Two employees at an Arkansas prison where an inmate known as the “Devil in the Ozarks” escaped have been fired for policy ...

Officials said a kitchen supervisor left Grant Hardin alone on a loading dock and a tower guard let him out the gates.

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.

The fallout continues after the escape of convicted killer grant hardin—an incident that sparked a 12-day manhunt and left serious questions about prison securi ...

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.

Grant Matthew Hardin's quiet escape from the North Central Unit prison, and his capture almost two weeks later about a mile and a half from the prison, leave as many questions as answers.

Grant Hardin, a former police chief and convicted killer known as the “Devil in the Ozarks,” was captured in northern Arkansas Friday after nearly two weeks on the run.