Honolulu, as a result of throat cancer. She had been diagnosed with the disease in 2017. The family appeared in an A&E series titled Dog and Beth: Fight of Their Lives, to chronicle the experience. On August 23, 2021, TMZ reported that Chapman was engaged to Francie Frane. The two reportedly met six months after Beth's passing, and like Chapman, Frane had been recently widowed, having lost her husband, Robert "Bob" Frane in December 2018. They announced their engagement in May 2020 and married in Colorado on September 2, 2021. Chapman has one child out of wedlock, his eldest child Christopher Michael Hecht (born 1972), who was born to his ex-girlfriend, Debbie White, while he was serving an 18-month prison sentence. Debbie kept her pregnancy from Chapman and died of suicide in 1978, leading the boy to be adopted by Keith and Gloria Hecht. Hecht has reportedly struggled with drug and alcohol addiction since at least 1991, and has a lengthy criminal history, including a history of hate crimes. Political views Chapman opposes bail reform and has joined movements in California, Vermont, New Jersey, and Colorado that seek to oppose or overturn bail reform laws. In September 2022, at the Christian evangelical “Opening the Heavens” conference, Chapman called President Biden "little Hitler" and "that freak" who "stoled" [sic] the 2020 election. He predicted that Republicans would sweep the 2022 midterms and that "little Hitler" President Biden might commit suicide just like Hitler did after being "caught." See also Bail bondsman References External links Official website Archived A&E's "Dog the Bounty Hunter" "Best In Show" - Hawaii Business Magazine "Dog Inc." - Hawaii Business Magazine 1953 births 20th-century American criminals Bounty hunters Participants in American reality television series People from Denver American Pentecostals American people of English descent American people of German descent Christians from Colorado Christians from Hawaii Criminals from Colorado Living people GMTV presenters and reporters People convicted of murder by Texas People from Honolulu