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, ...

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 ...

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

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

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.

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.

CALICO ROCK, Ark. (KATV) — Convicted murderer and rapist Grant Hardin, a former police chief, has been recaptured after a nearly two-week manhunt. Hardin was apprehended shortly after 3 p.m ...