Beth Chapman, wife of ‘Dog the Bounty Hunter,’ dies

Beth Chapman, who appeared alongside her husband Duane “Dog” Chapman on A&E’s long-running reality series “Dog the Bounty Hunter,” died Wednesday. She was 51.

Andrew Brettler, an attorney for the couple, said Beth Chapman died early Wednesday morning at Queen’s Medical Center in Honolulu, following a nearly two-year battle with cancer.

Beth was a fiery presence on “Dog the Bounty Hunter,” which documented the couple’s attempts to catch fugitives in Hawaii, where they lived and ran a bail bonds business, and in other U.S. states. The popular series ended in 2012 after eight seasons. A spinoff, “Dog and Beth: On the Hunt,” later aired three seasons on CMT.

Chapman announced his wife’s death in a tweet Wednesday, noting that it was early morning in Hawaii, and around the time Beth would typically wake up to hike a trail in Oahu. “Only today, she hiked the stairway to heaven,” he wrote on his verified Twitter account. “We all love you, Beth. See you on the other side.”

Beth was diagnosed with stage II throat cancer in 2017 and the couple continued to let viewers into their lives as she battled the disease.

Beth opened up about her diagnosis during a Mother’s Day speech at a Florida church last month. “I don’t go to God and go, ‘Why did I get cancer?’” she said, according to People magazine. “He’ll roll his eyes at me again, because I know why — because this is the ultimate test of faith. It is the evidence of things hoped for and it is the substance of things not known.”