Who Is Keith A. Barmore? New Details on Beth Chapman's First Husband

Beth Chapman, reality star and wife to Duane “Dog” Chapman, has died at the age of 51 after a battle with Stage II throat cancer. The couple, who starred in Dog The Bounty Hunter together was living in Hawaii at the time of her death. Though Duane and Beth’s marriage seems like a match made in heaven, the pair only tied the knot to one another after other relationships. Duane had been married three times before marrying Beth. Beth had spent two years married to an old friend of Duane’s named Keith Barmore.

Who is Keith A. Barmore? Read on for more.

1. First marriage

Beth married Keith Barmore, an old buddy of Duane’s in 1991, after a 25 day courtship, according to The Heavy. The couple were only married for two years but they had daughter Cecily together in 1993, not long before they split up.

Beth was a bond enforcement agent.

2. Duane’s reaction

Duane had plenty of thoughts on the match and none of them were good. While he had known Barmore for years, he didn’t have a great opinion of him. He wrote about it in his memoir You Can Run, But You Can’t Hide, saying “Keith was no better as an adult than he was as a punk kid. He was a thief with a heroin habit. He would drink beer just to even out from the drugs. It just about broke my heart when I heard Beth was dating him. When I heard they got married, I got physically sick. There couldn’t have been two people in the world who were worse together than Beth and Keith.”

It got even harder for him as he learned more about the marriage from mutual friends. The news they share with him was troubling. He said “Friends told me he was abusing her something awful.”

Their relationhsip continued during their marriages to others. 

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