Duane Chapman may be best known for his eight-season-long reality show "Dog the Bounty Hunter" - but more than 25 years before the programme started he served time in a Texas prison for first-degree murder. Chapman was waiting in a car in Pampa, Texas, in 1976 when his friend shot and killed a pimp named Jerry Oliver who the pair were attempting to buy marijuana from. Sentenced to five years in Texas State Penitentiary, "Dog the Bounty Hunter" served just one-and-a-half before he was released - and it was inside, when tackling a fellow inmate who was just about to be shot for attempting to escape, that he decided to become a bounty hunter after a prison guard told him he should. Interestingly, despite the fact Chapman has featured in programmes including "Dog the Bounty Hunter" and "Dog and Beth: On the Hunt", as well as having written a best-selling autobiography named "You Can Run But You Can't Hide" and another book called "Where Mercy Is Shown, Mercy Is Given", he is barred from entering the UK or from carrying a firearm in the US due to his felony conviction.
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