A former Arkansas police chief who escaped from a prison where he was serving decades-long sentences for murder and rape was captured June 6 after a 12-day manhunt involving federal, state and local law enforcement.
Police in Mountain View and the Stone County Sheriff’s Office confirmed that escaped inmate Grant Hardin has been captured.
According to a social media post by the Mountain View Police, Hardin was captured by authorities on Friday afternoon.
Grant Hardin, 56, had gained notoriety as the subject of the 2023 documentary “Devil in the Ozarks’’ about his 1997 rape of a school teacher and 2017 murder of a water department worker.
Hardin fled the North Central Unit in Calico Rock, Arkansas, through a secure entryway on May 25 wearing a fake law enforcement uniform. His disguise caused a corrections officer to open a gate and let him walk out of the medium-security facility.
