Solicitação de ajax do SpringMVC - java.io.EOFException: nenhum conteúdo para mapear para o objeto devido ao final da entrada

Eu estou trabalhando em um aplicativo SpringMVC Eu solicitei alguns dados do banco de dados usando uma chamada ajax os dados voltaram como objeto JSON. Agora tenho que enviar esses dados de volta para o servidor para algum processamento e retornar ao formulário.

No entanto estou recebendo um erro no navegadorO servidor encontrou um erro interno que impediu que ele atendesse a essa solicitação. investigando os logs de erro eu vi isto:

Log de erros

Controller [com.crimetrack.web.MapController]
Method [public com.crimetrack.business.Marker com.crimetrack.web.MapController.getNewCoordinates(com.crimetrack.business.Marker) throws java.lang.Exception]

java.io.EOFException: No content to map to Object due to end of input
    at org.codehaus.jackson.map.ObjectMapper._initForReading(ObjectMapper.java:1324)
    at org.codehaus.jackson.map.ObjectMapper._readMapAndClose(ObjectMapper.java:1275)
    at org.codehaus.jackson.map.ObjectMapper.readValue(ObjectMapper.java:941)
    at org.springframework.http.converter.json.MappingJacksonHttpMessageConverter.readInternal(MappingJacksonHttpMessageConverter.java:124)
    at org.springframework.http.converter.AbstractHttpMessageConverter.read(AbstractHttpMessageConverter.java:153)
    at org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.method.annotation.AbstractMessageConverterMethodArgumentResolver.readWithMessageConverters(AbstractMessageConverterMethodArgumentResolver.java:120)
    at org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.method.annotation.AbstractMessageConverterMethodArgumentResolver.readWithMessageConverters(AbstractMessageConverterMethodArgumentResolver.java:91)
    at org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.method.annotation.RequestResponseBodyMethodProcessor.resolveArgument(RequestResponseBodyMethodProcessor.java:71)
    at org.springframework.web.method.support.HandlerMethodArgumentResolverComposite.resolveArgument(HandlerMethodArgumentResolverComposite.java:75)
    at org.springframework.web.method.support.InvocableHandlerMethod.getMethodArgumentValues(InvocableHandlerMethod.java:156)
    at org.springframework.web.method.support.InvocableHandlerMethod.invokeForRequest(InvocableHandlerMethod.java:117)
    at org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.method.annotation.ServletInvocableHandlerMethod.invokeAndHandle(ServletInvocableHandlerMethod.java:96)

Chamada Ajax

 $('#getCoordinates').on('click',function(){

        $.each(global_citizens, function(i, gc){

            $.ajax({
                type:'GET',
                url:'getNewCoordinatesForMarkers.htm',
                contentType: 'application/json',
                data:{citizens:JSON.stringify(global_citizens[i])},
                dataType: 'json',
                success:function(new_citizens){
                       $.each(new_citizens, function(i, c) {

                           console.log(c.name + ' | ' + c.socialSecurityNumber + ' | ' + c.lat+ ' | ' +c.lng);

                        });                                 
                }                           
            });             
        }); 
    });

Controlador

@RequestMapping(value = "getNewCoordinatesForMarkers.htm", method = {RequestMethod.GET}, headers = {"content-type=application/json"})
public @ResponseBody  Marker getNewCoordinates(@RequestBody Marker citizens)throws Exception{

    logger.info("Getting Markers");
    Marker citizenMarker = this.markerManager.getNextLocation(citizens);

    return citizenMarker;

}

Marker.java

public class Marker  implements Serializable{

    private int socialSecurityNumber;
    private String name;
    private int citizenType;
    private double lat;
    private double lng;

//getters and setters

JSON DATA -taken do console do firebug

citizens{"name":"Jessie Small","lat":10.670044,"lng":-61.515305,"socialSecurityNumber":1999020214,"citizenType":3}

FireBug - o conteúdo está sendo passado

Connection  close
Content-Length  3696
Content-Type    text/html;charset=utf-8
Date    Tue, 07 May 2013 05:52:09 GMT
Server  Apache-Coyote/1.1
Request Headers
Accept  application/json, text/javascript, */*; q=0.01
Accept-Encoding gzip, deflate
Accept-Language en-US,en;q=0.5
Content-Type    application/json
Cookie  tinymcePasteText=1; JSESSIONID=CC4F12D00C836FE0DB86D2493556275C
Host    localhost:8084
Referer http://localhost:8084/crimeTrack/crimeTrackMap.htm
User-Agent  Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:20.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/20.0
X-Requested-With    XMLHttpRequest

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