National Enquirer
by: John Blosser and John South
November 20, 2006
Pg. 40-41
BLOCKBUSTER ENQUIRER INVESTIGATION -'DOG' IS A CRACKHEAD
'Bounty Hunter' spends up to $2,000 a month. Instead of walking the straight and narrow, eyewitnesses claim Duane Chapman
is breaking the law. "Ive seen him so messed up that he couldn't get to his office to film
his TV show". Duane
Dog Chapman is a crackhead, several eyewitness sources have exclusively told The ENQUIRER! The mullet-haired felon chaser
has been smoking crack cocaine since at least 1995, say the eyewitnesses-and spent up to $2,000 a month on
drugs, a blockbuster
ENQUIRER investigation reveals. And in one of the most blatant examples of celebrity hypocrisy ever, Dog urges the lawbreakers
he collars on his hit A&E show, "Dog the Bounty Hunter" to go straight and kick drugs-while he gets higher
than a kite,
according to those close to him.
"Duane Chapman is a phony! I know-because I'm his crack dealer!" tatooed blonde Linda Heigle, who's been selling drugs
to Chapman since March 2005, to The ENQUIRER.
"I've sold crack to him, smoked crack with him more than 100 times and seen him so messed up that he couldn't get to
his office to film his TV show!
Chapman's former girlfriend DaLana Duncan also claims she smoked crack with him in 1995 and again in 2005 in Denver.
"Dog is a cokehead. He snorts it, smokes it and eats it," DaLana told The ENQUIRER.
"He WAY overdoses it-and he can't get enough. Once, I refused to give him any more drugs because I thought he was going
to die!" Sympathy poured out for Chapman-whose top-rated show is in its third
season-after federal agents recently arrested
him for extradition to Mexico.
But the night before his Sept. 14 arrest, Linda says he bought $200 worth of crack from her-and he bought another $100
worth of crack from her before authorities hauled him off to jail the next day!
The extradition case is now on hold-but in the months leading to his arrest, Chapman blew thousands of dollars on a wild
drug spree.
"Dog bought about $2,000 worth of crack a month from me for about a year and a half," said Linda, who passed a polygraph
test.
"He'd usually buy crack from me twice a week, for hundreds of dollars at a time. He'd pay in cash so his wife Beth wouldn't
find out.
"The first time we did business was in March 2005. Duane said he'd pay me $2,000 for a girl and drugs. I sold him five
grams of crack,but he wasn't capable of having sex after we smoked it."
Shockingly, Chapman smoked crack inside his Oahu, Hawaii, home while his children were sleeping, according to Linda.
"If the kids were getting up, he'd go into the bathroom," she said."When his wife was sleeping, we smoked outside in
his car or the garden."
Smoking crack also triggered severe paranoia in Chapman, says Linda,who adds that he once spent two years in a Texas
prison on murdercharges.
"Duane would think someone was filming him or recording him," said Linda. "He would run around the house, checking the
windows and doors to make sure they were locked."
What's more, Chapman-who claims to be a born-again Christian-even got high before taping his show, according to Linda!
"He'd smoke all night before filming his TV show. Then he'd be too high to go do the show," said Linda, 41, who's moved
from Hawaii to California to escape her druggie past.
"Beth would be calling, cursing and saying,'I've got 20 producers here waiting for Duane.' But Duane wouldn't leave.
He wanted to stay and keep smoking crack.
"I'd have to shove him into the shower, pour coffee down his throat and then get him to take a Valium to bring him down."
Tawny Chapman, who was married to Dog in the early 90's, also says she witnessed his crack use firsthand.
"Two years after we separated, I went to his house and the kids were all home. When Dog opened his door, he was smoking
a hit of crack," Tawny told The ENQUIRER. "The pipe was in his hand.
He said, 'Mind your own business!' and physically threw me down six steps into the yard.
"Dog is always talking about rehabilitating people on TV, but I know him for the phony he is. I can't stand his hypocrisy
anymore."
Chapman even smoked crack with his son Christopher, according to those close to the family. Now 37, Christopher is in
a Colorado jail.
"Christopher told me he was smoking crack all the time with Dog in 1996. He blamed Dog for getting him hooked on crack
and so do I," said Gloria Hecht, who raised Christopher from the time he was 5.
Chapman's ex-girlfriend DaLana Duncan also confirmed the "Bounty Hunter" used drugs with Christopher. "One time I picked
Dog up at a hotel in Denverand he told me that he and Christopher had been
smoking crack for five days," said DaLana, who
also passed a polygraph test.
When contacted by The ENQUIRER about claims by Linda, DaLana, and Gloria that he smoked crack, Chapman said, "They're
all lying."
Asked if he ever smoked crack, he answered:"Why would I tell you that?" Then he insisted that he's "never" smoked crack
cocaine-adding:"I have a lot of enemies right now because of this thing in Mexico."
Despite his denials, Linda claims she only has Chapman's best interest at heart.
"I'm revealing the truth about Duane Chapman to make him get help before it's too late," she said. "I don't want him
to die."
