Mark David Chapman has claimed he murdered Beatles legend John Lennon "to be famous" and apologized at his recent parole hearing, but officials didn't buy his crocodile tears and locked him back up, RadarOnline.com can reveal.

The hearing was Chapman's 14th since he was locked away for 25 years to life since pleading guilty to second-degree murder for the December 8, 1980, ambush slaying of Lennon, then 40. Article continues below advertisement

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When a board member asked him his motive, Chapman, 70, replied: "To be famous, to be something I wasn't. And then I just realized, hey, there is a goal here. I don't have to die an

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