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In 1978, Chapman went on a six-week trip around the world, inspired partly by the film Around the World in Eighty Days, visiting such places as Tokyo, Seoul, Hong Kong, Singapore, Bangkok, Delhi, Beirut, Geneva, London, Paris, and Dublin.

He began a relationship with his travel agent, a Japanese-American woman named Gloria Abe.

They married on June 2, 1979.

Looking for more money, Chapman got a job at Castle Memorial Hospital as a printer, working alone rather than with staff and patients.

He was fired by the Castle Memorial Hospital, rehired, then got into a shouting match with a nurse and quit.

He took a job as a night security guard and began drinking heavily.

Chapman developed a series of obsessions, including artwork, The Catcher in the Rye, music, and John Lennon, and started talking with the imaginary ' little people ' again.

In September 1980, he wrote a letter to a friend, Lynda Irish, in which he stated, " I'm going nuts ", and signed it " The Catcher in the Rye ".

Chapman had no criminal convictions prior to murdering Lennon.