Capture: On June 6, the Stone County Sheriff's Office confirmed that Grant Hardin was taken into custody at around 3:45 p.m.

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.

GOULD, Arkansas — On June 6, the nearly two-week long manhunt for escaped Arkansas prisoner Grant Hardin ended. Hardin had escaped from the North Central Unit in Calico Rock on May 25 while ...

Grant Hardin, 56, has evaded capture since walking out of Calico Rock prison on May 25 — despite searchers employing bloodhounds, officers on horseback, drones, helicopters and an elite US ...

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 Hardin, murderer and rapist, escaped from an Arkansas prison nearly two weeks ago. USBP Special Operations Group deployed to assist in the manhunt and tracked him down less than 2 miles from ...

The capture of Hardin ends a nearly two-week manhunt that included hundreds of local, state, and federal agents. Cheryl Tillman is the sister of the man Hardin killed in 2017.

Grant Hardin, known publicly as the "Devil in the Ozarks" — the title of a true crime documentary based on his case — was located about 1.5 miles northwest of the Calico Rock prison from which ...

Department of Corrections escapee Grant Hardin was caught less than 2 miles from the prison. Mountain View Police Department confirmed the capture by Izard County on their Facebook post.

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.

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.