Contradictions Galore

[Saint]

Chapman's story has changed dramatically since the interviews last month on Rita Cosby: www.foxnews.com/printer_friendly_story/0,3566,90214,00.html

Why is it Fox News cannot see the contradictions? Read for yourself and you decide.

[TheTruth]

Good work, Saint! ;D I'm gonna get busy later and get all the Fox transcripts I can find and post them for the world to see what a liar he is.
CLIPPED FROM THE FOX TRANSCRIPT ABOVE:

SMITH: No. I don't think he is. I'm not concerned for his safety. I think the hardest part of this whole thing is over and I'm not concerned for his safety. They've treated him very, very well. They've been very respectful to all of them. They've treated him in a very dignified way, and I don't think they're concerned about being harmed in any way.

COSBY: Now, your husband is a tough guy. He's had some tough assignments and some amazing things in his track record in terms of seizures of other individuals prior to Luster but this has been tough. I mean, he's been in a Mexican prison. It's been tough the last few days, right?

SMITH: Oh, yes we're all pretty sleep-deprived. We've been keeping the candles burning pretty late, and I don't even really know what day it is. I assume it's Saturday because your show is on.

COSBY: That's absolutely right. I know when [your husband] was arrested and went in, he was actually in the same jail as Andrew Luster. Here he is capturing him finally. They're in the same jail. Andrew Luster walked by. What did he do on the way out?

SMITH: Well, [Luster] portrayed his normal despicable self and he spit in [my husband's] face on his way out the door.

COSBY: And he spit at your husband?

SMITH: Yes, spit right in his face. That's probably the only chance he'd ever get to spit in his face is when he's being restrained.

COSBY: And what did your husband do in response?

SMITH: He growled at him.

COSBY: His dog growl. When

[TheTruth]

Monday, June 23, 2003

This is a partial transcript of The Big Story With Rita Cosby, June 22, 2003, that has been edited for clarity.
Watch The Big Story with Rita Cosby Saturdays at 9 p.m. ET
[BEGIN PHONE CALL]
Duane 'Dog' Chapman called FNC's Rita Cosby from Puerto Vallarta, Mexico following his arrest by Mexican authorities.
RITA COSBY, HOST: Dog, are you on the phone there?
DUANE 'DOG' CHAPMAN, BOUNTY HUNTER: Yes I am Rita, how are you?
COSBY: Dog, it's great to hear from you. This is the first time any of us have heard from you since you got out of the prison. How are you doing? How are you feeling?
CHAPMAN: I'm doing fine. I'm feeling..está bueno.
COSBY: How are you doing? How are you holding up? I mean we're looking at pictures of you here. It looked like it was pretty tough there behind bars.
CHAPMAN: Oh it was very tough here behind bars, but I'm doing a lot better now.
COSBY: Tell me about what you're doing now. I understand that you've got an armed guard behind you or around you, at least watching you.
CHAPMAN: Correct, that's correct.
COSBY: And have authorities been treating you pretty well since you've been released?
CHAPMAN: You know, as far as the authorities go, you couldn't ask for anything better.
COSBY: Tell us about how you are spending your time there. I heard from your wife, she was saying last night to me that you were relieved to take a shower. How are you spending your time as you're waiting to see what happens with the charges… Are you worried at all? Are you concerned, Dog?
CHAPMAN: You know, I'm absolutely very nervous, correct.
COSBY: What would you like Americans to know about what you did? I mean you've got some critics, but a lot of people are also calling you a hero here in the United States. I mean after all, you got a convicted rapist behind bars.
CHAPMAN: Well you know, thank you for that. I'd like to thank everyone in America for their support. And that's why we're America. Some people like it, some people don't. I'm sure that, you know, you've got a little percent that don't. But I'd like to thank you so much. And you know, I don't know what a hero feels like yet, so I know that I consider myself the greatest bounty hunter in the world and now I do have the title. But you know, one thing that I have learned is that it's a little bit more important to be at home and be in love than be famous, Rita. I would trade it all to be with my family right now.
COSBY: I know Andrew Luster was in the same jail as you. In fact, Dog, some of the pictures were incredible, seeing him getting loaded into the same truck as you by Mexican authorities. You were sitting right across from each other. Did he say anything to you during that time, after you finally caught him?
CHAPMAN: Oh yes, we had a long, extensive conversation.
COSBY: And what did he say? Give us sort of a little insight if you could.
CHAPMAN: Well some of the stuff he said to me Rita, I'd have to wait, you'd have to bleep it out. But I'll tell you when I get home.
COSBY: What's the gist? I mean, obviously, he was swearing at you. Your wife also said to me last night that when he was being led out, when he was being brought back to the United States, he actually spit at you.
CHAPMAN: Yes, and he said, "I've got a list, and you're on top of it"… he was not very happy.
COSBY: How did it feel also, Dog, to finally get this guy? You've worked so hard. You and I have been talking for the last few months. You were on my show. And you said to me, "I'm going to get him in a week." Then a few days after our show, you got that tip, which I'm thrilled that one of our viewers called in to you and also the FBI. How does it feel that you actually got a man who's on the top ten list from the FBI? How'd that feel?
CHAPMAN: Well, it kind of felt like when I was a little boy and I asked my dad for a motorcycle and when I woke up, it was parked out in the front yard. It was one of the greatest feelings I've ever had in my life.
COSBY: What type of man do you think Andrew Luster is? Now that you've also seen him face to face?
CHAPMAN: Rita, the eyes tell it all, as they say. He is an absolute serial rapist.
COSBY: You talk about being on his list too. We understand in the diary that was found, that one of the newspapers is reporting, you're name's in there too, also in [Andrew Luster's] “payback” list. How do you feel about that?
CHAPMAN: Well I told him "Andrew, I think you're gonna have to stand in line."
COSBY: Do you think that there's going to be a lot of people who are going to want to pay him back, huh?
CHAPMAN: Well, that's up to the prisoners in whatever prison he's in, but I'm getting the news like you are, off of the television here so it's just incredible. There is a lot of other stuff they found in there. It's just.. this guy was not stopping… when I first told you, you asked me, "Dog, how are you gonna catch him?" and I was banking on the old cliché where a leopard doesn't change his stripes… he got worse and worse. There's things, that it will probably come out slowly here… I mean this guy absolutely was a rapist. Now, it looks like he continued it. And you know, the guy is a serial rapist.
COSBY: We're hearing Dog, that in the place that he was living there, that there's a video phone or a videotape recording also some more of the date-rape drug… clearly based on this diary too, it sounds like he was planning more things, maybe in Mexico.
CHAPMAN: Yeah, we had had reports down here that he had some specific lines that he was using and that he was picking up some of the local girls. And you know, yes he was.. we had a couple girls that told us stories…

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That's the end of the free version

[DOGHUNTER]

;D DOG CHANGES HIS STORY AS MUCH AS I CHANGE MY UNDIES. EVERY DAY WEITHER I NEED TO OR NOT. ;D

[Sherry]

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Bounty Hunter Says He Will Find Andrew Luster
Ex-con tracking the rapist hopes to collect part of the forfeited $1-million cash bail.


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Duane "Dog" Chapman and Beth Smith
(Stephen Osman / LAT)
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Duane Chapman, sporting gold-tipped rattlesnake-skin boots, stepped out of his rental car and reached for the jangling cellular phone on his hip as if it were a pistol. "Hey," he growled into the receiver, scanning a wind-swept Santa Monica street from behind dark sunglasses. "I'm in town."

Chapman snapped the phone shut, lighted a cigarette and waited. He was tracking a man and needed a piece of information. He felt close. So close, in fact, that he believed the speculative venture he had embarked upon weeks earlier could soon turn into a lucrative score.

"I am going to catch him," he said confidently. "I am going to bring him in."

Chapman is a bounty hunter and these days his most desired, and elusive, quarry is fugitive rapist Andrew Luster, who skipped town three months ago during a break in his Ventura County Superior Court trial.

Chapman, 50, a leather-clad ex-con who answers to the name Dog, heard about the high-profile case and joined the hunt in hopes of collecting a percentage of Luster's forfeited $1-million cash bail. But he is not the only hound on the trail.

For the past three months, state and federal authorities have pursued Luster, 39, a former self-employed investor and great-grandson of cosmetics founder Max Factor, after the wealthy scion snipped off an electronic monitoring bracelet and ran.

Eighteen days after Luster fled, jurors found him guilty on 86 criminal counts for drugging and raping three women at his Mussel Shoals beach house. He faces 124 years in state prison if apprehended.

"We are confident we will find him," said Eric Nishimoto, a spokesman for the Ventura County Sheriff's Department, which is working with the FBI and district attorney's office in the search. "The problem is, it takes time."

Detectives have looked in several states, Mexico and the Caribbean, Nishimoto said, but progress has been slow because investigators have had to rely on assistance from other agencies, foreign and domestic, at a time when tracking suspected terrorists is the top priority.

Like the bounty hunter, law enforcement officers say they have uncovered a variety of clues in recent weeks and are waiting for additional information that could give away Luster's location.

But they have also encountered a frustrating number of red herrings, wacky tips and dead-ends.

One memorable tip came from a drunken bar patron in Montana who called after Luster's flight was featured on the television show "America's Most Wanted." Nishimoto, who was dispatched to Washington, D.C., to watch as the calls came in after the segment aired, said the patron insisted Luster was sitting in the bar.

"Even though we figured, 'There's no way,' the FBI contacted the local police, who went out to the bar to check it out," Nishimoto said. "A lot of [the leads] are goofy, but we have to check them anyway."

The search for Luster began Jan. 4, a day after Behavioral Interventions, the company that provided electronic monitoring, noticed that the rape suspect had not returned to his Ocean Avenue home by the hour required under the terms of house arrest.

Investigators with the district attorney's office and Sheriff's Department obtained a warrant, kicked in the door and searched Luster's house. Inside, they noticed that his dog, warm-weather clothes and a collection of Native American artifacts were gone, according to court records and testimony.

While searching for journals or papers indicating possible travel plans, investigators found torn bits of paper, which when pieced together revealed a handwritten personal resume and the names of several countries, including France, Spain, Morocco, Costa Rica and Mexico. Investigators seized a stack of mail, an address book, cameras and two books, including one titled, "Costa Rica Traveler."

A week later authorities located Luster's dog at a family residence in Sonoma. Ten days after that, they found his green Toyota 4-Runner parked on San Vicente Boulevard in Santa Monica.

Nishimoto last week said investigators have attached "zero significance" to the travel book and torn note. He said investigators have obtained at least 25 additional search warrants for Luster's bank accounts, cellular phone and online accounts and are still waiting for some of those documents to be turned over.

The warrants have been sealed by court order, but investigators have said the records returned so far indicate Luster's flight was well planned, well financed and involved assistance from other people.

Chapman, the bounty hunter, believes Luster used a fake passport to flee the country, probably within days of leaving Ventura and before a federal warrant was issued for his arrest.

Based on his own investigation -- which has included reviewing phone records and talking to Luster's friends and relatives -- Chapman also believes Luster may have had plastic surgery and may be getting money from outside sources.

"He is somewhere he thinks the U.S. can't extradite him," Chapman said, discussing the search last week during a spin through Southern California.

Chapman, who lives in Hawaii, believes he will be the first to find Luster based on his experience and contacts with people who he said have been unable or unwilling to talk to detectives.

Chapman said he started bounty hunting in 1979. He said it is a career he got into by accident after being paroled from a Texas prison where he served 18 months of a five-year sentence. Chapman said he was one of several members of a Texas motorcycle gang imprisoned in connection with the fatal shooting of a man they were trying to buy marijuana from. Chapman said he was not present when the shooting occurred.

After his parole, Chapman said, a judge challenged him to bring back a bail jumper. Chapman says he did just that.

Today, Chapman and his longtime partner, Beth Smith, live on the Oahu coast and own two bail-bond companies in Hawaii and Colorado. A tough-talking buxom blond in 4-inch heels and hot-pink fingernails, Smith is the yin to Chapman's yang. She runs the business. He catches the fugitives. And if one gives him any trouble, she says, "he will make their life a living hell."

Chapman's typical prey is a bond jumper wanted on a forgery, burglary or assault charge, and captures usually yield a few thousand dollars, he said. "There is not a lot of money in this," he said. But bringing in Luster could change that.

When Luster ran, he forfeited $1 million cash, which would become the property of the county if he does not return and have the bail exonerated. If Chapman captures Luster, he intends to petition the court for 15% of the money, or $150,000, plus about $20,000 in costs.
How did that amount double since April?

[Sherry]

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Bounty hunter Duane "Dog" Chapman slips out the front door of his office, which is across the street from Sloan Lake Park, dodges the cars speeding down Sheridan Boulevard and rescues a fellow dog, a large black poodle named Copper. Lost for hours, Copper had roamed onto the street.
When he returns, leading the large animal, one of his employees, Benji (seriously), calls the owner of the animal to pick him up: "Hi, my bounty hunter just collected a dog with your name on it. Well, he almost got hit about seven times..."

Then, Mathilde Bittner, a Los Angeles cable television producer, lowers her camera. "Can you do it again?" she asks. She didn't get the shot. Benji grabs the phone and pretends to make the call one more time.

Just off-camera, Dog stands quietly and smokes. The rescue was an unplanned accident, but good fortune, both for the poodle and the man. Clad in his standard long leather trench coat, black silver-capped boots and black bicycle gloves, with his weathered skin and long unruly blond hair, Chapman looks like he belongs on TV.

Today, as it turns out, he is.

Bittner is in town filming a segment for a program called The Secret World Of... that airs Saturdays on The Learning Channel. Each episode takes viewers inside a world they know little about. Chapman will be profiled on "The Secret World of Bounty Hunters" along with several of his colleagues. After the two-day Denver shoot, Bittner is off to Arkansas to profile a female bounty hunter, then back to L.A. to follow another bounty hunter around, and finally to Sacramento for the final shoot. The episode should air in June.

Bittner found Chapman after reading a series of novels by Janet Evanovich about a New Jersey detective named Stephanie Plum. She ran into Evanovich at a conference and asked her how she'd done her research. Evanovich mentioned Chapman as one of the bounty hunters she'd run into. Bittner and Chapman spoke in January, met in February, and started shooting in March.

"I thought he was a great character," Bittner says, "a great personality. A bounty hunter with heart."

And one with a growing profile. Dog, a master of self-promotion, has been talking about being a star for years, and now he has deals in the works for both a reality-based television program -- à la Cops and a Walker, Texas Ranger-style action drama ("A Row on the Row," August 11, 1999). It's an impressive turnaround for a former Devil's Disciples motorcycle-gang member who once spent time in a Texas prison on an accessory-to-murder charge (a charge he says was unfounded).

But in Hollywood, maybe more than anywhere else, talk is cheap, which may be why an interview last week -- proof that one of his dreams was finally coming true -- intimidated him. Despite bagging some 6,000 fugitives over the years, the camera and the questions about his work, his life, his fears and frustrations made the hunter feel like the hunted. Later on when his girlfriend, Beth Barmore, was interviewed, the old pro got a little teary-eyed. The same when his son, Christopher, explained how much he admired his father. (With a white muscle shirt, close-cropped blond-brown hair and beard, the junior Chapman is the spitting image of his old man, down to his own leather jacket and black steel-tipped boots that lace up a good portion of his legs.)

Of course, a little misty-eye usually plays well for the cameras. Though there was some excitement during the two-day shoot -- the arrest of a local basketball coach and a near accident when the crew filmed Chapman and his son jogging down the street, jumping into their Jeep Cherokee and pulling out in front of an oncoming truck -- for the most part the filming was routine, consisting of mundane exchanges with clerks about mug shots and suspects' addresses (followed always by a CU intern rushing in after each shot with release forms), and long shots of Chapman and Barmore striding seriously down Denver's halls of power.

The afternoon goes pretty smoothly until Dog and Barmore enter the office of the clerk of District Court Judge Frank Martinez, whom Bittner had planned to interview. Dog re-emerges a moment later, clearly frustrated. "They didn't tell him. He's in trial." The clerk is angry, too. "I put the mail in his box," he insists, then heads off the hall carrying a large stack of papers.

They have more luck on the fifth floor with the Denver Sheriff's Department. As Chapman and Barmore try to coax someone into being interviewed for the show, other DSD personnel walk by and ask what's going on. News of the TLC program profiling the famous Dog Chapman draws a frown from officer Shane Grannum, who is part of a two-man crew that has captured 500 fugitives in the last two years -- a similar line of work as Dog.

"I ain't never heard of this fool," Grannum says.

Neither has Deputy Sheriff Doug Samsow, who says for the cameras, "I do not envy the job of a bounty hunter. They probably don't have the capacity for backup," and then, after he has signed his release, comments, "If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullshyt."
"If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullshyt." ROFLMAO! Well said.



westword.com | originally published: March 30, 2000

[Saint]

Good for Chapman. As long as he just does the movie crap and stays away from real bounty hunting I'm satisfied.

[stagetec]

hmmmm!!!!!!!!! maybe chapman will do a movie about real bounty hunting?

[DOGHUNTER]

;D BASED ON HIS FACTS , PRODUCED BY DISNEY. FILM TITLE DOGS FANTASY LIFE. ;D