The real Mark David Chapman is currently incarcerated at Wende Correctional Facility, on a guilty plea. Aside from two interviews with Larry King and Barbara Walters, both in 1992, he has not spoken with the media. However, Chapman did reveal the mechanics of his unraveling during those three days in New York City to journalist Jack Jones. The interviews were published in 1992 as "Let Me Take You Down: Inside the Mind of Mark David Chapman", a book of Chapman's recollections of his act of violence. "Chapter 27" is based on this text. The title "Chapter 27" suggests a continuation of J. D. Salinger's novel "The Catcher in the Rye", which has twenty-six chapters, and which Chapman was carrying when he shot John Lennon. Chapman was obsessed with the book, to the point of attempting to model his life after its protagonist, Holden Caulfield.