Hardin was serving sentences for murder and rape when he dressed in a makeshift law enforcement uniform and was let out of a secure gate by a prison employee.

Convicted killer and recaptured prison escapee Grant Hardin, known as the “Devil in the Ozarks,” has been transferred to the ...

A former police chief and convicted killer known as the “Devil in the Ozarks” has been captured after he escaped from prison, ...

According to a statement from the Izard County Sheriff’s Office in Izard County, Ar., as of Friday, June 6th, 2025, at ...

Law enforcement officials are searching for a former police chief who escaped Sunday afternoon from the North Central Unit prison in Calico Rock, according to an Arkansas State Police press release.

A former Arkansas police chief who escaped from a prison 12 days ago was apprehended about a mile and half from where he was ...

From Aug. 6, 1990, to May 22, 1991, Hardin was employed at the Fayetteville Police Department. In his termination letter, then-Chief Richard Watson said Hardin's efforts "fall short of the average ...

CALICO ROCK, Ark. — The search for escaped inmate Grant Hardin continues in Calico Rock after a series of events that people in the small north Arkansas town say they never saw coming.

Convicted murderer Grant Hardin escaped from a Calico Rock, Arkansas, prison on May 25, 2025. Hardin was serving time for the 2017 murder of James Appleton and the 1997 rape of a teacher.