Hardin, a 56-year-old former police chief, escaped from the North Central Unit in Calico Rock, Arkansas, May 25, where he was serving time for the 2017 murder of James Appleton and the 1997 rape ...

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.

Hardin, 56, was in prison serving a decadeslong sentence for the 2017 murder of water department employee James Appleton in Gateway, Arkansas, and the 1997 rape of a school teacher in nearby Rogers.

Since his escape from a Calico Rock prison on May 25, 2025, local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies were working around the clock in the search for Hardin, who was serving decades-long ...

According to Benton County records, Hardin served two terms as constable for District 1 from 2009-10 and 2013-14. He also worked as a correctional officer at the Northwest Arkansas Community ...

Escaped Arkansas inmate Grant Hardin, known as “Devil in the Ozarks,” has been taking into custody, according to the Izard County Sheriff’s Office.

He's been described as a "sociopath," and "evil" by those who have encountered him, but now Grant Hardin, the former police chief of a small Arkansas town who was imprisoned for murder and rape ...

Grant Hardin, a former Arkansas police chief and inmate, escaped the North Central Unit on May 25, according to officials. He's considered extremely dangerous.

The reward for information that leads to Hardin's capture has increased to $25,000, the Arkansas Department of Corrections said, with reward money coming from the FBI and the U.S. Marshals.

Hardin became police chief of Gateway, a town of about 450 people, in 2016. Virtually overnight, people in the community described in the 2023 HBO documentary "Devil in the Ozarks" a dramatic shift.

The Brief The FBI is offering a $20,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of escaped inmate Grant Hardin. Hardin, a former police chief convicted of murder and rape, fled an Arkansas ...