Dog the Bounty Hunter update – Brian Laundrie’s lawyer slams Dog & John Walsh amid his honeymoon hunt with Francie Frane

DOG JOINS THE HUNT FOR BRIAN: A TIMELINE

• September 25:  officially joins the search for Laundrie. He is seen knocking on the door of home in North Port, Florida.
• September 25:  claims in an interview that he promises to find Laundrie ahead of his 24th birthday which is on November 18.
• September 30: Dog claims he's gotten thousands of tips on  and isn't sharing with law enforcement.

WHAT DID DOG FIND ON BRIAN'S FACEBOOK PAGE?

Dog was disturbed by the art on Brian's Facebook page.

He said: "There are pictures of demonic angels standing there with the sword, and the throat bleeding. There is blood squirting from their eyes."

"This is what happens when your kid is looking at those kinds of things, it catches on, and it's demons and it's blood and it's this and it's that, look what that led to."

Dog said he believes Laundrie "didn't just become a killer overnight," but rather through a culmination of "demonic" things he was exposed to.

"A killer is made, and he is built, to be a killer," he said. "He built himself to be that by looking at the dark side stuff."

DOG'S DEEP DIVE: 'TERRIFYING'

Dog the Bounty Hunter uncovered "terrifying" information on Brian Laundrie's Facebook page, and revealed to The Sun he fears  could be a "serial killer."

"I'm thinking more and more about him being maybe a serial killer, not just a killer of Gabby," Dog said of Laundrie.

Dog explained that he relies heavily on social media profiles when tracking down fugitives.

In Laundrie's case, he said: "What [my wife] Francie and I found on that Facebook is absolutely, I can say, terrifying."

STILL ON THE CASE

Lyssa reacted to a tweet about her father remaining in Florida to search amid his injury with a red heart.

ANKLE INJURY

Dog headed to Colorado earlier this week to meet with his doctor, after suffering an ankle injury while out searching for Brian Laundrie.

The bounty hunter has since returned to Florida and resumed his search for the fugitive.

LYSSA SHARES TIKTOK ON SEARCH

Lyssa Chapman retweeted a TikTok discussing the search dog activity at the Carlton Reserve.

COSTLY SEARCH

The 25,000-acre national park is home to alligators, venomous snakes, Florida panthers, and bears.

It’s thought that millions of dollars have already been spent on the operation.

Search and rescue expert Mike Hadsell told the : “I can accurately estimate they are spending $200,000 a day on this search.”

LOOKING GUILTY

The bounty hunter said that Brian’s “continued evasion of law enforcement makes him look guilty. 

“I can’t fathom .” 

“They need to be doing more to signal Brian to stop running,” Dog said. 

It comes after an autopsy report revealed that Gabby Petito was  before her body was found. 

ENDING HIS HONEYMOON, CONTINUED

In an exclusive interview with The Sun, the 68-year-old reality star opened up about how he interrupted his honeymoon when he heard that  after his fiancé Gabby Petito went missing – and then later turned up dead – last month.  

“We came down to Florida for our honeymoon because Francie was born there.  

“I asked her before we got married, where would you like to go? And she said ‘To Florida to put my feet in the sand, and my ocean.’”

DOG ENDS HONEYMOON PREMATURELY

Dog revealed in an prematurely so he could capture Laundrie.

Dog said he and his wife followed the case “because of what was happening, because they went through Colorado and were close to us. So we followed it then all of a sudden all my fans are like ‘Dog Dog Dog this is up your alley!’”

“So one of the last reasons that I want to catch him- so I could continue my honeymoon.  I hope that’s not any disrespect to anybody involved in this case because it’s terrible, but that’s where we stand now, in our honeymooning.” 

DOG’S WARNING TO BRIAN

“Let me have you, ,” he growled in his direct address. “What did you do? You’re living it every night, aren’t you, boy?

“Turn yourself in, . For once in your life, be a man.”

The reality star, whose real name is , also discussed , whose silence has been analyzed by online sleuths.

“I was going to work on the father’s, so to speak heartstrings, the way I get fired the truth right,” he told The Sun.

“And sometimes that’s what I was going to tell him. I will not kill your son, I will let him, you know, make a phone call. I won’t talk to him.”

DID JOHN WALSH OR DOG RESPOND TO STEVE BERTOLINO’S ATTACK?

John Walsh’s spokesperson said he had no comment in response to the lawyer’s attack.

Dog, however, did.

“It’s ironic that Mr. Bertolino would criticize the people trying to find Brian Laundrie, unless perhaps he doesn’t want him to be found,” he told Fox News Digital.

LAUNDRIE LAWYER SLAMS DOG AND JOHN WALSH

Brian Laundrie’s lawyer snapped back at John Walsh and Dog, after Walsh alleged that Brian’s parents were helping the fugitive evade authorities.

“Dusty relics like that Dog and John Walsh need a tragic situation like this so they can clear the cobwebs off their names and give their publicity-hungry egos some food,” Steve Bertolino told Fox News Digital.”

PUG THE BOUNTY HUNTER

A Twitter user posted a photo of a pug, dressed up as Dog. “He has a new assistant,” the person joked.

HOW MANY BODIES HAVE BEEN DISCOVERED AMID BRIAN LAUNDRIE MANHUNT?

At least  around the US amid the manhunt for Brian Laundrie.

Authorities nationwide have been on high alert for  sightings for nearly five weeks since he was reported missing in Florida just two days before his fiancee  was found dead in Wyoming.

While , at least four other people have been found dead under suspicious circumstances during that period near areas where police were searching for him or Gabby.

An additional two bodies found before  disappeared were initially probed as potentially being linked to the case because they were discovered near where he was road-tripping with Gabby.

WHY DID DOG START BOUNTY HUNTING?

Chapman has been bent on doing the right thing ever since that conviction in 1976.

Dog wrote in his book, You Can Run but You Can’t Hide: “I have been misjudged, misinterpreted, and misunderstood for most of my life.

“I have spent the last twenty-seven years trying to be one of the good guys.

“In spite of those efforts to be seen as a moral man of virtue, I am still viewed as an ex-con, a criminal, a killer.

“I am many things, including those just mentioned. Put it all together and you will see: I am Dog.”

COSTLY SEARCH

The 25,000-acre national park is home to alligators, venomous snakes, Florida panthers, and bears.

It’s thought that millions of dollars have already been spent on the operation.

Search and rescue expert Mike Hadsell told the : “I can accurately estimate they are spending $200,000 a day on this search.”

DOG BEING SUED PART 3

The plaintiffs allege that Dog and “his daughter Lyssa continued to pump out innuendo designed to damage Donovan and Moore’s reputation.”

The complaint also alleged that during Dog and Unleashed Entertainment’s short-lived work together, that “Plaintiff Donovan became aware of Defendant Chapman’s use of ‘shell companies’ as personal slush funds to avoid the payment of taxes.”

The lawsuit stated: “Upon information and belief Defendant Chapman owes millions in taxes that were evaded using the scam. Plaintiff Donovan instructed Chapman that his company Unleashed Entertainment could no longer do business with him if he insisted on using a scheme to evade taxes.   

“Upon information and belief, Defendant Chapman became hyper concerned that his behavior might be reported to authorities after the cancellation of his show ‘Dog Unleashed.’”

DOG IS BEING SUED PART 2

The complaint alleges: “On or about January 30, 2021, Defendant Chapman made a knowingly false report of abuse to Social Services in Virginia, and to Defendant (Jane) Collins, a Special Agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation.” 

“The subject of his complaint was Plaintiff Zachary Cruz, someone he had only met in passing.” 

In the suit Michael, Richard and Zach allege that “Virginia social services workers and a corrupt county sheriff, working on a false tip from Defendant Duane Chapman, conspired to search the home of Zachary Cruz and his family, arrest Cruz, and place him into a conservatorship.” 

The suit also names Dog’s daughter Lyssa as a defendant.

DOG IS BEING SUED

Dog the Bounty Hunter is being sued over allegations that he called the Parkland shooter’s brother the R-word slur and filed a false report with the FBI against his former business partner. 

In the lawsuit, filed on Thursday in Virginia and obtained exclusively by The Sun, Michael Donovan the CEO of Unleashed Entertainment alleged that  “lied about meeting Zachary Cruz, the , and that he falsely asserted that the young man was “r****ded.”

Zach has been living with Michael and Richard since 2018 according to various reports.

Michael was working with Dog on a canned reality show for Unleashed, however, the CEO had alleged in the suit that the reality star was fired over various ethical violations, including using racial slurs and homophobic troupes.

DOG’S ARREST IN MEXICO

was also arrested in  when he was famously hunting Andrew Luster, who had escaped to Puerto Vallarta, after being charged with multiple sexual assaults using the date-rape drug GHB.

He tracked Luster down but was stopped at the US/Mexico border by Mexican authorities because bounty hunting is illegal in Mexico.

After being arrested in Mexico, Dog paid the bail to get out of Mexican prison for both himself and his crew.

However, they escaped Mexico for the US, making them fugitives themselves.

WHY DID DOG GO TO PRISON?

In 1976, was convicted of first-degree murder relating to the death of Jerry Oliver in Pampa, Texas.

As a young biker, Dog was waiting in a car when his friend accidentally shot and killed 69-year-old Oliver, an alleged pimp and drug dealer, while they were fighting over a cannabis deal.

Although Dog played no direct role in the murder, he was tried for the crime under Texas rules that anyone involved indirectly in a killing can be held responsible.

He was found guilty of first-degree murder and sentenced to five years behind bars in Texas State Penitentiary – a conviction that understandably turned his entire life upside down.

DOG ADDS $10K TO REWARD

Last week, Dog chipped in $10,000 to the reward being offered in the search for Brian as an incentive for people to continue sending him tips.

The TV star’s contribution bumped the total reward up to $180,000.

Most of the reward money has been donated by individuals to the Petito family.

BEACH RESORT HONEYMOON

Dog and his wife enjoyed their beach resort honeymoon in Florida, before the bounty hunter joined the search for Brian Laundrie.

BRIAN LAUNDRIE COMPARED TO WIFE KILLER SCOTT PETERSON

Dog the Bounty Hunter has  and revealed why he thinks the fugitive is guilty.

The reality TV star said that Chris Laundrie joining the hunt for his son last week “fits the MO of most people that…are guilty of something.”

 told The Sun: “Most of the guys that kill their wives and their family, they hide up for three or four days and then protesters start and the rumors start.

“And people are ‘Well, Scott Peterson if you don’t know where she’s at why aren’t you out there helping?’”

 was found guilty of murdering his eight-month pregnant wife Laci and unborn son in 2002.