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 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.

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, 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 ...

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

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, 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 ...

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, 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.

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