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She’s been on the lam for two months, having jumped a $100,000 bond following her arrest for manufacturing fraudulent credit cards, checks and IDs, not to mention drug possession, robbery and extortion.

With over 100 victims in her wake, this 30-year-old mother of two is plumb out of aliases, disguises and principal partners, four of whom have already been sent to the slammer.

She’s tired, but there’s no time to sleep… not with a bounty hunter named “Dog” hot on her trail, taunting her with repeated calls to her cell phone and daring her to come out of her hiding place and play.

“Run, Candy,” he growls, issuing a challenge for all to see on the Web site www.crime.com “Run!”Oh, Candy wants to.

If you’re on the run, Dog is gonna get you.

Dog is Duane Lee Chapman, owner of Da Kine Bail Bonds in Honolulu and self-proclaimed “greatest bounty hunter in the world.”

Six thousand-plus captures over the past two decades have earned this highly intense, charismatic ex-con and born-again Christian such a distinction.

He is the modern-day Billy the Kid… minus all the weaponry.

“Regulators,” he’ll often bellow to his supporting cast of bounty hunters, which often includes family members and friends, “mount up!”

He’s also the king of comebacks… a modern-day hero who was once a zero after serving time in a Texas prison for first-degree murder.

It’s a conviction he claims was unfounded and later candidly discusses, for the first time ever, with MidWeek.

“I am what rehabilitation stands for,” claims the man who’s been profiled on such TV shows as The Learning Channel’s Secret World of Bounty Hunters and Court TV’s Anatomy of a Crime, and whose Predator’s Predator column at www.crime.com receives a bevy of hits on a daily basis.

“This is a game of good guy versus bad guy.

Even Hawaii’s criminals have felt his wrath.

Just last week, for example, Dog caught notorious Kona burglar Bryan Blair, who was lying low in Kansas City.

“Dog’s a genius at the practical side of humanity, especially when it comes to understanding the criminal mind,” says Anthony Robbins, world-renowned motivational speaker who talks highly of the bounty hunter’s abilities in his book Awaken the Giant Within.

“He’s the best in the world at what he does.”

“Bounty hunters are a dying breed,” says Dog, who at age 46 and nearing retirement refuses to work under the more “politically correct” term of BEA.

It’s one of the reasons why he plans on opening a bounty hunter school in the Islands, where he’ll not only teach the “tricks to the trade,” but the ethics of the business as well.

“Bail enforcement agents strictly go after bail,” he explains.

“Bounty hunters go after anyone with a price on their head… as well as fugitives of the law.

Dogging the apprehended incessantly was as much of the routine as flashing his Colorado and Hawaii fugitive apprehension badges or slapping on the cuffs and leg irons.
 

And he head-butted me… just splattered my nose all over the place.”

Dog claims to have mellowed with age, although he’s still apt to call the captured every expletive in the book.

“It’s tough.

“I’ll listen to a lot of Hawaiian music… stuff like Iz… to relax,” he says.

“For me, Hawaii is like decompression.”

“Born on a mountain, raised in a cave… Arresting fugitives is all I crave.” another Dogism

Hector Gonzalez is pissed… and he’s taking his frustration out on Dog’s car.

Lying in the back seat with his hands cuffed, this heroin… or cheiva… smuggler from Colombia is screaming obscenities at the bounty hunter while using his stocky legs to boot the back windshield.

Thump. Thump. Crash!

This is not what Gonzalez had in mind when he decided to head for the mountains… a typical destination for many fugitives.

He thought he’d be as free as a bird as long as he stayed close to Carter Lake in Loveland, Colo., and as far away from the El Gato Negro, a bar located on the seedy side of Denver, where Gonzalez’ drug deals often went down and which the feds and local authorities were keeping close tabs on.

But now here he was… a fugitive considered so dangerous that the FBI put a no-hold bond on him… and he’s headed for the pen.

The embarrassing thing is, he’d been duped by this bounty hunter and his five kids!

Hell, the oldest one couldn’t be more than 12, Gonzalez thought to himself.

And what were they holding? Flashlights?

He honestly believed it was the feds who woke him in the middle of the night.

“All right, Gonzalez,” growled a voice over a bullhorn.

“You’re surrounded. Come out with your hands up!”

With lights streaming in from all sides of the cabin, Gonzalez thought he’d do the only sensible thing and surrender.

But after being cuffed and placed in the back seat, he didn’t expect to hear these 11 words:

“All right kids, you can come out from behind the bushes!”

Arrrh! Gonzalez screams.

They’re just kids! “I’m gonna kill you , mother fucker” he shouts, glaring at his captor.

“I’m gonna kill you when I get out!”

Don’t let the looks fool you. Despite the tough-guy image, Dog is afraid… and rightfully so… whenever he’s chasing a criminal.

“I’m a normal guy.I’m scared all the time.Fear, I let him out,” he says.

“There’s this really big misconception that Duane makes all this money,” says Barmore, co-owner of the couple’s bonding businesses.

“Most of the time, bondsmen can’t pay.”

In general, bounty hunters make between 10 and 15 percent of the posted bail.

For Dog, however, the return isn’t always there.

By his own calculations, he’s been paid for less than half of the 6,000 fugitives he’s brought in.

People have offered him wristwatches and old pickup trucks as payment. Ironically, a bondsman once handed Dog a puppy rather than cash.

Two years ago, Charley Dillion… a bondsman in Palm Springs, Calif…. posted a $200,000 bond for a murder suspect.

After the suspect skipped town, Charley showed up at Dog’s door and begged him to take the case.

All Charley had was $5,000… and brain cancer to boot.

“He came in and said, ‘I’m dying,’” Dog recalls, “‘and I can’t leave my wife with this kind of financial burden.

It’s this compassionate side of Dog that many in the business don’t often see.

With him, the job is never over once the fugitive has been delivered to the proper authorities.

In return for his devotion to them, many of Dog’s captures become his friends for life.

“He’s really big on honor,” Barmore says.

“He does it to the point that sometimes I want to kill ’em.

“It’s just like being a father,” Dog says.

“You got to show them love and you got to show them the path.

In fact, he allowed his son, Joshua, to spend many summers under the bounty hunter’s wing simply because he found Dog to be a fine example.

“What makes him so special,” Robbins adds, “is that he has the mind-set to convert these criminals to a better life.

“My mother taught me that if they bleed red, then they’re your brother.

“My father was real abusive.Not sexually, but verbally and emotionally.

“I had to prove a lot to my dad.He started working for me the last few years.

And I said, ‘You got to, Dad.

They’ve got to feel afraid… be intimidated.’

“We went on a bounty one night because he’d become a bondsman and this guy had jumped his bond.

People pay him “business visits” all the time at his home in Pampa, Texas.

But on this evening, he smells trouble… literally… when Donny Kurkandall, a member of the motorcycle gang Devil’s Disciples, shows up at his door reeking of whiskey.

Oliver knew of the Disciples… but he generally avoided them because they hated blacks.

Dog, however, was different.

The biker would often park his Harley-Davidson on Oliver’s front lawn, then rev his motor until the earth worms would surface.

Oliver would then scoop up the worms and use them for catfishing.

“How’d you get a name like Dog?”

Oliver once asked the biker, who was relatively new to the Lone Star state.

“We have a guy in the gang who’s always mad at God,” explained Dog, the Disciples’ sergeant-at-arms.

“He’s always flipping God off.So I started praying for him.

But this other cat standing in front of me, he’s no friend of mine.

“You got any pot?” Kurkandall asks, his speech slurred.

“Yeah,” Oliver responds.

“Good,” Kurkandall says, whipping out a sawed-off shotgun from his coat and pointing the barrel straight at Oliver’s chest.

“Give it all to me!”

“What the… ?” stammers Oliver as he grabs the gun’s barrel.

Boom!

The thunderous blast sends Oliver backward and into the wall.

He slumps to the floor as Kurkandall drops the gun and stumbles out the front door.

“Oh, God,” Oliver cries, looking down at his white shirt turned red.

“I’m bleeding.”

Less than eight hours later, he would be dead.

Dog knows what it feels like to be a wanted man.

As a juvenile, he had his share of run-ins with the law from Colorado to Mexico, including 18 arrests for armed robbery.

Still, he wasn’t prepared for the news when it blared over the radio during an early September morning in 1976: Duane ‘Dog’ Chapman is being sought for the murder of Jerry Lee Oliver, who died last night.

“I was at home in bed at the time and I remember that my wife, LaFonda, rolled over, pulled the covers over her head and started screaming,” says Dog, who’s been married four times.

“And I said, ‘Oh, my God. Jerry died!’”

Dog admits he was at Oliver’s home that fateful night, waiting outside in a car with several other Disciple members.

But, he adds, the plan was simply for Kurkandall to buy pot and get out.

Had he known his fellow biker was carrying a concealed weapon, Dog says, he would have aborted the drug plan right then and there.

“I actually went back to Jerry’s place,” Dog says.

“The paramedics were bringing Jerry out and he was wide awake on a stretcher and I said, ‘Jerry, brother, are you all right?’

And he says, ‘Dog, it was one of your brothers.’

“There was a policeman nearby, an Officer Love, and he hears what Jerry says.

“Get the kids, get the camper.

Dog never made it far.

In fact, he barely made it out of his back yard before he was caught by the local police and arrested.

Found guilty along with several of his biker brothers, Dog was sentenced in 1977 to five years of hard labor in a Texas prison.

He would end up serving less than two years of the sentence, and was finally released on parole on Feb. 6, 1979.

For Dog, however, life was just beginning.

“LaFonda, my first wife, had filed for divorce while I was in prison.

I said yes.

He held up a picture and said, ‘Can you find this boy?

Soon afterwards, Dog claims he was arresting up to four fugitives a day.

And the rest, he says, is history.

Now, he’s looking forward to telling his story to CBS, which has reportedly signed him to do a made-for-TV dramatic series on his adventures.

There’s also talk that Gary Scott Thompson, the writer of The Fast and the Furious, is interested in immortalizing Dog on the big screen.

Dog first came to Hawaii in 1989… at the time content to just spend a few days in paradise before heading home to Colorado.

But after befriending a local and becoming fascinated with terms like “aloha,” “aina” and “mana” … he decided this is where he would plant his roots.

And so he called home and broke the news to Barbara Chapman.

“I said, ‘Mom, I’m not leaving,’ ”

Dog remembers.

“And she’s telling me no and I say, ‘Mom, I got off the plane and I smelled flowers.

This local guy came up to me and said ‘I love you’ …it’s called aloha.

“Mom,” he says, “this is heaven.”

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