Multiple state prison officials are set to testify in front of a legislative subcommittee about the escape of convicted ...

The meeting will include discussion of the investigation into Hardin's escape and a review of the Arkansas Department of ...

The federal case against Grant Hardin, an inmate who escaped from a north Arkansas prison in May and was caught by ...

Grant Hardin, known as the "Devil in the Ozarks," made his first court appearance through a video call on June 17, according to court records.

Grant Hardin, 56, walked out of the North Central Unit on May 25 after authorities say he disguised himself in a "makeshift" ...

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, the one-time Arkansas police chief who escaped from prison where he was serving sentences for murder and rape, has been recaptured, according to the Izard County Sheriff’s Office.

Grant Hardin, former police chief of the small town of Gateway, Arkansas, who was convicted of murder, has been recaptured after his escape from prison on May 25.

On June 6, 2025, officials with the Stone County Sheriff's Office confirmed that Grant Hardin, who was once the police chief of a small Arkansas town, had been found and taken into custody.

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.

Though Hardin was thought to have left Arkansas, investigators now believe he never got very far from the prison.

Grant Hardin, the one-time Arkansas police chief who escaped from prison where he was serving sentences for murder and rape, has been recaptured, according to the Izard County Sheriff’s Office.