He even showed up at Laundrie’s parents' house in Florida, tellingFox Newsthat his reasoning was simple.

“I carry a reputation with me,” he said.

“The reputation is, ‘He gives you a second chance.

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He’s gonna get you, but he gives you a second chance.'”

Chapman suggested in a 2020 interview withThe New York Timesthat he’d captured around 10,000 fugitives to date.

Laundrie would be one of his biggest gets ever.

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However, it seems that Chapman is giving up the hunt, at least for the time being.

Chapman wants to go to his normal doctor in Colorado, so he’s traveling back there for treatment.

If nothing else, Chapman’s other daughter, Lyssa, believes he’ll eventually catch Laundrie.

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Shetweeted: “Not giving up.

Bait is set.”

There is blood squirting from their eyes."

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Chapman frequently uses social media to track fugitives, but he found these posts particularly concerning.

According to the bounty hunter, Laundrie is also a voracious reader of “serial killer books.”

Chapman believes the Florida native may even have learned his alleged skills from them.

(The travel influencer was confirmed to have died by strangulation, viaCBS News).

Chapman is eager to continue his independent search for Brian Laundrie.