Duane Chapman

Duane Lee "Dog" Chapman Sr. is a reality television personality, bounty hunter, and retired bail bondsman from America. He is better known by the moniker “Dog the Bounty Hunter” or simply Dog. He garnered international notoriety when he successfully apprehended Max Factor heir Andrew Luster in Mexico in 2003. A year later, he landed the reality television series, ‘Dog the Bounty Hunter’, on A&E. After the show was cancelled in 2012, Chapman, his wife and business partner Beth Chapman, and other members of his family starred in the spinoff series, ‘Dog and Beth: On the Hunt', on CMT. Another similarly formatted show, ‘Dog's Most Wanted’, is set to debut on WGN America in 2020. Chapman is originally from Colorado but presently resides in Hawaii. In his youth, he was incarcerated for 18 months in a Texas prison after he was convicted of first-degree murder. According to Chapman, he first became interested in a bounty-hunting career during this period.