a brief profile of the real Wesley Duane Chapman

although only 29 years of age wesley duane chapman has lived a life filled with experiences of one much older.


Wesley was born November 14th 1980 to Anne Marie Tegnel and Duane lee Chapman, better known to the world as dog the bounty hunter. Little could this small infant know the trials that life had in store for him. At the tender age of one his biological parents split up and his mother took both him and his baby brother not only from the family home but to a different state. it wasn't long before his mother was in another relationship with a man who had some strange and twisted ideas of punishment and abuse. One punishment was putting him and his little brother in a dog house and making them stay there. After several years of abuse Wesley's behavior became erratic and his mother chose to abandoned him leaving the authorities to raise the troubled child.



With little time or patience to try and find the root cause of the bad behavior the authorities just decided to gave him drugs to control his temper and behavior and if bad side effects were to happen instead of taking him of the medication they would gave him more to counter act he side effects. After years of living in a nightmare wesley was reunited with his grandma and was able to escape the cold hardness of the institution to be with her. forall she was allowed to have him live with her she was not at that moment in time granted full custody which meant at any time the authorities could come and take him back to the institution they had him living in before hand. Unfortunately it also meant that she had to keep him on his medication. He had only been living with his grandmother for a few years when she became ill and had to stop working making the money situation in the home tight, it was at this time Wesley found he had a natural talent for marketing and started to work to raise money to buy things he wanted. Once in his late teens his medication was stopped and his life slowly started to get to some kind of normality. At the age of 16 and with his daily meds a thing of the past Wesley reached out to his biological mother hoping to bring closure and some sort of normality into his life. Despite his best efforts to reconnect with Anne Marie there was no parent child bond there and instead of a mother he found a stranger that he could not connect with for all he loved and respected her.



now wesley is happily married to the woman of his dreams with 5 beautiful children. not only that but he is now the CEO of his own company. now that wesley has been reunited with his biological father and his side of the family, he has decided to share his story with the world via his own website (http://www.wesleydchapman.com ) in hopes that it will help others that have been or are going through ruff times. to help them see that there is hope, there is light at the end of the tunnel so to speak. Wesley is hoping to expand on the online chapters of his life story and to turn it sometime in the near future into a book.