Source: SFGate
“As law officers search Arkansas’ rugged Ozark Mountains for a former police chief and convicted killer, the sister of one of his victims is on edge. Grant Hardin, the former police chief in the small town of Gateway near the Arkansas-Missouri border, was serving lengthy sentences for murder and rape and became known as the ‘Devil in the Ozarks.’ Hardin escaped Sunday from the North Central Unit in Calico Rock by disguising himself and wearing a ‘makeshift outfit designed to mimic law enforcement,’ state prison officials said in a statement. ‘I don’t think he will be taken alive,’ said Cheryl Tillman, whose brother James Appleton was killed by Hardin in 2017. ‘He won’t go peacefully.’ Sheriff’s deputies in multiple northern Arkansas counties have been working with state prison officials to follow leads and search the rugged terrain in the Ozarks, Izard County Sheriff Charley Melton said in an update late Monday.” (05/27/25)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/escape-of-ex-police-chief-known-as-devil-in-the-20347346.php