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Duane "Dog" Chapman and his wife Beth Smith said in a statement that they were "taking these threats seriously."
Death threats against TV bounty hunter Duane "Dog" Chapman and his family are being probed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, according to reports.
The threats were emailed to the Chapmans over a four-day period, sources close to the family told Hawaii News Now.
The emails, which were published in full by Radar Online, contain graphic and disturbing content involving sexual violence aimed at Chapman’s daughters.
'In cold blood'
The site said Hawaii-based Chapman, who is known as "Dog the Bounty Hunter" and stars in a reality show on A&E, received an email on April 30 which read: "I'm going to murder you. I'm going to come to Hawaii and murder you and your family in cold blood. You are next on my list and are the bane of society. I will deliver you to God."
Another email reportedly said: "I have a rather nasty vendetta against you and your family."
Hawaii News Now reported the Los Angeles FBI field office referred the case to the Honolulu FBI field office. However, authorities said they were unable to confirm or deny the existence of any investigation unless or until any charges were filed.
In a statement, the Chapman family said they were "taking these threats seriously."
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Run, dog, run.
"If you run with dogs, yer gonna get fleas." --Mom
Check cell block 9. I don't watch the show but there must be hundreds of criminals he has caught that has an agenda against him.
Beth'' bear mace'' in cartman voice
I must openly confess.
I have no idea what complused me to open and read this worthless article. I watch the show one time, can't stand the guy, the show is so phony as is he and this sounds more like a publicity move.
Crazy lol
Good God almighty! She is sure has a pair of "major-league yabbos".
Chapman is a big ole cry baby wuss. He talks tough, but when the Mexicans had a warrant for him, all we heard was whining and "boo hooing" from poor dawg and his chunckster Beth.
Hey, how come Dog never gets to drive? Is his license suspended or what?
It's probably his haircut that set this guy off.
I was trying to come up with a "hair" comment too. That do just has to offend people.
it was bound to happen soon or a later,i am surprised it didn't happen before now!!!he brags hes all that but he was always a felon first!
and being a felon first got wut to do with it he changed his life around wut still not good enough for you i guess your perfect huh
Wut? LOL
I say lets go after the school teachers that teach spelling.
Rocky- I am betting sarcasm. I hope. text the new Ebonics you never know.
Grammar police! Thank you SO much Rockyroad! I was so worried that Brett Kelly really didn't know that he spelt a word wrong. But thanks to you, he now knows. phewww.. Close call. (sarcasm)
They are all former criminals that's why none of them are allowed to carry real weapons and instead have to use paintball guns. What a joke. Real bounty hunters would laugh at these fools.
Spelling isn't the only thing the teachers failed to teach. Writing sentences with punctuation is another. Seems that a whole lot of teachers failed to teach English-- grammar and punctuation.
Don't worry, the Dog will be after him once he jumps bail! The Bounty Hunter...........
Why doesn't anyone tell this joke and his gal how dam silly they look?
He wouldn't have a TV show if they didn't look silly. I've seen people riveted by his show, and man that is funnier than the show itself.
I suspect most of his followers look the same way he does. He and his whole family make my skin crawl.
People that are riveted by professional wrestling are the same crowd that likes this guy.
Sadly this is the business he is in.
So why doesn't he put a bounty on the guy? It worked so well for the New Black Panther Party.
I agree with Brett Kelly... he has outlived his criminal history, and deserves to have that forgotten. Don't even watch the show but he's a flamboyant guy and you can't help but know what he is up to.
That felony stuff can happen for reasons like immaturity, passion, honor, and just stupid behavior. Doesn't mean your a career criminal, just means you screwed up and maybe learned something. As is the case with Dog. I would hand my house keys over to him anytime and never worry about it at all.
Or wrongly accused or convicted.... One felony can be over looked multiple not so easily. This man had one felony.
I would think some gang banger woulda done him long ago, but then he only ruffs up the weak and the non gang related, lol.
When I first saw him I thought, "Where'd they find this freak?" Now The Dog and the repo guys are my favorites. The Dog at least made the moves to turn his life around. He ain't perfect, but none of YOU are either. Stay with it Dog. You're OK. (Now, Billy the Bug Guy? Not so much.)
When we deal with people who don't believe in personal responsibility what do you expect. He needs to find a new line of work if he is capable of doing so.
Your village is calling.
"Reality" shows are disgusting, but this freak and the cow he runs with are in a whole separate class - you gotta question the mental ability of both the network that dumps this trash out and the people who watch it - kind of like picking at a sore or staring at a car wreck. Time and past time for someone to put the hurt on this clown, let's see if they would show THAT! "Let's hear you squeal like a pig, boy!"
Babs hasn't seen her knees since '75. Both these freaks need a makeover... tie the leather midget down,give him some botox, a shave and a haircut, then maybe mullet man wouldn't be treated like the joke he is.
Babs needs surgery to reduce the size of those 2 flank steaks hangin' off her chest. She is a foul mouthed cow with too much baggage (pardon the pun) to be taken seriously.
The show needs to go.It's awful. Time was A&E was a credible network,but since putting this crap in their lineup, it's just another channel to flip past while looking for something worthwhile to watch.
I watched the show twice,and came to the conclusion that I'd rather poke my eyes out with an ice pick then watch another installment of this poor excuse for a program....
So like he's not the first celeb to get death threats from some lunatic?
Takes one to stalk one.
Relax, Dog.
Anyone willing to fly across the Pacific to come to Hawaii to do you or your family harm wouldn't send you emails first warning you.
Real smart, emailing him. Ought to take the cops about ten minutes to find him. What happened to notes with letters cut out of news papers. Come on guy be creative, do a litle work for crying out loud. A lot of people make a living trying to decipher what you are saying and you email him for goodness sake. When he finds Dog I hope they film it so there will be one reality show on.
Dog is a cartoon character. If he were to go around in real life looking like that dumb @!$%# someone would truly have dropped him. Going around with pepper spray and paintball guns, taking a posse to arrest sniveling dope-heads and petty dealers, please! Reality TV in most cases is ridiculous. But hey getting paid.
Not ridiculous if it's YOUR mail money they stole and ran with.
Mail money? Is that what you call your welfare check? Sorry I don't get it. Weekends here gonna get some WWF baby!!! HaHaHaHaHa.
Please tell me that this is a really slow day for the FBI. Do you have any idea how many death threats celebrities get everyday? I can't imagine the number, but I find it hard to believe that we need to tie-up the FBI with this sort of crap.
Wouldn't surprise me if these racist attention whores didn't email those to themselves for an additional fifteen minutes of fame.
This is what I was thinking too
If they did, the FBI will be on the Dog's ass
I watch the show evey so often and would have to think it will take more than one guy to take out this family. I hope he tiess to resist to give Dog some fun.
Don't watch this c..p. With that said, if true, it's a shame someone is that unbalanced that they would do this to anyone else. He's (or she's) probably a democrat. :)
Yeah, because there is no such thing as a stupid Republican (Snark). Can you breath and walk at the same time?
I heard there was also a threat to put Beth on a diet!! OMG!! Tell me it ain't so...
Anyway, I do watch Dog's Clown Show on occasion, and I don't know how people can resist laughing in his face, with his 80's hair doo, and feathers, sticks and rocks in his hair, faux leatherette vest and wrist bands, his deadly paintball guns and tear gas hanging all over him, and everyone dressed in black. They look like a bunch of kids playing commandos, and they only go after the worst of the worst, you know, the crack smokers, bail jumpers, wife beaters etc. Beth should change her name to Pony, so they could have the Dog and Pony show together.
Can you say "alternate lifestyle, S&M, bondage fetish"? It's a wonder he isn't passing out three dollar bills as a calling card!
Too bad the threats were from the producers of the show after the ratings fell... PULEASE!
Is this "has-been" still around? I thought he had already exited planet earth long ago. Oh the virtues of not having a TV! It all sounds like an elaborate publicity stunt and hoax.
This just reeks of Morton Downey, Jr. getting 'beat up' and having swastika's painted on his face.
after reading all these coments,I have determined that 1 of you are the guilty ones,so with that being said do I now get my own reality show as a super doper sleuth finder outer guy...
Lest we whiteys get all uppity,you just need to look at this guy.Trailer trash w money.