Today is Saturday August 24th, 2019.

On this day in 1981, 26 year old Mark David Chapman was found guilty of second-degree

murder and sentenced to 20 years to life in prison for the murder of beloved songwriter, singer, and

Beatle, John Lennon. It was the culmination of an eight month-long saga in which the criminal justice system and the world at large

tried to make sense of Chapman's madness. Madness.

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Welcome to today in True Crime, a parcast original, every day we tell a timely story from true crime history, then analyze the historical impact of that day's events.

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