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Dog the Bounty Hunter hunted Max Factor heir Andrew Luster to Mexico in 2003, now serial rapist is free
EXCLUSIVE: Twenty-three years after Duane "Dog" Chapman chased fugitive Max Factor heir Andrew Luster to Mexico and tackled him on a Puerto Vallarta street, the convicted serial rapist is a free man â despite an initial sentence of 124 years.
"I hope he's smart enough â and he's smart â to never do anything like that again," Chapman told Fox News Digital Wednesday, more than two decades after the capture that helped make him a household name.
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Chapman, his son Leland and several others went to Mexico after receiving a tip about Luster's whereabouts â months after he fled the U.S. in the middle of a California rape trial. They first identified him from the tipsters' photo, which showed a knee and a watch.
Chapman had been studying his face closely for weeks, but he also recognized the watch from a televised interview, he said. And he credits his son with first spotting Luster, who was speaking with a young woman in a bar on June 18, 2003.
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"When I saw him, you talk about an adrenaline rush went through my body," Chapman told Fox News Digital Wednesday. "Tim got down . ..he snuck up behind him, and then I pushed him. He fell over. We all jumped on him, and I screamed, 'You're under arrest by the United States of America.'"
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They pulled him into an SUV and drove off â only to be intercepted on the road outside town by Mexican authorities who arrested everyone amid the chaos.
Luster claimed he'd been kidnapped, Chapman said, so he handed the lead investigator what Chapman called a "bible" of information on the case.
Luster, the great-grandson of makeup mogul Max Factor, vanished during a recess in his trial and was convicted in absentia on 86 counts involving the drugging and raping of three women between 1996 and 2000 at his home in Mussel Shoals, California.
One of the victims, who asked not to be named out of concerns for her safety, said she's still struggling to comprehend Luster's release even though she knew it was
coming.
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"Itâs very unsettling knowing that he is not behind bars, not in a closed facility," she told Fox News Digital Wednesday. "He is out in the public, in a community that just â it just doesnât feel very good at all."
She said she has concerns for her own safety, her family, Luster's other victims and even investigators after a notebook containing a "payback list" was recovered from his Mexican hotel room â with their names on it.
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She said she dated Luster for five or six months without knowing she'd been drugged and raped the night they met â something detectives discovered years later, after they recovered videotapes from the home.
"It was me, comatose on his bed, wearing the clothes that I was wearing the first night I met him," she said. "Thatâs how I knew when it happened, because I had just bought that outfit, and I was wearing it the night that I met him. So thatâs how I figured out when it happened to me, which was absolutely horrifying."
Police found more than 100 videos, she said. Not all of them involved criminal activity, but those that did were "mortifying," she said, as Luster spoke to the camera like he were playing with "a toy."
"Theyâre pretty brutal," she added. "The things that he did to us while we were completely unconscious were things that, I mean, had we been able to feel anything, it would have been awful. He narrated the video and talked to the camera throughout and thoroughly enjoyed the whole entire thing."
He initially received consecutive sentences totaling 124 years â later reduced to 50, and he was released earlier this month after over two decades behind bars.
Prosecutors had opposed early release in 2024 and again in 2025. However, he was able to earn substantial early release credits under California's controversial Proposition 57 criminal justice reforms, and his prison term came to an end on Oct. 11.
"I did not know that [Prop 57] meant that it was gonna make Andrew Lusterâs crimes be deemed nonviolent," Doe No. 3 told Fox News Digital. "Thatâs just so baffling. I just feel like if anybody could watch these tapes of what he did to me and all of these other women, just to look at that and try to put the word nonviolent on it, that word could not come out of your mouth. It just would be impossible."
Doe was among those who successfully lobbied for changes to the law to close that nonviolent loophole.
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Chapman said he never received the bounty for Luster and lost hundreds of thousands of dollars of his own money for the operation and ensuing legal fallout.
Mexican law did not allow bounty hunters to apprehend fugitives. Chapman said he was arrested alongside his son Leland, longtime friend and associate Tim Chapman, who is not a blood relative, and members of a camera crew.
"He told me, 'Iâm going to get him for you,' and he did," Doe said of Chapman. So to help him get out after he put Luster back behind bars, she kicked off a legal fundraiser that she said attracted donations from around the country.
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A judge in Mexico later dismissed the case.
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The incident happened shortly before Chapman rose to fame with A&E's reality series, "Dog the Bounty Hunter."
Chapman is returning to the screen with a new YouTube series launching Saturday â "Dog the Bounty Hunter ... Everyone Deserves a Second Chance."
As part of the series, he plans to help bail out certain inmates with a history of good behavior and positive reports â but not for people facing serious felonies or sex abuse charges, he said.
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"We'll call out the ones that deserve a second chance, right, and you can't be perfect OK, so if they run, yeehaw," he said. "I don't wish they would, but if they do, then I'm going to catch them."
He said he's got at least another five to seven years of bounty hunting left in him.
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Fox News' Greg Wehner and The Associated Press contributed to this report.

Google recusa pedido de Trump para chamar Atlântico de “Oceano Americano”
O presidente dos Estados Unidos, Donald Trump, afirmou que Sundar Pichai, CEO do Google, recusou seu pedido para renomear o Oceano Atlântico como “Oceano Americano”.
“Eu só gosto de dois oceanos, o Oceano Atlântico e o Oceano Pacífico. Não vou colocar nem Trump nem América no nome de nenhum outro oceano além desses dois. Então, analisamos seriamente o Oceano Atlântico, e liguei para o Google Maps, que foi realmente ótimo com o lago e muito bom também com o golfo”, afirmou o presidente americano durante comício na Carolina do Sul nesta quarta-feira (21).
Segundo Trump, a empresa explicou que os oceanos “são diferentes” porque abrangem muitos países.
“Eu disse: ‘Sundar, estou pensando no Oceano Atlântico. Você consegue fazer isso?’ ‘Não, não, não, desta vez não vou fazer isso.’ Ele disse: ‘Os oceanos são diferentes, senhor. Eles abrangem muitos países. Muitos mesmo. Por favor, não nos peça para fazer isso.’”
O Google, controlado pela Alphabet, mudou o nome do Golfo do México para “Golfo da América” em seus mapas para usuários nos Estados Unidos depois que Trump ordenou a alteração, em janeiro de 2025.
Embajador en México denuncia escalada de agresiones contra Cuba
Ciudad de México, 21 oct (Prensa Latina) El embajador de Cuba en México, Eugenio Martínez, denunció hoy la escalada sin precedentes de las agresiones de Estados Unidos contra la nación caribeña, lo cual calificó como “crimen internacional”.
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Identifican bienes arqueológicos mexicanos con destino a Reino Unido
Ciudad de México, 21 oct (Prensa Latina) Autoridades identificaron hoy en el aeropuerto internacional de esta capital seis bienes arqueológicos procedentes de Veracruz que pretendían ser enviados a Reino Unido mediante Correos de México.
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Detienen a líder de grupo delictivo en sureste de México
Ciudad de México, 21 oct (Prensa Latina) El Gabinete de Seguridad de México informó hoy la detención en el estado de Quintana Roo de Robert “N”, líder de un grupo criminal relacionado con actividades de tráfico de drogas, extorsión y delincuencia organizada.
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Nuevo México demanda al abogado y al contable de Epstein por encubrir su red sexual

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México recupera recursos en combate a comercio ilícito de combustible
Ciudad de México, 21 oct (Prensa Latina) La presidenta de México, Claudia Sheinbaum, destacó hoy la recuperación de 48 mil 411 millones de pesos (dos mil 500 millones de dólares) en impuestos declarados gracias al combate al comercio ilícito de combustibles.
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Multa histórica para Meta: pagará 25.000 millones de dólares en Nuevo México por las malas prácticas de Facebook
Nuevo México ha tomado la delantera como un Estado pionero a la hora de poner freno a los abusos de las compañías tecnológicas. Este miércoles, un juez ha ordenado a Meta —la compañía matriz de Facebook, Instagram y WhatsApp— pagar nada menos que 25.000 millones de dólares (más de 22.000 millones de euros), tras decidir que la compañía es culpable de engañar a sus usuarios, en concreto a los de Facebook, con respecto a la moderación de contenidos y también con sus políticas de privacidad.

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Epstein’s attorney and accountant accused of ‘facilitating and concealing’ his crimes in lawsuit
New Mexico lawsuit claims ‘in exchange for furthering Epstein’s criminal project, his associates received generous salaries’
The attorney general of New Mexico on Wednesday filed a civil lawsuit against Jeffrey Epstein’s longtime attorney, Darren Indyke, and Epstein’s longtime accountant, Richard Kahn, accusing them of having “facilitated and concealed” Epstein’s crimes, and is seeking to stop them from being paid by Epstein’s estate while the litigation plays out.
The lawsuit, filed in the US district court for the district of New Mexico, names Kahn and Indyke as defendants both in their individual capacity, and in their capacity as co-executors of Epstein’s estate. The complaint also names Epstein’s estate, and the 1953 Trust, which holds the estate’s assets.
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México realizará inversión para atender crisis de agua en Jalisco
Ciudad de México, 21 oct (Prensa Latina) El Gobierno de México invertirá hasta 13 mil millones de pesos (casi 700 millones de dólares) en Jalisco para atender la crisis con la calidad del agua en ese estado, anunció hoy la presidenta Claudia Sheinbaum.
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Resaltan reconocimiento a México por localización de desaparecidos
Ciudad de México, 21 oct (Prensa Latina) La presidenta de México, Claudia Sheinbaum, resaltó hoy la felicitación a su país por parte del Comité de Desapariciones Forzadas de la Organización de las Naciones Unidas (ONU), tras la localización de 16 mil personas este año.
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New Migrant Caravan Leaves Southern Mexico, Many Hoping for Democrat Win in Midterms
A new migrant caravan of mostly Central American migrants left Mexico’s southern border with Guatemala on Tuesday. Many in the group, according to some reports, intend to posture near the U.S.-Mexico border in hopes that a Democratic win in the midterms might signal a return to a less secure border.
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Why I Can't Go Back to Virginia Until It's Named Americaginia
When I wake up each morning, the most important thing is that I avoid setting foot anywhere that is not American in Name Only (AINO). This, as a native Virginian, presents a problem. The state was named after England's Queen Elizabeth I, known as the "virgin queen" for her lack of a husband. How am I supposed to go back to Virginia until it is named Americaginia? I have principles.
Thankfully, President Donald Trump is on this, having made the AINO cause a top priority. He refashioned the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America via executive order; not long after, he decreed Lake Ontario would be Lake America with another wet signature. Naturally, New Mexico is the next target. The state "should immediately change its name to New America," Trump posted this week on Truth Social. "We are not Mexico, we are the United States of America!"
So true. New Mexico lawmakers would have to initiate the transition, and the public would have to approve it—the president cannot do so with an executive order here. But it is vitally important that, when he can, he continue changing the names of geographic landmarks to maximize the use of those four beautiful syllables. And when he cannot, he must raise awareness of the AINO spirit.
I should know. I'm surrounded. Though I am no longer living in ***ginia, I reside in the District of Columbia, a name that strikes fear and loathing into the hearts of any AINO patriot. Columbia is derived from Christopher Columbus, who in 1492 sailed that ocean blue—presently called the Atlantic, we'll return to that momentarily—to what is now America. But are we really going to let our nation's capital conjure up visions of a country in South America, give or take an o? Perhaps a better question: Do we want it dedicated to an Italian? Rechristening it the District of America would be a win for AINO, a win for Trump, and a win for the progressives who hate Columbus Day. Boom.
To the north we have Maryland—named after Queen Henrietta Maria, the wife of England's King Charles I—which will need to be Americaland if I am to cross that line again. (I also ask that Americaland's drivers stop learning their technique from Grand Theft Auto.) Looking southward, I'm trapped as well: The Carolinas bear the title of Charles himself. If there is any justice, North Carolina will be North America, and South Carolina will be South America. Yes, those technically already exist, but these are the real North and South America. The others are the fake ones. (West Virginia is easy: West Americaginia.)
The president could plausibly change the names of the seas that surround this great country. At least, he could change their names in the Geographic Names Information System. Columbus sailed the American Ocean. The Pacific, meanwhile, is properly the West American Ocean—or, given that its waves break against California, the Woke American Ocean. There's something in the water.
Many may find Trump's obsession with AINO bewildering. In reality, it is to be expected. A national-populist presidency must have the requisite packaging—whether the branding primarily promotes policy or is the main event itself is a fair question. Trump is a showman, so there must be a show.
We are approaching the intermission of the second Trump administration. The plot twists—though sometimes predictable—have consisted of higher prices for everyday goods (tariffs), higher gas prices (the war in Iran), and Apple Maps now showing Rochester's shores opening their arms to Lake America. The country may be more expensive, inflation not yet vanquished, government spending altitudinous, the swamp waterlogged, that promised golden age still elusive. But at least America is more American in Name Only.
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Gran Premio de México F1 buscará evitar alternar con otros circuitos
Ciudad de México, 21 oct (Prensa Latina) Los organizadores del Gran Premio de México de Fórmula Uno (F1) no desean alternar la carrera con otra ciudad de Latinoamérica, reseñaron hoy medios deportivos.
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