Brian Laundrie: Dog the Bounty Hunter wades through swamp with a taser as search escalates

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Dog the Bounty Hunter has shared footage of him and his team wading through a swamp in Florida as the hunt for Brian Laundrie continues.

The 68-year-old reality star, whose real name is Duane Chapman, took to Instagram on Sunday, October 3 to share a video with his 713,000 followers that showed him holding onto a boat before heading off into the waist-deep swamp with a team of four other men.

"The search has continued throughout the weekend on the islands off the west coast of Florida," he captioned the video.

Chapman joined the nationwide manhunt for 23-year-old Laundrie, who has been missing since September 14, his parents told law enforcement officials.

Laundrie is a person of interest in the disappearance of his 22-year-old fiancée Gabby Petito, who was confirmed dead on September 21.

Teton County Coroner Dr. Brent Blue has deemed the tragedy a homicide in his preliminary findings. The exact cause of death, however, will become clear once the final autopsy results have been obtained.

Laundrie returned home without Petito after they went on a cross-country road trip in the summer.

Ten days after returning to the home he shared with his parents and his now-deceased fiancée, Petito was reported missing by her family.

Laundrie later went missing himself and was named a person of interest in the case the day after (September 15).

Chapman joined the search when he arrived at the home of his parents, Christopher and Roberta on September 25.

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It was reported that he repeatedly knocked on the Laundrie family's door and asked to speak to them, to no avail.

Over the weekend, a spokesperson for the TV personality informed Newsweek that Chapman is personally adding $10,000 to the existing reward money for Laundrie's arrest.

The reward money had previously stood at $170,000, most of which had been donated by supporters of Petito's family.

He also revealed he does not share the many leads he has apparently received since launching his own search operation for Laundrie.

Chapman said he is not able to call law enforcement and ask for leads, and that "they don't call me and say, 'Hey, Dog, where are your leads?'"

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