Hardin is scheduled to face a judge in Izard County. His new charge of second-degree escape could add 5 to 20 years to his current sentences. Hardin escaped from the North Central Unit prison in ...

A former police chief in prison for murder and rape pleaded not guilty to a charge of escape Tuesday morning. Grant Hardin worked in law enforcement for decades before he was arrested. He was serving ...

A former police chief serving 50 years in prison for rape and murder pleaded innocent Tuesday to a charge that he escaped from custody.

The search for Arkansas prison escapee Grant Hardin - the so-called 'Devil in the Ozarks' killer - is in its second week amid mountainous, rough terrain. Hardin, a 56-year-old former police chief ...

A former Arkansas police chief convicted of rape and murder has been apprehended after a brazen prison escape that led to nearly two weeks on the run. Grant Hardin, 56, was taken into custody Friday ...

Grant Hardin had gained notoriety as the subject of the 2023 documentary “Devil in the Ozarks’’ about his 1997 rape of a school teacher and 2017 murder of a water department worker.

BENTON COUNTY, Ark. (KNWA/KFTA) — A former Benton County prosecutor discussed the prison escape of a former Gateway police chief he prosecuted in two cases. Grant Hardin, 56, convicted of rape ...

Hardin is the former chief of police for the city of Gateway in Benton County, which had a population of 444 people in 2023. He also was a police officer, county constable and corrections officer.

Grant Hardin, who served in the top police job in Gateway, Arkansas, was found in Izard County, about a mile and a half from the facility he escaped on May 25, the Arkansas Department of ...

He would work there until his arrest February 23, 2017: Hardin shoots James Appleton Appleton's brother-in-law, Andrew Tillman, told Benton County Sheriff's investigators that he was on the phone with ...