Fans were devastated when Duane “Dog the Bounty Hunter” Chapman’s fifth wife, Beth Chapman, died in June 2019 after a two-year battle with throat cancer. However, the universe brought Francie Frane into his life months later and turned his grieving heart whole again.
The pair quickly took their relationship public in April 2020, leading fans to criticize their relationship timeline. In Touch reveals everything to know about Dog and Francie’s romance and shares if they are still together.
How Did Duane ‘Dog the Bounty Hunter’ Chapman and Francie Frane Meet?
Dog and Francie have gone through similar life experiences, as she also became a widow after her first husband, Bob, died in December 2018 from cancer.
Following Bob’s death, the former Dog the Bounty Hunter star contacted him for his excavating services. Francie reached out to Dog to let him know that Bob had passed away, and she felt their connection through the phone.
“As soon as I hung up the phone, I called my girlfriend and was like, ‘Are you sitting down right now because you’re not going to believe who I just talked to,’” she told Entertainment Tonight in 2020. “She was screaming, ‘I told you!’”
Duane The Bounty Hunter Chapman and Francie Frane.
Francie knew they were meant to be together after the A&E star agreed to attend church with her for their first date, and has acknowledged the fact that she got lucky finding love again with Dog.
“We understood the pain that the other one was feeling and [in] those tough days and moments, we helped each other stand up,” Francie continued to the outlet. “We could cry with each other and talk about what we were feeling … It brought us together in this amazing way.”
Inside Duane ‘Dog the Bounty Hunter’ Chapman and Francie Frane’s Engagement
The bounty hunter got on one knee and popped the big question to Francie in May 2020, after less than one year of dating.
Dog asked for Francie’s hand in marriage inside their candlelit home in Colorado, and she said yes!
“I wasn’t expecting it at all,” Francie told The Sun U.S. on May 4, 2020. “I think I had gone to pick up some food and then when I came back he had all the lights turned down with just a few lights on and a bunch of candles lit. So, when I came in I was like, ‘Wow, this is awesome.’ Then he said, ‘Come in, sit down because I need to talk to you.’”
Duane ‘Dog the Bounty Hunter’ Chapman and Francie Frane Get Marrie
The couple tied the knot at the Pinery At The Hill in Colorado Springs on September 2, 2024.
“This was a match made in heaven. Francie, I give you my word, I will love you every day until I die. I will love you, guard you and protect you. I love you more than I do myself, Francie. I will love you more than any man ever has,” Dog said in his vows to Francie, per Daily Mail.
The bride said, “What I thought was the end was just the very beginning. We have walked alongside each other through one of the hardest things we could ever face in this life and through that we’ve found an incredible friendship and inner strength we didn’t know we have. I will walk alongside you to the ends of the earth and back and be your loyal wife, your best friend and your biggest fan.”
Are ‘Dog the Bounty Hunter’ Chapman and Francie Frane Still Together
Dog and Francie are still together! The couple is heavily involved in their church, and Dog shares a video via X of their testimony in May 2025.
“I don’t owe the world an explanation. But here’s one anyway: I loved Beth with everything I had. And Jesus healed what was shattered,” he wrote at the time. “Now, I love Francie with a heart made whole. That’s not replacing — it’s redemption.”
