Dog the Bounty Hunter ‘INJURED in Brian Laundrie hunt as star forced to return to Colorado for treatment’
DOG the Bounty Hunter says he's been forced to return to Colorado after injuring his ankle during his hunt for Brian Laundrie.
The 68-year-old star has been searching for the 23-year-old who but says he has had to leave Florida to meet with doctors.
He will continue to process leads in Colorado while he’s there and is raising funds to continue what he has labeled an "expensive search."
The bounty hunter's daughter, Lyssa Chapman, confirmed that he was headed back home in a tweet on Sunday.
"Dad is headed back to Colorado temporarily to handle some business. (Remember, he was in Florida on his honeymoon)," she wrote.
It comes after - saying: “I'm gonna catch you.”
In an exclusive interview with The Sun, Dog confirmed he's received thousands of calls and said: “So I'm gonna tell you right now Laundrie, I'm gonna catch you.”
The since announcing he was joining the search for the 23-year-old.
And the case demands doing the hard work to hopefully catch a break.
“In order to get someone, it doesn't matter how [or] what degree,” he said.
It was Bertolino who pushed back against Dog’s claims that Brian hadn’t returned to his family’s North Port, Florida home with his parents and instead was left behind at Fort DeSoto Park.
Dog claimed the family camped together at the island grounds on September 1 through 3 and September 6 through 8.
He added: “They're on camera. They were here.
"We think at least if he's not here right now, we are sure he was caught on camera as he went in the gate — that he was here for sure. Not over in the swamp."
“That Dog doesn’t know what he’s talking about," Bertolino retorted in a statement, explaining that the family went to "other places on two different dates" which the FBI is allegedly aware of.
"If there was a brutal murder...people are going to go crazy," Dog said.
He theorizes 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.
The van-life couple had logged two months of a cross-country road trip over the summer.
Gabby was last heard from Aug. 27.
Dog also made some noise by stating his opinion that
He told The Sun: “I’m thinking more and more about him being maybe a serial killer, not just a killer of Gabby.
Dog said: “Reading is different than any other consumption of media, it takes more effort than staring at a screen half alive, it allows you to use your brain rather than melt it, and there is no author more stimulation to me than Chuck Palahniuk.”
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Brian was reported missing by his parents after cutting short the couple's cross country van-life adventure alone on September 1.
Papers reveal that the car was found in the Myakkahatchee Environmental Park in Florida.
The Laundrie family appears to have they had originally shared with police.
On Sept. 23, the FBI Denver Field Office issued an arrest warrant for Brian.
He stands accused of using an “unauthorized access device” related to his activities following Petito’s death.
accusing Brian of swiping a Capital One debit card between August 31 and September 1.
She tweeted: “I’m hoping tomorrow I’ll be able to share some BIG news with you guys.
Josh Taylor, a spokesperson for the North Port Police Department, told : “No campsite was found out there.
“Is it possible that they thought that there might be a campsite out there or something they may have seen from the air but when they got on the ground that’s not what it turned out to be?
“Sure I think that’s a possibility.”
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While searching for Laundrie, Dog was accusing him of “racist and homophobic behavior”.
He vehemently denies the allegations.
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