-murderer/

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/jasmine-richardson-walks-free-a-decade-after-she-and-boyfriend-massacred-her-family/TDLBX4NMVXCY5UGVSRISBITUTE/

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/fetal-alcohol-syndrome/symptoms-causes/syc-20352901#:~:text=Overview,and%20thinking%2C%20and%20physical%20development.

https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/9905-oppositional-defiant-disorder

https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/23924-conduct-disorder

https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/publications/the-teen-brain-7-things-to-know