The world was introduced to Duane “Dog” Chapman in 2004 when he landed his own reality show Dog the Bounty Hunter, which ran until 2012 on A&E. In 2013, he and his wife Beth began a new show on CMT lasted two years, and it was called Dog and Beth: On The Hunt.
Four years later, they returned to television for a new show, Dog’s Most Wanted. The new show featured some of Beth’s last bounty hunts and her battle with cancer. She passed away in June 2019.
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Sadly, this was not the first tragedy Dog and his family had experienced. On May 19, 2006, Dog’s 23-year-old daughter Barbara Katie Chapman died after the SUV she was in “went off the road, rolled, hit some trees and landed upside down,” according to Hawaii News Now.
Coincidentally, the accident occurred the night before Dog’s wedding to his late wife, Beth Chapman. The wedding still went on as planned, but Dog incorporated a way to celebrate his daughter’s life on the special day.
On May 19th, Lyssa Chapman took to Instagram to remember her late sister.
“15 years without you. Living every day to make you proud. I’m working on myself sister, working thru all our childhood traumas, raising my daughter,” she wrote alongside several photos of her Barbara.
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A few weeks ago, Lyssa shared a side by side photo of Barbara as a child and her daughter, Mady, who look very similar!
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In an Instagram post on May 19, 2020 Dog shared a photo remembering his late daughter. In the photo, she was holding her son Travis, who was just four years old when she passed, and although it was the 14th anniversary, he wrote, “15 years ago today My Barbara Katie went to be w/ JESUS.”
See Dog’s past tributes to his daughter below.
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On Barbara’s birthday one year, Dog, Beth, and their children Cecily and Travis tossing flowers in the ocean in honor of Barbara.
Watch it below.