DOG the Bounty Hunter doesn't think Gabby Petito’s autopsy will show she was suffocated.
"If she was suffocated they would have announced that right away," Dog added of Gabby's autopsy. "I think it’s more than that."
“I can’t speculate how it happened because I’ve heard that she’d been there a few days before they found her, deceased before they found her so that area has a lot of animals and predators and wildlife,” he said.
Dog also told The Sun in an exclusive interview that he is the "closest" to finding 23-year-old fugitive Brian Laundrie.
Dog confirmed he's received thousands of calls and said: “So I'm gonna tell you right now Laundrie, I'm gonna catch you.”
Dog, real name Duane Chapman, joined the hunt for 23-year-old Brian Laundrie last month at the behest of his fans shortly after Gabby's remains were found at a Wyoming campsite on September 19.
Read our Dog the Bounty Hunter live blog for the latest news and updates…
- Jocelyn Cook
DOG CLAIMS GABBY COULD BE HEARD YELLING
The 68-year-old TV star alleged in an exclusive interview with The Sun that he knew Gabby was "very verbal" and that her fiancé would try to physically keep her quiet.
"I know that she was very verbal because as they were arguing one time, the vacationers around them heard her yelling," he said.
It is unclear which vacationers he is referring to and if it was the argument on August 12 in Moab, Utah, where onlookers called the cops to respond after Laundrie reportedly hit his fiancée in the street.
"I know that he calmed her down usually by grabbing her mouth like this because when you grab someone’s mouth like that you know she was verbal," Dog continued, grabbing his own face to demonstrate.
- Jocelyn Cook
DOG WONDERS THE MANNER OF THE MURDER
Previously, Dog wondered about the manner of 22-year-old Gabby’s murder.
"If there was a brutal murder…people are going to go crazy," Dog said.
He theorized the reason why the young woman’s cause of death hasn’t been released is out of mercy.
"I have heard that she had been there a few days before they found her,” said Dog.
"So I know that area's got a lot of animals and predators and wildlife so, but I am just like everyone else I'd like to know how she passed. "
- Jocelyn Cook
WALMART SURVEILLANCE
Dog said he's spent a substantial amount of time collecting surveillance video evidence that could help locate Laundrie.
On Friday, he visited a Walmart where the manager granted him access to a 24-hour surveillance camera, he said.
He did not specify if anything significant was found on that footage, but described a trash can located under the camera as a "criminal smorgasbord."
- Jocelyn Cook
DOG’S PERSONAL HOTLINE
Thousands of tips have been sent as the bounty hunter’s personal hotline 833-TELLDOG has been flooded with potential leads.
But Dog warned that some of the leads they are receiving are “fake” to “get us off the track.”
He said: “There are leads that are coming in that are beautiful and there was a lead that came in that showed a picture of him.”
“We googled the guy that sent that in and he went to high school with Brian.”
- Jocelyn Cook
'ALIVE BUT NOT WELL'
Dog predicted that Brian is still alive but likely struggling in an interview with TMZ last Monday.
He said he does not believe that Brian is suicidal, but that the fugitive is likely not doing well because of how long he's been on the run.
Dog also speculated that Brian is still in the US because he is more familiar with the terrain.
- Jocelyn Cook
WHEN DID DOG JOIN THE SEARCH?
On Saturday, September 25, Dog the Bounty Hunter, also known as Duane Chapman, announced he was joining the search for Brian Laundrie.
Chapman started his search at Laundrie’s parents' house, believing them to know of Laundrie’s whereabouts.
The parents called the cops on Chapman, who left the property on his own accord.
Chapman insists he wants to speak to the father of Laundrie, because he understands what the parents are going through right now as he was once convicted of first-degree manslaughter in 1976.
- Jocelyn Cook
WHAT ARE DOG THE BOUNTY HUNTER’S TV SHOWS?
Duane Chapman’s first tv show, Dog the Bounty Hunter, aired on A&E.
After Dog the Bounty Hunter ended in 2014, Chapman appeared in Dog and Beth: On the Hunt, a similarly formatted TV show, alongside his wife and business partner, Beth, on CMT.
His series Dog’s Most Wanted debuted on WGN America in late 2019.
- Julia Fields
PURSUING THOUSANDS OF TIPS
The TV star abruptly cut his hunt for Laundrie short after injuring his ankle, though his team have vowed to carry on.
In September 2021, Dog told The Daily Mail that he was pursuing "thousands of tips" in the hope of finding Laundrie.
He said: "I can't tell you more, but we are getting leads every ten minutes."
- Julia Fields
HOW DID DOG GET INTO BOUNTY HUNTING?
Chapman has been bent on doing the right thing ever since that conviction in 1976.
Dog wrote in his book, You Can Run but You Can't Hide: "I have been misjudged, misinterpreted, and misunderstood for most of my life.
"I have spent the last twenty-seven years trying to be one of the good guys.
"In spite of those efforts to be seen as a moral man of virtue, I am still viewed as an ex-con, a criminal, a killer.
"I am many things, including those just mentioned. Put it all together and you will see: I am Dog."
- Julia Fields
ARREST IN MEXICO
Dog was also arrested in Mexico when he was famously hunting Andrew Luster, who had escaped to Puerto Vallarta, after being charged with multiple sexual assaults using the date-rape drug GHB.
He tracked Luster down but was stopped at the US/Mexico border by Mexican authorities because bounty hunting is illegal in Mexico.
After being arrested in Mexico, Dog paid the bail to get out of Mexican prison for both himself and his crew.
However, they escaped Mexico for the US, making them fugitives themselves.
- Julia Fields
SERVING TIME PART 2
For instance, he is forbidden from ever owning a firearm, which is why he uses a taser when his colleagues brandish guns.
He was released after serving just a year and a half of his sentence and chose a career on the other side of the law.
- Julia Fields
WHY DID DOG GO TO PRISON?
In 1976, Dog was convicted of first-degree murder relating to the death of Jerry Oliver in Pampa, Texas.
As a young biker, Dog was waiting in a car when his friend accidentally shot and killed 69-year-old Oliver, an alleged pimp and drug dealer, while they were fighting over a cannabis deal.
Although Dog played no direct role in the murder, he was tried for the crime under Texas rules that anyone involved indirectly in a killing can be held responsible.
He was found guilty of first-degree murder and sentenced to five years behind bars in Texas State Penitentiary – a conviction which understandably turned his entire life upside down.
- Julia Fields
STILL SEARCHING PART 3
Lyssa Chapman said her father isn’t “giving up” the search as she teased "the bait is set".
She tweeted that he’s heading back to Colorado temporarily to “handle some business”.
Chapman said: "We are still actively searching for #BrianLaundrie, leaving a team in place in Florida. As always, whatever I can share with you, I will."
Replying to a fan who hoped the team wasn't giving up, she tweeted: "Not giving up … It’s common that we (include you all) put so much heat on a fugitive they dig down, he will pop up again. Bait is set."
- Julia Fields
STILL SEARCHING PART 2
In a statement to the New York Post, Dog's spokeswoman Jennifer Willingham said: “Dog has not ended his search for Brian Laundrie.
“Dog and Francie Chapman need to attend to a variety of matters at home in Colorado, including Dog’s ankle injury which occurred during the search.”
- Julia Fields
STILL SEARCHING
The reality TV star's daughter Lyssa Chapman told her Twitter followers Sunday that the 68-year-old had returned to Colorado due to an ankle injury.
Dog is said to have assembled a “talented team” to continue the manhunt in Florida while he’s away, WFLA reports.
He will continue to process leads in Colorado and is raising funds to continue funding the "expensive" search.
- Danielle Cinone
BRIAN LAUNDRIE COMPARED TO WIFE KILLER SCOTT PETERSON
Dog the Bounty Hunter has compared Brian Laundrie to wife killer Scott Peterson and revealed why he thinks the fugitive is guilty.
The reality TV star said that Chris Laundrie joining the hunt for his son last week “fits the MO of most people that…are guilty of something.”
Dog told The Sun: “Most of the guys that kill their wives and their family, they hide up for three or four days and then protesters start and the rumors start.
“And people are ‘Well, Scott Peterson if you don’t know where she’s at why aren’t you out there helping?’”
Peterson was found guilty of murdering his eight-month pregnant wife Laci and unborn son in 2002.
- Danielle Cinone
BRIAN’S FACEBOOK PAGE
Dog collected more useful information by trawling Laundrie’s Facebook page, where he discovered posts he described as “dark” and “demonic.”
“What [my wife] Francie and I found on that Facebook is absolutely, I can say, terrifying,” he said.
He continued: “There are pictures of demonic angels standing there with the sword, and the throat bleeding. There is blood squirting from their eyes.”
He said when his wife Francie saw Laundrie’s posts, they gave her “goosebumps.”
“I hope the jury that sentences him does get a chance to see what he’s like,” he added.
- Danielle Cinone
FECAL FIND
Late last week, Dog announced that he’d discovered a campsite potentially linked to Laundrie at the Fort de Soto campground.
The site offered an important clue: poop.
Dog said he was disappointed to learn that DNA could not be recovered from human feces.
However, he said there were hopes that toilet paper used in the act would have DNA on it.
- Danielle Cinone
DOG SPECULATES BRIAN CALLED PARENTS ‘AFTER KILLING GABBY’
Dog the Bounty Hunter has speculated that Brian Laundrie called his parents immediately after he “killed Gabby Petito.”
The 68-year-old TV star in an exclusive interview with The Sun claimed that Laundrie’s parents were involved in encouraging the 23-year-old to rush home to Florida after his fiancée’s death.
“Of course he murdered her,” the bounty hunter said.
“I think he called the mom and dad right from the scene and said ‘omg.'”
- Danielle Cinone
WHEN DID DOG JOIN THE SEARCH?
On Saturday, September 25, Dog the Bounty Hunter, also known as Duane Chapman, announced he was joining the search for Brian Laundrie.
Chapman started his search at Laundrie’s parents’ house, believing them to know of Laundrie’s whereabouts.
The parents called the cops on Chapman, who left the property on his own accord.
Chapman insists he wants to speak to the father of Laundrie, because he understands what the parents are going through right now as he was once convicted of first-degree manslaughter in 1976.
- Danielle Cinone
HOW MANY PEOPLE HAS DOG CAPTURED?
Dog is best known for his successful capture of Max Factor heir Andrew Luster in Mexico back in 2003.
He was given his own TV series, Dog the Bounty Hunter, the following year on A&E.
After Dog the Bounty Hunter ended, he appeared in Dog and Beth: On the Hunt, alongside his former wife and business partner, Beth Chapman.
According to an interview published in The New York Times back in January of 2020, Chapman has captured over 10,000 fugitives throughout his career.
- Danielle Cinone
DARK INSTAGRAM POSTS PART 2
Laundrie also bragged on the platform about reading ‘Lullaby’, a horror-satire novel by Chuck Palahniuk, as well as ‘Rant’, a novel in the form of an oral biography, to Gabby shortly before she was killed.
He wrote on Instagram: “The f**king craziest out of all of Chuck’s books on my shelf, I can’t fathom how he must have written this one! I’d love to preach all of the insane twists and turns but all I can say is that I’ll never forget the name Rant Casey. Or Green Taylor Simms.
“Me and my fiancé read this one out loud together and boy oh boy I can’t believe some of the stuff coming out of our mouths.”
On Petito’s 22nd birthday, the couple went hiking and in a photo she posted on her Instagram profile, Laundrie can be seen slicing an apple with a copy of Lullaby balancing on his legs.
- Danielle Cinone
DARK INSTAGRAM POSTS
As previously reported by The Sun, in the months before Laundrie and Gabby embarked on their ill-fated adventure, he shared a series of disturbing images and artwork to his Instagram and Pinterest accounts.
One such post, uploaded to Instagram on July 15, 2020, is captioned “Grim Reaper leading sheep to the slaughter” and shows a herd of sheep surrounded by ghoulish figures wielding scythes.
Some of the reapers have been carved into mousetraps and outlined in red.
A second work, uploaded a week earlier, shows what appears to be a man wearing a wolf mask, sat in a chair and holding a blood-soaked knife, with red splatters up his arms and legs.
- Danielle Cinone
DOG SAYS KILLERS AREN’T MADE OVERNIGHT
Dog recalled that he would get “mad” at his kids for reading the Dungeon and Dragons stories as he’s a believer in Jesus.
The reality TV star claimed: “A couple of the books that he’s been reading are 10 times worse than Dungeon and Dragons. This kid, Brian has taken those books, obviously to heart.
“And this is what happens when your kid is looking at those kinds of things.
“He just overnight just didn’t become a killer. A killer is made, and he is built to be or she, a killer.
“He built himself to be that by looking at that kind of, let’s say the dark side stuff. There are pictures of demons all over it.”
- Danielle Cinone
DOG RECALLS HIS OWN DAUGHTER’S DEATH
Recalling his own daughter’s death an emotional Dog told The Sun: “I know that my daughter was killed at the same age.
“And for a few weeks they didn’t tell me that the car actually rolled over on my daughter’s skull, I’m going to cry.
“And when I heard that it was like oh my god. So I remember these exact points of time when Barbara Katy passed away.
“So, I’m glad I didn’t hear that right away.”
Dog believes the delay in releasing the findings of the autopsy may be an “act of mercy.”
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