LOOSEN THE LEASH? » Flanked by family members, Beth Chapman, wife of bounty hunter Duane "Dog" Chapman, flashed a thumb's-up sign to cameras outside federal court yesterday after Duane Chapman's initial hearing for extradition to Mexico. She emerged from court holding her husband's boots.
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