BUFFALO, New York — It’s killer love!
Gloria Chapman, the longtime loyal wife of John Lennon assassin Mark David Chapman, 70, was spotted showing off her wedding ring outside her home — days before the grim 45th anniversary of the assassination on Monday.
It’s the first time Gloria, 75, has been photographed in more than a decade after relocating from tropical Hawaii to snowy western New York to be closer to her hubby’s lockup.
Public records show she moved in 2019, only a few miles from Wende Correctional Institution, Chapman’s home at the time. Three years ago, he was transferred downstate to a prison in Dutchess County.
The lovebirds met in 1978 when Gloria, a 26-year-old travel agent in Hawaii, helped Chapman plan a trip to Asia.
Chapman turned her to Jesus and both have remained deeply religious for decades.
Last week, Gloria was also seen cleaning snow off her car before heading into a local Sunday church service for nearly three hours.
The newlyweds were married for just 16 months when a pudgy-faced 25-year-old Chapman executed the beloved Beatle outside the Dakota apartment building on Dec. 8. 1980 as Lennon stepped out of a limo with wife Yoko Ono.
Back in their apartment, Gloria was watching “Little House on the Prairie” when a news bulletin announcing Lennon’s shooting ran across the TV screen.
“I knew it was Mark,” she said in a 2019 interview with a Christian outlet. “Even though they didn’t have a name, it just had to be. He was there.”
Two months earlier, Chapman called her from the Big Apple and confessed he wanted to kill Lennon, but told her “your love saved me,” Gloria recalled.
“My whole life was turned inside out and upside down all at once because I was the wife of a murderer, and not just any murderer, but the one who killed John Lennon, who was loved by millions around the world — even to this day.”
She previously told the Daily Mail that Chapman remains a Beatles fan and hopes that Lennon has forgiven him from the great beyond.
Chapman said that her greatest hope for Lennon’s widow is that she finds Jesus like the Chapmans have. She added that hubby Mark believes he will meet Lennon in heaven after he dies.
Despite the horror, Gloria has stood by him for nearly 50 years, even gushing about making love to the infamous killer during their rare conjugal visits.
“Our love has grown and grown,” she said in a previous interview. “He remembers to tell me love and intimacy comes first.”
“The first thing I do is kiss Mark. They allow us to do that. We are a loving couple,” she said of the 44 hours the couple spent together once a year in a tiny trailer, when she traveled 5,000 miles from Hawaii to see him in the Erie County prison.
When asked about their intimacy, she giggled.
“Well it’s great. Of course, it’s great.”
“It is very limited what we can do there but at twilight we like to sit outside and sometimes watch inmates play baseball through a hole in the fence,” she added.
Gloria was less forthcoming about their recent love life when approached by a Post reporter last week.
“No. No, thank you. Goodbye,” she politely said, declining an interview through her buzzer.
Chapman now spends his time regularly talking to her from the Green Haven Correctional Facility on a tablet when he is not playing volleyball with inmates or studying the Bible, he told a parole board in late August.
He gunned down the famed 40-year-old Beatle to “be a somebody,” he said during his 14th unsuccessful attempt for freedom, echoing previous statements he made about the motive.
“This was for me and me alone, unfortunately, and it had everything to do with his popularity.”
Chapman is serving a life sentence. He is eligible for parole in February 2027.
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